GRAND OPENING

IT'S HERE!!!!
The Magic In Motion Hair Accessory Boutique is FINALLY here and open for business! I am so tired from staying up trying to get everything done and the store uploaded! I took an entire week off from my alternate employment in attempts to get this done. I am so excited and I can't wait to see how everything goes!... I am going to have a major GRAND OPENING SALE in a few days, but I am not going to say for right now how much the discounts will be, but it will be some GREAT deals! I can hardly wait. Stay tuned for more information. CAAAA CHING! STAY TUNED......

MAGIC TOUCH ACCESSORY BOUTIQUE

Coming Soon…. Online Hair Accessory Store….
Magic In Motion Hair presents…. “MAGIC TOUCH” ACCESSORY BOUTIQUE!
Soon to launch on our website is a new online store for Bridal Accessories…. There you will be able to purchase EARRINGS, NECKKLACES, HAIR PINS, COMBS, ACCENT FLOWERS, TIARAS, & MUCH MORE!!!!
I am so excited about this new venture! We will offer bridal hair accessories at the lowest prices EVER!!! Stay tuned for the big launch of our store. There are 2 things I am very passionate about, HAIR and ACCESSORIES! I cannot go a day without my earrings, my necklaces, and especially my RHINESTONE CLIPS! This store will be great for those preparing for wedding, prom sweet sixteen, or quincincera. You can order your item online and we can bring it to your hair appointment or to the venue where you are receiving services, or you receive it by mail. STAY TUNED for MORE DETAILS!!!

SALON INSANITY

I recently joined a black hair forum, because I love to talk about hair, get information and perhaps pickup something I haven’t learned. There was a topic in the forum that I would like to discuss. The comment was that this customer had an appointment at 2:00 to get her hair done; arrived at 1:45 and said the stylist had five people waiting ahead of her. This is a common problem in African American hair salons… I have worked in 4 privately owned salons and 1 “salon chain” before I made the decision to become mobile. I am a firm believer in not over booking. Many times it was just better to increase my price and offer a better service than to overbook. Some of the problems I faced in the salons were that it was not enough space or equipment to accommodate the customers, a lot of times my customers had to wait for a dryer or wait for the shampoo bowl. There was one salon that I worked in where a person would shampoo for you, but you had to pay her $5 for each shampoo. Not too bad, and it definitely helped save time. The problem I had was the she was not licensed. When it came to building clientele, my clientele was building, but when you are starting out with no customers and you only make $300-$400 for the week and have to give up $160 for booth rent you are not left with much. What if it is an extremely slow week? That does happen from time to time, and at all the salons I worked at it didn’t matter because your booth rent was still due! In a couple of the salons I struggled because there was NO walk-ins, walk ins were RARE… Another problem that I HATED in the salons was the GOSSIP and the MESS. I could not stand it! It was just too much to handle, and because I didn’t get involved in the DRAMA I was labeled “Anti-social” or “SNOOTY/BOOSCHIE”. In the chain salon I faced a different problem. There were PLENTY of walk-ins, and there I WORKED MY BUT OFF. I would make like $1000-$1500 in revenue for the salon per week but you know how much of that was on my pay check? About $500.00 which still was not enough. I felt like I was being ROBBED! I became fed up, I could not take working in the salons ANYMORE…. Like I said INSAINITY is doing the same action over and over again but expecting a different result. Let’s just say I am not “HAIR INSANE” any more.
I decided to first take a break from hair period… But because I have to pay bills, I decided to go back to corporate America for a while and then start my own company… I just want to say that starting MY OWN was the best thing I could have ever done, I LOVE working for myself! While it is taking time to build it up, once it builds…..well just look for me on the millionaire list……

A DYNAMIC DIVA!

There is a wonderful website that I came across; this is an African American self made millionaire who went from being homeless, to millionaire status in 1 year. WOW! This gave me so much HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT. Just to know that I will not always be living (check to check) to pay bills. I am ready to be a blessing to others and tell my store and testimony so that others can PROSPER also. She has a wealth of information on her website information about credit improvement, health, love, marriage, everything you can think of! She is right here in Houston… Her name is Elon Bomani.
Visit www.thedynamicdiva.com

HAIR INSANITY TIP#1

Let’s start from the inside and work our way out. For starters, let’s talk about NUITRTION. This is probably the single most important factor to having healthy hair. Just like any part of the body, the hair needs certain nutrients in certain amounts to be healthy. Have you ever been pregnant and wondered why your hair and nails grew so much, but then after the baby every thing came to a hault? It’s because of VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS. We take them all during or pregnancy, but stop after we have the baby. The problem is that the average person’s diet (even when not pregnant) doesn’t supply the vital nutrients that we need. Vitamins are so important. I am guilty sometimes of eating out a lot because of time, and it is so important to take vitamins to help the body get some of those nutrients that your diet may lack. This directly affects the amount of growth and general health of the scalp and the hair.
Water flushes the body's systems of toxins that can cause geneal health, skin, and hair problems. I admit that I have to force myself sometimes to drink water but i am striving to increase my water intake daily. I have found that ading a little lemon juice helps me to drink increased amounts of water.So the very first step to growing healthy hair is to FIND A GOOD VITAMIN SUPPLEMENT, and TAKE IT DAILY. Drink six to eight glasses of water daily. Be sure the vitamin include B6, B12, Niacin, Biotin, pantothenic acid and folic acid – the elements found in healthy hair.
Stay Tuned for more tips.....

