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Idowuogbo: Here we go ladies...ya like?

Badosky on the runway

U don remove am but they were sooo cool loved them

SAMBARRY: Shoe freak. Oya I bring wetin you like come o

Nice shoes

SAMBARRY: Dami you can wear something like this when you go to church next Sunday

Lovely outfit ok I will try to wear something similar ma it's just that I generally prefer wearing smart casual to church except on thanksgiving Sundays but summer is almost over so I guess one needs to wear those natives before they go back in the portmanteau for next summer. I only wear natives to parties in winter.

EnlightenedSoul: Nail Polish

Although I love manicures and nail art, I've always considered painting the nails on my feet a huge hassle. But I've been experimenting this summer, and I'm kind of impressed with how much of a difference it can make.

1) The color you chose can make all the difference, make your outfit pop.

2) It draws attention away from the size of my feet.

All in all, a great accessory.

You are right it sure is..I only really bother in the summer as well boots and all the socks tights etc in the winter just make me feel why bother

TOYNEX: nice chart. Tx for this

You are welcome hun

taryour: Goodevening house,trust you all had a lovely weekend? Royalroy,tunapa, damiso,efemena,moca/ypepe,chaircover,greatgod,bellong,cogar,idowuogbo,lyndaroyce,nijababe,edwife,alutacontinua,ileoba,picabeau, e.t.c. I greet you all o and to the newbies in the house I salute o.

May we all have blessed and prosperous week In Jesus name.Amen.

Amen sis and thank you

Happy new working everyone..hope we all have a great one.

Dolcilicious: Hehe,this is a cool thread

Well,v got a problem,this time it aint with accesory,this time its with this top v got,its a netty material and doesnt go down more than my navel,i always pair it with a pencil skirt,but m soo tired of d monotonous routine.

Now,what are the things u fink i can pair with it?
A pics is included.Thanks lovies
Shoefreak i sight u o

Hi hunni browsing on my iPad and it says safari can't download pic

Depends on what sort of netty it is but you can try on a skater skirt or these printed palazzo pants that are now in (depending on if it's plain)

SAMBARRY: yeah.it has to do with choices though.


If your head tie is flashy or has enough accessories in it, you don't need a noisy necklace again that will make you look bogus or like a masquerade. Simple yet elegant like this

Yeah most times less is more and if one thing is already making a statement I.e the necklace or earrings no need to have another noisy pc in the outfit.

I like that Gele

shoefreak: Nice

Me likey

Thanks hunii

It's just normal to talk about your kids and husband as a married person (heck I am sure I even go on sometimes about them on NL ) but sometimes you have to make a conscious effort to broaden conversations if the person you are talking to has different interests,I get on well with my single friends but our topics of discussion tends to vary from those who are married with kids.I even try to be sensitive when discussing with married TTC cos if you are not careful simple things you say might be misconstrued as flaunting your kids.

If someone has been your friend before you get married I actually think you just talking about your husband and kids all the time is weird.Did you guys not have similar interests for to be called friends before you got married so yeah I agree(a bit just a bit) that it won't kill some people to have a wider scope of conversation outside of their husbands and kids.


And I agree with Efemenaxy it could actually work the other way I.e the married person being jealous of the single persons ability to just up and go where career takes them.It takes a certain degree of self belief for me not to be jealous of the strides some of my single friends unencumbered with young children have made in their careers.I just believe everyone should realise we all have different journeys and paths and learn to love themselves without unnecessary comparisons.I have friends who got married at 25 and are divorced some who got married at 23 and are still happily married some at 32 etc etc just face your own path.Women and wahala sha.

SAMBARRY: Dami look at this

I love the head pc but if it was me I would have gone for a slightly smaller neckpiece. Its still nice though..

The ministry has really moved on ..Thanks Guys

Sambarry nice pictures...lovely styles..thanks shoefreak for the invites as I said feel free to post away..

Today I was kinda not in the mood to think of what to wear to church as my son did not let us sleep so I just threw on this plain black top on a brown peplum skirt.very plain and bleh outfit but these faux pearl necklace made it look a bit more dressy..so accessories sometimes changes an outfit's look for the better..

Idowuogbo: Fashionista Badosky in the house.... just picked up some bad boys (shoes) from Kurt Keiger today, I'll post pics lerra.

Fashionista toh Badt I love Kurt Keiger. Post make we see

Idowuogbo: Brilliant! Aunties and mamas in da house pay attention oooo..... no disrespect to the elders in the house but, I don't understand why some women overdo accessories. Some will wear the whole jewellery shop to owanbe and end up looking like MR T. Kilode? Orun o ri yi ni?

Na true sha I have realised that a lot mostly with these aunties that live In the UK(sorry to say) sometimes I sell a statement necklace to some of these 'funky' aunties you know those big chunky types and they say please get me a matching earring.When I do I often get something not too big and that does not draw attention away from the necklace next thing is oti Kere ju(it's too small) .I try to explain that if you are wearing a very chunky necklace it's often better to wear a stud earring or something with a small drop not another busy dangly chandelier earring but you hear ' i like big jewellery that one is too small' what's my own I say ok Aunty I will get you a big one We have different tastes abi.

cococandy: Niceeee.

