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Re: Mariah going on tour with Lionel Ritchie (69,819) (69,821) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I do. Plus apparently it's a 35 show thing with Mariah as a special guest, I don't know what that means for Mariah. Is she opening for him or what? Come on now Mimi, why waste so much time on the road when you can work on that new album? Stella stop turning Mariah completely into a touring artist. She is touring so much she barely had time to do anything else, including getting married. (Monday 12 December 2016; 16:41)

Re: Variety and lawyers (69,788) (69,798) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The funny part is majority of the people watching the show, fans, non fans, reviewers, immediately state how they dislike Stella yet Mariah doesn't see it. (Monday 12 December 2016; 4:17)

What on earth (69,779) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah out there wearing next to nothing, when it's clearly cold outside and even Stella is wearing a heavy shawl. No wonder she caught cold. What on earth is this bodysuit obsession really? It's just so bizarre. Who wears bodysuits off stage? Let's not name Lady Gaga and Madonna, because if y'all can't group her in the same category as Mariah as an artist, then y'all shouldn't group her in the same category ensemble wise. (Sunday 11 December 2016; 16:03)

Re: Bodysuit (69,710) (69,715) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The video really did melt my heart, so cute to see her just up and run suddenly to her fans. Her security clearly didn't expect it haha. I'm glad the fans waiting outside got their moment. (Friday 9 December 2016; 17:45)

Bodysuit (69,681) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Seems like the bodysuit moments are not just limited to being "on stage ensembles" anymore. They're being worn outside too. On a side note I saw this cute video of Mariah running to greet her fans and it makes me happy. (Thursday 8 December 2016; 19:28)

Re: Petition (69,674) (69,680) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah will admit to knowing JLo before she even considers covering her boobs for good haha. (Thursday 8 December 2016; 19:26)

Re: Mariah should read her own press (69,237) (69,243) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hoochie mama, RJJ12 I just can't. But you are right, that is what she is being portrayed as even if she is not like that. She really needs to read some stuff though. I mean she's probably being told "Oh people are losing their mind over you and Tanaka" (not the reality that no one is buying it and calling her desperate to go so low to prove she's doing fine), then "Oh people are hash tagging 'Inconvenience Fee' now, you're like a women empowerment icon now" (not what people are actually saying, which is "you are being called a crazy gold digger who is trying to bully her ex fiance to pay her for leaving her"). By the way the women empowerment thing came to mind after I saw this recent interview of Mariah where she talks about how the show has many moments of women empowerment. That got me thinking "Stella Effect" because even though in many ways Mariah is an independent self made woman, but she never really talks about women empowerment, I don't think she ever brought it up before. (Thursday 8 December 2016; 10:40)

Re: She just needs Stella to do her job (69,235) (69,241) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't blame Stella for being overwhelmed with all the work, after all she has zero background in this line, I mean come on, how can a reality show producer be an efficient manager to an A list music star, what I blame her is for pretending like she is doing a stellar job and calling out anyone who says otherwise and not having the morals or decency to just gracefully step down from this. But of course she won't because half her family and friends are on Mariah's payroll now. Mariah basically has no one outside of the Bulochnikovs around her, except for Kris. There was James Packer but now he has been thrown out too. I don't remember if I read it here or somewhere else that someone was saying Stella wouldn't let Mariah marry Packer eventually because once Mariah is married, James would throw Stella out or at least not tolerate her moving in her whole family into Mariah's house like a freaking parasite. I'm not saying Stella did it, but you all know what happens when your friends keep whispering in your ears about your boyfriend not being right so many times, eventually you start disliking him haha. I'm just kidding by the way. (Thursday 8 December 2016; 10:34)

Re: Mariah's World was (69,150) (69,154) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Yes there will definitely be more story plus I think the part of Stella talking about the pre-nup not being romantic was filmed after the Packer breakup. So I think they refilmed a lot of stuff. Check out this link. I watched it here. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 13:20)

Re: Beacon ensemble (69,151) (69,153) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter She did look good no doubt. The bodysuit didn't look tacky either somehow. I didn't hear the clips yet but I heard she is sounding great. I don't know why Mariah can't pull great vocal moments when her performance is being aired yet just days later she is slaying. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 13:16)

