I bought a pair of trousers yday which I loved for the horse-riding pants panelling and navy colour. Only thing is the buttons... :-/ Too tacky for my liking but I figured yh let me just buy the pants - I need some new ones any way.
I had a dress up session yday and realised the buttons were just not working - too much for me (pictures to follow in next post). I need to find a suitable way of getting rid of the buttons all together and navy-ing out the "loud" metal detailing, just so the pants can look decent enough to be worn with anything.
Then today I reviewed Barbious Fashion Blog and it just confirmed my thoughts - simplicity is key:
See how chic and elegant the whole look is? I need more block plain pieces - I'll have the final say in whatever detailing I'll add.
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Just a snippet of accessories worn today...
Shirt - Gikomba Kshs 20
Beads - Maasai market Kshs 800
Earrings - Gifted (but I've seen a few girlies wearing them around town)
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I'm officially an Oriflame consultant! I signed up last Wednesday - actually rushed in to their store / office minutes before they closed. Anywho I signed up and was told about a skin test that costs KES 250; unfortunately I was too late to get the test done then.
Fast forward 5 days later and I was determined to go back to get that skin test and buy a book for the 'A Sword and a Whetstone' office book club we just kicked off at work :-D (see widget at bottom of the page).
Ha! So you know how I said I had combination skin in this post? Well my skin is dry....and not just dry but dry dry dry! Sahara dry :-O! Over the weekend - my word - my skin just...lotion was not doing it! Unfortunately I had just given up on all skin products in the market - i.e. supermarket; and just resorted to what ever soaps (yes soaps - over-drying stearic acid compounds and such!) I had at home because I believed that although they were soaps, they were - creamy hand soaps and shower gels with natural exfoliants hence not damaging - oh dear the dillusion. Yes this is why the lotions probably stopped being as effective as they should be. I resorted to petroleum jelly. It kinda worked but did not last long at all. At my skin test consultation I told the lady doing the test that I had resorted to vaseline and she told me that vaseline just acts as a film and does not get absorbed in to the skin's cells - so you're really not adding moisture to your skin.
About the skin test, it basically required you to clean your face and let it be for about 10 minutes. After that they asked a few questions and let their machine do the rest - it was at this point that they discovered that my skin had zero oiliness and 10/99 moisture. They diagnosed my skin as "Low" on moisture and "Over dry" on oiliness - see below!
The clever thing is that after the test the computer takes all the data is has collected and generates a report with all the products that would work for you. Here are mine:
Since the list of products is a bit long, I asked the skin consultant to let me know which products are most crucial for now and I can get the rest later, over time. Here is what I got:
I used all three products this morning for the first time and felt the effects instantly :-D. Looking forward to the progress in a month's time. I will try to take periodic photos and journal this! :)
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