Fashion Trends

Fashion trends are fun, and some can even make us look great and glamorous, but are all fashion trends worth following? Or do all trends match perfectly with all of us? How to follow fashion trends the right way? Find out here.

Everybody knows, though they might not want to accept it, that some trends are for everyone, and some for no one. We all want to be thought of as beautiful and feel alive, but to what lengths are we willing to go to achieve this?Fashion trends may come and trends may go but they can cause some long term damages too, especially if you follow fashion trends in the wrong way.Looking  at the killer fashion trends of today.

THE CULPRIT: HUGE SUNGLASSES
Made popular by celebs like Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie, huge sunglasses seem to be an enduring trend, but make you look increasingly like a fly than a diva. Why cover up your whole face?
The Risks
While protecting your eyes from the sun, huge sunglasses actually lower peripheral vision. Most of us opt for lenses so dark we might as well be driving in the night with no headlights.
How to Avoid It
Alternatively, you could wear lighter shades with a lower rim that covers your eyes but shows your beautiful face too.

THE CULPRIT: KILLER SHOES
The only killer shoes one can think of are the poisonous pair deployed by Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie, From Russia With Love. But high heels are getting higher, and with the recent success of SATC girls and wannabes, it’s almost ever more likely that the new-age women will be sporting Carrie Bradshaw’s finest.
The Risks
In trying to make yourself taller or more elegant looking, you are also re-framing your posture. A stiletto holds your entire body at an angle and focuses your entire body weight on the toe end of your feet, risking varicose veins, a swaying back and dropped arches. Platform heels always look good with your Capri pants, but functionally they are not. You only have to take the case of former model Julie Hunter who killed a man when she lost control of her sports car. No, it wasn’t her bad driving skills but her 2 ½ inch heels that made it harder for her to maneuver around the pedals. And you’ll only end up regretting it after you get an attack of a permanent bunion. Don’t know what they are? Well, google it with your favorite celeb’s name, and there’s a good chance you’ll see one.
How to Avoid It
Forget the coolness of it all, but when traveling to and from work, why not opt to wear trainers, and then changing into the necessary business attire when you arrive. Your balance and posture are more important than your style, think twice before you slip into those six inches of high wood, or you’d just end up looking like the hunchback of Notre Dame, all for the sake of appearing cool. You can wear those tall ones though, but in moderation.

THE CULPRIT: CHUNKY JEWELRY

Gold medallions, large hooped earrings, strange armbands. All of these fall into the category of lovely attire when you’re attending a fancy dress party , but in trying to be as cool as Gwen Stefani or Fergie every day with big chunks of bling, realistically girls, you’d look lost.

The Risks
Big earrings run the risk of being caught in the most strangest of places and the next thing you know, your ear is half-way down your face. Gold medallions are so ’70s, but they also cause unnecessary baggage for your neck. By pulling your neck down with the weight of such excessive jewelry, you’ll find yourself with a stiff neck and constantly in a forward inclining position over time.
How to Avoid It
There is no alternative. Just keep it simple. Wearing light, simple jewelry brings out one’s real elegance and not the heavy stuff which focuses on the jewelry as opposed to your natural features. Been a culprit. lol

Sisterhood of The World Bloggers Award

  

I was nominated by Hundeyin on this Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. What a beautiful way to show appreciation. Gratitude babes. Thank you.The award is passed from sister blogger to sister blogger and there are just 4 conditions you have to meet when you accept the award


The Rules
1. Thank the blogger who nominated you, linking back to their site.

2. Put the award logo on your blog.

3. Narrate a child hood memory
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4. Nominate  bloggers

Me I 'be' wanting to nominate my tweenie Duru but he is a male man. Still there are these tremendous sister bloggers who are out there to influence, inspire, impart, aspire, encourage and keep their readers fueled with words, phrases, articles, pictures that matter. I would like to celebrate you. Fashionpad  BeautifulEagle  Tibs  Shamboo Style Hundeyin  Toni Rosy




I used to call mother mummy Hope because that is what everybody else around us called her. A holiday happened and I  stayed with my auntie. But what came to my realisation is ;my cousins called auntie mum. When the holiday elapsed and I returned home I was beaming with excitement to call mother a new name. Mum. Since then she  ceased to be mummy Hope and she become my mum too. The musings of growing up.

Wish, Try, Should and Deserve

These words; I do find that whenever I need to make use of them, there’s a good chance I’m being at least a little presumptuous, simple-minded, or sneaky. They raise a similar red flag when I hear or read them too.They aren’t “bad” words, but they do lend themselves to a certain kind of self-deception. They often hint at more going on.

