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Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Throwback Thursday: Hair Evolution Turned Fairy Tale

This flashback of immense pride is a post that'll be shorter than my usual. Due to the reoccurring mishaps of trying to upload this as an ideal post on my frustrating Instagram page, which took an unnecessary 2hrs of several attempts. Yet another reason why I hate uploading on social media, it's LONG and usually a waste of my precious time. Whereas writing and posting on my personal blog right here, always feels more fulfilling. I suppose the good thing that came out of that frustration is that it brought me back to my beloved blog to post something new ;-)

It's amazing how my hair evolution made for a good adult fairy tale. This is the "Rolls Royce" of my Custom Poetry Greeting Cards™ thus far people! Took me over 40hrs across 4yrs to make dammit! I had the idea of a 3D (minimal 3D) Black fairy tale to make for a child customer but that opportunity didn't come.

 

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Years later of the initial idea, after achieving my long desired Victorian curls (to resemble Cinderella, Lark in Dru Hill's These were The Times, or better yet to look like Jamelia in the nostalgic music video for  Money Can't Buy My Love) with just curling mousse and plastic straws as opposed to heated tongs, to rockin' my signature dangling "Rapunzel" aka "unicorn" hairstyle, to eventually (perhaps abruptly) cutting off all of my long afro hair for my personal happiness. All of that became the best excuse to make this fantasy birthday card for my adult self and I'm glad I did because it came out beautifully. I AM SO PROUD OF THIS CREATION. 

 
 
Executing this fairy tale idea was indeed worth the wait and all the man-hours I must say. You may notice that the Red Riding Hood page (pg.4) is my same graphic design that I used to go with my Mummy, Wolf! poem. Which was referenced in the poem/story/message to my myself within this six page storybook card, as the debut of the spoken word performance was that same year and quite a monumental performance for me. I kept this design to myself since making it back in December 2019 (my birthday is the anniversary of Brothers' Grimm published folklore collection) and I’m only sharing it now because someone enlightened me about how much it would uplift little Black girls around the world, therefore I should be less secretive about it.


 
 
 

I suppose it would be similar to the feeling that I and many others had when seeing Brandy play Cinderella, and Whitney played the magnificent singing Fairy Godmother in Debra Martin-Chase's version of the Rogers and Hammerstein's musical adaptation for Disney (I'm such a 90's chick). If my card makes at least half of the emotive impact that, that wonderful retelling had- of which I still have on VHS and watched this year with the same big smile on my child-like face, then I would be very happy and less concerned about sharing something that was very personal thus secretive to me.

 
 
  

Order a fabulously personalised, memorable card of mine anytime. Simply send me a direct message with your request, ideally via email MissLaurenKaye@gmail.com and we'll take it from there. 

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Wednesday, 26 May 2021

New Book With a WELLNESS Special!


 
I recall a Chef once saying that his father taught him "Whatever you do in life, make sure that you're proud of it." And man, I am so unbelievably proud of this new publication as its purpose is so positively wonderful and its effect is immediate, it even works on me!

Such as my first book (a poetry collection), this came sudden and was prompted by the sad attitudes that rare their ugly heads around Valentine's Day. This year, I particularly found that alot of the hate and anger from those bitchin' about Valentine's Day was largely out of shame and bitterness for happy couples or towards those that had someone to love and was loved. 

At the end of the day, the common denominator from those vocal individuals, in my observational opinion, was that they did not love themselves. This is a common problem among many people regardless of the event, the country or generation and it's sad. Many of us do not truly, love ourselves, thus act like an arse and spew out negativity and hateful behaviour towards others and sadly ourselves as a result. I am not here for it!

Hence how the average grown bully or trouble-making child, are mostly found acting up because deep down they need a hug, have been bullied themselves, been made to feel unworthy and feel the need to take it out on other people with their foul actions and hurtful words. I am SO NOT HERE FOR IT. Especially the old ones that still want to carry on with such foolishness because they refused to work on themselves. YOU NEED TO HEAL. 

