@Greyy.

It’s been a long 1 month plus but I hope to back with ease and consistency.

What I'm loving presently. Hi,  I have been MIA for about 2 weeks and this is because I have been busy with my other life. It's good to be back again and I hope to get into the spirit of writing daily even while being busy. Exams are around the corner, so let's say things just got scarier but it's all good. Over the past 2 weeks, certain things have been a bit of a constant in my life and I dare to say they've been very helpful in making my day go smoothly or made my day bearable (when I get exhausted), just things I have been loving of late. **TikTok.** This app should be everybody's favorite because it's addictive as well as productive. I am interested in interior as well as fashion and Tiktok give me this content in abundance like you could stay on the app for hours and not get tired and I love it. I have found pages that I stuck on and given me tips on how to take care of my home(parents house), how to style, what to cook, it's a lot and it gives me joy. **Arizona Drink**.        I found out about this drink about 2-3 weeks and I love it. The flavor is amazing. It tastes great, has more than one serving which gives you more value for the price, different flavors but I love the purple one and ginger ale.  You should try it and tell me what you think. **Novels**.       This is more of a pastime activity but I got 2 new novels to help me get creative and I fell in love with them. I got a book by an author I've not read before and she did every bit of a good job, Nora Roberts is everyone’s favorite and we can't disagree. **Movies**. I am a romantic when I'm not busy or in a relaxing mood, so I was able to catch up with a bit of romance and chick-lit movies. I watched Emily in Paris, Vincenzo, The intern, Jungle cruise, to be honest, I can't remember all their names. **Food**. Food is a mood changer and it's something I do when I feel tired or just feeling lazy or sad even. It just helps change my mood. I love trying new food but the one I tried this week was mehhh, I wasn't loving it as much as I thought but it's all good. I still won't stop eating. **Skincare**. While this is something you're meant to do daily, I did take extra time to care for my skin the past few weeks, and let's say I saw results. My skin is looking good, hydrated even though PMS is about to spoil my glory but we good. So these are the things I have been loving in the past week(s), let me hear about yours, if you tried anything new or different.

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Overthinking. **Your Thoughts.**    You ever just sit and ponder on a situation and think of 1001 ways you could have made a better decision or somehow it could have gone a better direction. You draft possible situations to an already happened event and the other side, drafting scenes for a future event.     I have had conversations with lots of people, read articles, listened to podcasts talking about overthinking, the good side, the bad side, how to control it and what’s not, I’m not going to do because I need to also know how to stop overthinking myself.    I will be writing about certain situations that I overthought and they did or didn’t work out the way I thought. First thing I’ll tell anyone who overthinks is, your thoughts counts, always have and always will, just don’t stress about everything being perfect. One thing that any overthinker deals with is we have the idea of perfection stuck in our minds that when it doesn’t go that way, it’s not what we want. We’ve seen wedding ceremonies, or artworks or architectural drawings or coding and they’re near perfect, if not perfect, ask the creative behind it and they’ll tell you of times they stressed about getting some things near perfect, you aren’t anything different.      My situation, I have love & interests for so many things, some I want to take long term, some for fun, some as the time goes, some I love when others do them, not necessarily me. The ones I want to long term are my constant turmoil because I have a picture in my head of how I want things to be placed, how things should pace out, when things should roll in, lots of things but the one thing I haven’t actually done is START. I have spent a lot of time thinking and thinking that I haven’t spent a minute starting.      So here’s to the overthinker, we will always want to figure out plan A-Z plus extra and this isn’t a bad thing. The only bad thing is if you spend the bulk of your time thinking than doing, because no one is seeing your thinking, they’ll only see it when you actually do it.    So pick up that project, that thing, that paper, anything you’ve been thinking about and start doing. You’ll figure out the rest as you go, you always have and always will.    START DOING.

