Alek Wek Dons Multi-Colored Make-Up For Glamour Mag

Alek Wek is all smiles for the August cover shoot of Dutch Glamour. Captured by Marc de Groot, the Sudanese model looks absolutely radiant in multi-colored eye makeup by Irena Ruben and metallic garments styled by Dimphy den Otter.

Her skin color is just so gorgeous, its like satin ....smooth.

Shakira at the world cup closing.....

Sexy hip shaking Shakira kicked off the closing ceremony of the 2010 world cup in South Africa with a wonderful performance with the offical anthem of the tournament, 'Waka Waka - This time for Africa'

Her hips definately weren't lying, and the theme song sounded Hausa to me or was it my ears?...lol

Lil Kim .......sexy???????

Lil Kim celebrated her 34th birthday on sunday and made attempts to look sexy...The R&B star celebrated her big day by creating a signature shake at Millions of Milkshakes - featuring bananas, raspberries and Nutella.

Her makeup was just OMG.......short of words?......and thats some huge backside staring us in the face dont you think?..I think she over did it this time.

Octopus Paul.......

Spain rules the world of football. It took them well into extra time to crack the Dutch defence, in what was a true battle of attrition, but Andres Iniestas' powerful drive gave Spain the World Cup glory for the first time and condemned the Netherlands to their third defeat in a final.

Ok so the world cup madness has finally come to an end, no more issues on vuvuzela's and Octopus Paul(whom I would very much like to meet). When our Naija guys left I was rooting for Ghana, but unfortunately Ghana didnt pull through......the match between Spain and Netherlands?....Omg, it was a game of survival, so many Yellow cards were flying in the air, I was seriously excpecting a Red card.

Am beginning to think it won't be a bad idea to have Octopus Paul to come to Nigeria and help predict with alot of things, would we ever have PHCN give us uninterrupted power supply?...who would win the next election come 2011.....would I be a millionaire in the next few months...lol.

Anyways, I enjoyed the worldcup and yes you might be wondering what does Makeup have to do with football..me sef I don't know o...but am just gisting, blogging, talking, ranting what have you...

My look of the week.....

Tips for choosing the right lipstick

Am sure at one point in our lives as a young woman, we wore lipsticks in the oddest of ways. Some a bit more red than usuall or too much of pink or silver, am sure you know what am talking about. I did alot of trial and error on lipstick usage as a younger woman(cuz am still young...lol). But now in choosing lipsticks there are a few things we have to put into consideration, like do we want a lipstick or lipgloss, do you want a high shine lipstick and so on.

I would say you have to decide what you want your lipstick to do, and here are some simple rules you can follow to choosing the right lipstick for you:

• Choose a color that complients your skin tone and the natural color of your lips. e.g if you are dark skined, plum or wine lipstick would go on you, and light skin, you can try shades of pink, peaches, beiges and even red.
• Wear lighter shaded during the day time and darker at night.
• Put into consideration your eye makeup when choosing a shade.
• The best shade is the one that looks great on you even when you are not wearing makeup.
• If you want just a little bit of color on your lips, you may want to go for colored lipgloss or liptint over lipstick.
• You should also try to test the lipstick before purchase cuz it looks good in tube does not mean its the right shade for you.

Makeup horros.......(or should I say Errors)

Walking on the streets of Lagos, I see different forms of makeup application on the faces of women, the good, the bad, the ridiculous and ugly. The whole idea of wearing makeup is to enhance the God given beauty we have other than that it's to cover blemishes or imperfections we might have. Am going to list some forms of makeup application that is simply a do not try or deciet from:

• Let me start from the Eye brows……please what is with ladies shaving the whole brows away?.......am sure God put the hairs there for a purpose. The hair on the brows give a form of definition to the face, taking it all off, makes the face look so plastic and plain, so all we are to do is shapen it. As if that isn’t bad enough, some ladies now take a very black eye pencil or wine or red and draw this thick line (I say line cuz I can’t think of what else to call it)across their brows, some draw the line so bad its almost touching their inners eyes and some it’s just a straight line….common ladies, our brows are suppose to look natural, that’s why we have brown eye pencils out there in the market, if you even have to use black, you don’t need to make it so dark, you are suppose to blend it in with the hair there.
• Eye shadow application………why do some ladies take colors like gold or silver and paste it all over their eyelids…can we at least try to reduce the amount of color to our lower eyelids?....and apply eyeliner to define the eyes abit more. Please note, if it’s a day wear, don’t pack so much of these bright shimmery colors on the eyes…it makes you look funny……
• Blush……….ok using blush is just to lighten up the face, and it’s applied on the cheek bones in a moderate amount, (the high point on the cheeks when u smile). But for some ladies, they apply the blush on the side of their face above the cheek bone, some to cover up burns from various creams and so on, and some right on the cheeks in high quantity making them look like clowns. Blush comes in different shades, so you have to find the one that is close to your skin tone.
  
• Lips...Lips…lips………please stop applying silver lipstick and then line it with thick black pencil or even red lipstick and line with black, it’s just simply ugly. And for those of us with big pouted lips, please lets learn to line our lips and abeg not with black pencil o…lol
• Foundation……….foundation comes in different skin shades…so please let’s learn to buy the ones that go with our skin tone so we don’t end up looking like a ghost or something…lol…and let’s try to blend it into the hair line and neck as much as possible. Cuz if u take a picture, trust me camera light would show it all.
  

Am sure there are still some errors I didn’t mention, but these are the few prominent ones I can think of to mention right now, would appreciate if you also comment on the ones you know.