African Fashion Week London 2015 WITH MOTIONS UK VLOG || EXCLUSIVE BACKSTAGE FOOTAGE~ RUNWAY FOOTAGE ~ Outfit & Hair Style ~ UK Bloggers

African Fashion Week London 2015 WITH MOTIONS UK VLOG || EXCLUSIVE BACKSTAGE FOOTAGE~ RUNWAY FOOTAGE ~ Outfit & Hair Style ~ UK Bloggers 

Last week I attended African Fashion Week in London 2015 at Olympia in West London. I was there with Motions and the rest of the brand ambassadors as Motions were the sponsors. I was so excited to attend because I hadn't been to African fashion week or London fashion week either before. 

Check out my African Fashion Week vlog below, it's my first ever vlog so I'd love if you watched and gave some feedback. If you don't want to watch the whole thing, feel free to skip to the part that interests you the most :)

Exhibitors mentioned; Motions, Fashion Fair, Chikizia Luitu, Ekamu brands, Primavera fitness, Chairs by Naddine, JEKKAH, TOTE

• 1. My Motions outfit for the day and how I wore my hair (Afro puff)
• 2. The venue and footage of the Motion stand where I was working and all of my fellow blogger friends
• 3. Some of my favourite pieces by the African Fashion week in London 2015 exhibitors (see list below)
• 4. Exclusive backstage footage, see what the models and makeup artists get up to backstage / Fashion Fair makeup shown by head makeup artist @AbbieMayMUA
• 5. Footage from the show during the first day of African fashion week in London 2015.

Me @Yolandaas, @EyeDahFineMe @TheLondonCurls

Left: Aicha @Blackhairvelvet, Motions France brand ambassador

As I am new to vlogging, I focused so much on getting video footage that I kind of forgot to take pictures. I did take a couple with my camera and the rest are phone pictures either taken by me or sent to me from the person in the picture in question.

The Motions area. Hair styling going on

My hair style of the day was the afro puff! I actually love this hair style because it's like a mix between wearing a bun (which I love) but still showing off your fro/curls. Since my hair is a little bit longer it get's too tangled though and I can't wear this style more than a couple of days. By the way, my hair is 3 years and 4 months post relaxer :)

Look of the day: Afro Puff

Guys, my I didn't do my eyebrows uneven, they just aren't levelled naturally. It's really annoying but hey what can I do lol. I'm wearing my every day makeup which is Maybelline mascara (the cheap pink & green one, £5), 2True eyeliner (£2.99 superdrug), Collection concealer £2.99 and blusher and highlighter. What do you think of this look?

Have you been to African Fashion Week in London or London fashion week?

What do you think of the vlog?

xx

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* Background music for my Youtube video provided by http://chunkdoutbeats.com/

*I am a brand ambassador for Motions. However this is not a sponsored video and I am not affiliated with any of the other brands.

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Natural Afro Hair Tutorial: How to style Ankara/African Print Scarf || Side Swept Flat Twist Out with Scarf & Nefertiti Earrings

Natural Afro Hair Tutorial: How to style Ankara/African Print Scarf || Side Swept Flat Twist Out with Scarf & Nefertiti Earrings

Hello everyone! My laptop keyboard was broken for ages and now it's finally fixed, I have a lot of posts coming up, this one being the first one. The African print/Ankara print scarf (and clothes in general with African prints) can be seen everywhere at the moment. A lot of my fellow UK natural hair blogger friends wear them and it really inspired me to try one out. Instagram is also a great source of inspiration for African print scarves!  

When I attended Natural Hair Week 2015 I came across this brand called Anaisarts, it's run by a lovely lady who not only sells a ton of amazing African print scarves, but also Afrocentric type jewellery. I bought three scarves and these brown, wooden Nefertiti earrings- check out my video below to see all of them and for more information.

If you have followed me for a while you'd know that the side swept flat twist out used to be one of my favourite hair styles, especially during my transitioning days (check out my transitioning posts here) so I decided to revisit this hair style, but with a twist (literally lol).

Please watch the video to see how I got this hair style or follow this short tutorial in writing:

• Make a side parting, and either cainrow, flat twist or just tuck in the remainder of your hair.
• Try on the scarf to make sure it looks right with the parting
• Remove the scarf, and start flat twisting the hair that you have left out
• You can either twirl the ends, put perm rods & do a hanging bantu knot
• Put your night time scarf on and leave at least 12 hours to dry

Please let me know what you think about this hair style and how would you, or have you styled the African print/Ankara print scarf?

xx

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