Let’s start our BN Beauty day with a colourful bang!
Cosmetics brand Maybelline New York has released its 2014 calendar featuring some amazing models complete with bold and beautiful looks for each month of the year.











I have been in many conversations with friends and family, where we say if only boys were raised as difficult as girls are in our society. From birth, your role is already stamped and mapped out for you. Even if you were born with a twin brother, your upbringing is different. Traditionally we are raised to be homemakers from day one and many of the tasks we are taught to do, you must go through the path of resistance, so that you are seen as a ‘good wife’ to your husband and in-laws. Any attempt to take a short cut or use modern appliances is scoffed at and seen as lazy. I remember my mother screaming “don’t let them send you back home to your parents saying I did not raise you well”. There were many of such inane tasks like hand washing clothes, grinding beans/pepper with a grinding stone, which thankfully my father put his foot down and said my sister and I will never need it, sweeping the floor with a broom, pounding yam etc