Monday, March 31, 2014

Super Hair Rant

Hi Guys.

 A few months ago, precisely two months ago I had a hair cut. Everyone advice me against it, even my mum. She told me I could trim my edges and get my hair back to its natural state and a
lot but I was just frustrated. I had braided my hair and for the first time I took my braids out in a saloon by a very unpatient woman. She took out my braids and didn't spend enough time separating and detailing the curls or even combing through them or something. I just hated my hair, so I decided to get a side shave because I didn't want to get a TWA cause of my forehead (or fivehead).


my hair was like that, only shorter at the back.


The problem was I really wasn't prepared for having my natural hair everyday. There were no weaves to cover it up with like I used to. Basically,  I wasn't prepared to start taking care of my hair. so right now, my hair is puffy and my splint ends are so obvious and I'm back where I started:frustrated.
I've being looking at pictures on pinterest, and some natural hair blogs and I just love what I see. I've decided to get over my fear of bearing my forehead and covering it up with full and side bangs all the time. I'm going to get a big chop and I'm going to start taking good care of my hair. You know, the washing, moisturizing (which is very important), the oils and deep conditioning and all the other stuff. So, whether your hair is long or short, natural or relaxed, you should really start taking care of it. There are really cool nigerian blogs that you can follow. (I checked out thekindandi today. You can Google it cause I dunno the full website address or you can just type in natural hair blogs by nigerians on google.... that should help).
Once I get the hair cut, I'll definitely post a picture of it and the products that work for me.
Happy Sunday!

XOXO
Diijah♡

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Nail Art

Hi.
I'm not really a nail art lover. I hardly ever paint my nails. Reason is they start to chip off after about a week or two and I get too lazy to redo them. And we all know how ugly Chipping nail polish looks like.
Yesterday I decided to try the newspaper nail art and they didn't come out as nice as I wanted them to. Anyway, I'll just tell you guys how I went about it so you can try it. By the way, I feel like so lazy today. My school has succeeded in frustrating me...I have two quizzes on the same day, only 30 minutes apart and I can't stop thinking how I'll write both... I know that has absolutely nothing to do with nail art but I just had to share my problems :(


First, paint your nails and let it dry. I suggest you use white or grey, something like that. When your nails are completely dry, dip your finger into alcohol then cut a strip of newspaper big enough to cover your nail and place(or press against) on your alcohol soaked nail. Slowly, pull off the paper and coat it(your nail) with a transparent nail polish to give it a polished look. You can tell someone to help you with your left hand.

Finished look



XOXO
Diijah♡

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Orange, the new Black






Hi Darlings!
Hope you had a great day yesterday. I'm not really into following trends but this, well this is different. The post title already explains itself and I don't have much to say about it. I'm a colour lover so ill be shopping for more orange stuff ^.^

Guiliana 

Orange lips♥






lupita lupita why so pretty





XOXO
Diijah♡






Monday, March 24, 2014

The First Step




It's a Monday morning and I almost missed a quiz. The thing is I missed some classes and someone called me to tell me there was going to be a quiz blah blah blah but it was just a scare...
You probably already know that has nothing to do with my post this morning (or afternoon). There are so many things I want to do with my life and thinking about hem makes me happy. I go on and on in my head thinking about how wonderful it'll be to do this stuff in the long run but I never actually start. For example, writing. Writing was never really my thing until my last year in primary school (grade v) and everyone was making a big deal of my essay. Then in secondary school, my mums friend thought my stories were captivating... then I realized, maybe I was as good as people thought I was when it came to fiction writing. I wrote a book once, (and Trust me the struggle was real- I dunno how I finished) but that would have being like 50,000words or less and Trust me nobody was going to publish that (or maybe not). 
I wasn't good at finishing stuff but at least I tried but these days things are looking different for me. I had an old blog that I ditched (obviously). This blog however represents a step for me to make changes. Read like I used to, study like I used to, take life seriously, becoming serious with what I want to do with my life because whether I want to believe it or not, I'm getting old (really I am). 
I can't be alone in this (I hope I'm not) so if there are things that you loved doing or things that you should be doing and not doing, it's time for you to take a big (or baby) step and start doing those things again. I didn't proof read this because I have a class in an hour and I have to get ready and if I wait until I'm back to post this, err let's just say there won't be a post lol. Have a great week.

XOXO
Diijah♡

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Prints x Prints

Hi darlings!
Hope you guys had a great weekend. This post is all about mixing prints. Some people still haven't gotten a hang of it. Mixing prints could be a little tricky and I suggest not going wild with it.
When mixing prints, you have to make sure the colours aren't clashing. I should write a post on mixing colours too... There's absolutely nothing wrong with mixing polka dots with polka dots, but you have to make sure the sizes are different.  You know, like mixing small polka dots with big ones.
I believe leopard print a can be mixed with any other print. One of my favorite ways to mix prints is mixing floats with stripes. The easiest colours to mix are black and white.

Choose prints in the same colour palette, making sure there is a connecting colour in both prints: I think this is the first thing to bear in mind when mixing prints because it guides you when picking the clothes you'll be mixing. As I said earlier, you have to take into consideration the size of the of the prints and mix opposite sizes.

Ps: mix just two prints. We don't want you going extreme.








XOXO
Diijah♡