Friday, September 14, 2012

TURNING ASHES TO GOLD

I'm one of those people you can call a keeper. I can keep a preserve a piece of clothing, accessory, present, almost anything for years. Although most of it is because I get emotionally attached to things because they remind me of one experience, person or period of time amongst other excuses. Lol.

During the week, I decided to play around with some of my old clothes and stuff that other people would have discarded by now, but what started off as a jobless person's mess turned around to a blog post I've been so excited about. I styled my younger sister, combining some of my old pieces to create a trendy look. I also did her make up. Hehehe.

Model: Uchechi Ojiaka.
Make up and Styling: Chizitere Ojiaka.
Creative contributor: Makuochi Okafor.
See pictures after this paragraph:













In the pictures above, she's wearing a skirt up to her chest to make it look like a boob-tube dress and the belt over tummy helps step up the look of the dress. I paired it with a jacket to lift the outfit.

These next set were done with an African theme in mind. I decided to blend our ankara with our conventional outfits. My friend Makuochi who is very creative advised me on this.















So what do you think about my "Ashes to gold collection"? Although I'm not looking to taking up fashion or photography or any of those professionally and I'm just working my creativity, I hope these pieces are good enough at least. :)

14 comments:

  1. Ok nw I think ama turn all of my skirts to a tube Dress lolz really really creative I love it n I'd sure think twice b4 letting go any of my outfit. Nyc1

    ReplyDelete
  2. This is really nice, combo is on point... Real definition of fabulousity... Me likey :d

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Fabulosity indeed! Thanks Amy, I'm so glad you like them.

      Delete
  3. I LOVE!!!never would have guessed they are skirts! Good job girl!
    I have only 2 requests.
    Please write a 'how-to' post on how to tie that scarf and what it takes to get it to look like that. Is it dependenton the shape of a person's head?if possible try with different models with different shapes of head. I really want to learn that african look.

    Secondly,ok there is no secondly!
    I love these!!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks a ton! As for the "How to" post, challenge accepted! I'm going to blog about that. Hehehe

      Delete
  4. Lovely and creative chizitere!!! Me likey dear...Thumbs up ;)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Simply beautiful. And whoever took the shots did it well. Not bad at all!! And your sis is very cute by the way...

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thanks Victor. I took the pictures and edited them myself. I'm glad you like the post :)

    ReplyDelete
  7. They are amazing....nice combo, this is soooooo cute.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Mέ likey! & yέα I ♥ dem scarf tich us!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for reading. I'd love to know what you think about this post. Your comments encourage me to do better.