Today we're opening legacy blisters versus ghosts from the past What's up guys? We're back with another epic video today. We're opening nine legacy blisters So 18 total packs versus 18 ghosts from the past in preparation for ghosts from the past to coming next month Also by the time I post this video, I believe we will have a discount code for sassy autos pre-sales of ghosts from the past To so if you guys want to buy some of that use my code I'm gonna pop it up on the screen assuming that it has happened by now get a percentage off of what your Buying and it also is an affiliate with me. So you guys are supporting me. You're supporting sassy out You're getting a percentage off to win win win before we get into it. We do have a giveaway I'll be giving away man-eater bug heavy storm and man score of darkness all you have to do is like this video be Subscribed let me know if ghosts from the past will win or legacy packs Let's start it off with a ghost from the past pack It has been a while since we pulled the ghost shirt from this set But we did have some pretty good luck pulling a lot of dark magicians and of course blue eyes alternative when we were Opening it originally. Let's see if we can do that again. We have a hella polis. Okay, very nice We're gonna do them two at a time because the legacy blisters both have two packs So we're gonna do two ghosts from the past them We're gonna go back to a blister et cetera et cetera We have a Sunvine healer inside evenly matches gotten really expensive emergency teleports still pretty nice heels and root We've got a Cosmo Joe and a star knight Ray L There's not a ton of valuable cards and ghost from the past But there of course are the ghost rares and those two cards all right on to the legacy blister This is the last of my legacy blisters So I am out of all the ones that I bought a while back So if you guys have something you want to sell to me hit me up We have a mirror force dragon shocking then let me know because that would be pretty awesome I love using these four videos and some of my favorite things to use Let's go into a spell ruler pack. All right, let's see if we could do this correctly So it's gonna be like this we're gonna do like that. I think that's gonna work course of sanctuary eat Gaboon Guy power malevolent Nuzzler Koto Dama Amiruka metalfish We got the giant germ and Horn of light just a regular cup. Okay, not much in that first pack, but we still have invasion of chaos Let's see if we can get blessed with some amazing packs because in these packs We have pulled BLS which was pretty incredible and many other awesome things Let's see if we can continue the trend of there. I don't know I think that legacy packs will probably win But if the ghost from the past like evenly matched and they got a good chance and they could pull like multiples of those You never know stumbling stealth bird cool card drill I go and I You Koki a very cool zombie car. That's just a regular old common. Which is pretty sweet. All right back to the ghost from the past I'm so excited about ghosts from the past to let me know below what you are You know, how much are you looking forward to it? That's what I'm trying to say Are you looking forward to it a lot?  All right, let's go Ghosts from the past numero quattro. We have see we are you okay? We got the red metaphors artifact during doll evil thorn cool reprint and Starry night ceremony so so far the ghosts have been bunch of nothing on to the next legacy blister so far We have not really pulled anything at all so not much to say at this point But we're gonna keep trying we have a regular rare performing pal cheer mole I'm different. I don't want probably heard of it, but I don't remember it cheer mole That's kind of hilarious All right invasion of chaos a lot of big potential here. You guys know let's do this Let's pull chaos and per dragon. We have hyper hammerhead. Can we get a monju neo bug percol fairy a recycle a hero emerges Which doctor a chaos? I got a cannonball spear shellfish. We got a drug dry seabird tops and Soul Tigre. Where is the tiger? I don't know. He's a soul guy soul guy apparently, but not a foil Let's see if this time we can change that up and go foil time Prevent rat. It's gonna prevent us from not pulling a foil mystic lamp gazelle We got the roaring ocean snake get the rainbow flower ancient lizard warrior destroyer golem, which is Apprentice and Castle of dark illusions. Okay, this has been a pretty rough so far. We have literally not pulled a good card yet It's been pretty rough. Let's see if we can change that here resonator call for them resonator Salaman great foul We got the tariff trishelah Metapholes wall flame and a time thief adjuster. I think this is finally like at least over a dollar So that's I guess decent. I mean it's better than everything else so far pack number two in this round Whatever round we're in of this opening. I think it's like three or four We have a re cover not recover re cover fairy tale rock rocker rocker Sun vine healer and the vol vol salamanda Back to the legacy blisters, what shall we do the legacy of the blisters we have Really it literally cannot stop giving me those let's go into the spell ruler Let's see if we can pull something insane Spell Ruler, do you believe in foils guys? Do you believe in foils? Malevolence with the dark is that bro? We got the luminous spark got the jig and back of them We got the curse of fiend guardian of the throne and where's that's the little brother? Where's the big brother house of adhesive tape cyber jar and The queen bird the queen of the birds all right queen of the birds But unfortunately not queen of the foils cuz right now we don't have any of them out of these legacy packs We also don't really have anything good out of our other packs got torpedo fish Tower of Babel we've got the chaos greed hero emerges be gone. They've got the giant hand guy heart of the underdog Mataza the zapper and Freed the brave wanderer that is indeed a foil pole. That's right We finally pulled something freed the brave one freed the brave ronderer has kind of tied it up Cuz I don't think he's worth a ton So we're kind of sitting in the same spot as the ghost from the past with that time thief adjust We got a Sunseed twin Sun Avalon Hieratic red supernova dragon this used to be like one of the most valuable cards I think it fell down to a couple of bucks though But that's still probably our best pull so far on to number two of this round Very close battle so far, but we would like it to be more exciting at least, you know pull something good Hieratic seal but also a petting the sessore Cosmo Joe and Dragoonity legged is here's another pretty decent one a few bucks It's adding up slowly, but surely the legacy packs are gonna need to pull something good So we are on to another blister We're still we still got a long way to go to be honest in this battle So let's see what we can do here. We've got ourselves another cheer mole the cheering mole That is such a funny card. All right, let's do invasion of chaos so far free the brave wander We could pull them on you. That would be one of the biggest cards so far I say that every time it might have gotten hurt in value with the reprint notes. Yes 18 not totally sure But maybe it did I guess the price will pop up as usual tower of battle salt I agree We got the burgoth. We got the ojama yellow ultra evolution pill and Bernie algae. All right, okay, and we're on the metal raiders, you know, we can pull in here The legendary Pocaño moth shall we do it shall we defeat evil by pulling the His second form. Okay, the cocoon of evolution the disk of magician paralyzing potion hunter spider Punished eagle guardian of the labyrinth Jinzo number seven Witch and He assume hey, why where are the foils? I feel like I say where are the foils every single video. Is it just me? Why does it seem like that always happens? Maybe we just had bad luck recently. Let's see But we did kind of finish off with some fire poles in recent videos time thief. We got the draconity failings Sun Avalon Dry a tin CA that is not how you say that but that's okay. Let's just continue on Next pack up goes from the past. Can we pull a ghost rare? There's some big value ones mass change cool card Royal prison like I said cool is subjective on that one. We got a metaphors gold driver and Hell should all Hollow alright legacy blisters so far one foil not the best performance for you guys So let's see if we can rebound a little bit, you know get some some redemption here Is it gonna be a mole? Is it gonna be mirror force dragon? No, it's a tire of Nordic champions onto invasion of chaos We go we've had good luck in the past. Why is this none of it? Good luck in the past You know what that means there's something good in here It doesn't actually mean that because every time I say that we pull absolutely