Brainy Brunette

by larae.net

Amazing- incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary

Anger- enrage, infuriate, arouse, nettle, exasperate, inflame, madden

Angry- mad, furious, enraged, excited, wrathful, indignant, exasperated, aroused, inflamed

Answer- reply, respond, retort, acknowledge

Ask- question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz

Awful- dreadful, terrible, abominable, bad, poor, unpleasant

Bad- evil, immoral, wicked, corrupt, sinful, depraved, rotten, contaminated, spoiled, tainted, harmful, injurious, unfavorable, defective, inferior, imperfect, substandard, faulty, improper, inappropriate, unsuitable, disagreeable, unpleasant, cross, nasty, unfriendly, irascible, horrible, atrocious, outrageous, scandalous, infamous, wrong, noxious, sinister, putrid, snide, deplorable, dismal, gross, heinous, nefarious, base, obnoxious, detestable, despicable, contemptible, foul, rank, ghastly, execrable

Beautiful - pretty, lovely, handsome, attractive, gorgeous, dazzling, splendid, magnificent, comely, fair, ravishing, graceful, elegant, fine, exquisite, aesthetic, pleasing, shapely, delicate, stunning, glorious, heavenly, resplendent, radiant, glowing, blooming, sparkling

Begin - start, open, launch, initiate, commence, inaugurate, originate

Big - enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical, ample, broad, expansive, spacious, stout, tremendous, titanic, mountainous

Brave - courageous, fearless, dauntless, intrepid, plucky, daring, heroic, valorous, audacious, bold, gallant, valiant, doughty, mettlesome

Break - fracture, rupture, shatter, smash, wreck, crash, demolish, atomize

Bright - shining, shiny, gleaming, brilliant, sparkling, shimmering, radiant, vivid, colorful, lustrous, luminous, incandescent, intelligent, knowing, quick-witted, smart, intellectual

Calm - quiet, peaceful, still, tranquil, mild, serene, smooth, composed, collected, unruffled, level-headed, unexcited, detached, aloof

Come - approach, advance, near, arrive, reach

Cool - chilly, cold, frosty, wintry, icy, frigid

Crooked - bent, twisted, curved, hooked, zigzag

Cry - shout, yell, yowl, scream, roar, bellow, weep, wail, sob, bawl

Cut - gash, slash, prick, nick, sever, slice, carve, cleave, slit, chop, crop, lop, reduce

Dangerous - perilous, hazardous, risky, uncertain, unsafe

Dark - shadowy, unlit, murky, gloomy, dim, dusky, shaded, sunless, black, dismal, sad

Decide - determine, settle, choose, resolve

Definite - certain, sure, positive, determined, clear, distinct, obvious

Delicious - savory, delectable, appetizing, luscious, scrumptious, palatable, delightful, enjoyable, toothsome, exquisite

Describe - portray, characterize, picture, narrate, relate, recount, represent, report, record

Destroy - ruin, demolish, raze, waste, kill, slay, end, extinguish

Difference - disagreement, inequity, contrast, dissimilarity, incompatibility

Do - execute, enact, carry out, finish, conclude, effect, accomplish, achieve, attain

Dull - boring, tiring,, tiresome, uninteresting, slow, dumb, stupid, unimaginative, lifeless, dead, insensible, tedious, wearisome, listless, expressionless, plain, monotonous, humdrum, dreary

Eager - keen, fervent, enthusiastic, involved, interested, alive to

End - stop, finish, terminate, conclude, close, halt, cessation, discontinuance

Enjoy - appreciate, delight in, be pleased, indulge in, luxuriate in, bask in, relish, devour, savor, like

Explain - elaborate, clarify, define, interpret, justify, account for

Fair - just, impartial, unbiased, objective, unprejudiced, honest

Fall - drop, descend, plunge, topple, tumble

False - fake, fraudulent, counterfeit, spurious, untrue, unfounded, erroneous, deceptive, groundless, fallacious

Famous - well-known, renowned, celebrated, famed, eminent, illustrious, distinguished, noted, notorious

