Hey Hey Its Jade

So, this is the last post of this year and I don't know where to start. Firstly, thank you. All of you. Thank you for reading, for DM'ing me, for encouraging me. I know I've said this a million times but I honestly never thought I was good at writing. To be brutally honest I've always described myself as not articulate because of my stammer and I guess just lack of self confidence in general. But if you guys keep reading either I'm ok at this writing thing or I'm so bad you guys keep coming back to laugh. Either way I'm excelling at one end of the spectrum. Anyway, forget the mushy stuff now let's focus on the new year. As you know JadeEgemonye.Com is enroute and I asked you guys to tell me what you think I could do to improve. My first mistake was only doing the poll was one day as many of you DM'd me saying it had closed by the time you went to vote, so for my next poll I left it for longer. But anyway the results as in. Starting from Tuesday 2...

So, firstly I hope everyone had a fab Christmas.  Christmas is a big deal in my house. Usually my house is filled with anyone and everyone slightly related to my family. From aunties, uncle, cousins to friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, family friends the whole lot. My mum and auntie tend to split the food cooking down the middle with my auntie bringing all the Nigerian food and my mum cooking the roasts. Then we play Monopoly or Cluedo which usually ends in arguments that someone cheated, watch the Queen's Speech and EastEnders (even though we haven't watched it throughout the year). By 4am everyone has left or found a place on the sofa or the floor to sleep over and Christmas is done. But as with the whole of 2017, this year was different. Firstly, there were no kids. My auntie in America didn't fly over as she had a baby a few months ago, one of my uncles couldn't come and the other is a mental health nurse so he was working. So it was only my mum, my sister, ...

In case you don't follow me on social media (which you should on Twitter  and  Instagram ) yesterday I started the official countdown for the launch of JadeEgemonye.com : my new blog. It's launching at 5pm on January 1st, so I can start the new year right. But I need to make some changes. So firstly, the time that I post. Initially I posted in between 4am-6am because that's when I wrote them, then I changed to 12pm and then 8pm and now 5pm. At no point did I think to ask you guys what you thought would be best, which probably would have been a good idea. Instead I just randomly picked times in the day depending on my mood. Secondly, the frequency of my posts. First it was daily, then once a week, then twice a week and now three times a week. Again I didn't ask you guys what would be best. Thirdly what I write about. Funnily enough the ones that I think "oh yeah this is fab" don't do as well and the ones that I just casually write are the most popular one...

Ok cool so, my decision to move more into fashion. I feel like I grazed across the real reason and wasnt completely honest which was the whole point of this blog: to be more honest with myself. So, let's try again. Yes, it's true I've always loved fashion. Yes, it's true that I started a blog when I was 16. No, that's not all there is to the story. Without sounding too dramatic this is throwing it back to emotional Jade. It's 4:30am, I'm listening to Daniel Ceaser and I'm back in my room in London. I'm feeling a weird mixture of deja vu and comfort in the familiarity of my surroundings, so maybe thats why I'm being candid but yeah here we go. So, writing about the sadness, depressive emotions I feel is draining. Writing about it to a schedule is exhausting. Writing about it and people reading it is weird. Writing about it and people telling you they've read it makes you feel exposed. All in all I'm tired. I want to use this not only...

Today marks 4 months since I posted my first blog post: "So, I've Randomly Started A Blog"   and a lot has changed. So, in the spirit of self-reflection that often comes as the end of the year rolls around, I thought I'd do a little compilation of what I've learnt over the last 4 months. In the grand scheme of things, 4 months is not a long time but boy, have these past 4 months been jam-packed. Let's start with the good stuff, the positive things I've learnt so far. Firstly, confidence. Now, I'm not talking about the "fake it till you make it" confidence that I was happily living with, but this new inner confidence. Before, if I was publicly speaking I'd be outwardly confident but my heart would be racing on the inside, my face would get really hot and sometimes I'd even start sweating. I'd be analysing every little thing I did or said and how others were reacting to it. Afterwards, I'd always thank God I wasn't white b...

So, I've joined the Bloggersphere, within the land of "creatives": people doing what they love and sharing it with the world. Now, it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be but I'm having fun and I'm not alone in this infant stage of being a "creative". Every day on Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram there's someone new launching an MUA business, blog, YouTube channel etc. And I love it! I hate it when I hear people say things that suggest the industry of people making a living via social media is oversaturated. As if one more person following their dream is annoying or 'basic'. To be honest I think it's inspirational and it encourages me to keep going. If someone else who's 19 and at uni can start a fashion line or a charity or an event management company then, why can't I? The other day on Twitter I saw a girl announce that her blog is launching in January and she included the link where there was a countdown to ...

I mentioned ages ago that the first thing I ever wanted to be was a fashion designer. From exhibitions at the V&A to LFW festival, as the Bratz would say I've got a "passion 4 fashion". So in the age of technology and everyone jumping on the blogger train, it would make sense that I would have started a fashion blog ages ago. Well, I did. When I was 16 I went to my first fashion show. After all the years of watching project runway and making my own clothes I finally got to experience a real live fashion show and I was so excited. It was everything I expected and more. The models were elegant and fierce, the music was energetic and it was over before I had time to get over how excited I was. So, afterwards I went home, Googled "how to make a blog" and set up a Wordpress account. I wanted to share what I had experienced and I had a lot of pictures from the show, so I decided my first post would be about the show. I researched the designers; their inspirat...