Lifestyle Health & Wellness Magazine by Girls for Girls.
Love yourself enough to walk away from being the side chick. You are worthy of REAL love.Valentine’s Day,TOMORROW, IS YOUR DAY TO SET YOURSELF FREE IN STYLE. Don’t be afraid of the unknown. Don’t be taken advantage of anymore. If you haven’t been made a priority…the person won’t ever make you one. Love yourself enough to walk away.
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By Briana Booker
As you may or may not know, I am Briana Booker, Founder of Fromgirltogirl, at www.fromgirltogirl.com,a lifestyle enrichment magazine for girls by girls. I graduated from college in May 2011 with a Major in International Studies. My first job out of college is being a social media specialist. I am learning so much about web marketing, corporate marketing and social media marketing campaigns.
A current social media campaign I am working on is for ShadowLand Laser Adventures, a laser tag center for teens, children, families, corporate teams, and charity organizations. I write weekly blogs for ShadowLand Laser Adventure and manage/monitor their social media networks. I conduct ShadowLand Laser Adventures weekly offers of discounts and deals.
The Best Caption Contest is ShadowLand Laser Adventures’ first major social media campaign. It is expected to run for 14 days. We started posting the post last weekend, Saturday February 4, 2012 with 179 Likes(Facebook Followers). It is now Wednesday night February 8,2012. We currently have 325 Likes on Facebook.
The strategy was to make Liking the Facebook page a requirement to enter the Best Caption contest. Today was the first day we have sent out our newsletter mentioning the contest. So far, the contest has been a success! I will update this blog post with the final results of the campaign when the Best Caption Contest Campaign ends.
Please review the campaign here:
BEST CAPTION CONTEST: What are the 2 players saying to each other as they take part in a laser adventure at ShadowLand? WRITE your entertaining captions on our Submission page to enter the contest. The person with the MOST ORIGINAL and FUNNY caption will win a $50 ShadowLand gift certificate! The CONTEST IS FROM NOW UNTIL Thursday February 16,2012( The day we decide who is the winner). LIKE OUR Facebook FAN-PAGE AND ENTER the contest today!
ENTER YOUR CAPTION SUBMISSIONS HERE: http://
shadowlandadventures.com/ AND SHARE with your friends here: http://offerpop.com/contest.php shadowland_adv/70185
UPDATE: Within 14 days of the campaign, fans went from 179 likes to 413+ likes on Facebook.
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By Briana Booker
Are you a Black woman? If yes, do you know how to keep your skin beautiful and healthy? If you are having a hard time keeping your beautiful dark skin healthy and fabulous, I have some great skin care tips for you. Read below to get started.
You are What You Consume
As a Black woman, the goal is to keep your skin smooth and keep your complexion even. To accomplish this beauty, you need to start inside and radiate your beauty outward. When I say begin your beauty from the inside, this means you need to have a healthy diet. Eat fruits and vegetables. It is okay to indulge on fatty, fried, sugar filled treats a few times a week but do not make it your main diet. Instead of eating fried food, eat bake,saute an broil foods. Use olive oil in your meals.
As for beverages, drink plenty of water. Do your best to drink close to 8 cups of water a day. When you are craving alcohol or caffeinated beverages, make sure that cup of water is near by as well. Drink both until you can drink water for pleasure and not simply because you feel forced to drink it for your health. It is hard to get use to it…but you can do it.
Work It Out
Make sure you get plenty of exercise. When you regularly workout, your skin stays toned and you feel amazing. Go biking. Go on a long walk. Go on a jog. Go swimming. Play your favorite sport. Do yoga. Do what makes you happy and it will not seem like a chore.
Moisturize Your Body
When you have beautiful dark skin, you need to keep it moisturized. You should never appear ashy because your skin does not have enough moisture. Use creams and lotions after you shower or bathe. When your skin is damp, it is able to hold moisture better.
For your face, use moisturizer specifically used for facials. If you have naturally dry skin, use a product that focuses on resolving that issue. If you have oily skin, use a facial product that removes oil. If you have both dry and oily skin, find a product that serves both needs at the same time.
Use your facial cleanser when you wake up and right before you go to bed. Never use soapy cleansers on dry skin. It will dry your skin even more. Oily skin will prefer soapy cleansers. Using your hands to wash your face is fine,but if you use a rag or sponge to clean your face, make sure you wash your rag or sponge regularly to prevent germs and bacteria from growing and harming your skin.
