Amber Rose was spotted with a Mike Tyson-inspired left eye tattoo as she goes out to have fun with her man, Whiz Khalifa. The model, who enjoys flaunting her curvy and sexy figure wore a mini yellow dress that clings to her body. She wore a jean jacket above it and completed the look with large earrings and sunglasses. Amber did not end her style there, she was a gold as she wore a pair of golden sandals, necklaces, wristwatch and armband.
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Hello friends, come in here and take a look at these Afro cosmopolitan fashionista styles that has been showcased by trendy men and women on the street. Fashion they say is a way of life and these ladies and gentlemen are living their fashion dreams.
Posing on the street while standing on a zebra crossing, this Afro cosmopolitan fashionista is rocking a pair of red pants with a black collared white shirt. She completed the look with a pair of black pumps and matching handbag and dark sunglasses.
This Afro cosmopolitan fashionista is all about mixing a trendy suit with a bit of African royalty.
Posing on the road, this Fashionista is wearing a black pleated mini skirt and a white top. She completed the look with a pair of animal skinned shoes.
This Fashionista is wearing a pair of brown cropped pants, a green shirt and a pair of black shoes.
Dressed for the winter. This fashionista is well wrapped in warm clothing as she is dressed in a pair of black jeans, a black leather jacket, black shoes, a grey coloured winter snood and other layerings.
This Fashionista is rocking a mix and match suit outfit that is perfect for work.
These two gentlemen are all about personal style and making fashion statements. They are dressed in suits and fine shoes but added another rebellious dimension to their outfits by wearing long bead chains layered on their neck.
This Fashionista is rocking a red skirt suit with a black and white floral top.
This one is rocking a floral mini skirt with a white blouse.
This cosmopolitan fashionista is rocking a pair of black and white striped pants, a black top and a pair of matching black and white wedge shoes.
What do you think of the different styles rocked by these Afro cosmopolitan fashionistas? Did you find something that you can rock from all of these looks? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
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Barely one month after a Dutch fashion magazine’s editor-in-chief resigned from her work after using an uncivilized racial smear to define Rihanna‘s style, a writer for French Elle has triggered another controversy with a blog post positing that for Black people, dressing well is a brand new idea.
In a recent blog post entitled Black Fashion Power, Nathalie Dolivo proposes that the single motivation Black people have stopped putting on unattractive streetwear is because now there’s a cogent model for them (or in this blogger’s case, us) to do otherwise. Dolivo, who as far as we can tell is white as snow, says Barack and Michelle Obama‘s presence in the White House brands looking elegant possible (or at least plausible) for a set of people who formerly had no genuine purpose to get dressed up. She got the wrong impression about Jon Caramanica‘s insightful article on Black style in The New York Times last year, saying that dressing up and dressing well is an approach to bring back self-esteem to the Black community. Because, you know, Black people didn’t have any of that before.
Dolivo actually went the extra mile, though, when she says that today, the “black-geosie” have “integrated all the white codes” of dressing, purifying them through their Blackness and adding their own Black interpretations and accessories. Like puka shells. Dolivo writes:
In this America led for the first time a black president, the chic has become a plausible option for a community so far pegged to its codes [of] streetwear … But if in 2012 the “black-geoisie” has integrated all the white codes, it does not [do so] literally. [There] is always a classic twist, with a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) that recalls the roots.
In addition, while you don’t have to look very far to find a stylish Black woman in a turban (June Ambrose, anybody?) or a line of clothes that use ethnic prints (we refer here to designer Duro Olowu and others like him), Dolivo is completely incorrect to make a sweeping statement about the way Black people dress as a new phenomenon established on an interpretation of the way white people dress. Black people wear clothes, too, and have been doing so for as long as anyone else — not because white people told them to, but because it’s just a human thing to do — and Dolivo’s article seems to have forgotten that very basic idea.
As you would expect, this has generated some outrage. Dolivo’s original article was posted on Jan. 13 and had 755 mostly angry comments as of our post and with good reason. Until the fashion industry recognises that people who aren’t white buy and wear fashion — and look good in it — it’s going to keep isolating them. Hooray to every person who has pointed out how erroneous and destructive this article is thus far. We will let you know if or when French Elle issues a speech about this article — as angry as people have been about it, it cannot be that far off.
What are your views with regards to this black peoples fashion, the Obamas in the White House, and French Elle’s article? Share your views by leaving a comment below.
OMG, this is not good, Christina Aguilera was snapped leaking while she was singing at Etta James funeral.
