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Shhh...What Is Your Vagina Telling You?

Dec 11, 2021
5 min

Shhh...What Is Your Vagina Telling You?

Whatever you call yours ladies you have to get to know her intimately for self-care self exploration and if you so choose, self satisfaction. I have jumped straight in the deep end so to speak to encourage a no way out or awkwardness aside approach. I have chosen now to discuss this topic for several reasons, all of which I will reveal to you along the way. First we check in with self-care, yes your vagina is both self caring and self cleansing but it can only manage with you

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When Love Gets Comfortable

Dec 11, 2021
4 min

When Love Gets Comfortable

So, you’ve been with your partner some time now, maybe you live together maybe you don’t but either way you’re now starting to feel the big C…. comfortable. For a lot of people this means, farting or wearing your period knickers in front of them, and we will get to this, but ladies let’s be real. We know we’re only truly comfortable when we can rock up in a headscarf and there’s not that moment when they wanna ask you where your hair has gone or worse still WTF are you? Looo

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5 Ways To Get An Extension To Your Temp Role

Dec 11, 2021
3 min

5 Ways To Get An Extension To Your Temp Role

So a permanent role hasn't come your way, for one reason or another. This could be because the right role hasn't captured you, you haven't been selected or just because you don't want to be tied down right now, that's fine, temping could be the place for you then! The great thing about temping is the variety of places you get to work, the various types of people you meet and the plethora of skills you can accumulate to fatten out your CV. There can be a downside to temping

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Things You Must Do With Your Kids At Christmas

Dec 11, 2021
5 min

Things You Must Do With Your Kids At Christmas

Wow imagine it's that time again, jingle bells playing even in your mind music and glitter on everything even your chin I guess it's Christmas. Well I'm one Black woman who has never been a lover of this time of year but when you got kids there is a party line even us scrooges have to play and mine is with miles of smiles and no frills fun, got to love me lol! First things first imma let you know I was a nursery nurse in a former life so my craft ideas are off the chain...fo

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Must Try, Christmas Cookie Recipe

Dec 10, 2021
2 min

Must Try, Christmas Cookie Recipe

Whether you are just making these cookies on their own or as part of Things You Must Do With Your Kids At Christmas they are a quick, easy and tasty treat. PREP TIME 10 minutes + 30 minutes chill in the fridge COOK TIME 15 minutes INGREDIENTS 300g unsalted butter 100g icing sugar 1 egg yolk 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons of whole milk 310g plain flour 110g cornstarch extra pain flour and icing sugar for dusting (Any extra ingredients you would li

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Dating While Black: All My Single Ladies

Nov 27, 2021
4 min

Dating While Black: All My Single Ladies

All my single ladies, all my single ladies, put your hands up..... oh oh oh oh oh... alright now the song is in your head let's get to it. Ladies, modern dating as black woman is not easy but it can be fun. Yes, I said it, fun, if you're not finding it fun, then maybe you're going into it with the wrong mindset. I understand that you don't want to be single anymore, but going out of your way to seek a husband, can be a lot of stress. This is because there are generally 3 r

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How To Benefit Your Health, Through Journaling.

Nov 27, 2021
3 min

How To Benefit Your Health, Through Journaling.

Increased awareness of self, calmer mindset, personal growth, this is something we all crave regardless of lifestyle, beliefs, family set up or relationship status. Well, if you can believe it, there's actually a simple way to achieve these things and more. Below are a few Health benefits of journaling, yes you have read that correctly, it says health benefits. Read on and see what I'm talking about. Reduces stress - imagine having a place where you can rant and no-one ever

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The Best Kids Party Checklist

Nov 27, 2021
2 min

The Best Kids Party Checklist

Mummies, grandma's, aunties, big sisters and girl friends is there a month that someone in your life is not having a kids party. All fun and games to attend but can be a headache to organise. Don't fret we got you sorted, here is a one stop Complete Kids’ Birthday Party Checklist for ya'll to bring the FUN! Step 1 What is the kid into? Choose a theme with your child, don't make the decision without them unless they are under 3 years old (even some 2 year olds will make it obv

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More Black Women Needed In Politics

Nov 27, 2021
5 min

More Black Women Needed In Politics

https://bb.usembassy.gov/vice-president-kamala-harriss-meeting-with-barbadian-prime-minister-mia-amor-mottley/ There are many professions we think of doing and there are many more that we don't. Why is that? Do we predominately think we can't? Are we told we can't? Is it a colonial belief that is entrenched? Or is it simply that we are not interested... What ever our reason Black women don't do politics. No don't shout me down, of course there are Black female politicians, p

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Love Language: A Belbin Perspective Part 2

Nov 20, 2021
3 min

Love Language: A Belbin Perspective Part 2

Sooooo ladies..... did you think about it? Have you figured out what role you play in your relationship? If yes, has it helped you to discover your love language and possibly theirs too? If no, don't you stop reading either, there's more to the story lol! No matter what "role" you play there is a way to find a harmonious balance whether you think you're the exact opposites or exactly the same. You see, more times the biggest conflicts arise when people are with someone wh

