#betterlucknexttime

Honey it’s Monday, the sun is finally shining and my girl Katie Jackson is looking fine as hell on her quarter apple soapbox losing her goddamn mind. Talking about she’s meditating over her meaningful stones a.k.a. Crystals a.k.a. Pretty rocks a.k.a. Petty rocks #fettywap trying to recover from being in the trap house over the weekend during a full moon summer solstice meditation situation and has come to the conclusion that if she just stands in front of this 3 wheeled, built in speaker having, OG vintage flat screen tv singing “A Moment Like This” she will become America’s next Top Model #wrongshow. This nutty bitch went as far as to support this disabled device with one of her very own meaningful stones, saying it has healing properties… #gurlbye , I could barely keep a straight face (which is hella hard for my gay ass) knowing that some people spend a lifetime for a moment like this and they damn meaningful stones, but I kept it cute in an effort to be supportive to my delusional ass friend. I will say it’s hard to keep it real when I’m blinded by such beauty. I mean her blue vain’d French tulip highlights are everything and them pin cushion roots are flawless. Katie got the look house down boots hunny, but we just need to work on them flat ass notes cause judging from the rocks that you got, you ain’t even Jenny from the block and that trap house got you fucked up… #betterlucknexttime #meaningfulstones #aintnobodygottimeforthat #looksarenteverything #naturalopulence (at Bloom & Plume Coffee)
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Day before Valentine’s Day and I am buried in Kosmic Kween Rose Eleganza… I’m serving up some smooth but bumpy, gorgeous but not, rested but tired, face tuned but natural, no filter but a little adjustment, soft as a baby butt however a little rough to the touch skin, with a slightly sultry eye that is more like a failed smize, surround by my gurls as if I was @rupaulofficial surrounded by all of the contestants that have been on drag race through out the years in a group photo where none of these bitches can out do me except @violetchachki cause even though I hate to admit it the bitch is bomb AF kind of realness… #getbacktowork #iamworking #blogging #curatedlife #fakeittillyoumakeit #influencer #noyournot #dontcomeforme #betterlucknexttime #happyvalentinesday #ihopeyouareoneoftheluckyonesgettingabloomandplumearrangement #misskosmickween #naturalopulence #roses #rosebud #showme #pushit #whaaat #justsayin #backtoblack #backtoback #backto #workworkworkworkwork (at Bloom & Plume)

Bella Bailamor and I are just trying to stay cool, looking like a tool, feeling like a fool, needing a pool, but only got this azul wall to work with during this heat wave, end of summer, suppose to be fall, global warming realness that we are dealing with over here on Temple street in Historic Filipino town (#hifi if ya nasty). Lil Bella always wanted to be a Primadonna on the big stage at Lincoln Center. She always had a sparkle in her eye and a chip in her tooth, but all she got was Sister Guadalupe at the Echo Park Rec center sponsored tamale con mole festival and my biscuit. Everybody was driving by honking (beep beep who got the keys to my Jeep), cat calling #heyPapiMorenito as my big Ass was hanging out of the entrance to the autobody shop, but I was like fuck it… You gotta risk it for the biscuit. #ticketorbiscuit #mybiscuitisarisk #kfcorpopeyes #churches #twopieceandabiscuit #balletbiscuit #bellabiscuit #biscuitcouture #chocolatecouture #juicycouture #babycouture #freelancewriterforallure #forsure #handsupdontshoot #raiseyourhandifyouresure #notsure #putyourhanddown #notthere #putyourhandhere#heygirlhey #shanteyoustay #sashayaway #iwannastay #yougottapay #paytoplay #toepoint #betterlucknexttime #bye (at Gigi’s Bakery & Cafe)

Thelma Thornton is literally glowing in this sweltering hot ass heat as the sun blows it’s hot stankin breath all over us today. Sis Thornton is serving up some living life like it’s a golden Egyptian temple artifact filled with the finest blooms of don’t touch my hair #hiya because it will literally cut you, however if you know how many licks it takes to get to the center of this artichoke Pom Pom you will have an incredibly small tasty piece of her heart waiting for you after she takes a long luxurious bath of course, I mean no one wants a musty artichoke and she is a lady of leisure so she’s not jumping in a quick shower (which she would call a hoe bath), so be patient, let me lay these big strong black holy hands on you and get your blessing kind of realness… We all know patience is the key to all things worth having it’s just hard AF to put into practice especially when it’s hot AF, your musty AF, tired AF, can’t move AF, no pool AF, the arrowhead deliveryman is late AF so you ain’t got no water AF, and you ain’t got no ac AF #hollerifyouhearme #practicewhatyoupreach #livingmybestlife #doyouboo #donttouchmyhair #ouch #itoldyou #betterlucknexttime #howmanylicks #lilkim #livinmylifelikeitsgolden #stillusingthisstoryline #tired #iknow #butitfeelssogood #hotashell #heatwave #layinghands #blackhands #blacklivesmatter (at Bloom & Plume)

