Beauty. (Video)

Here's the beautiful rendition of the Poem 'Beauty' by Nzuri.
Watch. :)

Beauty

Hello Everyone. Today we have 'Beauty' - a Poem by Nzuri. Read and Enjoy.

Like fire, just like fire
Weapon of man's inhumanity to man
Mama says beauty comes in all shapes,
sizes and colors

Spite filled eyes,
They tell me there's only one type of beauty
And mine doesn't belong
Tears in my eyes I'm wondering why I can't Marilyn Monroe the pain

Scalded skin, eyes of a newborn; shy, unaccustomed to the light
I can't see the sunshine
Mama said the bomb wasn't meant for me The bomb exploded my flesh into sacrifice.

Singing in tune with the moon as it traveled over our heads
Mama rocks me back and forth singing to me 'you are beautiful'
She says beauty is the type that runs skin deep

Come on!
Get up on your relentless shoes! Learn to not be afraid
She reprimands

The bomb that came a little to early,
My infant feet that waddled a little too much
The help that came a little too late
Everybody is at the wrong place at the wrong time

Wrapping me close to her bosom
Eyes wide shut
I feel the bleaching sun burn the insides of my back
Warmth emanates from her bosom
Stilling the restless poisoned butterflies in my stomach

Pay no mind to the ashes
They are barely evidence
Of how brightly you can glow
With refulgent energy
She says

An uncontrollable desire to escape
A sickness firmly bound to freedom
Mama says true beauty is like words from a love letter

Singing in tune with the moon as it traveled over our heads
Mama rocks me back and forth singing to me 'you are beautiful'
She says beauty is the type that runs skin deep

I'm Learning to not be afraid
An uncontrollable desire to escape
The grave incident changed me
Scaring me beyond my skin

It seems like it was just yesterday
The air redolent of burning flesh
My flesh
Four surgeries and two months of rehab

A sickness firmly bound to freedom
Let the incense burn on both ends
I didn't ask to be a victim of man's cruelty to man

Can I get an escape route please?
Death maybe?
Death doesn't always taste good
It certainly isn't what I want to eat soon

Having calculated the rudiments of beauty
The world found me wanting
Teasing and taunting
Maudlin expressions of sympathy
They are oblivious to your type of beauty mama says

At first there were different clothes
Longer sleeves to hide the burn scars
I slowly realized that my family had changed too

Scars and skin grafts
My Mother looks at the monster I have become and calls me beautiful
Could the image in my perfidious mirror perhaps be different from what my mother sees?
Surely there is no beauty in my burns and scars

Dad who has retreated to himself barely looks at me
Beneath the scars
Its me Dada
Your last born daughter
I'm still here

Rusty anchors they are
Shiny gem you are Mama says
There is no space for your kind of beautiful here.

You are a staccato hymn
Sung in the midst of a world that has forgotten how to value silence

Mama says loving yourself for who God made you is by far the greatest expression of beauty.
I think my Mother is beautiful.

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This poem is strongly influenced by the works of three of my favorite Poets and contains some lines and phrases characteristic of said Poets. The Poets : Joshua Bennett and King Jasmine Mans of The Strivers Row and Sunni Patterson are incredibly talented individuals that i look up to.

  - Bunmi Victoria Adegboye

The Assassin.

I work in the dead of night,
when the streets are quiet and no one is around to track my moves.
Racing the yellow lights to find the gate open,
she's waiting in the room and so I just step on through.

You get in, you get done and then you're gone.
You never leave a trace, or show your face.
Should've turned around and left before the sun came up
but then it did come up.

Enter the morning light,
burning the curtains and the wine.
Stuck in a little white room with her head heavy on me,
her heavy breathing is the prevailing sound.

You get in, you get done and then you get gone.
You never leave a trace, or show your face.
Should've turned around and left before the sun came up
but then it did come up.

Suddenly I'm in over my head and I can hardly breathe.
Suddenly I'm floating over her bed and I feel everything.
Suddenly I know exactly what I did, but I can not move a thing.
And suddenly I know exactly what I've done and what it's gonna mean.

