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Photo Credit: Image via MsJasmineRose On some real shit, like, keeping it entirely one hunned? I’m talking, Attack on Titan Survey Corps’ hand-over-heart salute while I’m getting the wings of humanity tatted across the belly with Fetty Wap’s RGF Island playing in the background, and I’m singing along to the hook saying, “I do this for my squad, I do this for my gang,” real shit? Makeup and Black hair tutorials are my shit. I put that on the Third Hokage, my dude. I put that shit on my credit score so you know it’s real. That’s how hard I fucks with Makeup and Black Hair tutorials. I can tell you exactly when that shit happened, back when I saw a friend go full on Full Metal Alchemist mixing lemon juice, coconut oil, shea butter, and avocado together into what I can only assume was a potion, then placing it in a bottle and spraying it into her hair. She did that shit like it’s a typical Tuesday, and I’m all like, “whoa, what’s that going to do?” She then breaks it down to me how it treats her hair, helps it grow, and keeps it strong. When I tell you my mind was blown, I really mean it. That’s straight up science right there, and I love science. How you going to not be impressed by science? I’m not the best at it but I love learning about it, and if you break the mechanics behind a scientific approach down to me, I’m all in. Listen, [dramatic reenactment] she was in the kitchen with that Pyrex and the stove on “flame on” till the concoction looked fish-scale white, all while sh…
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Omar Holmon
Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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