Do not Pick at Acne
If you have pimples, do not pick at them. You will scar your dark, beautiful skin. Do not wash your skin too hard. Use a cleanser made to eliminate and heal your skin of acne. Eat healthy and be active to prevent severe breakouts.
When you love your skin, your skin will love you.
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Private sector job growth has increased! 3.2 million jobs in the last 23 months thanks to the Obama Administrative. Jobs On The Rise!
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01/29/2012
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Copy Writing/Editing
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02/29/2012
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No
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Yes
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Super Newsletter Writer |
Internship: Fromgirltogirl Newsletter Writer
Company Info
BY Girls For Girls:
Fromgirltogirl Inc. is a spunky, refreshing, fierce, innovative lifestyles enrichment magazine & Public Relations company that promotes self-love, community harmony and healthy development in girls & women alike. We provide high-quality, enriching lifestyle products and services devoted to developing and enabling the human spirit to fully embrace life. Every experience and challenge is a chance for growth and positive self-discovery. We view ourselves as lifetime partners and friends of our customers, employees, community and world. Our mission is to instill well-being and peace in the global village we call Earth by helping others with life. We want girls & women to: Look better. Think better. Know better. Live better. in all areas of their lives- financially, socially, and spiritually. We empower and encourage all individuals to capture their hopes and dreams- achieve their own personal and professional fulfillment.
Our motto is: “Get Ripe.Get Bold. Get Excellence.” We believe by discovering the best in each of us, enriches all of us.
Internship Description: The Newsletter Writer will prepare and send out Fromgirltogirl’s newsletter that includes clients and our social networking partners. You will work to pull together, coordinate, and edit each newsletter, supplementing with your own writing where needed. You will gain an array of skills and experience from this amazing hands on work!
Ideal Candidate: Passion, enthusiasm, and excitement for the company and the product are most important! Must have excellent writing and communication skills. Must be proficient with technology – email, internet, MS Office, and willing to learn user-friendly software. Must have great attention to detail and organizational skills. Must be able to work well with others and independently. Must be able to attend phone meetings a few times a week (we will work with your schedule). Must be able to multi-task and be adaptable to changes in projects and priorities typical of a newsletter writer.
Benefits: Our clients/social networking partners are amazing visionaries who place a strong value on team-building and mentorship. You will work directly with one of our clients and have high-level skills and responsibilities to add to your resume. If a successful job is done as an intern, the position will provide for an amazing recommendation and a stellar letter of recommendation from our clients/social networking partners. Any writing that you do or contributions you produce can go in your professional portfolio. We will gladly help you arrange for academic credit, if needed. You will have first-hand knowledge of how to start and run a business and how to market your social media services as a freelancer.
Location: This is a virtual internship! You will work from home (or school, or Starbucks, or the library…or wherever).
Timeline: Immediately! Approximately 10 hours a week for 15 weeks; we are flexible and your internship is negotiable. We will work with you.
Compensation: This is an unpaid internship, but the experience is priceless!
To Apply: Please email a resume, cover letter explaining your interest and qualifications, and a writing sample (an article, a school paper, etc.) to brianabooker@fromgirltogirl or bcbookerb@gmail.com with “Newsletter Writer” in the title. Thanks!
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As a woman, I am starting to learn if I want power over my personal and professional success I need to own my statements. I need to give my voice power. Young girls are taught to speak in a voice tone that is favorable to anyone and everything. It makes us come off timid and prevents us from getting what we want and need in romance and in our careers. So what is the solution? You can speak up for yourself but know when it is better be silent and listen, listening gains you wisdom about the situation. It will never lessen your power. Being the loudest and most arrogant can make you lose power rather than gain it. You can not win every battle, especially when it come to romantic conflicts. Pick your battles wisely. And most of all only apologize once, if at all. You do not have to apologize for having an honest opinion. You should apologize only once at the least and most, if you stated your honest opinion in a disrespectful way. Follow the golden rule. Be assertive( powerful verbals help but like, maybe, I think this might do not work) and do not be a bitch who has to have it her way or no way at all. When you take the bitch way, I can guarantee both your romance and career success will falter. – Briana Booker
Economic fairness was the theme for tonight’s State of The Union Address. Here are just a few key points from the speech:
Are you looking for ways to make your skin glow and be beautiful? If yes, we are here to help. No, the answer is not in expensive anti-aging creams but what you eat.