Great tips damiso . Those illustrations there are

Munching the screen now

You are welcome lorretta

Another tip for them bad boy suede shoes when they start looking a lil off

chaircover: This is great Dami. Thanks for the chart
I sometimes have an accessory in mind that i will wear with an outfut and its when I go to wear the outfit that I realise that the accesory is wrong and have to change either the outfit or the accesory.
its mostly my native wears I have this issue with

@CC native wears can be quite tricky to accessorise but these days fashion has evolved so much that one can make the native abit more contemporary. Beads often are the easy resort but then again what colours goes with what crops up.

I often have my customers send me pictures of outfits as they don't know what to wear with what and I try my best to give ideas or inspiration.Just finished doing that for one and that's what inspired this thread.

Glad you liked the chart

Oya shoefreak come o your presence is needed here.Go and call all your fashionista friends

Chaircover
Cococandy
Idowuogbo
Efemanaxy
Ladygogo
Toynex
Rebella

Oya call everybody mentionable

So first off I found this chart and if you like me have ever wondered what necklaces to wear on what necklines this should help.

Ok I know I am biased(I sell accessories) but this thread is open for everyone to share how to accessorise their outfits.If you have an outfit just lying there at home or you are tired off and need to revamp just post pictures here and we(again everyone here can chip in) on what we think could go to make it look nice.Sometimes you necessarily dont habe to buy an outfit but just switch the accessories you wore on them.

You could also post pictures of outfits and we can share style inspiration.It is not my thread so feel free to post away.

So welcome everyone

P.S am not sure if a similar thread has existed but this basically for Accessorising.

EfemenaXY: Lol Dami!
Why not try out some of those sold at Morrisons? They've got a nice selection and you could get them at 3 packs for £10. Nice variety, only thing is they aren't many per pack. About six or so. (I'm not referring to the branded ones sold 20 per pack which aren't bad either, but try out the ones I mentioned.) Some of my kids love them, some don't. That aside, you can never go wrong with the Frankfurt sausages, 10 in a pack. I love those cos they're microwaveable (for lazy me)

Thanks Efe my kids love franfurters too and they have chicken ones which are less Fat as well.Me and you are the same I also love the fact that they are microwaveable .dont mind me my husband so made fun of me he said you and all this your healthy eating fads which one con be 'meat substitute' sausage again (I think they are made from soya) if we want to eat meat we eat meat which wan be 'meat that is not meat'.Will try the morrissons ones mostly shop at tesco or asda but will try them.

chaircover: Cardboard LOL
I sugest that you just cut down on red meat and go for chicken, turkey and fish instead. That is what we did
. . . . . So you can still have sausages, just fewer of and less frequent.

I have done that with our own food (Naija food) as hubby even prefers fish to beef anyway but I just think ok let me try an alternative to meat for breakfast.Never again

Vegans and vegetarians dey try o that's what they eat in place of meat 'yuk' I guess they are used to it sha.if I was vegeterian I'd rather eat just veg than that cardboard

That is about to go in the bin

Between I must be a bush woman I said ok lets cut down on our meat intake so I said ok let me try meat substitute sausages so I went and bought Quorn Sausages (all sha in our bid to eat healthy) for breakfast this morning.

All I can say is yukkkkkkk eeeww disgusting gross ayanma, urgggh, horrible, horrid all the adjectives I can think of tasted like hay only my son ate it.I think we will just not eat sausages at all rather than have that (we don't even sausages that much sef once in a month or so). I was thinking of switching to Quorn mince for Shepherds pie, chilli and bolognaise but hell no thank you. .*feels like puking again* YUK

chaircover: Damiso, Sweetie, this is my proper first attempt at bead making. It took me about 2 hours to make.
Looking in my wardrobe to find something to wear with it tomorrow
Thank you YouTube
Thank you Toynex

Wowww CC well done (seun we need clapping emoticon joor )it s really nice..like the colour of the pink beads.I have followed toynex's blog as well..See with time you will start making more complicated pieces.really lovely

greatgod2012: walahi, you no go kill me with laughter........wetin you know understand here now
Abeg, TV01, ride on jare, i'm really gbadunning you, i enjoys reading your posts.



@post, communication is the key, any partner who feels unsatisfied should communicate with his/her partner, and then, a little compromise won't be a bad idea too.