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The Black Girls Power Suit

Nov 20, 2021
4 min

The Black Girls Power Suit

I speak about this subject with a tear in my eye, back story moment! So I was coming up in my career and about to hit the offices, this was a massive achievement for my colour, for my age and for my location but that wasn't the challenge I was facing, my challenge was how to dress the part. Now see my seniors and those about to be my peers were White, middle class and had the privilege and purse strings to go toe to toe with a central London property lawyer. Labels dripping,

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Lightening The Load

Nov 20, 2021
5 min

Lightening The Load

Mama, I know you're tired. It's the nearing the end of the year and also one of the busiest times, whether you get right into the holiday spirit or it feels like everyone else around you is rushing, it's just busy. When you add in the fact that you wake up in the dark, it can be draining. Really, you just want to curl up on the sofa with a beverage of choice and a good book or binge-worthy TV, but behold, there's washing, and tidying, and cleaning, and homework, not to men

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Feet Treats

Nov 20, 2021
4 min

Feet Treats

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/profmorphious/ebony-foot-images/ Love or or hate them feet serve a purpose to most of us that we rarely acknowledge or repay. Your Feet get you from A to B, hold you up when your back is done, confine themselves to spaces that are too small, too tall, too tight, too sweaty, or just not right, all to please you. Do they holla back some times hell yeah, but so does your hands when they been out in the cold too long or your glutes scream after 2/3 str

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Love Language: A Belbin Perspective

Nov 13, 2021
3 min

Love Language: A Belbin Perspective

Ok, I'm hearing you ask, what's love language? Well it's exactly what is says, it's the language that speaks love to you. For some people love language is asking about their day, others it will be asking about a particular hobby. For most it's a language that says you care about them. When my partner says he has a headache, rather than just telling him to get some pain killers, I ask him a few questions to decipher whether we can tackle it in some other way. Have you eaten to

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Coughs and Colds, turn to Grandma's Garden

Nov 5, 2021
3 min

Coughs and Colds, turn to Grandma's Garden

Whether you call it God's Pharmacy or Herbology, natural remedies or New Age medicine, here's just a few things we use from Grandma's Garden to keep you well through the winter season. Tea please, Shirl: We all know water is great for our bodies, after all we are made up of mostly water. But let's be honest, what's water without a little flavour? Below are some teas that are great for the winter. Garlic Tea - acts as a great plunger to remove mucus. Onion Tea - a hacking c

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Are You Even Black?

Nov 5, 2021
2 min

Are You Even Black?

If I had £1 for every time time I've heard this, I'd be a very rich woman. To encounter this limitation of your blackness is not only hurtful but it can also be damaging to the idea of what "being Black" is. Being Black is NOT a choice, say it with me now... being Black is NOT a choice. It is however, a part of who I am. One day there will be a world where it doesn't need to be at the forefront of my mind but until that day I will be unapologetically Black. Being a Black

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What do you say to yourself?

Nov 1, 2021
4 min

What do you say to yourself?

Just like the title says...what do you say to yourself? How we speak to ourselves has a direct, in depth and profound affect on how we see ourselves. I've seen and heard it said that you shouldn't talk bad about yourself even as a joke because your body aka subconscious doesn't know the difference. We also know that how we see ourselves puts a lot of pressure on how you see others, but for now let's stick to ourselves. So again I ask you, what do you say to yourself? Still

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Beautiful Black Celebrity Boos

Oct 23, 2021
1 min

Beautiful Black Celebrity Boos

Celebrity couples who are shining bright with their love, all together now....aaaawwww. We all want to see it, beautiful black loving relationships. Do we care that there's ups and downs? Nope! We care that they've got through them and still going strong. Pam Byse & Morris Chestnut 20 years together and still going. https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/social-media-is-gushing-over-morris-chestnut-but-who-is-his-wife-pam-byse.html/ Jada Pinkett Smith & Will Smith Despi

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#Bosslady Round up

Oct 23, 2021
4 min

#Bosslady Round up

If you haven't read our #Bosslady series you are missing out, don't do that sis, catch up now with part 1 where we brought you the make up artist, @Glamdutchess (Wunmi). Part 2 we met the baker @The21stCakery (Venessa) and then in part 3 we introduced you to the clothing designer @BlessedUp (Lorraine). The last lady in this series was part 4 the motivational speaker and trainer @TheSparkleNavigator (Carole). These ladies were from four different industries, providing service

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Black History Month: Half Term....yay!!!

Oct 23, 2021
2 min

Black History Month: Half Term....yay!!!

It's Black History Month and it's also half term!!! OY are here to share with you some ideas about what you mummies, aunties, big sisters, cousins....can do to educate and entertain you little people. Firstly, we want to share an amazing experience we had during a Black History Month Treasure Hunt. The activity was run by IBHM and gave us some fantastic facts about some little known (or unknown in our case) black people and their contributions to London's history. For inst

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