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06/01/1408/31/14 with 0 Comments Tags Afrocentricity, dresses, Graduation, Open House, Style

Graduation Open-House Fashion Style

Being honored for academic achievements through a Graduation Open-House presents an excellent opportunity to showcase and honor your keen sense of cultural fashion style. Make sure you are in comfortable clothing, this includes footwear. For the last several years graduates have been presented with open-house celebrations that allow loved ones and friends to celebrate the new, or soon-to-be graduate.

As the guest of honor you receive well wishes, gifts, and bright hopes for earned accomplishments and future endeavors.

05/26/1401/24/15 with 0 Comments Tags african fashion, African-American Fashion, Black Women, Coordinated, Relaxing, Warm Weather Fashion Whites, White Dresses, White Sandals, Women's White Len

Time to Break Out White Fashions

The warm weather season is upon us and with it comes the opportunity to break out the white fashions. White clothing allows for a variety of engaging accent colors. Accessorizing around white reminds me of a blank canvas that I can lose myself in.

Jewelry, scarves, open toe shoes and sandals present in fabulous variations of the rainbow and love to paired with white ensembles.

Warm weather is magical, the melanin in black people transforms our skin into even prettier hues. Like the 31 skin tones found in the popular book for children, Colors Around Us, which affirms all black skin as beautiful and something to behold, the sun and melanin creates even more shades. We boast more flavors (shades) than Baskin Robin ice cream.

Of course we want to protect our skin by remembering to put on sunscreen if we’re going to be in the rays for long periods of time. Read More…

05/18/1408/31/14 with 0 Comments Tags African-American, black, Designers, Fashion, Fashion Savvy, Style, Women

How to Stand Out from the Crowd: Become Fashion Savvy

Creating fashion savvy allows you to stand out from the crowd. To do so takes a combination of confidence, and knowledge of colors, lengths, and styles that are most flattering. We all have our favorite go to styles that take us through seasonal changes.

New fashion trends are always on the horizon and as Black women get our due diligence in on the shopping platform. There are tons of resources with many of us turning pages of our go-to sources like Essence, and Ebony to help determine what’s in and what is definitely out.

On-line shopping provides yet another tool to keep fashion conscious sisters in the know. With the number of black designers on the rise we have even more options.

05/10/1408/31/14 with 0 Comments Tags african fashion, African-American, Afrocentrism, Clothing, Connecting Fashion and Culture, Empowerment, Office Wear, Professional Attire, Self-Love, Style, Stylish, Women

Let Us Connect the Thread: African Fashion and Office Attire

As a black women entering professional work environments you have to break down doors and barriers to get in. Once hired we have been faced with fitting into cultures that prefer we don’t celebrate our uniqueness. Faced with the choice of conformity or pushing the envelope, has been, and continues to be, an issue.

For those who don’t want to make waves, it appears easier to go along with a conservative mode of dress and style, right down to our hair follicles. Today, media follows black women and hair (a constant topic) that is both annoying and frustrating.

04/29/1409/19/14 with 0 Comments Tags African-Inspired, Chic, Spring 2014, Stylish, Women's Fashion

Claiming Your Spring Hair and and Fashion Style

What’s your fashion style?

Do you give extra thought to wardrobe planning based on desire to create your own individual style and look? Many women can relate to the process taking it back to junior and senior high school days. Days where fashion magazines and provided the template for clothing selections. Magazines still offer guidance, but today technology provides a wealth of options found electronically through blogs such as Geleyi and popular culture.

Style information on the latest hair and fashion looks are available with the click of a mouse. How to tutorials abound with step-by-step guided informational tours that allow to capture and create different looks that appeal to you most.

04/01/1408/31/14 with 0 Comments Tags African, African-American, Fashion, Give a way, make over, Make room, Renewal, Spring

Spring Renewal: Experience the Freeing Feeling of Gifting

How many outfits and random accessories lay dormant in your closets, drawers, and jewelry box? I mean things like the cute dress you purchased and wore on the cruise 6 years ago, and haven’t worn again. And what about the cute two-piece skirt set you wore to your cousin’s baby shower? That baby is entering 4th grade come fall and you haven’t looked at that must have number again.

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