I was a killer,the best they'd ever seen
I'd steal your heart before you ever felt a thing
I'm an assassin and I had a job to do
Little did I know the girl was an assassin too.

-Mazeeno

A Fresh Start.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson

The start of another new year always carries the lure of a new beginning and fresh start, and with it, the reminder of our own power to become the people we wish to be, leading the lives we've always imagined.

Whether you're resolving to get active, become a better student, sleep more and stress less, or to start saving for college this year, the beginning of January is the perfect time to take stock of your life and start creating the changes you'd like to see in the future.

Remember, every day, not just a new year is an opportunity to begin anew.

What's your biggest resolution for the new year? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

-Huffpost

On the Covers !

On the cover of the December/Christmas Issue of Complete Fashion are Nigerian DJs - DJ Caise, DJ Sose, DJ Spinall and DJ Exclusive. Why does this concern us? The DJs were styled by Ifeanyi Nwune and Deji Eniola. Also, Dj Spinall (cream suit) and DJ Exclusive (mint green suit) are wearing Old Religion Spring 2013. Impressive!

                                                       [See The Full Collection Here]

Save Me, Please? [MNTG]

"Love is like skydiving, with the parachute in the hands of the beloved" – Maze.

Don’t let me fall. I will crash land. I have nothing, no-one to hold on to. 

Save me, please.

Heavenly Father, I am nothing without this man. 

He has captured my heart, intricately and carefully woven his person into the shadows of my heartstrings. I have been mesmerized with him, or rather, the idea of him. He has left me with nothing but bits and pieces of my heart I am willing to love him with, still. He is everything I need. I cannot but feel this way. I cannot not feel this way.

Save me, please.

I have taken a deep plunge, a dive into the dimension called emotion and love, I know nothing of it. It's an alternate universe. I am hopelessly, hopelessly in love with you. You need to rescue me, please, I beg of you. Hurt has been my middle name, Walls having been my only comfort and warm blanket, sheltering me from cold nights, and holding me in place for my pillow of Loneliness as my tears fall night after night and wet it, even as I clutch my stuffed animal, Desolation close. 

Save me, please.

I need to get out of this body, switch souls, suppress and murder these feelings; reminiscing does me no good… you have to help me. I feel wretched, deserted, and all I can do is feel that way. 
Alone.

I am hanging on to dear life as I poise on the precipice of nothings and everythings. You cannot leave me now. 

Save me, please.

You are my carotid artery. 

Do you not feel it; do you not feel this symphony we should have strum together, created as one?

I don't want to, but I do; it is inevitable. 

You've done this, now I'm undone. 

Finished me, now I'm incomplete.

Love is alien and cacophonous to me, filled with empty promises, champagne-colored velvet torn to shreds and burnt to ashes, in every instance. I belong to the world of empty beds, tearful cheeks and forced smiles. 

Save me, please.

Sound your timbrels just as surely; play a melodious tune, serenade my sorrows; trace my palms, entwine your fingers in mine and watch the meanders become one; make my dreams come alive. 

Save me, please.

Sometimes we have to lose who we are, or are hoping to be, to be with whom we love, to be who we are meant to be.

Michael Jackson lost his childhood for a greater cause:  stardom, world applause...he achieved all that and spent the greater part of his life trying to get his childhood back.

Victor, my best friend, lost his soul trying to get to the top... it was a 'Get rich or die trying' scheme.

David, that stranger I could have known, lost his adolescence after falling in love with an older woman, trying to mature for her... and lost her trying.

I have lost my heart trying to be with you; my smoke-and-mirrors person coming to light, my shadows being pierced by light. Light of your unrequited love.

Save me, please.

I don't know what I am, what I'm not, what I'm meant to be. I thought I did when I was beside you, and I was not wrong. You need to save me. You need to. I cannot lose you, just as certainly as I cannot lose me...

Assuage my demons. Put them to rest. Give me the heavens I see in your eyes. 