Sugary, fatty foods such as ice cream will harm your skin. Sugary and fatty foods remove elasticity from your skin, make your skin dry and breaks down your collagen.
Here are foods and beverages that will help boost your skin beauty:
Eat Orange Fruits and Vegetables
When you eat orange fruits and vegetables suchs as oranges and carrots, you give your body rich antioxidants that improve eye sight. You also give your body great amounts of Vitamin C which fights wrinkles and sagging skin.
Drink Tea Daily
If you drink Green, Black and White teas, you can reduce acne and inflammation on your skin.
Eat Allium Vegetables
Vegetables such as garlic, onions and shallots make blood flow through your body easier. This gives your skin an body the nutrition it needs to function properly.
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Got up slightly disgusted that as I type this, I have helped destroy American Jobs an the Middle Class I can only hope my children will see and experience. I am a huge fan of Apple products for the beauty of design and easy user-friendly platform. But I would pick a phone Made in America if I could. Is that possible? So blown over this New York Times article this morning. Our counterparts have out done us in skill and speed. Economic nightmare.
How can we stop big corporations, such as Apple, from permanently destroying American job growth an the Middle Class in America?
Read the New York Times Article below for details on Apple’s destruction to our economy and society:
By Aria Grabowski
I am a white girl, born in America. Although I have lived in a relatively diverse area my whole life, I always was in the majority. In many ways this left me oblivious to what it means to be a minority, to be surrounded by people that do not know what it is like to have the hair of a white person. This all changed when I started my Peace Corps service and my new nickname became white girl.
I moved to a community where I was the only white person. For some of the people in the community, I was the only white person they had ever talked to in life.
In my community most people were filled with questions and amazement about my whiteness. Yes, my scalp is really white like paper. No, my hair did not come from a doll. Yes, I turn red if I stay in the sun too long. Yes, if you press my skin it will briefly change color. I do not know why my veins are that color and no I do not poop white.
At first, I found the questions, poking, and petting extremely annoying. I do not think anyone wants a stranger on the bus touching their hair. But then I realized these actions were usually not coming from a place of hate or malice. It was coming from a lack of knowledge.
I quickly realized that I not only represented Americans and the Peace Corps. I also represented white people. I needed to do everything possible to help people understand that all white people are not tourists, rich, greedy, or cheap. Not all white women are easy. We are different from black people physically. So when people asked me questions, no matter how crazy, I tried to be patient, understanding and answer questions.
Even with all my attempted patience and understanding, I realized in some way it affected how I viewed interactions with people, especially people I did not know well.
I frequently found myself thinking someone was treating me in a certain way because I was white. If a guy hit on me, I just assumed it was because I was white and a possible visa. This view came from receiving more marriage proposals from strangers than I could count. It also cam from the phrase ‘I like to see your color’ being a frequently used pick-up line. Obviously, every guy I met was not interested in that, but how could I tell?
There were other times people would try to charge me more for things and I always assumed this was because I was white. The people thought I did not know better. They thought I was rich so it was okay to rip me off. But maybe these were honest mistakes?
Then there were times people would ask me to buy stuff for them. Again, I just assumed it was because I was white and by default rich. If I did not buy, I would be labeled cheap and greedy.
As time went on, it occurred to me that their actions may not have had to do with my whiteness. It may have been based on the fact that it seemed like I had my life together, and by default, must have money.
I started to notice that I had a slight chip on my shoulder about being treated differently just because I was white. I was never certain whether I was treated this way because I was white or I was not white. It made me realize how hard it must be for minorities in the states – always wondering if that interaction was due to race and never being able to know if it was or was not.
Sadly, from my experience it seems like the only thing that can be done, is to get thick skin. Try to be patient and understanding. Try to fight ignorance, no matter how exhausting and hard it may be. I hope that one day things will be different. Granted that is easy for me to say because my experience being a minority lasted only 2+ years and for the most part did not have hatred attached to it.
By Aria Grabowski
Aria Grabowski wrote this article to discuss her experience being a minority for 2+years.She served as a peace corps volunteer in St. Lucia from Feb 23 2009-May 28 2011.
Fromgirltogirl Discussion: How do you think we can promote more patience, understanding, and acceptance of different cultures and people in communities around the world?
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