Addictions addict

 The new drug of choice by folks today. Before it used to be drugs, sex, shopping, or an actual vice, I am noticing that the real issue is addiction itself. Addiction is the actual vice that seems to be yielding itself to individuals for no apparent reason and no apparent thing. Just simple plan addiction, an incessant, compulsive need to function a certain way, to have a certain thing, to experience a certain thing, whatever the case may be the issue now is not simply shopping or the multiples sexual partner but its the actual addiction to the problem that has cause the damage. Addiction can shift from excessive shopping, to eating, to cleaning, to various things! Addiction ladies and gentlemen the drug of a new generation, the cause for a new America!

" Do Over!"

Forget the "easy" button! Every now and then life gets way to out of hand and you need to not only stop the frigging ride and get off but you want to take away the last moments that lead up to your current break down, or the present scene that your currently in, depicting the crazy insane person going off on the stage of your life. It could be the major regret you are experiencing as a result of your choices, or you may be the extremist who finds it hard to move through life with balance as your mindset cant focus in the middle, but must be either all the way to the left or to the right.

Whatever the case may be somebody find that dang "reset" button hit it in the head and stand back so we can vamuse back to before all this other stuff came to be and my current situation came to pass!

License Renewal time!

	This Certificate Certifies That MysterMind     License Number COSM xxxxxx Has successfully completed course #OT 091228 which consists of HIV/AIDS & Communicable Disease Education (2 hours); OSHA Education & Salon Safety (1 hour); Instruction on Sanitation & Sterilization in the State of Ohio (2 hours); Chemical Makeup & Condition of Hair (2 hours) and Indoor Air Quality (1 hour).
	1/31/2011

That's right ladies and gents! We are still legal and ready for another couple years! If you are a licensed holding individual in the beauty field, you already know that you have until midnight tonight to get your information in! After Midnight fees double! If you are in the state of Ohio as I am the two sites I found very useful were:

www.elitecme.com

www.cos.ohio.gov

The first one is so your continuing education hours will be clocked as complete. The second is to register your license for another work period! Right now the fees are $19.95 for your CEU hours, and $45 to renew your license. After midnight it doubles! Get those keys to clicking and those license renewed ladies and gents!

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The luxurious hair salon interior designed by Scott Weston.

Details Of An Artist

In the entrance of this year I understood the importance of transparency, and how it aids, affects and guides the life choices of others. For me like many of you transparency is/was something that you shielded and kept under wraps until you were home in your room amongst folks(me, myself and I) you knew and trusted, and then you became transparent with the truth you chose to believe, the lie you live and the reality of what the truth really is. I am learning that my truths are not only beneficial for a healthy life but also for the preserving and strengthening of another.

I think we as a people have really clichéd the term “keeping it real.” In my opinion “real” is the truth about who you are even at the worst parts. I am at a place in my life where I can admit that up to this point I have never felt good enough, strong enough, or worth anything to those around me. I know what it’s like to be in a room full of people and still be alone. To long to be a part of something greater then yourself but not having the courage to take the steps to get there, and later seeing the elevation of that thing and telling yourself that you were not worth it anyway.

I 've learned over time that no matter how different I may be, I am now who I was created to be to fulfill my own specific destiny, and though I have been looked over, talked about, and chosen last with little expectation by others. For me I am of some great quality hidden over time in my adversity, shielded from they who would have abused me as a gift, and buried in a chest as a treasure to be discovered by those who would honor and respect my shine, appreciating me enough to hold me close, but be so proud to have me that they showcase me in the glass displays of their lives.

I am coming into a greater understanding of life, and I can acknowledge that the life we live is not ours to live, but our lives are to be gifts to others. Embracing the individual, cherishing the life within, and walking in the honor that you were chosen to touch them "specifically." Something about your life was important enough, and valuable enough that your still here, all for the benefit of aiding another to live.

In my past I can admit that I gave away everything that I was not taught to value and in turn ended up with a whole lot of nothing, sharing myself with individuals who did not even realize, or respect the sacrifice that I made. As the greatest gift one can give to another is the untouched part of a whole self. As America is doing today I sold myself off in pieces sharing with those who discarded me in the end. Today through grace I can hold my head up high I may never be able to deny what I have done, but I’m clean and more whole then I was.

Today I see myself as quality, and with the valuable life I have left I seek to use it to affect positive change in the lives of others! In this life some of us fight more than others. I too had to fight, but know that sometimes you have to fight the battles of those who may not be strong enough to overcome on their own. So life sends you. I challenge you to keep fighting as many of the battles you fight today will become over whelming victories for multitudes tomorrow. Mahalia Jackson sang a song on the memorial during the Dr. King speech there and it sums it up

If I can help somebody
As I travel along
If I can help somebody
With a word or song
If I can help somebody
From doing wrong
My living shall not be in vain.

My living shall not be in vain
My living shall not be in vain
If I can help somebody 
While I'm singing this song
My living shall not be in vain

Today I speak to you who are late for purpose but right on time for destiny. Those of you who missed the buss of opportunity, but caught a cab for a life mandate. Live, laugh, love, and know that there is more t you then what you can see, there’s more in you then what you can feel, and the fact that your reading this proves that life has a need for you to be here! Love yourself, value your neighbor and share with the stranger. Touch a life today and change many lives tomorrow! Then your living will not be in vain.

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Monecka Freeman's "Hisoceiti" Style

I had my own thoughts about how this blog would go. However when I seen this would begin to take a turn in another direction where I would be showcasing major artist doing major things, there were certain names I jotted down as “must haves,” and the fabulous Monecka Freeman was one of them. I can remember being a stylist in hair school hearing about this woman who was racking up serious charges (compliments) and taking names later.

There have been very few individuals who have caused me to step back and look at my own work and elevate my own game even higher, and I must admit that she indeed was one of them (some others you will be introduced to shortly). Monecka Freeman known throughout Columbus Ohio, and now the rest of the world! Is an entity that you cannot box into one specific category, so it’s evident why I just choose to label her an artist. Innovative, creative, mastering, and stylishly challenging this woman does it all and makes you love to love her, and hate to love her at the same time. The finished product she puts out forces you to love the gift and respect the artist; however your pride hates the fact that secretly you’re sweating this individual so hard. In the end you simply let go and try to keep your knees from buckling at whatever it is she will do next.

 I remember the first time I seen Ms. Freeman, it was years back at a “Hair Wars” hair show at the Aladdin Shrine temple. This woman stepped out on stage with props silver bell bottoms, heels higher than the clouds in the sky and a presence that demanded your attention.

It would be years later that I would actually work with her in a salon and I must tell you, it was a rather intimidating experience. Over the years I have kept tabs on her career. I was more then ecstatic when I began to hear news about her blowing up! In Columbus Ohio, you can always tell when you’re encountering a person who was dropped off in the cornfield that did not belong. She is defiantly one of those individuals. It took some time, and in all honesty I am still in shock that she even gave me the opportunity, and or the privilege of an interview(I’m so giddy about this!), but today I want to present to you Monecka Freeman. the stylist, the lady, the face of brand that’s sure to have you addicted!