I guess Christina Aguilera needs some break to sort herself out. This is so not her. She used to be that girl that took good care of herself. And by the way, how old is she now? She is just way too young to be in this messy and embarrassing situation.
Dear Christian, a multi-million dollar artist, rocking Louboutins, dining in the worlds finest restaurants, sleeping in top class and elite hotels, with over ten years experience of stage performance should not be caught leaking on stage. That is so NO, NO, NO Christina!!! Please take some good care of yourself girl.
Update
It was later revealed that leaking Christina Aguilera’s problem was actually from streaks of fake tan spray running through her legs and not her menstrual period. As it was earlier thought of. Hmm, guess its time to use some quality products girl!
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The its hard to see racism video and images were produced by the Unfair Campaign to make people become more aware of Racism and to start talking about it.
Racism is an issue that we don’t like talking about. The Un-Fair Campaign was developed to look at racism and to encourage a community dialogue about the causes and solutions.
Racism is a complex social issue and depending upon what you see as the causes of racism you have ideas about the solutions.
We invite you to spend time on this website and to ask yourself how you may be part of the problem as well as part of the solution.
See it. Know it. Stop it.
This message was culled from the Unfair Campaign Website.
Below is the campaigns video.
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Welcome to the exclusive optical world of afterimages, where infrared images reveal much more. These illusions involve negative colours burning into your retina to reveal colour or black and white images where there is actually a negative image. See the following examples of these collections of optical illusions. Are you ready for the journey?
Technology is changing they way we see the world. What we see might be the reality or what we choose to see. That is the power of illusion. The angle we choose to see something from might decide what we see.
Now, follow the instructions below and share what you see.
1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for about 30 seconds
2. Turn your face towards the wall/roof or a somewhere else on a plain surface
3. Keep blinking your eyes quickly
4. What do you see?
You can do the same for the picture below.
1. In this one, just keep looking at the 3 spot over the nose for 10 sec.
2. Then raise you head to the roof or a blank wall and keep looking for 20 seconds.
3. Share what you see with us
Here is the last one. 1. Look at the black and white abstract picture below and
2. Stare at the plus sign in the middle of the picture for 30 seconds or longer.
3. After 30 seconds look away and blink fast repeatedly.
4. Share what you see.
Real or not? Do you believe your eyes? Are they telling you the truth?
Do you want to know some of the health benefits of virgin coconut oil so you can start taking advantage of it? Check out this post and you’ll find 10 of them.
Coconut oil has become very popular in alternative health circles, despite the fact that for many years it was considered a “bad” fat due to its high saturated fat content. However, it turns out that the saturated fat in coconut oil, especially virgin coconut oil, is not the same as the saturated fat in other oils. It contains medium-chain fatty acids which are much easier on the body than the long chain fatty acids found in many other cooking oils. It also contains several compounds that are good for your health, including caprylic acid, capric acid, and lauric acid.
Not just any coconut oil will do, however. Many brands process the oil at high temperatures, which removes some of the benefits that are available. All of the early studies that found negative effects of coconut oil on cholesterol levels were done with partially hydrogenated coconut oil, whereas unprocessed, virgin coconut oil appears to have positive health effects.
Here are the 10 health benefits of virgin coconut oil.
Immune System Support
Consuming coconut oil may help to fight off disease and illness thanks to its antiviral, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. If you’re battling any kind of virus or infection, try taking coconut oil.
Cardiovascular Health
Although coconut oil is a saturated fat, several studies have found that eating virgin coconut oil does not have adverse effects upon the heart. On the contrary, it appears to reduce the risk of high cholesterol and heart attack. Earlier studies done on coconut oil that found it caused high cholesterol were done using partially hydrogenated coconut oil and not virgin coconut oil and the studies were done on animals, not humans.
Researchers found that Polynesians in the Cook Islands whose diet is extremely high in coconut oil have low cholesterol levels and a very low incidence of heart attack compared to people in the rest of New Zealand who do not consume as much coconut oil. In Sri Lanka, a study found that the incidence of heart attack has risen as the consumption of coconut oil has gone down.
Many people believe that consuming extra virgin coconut oil can help with the symptoms of hypothyroidism. While scientific evidence is conflicting in this regard, many people with hypothyroidism have successfully improved or even reversed their hypothyroidism and have been able to stop taking thyroid medication. Remember that it may not work for everyone and it is important to consult with your doctor before stopping any medications.
Weight Loss
One study found that women who took virgin coconut oil every day had a significant reduction in abdominal fat. Even though coconut oil is a type of fat, it may actually help you to lose weight. Because it contains medium chain fatty acids rather than long chain fatty acids like some other commonly used oils, the body uses coconut oil for energy and does not store much of it as fat. In this way, it helps to boost the metabolism.
