It's A Cropped Affair

A cropped top is a t-shirt or blouse with the lower portion cut off, resulting in exposure of some of the wearer’s abdomen. Celebrities such as Rihanna and Ciara have been spotted wearing cropped t-shirts. Locally we’ve seen the Queen B, Bonang Matheba rocking out in the trend. Just remember, if you wanna trend up in cropped tees, just make sure you got the abdomen and the confidence to work it off… XoXo.

Love Me Oxfords Love Me Brogues

Love Me Oxfords Love Me Brogues...
Modern brogues trace their roots to a rudimentary shoe originating in Scotland and Ireland that was constructed using untanned leather with perforations that allows water to drain from the shoes when the wearer crossed wet terrain such as a bog. The word "brogues" originates in the late sixteenth century and is a derivation of the Irish and Scots Gaelic "brog", taken from the Old Nurse "brok" meaning "leg covering". 

The word "brogue" was first used to describe a form of outdoor, country walking shoe in the early twentieth century. At that time the brogue was not considered to be appropriate for other occasions, social or business. Over time perceptions have changed and brogues are now considered appropriate in most contexts, including business. Brogues continue to be most common as leather dress and casual shoes and boots, but can also be found in many other forms including canvas and leather sneakers and high-heeled women's shoes.

The Brogue is a style of low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterized by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative perforations (or "brogueing") and serration along the pieces' visible edges.[1] Modern brogues trace their roots to a rudimentary shoe originating in Scotland and Ireland that was constructed using untanned leather with perforations that allowed water to drain from the shoes when the wearer crossed wet terrain such as a bog. Brogues were traditionally considered to be outdoor or country footwear not otherwise appropriate for casual or business occasions, but brogues are now considered appropriate in most contexts. Brogues are most commonly found in one of four toe cap styles (full or "wingtip", semi-, quarter and longwing) and four closure styles (oxford, derby, ghillie and monk). Today, in addition to their typical form of sturdy leather shoes or boots, brogues may also take the form of business dress shoes, sneakers, high-heeled women's shoes or any other shoe form that utilizes or evokes the multi-piece construction and perforated, serrated piece edges characteristic of brogue

They've skipped from being a formal male shoe to being the chic trend amongst fashionistas. Alexa Chung, Nicole Richie and a lot more have been wearing them... Personally I own four pairs already and people always look at me like I'm crazy when I'm wearing them... People can call them golf shoes, funeral shoes but they the newest trend everyone should be on...

But let's remember... Only a true fashionista or stylista as I like to call them can pull of Oxfords

Yours in Oxfords

xoxo

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

So my girls Kagee and Twomi had their Matric Dance last month on the 7th... And as a little treat I took them to my favourite club Latinova... It was a rather rawcus night... Thanks to my girls for a fun night, to Twomi for a rawcus time and to Dj Naves for giving me reason to dance...

Some Light Skinned Girls and Some Kelly Rowlands

If you not familiar with the term Yellow Bone major side eye... Where have you been hiding? If you not familiar with the unspoken battle between Yellow Bones and Chocolate Brownies double that major side eye... You probably been dead for the past year and a half...

Yellow Bone vs. Choc Brownies

No one can possibly tell me that there is no competition between light skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands. The competition may not have been instigated by them, but it was sure instigated by the males. When the term yellow bone came out in a popular hip hop song ( don't ask me which one as most of them have yellow bone in it) it made such headlines. Some people were really unaware of what a yellow bone is but Joburg guys coined the term faster than they coin a stable relationship. That was the start of the yellow bone craze. 