Fast - quick, rapid, speedy, fleet, hasty, snappy, mercurial, swiftly, rapidly, quickly, snappily, speedily, lickety-split, posthaste, hastily, expeditiously, like a flash

Fat - stout, corpulent, fleshy, beefy, paunchy, plump, full, rotund, tubby, pudgy, chubby, chunky, burly, bulky, elephantine

Fear - fright, dread, terror, alarm, dismay, anxiety, scare, awe, horror, panic, apprehension

Fly - soar, hover, flit, wing, flee, waft, glide, coast, skim, sail, cruise

Funny - humorous, amusing, droll, comic, comical, laughable, silly

Get - acquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain, fetch, find, score, accumulate, win, earn, rep, catch, net, bag, derive, collect, gather, glean, pick up, accept, come by, regain, salvage

Go - recede, depart, fade, disappear, move, travel, proceed

Good - excellent, fine, superior, wonderful, marvelous, qualified, suited, suitable, apt, proper, capable, generous, kindly, friendly, gracious, obliging, pleasant, agreeable, pleasurable, satisfactory, well-behaved, obedient, honorable, reliable, trustworthy, safe, favorable, profitable, advantageous, righteous, expedient, helpful, valid, genuine, ample, salubrious, estimable, beneficial, splendid, great, noble, worthy, first-rate, top-notch, grand, sterling, superb, respectable, edifying

Great - noteworthy, worthy, distinguished, remarkable, grand, considerable, powerful, much, mighty

Gross - improper, rude, coarse, indecent, crude, vulgar, outrageous, extreme, grievous, shameful, uncouth, obscene, low

Happy - pleased, contented, satisfied, delighted, elated, joyful, cheerful, ecstatic, jubilant, gay, tickled, gratified, glad, blissful, overjoyed

Hate - despise, loathe, detest, abhor, disfavor, dislike, disapprove, abominate

Have - hold, possess, own, contain, acquire, gain, maintain, believe, bear, beget, occupy, absorb, fill, enjoy

Help - aid, assist, support, encourage, back, wait on, attend, serve, relieve, succor, benefit, befriend, abet

Hide - conceal, cover, mask, cloak, camouflage, screen, shroud, veil

Hurry - rush, run, speed, race, hasten, urge, accelerate, bustle

Hurt - damage, harm, injure, wound, distress, afflict, pain

Idea - thought, concept, conception, notion, understanding, opinion, plan, view, belief

Important - necessary, vital, critical, indispensable, valuable, essential, significant, primary, principal, considerable, famous, distinguished, notable, well-known

Interesting - fascinating, engaging, sharp, keen, bright, intelligent, animated, spirited, attractive, inviting, intriguing, provocative, though-provoking, challenging, inspiring, involving, moving, titillating, tantalizing, exciting, entertaining, piquant, lively, racy, spicy, engrossing, absorbing, consuming, gripping, arresting, enthralling, spellbinding, curious, captivating, enchanting, bewitching, appealing

Keep - hold, retain, withhold, preserve, maintain, sustain, support

Kill - slay, execute, assassinate, murder, destroy, cancel, abolish

Lazy - indolent, slothful, idle, inactive, sluggish

Little - tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute

Look - gaze, see, glance, watch, survey, study, seek, search for, peek, peep, glimpse, stare, contemplate, examine, gape, ogle, scrutinize, inspect, leer, behold, observe, view, witness, perceive, spy, sight, discover, notice, recognize, peer, eye, gawk, peruse, explore

Love - like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor

Make - create, originate, invent, beget, form, construct, design, fabricate, manufacture, produce, build, develop, do, effect, execute, compose, perform, accomplish, earn, gain, obtain, acquire, get

Mark - label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designate

Mischievous - prankish, playful, naughty, roguish, waggish, impish, sportive

Move - plod, go, creep, crawl, inch, poke, drag, toddle, shuffle, trot, dawdle, walk, traipse, mosey, jog, plug, trudge, slump, lumber, trail, lag, run, sprint, trip, bound, hotfoot, high-tail, streak, stride, tear, breeze, whisk, rush, dash, dart, bolt, fling, scamper, scurry, skedaddle, scoot, scuttle, scramble, race, chase, hasten, hurry, hump, gallop, lope, accelerate, stir, budge, travel, wander, roam, journey, trek, ride, spin, slip, glide, slide, slither, coast, flow, sail, saunter, hobble, amble, stagger, paddle, slouch, prance, straggle, meander, perambulate, waddle, wobble, pace, swagger, promenade, lunge