“Wish”

I find myself using the word “wish” when I’ve decided I don’t like something the way it is, yet I’m not actually doing anything about it. There’s no real reason to declare my wishes. Whenever I start a sentence with “I just wish…” feel free to ignore me, I’m only wasting your time. My whiny face has probably made you tune out anyway.Whenever I let the phrase “I wish” escape my mouth, all I really have to say is this: “I’m not happy with things the way they are. I would be happy if they were like this. So there.”Not only is it useless for changing the circumstances, but it reinforces the myth to which I’ve momentarily fallen prey: that my happiness is dependent on my circumstances only and has nothing to do with my attitude. It’s a bitter little plea that life isn’t what I want it to be in this particular moment, and a dead giveaway that I’m not prepared to do anything about it right now.Wishing is a desperate, self-defensive behavior. It gives you a little hit of relief from a reality you don’t want to deal with, but it sure doesn’t move things along.Of course, in those moments, I’m too consumed by my fantasies to see that my attitude is usually the biggest and most damning feature of the present circumstances. If my attitude sucks, the circumstances suck. But acknowledging that would mean I have to be responsible for it, and it’s easier to instead wish for the  Calvary to appear on the horizon and save me.

“Try”

I don’t know about you, but I know I insert the word “try” into a sentence when I’m not actually willing to take on the responsibility of promising I’ll do something. Yet I’m still willing to pretend I at least have the intention of doing it — somewhere in my mind.I’ll try to call and ask about that. I’ll try to exercise every day. I’ll try to get it done on Friday after work.It means: I might end up doing that if it’s easier than I expect it to be. Try is the ultimate catch-all qualifier for anyone looking to commit absolutely nothing to a particular effort. It’s not even particularly sneaky anymore. We know what it means

“Should”

You should clean this place up. I should exercise more. They should make this illegal.Like wish, should is often used as a way of placing responsibility for your quality of life on other people or the world at large. Whenever humans encounter some kind of inconvenience or difficulty, the first thought is always something resembling “Wouldn’t it be nice if this moment was easier than it is?” The mind searches for a way to characterize oneself as the victim of some unthinkable injustice, and a should-based thought is born. In our mind’s eye we step momentarily into an alternate space where everything feels just and right to us.
One of the more common forms is “They should outlaw [whatever thing is most unpleasant to you at the moment].” I’ve even heard people say (including myself) things like, “Anybody who cuts in line should be shot.” Clearly many of these should-reactions are not meant to be honest appeals for a better world, just a little fantasy of a parallel world where this particular problem isn’t happening to you right now, because in that world things are the way they should be.Most shoulds are really just desperate pleas for your moment to be less troublesome to you, whether your trouble stems from a tiny inconvenience  or a profoundly disturbing aspect of human behavior (such as violence.)Now, just because we recognize how absurd it is to respond to troubling circumstances only by “shoulding” about people and circumstances around us, it doesn’t mean that the situation is fair, or that we can’t do anything to change it. The problem might represent a real, glaring injustice that causes a lot of suffering for people, and which could potentially be changed with some effort.
Yet the first reaction to any troubling situation is almost always to simply declare that this moment *should* be something closer to what would sit right with you, and most of the time we’re not prepared to do any more than just say so.So in my wiser, more centered moments, I don’t bring out the word should unless I’m prepared to make it the way it ‘should’ be. Usually I’m not.

“Deserve”

This one can get ugly. I’ve almost cut this one out of my vocabulary completely because I’ve found so few instances where it isn’t absurdly presumptuous.Any smoker who gets cancer deserves it. Criminals deserve whatever happens to them in prison. What does a person have to do to “deserve” some horrible fate? How does one know what amount of “caused pain” warrants X amount of “deserved pain” and why do we assume that we (or anyone) are in a position to make a meaningful assessment of it?Even among reasonable people, deserve gets out of hand quickly, because we tend to make our most sweeping assessments when we’re really worked up emotionally. I’m not a violent person, but at times I’ve convinced myself that somebody who tags a fence deserves a serious beating, that careless people deserve to get in horrible accidents, that drug addicts deserve misery.Deserve is really just a more specific type of should, one which refers to what fates people ought to experience. Most violence is rationalized with “deserve”.
Deserve also serves as a way of becoming more comfortable with tragedy by making a “closed loop” of it. Sure, that guy got run over by a forklift, but he was being pretty careless, so…It’s gratifying to decide what people deserve, particularly if we know nothing about them except for the one behavior we witnessed or heard about. This is what mainstream news is all about. The typical story is like this: “Something terrible happened today, many people suffering, who deserves the blame?”And that’s the fun part, the payoff. The discussion surrounding who deserves to be ostracized, fired or killed is always more attractive than the one about how we can help. This kind of talk is now so pervasive on television, it’s become a new pastime: the self-satisfaction of attributing blame to people we don’t know over great distances, working only from tiny slivers of single-sourced information.The more distant we are from the person, the easier it is to decide what they deserve. If the smoker who dies of cancer is some guy on the news, he deserves it. But if he’s your uncle or your dad, you know it’s never as simple as that.

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These Words.