Staph Fighter
When applied to wounds and sores, virgin coconut oil may prevent further staph infection. One study found that virgin coconut oil was beneficial in the treatment of atopic dermatitis that was colonised with Staphylococcus aureus.
Wound Healing
One study on mice found that wounds treated with virgin coconut oil healed faster and showed higher collagen cross-linking than the control group.
Stretch Mark Prevention
In Asia, coconut oil is commonly used to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy. Already have stretch marks? Women have also found that applying coconut oil to stretch marks after they have formed erases the stretch marks or greatly reduces their appearance.
Skin Benefits
Moisturising your skin is the key to keeping it youthful and healthy and coconut oil can be used in place of lotion for a healthier moisturiser. When coconut oil is used, it also helps to fight bacteria and other skin problems including rashes, dermatitis, acne, wrinkles, eczema, and psoriasis. If you have an area of skin that is irritated, rub coconut oil on the skin to soothe the inflammation and reduce the symptoms.
Healthy Hair
Coconut oil can also be used to improve the health of your scalp and hair. One way it helps is by strengthening the strands and reducing protein loss during washing. Try applying a little bit of coconut oil on your hair to brush out tangles or massage a tiny bit of coconut oil on the scalp for a silky, strong, head of hair.
Digestive System
Coconut oil has been found by many people to be beneficial for digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, and indigestion. Coconut oil fights unhealthy bacteria in the digestive system and it also assists in nutrient absorption within the body.
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The shop assistant looked up as Benoît Assou-Ekotto walked into the television showroom in France. Then, seemingly uninterested in his young, black customer, he turned back to his work.
But Tottenham’s French-born Cameroon left-back was in no mood to be ignored.
‘So I go to him and I ask, “How much is this TV?” And the man didn’t even put his head up but just said, “Expensive.”
‘I said: “Yeah, but how much?” He said, “Yeah, expensive.” I said: “OK, so tell me!” So he stood up and said, “It’s about €10,000. Expensive.”
‘So I showed him my watch and said, “About the same price as my watch?” Then he started to respect me.’
It is not something you sense Assou-Ekotto would have done unless pushed.
He does not come across as a footballer given to vulgar displays of wealth or one who would thrust his designer wristwatch into the face of a stranger to illustrate his purchasing power.
He is affable in conversation and no polemicist. But while he was born in France and grew up in Arras, about 60 miles south-east of Calais, he opted to play for Cameroon, the country of his late father.
And as Assou-Ekotto talks, sitting in a bar beneath his Canary Wharf apartment, he explains why he loves his London life and takes issue with the country of his birth, where he feels his race marks him as an outsider and the kind of person who would not be able even to contemplate paying €10,000 for a television.
‘I think here there are better racial relations than in France,’ he says, ‘better interaction and better co-existence. For example, in England I see more [black] people with responsibility than in France. Here at Canary Wharf, there are black people and Asian people wearing suits and with good jobs.’
His perception is that the children of migrants to France – his father moved there from Cameroon when he was 16 – are still viewed as outsiders because of the colour of their skin.
‘In France, I tell you how it feels,’ he says. ‘When you have colour, you are [seen as] poor people and a problem. When you are from France, you can be surprised by some things you see in England.’
One example, he agrees, is the racial diversity of those in London with positions of authority. He was taken aback, for example, to see a police officer wearing a turban.
And of the French shop assistant he encountered last summer, he is disdainful.
‘This kind of behaviour is not cool,’ he says. ‘So we start to respect you only because of your money?’
A corrupt vicar who conducted 28 sham weddings was jailed yesterday. The Rev Canon Dr John Magumba, 58, pocketed at least £8,300 after he agreed to marry Nigerians to Eastern Europeans living in Britain.
The unions enabled the Africans to stay in the UK and claim hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits.
A court heard that the cost to the taxpayer of one immigrant wrongly entitled to services amounted to £100,000 over a decade, or £230,000 if they had a child.
Yesterday the Church of England vicar – who came to Britain from Uganda with his wife and six children – was told that he had brought scandal to his church as he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail.
Investigators suspect no ceremony actually took place with the ‘couples’ simply given their marriage certificates – dubbed ‘golden tickets’ – after handing him hundreds of pounds.
On one occasion he married the same woman to different men twice in the space of a week, later changing her age in the register to try to avoid suspicion.