Moody - temperamental, changeable, short-tempered, glum, morose, sullen, mopish, irritable, testy, peevish, fretful, spiteful, sulky, touchy

Neat - clean, orderly, tidy, trim, dapper, natty, smart, elegant, well-organized, super, desirable, spruce, shipshape, well-kept, shapely

New - fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent

Old - feeble, frail, ancient, weak, aged, used, worn, dilapidated, ragged, faded, broken-down, former, old-fashioned, outmoded, passe, veteran, mature, venerable, primitive, traditional, archaic, conventional, customary, stale, musty, obsolete, extinct

Part - portion, share, piece, allotment, section, fraction, fragment

Place - space, area, spot, plot, region, location, situation, position, residence, dwelling, set, site, station, status, state

Plan - plot, scheme, design, draw, map, diagram, procedure, arrangement, intention, device, contrivance, method, way, blueprint

Popular - well-liked, approved, accepted, favorite, celebrated, common, current

Predicament - quandary, dilemma, pickle, problem, plight, spot, scrape, jam

Put - place, set, attach, establish, assign, keep, save, set aside, effect, achieve, do, build

Quiet - silent, still, soundless, mute, tranquil, peaceful, calm, restful

Right - correct, accurate, factual, true, good, just, honest, upright, lawful, moral, proper, suitable, apt, legal, fair

Run - race, speed, hurry, hasten, sprint, dash, rush, escape, elope, flee

Say/Tell - inform, notify, advise, relate, recount, narrate, explain, reveal, disclose, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, enlighten, instruct, insist, teach, train, direct, issue, remark, converse, speak, affirm, suppose, utter, negate, express, verbalize, voice, articulate, pronounce, deliver, convey, impart, assert, state, allege, mutter, mumble, whisper, sigh, exclaim, yell, sing, yelp, snarl, hiss, grunt, snort, roar, bellow, thunder, boom, scream, shriek, screech, squawk, whine, philosophize, stammer, stutter, lisp, drawl, jabber, protest, announce, swear, vow, content, assure, deny, dispute

Scared - afraid, frightened, alarmed, terrified, panicked, fearful, unnerved, insecure, timid, shy, skittish, jumpy, disquieted, worried, vexed, troubled, disturbed, horrified, terrorized, shocked, petrified, haunted, timorous, shrinking, tremulous, stupefied, paralyzed, stunned, apprehensive

Show - display, exhibit, present, note, point to, indicate, explain, reveal, prove, demonstrate, expose

Slow - unhurried, gradual, leisurely, late, behind, tedious, slack

Stop - cease, halt, stay, pause, discontinue, conclude, end, finish, quit

Story - tale, myth, legend, fable, yarn, account, narrative, chronicle, epic, sage, anecdote, record, memoir

Strange - odd, peculiar, unusual, unfamiliar, uncommon, queer, weird, outlandish, curious, unique, exclusive, irregular

Take - hold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select, prefer, remove, steal, lift, rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract, recall, assume, occupy, consume

Tell - disclose, reveal, show, expose, uncover, relate, narrate, inform, advise, explain, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, recount, repeat

Think - judge, deem, assume, believe, consider, contemplate, reflect, mediate

Trouble - distress, anguish, anxiety, worry, wretchedness, pain, danger, peril, disaster, grief, misfortune, difficulty, concern, pains, inconvenience, exertion, effort

True - accurate, right, proper, precise, exact, valid, genuine, real, actual, trusty, steady, loyal, dependable, sincere, staunch

Ugly - hideous, frightful, frightening, shocking, horrible, unpleasant, monstrous, terrifying, gross, grisly, ghastly, horrid, unsightly, plain, homely, evil, repulsive, repugnant, gruesome

Unhappy - miserable, uncomfortable, wretched, heart-broken, unfortunate, poor, downhearted, sorrowful, depressed, dejected, melancholy, glum, gloomy, dismal, discouraged, sad

Use - employ, utilize, exhaust, spend, expend, consume, exercise

the time has come! starting tomorrow, i will be inactive on tumblr to focus on the upcoming semester. im so excited for graduation, feels so close yet so far!

in my absence, there will be many posts ​queued up and ready to go (;

i will be back around december to hear how the semester went for everyone, and to tell you about my experience as well. expect to see some pink christmas posts in your future when im back online 🎀🎄🫶🏾

i leave you with this:

- its you vs you. it always has been.