nothing self-destruct lord poison thunder crash Molden zombie blasting the ruins multiplication of ants gale lizard destruction ring and Dark magician of chaos and look there was something good in there everybody. That's what I'm talking about dark magician of chaos Ghosts from the past is officially very far behind now We have metal raiders just more insult to injury if we pull something good here That's a big pull. We have pulled many of those in our day, but it doesn't ever get old That is an amazing card an epic card I would have loved to pull that out of that first edition pack the other day if you missed that video Go check it out with the unhappy maiden. Ah, there I am I made it back into the video the palebeast the rabbit horseman tongue. Yo sword's deep seed We got the baby dragon. We got the labyrinth tank Mylas radiant and finally Ah The dream glad pretty significantly it has just been taken ghosts from the past if you can pull ghost rare dark magician Honestly, I think they just went to pull ghost rare dark magician Dragoonie draft this one's more of a home run hitter You got hit some big regulator photon thrasher and a vampire Voivode a vote of a vote a something like that. Okay, another chance here before we get back to the legacy blisters What can you do for us ghosts from the past? I believe I I what they're what I said about being a hard to open Let's see if that applies here time thief retrograde Sun vine shrine galaxy. I cypher blade splash magician and her mage Dragoonity amragram more dragoonities every time I see those I just get disappointed legacy blisters have also opened less like There's less packs have been open from legacy so far I think those from the past is ahead in terms of open packs and they're getting destroyed right now There's a Joan IOC will this be the video where we pull the trio in one video There's not a lot of copies or at least a lot of IOC packs. So that would be pretty crazy if this was the video We have Terror King Salmon ojama Delta Hurricanes soul absorption gonna do the right cookie dimension Distortion spirit of the pot agreed sasuke samurai number three and Giga a gaga a gigo All right, but that still leaves metal raiders pecano moth still has that hasn't been pulled in a while on the channel for Like I've had a bunch of chances every time I mentioned it just doesn't show up So let's see if this is the time king of yabi makai thunder dragon good card We'll set that one aside That's adding to the total pickery box illusionist faceless mage. Maybe I'll do a total I might do a running total like verses. I think I'm gonna do that in this video sort of deep seed We got a rock over grotto share the pain Starboy and finally fun head Unheaded twin headed thunder dragon. There we go. That was a struggle. That's another foil just Distancing themselves. I think this actually it used to be worth a few bucks because like it didn't have a lot of reprints All right, it's coming down to the nitty-gritty ghosts in the past I think we both have six packs left of each so it's really time to start getting something We got a metafold silver D the Sunseed shadow Dragoony draft Hieratic dragon Starry night flamel and that was it. That was everything. All right. All right less cards only five cards in these packs Let's see if one of them can really count. We need an evenly match to make it close photon thrash your metafolds Metafolds Sun Avalon dry and ohm that did absolutely nothing for their score So we are back to legacy more chances for epicness legacy-ness old-school-ness. You guys know what I mean all that good stuff We have another regular rare. These are just these are just not great IOC. You've been pretty good to us so far I would say overall pretty solid. Let's see if you can continue that Let's go. We have Griffin's feather duster the koala Monju another good card. This is getting bad drama black zero gravity desk kangaroo Inferno compulsory evacuation device and finally Chaos rider Gustav another super rare This is going badly for the ghosts in the past Metal Raiders so far not a lot from metal race. We didn't get the twinhead thunder dragon, but that's not too crazy Let's see if we can pull some big B skull dragon gay guardian summon skull Let's go stem back pecanium off wing dragon guardian forges number one paralyzing potions sort of the deep-seated Rock over grotto number one leg hole dark elf and finally Share the pain that's us sharing the pain with ghosts from the past down to the final four packs of ghosts from the past Can we pull that ghost or a drama country? Madolche fresh to start mass change to dark requiem exceeds dragon and Netcrawls of a reamed hair this one used to be over a dollar. It's not anymore. All right second or third to last goes from the past pack Metaphos combination all takes is one pack goes for a dark magician. Madolche mass change to and Dracunity emmergram. Oh, okay still four legacy packs It's looking really bleak for a ghost from the past So what we're gonna do is we're gonna open up these back-to-back because we know they're ahead right now And we're gonna save it for You know the chance for ghosts from the past to come back So let's go into these we're gonna do IOC first has been working out for us pretty well IOC has been providing the good polls for this opening for sure. It's basically the only thing All right, Lord poison thunder crash chop man earth chant giga giga giga dimension distortion zero gravity compulse again and Stumbling that's what goes from the past is doing. Okay metal raiders You don't really have to do something but we would appreciate it if you don't I mean like you guys are ahead But that doesn't mean that you can't you know do a showboating dunk or something like right now I'm okay with that reoccasion powered crawling dragon The immortal thunder occupying Legon leogun feral imp. Yeah, I don't caru Mask of darkness and finally come on gate guardian The dragon piper. All right dragon piper. That's okay. We're going into this last legacy blister Then we're gonna go into the final ghosts from the past to and see if they can make it come back Cuz right now they are way behind we have super quantal neck. Okay, IOC Continue your greatness, please continue your greatness. We are down for it. Let's see What will happen? O'jama black tower of babble. We got the fin rear spatial collapse stumbling stealth bird a right cookie drill logo and Anti-aircraft flower if they try to bring in something from the air where With our flower. All right metal raiders Last chance to pull picanha moth. We've had many chances and no picanha moth. It's a rare card guys I'm telling you one of the most rare cards out there. We got a stem pack Wing dragon guardian fortress number one paralyzing potion bickery bickery box lava battle guard the dream clown La gardian of the labrin not largen of the gabrinth fake trap and finally Castle of dark illusions just a regular common. We're on to the final two packs This is it ladies and gentlemen. Do you believe let me know in the comments. Can we make a comeback? We'll save dark magician for last. Here we go Can we make a comeback against the legacy packs? We have hieratic seal arc brave dragon Metapholes or a calco Phantom knight of fog blade finally a decent card. Okay, that's good And a sun vine thrash or we're saving it all for the very end Here we go our final chance to win this battle from ghost in the past Here we go If you guys are interested in that ghost in the past to check out that uh discount code that I announced earlier in the video Assuming that we have it already dark requiem because it'll support me. You guys get discounts. Good stuff 10 count 10 count 10 can So let's hope that ghost in the past two is even better than this set. Hopefully a lot better All right, can we pull a ghost rare? Time diva jester another decent card, but not enough I don't think to beat the legacy packs if you guys enjoyed this video Make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic videos. Shout out to tcg trusticards tomefo show tomato juice stanley Mike nance mimic gecko dax or ian musa jr. Barting a none of ties show jt show and anima the hollow Thank you guys for supporting the channel and i'll see you guys next time peace


