![]() Give her spa treatment which includes different relaxing spa to remove dirt and impurities, threading eyebrows,cleaning pimples and poping pimples, face wash and steamer ![]() You have so many wonderful accessories for your makeover that even she will be surprised to such beautiful dresses and makeoversĪll you have to do is choose your city fashion girl and give her proper makeover. You have different makeover and makeup products for special treatment. Tickets are $30 general $45 VIP.Welcome to the world of fashion.This game is super fun in which you can prepare your girl so that she can look better. at Woodhouse Blending & Brewing in Santa Cruz. The NEXTies, presented by Event Santa Cruz and Lookout Santa Cruz, takes place Friday at 6 p.m. So that’s gonna get weird sometimes, for sure.” “And I don’t want to leave any rock unturned. “At the end of the day, I just want to have fun,” she said. ![]() All of that has a cohesive message.”Ĭurtiss is wary of over-intellectualizing what she is doing, and instead works on allowing herself to follow her muse in whatever direction it takes her. “She has all the elements, and her vision is very integrated. “She has a very holistic artistic vision,” said bandmate Stafford. Playing “dress-up,” as she calls it, might also be an exploration to find new modes of expression. Her relative lack of exposure to the wider range of music earlier in her life means that she is still in her formative stages. Going forward, Mak Nova is likely to go in unforeseen directions and take big creative risks. Part of the Mak Nova package is her visual style, striking outfits and hairstyles that make sense in a musical environment primed by Lady Gaga and Janelle Monáe. Even before the Floyd murder, she participated in an art show called “The Unapologetically Black Art Show,” where she performed under her first name, Makana.Ī couple of years later, Mak Nova was born, which not only represented a fresh reset for Curtiss musically, but also in terms of her self-image. Curtiss noticed that she was more often meeting and interacting with other people of color, and a community was coalescing. Curtiss noticed a pronounced shift toward a more solid sense of community among Black people living in Santa Cruz. In 2020, the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis galvanized Black people around the country, and Santa Cruz was no exception. “There was no malice at all toward any of the people I connected with, I just felt like I could never really be my true self in that space.” “I felt uncomfortable a lot of times, and I never quite felt like I belonged, and that I was never quite accepted or seen,” Curtiss said. But, she said, the great majority of her relationships, acquaintances and interactions in Santa Cruz were with white people. She was a dancer in those early years in Santa Cruz, a town big enough to allow her to follow some of her spiritual impulses. “It was definitely the big city for me,” she said of her first impressions of Santa Cruz. When it came time to leave the nest, she moved in with a sister who was living in Santa Cruz in the early 2010s. But her creativity led her into a different direction, and by the time she reached adulthood, she was a theater nerd and self-described hippie. Still, young Makana developed an intense interest in rap, and in fact aspired to be a rapper, back in the age when Eminem and 50 Cent were big influences. “And, especially, certain kinds of music were just a big no-no, because the colors and the patterns were so uncomfortable for her. “She couldn’t really listen to music in the house,” Curtiss said. She said that her mother had what is known as synesthesia, a perceptual condition where one sensual experience - hearing, say - may manifest itself in another sensual experience, such as colors or shapes. “It would take you 2 seconds to drive through town.” “There was one streetlight on my road,” she said. ![]() I might think some of the things that she says, but I would never say them publicly.”Ĭurtiss is the product of Duncans Mills, a small hamlet on the Russian River between Guerneville and the coast. Her persona might “say things I would never say. Click here to get Wallace Baine’s Weekender newsletterĬurtiss/Mak Nova has found performing through a persona to be an act of liberation, allowing her to project a spirit of pure creativity without an inner critic getting in the way.
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