Have you heard of  the latest ‘trending’ cosmetics brand? Does Èkó  luxury make up by Africanism Cosmopolitan, ring a bell? I am certain from today, it will not only ring a bell, you will scream for more of their products, as you won’t get enough of them.

Oh! and did I forget to say that, two readers will win two Arewa 88-colour eyeshadow palettes [one each]. I will  be giving away two. One for a Nigerian reader (residing in Lagos) and the other for a UK resident too. Keep reading to find out how to win it.

Èkó luxury make up by Africanism Cosmopolitan is a luxury/cosmetics brand that just started sale in Nigeria with two new products:

•  Èkó luxury mink Eyelashes (N4000) £15
•  Arewa 88-colour eyeshadow palette (N3,500) £12

Waow!! Someone is excited already. 

Where can you purchase them? You can buy the new products either by direct email order [customerservice@ekomakeup.com; africanismcosmopolitan@gmail.com] or through their website for UK buyers [www.ekomakeup.com] or Konga.com for Nigerian buyers or via their social media platform or even at their retail outlet in Lagos Suite E370-E379, Ikota shopping complex, Ajah, Lagos, Nigeria.

What you need to know about Arewa 88-colour eyeshadow– it is made up of mineral based ingredients which gives your eyes a sultry and smooth finish. The eyeshadow set can create over 300 different looks. Also there are two applicators for ease of use.







What you need to know about Èkó luxury milk eyelashes– they are premium 100%

hand-crafted original mink lashes sourced from the finest responsibly retrieved mink fur. The fur is collected from the natural shedding and molting cycles of mink animal, hence no animal was harmed during the process. The fur is sterilised to ensure that they are hypoallergenic and suitable for wear. They are made free from any kind of dye, leaving a natural black-brown finish. Also, it can be worn up to 25 times with adequate care.

And the moment you’ve been waiting for….

Who can enter to win the giveaway? [2 Arewa 88-colour eyeshadows]
Anyone around the world. However, if you live outside United Kingdom and Lagos, Nigeria; you’ll be winning to give someone in the ‘mentioned’ countries. In essence, the eyeshadow will be delivered to anyone in UK and Lagos, Nigeria.
My able gentlemen, don’t feel left out. Enter and win for your mother, sister, cousin, aunty, girlfriend, fiancee, wife…..

How are the winners chosen?
Randomly! However, I will make sure that one winner is in Lagos, Nigeria and the other in UK. The two winners will not be chosen from one country.

When does it end?
On Monday, 2 June 2014. The winners will be announced in my post on Monday.

All you have to do is…
Follow on instagram- @shop_africanismcosmopolitan
Follow on twitter- @EKOmakeup
Follow me on twitter-@ChinomnsoP
Follow me on instagram- @chinomnsoprecious

You can also leave a comment in the comment section making your intentions known that you will like to ‘enter for the giveaway’ and please include your location [Lagos or UK]. If you are not in any of the countries and you are winning to pass on to someone, please include the person’s location, not yours. 

C’est fini! That’s all you need to do. So be the bearer of good news, tell someone that there’s something ‘trending’ on ‘Precious Thoughts’

Have you seen my last post-I was here before you

Have you subscribed to my YouTube channel Chinomnso Precious

Let’s get the ball rolling!

For further information: Instagram: @shop_africanismcosmopolitan

                                            Twitter:      @EKOmakeup

                                            Email: customerservice@ekomakeup.com

                                                       africanismcosmopolitan@gmail.com

                                            Website: www.ekomakeup.com

Photo Credit: Africanism Cosmoplitan 

Ever felt that pain that comes from failure, in a manner you never envisioned? The feeling that just keeps you dumbfounded, while your mind does the talking and thinking. All of a sudden, your mind becomes a woman [multitasking]. But still, failure is never in the falling down, but is in the falling and never making an attempt to rise!

Please forgive me. I had the intention of making this post, a vlog, as I said in the previous vlog: here  I had a busy week and didn’t get to vlog. But I am certain, you’ll still be enriched and encouraged with this post.

