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Time to Prepare for Summer | 4 Hot Weather Beauty Secrets

Summer is coming soon, so it’s time to prepare your natural remedies. The stuff from last year may be expired or used up. Here are some recipes to help you survive the heat. Rose Vinegar Rose vinegar is an excellent sunburn treatment. To make it, just fill a jar or…

Oshun’s Beauty Secrets: Annatto Lipstick Recipe

In celebration of the 2011 festival of Oshun, I will be posting a few of the beauty “secrets” of the African diaspora. Today’s installment is a recipe for annatto lipstick. Annatto is a mild spice native to South America that is used often as a coloring for foods and as…

Oshun’s Beauty Secrets

Oshun is the West African deity of feminine beauty, prosperity, and dance. Her children in the traditions as well as solitary practitioners with a strong affinity towards her are uniquely attractive, charismatic people. Though many of their beauty secrets are indeed secret, some are open to sharing with the public for…

Oshun, Ochun, Oxum

Some say that in Africa, before western influence, there was no such thing as romantic love. The truth is much more complicated than this. There was romantic love, and it was well recognized. It was just referred to as intense lust, so in daily life, familial love and admiration was…

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Time to Prepare for Summer | 4 Hot Weather Beauty Secrets

Oshun’s Beauty Secrets: Annatto Lipstick Recipe

Oshun’s Beauty Secrets

Oshun, Ochun, Oxum

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