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Good morning, welcome back to another vlog. Today, I am getting my hair extensions. I'm so excited. I have been talking for a while now about wanting to potentially get extensions because this is all my real hair right now and it's pretty long and I'm really happy with it. But I've never had long hair, naturally, like ever. This is the longest my hair's ever been. I've always had like a bob or like a medium length cut, but the longer your hair is, obviously the thinner it is going to start to appear.  And I feel like now it keeps growing and I'm liking it, but I just want a little more hair. Like when I pull it all forward, like, okay, that looks pretty good, but then I have nothing back here. I just want a little more, you know? And I just feel like as a hairstylist myself and someone who has experimented so much with my own hair in the past and has tried so many different kinds of hair extensions in the past, I really wanted to try, oh, I didn't even say. I'm gonna be getting the beaded extensions. You will see when we do it and I'll explain more later on in the video, but yeah, I'm getting the beaded extensions. I've never had this particular kind before, but I just thought it was something worth trying and as a beauty professional, as a YouTube content creator, influencer, whatever, I always like trying new things. That way I can share with the internet my experience, tell you everything you need to know if you're also thinking about getting extensions and I'll be brutally honest and I will tell you if I think they're annoying, if I think they're worth it, how I feel they compare to other types of extensions, the hair that I'm getting is the same length as my natural hair. I'm just getting it to out of fullness, but my hair is naturally curly. The extensions that I got are also curly and I think, hopefully, fingers crossed, they should match my natural texture pretty well or at least well enough that you can't tell and they'll just blend in, but she asked for me to come in with my hair naturally curly. So we gotta hop in the shower and wash this hair. I'm gonna just use it a little bit just to get all the moisture out because I need to leave in the next 20 minutes or so and she needs my hair to be dry, so I'm just gonna try to dry it as much as I can really quick. Okay, hair is like 90% dry and I didn't put any product or anything in it. Maybe I'll put a little bit of hair oil before I go just to tame it a little bit, but I didn't wanna put a bunch of product because obviously she has to go in there to do the extensions and if you have curly hair, you know, once you put like mousse or gel or something in it, it's hard to get in there and like separate the hair.  She said that usually with an initial install, she tells clients to come in with clean, dry hair. It doesn't have to be washed like that same day, but you just don't want it to have like a lot of product build up, a lot of oil. I did go for a consultation, like before I even 100% made the decision to order the hair, had her look at my hair, had her color match and texture match me and I asked her a whole bunch of questions. So I'll link that video in the description, but if you're thinking of going to get extensions, 100% you have to go for a consultation obviously and I would write down a whole list of questions. Maybe as you're watching this video too, if there's things that you wanna like clarify or ask during your consultation, write down a list, bring that with you. Popping in some earrings, just like some medium size, simple gold hoops from Ana Luisa. I can't remember the name of them, but I'll look and see if they're still available. I'll link them down below. I do have a discount code with them too. That's where all my earrings are from. And we're gonna do some perfume, Ambry Saffron dossier as always. This portion of the vlog is sponsored by dossier. I just really quick wanted to remind you guys how much I love their products and very exciting. Their perfumes are now available in Walmart. So you don't have to order from the website, which is so exciting. I know it can be kind of like daunting ordering perfumes especially if it's a scent you've never smelled before online. They do have a great return policy and free returns and all that, but now you can actually go and get dossier perfumes in store.  This is the dupe for the Baccarat Rouge 540 perfume. Dossier sells it for $49, but the original like brand name of it retails for like over $200. And that's what dossier is all about. They make dupes or fragrances inspired by popular well-known designer name brand perfumes. Exact same scent, exact same high quality, just in simpler packaging. So you can get the exact same perfume for a fraction of the cost. So I'll have a link in the description and a discount code that you guys can use if you wanna check out dossier. Thank you so much to them for working with me. I've been working with them for a few years now and I'm in, look at my collection. Literally all dossier, there's one perfume I have that isn't from them and it's only because they don't have a dupe of it yet on their website.  So this sports bra came in a set from Amazon and then these workout lightings are also from Amazon. I'm gonna put this plain black zip up over it because it's a little bit chilly out and this is just from Forever 21. I'm gonna put on my sneakers and head out. I will see you at the salon. And she took so many after pictures and videos and stuff and it's so crazy. Like you really cannot tell what's the extensions and what's my real hair. It just matches so perfectly. The color, the texture, everything. Originally I was thinking that I was gonna just do one row because I was like, I just wanna add like a little bit of fullness but she just pinned one row first so I can just see what it would look like and I was like, you know what? I'm kind of thinking maybe we should just do two because one row just wasn't adding enough for me. I'm so happy with it. It just looks so pretty and I'm really loving the natural curl. I'm excited to also see how it's gonna look and feel when I blow it out and just do like my soft waves and stuff and I just can't wait to like get to play with it more and wear it in different styles.   I'll get a pair and show you. I can put them on no problem. There's nothing there like doesn't bump into anything. I can pull them up and down. If you have shorter hair and especially if you have like a lot of damage or breakage in the front and you need to fill in the front more then they will have to bring the extensions closer to the front but if you wear glasses or you wear sunglasses a lot I would just bring your glasses to your appointment and put them on and tell the stylist that.  But as far as how they feel they feel good like the bottom one I honestly barely can feel it or tell that it's there at all. The top one feels like a little tight kind of but it's not uncomfortable or painful by any means it just, I don't know it feels like as tight as like a ponytail would feel. She said that the first few nights with them can be a little bit annoying or uncomfortable so she said take some Advil before bed and it just takes a couple of days to like adjust to the feeling of them especially when you're sleeping and laying down but I think because I've had like other types of extensions in the past I'm used to that so I don't know I'll update you later tonight and let you know how they're feeling. Like if my head is feeling tender or anything and I feel like it's the perfect amount of hair like it's enough that it's definitely noticeably fuller but it's not so much that it's like overwhelming that I think it'll be too much for me to deal with. No regrets so far. Oh, my legs are so sore. So it's a few hours later It's almost 6.30 so it's been about five hours since I left the salon and I will say I feel like over the last few hours or so I know the last clip I was like, yeah I mean they feel kind of tight but like there's no discomfort or anything. At this point now it is starting to feel like a little bit, sorry my dog is having his dinner. Oh, you're done? Okay, what do you think of my hair extensions? Do I look pretty? Is my hair pretty? Do you like? Do you like my hair? At this point it is starting to feel a little bit tight. I wouldn't even really say, I mean, I don't know maybe I guess it's like technically a little bit uncomfortable but it's not painful. It's not bothering me enough like I haven't taken any Advil or anything like that. And by the way, I am very tender headed. I cannot wear my hair in a high tight pony tail for more than a couple hours without getting a really bad headache.  It feels a little bit sore like right where the extensions are. I wouldn't really want to mess with it too much or like pull it up in a pony tail. Like I just kind of want to leave it down, let it be maybe if anything just put it in like a nice loose pony tail. So we'll see how it is tonight when I go to sleep because I am a back sleeper. I'll update you guys in the morning and let you know how that goes. But yeah, let me answer some questions that I got in the last video and maybe just some questions that I think you might have. So what exactly did I get anyway? Like what does it really look like in here? How were the extensions put in? Because even though I was getting footage of the appointment, obviously you were only seeing like the front angle. You couldn't really see what she was doing. And that was also on purpose because she wasn't really comfortable with me showing like too close up of like the specifics of what she was doing because the technique she uses is like her own unique technique. Like she's taken many different extension classes from different companies and she's picked like little things from each one and just from experience and trial and error she has found a way that she likes doing them the best but I will show you what the extensions look like. So they're the beaded, I don't even know the technical term, beaded row extensions, I think.  