So many foreign couples tied the knot at his churches that the local diocese made him head of a committee aimed at detecting sham marriages – unaware that he was the main offender.
Magumba claimed to have conducted his first sham wedding out of compassion because he had been told the bride was HIV positive and urgently needed NHS treatment.
One Nigerian woman took part in ceremonies seven days apart, prompting a church official to demand why she had married two men in the space of a week.
‘He said they were twins, and in some African countries twins were given the same name,’ Joanna Rodikis, prosecuting, told Bolton Crown Court.
Magumba then tried to cover his tracks by crudely altering her age in one of the entries from 28 to 38.
,p>Police became suspicious when they were alerted to the surge in the number of weddings at one of his churches, St Peter’s in Newbold, Rochdale.
There had been no weddings at all at the church between 1996 and 2007, but in the four years after he took over there had been 21.
Magumba admitted conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law as well as two counts of theft.
His barrister, Hunter Gray, said: ‘He has spectacularly fallen from grace.
‘One day in prison is going to be too much for him.’
Esther Ogunrinde, the grooms real wife who attended the fake marriage with their four kids.
A Nigerian woman and mother-of-four attended her partner’s wedding to another woman – moments before assuming the bride’s identity in a sophisticated immigration scam.
Illegal immigrant Esther Ogunrinde, 30, even took her daughter – one of the four children she had with the groom – to the ceremony, in Moston, Greater Manchester.
The ‘bride’, 28-year-old Zunica Sabina, was an EU national, who have the right to live, work and claim benefits in any member country, to marry Nigerian Olukayode Olusanya, 34, a court was told.
But minutes after posing for photographs, Sabina flew back to her native Holland with the £3,000 she had been paid for her part.
She left behind documents which were used by Ogunrinde to assume her identity.
The scheme meant Ogunrinde and her new ‘husband’ Olusanya could find work and avoid deportation.
The marriage even gave Olusanya the right under British law to remain in the country despite him being a failed asylum seeker from Nigeria.
Ogunrinde fooled three employers using an ID card which Sabina had left behind and declared as lost, in a scheme that lasted for three years before they were caught out.
On a previous visit, the sham bride had even set up a bank account and secured a national insurance number for Ogunrinde’s use, Joanna Rodikis, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court.
The ruse, which dated back to 2008, began to emerge last June after the UK Borders Agency was tipped off.
They say they were able to crack the ‘serious organised criminality’ by working with Dutch police.
The identity swap had begun even before the wedding at St John’s Church, Moston.
When Sabina was unable to attend church to apply for the banns of marriage, Ogunrinde stood in for her.
A court heard there was no suggestion church officials had any idea the wedding was a scam. Months later, the real Zunica Sabina flew in for the big day.
Olusanya was working as a nursing assistant at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital at the time.
Ogunrinde had worked as a care assistant and cleaner but had continued to claim food vouchers intended for asylum seekers.
The Nigerian couple, from Newton Heath, Manchester, appeared alongside each other in the dock, along with Sabina, from Amsterdam.
Sentencing, Judge Martin Steiger QC said the conspiracy had been ‘highly sophisticated’ with ‘ingenious features’.
Olusanya was jailed for 32 months after admitting two charges of conspiracy to acts to facilitate the commission of a breach of immigration law.
The sham marriage bride and groom.
Gill Crossley, defending, said he had wanted to do better for his family and legitimise his eldest daughter whose birth had been hidden from the authorities because of the couple’s immigration status.
She read a glowing reference from former employers at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Laura Foster, defending social worker and mum-of-one Sabina, told the court that she had been recruited for the scheme at a time when she was so cash-strapped and she felt she had no choice. She was jailed for 16 months.
Ogunrinde was spared jail after Ronan Maguire, defending, said she had ‘mixed feelings’ about the sham marriage, but had gone along with her partner, who was ‘determined’ to stay in the UK.
Judge Steiger said he could not ignore ‘humanitarian considerations’ in her case, since she had four children, ‘even if her continued reproduction’ had been in part an attempt to ‘cynically’ improve her hand with the authorities.
She must serve a 12-month suspended sentence and do 180 hours of unpaid work.
Both Sabina and Ogunrinde admitted a single count of conspiracy to acts to facilitate the commission of a breach of immigration law. Ogunrinde also admitted three charges of possessing false identity documents.
John Dilworth, head of the North West Complex Case Unit at Crown Prosecution Service said: ‘The marriage was a sham in an attempt to defeat the immigration rules that protect UK borders.
‘The Crown Prosecution Service will continue to pursue anyone involved in such offences and prosecute robustly.’
