StyleRant: African Fashion

Hello young world!
This morning I was going through my Tumblr dashboard and noticed a post about African Fashion. I loved the prints and colors from the posts so I decided to look into it a little more.  I must say I'm floored! African fashion is soooo interesting.  When I'm looking for fashion inspiration, I usually look at style blogs from other countries (usually the U.K.), but I never thought to research Africa.  Now that I think about it, for the last couple of seasons (moreso Spring) designers have drawn inspiration from African culture.
From my research, I learned that African fashion is very popular in other countries other than Africa.  Here are some looks that caught my eye:

The Afropolitan Experience

African Fashion Week

 Here are a few looks from African Designers:







**To find out more about each designer click on the designer's name.**

Overall, I love just about everything I saw from the many African designers that I found.  This weekend the first African Fashion Week premiered in London.  (africafashionweeklondon.com) Because it was just this weekend I couldn't really find alot of information about it but you might want to keep an eye out for it because from what I was able to find the collections were beautiful!

Last but not least I must tell you all about the african fashion blogs that I found. If you are like me that I'm sure you will enjoy these blogs and find all sorts of fashion inspiration for your own wardrobe:
As always thanks for reading! Hope you were inspired! :-)

You're FAR too Kind! [Best Blog Award]

Good evening young world!
I'm super late (as always), but I received the best blog award from Gigi (thanks girl! :0)).  She sent this award to me like a month or so ago and I'm just not getting around to posting it...
Soooo, I hope I'm doing this right... Here goes:

7 things about me:
1. I'm about to be 26 in 2 weeks (8/17)
2. I have four tattoos.
3. I graduated from Georgia State University with a degree in Marketing and I'm currently taking classes to get a second degree in Management.
4. As you may can tell from #3 I'm a nerd.
5. I dont have cable.
6.  My car's name is Summer
7.  My hair is natural but I looooovvve weave (As an accessory not a requirement)

I have to give this award to 15 blogs... I dont quite think I'm worthy of giving anybody an award just yet and I can't really think of 15 blogs but here's what I have:
KayElleKnows
5th Avenue Stranger
Curvy Girls Guide to Style
PearlsnFashion
Return to Sender
Necessary Imperfections
The Fat and Skinny on Fashion

I'm soooo sorry but I really can't think of anymore...

Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Song: The Show by Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick (Reminds me of my uncle RIP Alonzo)
Favorite desertred velvet cake
Biggest Pet Peeve: lack of common sense
When you are upset you, either: Cry or Call my mommy (Dont judge me...)
Favorite Pet: My huge brown crocodile print bag
Black or White???: Black
Biggest Fear: I can't tell you! I'm a LEO and we're not supposed to be scared of anything...
Best Feature: My creativity (It didn't say physical...)
Everyday Attitude: The world is my runway!
What is perfection: An off day... when I'm really OFF
Guilty Pleasure: Sneakers and the Backyardigans

Thanks again to GiGi for giving me this award! And thanks to you for taking time out to read it...

Two Fingas!


2-n-1

Hello young world!
I love the summer time! So far I've had a lot of fun this summer.  However, I still work 46 hours a week so I haven't been able to post as much as I would like.  I've had two OOTD's to do within the last week and I'm just now getting to them.  So this post is a two in one deal.

The first outfit is what I wore to my company's summer employee event at Dave and Busters.  The pictures are provided courtesy of Kay Elle.

Dress: Forever21
Shoes: Payless
Jewelry: Charlotte Russe

The second outfit it what I wore to the Young Jeezy concert.  If you follow me on twitter you know that I looooooovve that man! I'm kind of sad that I waited so late to do the post because I would have called it My Thug Motivation.  Even though I'm no where near thug (hehehehe):

Crop Denim Jacket: Ashley Stewart (DIY)
Tank: Target
Skirt: Forever 21
Sandals: Bakers
Bracelets: Alot of different places (Sorry)
Ring: Beauty Supply

Ok, for some reason I'm not all that excited about what I've been wearing lately.  However, I plan to have a sickening fall line up.  I work in an urban apparel store so I cant really dress up like I want.  I really want to wear more heels and what not.  My plan is to dress up more when I go to school.  Anyway, thanks for reading! :-)