You know, if you've ever had clip-ins or seen clip-in extensions before literally looks like that just without the clips on it. And then she takes a hair needle and thread and she just sews that extension into those beaded pieces of hair and I couldn't see what she was doing but I believe they're sewing like between your scalp and where the bead goes. Hopefully you can see that. So it just goes all the way across and then this right here is like one row of extensions and she did do two rows. So I have this one and then another one right underneath it. And like I said, they just go from here to here. The reason that I chose to get this method of extension or just get extensions in general is because like I had mentioned earlier I feel like the longer my hair is growing it was just starting to not feel as full as I would like it to. So I just wanted to add some more fullness and this particular method I like because I feel like it's not as rough on your hair. So there's less opportunity for damage. Obviously of course anything that you're doing to your hair can be damaging if you're not doing it correctly. And if you're not like taking care of it properly even brushing your hair can be damaging to it. Let's be real. And it's also something that I've never tried before. So I was just curious to try it.  I took a few years off from extensions in recent times but I have been an extension girl majority of my life. I first started with clip in extensions when I was 13 and I literally wore clip ins every single day of my life. And then I got sew-ins for the first time. Like the old school traditional where they do a little corn row it's similar to this method. I feel like this method was inspired by that but they kind of like tweaked it to make it a little bit more appropriate for like girls with finer hair. They would do these teeny teeny tiny tight corn rows across my head and then they would sew the hair extension into that braid and that became my go-to until then I discovered tape in extensions. I did tape ins many times. It's really messy every time you need to move the extensions up or remove them. And I had a halo for a while that I really liked but I wanted something a little bit more permanent. I think if you just want like thicker longer hair once in a while for special occasions then those are great options. Like love a halo but it's just not what I wanted. Okay, now the sunset. Let me turn you this way. Okay, that lighting is a little bit better. So how long do they last in your hair? How often do you have to move them up, et cetera. So I think it depends on who's doing your extensions as far as like what they'll recommend for maintenance but the way Rachel does it is she said she does the initial install and then she will do two mini move-ups in between. And then every third move-up appointment she will do a reinstall where she'll take the extensions out completely and then reinstall them. I think during the mini move-ups they just like open the bead up, push it up a little bit higher, pinch it back down. Like I think that's literally all it is. She said that it's a very quick appointment. You come in with clean dry hair, just moves them up real quick. You're in and out in like 30 minutes. And she said every mini move-up she does typically every five to six weeks depends on how fast your hair grows of course but it's really important with any kind of permanent extension it's really important to make sure you're keeping up with the maintenance and getting them moved up when you need to because if you let it grow out too long the hair between like your scalp and where the extension was installed that like loose hair can get really matted up and then that's when you can have damage. And trust me, I know cause it's happened to me in the past. And then like I said, the hair itself can last six months to a year. It depends how often you wash your hair if you're like going to the beach or going swimming a lot how often you're putting heat on it how well you're taking care of it if you're using the right products at home can I color the extensions?  These can be darkened and they can be toned but you really shouldn't bleach them. It's already been like chemically processed so bleaching it is just going to destroy it and it's really unpredictable like it's not gonna light in the same way your hair would. I don't have any plans on changing my hair color as of right now but like a few months down the line come summertime I might get the itch to like add some highlights or something to it but I was thinking I could just highlight my real hair I would clip the extension hair out of the way just highlight my real hair and then the extensions could just kind of work as a low light because they're the same length as my real hair I feel like that would work but obviously if the extensions were longer than my real hair I wouldn't be able to do that. If you are someone that changes your hair color quite often that's something to consider it might end up costing you a lot of money because you're gonna have to keep purchasing new hair in different colors. As far as the brand of this hair, I do not know. As far as maintenance goes it's not really any different than other types of permanent extensions I've had I feel like it's all pretty standard but you have to be very careful when you're brushing through the hair you can't just like take a regular brush and like go from root to end you have to hold the extensions and you have to start from the bottom and work your way up and be very careful to not like brush over the beaded area. You have to use sulfate free shampoo and conditioner very gentle products, hydrating products, leave in conditioners, hair oils, things like that. This is not actually attached to your scalp so it's not getting the natural oils like your real hair is so you have to make sure you're using extra nourishing products to put the moisture back into it to prevent it from drying out. She said that I can go swimming but she did suggest avoiding it if possible because chlorine is really not good for your hair put your hair on top of your head and just like try to avoid getting it wet if you can which I already do anyway so like for me that's fine and obviously if the hair was blonde it would be even a bigger issue because then like the tone can get messed up. Oh and I had asked her if I needed to wait a certain amount of time before washing it and she said that she recommends waiting at least 48 hours but I don't think it like limits me from doing anything. The only thing that I can't do is French braids. You know what I mean? Because obviously like the weft is there and you would see that like I can't obviously part my hair all the way straight back but that's kind of it. Like anything else I feel like I can do. I can put heat on it obviously. Again that's like the difference between having like good expensive high quality hair but keep in mind you know the more heat you put on it you can shorten the lifespan so you wanna make sure you're using heat protection. I always find that when I have extensions they tend to hold a style very well so if I'm gonna put heat on it I usually will just do it like day one after I wash it and blow it out and then it's good until the next time I wash it. And I'm able to like go longer between shampoos because I have all this extra hair on my head and like the extensions again are not getting the natural oils they're not attached to my scalp so it stays clean way longer and usually what I will do what I've done in the past is like I would just take the top section if my hair is like really looking greasy and gross I'll just take the top section of my hair and I'll wash that in the sink to like refresh it but then I'll just leave everything else so that way I'm not having to wash the extensions as often and because the extensions are like kind of covering and protecting your natural hair in the past any time I've had them they've always helped my hair grow. I just highly recommend doing your research again don't look for the cheapest option book your consultation like I said bring a bunch of questions with you anyway like I said I will update you guys in the morning I'll let you know how it goes sleeping tonight I'll see you in the morning good