BrianaChantel v. COM 336

Welcome back to BrianaChantel v. COM 336. If you caught the slight  nod to Jay-Z  in the title for this post (or, at the very least, found the title amusing) your welcome back has been quantified. Outdated hip-hop culture puns aside, this post ventures into the land of wikiHow. To be even less vague about the nature of today's post, there are three interesting topics that somehow managed to not be on wikiHow at all. wikiHow Topic One How to Create Single Stripe Vertical Gradient Nail Art The idea for this topic came about due to the rising nail art trend of a singular stripe of gradient that is vertically placed on the nail bed. With this current trend sweeping Instagram nail art feature accounts and nail technician workstations alike, a tutorial for this particular look is worth the creation. Not only can it be done in a salon by a licensed nail tech, it can be done at home by any DIY nail art enthusiast. wikiHow Topic Two How to Create Holographic Heart Nail ...

Oh, the Internet. It seems as if it’s been around my entire life and yet I can still remember a time when it was not. It’s odd to think there was ever period in my life when I was not attached to a smartphone or hopelessly dependent on an Internet-capable device. I guess American Horror Story: Murder House’s Vivienne Harmon said it best, “we are a slave to our conveniences.” One of my first memories using the Internet is from the late 1990s. My mom had just purchased a Hewlett-Packard desktop. After putting together the brand new computer desk and office chair, my state-of-the-art information superhighway—a cliché and outdated term I know, but remember this was the 1990s after all—was ready. At first, I spent a considerably decent amount of time playing the preinstalled version of solitaire while “The Amanda Show” aired in the background on the large television set behind me. Then, somehow, I ended up with one of those AOL discs that provide you with X-amount of time to browse th...