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Our Traditional Wedding - Culture, Outfit & Food!

Our Traditional Wedding – Culture, Outfit & Food!

In African cultures weddings go beyond the white dress and vows as various traditions, rites and ceremonies truly define the beginning of a marriage. We have been onto cultural tradition events since March and during this Easter we finalized our traditional wedding! We started off with introductions whereby me and my aunt’s visited my then fiance’s family following which him and his brothers…

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Natural Hair Color (Q & A)

Natural Hair Color (Q & A)

Purple, green, blonde and red! Oh my! Everybody loves hair color! Some say it’s for the brave while others are against the commitment required to color your hair. Either way, naturalists who dare to experiment with vibrant hair color deserve some recognition (Yes, slow clap for us please!). Undeniably, it takes a true diva to make the leap.

Today I’m answering the colored natural hair…

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How I got my boyfriend to propose!

How I got my boyfriend to propose!

Now that I’ve been engaged for a month, I feel I’ve earned my Steve Harvey credentials to give advice on how to get upgraded from girlfriend to fiancee’. So if you want my tried and tested true method to get him to propose, continue reading!

On Finding Love…

The questions that rain rampant are always; Am I going to get married? And to whom? And when? Is he the right one? The one I…

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If PATIENCE was a Couple: Kelvin & Samantha!

If PATIENCE was a Couple: Kelvin & Samantha!

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6th Natural Hair Anniversary (Late but Delivered)

This post is literally two months late thus the disclaimer; “Way late but Delivered” I haven’t been consistent with my blog content and I sincerely apologise but in my defence bread and butter issues have me by the balls 😭 The good knews is your girl is now gainfully employed so I will come through with the tea in a birthday post (late as well) imbed in our engagement pictures! So yeah word on…

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Free (or inexpensive) things to do whilst we lock down

Do you have a mental health routine during this lockdown? How are you keeping sane? Ink my Kinks’ hiatus seemed like it was never going to end until we were locked down! I became mentally exhausted from the never ending news cycle I needed to get up to something. I needed to share raw conversations with my blogger buddies and readership to find comfort in others so what better way to get out of…

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How to make homemade rosewater

How are you doing? No, really, how are you doing?

My feelings oscillate between being bored and productive, optimistic and distraught, excited and sad. I’ve been trying to take this lockdown a day at a time and feel all the feels. Some days the uncertainty is overwhelming and I’m here asking myself if I’ll ever be able to go have the black platter at Oh So Sushi again or go for Trivia Tuesday…

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Back to Basics

Where have I been? How have I been? I sure have missed y’all, literally sending you virtual hugs right now. Actually I’ve been good, I’m chuffed to be writing for me to you right now contrary to the times I don’t blog because I have trouble adulting and I can’t have it together for my audience before I have it together for myself. I just decided to take a hiatus on social media months ago, the…

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26!

Sometimes you have to go be alone to come back and be better! So that covers where I’ve been the last couple of months 😂

I digress! Where do I start?! Well 25 😣 My life took a lot of L’s in my 25th year and I wouldn’t have ever imagined it would! I was depressed and struggled with anxiety attacks. Now, just in time I’m better! And here I am sharing it with the world and their mum. I’ve managed…

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Better Hair in 2019?! - Harnessing Optimal Hair Growth Potential

Better Hair in 2019?! – Harnessing Optimal Hair Growth Potential

Hey my lovelies!

Its been quiet a while right?! Actually been a mean while since I connected with y’all from on here but 2018 was such a rainy one, bipolar much; I struggled with a lot of things “adulting” and trying to pursue my career as a Chemical Engineering graduate in times like these (Zimbabwe; its not me, its you! – Haha). I personally feel 2019 will bring a lot of breakthroughs and I’m…

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The world needs you!

The world needs you!

Hey you!

Thank you for stopping by, I’m glad you here.

Today, I’m leaving you a self portraiture note from me to you! So welcome to my #TedTalk! Forget my musings on being a 20-something year old, on job hunting, on natural hair hecks, on thrift finds, on dating or all things I normally rant about.

Earlier in the afternoon, Mr.Man & I went on our first Ink my Kinks run delivering hair products…

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First of all, can we please slow clap for my rhyming title!! It took some backspacing to get here (Haha)

Anyway, it’s been about 3 and a half weeks (25 days to be more precise) since I’ve ditched most memories of my loose hair and joined team protective styling! Faux locs are my favorite hairstyle of all times! I hadn’t posted about my winter hair on the blog yet! Yes, I went off to a part of this country where the internet doesnt play fair – but for all this while I’ve been referring people to Shingie (the owner of the salon who sponsored my hair for this post) or the salons numbers for information about my hair style and sometimes I’d be overwhelmed with #adulting I forgot to answer all your questions. Anyways, I’m giving you the full story now and answering some of your questions, better late than never! I got my hair done at Afrokink Hair Salon in Avondale, Harare, and we came up with a cute bob with some black and brown dimension.