- actively fight your self doubt and allow your confidence to win

- set high expectations for yourself and celebrate when you reach them

- be gentle with yourself when you fall short

as always, i believe in you angels! wholeheartedly <3

As summer is unfortunately slowly coming to an end it’s time to prepare for a hot girl school year and semester. Having a hot girl semester to me means being organized, studious, consistent, disciplined, motivated and looking hot doing it 💅🏾💕. Beauty 🎀and brains 🧠. We’re getting good grades, handing in our assignments early, being on top of everything and being THAT student.

Organization and Productivity:

Get an academic planner or just a general planner when you get your syllabus for your classes write all your due dates and assignments.

Notion is an amazing app for productivity and organization. Especially for school. There’s academic templates like due dates, grade calculators, study notes and etc. you can customize and make everything your own add pictures and designs to make everything look cute.

Download your required apps. Some schools may require you to download grammarly, Microsoft teams or etc. read your syllabus and make sure you download everything required before hand and make accounts.

Create a back to school shopping list. Essentials needed for school ( eg. backpack, purse, laptop, headphones, tablet, dorm items, textbooks, stationary).

Motivation and Discipline:

All the mood-boards on my blog are motivation I try to make them for all majors, to be able to print out and place in your school binders, or use as screen savers to look at, to get you started when you feel like giving up. Remember why you’re doing this. When it gets hard remember the goal, your future self and the lifestyle and career you want.

We all know Legally Blonde is THAT Movie, it’s great to watch before the school year. I like to watch it before each semester because even though it’s fictional we can all learn a lot from Elle woods. Her determination, her discipline and motivation we see that brought her success. “ I’m going to Harvard, I don’t need back ups”“ What like it’s hard?” “ I’ll show you how valuable Elle Woods can be”

Motivation is the start, discipline keeps you consistent. Sometimes you may be lazy or don’t feel like studying but you need to get into a routine and form habits that you do everyday to keep you in a consistent cycle. It takes 21 days to form a habit. If you create a routine and a schedule after a while it’ll become a natural thing for you.

Study Techniques:

Active recall

pomodoro technique (study with Elle woods pomodoro technique)

Flash cards

Listening to recorded lectures

Reflecting on what you took from a lesson and writing down everything you remember ( mind map)

Teaching what you learned to someone

Study Habits:

Putting away your phone or putting it on DND mode

Cleaning and organizing your space prior to studying

Making sure you study on a full stomach or snack while studying

Studying in a quiet calm space

Studying to learn and understand, not just memorize

Having group study sessions or study dates

Physical Appearance:

Physical appearance is important. When you look good you’ll feel better. It’s about confidence and self esteem. Presenting your best self. A new school year a is fresh start. Buy a new wardrobe, a new bag, new accessories. Upgrade your appearance, upgrade your style. Back to school shopping is my favourite, it’s so refreshing and cleansing in a way. After summer, a back to school glow up is essential.

As much as it’s annoying to do, for online school looking good and turning your camera on during class meetings and lessons is important. It lets your professors get a better impression of you and they will remember you more. Because of pretty privilege it’s possible physical appearance can = better grades in school. Look presentable for online classes as much as you would for in person and you’ll see a difference with the relationship between you and your professors and your grades. But of course you can’t just rely on that alone you need to also do the work.

Multitask beauty regimes and studying. Study at the salon while getting your hair or nails done, study while doing a face mask and waiting for it to dry, listen to lectures while at the spa or getting your eyelashes done. Don’t neglect your beauty regime and appointments because of school. You can do both or schedule time do complete both.