Certain reality TV stars come to mind as I express this and recall some dreadful, 'asking for a slap' behaviour that I have witnessed on television (rightfully deemed as "the idiot box" quoted by Spike Lee) but I shall not credit or shame them on my post of excitement. What I have to share is honestly coming from a positive place my loves, I just have to explain myself to bring more context for you to understand why and how it came to be.

Now I know that many people talk sh*t, preach at you and like to judge while reprimanding others about their short-comings without offering to assist, that's not me. I am offering to assist, my book was made to assist you with that struggle (if you have it) which does not need to be as 'uphill' as it may seem. 

Naturally, as a Writer I know for a fact that words are extremely powerful and can be very healing, uplifting or damaging, which is why my purpose is to reduce the negative and malicious words being put out there or lingering in your mind about how you value yourself (during any season that may make you feel otherwise) and to increase, better yet replace it with positive inspiring words to engrain in your brain and thrive with emotionally. Your mental wellbeing is everything, EVERYTHING I tell you.

This book is about encouraging people with a low self-esteem, those with any level of self-hatred, those dealing with any sort of depression or self-pity, whether you are a man, woman, single, boo'd up, promiscuous, married or divorced. This brilliant book which I very much consider it to be, is to get you to believe in yourself, think highly of yourself (humbly), to generally feel better about putting mindful practice into your personal growth! Pick yourself back up, correct yourself, check yourself, comfort yourself mentally as opposed to beat yourself up (too many of us do that, I've been there) and most of all LOVE YOURSELF! 

Love yourself, respect yourself, know yourself, better yourself, hug yourself with your kind words instead of criticism. Certain messages that I wrote in this book came with the aim to stop you (some people I know personally) from the bad habit of rejecting yourself of feeling better about yourself, and subsequently stop pushing others away because you have a habit of doing as such out of fear of being accepted or not being worthy. YOU ARE WORTHY IF YOU ACT AND ACKNOWLEDGE YOURSELF AS SUCH.

Ahh! You have no idea how much this means to me. I put alot of energy- POSITIVE ENERGY into this my lovelies. This self-help book of motivational, inspirational quotes and affirmations has also enhanced my own personal wellbeing. This is due to all the primary and secondary research gone into it, writing, re-writing, editing and proofreading drafts of the somewhat spiritual (it hit me spiritually) content that helped me keep my own mental health in check, during the process of indecisively selecting and more so repeating said quotes back to myself consciously. 

By the time I got to the final draft, I was shouting them out like I was in the last round of a group therapy session being cheered on by fellow participants, theoretically speaking. I felt great, and proud of what I had achieved emotionally in my own life from what I had written. I always like to practice what I preach so to speak, and if I am going to publish something that has a certain type of message or strong influence, it is important to me that I believe in it too or I won't release it. I have to feel as good or just as inspired as I want my audience to feel. And I do! It feels wonderful. Yet again, I was working on another book project which was long-awaited and no doubt angry with me (I humanise my projects such as many others humanise their cars etc), then I spontaneously released this project replacing its priority....but it was and is worth-it as it will help many (not meant to rhyme).

So in honour of Mental Health Awareness Month of which I only became aware of far into the month by the way, I am offering an added discount off of the books' pre-release price. It has yet to be released on my Infiniti Promotions website of where it will be on sale as official merchandise, hence the branded colour scheme. Appropriately titled #ILoveMyselfBecause, of where the hashtag was additionally intended to contribute to the social media conversation and the lack of social conversation in this regard.

To get your hands on your doubly discounted copy or to buy one for someone you know in need, simply message me via email, comment or DM me on my blog or social media pages; Twitter, Instagram, Facebook quoting the discount code! I will then send you back an invoice with secure payment options applicable for any currency, just as I would do for my card service and post the book out to you. Get your orders in people and regardless of the month or celebration; better yourselves, be kind to yourselves and take care of yourselves mentally and physically.


Love Lauren

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(PRE-RELEASE PRICE) £17.99

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