  Let’s backtrack first to my previous faux locs, which really gave a bohemian flair. I loved this look and thought it was perfect for the Goddess locs trend then, and especially loved the wavy tendrils on the ends, but I wanted a bob this time as well as hair that would be more authentic in giving the illusion of real locs. Faux locs don’t always have to be long, I absolutely love the cute mid length styles or better still, the bob. You can play with color, ombre as well as add jewelry and beads. I really wanted to be sure to use braid extensions I aint allergic to therefore Marley braids were my hair of choice. If you remember well, it turned out I’m allergic to the kanekalon hair I used then.

I also wanted to prep my hair prior to protective styling it because it lacked a proper wash day in a while, so when I went to the salon and they said to give my hair an oil treatment, relief didnt even cut it because I was thinking, natural hair blogger and all, how dare I come out with hair that hasn’t been washed in 2 weeks. Princess was my stylist, and she shampooed my hair, did a shea butter – mafura butter treatment coupled with steaming to enhance conditioning! and blow drying at low heat. My hair was singing hymns, I tell you!

Once done washing my hair, she began to wind the braid on. I’d already sent in a picture of the bob I envisioned before my appointment so she knew where to go with the winding to bring out the locs. Unfortunately, on winding the Marley braids on my hair, the braid extensions were as long as my actual hair (long hair hecks) and she therefore had to take some length off to make the bob flourish. If you’ve got long hair and you eyeing this faux locs bob, I recommend the winding be done on unstretched hair in its curly state, rather than blown out. I know it’s hard to believe because y’all know I’m chasing length but nothing was going to stop me from getting the hairstyle I wanted!

    I used 3 packets of Marley braid to achieve this look and during my first days in this style the burnt ends tugged on each other but they weren’t difficult to pull apart. I had no trouble sleeping at all – she really was meticulous with my roots not to pull them tight! I was really happy with the service I got too, since this salon experience, I’ve definitely found myself reconsidering on the reasons I wouldn’t go to hairdressers or salons to get my hair done before. I’m making sure to maintain my scalp and my hair underneath by lightly spritzing my hair and massaging some hair butter on my scalp daily.

Here are a couple pictures of  the process and the end result. I’m sad I’ll have to be unravelling my locs in a few more weeks but the beauty of high end hair like these Marley braids is I get to keep them for my next use either to add volume to my low bun or to enhance volume for an updo. I would have loved to keep these in forever, but I’m already planning my next hair adventure 😀

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I received a complimentary hairstyle from Afrokink Hair Salon, but all thoughts and opinions are my own!

Love & Sunshine

Miss Sam

  Yes Girl, Faux Locs are my fav and Afrokink Hair Salon is the plug! First of all, can we please slow clap for my rhyming title!! It took some backspacing to get here (Haha)

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Support Local: Manetain Organics

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Today I’m on to that local product tip! This is my first review of a local “Made in ZW” natural hair product range and I am elated to be jumping onto the #SupportLocal #KnowWhoMadeIt train 💃

Heaven knows its taken a while along these Zimbabwean streets to find products handmade for especially us natural hair beauts. Blogger bloggy baddie and all, most of the product reviews I came on…

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Black Pearl by Pearl Thusi

On some days I power through my washdays and on some I even crush my prepoo the night before the next day I’m washing. There are days I love trying out new products or a DIY someone has put me up to or one I’ve found through the internet. But there are days which go by and the only thing I want to do it to not even chunky twist my hair before bed. On days like these I usually want a quick and…

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Liscious Collections - Product Review

Liscious Collections – Product Review

I’ve been sitting on this post for a hot minute, but its finally here! Although I’ve been trying to settle on a groove of hair products I realised there is no need to settle a little too soon 🙈, with the way trying out product makes me happy. I mean there is enough room for a couple of hair brands on this single head of 4C goodness in all its glory to be living in harmony in this relationship.…

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Thank You 2017 - Hello 2018

Thank You 2017 – Hello 2018

Hey lovelies Happy New Year! Today let me let you in on a little secret; I hate new year resolutions *hides face in both palms 🙈* This year I aint forcing it ☺ Yes hunnies! Its just a friend behind his iPhone capturing a girl and her ice cream and a lot of ranting 😉 Despite that it seems as if 2017 has gone by so fast, as I’ve been going over the years events I realise a lot has actually happened…

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Natural Hair 101

Hey Pretty I hope you’re doing well! I’m holding in there, super excited to be rolling on here with a hair post. Yay! (Agh! Me & my disappearing acts? Story for another day) So I’ve been thriving in protective styles lately. I mean, lets be honest; embracing these natural curls is not always fun BUT in the long run its worthwhile and fulfilling. December is also the month for quick and easy hair…