FASHION: Ankara Style Ideas For Ladies

• Yes people! I’m back again with more creative and fresh Ankara styles. I’v made lots of searches and discoveries just for all my Ankara lovers. More and more styles are coming in trend and some we thought had seasoned out are back. You can’t go wrong with ankara whether for work, church, wedding, dates etc. There’s always a way to fuse in ankara into your style. either with a simple ankara head gear, bag, shoes or accessories. Check out the styles and tell me what you think. Enjoy!

Ankara shorts by House of Abeytu

Beautiful  pink & blue maxi dress with bold jewelry

High-waist pencil skirts

Alice 1940’s style Blue and Green Rose Ankara Dress by Affrodisiac

Ankara dress by Boxing Kitten

Cute pants

Button Babydoll dress by LiLiCreations

Ankara peplum top with sleeves

Playful green skirt by House of Abeytu

Ankara dresses by Atolle Clothiers

High-waist maxi skirt from Vlisco

Ankara pattern dress

Amber and Kim in a Mara Hoffman Ankara dress

Solange’s rocking an Ankara tube dress

A peacock belle skirt

A crop top with sleeves with matching skirt

Monostrap top by Oyato designs

Ankara top paired with black leggings

Cute Mini dress by Lili creations

Cool Things To Try On Your Wedding

Get the world to remember and talk about your wedding for a very long time, step out from the boring usual, and do something cool and outstanding for a change.

Try in Hundreds:

How about instead of the normal five to ten bridesmaids and groomsmen, you get like 200 of them, think of the fun, and if they have to pay for the ’asoebi’, that’s more income too. lolz

Dramatic Can Train:

Have you thought of how cool it will be to have a train of cans tied at the back of your car? That lovely loud noise it makes when you finally drive your bride home, it’s like making an official announcement and everybody must listen.

Dance like its a party and you don’t care:

Ditch the traditional ladies and gentle men dance and do something crazy, dance like it’s the final party, jazz it up and make it fun, you can try the easy convertible wedding dress to dance dress. Imagine changing your wedding dress to a comfortable dance dress right there on the dance floor.

Flower Grandmas:

Flowers girls? Typical and predictable, why not get your grandmothers to be your flower girls, while they are dressed in lovely dresses.

Get a lifting:

Be the groom and act like a celebrity; have your friends lift you on their shoulders while you make a grand entry into your reception. It’s kind of cool!

Groom with the bouquet:

Traditionally, the bride get to throw the banquet, how about for the a change, the groom throw it instead, and the groomsmen get to catch.

Pimp your keke:

Think of the wows you will get when you show up with your bride to the reception in a well pimped keke, a.k.a maruwa instead of a white horse  carriage.
There are endless cool things you can do to make a difference even with your wedding.

African Boy Invents Land-rover And Laptop Using Wood

No doubts, talents abound in Africa!

A young boy from Mubende Uganda has invented something worth talking about. The young boy carved out a land-rover and a laptop from wood. This got lots of his community people amused at his highly creative stance.

Not long ago, two Nigerian teenagers, a 13-year-old Osine and 15-year-old Anesi Ikhianosime built a web browser named Crocodile Browser Lite. Earlier this year, we reported about Adebambo Oyekan Oyelaja, a Nigerian-born software developer, who founded a social network that allows users to share prayer points, testimonies and religious activities with friends and people from around the world.

Style Focus: Chidinma

Chidinma Ekile popularly known as ‘Chidinma’ is one of Nigeria’s most talented Female artists. She came into the spotlight after winning MTN Project Fame in 2010. Over the years, she has been able to build a name for herself in the Nigerian music industry as well as create her own style.
Apart from her awesome dress sense, her cool low cut hairstyle is what really gets our attention. Miss Kedike’s hairstyle has become ‘hair goals’ for a lot of females nowadays, she rocks this sexy trendy look more than anyone can.

The Chidinma hair style

WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

10 Lifesaving Beauty Hacks For Every Woman

As human’s we are always looking for a quicker way to get the job done! There a few ways to achieve a flawless beauty look without having to go through all the stressful processes. Here are some effective beauty hacks you probably didn’t know about;

1. Highlighting & Contouring

Make Highlighting and Contouring easier, quicker and super effective in ‘3’ easy steps!
To get a quick and easy highlight, make a ‘3’ with a concealer two shades lighter than your skin tone. Draw the top line above your brow, middle line above your cheekbone, and bottom line above your jawbone. And to contour, draw a ‘3’ backwards  with a concealer two shades darker than your skin tone. Start on the top line on your temple, put the middle line right below your cheekbone, and draw the bottom line beneath your jawbone. Then blend the two shades completely for a flawless finish.

2. Get rid of Cracked Feet

To get rid of cracked feet fast and easy, apply Vaseline on damp feet and throw on a pair of socks before you go to bed, and enjoy smoother feet in the morning.

3. Re-use your Mascara

You can re-use dried up mascara by placing it vertically in boiling water.

4. Get Matte Lips

Get Matte lips with glossy lipstick by dabbing on concealer on your lips before applying your glossy lipstick.

5. Make your EyeShadow POP

Make your eye shadow pop by coloring your eyelid with white eyeliner before applying your eye shadow.

6. Cover Dark Circles

Cover up dark circles by applying concealer in a triangle shape.

7. The Winged Eye Look

If you don’t have that hand-eye coordination down and you can’t help but rock that winged eye look, get rid of the mistakes quickly and easily buy using a cotton swab coated in Vaseline to clean the messy areas.

8. Ease the manicure stress

Avoid the stress that comes with giving yourself a manicure by applying lip balm around your nails before applying nail polish, for a neater manicure.

9. Spray your Bobby Pins

If you don’t want to go through the struggle of trying to keep your hair in place all the time, spray your bobby pins with hairspray before using them on your hair.

10. Make your Perfume last all day

If you want your perfume to last the whole day, know the specific parts of your body to apply your perfume.

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Stylish ways to rock your Natural Hair

When I began the voyage to "revirginizing" my hair, I was told all kind of boo stories on how hard it can be to keep up and style a virgin hair, however when I slashed off my hair, I found I was not the only one on the 'group VH' i.e. group virgin hair, it turns out many individuals now know that it is so awesome to go regular.

To expose the deception of outlandish support and styling of virgin hair, I have assembled pictures of straightforward polished hair dos you can shake with your short or long common African hair.