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New Year, Same You — Why I LOVE the Newest Gabifresh x Swimsuits For All Collection

January 17, 2017 by afrobella 2 Comments

New Year, Same You — Why I LOVE the Newest Gabifresh x Swimsuits For All Collection

My relationship with swimwear has been a problematic one, dating back to age 11 when I had to find the perfect bathing suit for a class trip to Tobago. That day I learned the dismay that so often comes with trying on bathing suits. Through the years, I struggled to find a suit I loved,…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Featured, Pop Culture Tagged With: afrobella body, body confidence, fashion, Love Yourself, plus size swimsuit, self esteem, Style, swimsuits

Best Baths –Soak in Self Care With These Bath Recipes

May 19, 2015 by afrobella 2 Comments

Best Baths –Soak in Self Care With These Bath Recipes

For me, baths are a luxury. Making the time to clean my tub, light some candles, put on my bubblebath playlist – all of the things I need to do to prepare for the experience – takes time and effort. It’s an intentional exercise in relaxation and self care. So it better be worth it…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Body, Popular Tagged With: bath, bath and body, bath oil, bath recipes, Beauty, body care, bubble bath, recipes, self care, self esteem

The Only New Year’s Beauty Resolution Worth Making

January 5, 2015 by afrobella 10 Comments

The Only New Year’s Beauty Resolution Worth Making

January 5, 2015. Day 5 of 365. We’re in the heady days of New Year’s resolutions. Everyone’s making a list, creating a vision board, and planning new ways to become better people in the next 360 days. It’s an exciting time. A time of promise. A time of self flagellation. A time of personal critique,…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Issues, Life Tagged With: Beauty, beauty advice, beauty secrets, issues, Life, life lessons, love, Love Yourself, self esteem, self love

All About Self Care. 30 Ways to Take Better Care Of Yourself

December 17, 2014 by afrobella 17 Comments

All About Self Care. 30 Ways to Take Better Care Of Yourself

This particular year, this particular season, this particular time of year is proving to be rough on many of us for many reasons. Life is wearing us down. It can be excruciating, trying to balance the weight between your work, your personal life and what’s happening in the world. You can only shoulder the weight so…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Issues, Life Tagged With: Life, life lessons, personal care, self care, self esteem, self love

I Don’t Get The Mirror Fast Thing

August 22, 2012 by afrobella 23 Comments

I Don’t Get The Mirror Fast Thing

You know a trend has reached its peak when the New York Times writes a piece on it, but I must have been under some kind of rock when “mirror fasts” became the thing. According to this NY Times piece, Mirror Fasts Help You Take the Focus Off Yourself, bloggers have been all into the…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Body, Issues, Life Tagged With: Beauty, Featured, full-image, inner beauty, issues, mirror, mirror fast, self esteem

Love The Skin You’re In

April 19, 2011 by afrobella 26 Comments

Love The Skin You’re In

Via the Associated Press: “KINGSTON, Jamaica – Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she’s not worried about skin cancer. The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-color…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Featured, Issues, Skin Tagged With: All Shades of Beautiful, brown skin, dark skin, love your skin, self esteem, skin bleaching

Ask Afrobella — Teenage Love and Natural Hair

July 20, 2010 by afrobella 50 Comments

Ask Afrobella — Teenage Love and Natural Hair

Can I just say – I love the natural hair community!! Online and in real life, all over the world — when women with natural hair see each other, we smile. We compliment each other. We show love. And that positive energy we generate is a self esteem booster for ourselves, and for younger generations…

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Filed Under: Ask Afrobella, Hair, Issues Tagged With: inner beauty, natural hair, self esteem

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