Aunty na jelosinmi I go all these big big grammar e.g. 'Bio-mechanical intimate function' 'male-female intimate binary' amongst others oro amba ara wa sun yii Abi Imi (on top this intimacy talk)

Don't mind me jare TV01 actually writes like my late Dad oyinbo ti poju (English too much).I agree with his summary though which is that intimate issues should be tailored to a couple's individuals preferences with communication being key like you said.

rofemiguwa: Haba aisha this is so not true, are u reading one part of the story, did u read where she said her income can't make ends meet, she is struggling , if she can't afford to train her children in school, will dy be better off hawking in the street instead of with their ritualistic father that will probably send the to school.
ThE only problem I have with the poster is she shud have taken the girl child instead
The op talk about marriage only came in when she said she's not up to 30 maybe she's 27 and she is suppose to live her life as a single parent right? Let's say anoda 60years alone
Let us face fact and be real for once.
I think the poster shud give up her children for adoption now, or return them to their father whilE she struggles to stand on her feet. When she has done that, she can go back for all her children or she can return the boys,pick the girl while she's still struggling
When she has made it den she can go get her kids
BTW this is nigeria child support no dey work for here.
It is really hard to be in poster shoes now? What she is going tru can only be imagined
For those saying she kept giving birth, how in da world how u suppose to know that ur family will scatter in five years time, everyone gets married to build a home and raise kids in love,
Some are fortunate and some are not
IRony of life

I don't know the intricacies of the adoption process in Nigeria but can you give up your children for adoption and then go back for them? Is it possible like when kids are placed in foster care here and then returned to the parents when social services are now convinced they are fit to parent again?Nigerians generally are not that keen on adoption and often prefer adopting babies(newborns esp ) if possible so really I would like to know if it's possible.

I had a friend who grew up with wealthy relatives and had to go live with them when her dad died because her mum felt she would get better chances in that environment as she(her mum) felt she might not be able to afford to give her the things they could.My friend is a mother today and vows that she would never ever ever let her children go live with someone else while she is alive.I asked but you got to go St Saviours,FGGC shagamu,live in a mansion in VI and she said to me i would have rather lived with my mum in a hut(I know it's easy to romanticise what you might have had which I tell her but she lived it so I can't discount her experiences).She said they tried and it's not like they were mean to me but my heart broke every time my mum came to see me with my brother and I could not go home with them.Her point was if they could afford those schools it made no difference if she lived with her mother or with them.She said they tried and she might have never gotten to where she was today without that level of education and exposure but it was just never the same and she always always felt like the poor cousin.

The point of my long epistle is like has been said by so many others on this thread please please try to get your daughter back.I believe you are enlightened enough to be able to use the internet and type as you did you would be able to get something doing to sustain yourself and your children.Start small and be ready to work hard but truly if your Inlaws are as mean as diabolical as you have claimed your daughter is too young to be without her mother.

Nice list and I agree with most it's just that Lagos is just so cosmopolitan that you could actually have 20 most popular streets in Lagos.
Awolowo road, ikoyi and Nnamdi Azikwe street,Lagos Island are contenders as well as many more Herbert Macaulay Way,Ebute metta etc etc

Eko Ile how I miss your cray cray ness

tramuntanero: Because she tends to buy things we don´t really need until the visa card is full and the our maximum debt capacity with the bank is reached. The more we earn, the more debt we have. I can´t stand this situation.
I am just about to have a pay-rise and honestly don´t feel like telling her, I just want to pay off my debts.

I can definitely understand why you might want to hide the payrise.Debt is a vicious cycle in the western world with (see me talking like I am better ) but jokes apart you need to have a talk with her about it.Its ok to treat yourself once in a while but fiscal discpline is highly highly important. My husband at a time more or less had to seize MY cards and even though I moaned I am a much better person for it.

These days i see things on sale and think do I really need it and I don't buy it.I even leave all my cards behind at home when I go out to shopping malls.I ignore 'sale' emails from retailers and just send them straight to trash.Its doable if she is willing to NOT add to those debts.I know someone close to me in exactly the same dilemma the only problem is she keeps buying and adding to the debt so as she Is paying off she is adding to it.

That's who she is and like someone else said the best you can do is help her to be ambidextrous (even that sef is not necessary).

Imagine someone forcing you to use your left hand for everything? If you put yourself in that situation you will understand what you are trying to force her to do.

coogar: some men?
it's easier said than done. remember, ghosts see everything. the biggest torture known to any man is watching another man hump the wife he left behind.

if the ghost was a police officer or a military man before he died then the new husband should start praying. he's going to get shot or have his black arsë thrashed with koboko one day soon.

This coogar eh the things you come out with so male ghosts are not bothered about the children they left behind but are more worried about bossoms (let me kuku say bossoms myself this razz NL filter)

He surely needs help FAST what scares me out all this is him thinking it's normal then one day he gets married and has children a daughter maybe and his wife innocently asks him to bathe and dress her hian

Black widow is the term used for them I believe.

moca: Oh no!
I didn't see it. No wonder.
Deleted my old email accounts. Maybe it was after doing that u sent d mail.
Abeg, I'm so sorry, darling


Chaircover, how r u and family?
Happy mama, happy home.
Hope those youngies r not disturbing u too much?
Damiso, how corner be for ur side now?
Sisi eko

Cococandy,don't take too much candy o.
U will blow up.

What of ewuro,jenny, lleobatojo,baby mama dem?
Eehe, taryour how far now?
I saw a beautifully designed cake by u here. Jeez! U too much.

If I remember another moniker, I go hail am.
Abeg make una lighten up this place.

For the newbies, go to pager 1 to 3 for education.

Happy weekend all!

My side dey YPP we thank God We missed you hows oga and ur lil soldier hope they are all well?


Happy Weekend Everyone