Guys seemingly started going for light skinned girls rather than dark skinned girls as yellow bones were hailed as beautiful. It really got a whole lot of dark skinned girls feeling quite insecure about their complexions. If you ain't a yellow bone, you ain't shit. I bet all of us have reached a predicament where we experienced the yellow bone vs. choc brownie competition up close. But the only catch is this:

The competition between light skinned and dark skinned didn't begin with the yellow bone craze... it's been there for a long time. In America, we saw dark skinned girls going through the extreme brutality of using chemical products that would help them become light skinned... Skin bleaching. this is quite a dangerous thing to go through as it takes all sorts of strain on your skin, but in the quest of becoming light skinned and being perceived as beautiful, they would put themselves through it.

of course in South Africa we don't have cases as such, but really that doesn't mean that dark skinned girls don't feel the pressure put on them by light skinned girls. The popular Joburg party which was held at Zouk the past weekend just adds fuel to the fire. So what are Joburg guys doing? Filling a club full of light skinned girls and dark skinned girls and make them compete to see which is the better flavour?

Yellow Bone or Choc Brownie?

I really find it ridiculous how people would want to determine a persons worth by their complexion. I love the chorus to Wale's song Shades:

From a light skinned girl to a dark skinned brother shades don't matter heart shapes the lover...

This too me clarifies it... This is how we should be thinking... Shades don't matter.

I have nothing against yellow bones, I got yellow bone friends whom I love to death all I'm simply doing is highlighting how much effect complexion has on people's lives...

XoXo

Girl Loves Celebrity Dick

I really don't want to be mean... I really love this little gallie... She's my friend after all but Girl Loves Celebrity Dick...

As friends we are meant to correct you when you do wrong, tell you when that doesn't look good on you because at the end of the day people judge us by the people with hang out with. Girl Loves Celebrity Dick. 

I emphasise on her loving celebrity dick purely because that some celebrity dick she loves so much will be the end of her. The whole notion of absent fathers has been stretched a tad bit too long. Just because you have an absent father or rather in this case a mofo of a strict father, you think seeking love from men outside will fill that gap that you have in your heart? Well guess what? the only gap they filling is the one between your legs... Girl Loves Celebrity Dick.

Started with soccer players, moved on to actors/presenters, hip hop artists and when she wanted to make the subsequent move to Djs... the Dj she was targeting didn't give her the light of day... so then what does she go do? Talk smack about Djs... Girl Loves Celebrity Dick.

When you jump into bed with a celebrity there is no mistake to it. Girls are so prone to blaming their sexual excursions to mistakes... You knew exactly who or what he is and you wanted him... there was no mistake about that... Girl Loves Celebrity Dick.

This really isn't about my gallie, it's about a whole lot of other gallies out there who do men like they going out of fashion using the absent father excuse as a justification of their lack of control. I have an absent father, I have friends with absent fathers but that don't mean that our void should be filled by men who enjoy dipping in you and not enjoy being with you. That's the bottom line, he dips and walks away. If he dips and comes back for more trust me it's not because he loves you, it's clearly coz your dip is tasty *side eye*, so really you don't need to call him your "pudding" coz when he's with his boys he tells them how much he loves your pudding. Girl Loves Celebrity Dick.

I guess what I'm saying is, stop using your father as an excuse for every other man to get in between your legs... I think maybe it's time you closed your legs and opened your mind.
P.S. Celebrity Dick is the baddest dick to fux around with *pun intended*

XoXo

The Forbidden Fruit

Why is it that we are always attracted to things that will never belong to us?

The forces of human nature have thought us that we are more likely to be attracted to things out of our grasp rather than things within our grasp. Unfortunately as humans, we always persist in trying to get those things, even though, we know it in the back of our minds that they simply just can't be.

I looked at something that could never be mine and wished it were, but when the prospect of it going to someone else, someone close to me, someone I know, it hurt. It hurt more than it would have if it had gone on to someone I barely knew, a total stranger, but for the fact that it went where I would constantly see it was just... too much.

But then again it is said that if it is his will, God will bless you with it in due time. It's obvious to me that it wasn't his will... not for me anyway

when you can't compete with it, it is so much more better to just make peace with it and let it go...