Wendy on MW (69,149) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter She didn't go into details about what she thought about the show overall. But some points she mentioned. (1) Mariah doesn't sit, she lounges. (2) Mariah has diamonds for every occasion. (3) Mariah is in lingerie most of the time and Wendy thinks that's fine because if Mariah is confident enough then why not. (4) Wendy does not like Stella and thinks there is something opportunistic about her. She goes on to say that Mariah is so needy that she can't see through Stella's act. Seems like the lambs aren't the only ones who are hating on Stella. (5) She says Mariah seems to use her kids as decoration and doesn't come off as a great parent. That was a little harsh because the kids were hardly there for a few seconds. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 11:08)

Beacon ensemble (69,148) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ensemble compilation, haha only Mariah will sing OHN in a bodysuit and her twins out. Toy soldier outfit. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 11:04)

Re: Mariah's World was (69,102) (69,123) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter That would have been a lot of fun. Love ya too dahlin'. By the way do you think we might get a theme song for MW? I was hoping they'd release one to coincide with the premier. Imagine the exposure. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 0:24)

Re: Mariah's World (69,105) (69,122) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter What did Ty say about Bryan and Anthony? I can't seem to remember. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 0:23)

Two videos (69,121) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter This video of Tanaka talking about Mariah and how we have to tune in to find out how it all happened is just so next level cringeworthy, I just can't. Seriously, this just looks so cheap. Mariah also gives a little interview and she is as coy as ever. But Bryan's interview is just horrible. Notice Mishka trying to get her 2 seconds of fame in the background. (Tuesday 6 December 2016; 0:20)

Re: I'm living for Mariah's World (69,111) (69,119) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Why would Stella even have to make this tour happen in 2 weeks when the dates were announced back in December. She went on tour next March. If the dates were allowed in December, you can bet your life they had to negotiate the venues even before that. I'm talking months here. So the fact that the tour had to supposedly be planned in 2 weeks is weird because it didn't have to come down to that. If Miss Bulochnikov was spending more time at her work desk and less time following Mariah on her yacht and dates. (Monday 5 December 2016; 23:43)

MAC behind the scenes (69,110) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't remember if I posted this before. Photo 2 from the behind the scenes moment. Such an ethereal shot. This is a beautiful shot of our beauty school drop out doing her own makeup. I would like the final version of this photo. Very Charmbracelet meets TEOM. Last photo. (Monday 5 December 2016; 19:33)

Viewing party photos (69,109) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Photo 1 and photo 2 of Mariah arriving at the viewing party. This is such a cute photo, she looks amazing. This is basically Mariah's world currently. We have this photo of the Manakas. (Monday 5 December 2016; 19:30)

Re: MW episode 1 : Mimi L review (69,095) (69,107) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The Roc and Roe moments were precious and you could tell these kids love the spotlight and are stars in the making because they came running to be on camera haha, just like Mariah said that they love being on stage. The show is definitely not a train wreck, neither did I think it would be, but it is what I expected it would turn out to be and that is it is somewhat scripted. I agree with the whole disoriented thing you mentioned. It is quite confusing at times. Especially to casual audience. (Monday 5 December 2016; 19:17)

Re: Mariah's World (69,094) (69,106) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I also wanted to mention how the editing was choppy and it just kept going back and forth so much. The structure was very messy up until the end when it finally got a little stable. But throughout it was messy. Like they couldn't figure out how make a proper structure. It looked more like a montage than a documentary. Or like an extended teaser trailer with several random footage sewn in together. (Monday 5 December 2016; 19:14)

Re: Mariah's world was (69,091) (69,092) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter "Every review I've read said the series needed more Mariah and less Stella." I agree with this. I hope that from the next episode they tone down on the Stella dominance and have more of Mariah. I also can live without the Molly storyline. Waste of time. I'd much rather have more clips from the SSFT shows. Granted this episode is before the show started so that may explain why there were no clips but hopefully from the next episode we get more clips from her performances and audience interactions from the show. (Monday 5 December 2016; 14:52)

