Annette Akye

It's been nearly three weeks since i returned home to the motherland and can i say that i am loving every aspect????? yes even the heat! Lol! I realized that i tended to apply a full face routine to church which i felt was too much although it was okay in the UK. Well you know in Ghana, not everyone really cares for a full face makeup and i felt slightly out of place and decided to tone it down a little for church. So i was sitting on my bed on Sunday after church when i realized...

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Hi Beauties, As 2012 is coming to a close, i thought to review this year by posting about some beauty products that i have loved. They aren't a lot but these are products i find myself constantly reaching out for and they seem to be working very well for me and i would gladly recommend them to anyone. #1- MUA Undressed Palette My ultimate favorite eye shadow palette this year has been the MUA Undressed palette. I don't know if it's because its an exact dupe for the popular Urban Decay Naked Palette. It's such a great bargain...

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Hi beauties, So i happen to be back home in the motherland, Ghana, and where else than to get your hair done very well and for less. I had been eyeing loose braids for some time now and opted for that. I used 3 packs of New Golden's Expression kanekalon braiding hair in colour 2 and colour violet. It took about 3 and half hours to get them done which i believe is relatively quick. Even tho the weather is hot i still choose to get super long braids. Long hair don't care! lol! Anyways for more deets...

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So i happen to be subscribed to and follow Beauty by Lee on facebook and you tube (Liquidlinelover) who is an amazing and super talented makeup artist. She is very creative with her eye looks and oh, she is a naturalista as well. She recently posted a pix on her facebook page which i absolutely loved and decided immediately to recreate. Obviously its not the exact same thing as i just used products that were available to me but hey you get the drift! Lol! I really had fun with this look, however, the downside was that i...

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Hi Beauties, I thought i'd share with you some simple tips on selecting a foundation suitable for your skin type and needs. Although i am no expert, i have come to with this knowledge from personal experience and i believe these tips would go a long way to help select the right product and save the much needed cash. Often times i have gone to buy foundation that i have regretted simply because it was not what i was looking for or i felt it did not suit me or the shade or undertone was not right. Prior...

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Hi beauties, Last weekend i did get the chance to go out with the girls and unwind. We had a house warming and afterwards a few of us decided to hit town! I opted for something different that did not involve pink! I wanted a nice evening look. I hadn't tried tried a blue smokey eye yet, my first trial and i sooo love the outcome. Yet again i choose to play with my MUA undressed palette, i can't seem to get enough out of it! Oh i hadn't done anything with my hair so i threw on...

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So i have recently decided to revive my skincare routine as it had gone slack due to laziness. I do realize that whenever i paid attention to my skin the results were great! My skin glowed, felt smooth and stayed blemish free. What prompted me to start a skin regimen was a facial treatment i received during an end of year review meeting held at the Holy Trinity Spa and Health Farm in Sogakorpe. That was the first time i had ever had a facial and i loved how my skin felt afterwards. I wished i could go...

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Hi Beauties, So lately i have been bored and you know what that means..... Playing with makeup. I opted to do something different that was a bit bold. I pulled out my Undressed palette from MUA which is an exact dupe for the most popular Naked palette from Urban Decay. This palette is an exact dupe and offers a much cheaper alternative, it costs £4 whiles the naked palette is £35. What an amazing bargain! Below is a breakdown of the products and technique used. MUA Undressed Palette ...

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Hi Lovelies, OMGosh!!!!! This post has been sitting in draft for ages now! So i thought to share with you my 3 months post big chop natural hair update. The past 3 months have been fun and frustrating! Yeah a mixture of ups and downs, very interesting! So far am loving it! My goal is to have healthy and massive hair :-) There have been days when i questioned my actions. There have been days i did not feel pretty. My boyfriend doesn't like it. My mom would probably skin me alive when she finds out. Lol! On...

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So ever since i went natural, i know most ladies have become curious about this natural hair "thing". I have gotten messages here and there and i know a few are just watching to see where it leads to. I'd like to talk a little about my hair story. Most ladies like myself after travelling abroad complain about how their hair has been messed up and how it has taken for the worst! Most people blame very much the weather, however, I'd dare say that when you happen to travel abroad, you do not have access to affordable...