How to lighten your underarms. Hi, Today I will be talking about something I know we all face or lets say women of dark color tend to have and if you live in a humid country like Nigeria, having dark underarms is something that will happen. Today I will be sharing a few tips on how to lighten your underarms, tips that I have researched, seen others use it, tried it personally and is seeing significant results.  I know that we must have seen lots of ads or videos on tiktok or youtube about getting your underarms lightened under 3 days using some mixture, wel, they might work, maybe not under 3 days but some of the ingredients used are actually ingredients used to lighten up surfaces and are bodily friendly, but maybe not exactly seeing results under 3 days, if you tried longer, you should see changes. I will be giving you 3 simple tips on how to lighten your underarms. Lets go. **1. Stop using deodorants.**      This might bring questions to your mind because we are in a humid country, everywhere is hot and do I expect you to smell or when you sweat under the sun, there is bound to be sweat smell and all. Deodorants in their production contain certain ingredients that tends to darken  that area faster than often and this does not mean do not use deodorants, just use it less often than norms.     What then should you use? I recommend using either antiperspirant (in the block form) or sprays or body mist. These have worked well to lighten my underarms, keep the body sweats smell in and also keep me all through the day.   P.S If you are going to have a long day running around, you can just add a bit of deodorant as this helps against profusely sweating.  **2. Wax, do not shave.**       ​ There are hundred reasons to choose waxing over shaving but I will give you a few and we must have come across so all these and more. Shaving breeds ingrown and dealing with ingrown hairs are some tedious tasks to do. It causes stubbles or bumpy feels around that part and sometimes you cut yourself while shaving. Asides from the pain that will come from waxing, which you will get used to, there are a lot of benefits  that you will get from waxing, your hair grows less, no ingrown hairs, the color of your underarms lighten to a better shade.  Waxing does have a lot of benefits and helps with lightening up your underarms. I said what I said.  **3. Exfoliate.** ​​We tend to exfoliate every other parts of our body but not the underarm, ahh, why? Our underarms also accumulate body dirts, we close it all day so there is definitely things that are ep tuner there that we don’t really wash up when in the bathroom. You can use an exfoliating sponge with some sugar scrub once a week or once in 2 weeks if it is too much struggle to remember, but it does help and you will see significant difference in your underarms. Do all these things for a period of time and you’ll definitely see results in the complexion of your underarms. Lets do a recap of all I said,  - Use deodorants less and try sprays, body mist or antiperspirants. - Opt for waxing and not  shaving. - Exfoliate. - And try to wear less tight clothes so that area can breathe a little more. If you tried any of these methods and they do not work, sometimes they are medically inclined, so you can see a doctor about that, you good sis.  Here are my steps that I have taken to get my underarm lighten or things that I started doing and I saw results, so let me know if you have any means that you have tried and worked for you or you tried any of these and see if they will work for you. Hope this tips helped someone.

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How to grow your finances. Hi, Today I looked at the goals I made for 2021 and the one thing that topped my list and made me extremely excited was my money management improvement, my savings and flexibility towards earning and income channels. Too long, yeah, this is me saying I improved my money skills and earning channels. In this article I will be talking whist sharing some steps I took to becoming better at earning money, saving money, how I kept money flowing and things I have learnt that will be implementedor are in progress for the next half of the year. Lets do a bit of back story, while growing up, I never had so much knowledge about what money should be or what money was, the good, the evil (knew about the evil from the religious end), but still there were things, basic things everyone should know about money. I was reckless with money and other vices but the top of the list was I did not understand what money really was or what it could do. I learnt later as I grew but its best late than never and I put in conscious and daily effort to becoming better at my finances, staying through to my savings and other necessary things. I will be writing about few steps I learnt over the years that really helped me in achieving my goals and I am positive it will definitely help you. **1. Prioritize your spending.**     We tend to spend on unnecessary things, especially ladies, buying things we do not need or guys, buying clothes or gadgets we do not really need, I would understand if its work based but still putting things in order of priority helps you in keeping track of your expenses, not spend unnecessarily and have savings. There are certain essentials that we need to have for our daily existence and comfort, these things should be provided for adequately, and cut back on unnecessary expenses that you know you can and should leave out.   P.S If you can afford some luxury items and it wont disrupt your savings, emergency savings and other necessary save keeping, you are good.  **2. Have different channels of income.**       This is my latest favorite and one I am implementing at this moment. Heres how it goes, have different channels of income paying for different things. This is the most versatile thing that I know certain people have unlocked and is working well for them. You can have your earning from read.cash over a period of time pay for something and increases as your earnings increases. Having different income channels allocated to pay for certain needs is a good way to save stress on the main income source, lessen responsibility, enable smoother savings and lots more. This is gold I tell you.  **3. Keep emergency funds.**       Lets face it, being an adult is all about spending and spending, it is an endless loop. New and some urgent things spring up that needs to be taken care of almost immediately and most times, we cannot dip into our savings or borrow. This is where emergency funds come into the picture, having a stash for rainy days, cause it will definitely fall. I have read some rules on keeping 30% of your earnings for emergency funds but if you are not a salary earner or do not have a stable income, I suggest keep amounts you can afford, do not stress yourself unnecessarily. I really hope some of these things I listed down helped you a lot, let me know your thoughts or if you have tried anything that worked well for you, I am eager to hear from you.  Thank you.