MW episode 1 : Mimi L review (69,083) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter (Additional point I wrote this after I finished the post and I didn't feel like changing all the numbers). The first moments of the episode goes by really fast, like basically flashes while they waste a good 5 minutes later in the episode on the assistant story line at Molly's apartment. (1) Mariah looked gorgeous in every frame, I liked that instead of tradition "Talking Head" sequences, Mariah put her own spin to it and did her parts on a chaise lounge. (2) Loved Bianca's introduction of Mariah. (3) Enjoyed the parts with DemBabies. (4) Mariah's wedding dress was stunning and she looked so beautiful in it. (5) I liked that they put in Shawn explaining how this isn't how they grew up, liked how Mariah explained she music is everything to her and all. (6) Sadly this is where the negatives start. Mariah keeps saying how "they don't know the real me" and how this show will help them know her better and how she's not really a diva and materialistic. But then you have this woman diving into the ocean wearing expensive diamond necklaces, a very low cut gown and her sunglasses. Then how she won't be seen without shades in bleak lighting and all. So then that kinda solidifies what people really think right? I'm not going to lie, I didn't find the scene bad, but I'm just saying if you want people to see you are not an over the top diva, then this isn't going to cut it. (7) Mariah goes on several, yes several different scenes where she defends Stella and puts in great words for her so expect a lot of "Stella is tough but she gets the work done". "Stella understands me, people before her used me." "People (fans) misunderstand Stella, she's the best". (8) The article about how Stella paints one picture for Mariah, while behind her back she has another face was slightly reflected when she tells Mariah that "James loves you so much he'll understand" when talking about postponing the wedding but then we have her during her talking head moment saying how she thinks the pre-nuptials aren't "the most romantic thing I've seen". I wonder if Mariah was really supposed to end up with James, how would James feel about that being aired? (9) Expect Stella to tell Mariah she loves her at least 20 times. (10) The Tanaka story line seed has been very subtly planted. (11) The Molly story line was cringe worthy and blatantly staged. They didn't even try to hide it. Like why would you hire a girl who has no experience being a celebrity assistant (in fact no experience in this field at all)? Oh wait, Mariah already hired Stella so everything goes. But then the camera follows this girl back to her apartment (why is this necessary if it's a docu-series?) where she tells her BF he can't exist as Stella has a "no BF" rule, all while the BF pretends not knowing that this girl got hired by Mariah, I mean dude there are at least 2 cameras and good lighting pointed at you. (12) They'll explain why Mariah was late in Stockholm because her nanny packed her passport in the suitcase. Sloppy review I know. Sorry about that. I'll try and write the next review while watching the next episode of the show. I don't feel like re-watching it now. (Monday 5 December 2016; 12:23)

Re: MAC Mariah Beauty Icon launch slumber party (69,054) (69,056) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Dahlin', that's because I didn't put that suggestion (and rant) up here on MCA at that time. Haha no seriously though, it was after many posts from myself and Shelly that we suddenly heard that she'll be collaborating with MAC. We even discussed packaging and colors of the products and what products should be included (although the packaging that they went with was way better). Then there was the time B and I went about petitioning for Mariah to try out Balmain and lo and behold after a while she was doing that. So there are at least some things that Stella listened to haha. (Sunday 4 December 2016; 15:19)

Re: Divas clips (69,038) (69,050) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Apparently she did lip sync (not sure if it was the whole thing or parts), maybe she sang with a loud backing track. There is supposedly a video of the divas taping via FB live and apparently Patti said something along the lines of "she's lip synching" and then said "she told me she's not well" or something like that. I'll post the video if I find it, but honestly I couldn't be bothered. She just sang AIWFCIY and left. She wasn't in the group performance. Anyways all I'll say is she looked great and it looked like she was pretty energetic on stage so I am waiting to see the final version. Hopefully people will like it. (Sunday 4 December 2016; 10:51)

MAC Mariah Beauty Icon launch slumber party (69,049) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So Mariah and MAC held a slumber party for her Beauty Icon line launch. She invited a bunch of beauty bloggers over for a slumber party at a hotel. This is photo 1 and photo 2 of her entrance. This is the video of the entrance. She looks stunning. Mariah literally looks like Barbie here in a Barbie house. Love the lay out they did for the photo booth bed with the pink and the customized covers and the dripping diamonds. Mariah with Patrick Starr. Mariah with another blogger. Here's a group shot. She seems to outshine everyone in the room. Mariah with her social media manager. Mariah with her competent manager. (Sunday 4 December 2016; 10:43)

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