Save me, please?

As I lay down my head to sleep, I pray, my soul to keep… if I die

before I wake… well, you know the rest.

-        Ms. Koya

X&O's : The Fashion Show 2.

After the success of its inaugural fashion show, 'XnOs : The Fashion Show 2' is taking place on the 28th of December 2012 at Oriental Hotel, Lagos at 6pm. Come see XnOs showcase their line with other classy and sublime designers including El-Frida, EMPIRE and TAP.

LOS's Yung 

Ozzy B

Expect performances from Ajebutter22, LOS, Saeon, Ozzy-B, Joules Da Kid, LAX and more. Also, be ready for Special Guest Performances.

• Its gonna be hosted by the lively & energetic Tosan Wiltshire.

• Music by DJ Ricco & DJ 6FooT7.

• Media Coverage will be by 53 Extra (M-NET), EGO FIX TV, The SCENE Magazine, PiKNoks, Reel Radio, TOCH, XLT, TA-Photography And So On.

• Tickets go for VIP: N6,000 and TABLES: N150,000.

• For table bookings and other inquiries, Contact Dadeola Sogbetun.

•Email: DadzTheLad@gmail.com
•Call: 08027781433
•Twitter: @TeamXOs1 or @TheLad_

The X&Os !

XnOs is a youthful clothing brand, specializing in both urban and cultural clothes. Its male pieces consist of tasteful Sweatshirts, T-shirts and Tank tops while its female wear consists of chic Loose tops, Crop tops, Tank tops and Sweatshirts. XnOs was founded in 2010 by Karol Sejebor.

Its inaugural fashion show which took place last year December was a success and now XnOs is holding a second fashion show which is taking place on the 28th of December 2012 At Oriental Hotel Lagos at 6pm. Full details in our next post.

Who rocks XnOs?

Ozzy B

Rilwan

Yung - LOS

OMG It's Kendrick Lamar.

Fave Looks Of The Week.

Toolz went all the way with her black dress, gold belt, beaded yellow necklace, purple pumps and clutch. Classy!

Dolapo Oni looking effortlessly chic and elegante. There really is beauty in simplicity.

Photos: Bella Naija

New Music : Move - Gabri ft. SkWeird

"MOVE" a beautiful song from the multi-talented, blow-your-mind-away artiste "GABRI" . When a fan was asked what do you think about Gabri's music her reply was " Oh My Gosh i like his voice, i like the way he flows and to think that someone as young as he is, is focused on having an impact on my life! I definitely know he is going to blow.

Stay Young Forever [MNTG]

- For Moyo 

Stay young forever, I don't want you to ever grow up...he said to me.
Be my baby, be my little sister, that's all I ever want you to be.
Love me forever, and no-one else, love for me in your eyes is all I want to see...
But I can't.

I can't love you alone, brother, for there must be another, beckoning to my heart.
My love for you will neither wane nor wither but I want a love 'til death do us part.
I have been broken, I have seen pain, seen anguish.
Oh, in despair, in limbo have I languished.
I have wallowed, waded and waited patiently for it; whatever it is, I don't know.
What I am certain of, however, is that my heart longs so.

Longs so very much, for that all consuming feeling.
Embedded in tenderness, in truth, sincerity, and security, tugging.
Tugging, firmly and surely on my heartstrings
Not a fairytale or fantasy, but the real thing.

I just want to love and be loved back.
Is that too much to ask?

So, no Brother, I can't stay young forever, even in mind.
Because a love that knows no bounds even of time I must find.


- Ms. Koya

What Is With Celebs And Calling Out Ex's?

We were all living our somewhat peaceful lives when the news that Iyanya had dumped Yvonne Nelson for Tonto Dikeh broke. Apparently, Yvonne Nelson recently found out that Iyanya had been two-timing her with Tonto Dikeh. The hurt actress vented out her feelings through twitter; she tweeted that Iyanya had been acting throughout the relationship and she found the truth unbelievable.