Mental health and well-being:

Be aware of accessibility services and accommodation services within your school like counsellor, social workers, child and youth workers and tutors and book appointments in advance or as needed.

Talk to your professors about extensions on assignments for when you feel overwhelmed or alternative spaces to do test if available.

Practice stress relieving habits like exercising, going on walks, deep breathing, journaling when feeling overwhelmed and under pressure.

Academic baddies, we got this 🧠💅🏾🎀

Why Financial Literacy is Non-Negotiable

Financial literacy is non-negotiable which is why we spend time on these posts, even though they may not be as fun. The story below illustrates why.

The Miami/Palm Beach area is home to many billionaires and is a popular location for 'second homes' of New York investment bankers and financiers.

It's packed with high-end salons, spa services, yachts, and high-end vehicles. Many wives lived there and were enjoying their high-end lives in gorgeous homes, driving high-end vehicles, while their husbands were in charge of managing the money.

When the 2007 housing crisis hit, many investment bankers lost a huge chunk of their wealth.

Wives who were spoiled were shocked to find out that their families had been having financial trouble before the crisis, always living on the line in order to maintain the superficial outward appearance of wealth, their husbands over-leveraging debt to keep up with the other multi-millionaire down the street and continue to lavish their wives.

These ladies and their families had to sell their houses and moved out in the middle of the night so they wouldn't have to see their neighbors.

Because they were financially illiterate and relied on their husbands to make all decisions on investing, allocation, spending, they were kept in the dark about the true nature of their financial situation, didn't realize that things were precarious and hanging by a thread, and all it took was the 2007 crisis to upset the delicate balance and break the final thread.

We discuss financial literacy here to protect ourselves from situations like that.

We remain aware of our financial situations and are financially literate, rather than handing it all over to our men and being blind.

We are high-agency and we strive to become high-caliber woman, not just to date high-caliber.

Pink + Purple

Orange + Yellow

Pink + Brown

Baby Blue + Baby Pink

Black + Pink

Pink + Gray

Purple + White

Ballet classes weekly

Massages monthly

Healthy balanced meals daily

Reading 1 book every 2 weeks

Nail appointments regularly 

Hair appointments every 2 weeks

Pilates or barre classes weekly

Yoga every night

Stretching every morning

Baking every weekend

Journaling daily

Growing in my spirituality 

Smoothies or homemade juice every morning

Golf lessons weekly

Horseback riding lessons weekly

Walking in nature daily

Vacations at least twice a year

Sugaring appointments monthly 

Teeth whitening appointments monthly 

Guitar lessons daily

Eyebrow tinting appointments regularly 

Fine dining weekly

Investing my money often

Practicing Spanish daily 

Staycations regularly 

There are in fact ladies who posses the entire Unholly Trinity... Don't be around them.

You need clear direction. You need a clear plan of where you want to go and how to get there. You heard me say be stoic the easily emotional is easily manipulated Bla Bla right and true but if you are the most stoic person in the most control of your emotions …. If you have no direction except Romantika exotica champagnskaya and stupidika and follow my feelings like a dumb mouse the first hunty cat will eat you.

In dating or job or finances if you don’t have a clear vision where you are going someone else will scam you & take advantage of you. Being half Russian what drives me insane is Eastern European love tourists - these girls who go to the Middle East and have no direction in dating usually a bit of a Pickmeisha- “I am not like the like other Svetas. Pick me!” In Russia and Eastern Europe Sveta is the heartless calculating but a bit trashy too obvious village gold digger. Too aggressive. Then we have the Ekaterina who is cultured, reasonable, looks for a good father for her kids, cosmopolitan, well read, well bred, city lady. We also have Olga, the very assertive feminine Ukrainian lady that men love & some are cultured some not.

So Eastern Europeans look down at the doormats but especially Ukrainian men have à pyschotic hatred of Pickmeishas & think they are traitors and foreign agents. Russian men don’t particularly like Pickmeishas. Svetas mock Pickmeishas who deep down think they are more special because they are more “spiritual” but their spirituality consists of crystals & woo woo.