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How to look expensive/classy on a budget. Hi, I want to say thank you for the love and comments shown to my last posts. I got comments from people asking questions and this warmed my heart a lot. Today I decided to write about something I learned a while back on how to look classy, expensive on a budget or how you can look expensive on anything you wear.  Let’s go. A little story here, I am a student so I do not have the luxury to spend so much on clothes, jewelry, shoes, makeup, bags, all the accessories a lady will need but I still want to look expensive, smell nice, feel good, get compliments all without breaking the bank and not doing pass myself. I had to look for different means to get the exact results I wanted within my budget. One of the few things I did while researching was look at people who we have the same style but on a more elevated level, what they combine to look classy and beautiful on anything and I was able to find my style and I hope you can also. Here are a few ways that you can look expensive on a budget and without breaking the bank. 1. Less is more. We have all heard this quote more times than we can count and yes, it’s coming up again. Wearing less accessories or doing things in not in an overly exaggerated manner makes every effort come out as the most. You do not have to overly accessorize or wear so much for you to look sweet, classy and expensive. You can be all these wearing a clean white shirt, a jean, a cute handbag, a nice dainty and classy jewelry, wear a good perfume on and you are good to go.  P.S I am a minimalist but this can definitely apply to a maximalist.  2. Avoid showing too much skin. This might not apply to everyone but personally I have found out that showing less skin makes me look classy. I do show a bit of skin now and then but not to the extent people don’t even know what to look at on your body, c’mon sis. Showing off too much skin does not give off a classy look. 3. Invest in basic colors.  Basic colors like black, white, nude, brown are definitely the best investment you can make in your wardrobe collection. These basic colors go on anything you will want to pair them with, either it is a jean, a skirt, a palazzo, over a blazer or a jacket. Basic colors are a game changer in your wardrobe and you cannot get enough of them. 4. Work on your posture. This is one very important things I earnt a long time ago. Your standing posture helps with the way people see you, how you walk, how you carry yourself, how you sit, stand etc. Having the right posture helps in self-representation and gives you poise, the better benefit, you look classy. 5. Wear Perfume. Wearing a nice scented perfume makes a whole difference to this game, you smell nice and people get to compliment you, that alone gives a warm smile plastered on your face. This might be a bit conflicting as certain perfumes are quite expensive but there are inexpensive scents that smell heavenly, so you do not have to break the bank to smell nice. Another thing about perfume is do not wear perfume that are too strong as there are people who tend to get itchy nose and in all honesty, does not give a classy look. 6. Stick to soft makeup looks. This goes to the ladies, keep your makeup look very soft and subtle as per the occasion. I do not think there is any event that will require you wearing heavy makeup except Halloween. Wearing soft makeup makes you look presentable, sweet, classy, gives you a neat look, a classy look and help with your confidence. Personally, I found all these helpful and in the long term helped boost my confidence level and self-esteem and I hope they also do the same to you. Here a bit more tip that everyone can use for your everyday looks. 1. Try not to look ashy, this is the 21st century, we now have lotion. What would Jesus say/ 2. Carry a chapstick around. Lips go dry bro. 3. Clean clothes are game changer first. 4. Smell nice. I hope all these help you and I hear your thoughts in the comment section.