morning so update they were feeling pretty sore like after the last clip that I recorded as the night was going on I was like but I never ended up having to take Advil they were never at the point where I was like oh my God this is unbearable it's so painful and uncomfortable I just want these out of my hair nothing like that and then I felt like when I was laying on my pillow and I had the hair like pushed against my head it was feeling a little bit itchy and again compared to other permanent extensions that I've had they are comparable or in some cases way way better like when I would have those braided so-ins I literally would get like welts on my scalp from those because the hair would be that tight so this is nothing compared to that I would say overall it was fine like was it the most comfortable sleep I've ever had in my life? No of course not but was it the worst? Was I unable to sleep? No as they sort of settle and like loosen up slightly over the next few days I'm probably not even gonna really feel them at all Oh I did want to mention when I was sleeping I used, where is it? This silk scrunchie that I have from Lily silk but just something that's gonna be like soft and gentle and like big and loose like this so I just did it in a loose low pony like this and then I just like kind of pulled it over to the side just so that way the hair wasn't like all over the place you do want to make sure especially if you are the type of person that you toss and turn a lot when you sleep you want to secure your hair so that way it's not getting all tangled throughout the night and my hair like especially when I leave it curly like this it usually gets tangled very easily but surprisingly it's not tangled at all like and I honestly can't even tell what's my real hair and what's the extensions but there's no knots, no matting, so far so good. So I'm gonna wrap up this video here if you want updates on the hair and you want to see my new routine and how it looks when I straighten it make sure you're subscribed to my channel because I will definitely be sharing tons of information and more of my experience with the hair if you live in the Wilmington, North Carolina area I will have Rachel's information in the description I highly, highly recommend going to her for thinking about getting extensions she's so knowledgeable and just so sweet that's it for me I hope that you have an amazing week thank you so much for watching I will see you in my next video very soon. Bye.


be here this evening. I am not native to Texas, but since Texas is defining the future of America, I guess we'll all be Texans soon enough. So I just want to say that I am grateful for being invited this evening to participate in this incredible production and I want to thank Teresa Coleman Walsh for her creativity for her leadership and of course this is a hometown crowd in part but as you heard earlier she is the founding director of the Bishop Arts Theater and so it is her hard labor and commitment to community theater that makes a production like this possible. And I also want to thank my longtime friend and the director of this incredible production, Gabrielle Kurlander, who you saw earlier. I had I had the good fortune of introducing a lot of people to a term that that I had not heard of, dramaturg, which is which is a wonderful term because it can mean lots of different things. And in this role I had a chance to read the plays to give a little bit of feedback and to contribute to some of the words on stage that you heard this evening. Now I must say I'm primarily a historian and so this kind of creative expression is not my stock and trade but I was inspired by all of you to contribute in this way and this has been a really life-altering experience in many ways for me so I want to thank all the playwrights directly. And so I'm going to do two more things before we jump into it. I'm going to thank Nicole for all that she's done to create this project in the first place. You heard a little bit about the beginning and we're going to talk a lot more about it but let's give it up for Nicole Hannah Jones. And then finally I think the playwrights deserve the opportunity to at least name their plays because we want to we've heard their names but we haven't heard their plays and if they want to make a statement about their work before we get started that would be wonderful so why don't we start and move right to left. Hello my name is Janelle Gray and I wrote The Origin of Freedom. Hi my name is Erin Malone Turner and I wrote Engrained. Good evening I'm Anika McMillan-Harrad and I wrote They Would Not Be Butchered. My name is Terence Brooks Boykin and I wrote The Stand. My name is Aaron Zoberman and I wrote Blacks No Jews No Dogs. All right Nicole so we want all know how you came to create this project. What was the inspiration and any surprises along the way. Hey Clio. Hey everyone. So cool to be here and I also want to thank Teresa Coleman Walsh for putting this all together when I first heard about it I was like I have to be here because it really is an amazing thing to see the different creative ways that people can be inspired by a project and to see it take even another form it's taken a lot of forms already but this is a new form I haven't seen it in so I've been really excited to see the interpretation and just have to give it up to you all it was just it was it was amazing I really really loved it. And I actually I don't know how much time we have but I actually would love to just hear you all talk a little bit more about what you were inspired by in the book as you were producing these plays some of them are more obvious than others so I'm just really curious about that and then I just have to correct for the record I'm not doctor anything I have not earned a doctor I know I'm not I'm not claiming the honorary doctorate I just look people work really hard to get a doctor in front of their name and I'm not taking credit for anything that I haven't done but I appreciate the upgrade in my credentials for sure. So I'll just I'll just be quick on the origin because one if you if you buy the book you can read it in the preface and also I've talked about it so much and I really I really do want to hear y'all talk as well but in many ways you know I talk about being a high school student and taking a one semester black studies course before black studies courses were being banned all across the country and in that one semester really learning more about the history of black people than I learned in my entire life up until then and realizing as a 15 year old girl that all those years when I grew up as a black girl thinking black people weren't in the story because we must not have done much for our teachers to teach us about and then all of a sudden in this class I realized there was a whole lot that we could have been taught and people had decided it wasn't important enough or for whatever reasons that they didn't want to teach it to us so I really became obsessed with learning the history and Mr. Dowell who was my teacher in that class would give me books to read on my own and one of the books he gave me was before the Mayflower by LaRone Bennett and that's when I read the date 1619 so you've heard the story a million times by now Clill but or Dr. Muhammad he earned his but it really you know that date just stood out to me as both lineage because it was powerful to me to know that black people had been here before the Mayflower that our lineage in this country or the land that would become this country went back that far but it also really stood in symbolically for an erasure and that 1619 happened the white lion happened but if you don't learn about it it may as well have not happened and that's so much of what we think of as history is really memory and it's what what are we being taught to collectively remember remember and what are we being taught to collectively forget so fast forward you know five six years since I was in high school and are y'all tired Johnny you get my joke or or y'all really do believe I'm 20 years old one or the other but a few years you know I've I've spent my whole career in some ways trying to get us back to 1619 really believing that so much about America cannot be fundamentally understood if we don't go back to that moment in that decision to engage in African slavery and so no matter what you're writing about today which is really the conceit of the project that you can look all across America and see these institutions that are being shaped by the legacy of slavery we just don't acknowledge it or we don't know it or what's currently happening in Texas and Florida and all kinds of states is we want to suppress that so that was inspiration it was a 400th anniversary of 1619 and we still hadn't grappled with how fundamental slavery was anti-blackness and black contributions