I mentioned previously in my introductory vlog: here that I am a law graduate awaiting admission into law school. As one of the steps to build my legal work experience, I applied,  paid for a training and wrote a test in January 2014, in order to qualify to be a volunteer in a Free Representation Firm. I wrote that test with my all, it was a very difficult time for me because I had a very horrible, wicked flu. The flu knocked me off totally, but I wrote the test. The result was scheduled to be released in April. 

April did not even wait at all [time flies, it’s scary at times. lol], the result was released. I failed the test. What ‘scattered’ my brain, was the fact that I could not a get a feedback on what went wrong. I use the term ‘scattered’ because, I was confident that the test result was going to be a-ma-zing! I was sad, but in the midst of the sadness, I found myself saying ‘God, I do not understand this oh, but I know you do’. I will not tell lies by saying- I forgot all that happened. 

Fast forward to May 2014, it so happens  that I do not have the legal qualification to work in Canada for now, Let me explain- since I studied outside Canada, I am to apply to the Law Federation Society for them to assess my degree first before I can get into Law School [So presently, my law degree is being assessed]. Despite this policy, deep down within me, I had proposed in my heart to search and get a legal related job. I told God I did not want to do anything less.

An opportunity presented itself, and I was able to visit a lawyer to ask for the opportunity to assist her, more like ‘learn the ropes’. She gave me a topic to research on, and return with the result of my research. I was amazed because I knew my situation [still awaiting assessment], I just had this ‘risky’ faith that something positive was going to come out of the meeting.

So the next day, I took a walk to a mall close to my house. I was approached by a sales representative. After she had done the main thing [marketing the benefits of a shopper optimum card], we got talking and she told me that she had just come from India three months ago, she is a teacher but is doing the sales/marketing job for the time being. In the course of our conversation, I told her I was awaiting an assessment result to get into law school, and that I was looking to get legal experience. And she said, ‘I will advice that you look for a Tim Horton or Walmart job for the time being’. There is nothing wrong with her suggestion, I just knew my desire to get a legal related job was not at a wrong time.  

Her words never left my mind. ‘To add salt to injury’, the next morning, the thought that rose its ugly head was: ‘look for a different job, remember the test you did. You did not pass that even with the right qualifications to get the job in UK, so how do you expect any different when you don’t have the necessary requirements. Save yourself another heartache’. Now this thought shook me. ‘oga fear’ grabbed the opportunity and ‘stood at attention’ in my mind. Then the Holy Spirit gave me this passage- Ephesians 6:16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Wow! that was how Ephesians 6:16 slapped ‘oga fear’ into ‘unknown space’. I was encouraged. I did the research. I was interviewed and tested by the lawyer. Let me be honest with you: All I could know in my power, I delivered on; those that I could not, God took care of. She offered me the job, I accepted. All God’s handwork!

So my lovelies, what I will like you to understand from this post [as a continuation of my previous vlog: here]. There’s a timing with God, and some times [or most times], our timing does not correlate with that of God. But while you ‘wait’ [waiting does not mean being at a stand still or doing nothing], you need the shield of faith. Your thoughts will taunt you, as well as the opinions of people. But asking God for faith as a shield will make a huge difference. I know patience is a virtue while waiting, but ‘the shield of faith’ will be the ‘Lucozade’. 

Another thing I have learnt from these situations is that- seeking God’s face should take priority to seeking God’s hand [blessings]. There is a difference, I hope to share about that, in the future. When you seek his face, the benefits of his hands are inevitably going to manifest in your life.

However, God is all knowing. If your reason for seeking his face is to get his ‘hands’, he knows! He sees our hearts. So I humbly urge you that when it feels like all your desires do not seem to be coming at ‘your’ appointed time, seek to know the heart of God! Seek to know him for who he is! Pray! Read his word! Grab a large plate of patience and make sure that large plate is filled with the shield of faith. 

Be encouraged!

P.S the volunteer job I applied for in January was an unpaid one, but my present one is paid. God’s timing is definitely the best. Never forget this!