My New Skincare Review. Hi, Skincare is basically one of the things I am so passionate about, I love feeling my skin and knowing that my effort is actually paying off or when people ask me questions that will help them improve their own skin. So I got new products a few weeks back and I think it is high time for a review about some of the products actually 3 of the products. I will write a more detailed article about skincare and things you should know before buying a products so you focus on what your skin deserves and not waste money. **Cleanser.** The first product will be a cleanser. I got the Simple Cleanser for oily skin and my first reaction to the product was the consistency. It was so light on my skin and for oily skin, you will notice when there is too much products on your skin, but this, it is the perfect and needed consistency. This cleanser cleanses my face and gets rid of any dirt my skin might have accumulated during the day without stripping my face of its oiliness, you do not want that for your face because it only opens up your pores and that is more release of oil.  One more thing I like about the Simple cleanser is it budget friendly, this is asides the product doing its exact job. It has a good amount of content in it which should last you for a month since it is two times usage per day.  **Vit C Serum.** This right here is a game changer if you are on the lookout for an even skintone. Vit C serum helps with getting your face to even out and this can be a struggle, getting your face to be the exact or close to the tone of your other body parts. I used the Dr. Rashel’s Vit C serum. Let me talk about this product a bit more, it has a bit of a thick consistency but when it settles in, it sinks right into your skin giving you a well dissolved texture and less greasy look. I used this serum for about two weeks and I saw the results within this period.  Now before getting a serum, you need to get them as regards to the specific skin problem your face is currently on, skin type plays a role when ingredients or the brand specifies for what skin type the products was produced for. I will do a more detailed article about this, so get your pens ready. **Sunscreen.** Wearing sunscreen daily should be a widely sung song as this helps and protects your skin against the sun rays. Wearing sunscreen daily is a game changer for the health of your skin and overall appearance. It helps every other products you’ve slapped on your face do their perfect job, because if you have done everything and no sunscreen, that is back to zero because you will definitely come out in the sun. Wearing a good sunscreen that is above SPF 30 or 30 is the adequate amount of protection you need against the sun and for your skin to look good after every effort  has been done on your face. Let us do a quick summary, 1. Use a good cleanser. A cleanser that does not strip you of your oil or leave your face so dry, basically an alcohol free cleanser. 2. Use a good serum with a good consistency and one that attend to the present skin condition. 3. Always wear a sunscreen. All these are basic skincare habits that everyone can or should follow as they help your face look good, healthy. I will be writing more in the coming weeks. Let me know what you think even if it is about another product not mentioned here. I want to thank everyone who decided to sponsor me on this journey. It is really a motivator to pushing forward. Thanks.

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Easiest ways to find your foundation shade. Hi, I will be writing weekly fashion and beauty hacks on my page so let’s call this Beauty 101. Today, I will be writing about ways to find your foundation shade. In this article we will cover how and where to do swatch test correctly on your face when you are in a beauty store to get your right foundation shade. Let’s get into it. Finding your exact foundation shade can be a bit of a hustle especially when you are trying a new makeup products or as a makeup artiste, looking for the right foundation for a client sitting in your chair. Using the exact shade of foundation when doing your makeup not only brings out the beauty of your makeup, it enhances your skin and rids you of looking like a skinless cat.  Here are a few ways that you can use to find your foundation shade; 1. When in a store looking to buy a bottle, there are specifics areas you should apply the swatch test of foundation on. You apply the foundation around your jaw line, this is the area close to your neckline or you test around the lower edges of your face, down to your ear areas to see if the foundation blends well with your skin.  **Avoid applying tests around your chin, forehead or under eye area because those areas then to be lighter than every other areas on your face**.  2. After testing your foundation on this areas and they look good on the skin and also under the lights in the store, try test it under natural light. Lightings enhances the look of a feature so it is better you check how it looks under natural light. You should go as far going to do other things around the mall or store, why?, Some makeup products and air do not go well, some react badly with air and after a while look ashy or changes color drastically and that becomes a total waste of time and money spent. P.S Always carry a mirror with you.  3. This is more like a tip, there are certain people we have seen on YouTube or our friends that we know has the same foundation shade or skin tone as we do, that can also be an insight as to picking the right shade. I highly recommend reading and watching reviews of people online to help you get the right choice. Summary. 1. Make sure your swatch test is done mainly on the outer areas of your face, not the inner area. 2. Be sure to test your foundation swatch under natural light. 3. Do other things or do not be in a hurry to purchase a product, you should do other activities to test how long the foundation can hold on your face. Thanks for reading this article, I will be doing more reviews about fashion and beauty products. Let me know what you think in the comment section, share and upvote this if it helped you in the tiniest way possible.