HAIR INSANITY--INTRODUCTION

When people ask me about growing their hair, and ask me “How did you get your hair so bouncy and healthy?” The first thing that I tell them is Patience and Commitment. It takes time to grow your hair. It takes commitment to doing things to restore damaged hair, and “Train” your hair. What I hope to provide are practices you can do to get your hair into a healthy state and then maintain it! HAIR INSANITY—Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. ARE YOU HAIR INSANE? Are you relaxing, overprocessing, blow drying, heat styling, highlighting, and seeing the results of your MADNESS? Well get ready to “STOP THE INSAINITY” with hair tips to forever change the way you maintain your hair. Stay tuned……

VENT SESSION

Yesterday I got called in the office at my place of employment because I had my personal laptop on my desk. HOW STUPID IS THAT? I feel like I am bound by chains working for someone else. We can’t use our phones, we can’t surf the net, we can’t do this, and we can’t do that. I have never seen so much MICRO MANAGEMENT in my life. This is definitely NOT THE LIFE FOR ME!!! At work, all I can think about is self employment and I spend every minute of my lunch (and other minute I can sneak in) on my laptop trying to research more information on bringing high traffic to my website. When I am at home I stay up basically until I fall asleep at my laptop researching and reading information. I have found 2 really great e-books on driving more traffic to you website. I have already purchased one, and the other I will purchase on Friday. I rearranged some things on my website and I am testing out the tips that were given. If they work, I will most definitely share! The next thing that I will be researching is how to find start up capital (loans/grants) especially for people with BAD CREDIT…. STAY TUNED for more info!

DRIVING MORE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE- TIP#2

Ok, I was all hyped up about blog rush only to get DENIED for it being added to my blog... I didn’t read the terms of service very well. They do not approve membership if you don’t have at least 12 blogs already. Oh well, I will reapply shortly. MORALE OF THE STORY: ALWAYS READ COMPLETELY THE TERMS OF SERVICE. I think I just SKIMMED through and totally missed that part, but you won’t have to make my same mistake.

DRIVING MORE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOGGER-TIP#1

I am determined to have a successful business, and I am so happy to get started with finding ways to get it out there. ... I have been researching current ways to drive traffic to your site and came across a really cool site called Blogosphere. They help drive traffic to your site by advertising various blogs. When you put their icon on your page, and someone clicks, your blog is automatically listed as a link on the advertisement. I KNOW I'm not explaining the way it works correctly so TEST IT OUT FOR YOURSELF. To the right there is a tab at the bottom that says "Blog Rush" click on it, watch the short video about how it works. (It is very informative). Then sign up, copy and paste the HTML code to your page. It's SO EASY and most importantly, IT'S FREE! To create an account it will ask you for the Title of your blog, URL to your blog, RSS FEED URL, and the subject matter of your blog. I didn’t even know what a “Feed URL” is, so for those of you who are still learning blogging, (like me) the feed URL for Blogspot is:

yourblognamehere.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

I am no computer guru and I attempted to read exactly what a RSS Feed Url is, and I still don't know even after reading the help section. (Maybe someone can educate me on what it is and what it's for). Any how I was able to figure it out and it takes Blogosphere takes 48 hours to approve your content. I AM SO EXCITED!! I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH ALREADY. To DRIVE MORE TRAFFIC to your blog, definitely check it out! I will let you know how it is working for me!.... More tomorrow,
MAGIC

Dreams & Aspirations

What I hope to share is what nobody is teaching me, "How to go from nothing to everything you have ever wanted." You see the problem is is that I am still not there just yet. I do hope to share what I am learning along the way in hopes that some one else won't make the same mistakes I have made in this journey. Someone once told me "What man finds a treasure and shares it?" Well I guess the answer is NO ONE... I have being trying to get my business going for EIGHT years. I have no start up capital. I have been working with only what resources I already have (meaning strictly as far as what my own money can take me).... That is why I created this blog. It is to benefit myself and others by sharing what resources we may come across to help others. It is for those of us who want to be a blessing and a help to others who are also trying to work on achieving dreams of their own. I am hoping to find and share information on improving your credit rating, increasing customer clientele, developing business credit and more.....

I am so tired of my CRAP job!

This is my story. About my life, what I am going through..... I think my life is almost a version of the movie "Pursuit of Happiness". There have been many times that I should have given up, but I haven't. I decided that a good way of releasing some stress is to just blog, a space of my own where HOPEFULLY, no one would judge me for how I'm feeling.

Well the first thing I am going to get off my chest:

I HATE MY JOB. Now don't get me wrong I am grateful I have one, because I definitely have bills and obligations, but it is so stressful. It is not my passion. I am only working their until my business can get completely launched and I can afford to work for myself. It seems like my business is taking forever to build. I decided to write, to share my feelings just to keep my sanity. There are times at work that I wish I could just punch my supervisor in her ugly face. I work with so many FAKE people. I have a select couple out of the bunch that I can go to. .

I have a secret talent but I have a CRAP JOB. I hate it. It doesn't pay enough. Just thinking about the fact that I have to actually go to work tomorrow and spend one more day not fulfilling what I was born to do DISGUSTS me. Having go and try to smile, having to do something I don't like doing which takes time from what I should be doing. But hey I gotta pay the rent.

It is so hard. I feel like I am all alone.