So Natashas leave Russia & Ukraine were they are mocked for being pick mes who date dusties but instead go to Egypt on vacation. And there some dusty with nothing going for him tells Natasha some garbage “you are my Cleopatra, let me show you the pyramids” to appeal to her covert narcissism. Someone recognizes that this “I am not like the other girls” is superior than all the Svetas Natasha thinks.

See Natasha has no goals for dating. So she is easily manipulated to work for someone else’s agenda. Natasha & Ekaterina have a plan so they get what they want. Ekaterina does better but Natasha doesn’t do poorly for herself either. You need to have a clearly defined version of the future. For me with what I am going through I think what does mental health look like, wellness and not being in so much pain look like. It’s just a stage in life and the more I define my goals, write my mental wellness goals and how to achieve them the faster I heal. Sometimes life hits you with everything at once & you just have to be strong & figure your way out back to your old enjoying my life Dolce Vita vibe.

If I don’t define for example what resilience looks like and clear goals that I write for example I have been slipping on my fitness goals but did I write them? No. And I should do that.

You really need a clear vision of your future or you will be taken advantage of by some one who has a clear vision of what they want like dusty Egyptian f-boys who exploit Natashas looking for love.

Think big! What does the best family look like? What does wealth look like to you? How will you look at your prettiest. You need a clear vision of where you want to go, visualize, vision board and break it down to goals that you write down. Then read how to get there. Start taking small actions. At first it’s hard but it gets easier over time as you stop getting intimidated by your goals. Surround yourself by people who are goal oriented.

If you don’t have a clear vision of where you want to go it’s much easier to manipulate you to go against your best interests and manipulate your emotions. If you have an idea of a masculine provider man a dusty renting a dust & cockroach infested dusty matchbox trash can in a Cairo slum suddenly won’t be that romantic inspite of his beautiful words telling you that “ you are Cleopatra whose soul is as ancient as Egypt itself, and your (dyed) blonde hair shines like Ra & the sun God onto the pyramids and the pharaohs would have worshiped its light”

“Oh wow Mogamed”

“Happy?! Now ignore the cockroaches & give me some action, my eggplant awaits!”

Then “Natasha I need some money for the taxi home.”

Then later “Hello Sveta I met this Mogamed, and it saw the stars and Jupiter and Mars?”

“Not again! Is he rich.”

“No he rented me a cockroach infested match box in the slum because that is all he can afford but I love him. But this Mogamed is different. Sveta all you think of is money! You don’t understand passion & romance. If you are not spiritual you don’t understand.”

“No I don’t understand how you raise children on love and cockroaches?! Explain.”

“You have to live it. The pyramids.. the emotions.. the feelings. The stars in the sky. Have you ever just thought of feeling & following your feelings.”

“No that is why I am married and you are not.”

“You have to come here & just let go and follow your feelings.”

Then one day Natasha calls Sveta,

“Mogamed broke my heart”

“Like the 5 Mogameds before him? At least date a man called Ahmed that would be something different.”

“Sveta can you believe I suffered in a matchbox, a tuna can covered with dust, infested with cockroaches waiting for my Mogamed and all this time he had businesses, a wife and kids!!! How do I get him to leave them for me?”

“Listen Natasha you give me lectures all the time how I am not spiritual, cold & heartless “

“You are”

“Well tell me Natasha what is spiritual about being a home wrecker trying to get a man to leave his wife & kids?!!”

“But my Mogamed is different”

“But honey you are not acting different, you are acting basic. You are giving your body & soul in exchange for dust, cockroaches, and empty words from a married man. Even if he leaves his wife you will be the last person he will marry. I am sure his wife only accepts the best for herself & her kids. That is who he married so the next wife will be someone will equally high standards not begging for crumbs of affection among dust and cockroaches in a garbage can in the gutter.”

Yes this is based on a true story in a Russian women’s forum. In the end Natasha thought it was witchcraft and tried to find a e-witch to remove the spell she thought Mohammed put on her.

If you don’t have a clear vision for your future you will be used for someone else’s agenda. Follow your joy and think where it should lead you. Create a clear vision. Make a board, write goals and act on it! See you at success!

#mindset

#EliteMindset

Credit Maria Al massani