WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGAGEMENT MAKE-UP AND GELE

Engagement is the cultural part of the wedding ceremony. Therefore the make you will be doing for the bride must depict culture glamour, colours and elegance. Nowadays bride wear the embroiled traditional ofi attire for their engagement ceremonies sometime they make ofi-lice for the top buba or simply wear a lace to match with the color of the ofi. This ofi is usually knitted with at last two or more colors, you are to pay around the colors on the ofi or the lace of the buba. Another way of picking colors to use for your engagement make-up is also by using colors on the beads worn by the bride. Engagement makeup should be colourful and loud, yet well blinded and aligned. You makeup must be balance. Below is an example of an engagement look which you may try out

Note: this bride is wearing an ofi which is turquoise blue and yellow in colour her buba is butter colour and she will be wearing gold accessories her Italian shoes and bag are gold in colours with sliver tones on them For this bride’s lips you may go for berry red lipstick and clear gloss. Use bronzing powder that is the shade of the bride all over her face, black-up is really nice bronzing powder or you may choose to use your normal bronzer all over the face of the bride and down to her neck. Keep the brusher light and remember to blend while using the loose powder. Gele: engagement gele is all about creativity, there is no magic about it, so release your mind and your hand. We shall be learning how to make two major gele styles in this lesson. This is usually and worn by celebrities and bride in this era. They are the new gele styles in vogue one sa tellite dish and ololufe. Satellite Dish Gele:

Step 1: if the gele is big fold it into two. Step 2: fold the tip of the gele again for thickness at the base. Step 3: start from the back and hold to the front (ensure that you have divided the folded gele into twoequal part). Step 4: overlap the two part of the gele in front to form V and join them together at the back of the bride’s head. Step 5: by now the gele will be standing tall at the middle, pull down the high standing part, still holding the two side of the gele at the back of the bride. Step 6: tie down the two behind very tightly. By now the gele may not be making much sense. Step 7: when you are sure the gele very tight but not too tight to make the bride uncomfortable pick out the part you pressed down in step 5 now it should be pressed in due to the tying. Step 8: when this is done start re-arranging and folding ‘gele’ from the front till you get your desired shape and fold the gele should look this. desired shape and fold the gele should look this. The Ololufe Gele/Iyawo Alhaji Gele. Step 1: fold the base of the gele as you did in step two of the satellite. Step 2: unlike the satellite where you started gele at the back of the bride head, start folding from the front divide gele into two equal part and place on the forehead down to the back. Step 3: overlap gele at the back and bring to the front, it may not be long enough to tie in front so you pin it down. Step 4: after pinning down pres gele down and start making layers carefully on each part of the flaps (you will be using a lot of pin to hold the layers)