were to the American story but wasn't a 15-year-old girl in Waterloo Iowa worked at the New York Times at the biggest megaphone in the world so that's why all right all right so I'm gonna take Nicole's encouragement and open the floor up to the playwrights to say she the first question that Nicole asked me before you joined the stage was what was the inspiration behind the various plays so it'd be great if all of you could share and I'm sure the audience would love it too. Being first is rough guys. Yes hi I'm Janelle Gray I wrote The Origin of Freedom I will say I actually was in the process of writing a completely different play for this project and as I was doing the research I found information about the white declaration of independence that I had never heard about and then I immediately called both of my parents and were like did you guys know this thing happened and so it kind of in that moment of knowing that this was just another thing that had been hidden after having read the book and all of the things and all of the ways that that you know this legacy has affected us and the lie that kind of was the declaration of independence it made me want to go back and kind of challenge what they actually wrote and kind of uncover what actually happened with the hope that we can forge forward and in the way that they actually said that they intended so. I wrote in grain the alien play and when I was when I was reading the 1619 book I there were a couple different parts that inspired me and made me think a lot and then start just writing random notes and then particularly the health care part made me start thinking about everything that our bodies have been through and then that led me to not just my body you know here in 2022 at the time but my mother my grandmother my great great everyone before me and back and back and everything that we carry with us which is why that idea is kind of where some of the lines in the play came from when Nola says you know you're acting like it happened directly to me but everything that our people have been through lives in our DNA today and our bodies cannot forget and they carry I was thinking about the effects of generational trauma and like just everything that this country has done to us instead of for us even though we're the ones that built it and so that's where most of the play came from I wanted to make it funny because like like she says there were so many good things and there are really beautiful things about life and we've become more than what's happened to us but we cannot forget and I wanted to highlight the shock of slavery from outsiders like true outsiders outside of the planet and I love science fiction so I just really wanted to write something strange and quirky and then ground it in the weight of what 1619 is really about thank you for writing 1619 so important and so much of the book resonated with me if you know me I'm not new to historical dramas and writing them but I really wanted to explore a revolution how does a revolution start and that's what truly resonated with me in choosing to focus on and imagine what what a child who had become a part of the revolution 10 years later might be so Cecil Fatima it was dealing with the innocence that was engaged in enslavement a lot of times we don't think children were there or just the innocence of just Africans being enslaved period on the brutality of slavery in Haiti especially you know the lifespan was less than you know maybe 25 years for most enslaved there so I wanted to explore the horror of that but the innocence that might have existed then and then what might have been the spark for Cecil Fatima who was the mamba who helped start the revolution and I wanted to embrace African spirituality and how it's been demonized and how the Haitians have paid the price paid the price for revolution and I've always admired you know those ancestors so it was really an honoring of them and embracing all that we are in our strength so the play that I wrote the stand was really inspired by two chapters in the book dispossession and inheritance those chapters sort of really really give you deep insight into you know just the brutality and the savage way that this land that we sit on right now is stolen from the Native Americans it also talks about just how systematically you know people of African descent you know just the systems of racism have led to redlining our properties and our wealth being systematically taken from us so I wanted to sort of really bring the relationship of the two sister-in-law sort of like really inside to explore how you know racism and discussions about race and empowerment happen in lots of different spaces not just at work and not just in society but they can happen in your family and the importance of listening and the importance of us empowering ourselves to sort of stand around and address injustices you know in housing discrimination so those were the kinds of things that I was you know my intention was really to sort of really just layer those things to address inequities in housing and you know it's really really current right now especially with the way that black families are having to struggle to be treated fairly you know when they for the their home appraisals or you know when they get ready to sell their homes all around the country so that really stood you know stood out for me my play was very much inspired by primarily by the chapter called race additionally the chapter on fear the there was a line I'm not gonna say it like accurately enough but it said something along the lines of we've grown so accustomed to identifying ourselves by race in America that we don't even think twice about it we're asked on so many documents so many forms what is our race and we don't think about it we just fill it out and it's always been a little uncomfortable for me that that process and I've I've sat back and watched and listened to so many people have a discussion about what my race is because I'm a white Jew in America and my white and my Jewish and it what I attempted to do what I wanted to do was highlight the absurdity of the concept of race and how it shifts constantly from society to society from from time to time race changes the concept that who who is what and what their label is so that was my my initial spark and from a personal experience I wanted to highlight the the ongoing dialogue that I've listened to my entire life between blacks and Jews and this this almost love-hate relationship this the resentment the the togetherness the the fear the anger the and there's so much there and so I would say my my primary purpose in and writing this play was to initiate a dialogue I've no I've I've I have upset a few people and that's fine great art does that good art does that and so that's that's my purpose I want to I want to initiate a dialogue on this yeah because I I definitely wanted to have some dialogue about that one I bet this a lot right a lot of people in this room want to have some conversation about that one I mean I'm not going to I just want to I mean one of the things I'm struck by is and I'm this question I'm directing to you Nicole's it's like you create something as you say a kind of record of the past that enters into public consciousness has the potential to reshape collective memories about that past and already the book has moved into playwrights their ideas their experiences their concerns isn't this exactly why the books been banned in so many states already that's a rhetorical question yes I mean absolutely I mean I just think about even in my own origin story of the origin story of the project was a 15 year old black girl who got a class that taught her history and it radicalized her she one day came and produced a 69 team project right so you realize the power of us all having this greater deeper more skeptical understanding is it leads more people to question it leads more people to explore there's a reason that I've been writing about racial inequality for two decades and it was only when I did a project that tried to unsettle our memory right our collective narrative that all of white power like aligned against me in the project right like legislative bands 18 the 1836 project with your governor put in place to I guess commemorate when Texas is formed as a slave holding Republic so yes I think it are y'all clapping for that or they're clapping about the collective outrage I mean look I no I know I know I just crack jokes of this gets tense up in here talking all this all this race stuff I got a I got a crack jokes every once in a while but which is why I appreciated the humor in your sis because it is humor is how we survive dealing with all this ugliness and yes the collective traumas you you have to you have to have that joy and be able to see the absurdity and everything that we've gone through