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My Favorite Underrated Fashion Designers: Jonathan Simkhai

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 Hello everyone, I missed you all so much and I hope that you all had an amazing Thanksgiving with your family and friends. During my week off, I found myself inspired by fashion by watching old episodes of Videofashion on the Tubi app on my phone and I found more appreciation for one of my favorite and underrated fashion designers, Jonathan Simkhai.  Established in 2010, the Jonathan Simkhai brand provides luxury ready-to-wear for the modern woman. The core aesthetic philosophy plays with the tension of feminine strength and sensuality; this is reflected in the employment of customized fabrics, romantic detailing, linear lines, and contoured silhouettes. Through designs that seek to embolden women with confidence and ease, the brand represents modern versatility. As a 2015 winner of the prestigious CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, Jonathan Simkhai continues to redefine the 21st-century wardrobe and reinvigorate American fashion. Founded in New York, Jonathan Simkhai launched his epon...

Black Owned Business That You Need To Know About: Sonya B Boutique

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 Hello Fashion Lovers, I hope that all of you are doing well and staying safe in the state of our world that we all are trying to live in right now.  I love Fashion, I think you guys all know that by now. And just like every other girl in the world, I love to online shop. I can stay in my pajamas, I can avoid long and absolutely ridiculous lines, and there's are more offers and more variety than what we see in stores. Online shopping is becoming more convenient now than ever before because of COVID. I've been looking into a lot of  Black-owned online retailers that are fashionable and will bring you joy that you brought something for a black-owned, woman-owned business.  Sonya B’s Boutique was created to empower women globally of all shapes and sizes to be confident in themselves and who they are. We provide these strong women with quality and unique styles without the hefty price tag. With new arrivals dropping weekly, we ensure that all of our SBB babes are confide...

On My Beauty Wishlist: Coco And Eve Like A Virgin Hair Masque

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 What is going on beauty lovers, I hope that all of you had a great day wearing your favorite lipstick and wearing your favorite perfume to get you through this crazy time in our world that we all are living in right now.  Having a hair mask in my hair care routine has been such a game-changer for me. My hair is a lot softer and manageable, especially when you have dry hair like myself. I've heard all about this hair mask from beauty bloggers to reading about this hair mask from numerous articles that I've read. The Coco And Eve Like A Virgin Hair Masque really captured my attention, and I want to try this out for myself.  This Five-in-One treatment restores dry damaged hair, improves hair texture and shine, hydrates and deeply conditions your hair, treats split ends, and tames frizz all with a ten-minute time period.  This mask is also Sulfate-Free, One Hundred Vegan, Cruelty-Free, PETA Approved, Gluten-Free, and ethically sourced as well. The Like Coco And Eve...

Petit Kouraj, My New Obsession

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Hello everyone, and Happy Tuesday to you all. I hope that all of you had a great day and were safe as much as possible. In the times that we all live in, we all need to treat each other with kindness and love, but I think I was born a hippie, and still believe that be kind will get you very farther than being mean to each other. One day, I was reading the November issue of Instyle Magazine and I saw this handbag that intrigued my interest. So I went online to see more about this fashion brand and I'm in love with everything that I see and I want one in my closet for the Spring and Summer.  Petit Kouraj means "Little Courage in Haitian, (Such a beautiful meaning if I do say so myself.) Petit Kouraj is the creation of fashion stylist, Nasrin Jean-Baptiste. Born in London to Haitian immigrants, Jean-Baptiste amassed over a decade’s worth of experience as an international fashion stylist before creating Petit Kouraj. An innate desire to create something meaningful lead Jean-B...

Portay, Please Come Back To Fashion.

