Weave/Make-up - For Better or Worse ?

We live in an era where looks can literally be bought; plastic surgery, make-up, hair-extensions, etc. … every conceivable aspect of one’s body may be altered or enhanced to their liking whilst they can afford to do so. However the focus of this post will be hair-extensions and make-up since in Jamaica they are the most popular tools utilized by females to enhance the appearance. Am sure you can already tell the direction in which I am going. Now persons wear make-up and/or weave for varying reasons; some because they NEED it(or think they do), some because they favour it and others simply because they wish to stay abreast with the masses('follow fashion' lol I just had to say that !). Now I care zero about the reasons for which females wear make-up and/or weave, my concern lies in the way its done, and when I say concern I mean grave concern. I was inspired to write this post because I am just sick and tired of seeing of females with bad weave/make-up. Whatever happened to looking in the mirror? I’ll address each separately.

.::Hair-extensions::.

Now there are different types of weave, curly, long, short, straight, nappy, ETC., which may be divided into two major categories human-hair(weave made from actual human hair) and fake hair (made from plastic fibre). Human-hair is better as it blends in with ones own hair more evenly due to similarity in texture and also it lasts longer, meaning, it wont get worn out easily, but off course it's also relatively costly. Plastic fibre weave is less expensive but doesn’t last very long and for the most part doesn’t look as good as human hair, however there are a few females who happen to pull it off. Now ladies whether its real or fake, point is you bought it, its yours! That’s not what am here to argue. Real or fake, ensure it works! Its POINTLESS and a bit pathetic to add something to your body that makes you look worse.

• Ensure it matches your hair colour or get your hair coloured to blend with it.
• Visit a professional or someone fairly skilled to get it done.
• Ensure your hair will suffice to adequately cover the tracks, having tracks visible is NOT a good look.
• And please if it looks too fake don’t bother, stay at home until u can afford some good human-hair.
• Just because you saw Beyonce or Rihanna wearing a particular style, doesn't mean it will work for you. Stick to styles that compliment your face, every style wont work for everyone.
• Oh and by the way, its always better to leave wigs to old ladies, very few have and can rock a wig well.

.::Make-up::.

Oh help me Jesus.. Where do I start ? Make-up, make-up, make-up, females tend to abuse it and CLEARLY miss what it was intended for, ladies it was made to make you look better not worse.

• I strongly advise that you do not apply make up on your own if you are not skilled in its application. 
• Please no need to wear eye-shadow to match every outfit. It makes you look like a clown. 
• If your dark-skinned please take caution with which colours you use, if not you may end up looking like an African warrior(ever seen Africans ready for war with bright colours marked on the face,yes,like that). 
• Light-skinned ladies u did not escape my wrath, please, the idea is to enhance the face not cartoonise it. 
• And off course we all can't afford Mac but cheap make-up especially cheap eye-shadow tends to look bad even if applied properly, hence its better to go without if you cant afford make-up of good quality.

In conclusion ladies, make-up/weave was made to work for you. Use it to your advantage not to your detriment! And if this doesn’t apply to you and you happen to have a friend to whom it does, be a friend and advise them(stop lying and telling her she looks gorgeous when theres evidently a problem). Why pay to look bad, waste of time much don’t you think? If you choose to go the make-up/weave way, do it well, or leave it to those who can.

Thanks for Reading. All the best !