We still have not forgotten the Rob Kardashian-Rita Ora debacle though, perhaps tweeting about your partner cheating on you or calling out your ex is the new in thing in celeb-ville? That's all that seems to be happening on those streets.

Our condolences to Yvonne Nelson, looks like all Iyanya wanted was her waist. o:)

The Little Red Dress.

The little red dress is a timeless piece that every woman should have. It has always been in fashion, but has been tweaked a little to follow the latest trends like the 3/4 length dress, lace, peplums, etc. The little red dress can be worn to any occasion depending on what you accessorize it with. It is a very bold statement and gets you easily noticed when you walk into a room. The little red dress makes every woman feel more confident and of course, beautiful.

-Frank ( @Phranck_)

 Follow Frank

Why Do Girls Cheat? Case Study - #RitaOra

The entertainment world was rocked yesterday when news broke that Rita Ora had cheated on Rob Kardashian with 20 men. Said news was broken by Rob himself via his twitter account, of course the tweets were deleted after sometime but the damage had been done. The twitter world didn't waste time with their accusations, judgements and silly trends (they trended 'Rita Whora'). We still don't know if Rob's accusations are totally true but we're quite certain there has to be an element of truth in them. Flashback to a few months ago, Twilight star Kristen Stewart was in a similar position with Rita. Hers was quite worse because she didn't only cheat with a married man, but there were photo evidences of the act. This brings us to the topic of discussion here on Rebel Flair today.. Why do girls cheat? I asked around earlier today and got these answers:

Why do girls cheat?

- Revenge or payback because he also cheated.

- Boredom. (I don't get this really)

- Insecurity.

-Emotionally neglect or feeling taken

for granted.

I'm personally gonna add GREED.

I don't get it though, at this age we girls don't have to be stuck in any relationship if we don't want to be. If you feel like you're not into whatever it is you have with the person you're dating then break up with him. Why do something you know will harm someone else's feelings?

Another issue relating to the Rita Ora scandal is why a girl cheating is a much bigger issue than a boy cheating, i bet if they switched sides and it was Rita that called Rob out on cheating with 20 girls it wouldn't be that much of an issue, infact Rob might have still have played the role of the victim at the end of the day.

So what do you guys think? Why do girls really cheat? Why is a girl cheating a bigger scandal than a boy cheating?

I think when it all boils down to it, a girl with real values will end a relationship if she doesn't feel satisfied in any way and not cheat.

On the covers!

Burna boy on the second issue of The Scene Magazine.

Damilola Adegbite and Eku Edewor on the cover of the December edition / Wedding issue of Genevieve magazine.

Old Religion Spring/Summer 2013 Lookbook.

After its colourful collection just debuted at the Lagos Fashion and Design Week, Old Religion Clothings has unveiled the Lookbook for its Spring/Summer 2013 collection to Rebel Flair.

The collection consists of colourful ready to wear menswear including Suits, Shirts and Waist coats.

Check it out!

Runsa Fashion Show !

On Tuesday 13 Nov 2012, Redeemers University students were buzzing with excitement for the RUNSA - Redeemers University Student Association's annual fashion show. 40 models were chosen to showcase the designs of RUN's finest designers - Maz couture, House of Becca, MDJ, Mistress, Switch, Outstanding clothing, Blaize clothiers. From the judges to the music to the amazing models, it turned out to be a really exciting event and there was no dull moment. o:)

Check out photos from the show below and even more in the next post!

Alicia Keys On Complex Mag.

Alicia Keys is the cover girl for the December/January 2013 issue of Complex Magazine. In it she speaks about motherhood and Frank Ocean. Nice concept, she looks flawless with her short hair.

Photos.

Awesome photos of Yvonne Vixen Ekwere taken by Obi Somto and styled by Zebra Living. The pictures characterize her as one of Fela's fire dancers named "Rashida".


Credits
Photography: Obi Somto
Styling: Zebra

The Sexiest Man Alive Is...

CHANNING TATUM, according to People's Magazine of course. We totally agree! o:)