{"id":13141,"date":"2010-04-05T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:36:49","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-real-silk-with-real-chance-luenell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-real-silk-with-real-chance-luenell\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u2013 &#8216;Real Silk&#8217; with Real, Chance &#038; Luenell"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13147\" title=\"real silk_6239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6239.jpg\" alt=\"real silk_6239\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6239.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6239-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>Anyone who knows me knows I love Reality TV.&nbsp; Of all the contestants on all the nutty dating shows I went especially nuts over Chance and Real, aka Ahmad and Kamal Givens aka The Stallionaires, real-life brothers and finalists 2 and 3 on season one of VH-1&#8217;s I Love New York. I liked them so much that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/music\/stallionaires\/index.html\">I co-wrote and co- produced the theme song,&nbsp; &#8220;Does She Love Me&#8221;<\/a>, to their spin-off VH-1 show, Real Chance of Love, with them and younger brother, Micah.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13159\" title=\"real-silk_3019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_3019.jpg\" alt=\"real-silk_3019\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_3019.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_3019-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13161\" title=\"real-silk_3073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_3073.jpg\" alt=\"real-silk_3073\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_3073.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_3073-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>As trillions of young girls will tell you, Real is known for his long silky locks.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13163\" title=\"real-silk_0143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_0143.jpg\" alt=\"real-silk_0143\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_0143.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_0143-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>So much so that last week he launched his Real Silk line of hair  care products at the salon that bears his name in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13155\" title=\"real-silk_6238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6238.jpg\" alt=\"real-silk_6238\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6238.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6238-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>After an hour of tooling up and down Lakewood Blvd. trying to make sense of the googlemap directions I finally made it to the salon minutes before the opening was over where I was meeting my fabulous friend and Borat hooker, Luenell.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13167\" title=\"luenell,aw_0453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/luenellaw_0453.jpg\" alt=\"luenell,aw_0453\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/luenellaw_0453.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/luenellaw_0453-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>Normally I would have been pissed arriving this late anywhere but I was very happy to find this giant bunny building while I was busy being lost.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13173\" title=\"bunny-building_6244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bunny-building_6244.jpg\" alt=\"bunny-building_6244\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bunny-building_6244.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bunny-building_6244-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>These are four of the funniest people I know. And we all have great hair.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13151\" title=\"real silk_6242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6242.jpg\" alt=\"real silk_6242\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6242.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk_6242-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>You can too if you pop down the coin for a bottle of this:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsilkyhair.com\/about.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13175\" title=\"real silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk.jpg\" alt=\"real silk\" width=\"238\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk.jpg 238w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/real-silk-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows I love Reality TV.&nbsp; Of all the contestants on all the nutty dating shows I went especially nuts over Chance and Real, aka Ahmad and Kamal Givens aka The Stallionaires, real-life brothers and finalists 2 and 3 on season one of VH-1&#8217;s I Love New York. I liked them so &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-real-silk-with-real-chance-luenell\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,413,359,241,87,193,13,911,81,59,75,115],"tags":[61,211,1153,3232,3245,1149,1151,209],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-celebrity","category-hair","category-health-beauty","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-place","category-products","category-reality-tv","category-songwriting","category-tv-radio","tag-allee-willis","tag-chance-and-real","tag-does-she-love-me-stallionaires","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-real-chance-of-love","tag-real-silk-ahmad","tag-stallionaires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}