Ghetto Fabulous

17 Aug 2011

How to Be Upwardly Mobile While Maintaining Your Street Cred

I went to an underperforming high school with prison bars around it.  I wore secondhand clothes, loitered on corners, witnessed armed robberies at KFC, and earned the nickname “Tasty Vanilla” from my peers.  Please don’t alert the authorities, but I’ve even spray painted on a wall before.  No matter how

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26 Jun 2011

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Mani’s (As in, “Manicures”)

  The easiest way for a lady to look fancier is to have her nails none.  The ghetto fabulous figured this out years ago, blowing their wads on crazy acrylic talons, bedazzled designs, and the wonders of Minx.  Recently, kooky manicures have also been popping up on fashion runways, at

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