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 Happy Sunday my fashion lovers, I hope that you all are doing well, staying safe, and getting ready for a brand new week of possibilities, gratitude, and more importantly, love and kindness. I've recently come across an Israeli fashion designer and I'm so sad that they don't design anymore (or maybe they will make a comeback in the fashion world.) but I wanted to still tell you all about them. Portay is a luxury Israeli fashion brand, specializing in high-end womenswear, striving to provide a compelling solution to a modern-day woman's expectations and the countless contradictions in her life. Loyal to its legacy, Portay is ever inspired by proper tailoring techniques, detailed finishes, and meticulous pattern-making work, aspiring to represent the female form at its very best day and night. The founder of Portay, Dani Veenstra (originally Portnoy) is a Russian-Israeli fashion designer based in Tel Aviv Israel. Born in Moscow, Russia in 1985 to a couple of scientists, ...

On My Beauty Wishlist: Sigma Cor-De-Rosa Eyeshadow Palette

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 Hello and Happy Thursday to all of my beauty lovers. I hope that all of you had a great day and were safe out there today.  I have a little obsession with Eyeshadow palettes, every time that I see a new release that's coming out, I make a list of the palettes that I want to buy. This is been the complete object of my affection for the absolute longest. I was watching a Youtuber she receives this eyeshadow palette in PR and I love all of the colors and how many Autumn eye looks that I could do  Sigma Beauty is one of my favorite beauty brands because they don't have harmful chemicals that could bad things to my skin. The Cor-De-Rosa Eyeshadow is on my Christmas list and I have to have it. This palette has blossomed in beauty with this bouquet of warm matte, shimmer, and metallic shades. Inspired by our best-selling Aura Powder Blush, Cor-de-Rosa, this palette epitomizes the beauty, love, and joy of roses. Cor-de-Rosa, meaning “color of the rose,” features 14 eyeshadows in...

I Only Rock Andrea Iyamah

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 Hello again my fellow fashion lovers, I hope that your Tuesday was filled with positive vibes, caring for one another, and was as safe as positive.  I love to support Black fashion designers and fashion brands. I feel that it's my duty to support them because I feel that there's not a lot of Black Fashion Designers in the Fashion Industry at all and I hope that that will change in the future because there are so many amazing Black Fashion designers and brands that need our support, just as the designer that I'm going to introduce to you guys today.  I was on the internet one day and I noticed these amazing pants that would be perfect for my Summer wardrobe, so I decided to go on the website to check out the clothing for myself and I was obsessed ever since I saw those pants. Andrea Iyamah owned by Nigerian fashion designer Andrea Iyamah is a clothing line strongly inspired by colour, ethnic cultures, nature, and design elements that stay true to creating authentic clothi...

Meet My Fashion Friend, Sonique Saturday

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 Happy Tuesday fashion lovers, I hope that all of you are doing well and staying safe out in our world today and was wearing a fabulous outfit. I'll say this until I'm blue in the face, there's nothing wrong with having designer dupes in your closet. We all can't afford all of the designer bags that all of the celebrities and fashion influencers constantly flaunt in our faces all of the time. I'm pretty sure that my friends and family will still love me if I don't have a designer bag, quite honestly, I'm sick of the whole "status" thing and you need this to be successful, a designer bag should not make you as a person nor make you become a materialistic person.  So one night, I was on my Instagram and I saw this Hermes Birkin dupe that has a funny saying on it. I went to the website and I was absolutely in love with the message of this brand. The name SoniqueSaturday is quickly becoming synonymous with a level of taste and success that few in the f...

On My Beauty Wishlist: Black Girl Sunscreen

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 Hello to all of my fellow beauty lovers, I hope that all of you are doing well and staying safe in the world that we all are trying to live and thrive in right now.  Introducing sunscreen into my beauty routine has been a game-changer for me. I feel that my skin has benefitted from this some much, it looks a lot healthier, some of my dark spots have disappeared, and it has become a lot smoother and softer. I feel so silly for not getting on the bandwagon sooner and when I have a daughter of my own I'll teach her that wearing sunscreen is important.  I was looking online for black-owned beauty brands and I saw this sunscreen that I've never heard of before, I feel that some sunscreens do make black women's skin look a little ashy. Their story begins with the need for melanin women to have a sunscreen brand that caters exclusively to them. The company was founded in 2016  in the ever-popular city of Miami, Florida. Beach days are always necessary but blotchy make...