Betty Boutiquey is just out here tryin to function and stay cool in this Tim Burton for Willy Wonka for @rodarte for @williamssonoma for @westelm pop up shop in a hallway installation, in echo park next to the building with the giraffe, around the corner from that bomb ass authentic tamale place, up the stairs that are down the alley, behind the 90’s live music wine bar, just before the obsessive barking dog, next to the mustard acrylic tarp where you will find the guys that “fix” cars all day, give them the password and you’re in. It’s super easy, you’ll find it no problem… #perolike #whatsthepassword #ididntrsvp #ishouldbeonthelist #yourenot #sorrynotsorry #betterlucknexttime #whereareyou #stayingintheshade #throwingshade #findingmylight #whitesgonewild #whitetears #Betty (at Bloom & Plume)

Feeling pretty in pink with these pussy poppin pink roses that are blown open to perfection #poot #sorryifarted #looselips … But dont you think for one second that Sister Rosa Pinkman is loose for she is a child of Gawd and only puckers her naked, nude, barely there, but there, bare essentials soft pink, with a beige liner, and matte gloss lips (wait wtf is a matte gloss? Don’t worry about it… just know it’s expensive) anyway she takes this lip of perfection to shout from the mountain top #niggawemadeit (white people don’t even think about saying that out loud ) because it has been a battle with obstacles every step of the way but we here and we doin it!!! It’s my birthday weekend and I am proud of how far I have come in the last couple of years! Going to therapy once a week, the gym 3-4times a week, showing up for myself, showing up for my business, growing my business, understanding intimately what it means to be humble (people say that all the time, but I really get it now), understanding that I have more in common with my fellow humans than I don’t, understanding that I am not for everybody and that’s ok. I am really doing my best to do me, and get into the great things and the challenges of who I am!!! It is not easy by no means but I keep showing up! I kinda turned into @oprah for a second but I was feeling it! #blessed #getintothat #livingmybestlife #babysteps #iyanlafixmylife #praisejesusitsablackbaby #bdayweekend #pussypoppin #bellypoppintoo #noabsthisyear #betterlucknexttime #imstillbomb #happyfriday (at Bloom & Plume)

Happy Monday everybody!!!
My girl Blanquita Bandaid is serving up some heal the world make it a better place, for you and for me and thee entire human race, but really I’m just trying to get in them panties again cause that cuca is bomb and honestly it is hella cold, lonely and smelly in this little ass dog house you got me in, but I fucked up and I got to pay the price to make it right kind of realness.#damn #doghouse #anointeddoghouse #fuckedup #isurrenderall #pussypower #workwhatjahovahgaveyou #betterlucknexttime #itssocoldinthed #cansomebodycallblanket #michaeljackson #blacklivesmatter #evenmichaels #comecorrect or #getchecked #causeimightwreck #mypriusonthedeck #pumpthebrakes #causenextyourchinisgoingtogetchecked #getintothat #bloop #dafuck #iaintsorry #hellnaw #whathappened #nonya #noneofyourbusiness (at Bloom & Plume)

Well hello Monday, hello gorgeous (that’s me in a rose gold @celine metal green glass, heavy AF shady frames), and hello Ms. Rosalind Rosenthal. Sometimes when you look this damn good and everybody can see that yo pussy is poppin there ain’t much to say… But today my name is @msjasminemasters and I have something to say… I was at target the other day #dontjudgeme trying to live my best life trying to buy a people magazine with the Obama’s on the cover cause I want the T #pettylabelle, I wanted that new @teenvogue with my girl @saintrecords on the cover and I wanted some @icebreakers breath mints so that my breath won’t be stankin #teampepermint. I’m looking everywhere for this damn teen vogue can’t find it anywhere I ask my cashier in my best Becky voice “excuse me, do you know if you all carry Teen Vogue”? As she scans my mints she says to me without skipping a beat in the most uninterested I gotta go and they don’t pay me enough to answer questions voice “I wouldn’t know”… I was actually verklempt #theshadeofitall… I mean, I do realize I am a big grown ass black man asking for teen vogue, but damn can you pretend to care about my teen vogue fantasy for like 7 seconds before shutting me all the way down #shit … well cut to 5 mins later as I was walking to my car she was waiting for her Uber… #byebitch #gethomesafely #betterlucknexttime #bitchkilledmyvibe #butrosalindbroughtthemback #prettygirl #pettygirl #bloomandplumeharvestday #naturalopulence #ithoughtyoudidnthavemuchtosay #byebitch (at Bloom & Plume)

Sharing these illustrations I made when I applied for INK, sadly I didn’t get in just yet, but I am proud of myself for even trying and making this set of illustrations which is a big progress into my illustration style and in fleshing out a story on a page.

Better luck next time I guess.

On a good note though, these images I included in my folio helped me snag a job as an illustrator.

#instaart #watercolor #mijello #childrensillustration #illustration #betterlucknexttime #proudofmyself #dalawakaminilola