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So i was home, bored! Here's what i do when am bored. By bored i mean when i am tired of facebook, youtube, twitter etc. Play with my makeup! Anyways practice makes me perfect right? I also had my fro out after undoing my weave. Wow! So amazed at having a fro now at 5 months post BC! Way to go! Anyways listed below are the items i used, mostly MUA products. Seems this is the 2nd pink FOTD i am posting here, dunno maybe its because i don't often wear pink so when it comes to experimenting...

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Ramblings! I happened to pay a random visit to Superdrug just to check out the new products which i knew had been released from various brands, mind you i wasn't planning on buying anything, o_o! Right! So as i wander around my eye catches some yellow banner labelled CLEARANCE. Hmmmm! That's interesting! So the clearance aisle is basically shelf pulls of various brands of makeup, some of the products are new whiles others maybe opened, broken, smeared, etc and have been greatly reduced with prices ranging from 10p to 1.99. Upon reaching that aisle, i instantly saw a...

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Hi Beauties, So i happen to purchase some items from pakscometics online and when i received my order, a free copy of the Black Beauty and Hair magazine was included in the order. Yayyyyyyy (who loves freebies as much as i do????) lol! Anyways, i was immediately drawn the cover of the magazine which features a model with gorgeous makeup and flawless skin. I was staring it for days and said to myself, i can do that?! So i grabbed my makeup brushes and set off to work.  inspiration for the look ...

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Hello Lovelies,I am so excited to be sharing with you my hair of the day! Yes! Its been three months since my big chop and i have acquired an amount of decent hair growth, lol! I previously tried finger coils but my hair has gotten way thicker and longer to do that. I was watching Jenell of KinkyCurlyCoilyMe, am so happy to have discovered her as our hair textures are quite similar! She is quite elaborate with her tutorials giving out important information. She has a tutorial on flat twisting and several on styling twa and this has...

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I recently subscribed to the chic Nessakayy on blogger and did some digging through her blog. As amazing as she was, she had put up a post about finding dupes for the nyx lip liners. Being the bargain freak that i am i immediately went to check it out and lo and behold! i had to get my hands on it.  Okay so its a set of 12 pencil liners with varied colours which is definitely a dupe for most branded lip liners. I got it on ebay for 4.99 which in my opinion is a very good bargain...

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I have been experimenting with tons and tons of makeup, and i finally recognise what it is i am looking out for in my makeup. I prefer a sheer to medium coverage with a flawless finish. Simply put, I want my makeup to look like skin. Lol! I am constantly on the lookout for anything that helps with that. So after hearing makeup guru on youtube, Gossmakeupartist, recommend using a makeup sponge, particularly the beauty blender, for a flawless application of foundation, i decided to try it out. He suggested a dupe for the beauty blender same as the...

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I have recently been feeling inspired to write but as busy or lazy (lol) as i get i haven't been able to. But just recently a male friend of mine on facebook, Foli, brought up a topic which caused me to respond by writing a whole thesis lol! He had watched Chris Rock's documentary on good hair and came up with some points and questions as to why women should spend unnecessarily on indian hair and the fact that blacks who are huge consumers of these products as well as relaxers do not even own a fraction of...

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So i recently got the new Undressed palette from MUA as well as two lipsticks, LMK and It's A Situation, check out the review here. I couldn't wait to start trying out some looks and here is my first look i created using the Undressed Palette and LMK, a deep vamp red lipstick which smells amazing (i really love that lippie).  I was just at home going nowhere lol so pls don't mind the house coat, lol! Here are some pictures and i'll list below the products used. Products Used: Eyes NYX Eyeshadow Base, Undressed Palette, ELF Mineral...

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Over the past queen's jubilee weekend, MUA, MakeUp Academy, a drugstore brand in the UK, had some discounts on their new lipstick line Lip Boom. This line is as a result of a collaboration between the feisty musician Alexandra Burke and MUA. I had been meaning to get hold of some some of the lippies as they are Gorg-E-Ous! So when i chanced upon the 2 for £4 offer, i couldn't resist but grab it.  So i ordered the 2 shades i had eyed from the launch which was LMK (Let Me Know) and It's A Situation. Both lippies...