so anyway long story yes right of course to see that we can inspire this type of dialogue amongst people I mean that really is what ultimately became the power of the 1619 project is as you know it's not that radical the ideas aren't really that radical the scholarship is that is built upon has been around for decades but it hadn't necessarily permeated the the collective understanding the the non academic understanding the popular understanding and that's seen as dangerous because then it inspires all types of other introspection all types of dialogue and why would power want that right because the the understanding we have of America that we're all indoctrinated into rationalizes and legitimizes racial hierarchy economic hierarchy gender hierarchy and we know who benefits from that and we know what happens I mean I became a journalist because I believe the narrative drives policy and we have one narrative of America that allows us to support really regressive stingy individualistic policy but if we learned a different narrative of America we would support different policies that would make us a more just society and the people who benefit from the society being as fractured as divided as unequals it is don't want that so yes I think that's clearly why why it's being banned and particularly we are at a very nervous moment for a segment of the white population who feels that they are losing their demographic supremacy which means they fear they're losing their political supremacy and they see what happened in 2020 when for this brief moment because we always knew it was going to be brief right racial reckonings well we're in another racial reckoning but it's in the opposite direction of the one we are trying to go to in 2020 is that you saw people taking on this lexicon of systems that it wasn't just about this one white cop murdering this one black man but about a society that lets this white cop know that I can murder this black man with people filming it and probably nothing will happen to me right society produces that moment and so people were doing this critique and they were using 1619 as a lexicon they were painting 1619 on monuments to enslavers and bigots as they were snatching them down they were saying this is a 400 year old struggle and that's dangerous to the hierarchy wants to say we're all equal so where black people struggle it's because of black pathologies because of black cultural deficit has nothing to do with the system designed to produce the results over you know 350 years so 1619 and then this larger propaganda campaign that we all call critical race theory that's not but exists to push back on that right to to take the white folks who are starting to feel like maybe it's going a little too far maybe maybe this you know I was I was down for the don't kill black people in the street I'm not so much down for the larger structural critique of America maybe it's gone too far it becomes very useful because the oldest wedge issue in America's race were primed for it it was interesting the George Wallace was which one don't call who's that one all that playwrights not here because George Wallace is like he's such a great he like epitomizes that he he wasn't actually that racist right when he when he ran originally he runs as a racial moderate and he gets his ass kicked and then he realized though I know how to win I run as a racist and then he wins and you see this you see this with Nixon like you see this again and again where politicians understand if you want to win politically in a polarized society all you have to do is go to race and so yes all these bands are coming from that that was a long answer no great answer I mean one of the one of the things I'm struck by and Nicole touched on this is that the the project in its earliest days had a direct impact on how people made sense of the George Floyd moment and I know in this moment and I can certainly speak for myself it is hard not to be discouraged by the unrelenting way in which each week brings new legislative efforts to destroy any any effort to achieve equity in this society in the 21st century to to make good on whatever failed promises didn't happen in previous centuries or decades for that matter but if we want to lean into I think what this play suggests to us and the power of performance and creativity and imagination then the 1619 project even in its earliest days showed that power also people were quoting it from Congress Cory Booker mentioned it in a discussion about reparations there were school board hearings around the country not the ones to ban it but the ones to adopt it and I think I mean for me in this moment and I'd be curious Nicole how you think how at least how you advise others I mean this to me is a moment literally of standing your ground it is a moment not to retreat not to be silent I am beyond frustration frustrated with this notion that the way out of this moment is to keep solving for what resentful hateful white people need in order to be okay with us not really a question in there but a response so I wanted to share that stand I'm terrible with names so the play right of Stan tell us your name Terrence Terrence so when I when I saw I performed tonight I couldn't help but remember the the New York Times news story of Nathan Connolly and Shawnee Mott two professors at Johns Hopkins you want to tell this story Nicole no okay so so you must have written this play before that because okay so some of you know this story but here is a black couple in Baltimore in an upscale neighborhood they have two small children he happens to be a historian his wife is also an academic they are very committed to educating their own children about black history and black diaspora history they start a family YouTube channel during COVID to sort of have something productive to do and also to share these stories at some point they decide we also want to renovate our house they get an appraisal company to come out they get pre-approved for a loan up to a certain amount but the appraisal has to happen in order to make sure that there's enough equity in the house for this future loan the appraisal comes in at something like four hundred and seventy two thousand dollars which doesn't actually mean they're gonna get the loan because it's not enough the value of the house they're confused troubled by this and suspect that the appraiser had made an assessment based on their race they decide to do exactly what your play suggests they're gonna whitewash the house they remove all the black art all the black books they hire a colleague who's white and by the way dr. Connolly happens to be a historian of racist real estate practices so his suspicions are well informed by experience and knowledge the appraiser comes in they're not home white guy stands in house is scrub clean all right first person to guess this correctly gets a free book from me what's the appraisal come in at all right I haven't heard it I haven't heard it but but you're you're all right in that a lot more the amount with seven hundred fifty thousand dollars oh you said it oh good Lord all right give that sister her book right there all right we'll exchange information seven hundred fifty thousand dollars the tragedy in this is obvious but even more so than that the moment for them to capitalize on the market when they set in motion this meant fundamentally that wealth was taken from them because the interest rates had changed they had to go through legal maneuvers they can't actually get the money that they were would have been promised had they been white in that moment when they initiated the transaction and just in case anyone's wondering the justification that the appraiser came back with initially was that a black neighborhood proximate to where they lived was more appropriate a comparison for their home than the white neighborhood they actually lived in you can't make this stuff up that's America I mean I would just like to point out that the fact that not one person in the room offered a lower number on the appraisal seriously though right this is how we know race is real because we're in a society that tries to tell us we're just making this shit up right it's not it's not actually real but we all know how it works and we all know not a single person in here thought that when you made the house appear like it belonged to a white person versus a black person that the appraisal would go down we all knew it would go up significantly that's race right that's caste and this is what black folks are up against I mean this is why I even talks of reparations when people are like home ownership that's not gonna work for us our homes in black neighborhoods are worthless our homes don't appreciate as quickly unless white people start moving in the neighborhood right like we still have dual systems and that's the whole argument