10 would you rather? So I saw this post from @happyboy and I thought to get on with it, it won't hurt to know my life choices at certain moments. Let's go. **Would you rather listen to only your three favorite songs or listen to only 100 randomly assigned songs for a year?**    Hmmm, I love me a good playlist of three songs at a time but for a whole year, I'll be out of my ears of listening to them… So I'll go with 100 randomly assigned songs so longs as there are no opera songs. **Would you rather lie without anyone knowing or tell when anybody is lying?**       Ooooh wow, some choice to make. I would rather want to be able to tell when anybody is lying. It's going to be like my own superpower. I mean, I would be able to tell when certain politicians are lying, I'll be able to save a lot of people harm from people trying to deceive them. I'll go with my choice here but won't be bad to be excluded from anyone knowing I lied.  **Would you rather never use toilet paper or only use leaves from trees you've gathered as toilet paper?**      What? This is the stone age reactivated, would be fun to see our forefathers act. Well, the question says, no toilet paper which means I can use water instead. There's the loop…  **Would you rather work in a high-paying job that you hate or in a low wage job you love?**      For goodness sake, money is very important. There are a million and one things to be bought. I'll take the high-paying job, make my money, then quit but mental health is real so is poverty. **Would you rather be seen as a person who always whines or as someone who is a bad person?**      I'm already a whiner so I don't think there's anything to choose. Whine away. **Would you rather be burned alive or buried alive?**      This isn't the way I'll choose to die, burning alive, that's a painful death, not to talk of how bad I'll be scarred and I've seen pain. I'll pick buried alive, seems like a lesser painful death. **Would you rather be an infamous villain or an unknown superhero?**      Infamous villain, waste of being a villain. I'll take being the Joker any time, any day. So that lives with an unknown superhero, not that I would mind the press conference and PR packages. **Would you rather never get angry or never get jealous?**     Never get angry, I'll pick that till infinity. I'm a woman, I need to get jealous, you can't take that away from me. **Would you rather kiss a random stranger on the mouth or use a family member's toothbrush?**       I use my family member’s toothbrush already. Weird right? **Would you rather be the first of your kind or the last of your** **kind?**     Spread the being. I'll love to see how best someone else will live my life maybe I can relearn what I would rather do? This was fun. The choices are things I won't imagine in my overthinking life but it's nice to do this once in a while lifeboat situation.  Let me know what you'll rather do in the comments.