Please share and leave your comments [please feel free to share your experience as well] add your ‘shield’…..

Hope you had a fantastic weekend?

Any suggestions- pradake16@gmail.com

Chinomnso Precious

Photo Credit: Google

Please feel free to leave your comments and share your experience(s).

Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel here


If you have any suggestions, please leave them in the comment section or send me an email- pradake16@gmail.com


Chinomnso Precious

I watched this inspiring video about giving and decided to share. It is a short video that I am sure will bless and inspire you.

Enjoy..

Have a lovely day.

Chinomnso Precious

Video Credit: YouTube

How do I start? I have lived with the preconception that clothes, shoes, jewellery, make-up etc are the basic ingredients for being accepted. I know some of us are going through this or know someone who is  going through this phase, but I am here to tell you that you are wrong. 

You’re approaching the chamber of ‘bare it all’. So take off your ‘judgemental glasses’ and ‘sanctimonious thinking faculty’. But please leave on your ‘able wrists/hands’ and ‘willing-mind-to-contribute’.

Any time I flash back to the memories of my primary/elementary school days, there are so many memories that I know will never take a step out of my hippocampus [part of the brain responsible for memory retention]. Amongst other memories, is the one I totally loved [I will tell you why I loved it].

When I was in Primary five, and my brother was in Primary three, we were ‘fortunate’ to have the experience of being dropped off at school by our mum in the morning and in the afternoon, we went home on our own [not sure if parents still allow their children return on their own ‘now’]. Here is what I [We, my brother as well] loved about returning in the afternoons. Even though, we were given transport fare for two, we always found a way to reap from where we didn’t sow. LOL. At times, before we boarded the bus, we would realise there was only one seat available, so I would ask my brother to sit on my lap for the time being till we get to the bus stop, where we would get another bus or get home depending on if it was our first journey or second. 

So, such situations resulted in us having extra cash that would not have been in our possession if we had both sat down in the bus. [you see why I loved that-extra cash for sweets and all the ‘forbidden’ that we wouldn’t have purchased if everything went as was expected]

But here is one interesting thing. There were times [a lot] when we [me and my brother] sat down respectively [he was not sitting on my lap], and the bus conductor would not take transport fare from us. Like I had stretched my hand one day purposely to be sure I was not invisible and the conductor said ‘ah don’t worry school girl’. This happened so many times. 

Growing up, I just felt it was an act of ‘pity’, ‘compassion’, ‘benevolence’,  divine ‘FAVOUR’. [God knew my brother and I needed sweets and Ice cream]

Here is the crux of this post- Fast forward to few years later, I was in UK. There were times when I got on the bus and the driver on his own volition, would give me a young person’s bus ticket [under 19] without me uttering a word. I guess the braids/my natural hair should be what I stick to. Because, times when this has happened, I was either on braids or my natural hair [see what weave-ons made me miss]. I would accept the fare [young person’s] and quietly enjoy my journey [not quietly though, my conscience pricked me]. Also, most times when this has happened, I was ‘holding my cash so tight’ [very rich student]. Oh! let’s not forget. I called it ‘FAVOUR’. It has to be. Of course, God knows the state of my bank account.

However, there was this one time where I corrected the driver and told him that I was not in the ‘young person’ category and paid the full fare.

Here is my question- the times where I accepted the ‘young person’ fare, will you call that divine ‘FAVOUR’? Have you ever been in a situation like this? How did you handle it? 

I’ve just narrated just one example, but there are different examples, like going to a supermarket where you’re supposed to pay for the carrier bags and you’re given for free or some item you bought was given to you freely [not by the owner of the shop; just the sales assistant]. Do you call that divine ‘FAVOUR’?

I know it is very easy for us to bend the word of God for times when it best suits us or interpret things ‘divinely’. So what’s your take? Bare it all and share!

Please feel free to add bible stories and verses, if you so desire.

Oh! and may God bless those bus conductors, they sure gave me a memorable experience during my childhood.

Chinomnso Precious


Photo Credit: Google