of the book is that the greatest thing that white people in general achieved after the civil rights movement is to now act like races about individuals and that the systems have been banished without actually banishing the systems which is why they don't want to talk about critical race theory because that's literally what critical race theory says which is actually just common sense but whatever so I have one last I have one last question and it's it's open-ended for Nicole and I'll give anyone else an opportunity if they would like to share something so many of you probably know that the 1619 project has now been transformed into a docu-series that's running on Hulu and it's been several episodes so how many people have seen I'm gonna need some more hands to be raised by the time we ask this tomorrow we need we need those streams so so really it's a pretty straightforward question Nicole now that you're also a filmmaker what have you learned about yourself and the importance of this work in translating the book to this format and I'll just I'll prompt you by saying I knew about your father I didn't know about your mother and your grandparents and I thought it's very powerful a reveal and and I don't want to get too personal here but I'll ask the question I mean it's in the documentary now no no but it's not about the fact that your mother is white and all of that I mean that's in the documentary the question was the extent to which you intentionally chose not to write that into the democracy essay either in its first or second versions because I think it changes it certainly doesn't change how racism works right because black people are by definition of people of hybridity but but the power of it in in that episode of the series I think is it's a race the episode on race is even more powerful and I just I wanted to know how intentional you were about leaving it out or putting it in I never even considered talking about that in democracy because democracy was really about how black people make sense of the country that we built in our place in it and in the race episode well actually let me let let me go back I that narrative arc of the race episode where I talk about my father's mother being born in 1924 in Greenwood Mississippi my mother's father being born 1924 white man in Iowa and how everything about their lives would be determined by the racial categories and the gender categories on their birth certificates that was I wrote that into the preface of the book but the preface was ended up doing too many things and we ultimately took that out of the preface because part of it as I was you know the the preface is an origin to the project but it's also like my origin how did I come to do the project and certainly growing up in a biracial family and having intimacy with race in that way and seeing one how false it was but also how real it was at the same time and seeing that you know my white family was not working harder than my black family and they were also working class but they had land they own their home so working class for them didn't look like working class from my black side of my family so all of that was shaping my understanding of race in the world and where I fit and you know having a father who's like your mom is white but you're not you're black you're gonna be treated like it was very clear so yes it wasn't I never thought about it for the democracy essay it was originally going to be part of the preface so as we were doing the race episode I shared those sections with the producers and I was like this is how we have to get into this episode in that way so yeah it's incredible it works really well not just because it's your story but because it's a powerful intervention and also just simply reminds people that race was always about power and so it did it never had to make sense it just had to work so any parting thoughts folks and share well we have not thanked the actors again so I want to thank I just want to say thank you all again for coming out tonight I want to thank the All Stars family all the folks from all over the country who support the All Stars who are producers and contributors to this production this is a real treat and I'm grateful for having had the chance to be here tonight I want to thank all of the playwrights I want to thank Nicole Hanna Jones and our lovely wonderful host Teresa Walsh thank you so much okay guys if you have your books we'll meet you in the lobby I'd like for the actors to join us on stage we're gonna do a quick photo op really quickly can we give Nicole Hanna Jones and Dr. Khalil Mohamed and these beautiful playwrights and the cast a round of applause


I had been trying to beat All-Star mode with every character in Super Smash Bros Brawl and it was finally Luigi's turn. I never really played much with him since I figured he was just Mario with a slightly different and more awkward looking moveset. He did silly stuff like blindly running while slapping the air in front of him and I wasn't even sure what his final smash did, if anything at all. To my surprise though, he wasn't bad at all to play with, and I actually liked him more than Mario, not entirely sure why, I just had better luck with him or something. I was up to the second to last fight where you have to fight every Pokemon character in the game, and finally got a Smash Ball. I hit be near some Lucario and I visor. Luigi began to blow with inverted colors and dance around while chanting some kind of gibberish. Everything inside the glow, including Lucario and I visor, was also in negative color. I couldn't move Luigi from his dance, so I prepared for a beating from the two Pokemons, but to my surprise they did not attack. I visor began walking on two legs and taking steady damage and Lucario just began falling over and over again, getting up and falling. Well, after Luigi's dance was over, I knocked them away easily and played through the rest of the game until I received Luigi's final smash trophy. I was eager to see the explanation of that weird move. The trophy showed for Luigi's in the positions of his dance, Mario was in the middle, asleep, and they were all in that reverse colored bubble. The trophy was called, Negative Zone, and this was the description, Luigi's Final Smash. As exotic music plays, he performs a dance befitting a sorcerer's incantation. A barrier envelops him, negatively impacting all in his area. Random effects include getting launched, sleeping, moving in slow motion, tripping, fainting, and losing attack power. This technique is a reflection of the dark side he embraced in his brother's shadow. What? I stared at the last line, a reflection of the dark side he embraced in his brother's shadow. Luigi had a dark side. I looked into this further on the internet and gave it some thought. Luigi's been there since the very first Mario Brothers, but it's always been called that. Mario Brothers. Luigi's always been the second by, the weaker or slower, or more cowardly guy, even when he's in the lead of the game, he's shown as a coward. Why does he allow Mario to take the lead, what could have happened to him to make him so easily scared? Well, while looking online, I discovered a glitch in the original Super Mario Brothers game that is actually called the Minus World, because when entering this level, the title is shown as World Minus One. But obviously, it could also be called a Negative Zone. On an NES, this takes you to an endless ocean where the only end is losing all your lives. But there are minus worlds up to minus eight, none of them ever intentionally programmed into the game, only accessible through hacking. In these levels, a player may experience all sorts of hellish sights, like multiple princesses often floating over pits, and a headless bozer which throws hammers. At the base of the screen, Koopas walk through the brick platforms. The same happens when you hack a flagpole into a World A24, though these levels have fully formed names. There are times when colors are inverted, or negative, as seen through Luigi's bubble.  As I said, these levels were never coded into the game, but rather formed there. It is just random garbage code, jumbling together to make a playable game. Is this where Luigi is when not being played? It would explain his new trick, and why he's so often scared, as if traumatized. Forced run is gone let over and over again while Mario is bathed in glory for running his far easier levels all the time. I think it's safe to say that Luigi's anger is now greater than his fear, and he's learned to further control glitches like those he was forced to live through. Negative zone is Luigi forcing other characters to endure glitches and he's only getting better. How much longer until Luigi graduates from glitch to full virus? And how much choice did Nintendo have when they named 2014, Year of Luigi?