Coz the forbidden fruit is so much tastier... It's not our fault that the forces of nature are stronger than us

XoXo

Gossip Girl Invades Joburg



You know you love me
XoXo
Gossip Girl

American teen drama series Gossip Girl has really had a massive impact on Joburg. The J-Sec as it is frequently known has slowly turned into The Upper East Side. Gossip Girl revolves around gossip, hence the title. It is based on the lives of six main characters who attend a private school in New York City. The mystery blogger Gossip Girl follows the lives of these six characters and posts gossip about them on the net.
The life of Gossip Girl is seemingly well sought after in Joburg as the fashion, the partying and the social scheming has become so familiar in Joburg. It's also sought after in the blogger way hence the creation of anonymous Twitter account @GossipGirl_Sa and @jhbgossipgirl as well as numerous Facebook accounts such as Truth'be Told, Jozi Expose and Talk More.Personally I find that these "Gossip Girl" wannabes need to up their game if they really want to earn and own the title of "Gossip Girl" in the J-Sec. Their gossip makes for a good laugh and is quite entertaining for others such as myself but they do trigger fury in their own targets. All these "Gossip Girls" seemingly have their own targets. Truth'be Told targets high school socialites whilst Jozi Expose and GossipGirl_Sa target from varsity socialites to our very own celebrities. Even if I should say so myself, GossipGirl_Sa could dig up way more dirt than the scrapings she publishes.

 Yet on the other hand I applaud them for the gutty thing they doing. @jhbgossipgirl tweeted "this page is about you the almost famous. We know you wish you were famous so we gonna make you famous". But really this whole Gossip Girl invades J-Sec swag really has got me thinking. Half of the people these "Gossip Girls" target are the people who are "famous" but no one ever really knows what they famous for.Just like The Upper East Side, the J-Sec is filled with your Chuck Bass, Nate Archibald, Dan Humphrey, Jenny Humphrey and the Queen B's/ Frenemies and best friends Serena Van Der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. The Jenny Humphrey's of the J-Sec are the girls who are still crawling in the social circles, the girls who are still trying to figure out friend from foe, the girls who everyone perceives as simple and easy targets are actually the girls you shouldn't undermine and belittle, girls like myself. The Serena's and Blair's of the J-Sec are the girls you find at the same clubs every weekend, the cool bunch at Bowls on a Friday afternoon, the girls who are on a first name basis with celebrities. Those are the girls who share shots of Patron tonight and back stab each other tomorrow

 Girls need to know who their real friends are. How these people get people's personal info... Back stabbing bitches.


It's quite sad though how we won't know who these people are. Joburg has just turned into a pool of plastic. The same people you chill with at Bowls on a Friday afternoon are the same people who'll be sitting without you Monday afternoon at Pantsula Bites talking about you and scrutinizing your character. The same people you think of as friends are the same people who, tomorrow, will stick the knife in your back with a smile, twist it with a laugh and pull it out with a pout.

 It's so sad to be a group of fake people. It's one thing to be fake to strangers but now you being fake to your own friends.. Shame, the lives some people live.


Life isn't a drama where you have to be someone else that you are not just to please people who watch you.


In all honesty, we can all Facebook, Tweet or BBM each other, we can all run around club hopping in the Rosebank District in our 5inch stilletos partying up a storm but when we leave, some leave to get their names talked on. When will the time come when one can go out and not be topic of discussion the next morning. We can't all be liked by everyone and we can't all be friends with everyone, we simply just can't. If you are liked by everyone and friends with everyone REALITY CHECK 80% of those people are pretending. Pretence has become the new shade of lipstick or nail polish.


Give me a reason to be fake... Sorry but I'm not that desperate to make "friends". I'd rather be alone and real than be fake with a ton of friends.

 Everyone wants to pretend. What happened to being real?
There's a saying that goes... "You get three types of people in your life. People who are in your life for a reason, a season and a lifetime". All I'm saying is take a long objective observation into your plastic ridden lives and social circles and see who's there for a reason, a season, and a lifetime.


There's nothing wrong with being real... Anyway didn't you know? Plastic burns a whole lot faster
XoXo