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As i have recently bc'ed, i have been searching for products to help with the styling of my TWA teeeeny weeeeny afro lol its not even there yet. Anyways, i was fortunate to have received samples from the new Organic Root Stimulator line "Curls Unleashed".  The new Curls Unleashed line caters specifically to ladies with naturally curly, coily or kinky hair. It consists of products that you would need for a healthy hair regime; shampoo, conditioner, leave-in and styling products. The good thing about these products is that they do not contain parabens and are sulphate free.  So i received...

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Hello Naturalistas,So i finally did the big chop. Yesssss!!!!! its been 3 weeks since i did and i love it. Honestly i even forget i have short hair until someone comments or when i catch myself in the mirror or window, lol. Guess at the end of the day its still me and its just hair, i define my hair, it doesn't define me. So my big chop experience: i must say i was just ready to get on with it and kinda eager. So yh, i was super excited. No tears, just laughter. I am really happy with...

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Yayyyyyyy!!!!!! So finally the day i felt ready to let go of my relaxed hair came. Yes i am soooo excited. Could not hold the excitement any longer. I went to the barber with my dear friend, Chris, for support, lol as if i needed it. Although in my head i knew what sort of style i wanted, faded side and a punk, I still couldn't picture that style on my face and how i was going to look. So that's what i was nervous about, as to whether or not the barber was going to do a good...

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I should be writing my dissertation right now but i couldn't help share with you divas about my re-kindled love for natural hair. I got obsessed with it when i first got exposed to watching YouTube videos. I was searching for ways to battle my hair breakage situation when i came across black beauties with amazing tresses. Wow, so natural hair was this beautiful, long and not nasty looking at all? Hence my decision to transition as i didn't want to cut off my hair completely. Fail! I couldn't deal with the two different textures and i ended up relaxing...

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So i have been meaning to start posting some videos on Youtube and i finally got the confidence to do so. Lol! Also had to stop laughing for a while but it's quite funny and you can actually see laughter filling my cheeks in the video. But, i'd say i had fun filming and it is interesting to see and know the sort of effort and time some youtubers put in their videos. Well, we'll see how it goes. So i decided to post a video on the eyebrow pictorial as some readers thought the process complex but...

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Hello Divas, so on Saturday I had my eyebrows threaded and decided to share with you my diva-ish eyebrows. Threading as the name suggests is a method of hair removal using a thread, a technique which was developed and perfected by the Indians or people from the Middle East. It’s quick, less painful than waxing and your eyebrows stay neat for about 3 weeks before any re-growth. So it lasts roughly 3 to 4 weeks depending on how fast your hair grows. It is good because it saves you from having them shaved every week. For more information...

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Sleek Makeup, as genius as they are, recently came out with a blush trio called Blush By 3. It is simply a blush palette consisting of 3 blushes. Sleek Makeup blushes are highly pigmented and reasonably priced. I have been meaning to lay my hands on one, so I finally did. There are 5 different palettes. I went to Superdrug and got the Flame palette. It consists of 3 blushes with red undertones which in my opinion are suitable for dark skin tones and complements women of colour better than pink because if we were to flush/blush we’d...

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So its friday nite, got ghana independece weekend party to attend but unfortunately as i was working very early the following morning so i couldn't attend. Sucks yh, so i was bored and decided to do a lil some something, lol! Anyways hope y'all doing great. Listed below are all the products used to acheive this look. Enjoy and keep the fabulosity levels rising Divas xxxxx Eyes 1. Use a pink and silver cream eyeshadow base, silver in the inner and pink the outer- Sleek Primer Palette 2. Put a hint of purple in the crease and blend-...

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Hi Divas, Sometime late last year, I was going through a rough period with my skin. My skin was uneven with dark spots from occasional breakouts, so bad I began wearing foundation almost every time I had to go out. Not that I have the worst of skin but it’s not the best too. I usually have oily combination skin, large and raised pores and then again acne breakouts here and there. It was not always bad there were times that my skin was good but then it would get worse. So I just decided to get online,...

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Happy new year divas, lol I know its been almost 20 days into the new year but its better late than never right?  Well as we have ushered in the new year, its traditional to have some new year resolutions right? Arghhhhh the thought of making new year resolutions make me cringe inwardly just because I get to reflect on the previous years’ resolution only to have realized somewhat only two out of the loooooooong list. Ah! Failed resolutions, smh. So this year I have decided to make them short, fun and realistic. My resolutions are somewhat goals...

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