Nude lipstick

Nude lipsick has been in this season it is lipstick that is close to the shade of a person’s  natural skin tone. Wearing nude lipstick is meant to enhance the lips without being too dramatic.

Dos for wearing nude lipstick

• exfoliate your lips regularly with a gentle scrub preferably with a wet toothbrush to remove dead skin
• choose a colour that is perfect for your skin tone don’t go for colours that are two shades lighter or darker than your natural lip tone
• use a lip balm or moisturising primer before applying lipstick Vaseline can be used as well
• add gloss after applying lipstick to create more volume

Don’ts

• don’t choose a colour that is lighter than your natural shade
• don’t use frosted lipstick (Frosted lipstick is lipstick that gives opaque coverage), opt for a matte lipstick (long-lasting nature of matte lipstick gives a drying effect) which you have to top up with some gloss.
• don’t apply foundation to your lips before or after applying a nude lipstick
• don’t use lipliner unless it is exactly the same shade as your lipstick

Vasanti

For us black ladies, the darker your skin tone the more chocolatey/coffee your colours should be, and the lighter your skin tone the more golden your colours should be. If you are extremely light, you can go for rosy colours.
Imma JTT

Wearing denim on denim like a pro

Remember a time when it was murder to wear denim on denim? Ok, jeans on jeans. Remember?

Well, trending right now is that! Oh yea, you can wear jeans all through. But before you go buck wild, remember to break it down at some point. Don’t go out in a denim shirt, pants, belt, shoes, bag and say you read it here at JTT that denim on denim is in. I think I should also mention that this look is strictly casual.

Image for demonstration purposes

So, basic rules:
*break it down with a cute bright belt, or some floral Shoes or just plain old bright shoes. You could also introduce a dramatic scarf or head band.
*if you’re a pear, wear the darker denim at the bottom, if you’re an apple, the darker denim goes on top.
*please make sure the denim you’re mixing are not of the same shade(DO NOT match them)
*mix rugged/distressed/highlighted denim with clean simple plain denim
*denim is not only blue and its not only pants. A blue denim shirt would go well with red skinnies, a light blue denim shirt/jacket would go well with a dark blue pencil skirt and vice versa…
*if you choose the boyfriend(shirt & pants) go for girly bold accessories to keep it feminine
Jossie JTT

Mixing prints

Mixing prints can feel like rocket science sometimes, but its not that big of a deal. Once you get the basics, you can do it like a pro.

Simple Guidelines/Options for Mixing Patterns/Prints:

1. Take one color repeat in every piece of the outfit (for example, green flowered with green, red, and white plaid/checked). Similar colour palettes help blend your outfit.
2. Combine loose prints with structured prints (like swirls/doodles with stripes).

Image for demonstration purposes

3. Blend small designs with larger-scale ones (such as gingham with bold flowers). Scale is key. Two prints of equal scale will give your outfit an overwhelming appearance.
4. Floral and Soft Stripes.
5. If you're mixing two intense prints try to break it down with a belt.
6. Polka Dots and….just about any print or pattern!
 Jossie JTT

Back to basics, or are they?? ?

Ladies and gentlemen that is the question. Gone are the days when there were rules in fashion and trends. Today, you make your own trend boom! Just for dramatic effect, ladies when was the last time you put on a petticoat (an undergarment worn to reduce the translucency of a dress, or skirt) for lack of a better word? That is just one, for those who grew up in the same decade I did, you know the value our mothers put on those pieces.

Anyway back to my point, in art school colors were meant to complement each other especially in an outfit. Now it’s cool to clash all you can as long as you can master the confidence to walk out of your house. Of course with the dot.com parents you don’t get the occasional “unaenda wapi kama umevaa hivyo, hebu rudi uvae vizuri tiiiii tiiiiiii tiiiiii”… again you get what I mean!

What you have below is a color wheel for those who are not familiar. It doesn’t matter how much the rules are being broken in the industry, you might need some of these knowledge.

Primary colors: They are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors, they are pure colors e.g. Red, Blue,Yellow. They always go well together.
Secondary colors: color made by mixing two primary colors e.g. Violet, Green, and Orange. These also go well together. You have to be careful about the shades though, everything in moderation.
Tertiary colors: color made by mixing one primary color with one secondary color e.g. red–orange, red–violet, yellow–orange,
yellow–green, blue–violet and blue–green. Brown, black, white and Grey also feature.

Trend Alert Complimentary colors:
They lie opposite on the color wheel. They are so in now it hurts! They include violet and yellow, red and green. In clashing they make the each other pop the more, that is why they are trendy now.

There you have it for those who knew and those who were green now we are all on the same page.
In an effort to keep at par with the new trends we have to adopt gradually, I lay emphasis on the word gradually. If you don’t know how to wear the piece ask someone, Joska the Trend or Google or something. This is to avoid the fashion tragedies we bump into in the streets every other second in the name of fashion, next time I will stop you…maybe.
Fay JTT

The 'Website'

Hey lovelies, been pushing to have the 'official' joskathetrend.com website for the longest time. I know I promised end of September but things didn't work out. I'd rather have something simple & quality than grand but half baked.

So anyway in the(long) meantime, its about time I went back to the simple basics and which points out to an article a friend of mine wrote (will be posting it out tomorrow as a tribute to myself and being back to the basic blogger)

All the same, promise to post stuff worth your while. Remember to follow the blog, comment, share posts you like, basically show a sister some love. Mwaaaa!