Glimmer N Gloss

Hello guys, I used to blog at glimmerngloss.blogspot.com, my last post was a new year post in 2016 and after that I had serious writer’s block so I kinda gave up on my writing which is a really silly thing to do, I felt like I let my readers down no matter how few they were. Reviving my blog is probably one of the very few good things about this coronavirus lockdown. Before we get into 2020 let me take you people through what I have been up to. When I started blogging I was in makeup school so my blog was focused majorly on makeup back then. I was a makeup artist and I was pretty good at it but I was a broke makeup artist but I didn’t let that stop me because I love makeup and doing what you love is a lot of fun. I had clients but they were not transcribing into money, a lot them didn’t see themselves paying so much for makeup from a newbie. It wasn’t all gloom though I had some pretty amazing clients that appreciated my work until one day. I had a job at Ikorodu, wedding makeup for th...

Hey guys, It's important to looks great at all times be it summer, winter , harmattan, party, school or cookouts and there's no room for mishaps but then mishaps still also happen. I remember a while back in secondary school, the school was repainting the building and I, in my usual playful self brushed the wall and got paint on what I was wearing and this was a period school just resumed so everyone is looking peng  you just can't afford to look scruffy and not on point and this was first week of school everyone was wearing their best and this made me feel a little sad because I couldn't figure out how to get the stain off  so when I saw that bloggers were sharing Betabrand's style hacks graphic, I remembered my paint mishap   and how I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of it until much later, I was more than happy to write about style hacks. Betabrand is an amazing online store based in San Francisco, they let the fans co-design and crowdfund and they...