2014 Resolutions

It may be cliche but I love setting my resolutions for the next year. This year I have come up with 7 goals for the following year...

7. Travel Greece

6. Celebrate the official launch of my company

5. Learn fluent French

4. Enjoy my debut burlesque performance

3. Finish my first book

2. Get serious about my fitness and health

1. Have an article published

May you all have an amazing 2014

xx

Korin Monte

As 2013 Disapears Off Into The Distance....

Everyday is a chance to make a change in one's life. Every second of every moment is ours to embrace fully with the utmost enthusiasm and excited. Though there is no need to wait for a dictated date to step back a look at life, there is a tradition to do this at the end of the now passing year.

And so it is here, the end of this year. What a roller coaster it has been. I have felt pure joy and pride to then turn around to feel fear and heartbreak. I have had the most life changing year of my life. I have felt deep heartbreak, face my own mortality and discovered a strength that I never knew that I had.  There were moments of pure joy mixed into this whirlwind of the experience and emotions.

I was brought face to face with the fact that my human body is not immortal. That is such a painful reality to accept. The emotions that I felt over a period of a few months were not even measurable. Though, through is all I have found a deeper passion for my life. I live fuller, lover deeper and I make sure to take in every moment. We truly never know when it will end for us. 

The highlight of this year was my trip into the world of Burlesque. I have met some of the most enchanting humans on the planet, I have found a new love for my expression of my femininity and a clear path for my dreams. My life will be forever changed by this. Thank you to all of you who have been part of this journey so far. I love you all dearly.

The overall theme for this past year was to really discover how to start living to the fullest. May you all have a happy and healthy 2014.

All my love!

xx

Korin Monte

Back to the gypsy that I was to the gypsy that I was

Does it every feel as if your life is narrated by a succession of Fleetwood Mac songs?? Maybe I am strange but that is how I have felt lately....

Review Time! John Frieda Precision Foam Color: 3VR Deep Cherry Brown

I missed having red hair and after long consideration I decided to go back to being a ginger. Last time I had red hair it was very bright and bold but this time I wanted to have something more soft and natural. I am not a fan of box hair dyes but I decided to give the John Frieda colour foam a shot. I bought the John Frieda precision foam color in 3vr (Deep Cherry Brown)

The product is very easy to mix and use. I have long, thick hair and one box was just enough for me. I did find the application to be simple and not messy. This is not for people who want dramatic colour change though. I would not use this product if there is more then a 2-3 shade different in colour.

This is my hair colour before I used the John Frieda Precision Foam. (This colour is after I did a bleach bath on my hair to get rid of black that I used previously)

This is my hair afterwards.

Overall I am very happy with the final results. The color is beautiful and vibrant and I have received a lot of compliments on it. I use a sulfate free organic shampoo and that keeps the colour from fading. Obviously this will fade since it is a red shade and they are notorious for bleeding and fading. It didn't seem to cause any damage at all to my hair and did not dry it out. I feel that if you need to save $$ and are looking for a gentle color that you can get from home, this is your best shot.

xx

Korin M.

Tattoo Removal: Session 3

I went for my third tattoo removal session today. It has been about 8 weeks since my last session. (FYI recommended time between sessions is at least 6 weeks) It was painful as always but over too quickly to be bothered by it.

I have found that it takes around 2 weeks to be able to see what the results are. I will see some bruising and redness in the mean time.

Once I hit the 3 or 4 week mark I will post more photos of the process. I wanted to add that this has not caused any scarring at all. 

xx

Korin M.

Happy Halloween!!!

I just wanted to wish all of you amazing people a fabulous Halloween!

Isn't my Edgar Allan Poe pumpkin just amazing? I would share the other pumkins that we carved but they were stolen during trick or treat tonight!

Fierce photos from this Halloween's burlesque show here in Las Vegas. My lovely ladies including the sexy Lexxy Alizay aka Lex Lunacy.

xx

Korin M

What Do You Know About Gypsies?

I have received some questions about the origin of both my blog title and also my burlesque identity as 'The Desert Gypsy'. Well I am here to address the question. I am of Roma 'Gypsy' decent. My family came to this country to escape persecution during WW2. We all know that many innocent Jewish people were brutally murdered and tortured by the Nazis during WW2 and that concentration camps were a literal hell on earth for so many.  A lesser know fact is that over a million Roma people were also murdered during the Holocaust. My very own family suffered this and some never made it out of the camps, the rest fled to the USA.

I won't get into the whole history of the Roma people and my families personal history but I will say that there is a large amount of racism and discrimination that has been endured for hundreds of years and is still presently affecting many Roma in Europe, North Africa and Asia.

I was not raised as a Roma 'Gypsy'. My family wanted a different life and experience for me and my brother. I wouldn't suffer poverty or racism like the generations before me did. My Mother vowed that I would never suffer like she did and I would not have the life of my family before me. Not only were they Gypsies but also fortune tellers and witches. This doesn't make for welcoming neighbors.

Though I was not raised in that life; I am still very proud of the colourful history of my family and ancestors.

GYPSY! In some parts of the world the term Gypsy is considered a racial/prejudice slur. Until I started to really research the history and current conditions of the Roma people, I did not realize that some consider gypsy to be a derogatory word. I have found that this tends to be considered negative in Eastern and Southern Europe more than any other region. I personally am proud of the term Gypsy and so are many other gypsies that I have met in North America and Western Europe. My family came to the USA from Romania and North Africa. I have traveled to see these lands for myself to help understand the history of my family.

I write this due to the recent backlash at the Roma community due to the Blonde Angel child found in Greece. There is a new interest in this culture that I have never experienced before. I feel that my recent influx of emails about my chosen title is due to this recent increase in press on the community.  I am proud of my heritage. I am also proud to be part Lakota Sioux, Mexican and European. All of this has made me the unique person that I am today.

XX

Korin M.