WOMEN: Focus of the fashion Industry. Hi,  A little back story about what led to today’s write up. I was at the market today and it was the most fun and tiresome duo ever. I walked for about 2-3 hours in search of the perfect clothes, shoes and other essentials, and as the personality I want to be known for, I noticed some things. So the fashion market serves both gender but the female gender takes about a good 5-10% upper hand when it comes to needs satisfaction, there is always a need for something new in the wardrobe. This constant ideology made some lead markers in the industry focus on this gender and are making it. It is presently a celebration period for the Muslims (Happy Eid-Muburak) and this brings a lot of people into the market to purchase a new clothing item for the ceremony. Now here’s my rundown from today’s outing, I will be focusing on two aspects which is the demographics (female) and the dive a little bit into the retail world. Let’s go. The demographics of females who are constantly shopping whether online or physical is one aspect that forecaster of the industry have predicted and is in constant reoccurrence. Brands who focus on women’s needs know that they should be able to provide at least 70-80% satisfaction to their consumers so as to keep them constantly coming, purchasing products and also refer to their friends.  The retail industry is the last connection from the manufacturers, wholesalers to the consumers, they are the ones who are able to reach out to the consumers for the product to complete it’s final use and on the other is a money milking industry where there is constant supply of goods from different manufacturers who supply retailers with their products at a bulk fee, then the retailers sell to the consumers. Retailers of the fashion industry whose main focus is to sell female clothing or needs know how important it is to sell products that women need daily.  This is more of a general rule to making money when you want to start selling products and services. *SELL WHAT PEOPLE USE ON A DAILY BASIS.*  Let’s do a case study of a product and we are talk about how demographics and the retail industry play a part in the industry.  *P.S The Nigerian market is the focus of this article.s* The product we are going to talk about is a purse. We are going to consider the demographics of females who will be purchasing these products and how big the retail industry is concerning these product. Product A demographics will be females within the age range of 18-40, have a means of income to purchase this product, are either working class, mothers, ladies, students, have access to attending events or occasions that requires them carrying one, they see this product as an essential to make life easy for them and also keep their products safe, they have a price range of how much they afford to spend on a laptop bag which is between 5,000 – 20,000, they would go to Eko market to get this item rather than buy on the streets, color, taste and durability etc. These are a few demographics that the retailers take into consideration when about to sell products to people, they know there is a need for this particular accessory, the people who needs this accessory, where they will got to buy this product, who they might be dealing with, taste and durability expectance and the size of their pockets. The retail market put all this into consideration for them to be able to get what a consumer will likely purchase.  What does this mean or give out? This gives out a lot of things but the key factors are there are a few things you need to consider when going into a market especially on the retailers end, Research.  Profitability of the product. Value added to the user. Location. Pricing. Taste of consumers. Let me know what you think about this article in the comment section if it helps  or you will like to add something.

My Introduction. Hi,  At the start of a new phase or class, you are to introduce yourself so as to help others have a good grasp of who they are about to meet. I never liked it then because I didn’t really think there was anything interesting about me but more of  I didn’t know much about myself, but now, I am introducing a person I am getting a grasp of who she is. My name is Greyy, I love everything fashion, beauty, interior and lifestyle, All this areas branch out into other things but I think this sums things up nicely, but hey, lets  break things down into specifics.              I knew I always liked these areas but I still felt like a misfit, for instance,  I couldn’t do the most basics of makeup, I wasn’t comfortable in certain shiny apparel, neither was I the extroverted person (you might not notice me in a room) and I had the notion that you had to be all of these and more to fit right into this space and I struggled with finding myself or convincing myself to find another space where I will fit just right into and did not have to second guess everything but hey, I tried everything and yeah, you guessed it, still didn’t fit. You wanna guess what I did right after that, you got it right, I stopped trying (sorry if you are an optimistic), I stopped trying to be, stopped trying to fit in, stopped looking and I tried looking inwards, maybe something might come out of it. For the longest time, everything was silent but little did I know that I was growing into someone I can introduce later in my life. ​ So here is the introduction, my name is Greyy and I love the business aspects of fashion and beauty. I also love interior designs and a sulker for wooden pieces. I love lifestyle content and I wish to travel with the love of my life around the world just seeing beautiful places around the world, amazing right? I love watching chickflicks and boy, you are in for some reviews about movies I have watched and about to watch.  I will really love to make new friends as this is the goal in life, meet new people and leave them in the better place than they were. So, yeah, I have a business side and also the fun side of me, but then, it’s all about loving the best life possible and making the world a better place. Stay glued, I will definitely be popping in

Hi there, my name is Greyy. I write articles about fashion, beauty, movie reviews, and lifestyle. I also will drop a bit of deep stuff as I feel moved to but either ways, stay tuned 😉