Thank you.

I don’t use measurements for anything, so I won’t be much help with that, but I’ll try my best otherwise.

If you aren’t using the Aztec clay on your hair yet, I recommend you try it. I switched up my hair regimen at the start of this year, and began using a clay-and-vinegar (and sometimes honey) mix to wash my hair. My hair was fabulous beyond belief (I got a twist-out to work for the first time ever!). I thought it was…

I would like to try biotin, but I hear it can ruin your skin. I have decent skin now for the first time in years, so I don’t want to mess that up. What was your experience with biotin and acne?

I’m with you on this. I started using the MUAC mandelic acid peel, skeptical that I would get any significant results, but my skin was visibly better after one use, and after several months, I have the best skin Ive had in decades. The peels have not only cleared up my acne and faded my hyperpigmentation, but my skin…

That’s what I thought when I saw how old they are too. 20? Only 20? Damn!

Caribbean. One r, two b’s. (Sorry, pet peeve.)

I am so excited by this! I used to read Marlon James’ blog way back when he had just published his first book John Crow’s Devil. But the first book of his I read was The Book of Night Women, and right away I was like, This guy is it. He is it. This is the real deal. It was some of the most thrilling, skillful writing…

I don’t mind “we are going to have a baby” because yes, after the baby is born, they will both, as parents, have a baby. For similar reasons I also give “we’re having a baby,” a pass. But “we are pregnant”? Ugh. No. No, no, no.

I can’t get into Kpop. Like I try, but it just generally doesn’t do it for me. I do have G-Dragons OOAK mini-album on my iPod, though. And I liked a couple of the tracks from Taeyang’s last album: Eyes, Nose, Lips and Love You to Death in particular.

I still haven’t figured out what colours work on me. Am I warm or cool? Autumn or summer? I have no fricking clue. Every now and then I’d happen upon a colour that (I thought) looked great on me, but I’ve never been strategic about my colour shopping. And then trying to coordinate with colours is just... ugh. So hard.…

A couple of months ago I bought two pricy Ankara/wax print skirts off Etsy that I had been coveting for nearly two years. I figured that if they’d been in my head so long that it was okay to buy them once I finally had the means to do so. Now that I have them I don’t actually wear them that often, but on the few…

This used to happen to me too! (Funnily, almost al those things are your avoid list are things that work really well for me, which probably means that the kind of stuff I avoid works awesomely for you.) It took me a long time to break the habit. Like I’d find myself in a shop heading in the direction of the cash…

For me personally, that kind of thing is fine. If I buy something for an occasion and wear it for that occasion and look/feel great in it, then it’s done its job and that makes it worth it. If it hangs around in my closet for a while after that and I never wear it again, I still don’t feel like it’s a waste, because…

I just watched a couple of her makeup videos, and she is adorable! (And she has great eyebrows.) Her everyday makeup chitchat video made me laugh out loud several times, especially at “...except if I was Cyclops, and then... I don’t know why I’d be in school.”

Okay, now you have to give me a link!

I’m still at the navy and black stage, but I’m gradually working my way towards an all-black work uniform too, for similar reasons.

Oh my gosh, I’ve been struggling with this for a long time. I used to buy a lot of stuff because it was pretty or cool or interesting, but then they looked like shit on me, or I didn’t feel comfortable in them, or I felt like I was wearing clothes that bore little or no real relation to the person I actually am or the…

Right? I love them.

i ♥ u.