{"id":25924,"date":"2014-05-30T02:55:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=25924"},"modified":"2014-05-30T03:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T07:08:31","slug":"lean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/lean\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Lean\" target=\"_blank\">sipping lean<\/a> like rapper <a href=\"http:\/\/rapgenius.com\/Lil-wayne-mercy-lyrics#note-1040209\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Wayne<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/rapgenius.com\/Pimp-c-pourin-up-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\">late Pimp C<\/a>. I&#8217;m not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-In-Women-Work-Will\/dp\/0385349947\" target=\"_blank\">leaning in <\/a>like Sheryl Sandberg. According to two recent photos, I&#8217;m living <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/la-cage-aux-folles\/la-cage-aux-folles-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\">life on an angle<\/a>, like the drag queens in <em>La Cage Aux Folles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEcb-T0vC44\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the one in the leopard dress leaning back in this photo from the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/what-wendy-wore-patrick-kelly-opening-in-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Kelly exhibition opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25925\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25925\" class=\"wp-image-25925 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/patkellylean.jpg\" alt=\"patkellylean\" width=\"470\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/patkellylean.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/patkellylean-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strange!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And early this month, I leaned back to smile at my designing friend Stacy Lomman right before getting a second piercing in my right earlobe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25926\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25926\" class=\"wp-image-25926\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/earringlean-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"earringlean\" width=\"498\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/earringlean-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/earringlean-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hi!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got the piercing at Addiction NYC on St. Marks Place. As you can see from <a href=\"http:\/\/addiction-nyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the photo on Addiction NYC&#8217;s website<\/a>, bongs are in the front of the store; tattoos and piercings are in the back.<\/p>\n<p>I probably got my ears pierced for the first time when I was around 13. I know it was in a mall. At the time, people were very into using <a href=\"http:\/\/tattoo.about.com\/cs\/psafety\/a\/piercing_guns.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a piercing gun instead of a needle<\/a>. It was supposed to be less painful than the needle; it is definitely less accurate. Both my sister and I wound up with piercings that are way too low on our lobes. When I got my left earlobe pierced a second time a couple of years later, that hole also came out too low. I didn&#8217;t do the right earlobe at the time because I was into an asymmetric look, not because of the piercing position problems. <\/p>\n<p>More recently, with all the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/store\/categories.php?category=Category\/Earrings\/Studs\" target=\"_blank\">emoji stud earrings<\/a> I&#8217;ve created for my line, I started wanting another hole. I put it off a long time because I was scared the piercing would wind up poorly placed once again, but the gal at Addiction did a great job. I also liked that she used a stud made from surgical steel. It&#8217;s not beautiful, but it has very little nickel in it. Gold &#8212; even 18K gold &#8212; can contain nickel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplywhispers.com\/htdocs\/html\/Studies\/complications.html\" target=\"_blank\">which is very irritating and can trigger an allergy or sensitize the wearer to gold<\/a>. In my business, I definitely don&#8217;t want to have a problem with gold!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dsmpowered\" target=\"_blank\">the dude on Twitter<\/a> who pointed out that this post needed to include <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lean_Back\" target=\"_blank\">Terror Squad<\/a>&#8216;s song &#8220;Lean Back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajmI1P3r1w4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-8QySsmwaaM&#038;feature=kp\" target=\"_blank\">I love the remix <\/a>with Fat Joe (who was on the original), Lil John, Eminem and Mase. Clearly, I was in the midst of the &#8220;Lean Back&#8221; dance when I was photographed at the Patrick Kelly show! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sipping lean like rapper Lil Wayne or the late Pimp C. I&#8217;m not leaning in like Sheryl Sandberg. According to two recent photos, I&#8217;m living life on an angle, like the drag queens in La Cage Aux Folles. I&#8217;m the one in the leopard dress leaning back in this photo from the Patrick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/lean\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,561,42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earrings","8":"category-eminem","9":"category-music","10":"category-pictures-of-me","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25924"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25932,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924\/revisions\/25932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}