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Verastic

Authentic conversations about culture, motherhood, divorce, black excellence, humor, and style!

Plus Sized Bride Finds Love, And Lucifer Emerges

Plus sized bride: Abena + Kojo

I saw this picture so many times on social media yesterday that it was honestly eating me up. This picture of the plus sized bride and her handsome man. People are viewing their love like it's an oxymoron, like plus sized, love, and handsome man just don't belong in the same sentence. Abena is a plus sized bride who is obviously confusing people and shattering all the rules and expectations and limitations they made up for her in their minds. Her fiance, Kojo could not care less.  There are Read More

Have You Seen Darey’s ‘Pray For Me’ Video?

Pray For Me by Darey featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir

I really am not usually a music video person, but lately, Igwe has been getting me to watch videos, and I have truly enjoyed some of them. Igwe put this video on a couple of days ago, and I was so moved. I cried my eyes out. It's Pray For Me by Darey, featuring the Soweto Gospel Choir. I'm shocked that it only has a little over a hundred thousand views. Nigerians, how far? As a child and as a parent, this video broke my heart. And that should be testament to how good it is. Generally, I Read More

Why I Married A Nigerian Man | By Fiona Keene

Happy African Couple - Verastic

I am British by upbringing and Ugandan by birth. I get people all the time telling me that I am brave for having dropped everything as I knew from Jand and moving to Nigeria. Some people even thought they could have seen me with a white man or even a Ugandan man, but a Nigerian one? Definitely not. Growing up I used to go help my mumsi in the salon after school. There was always plenty gist about Nigerian men in particular, how corrupt they are. The discussion was always among other Nigerian Read More

Have You Heard About PINCHme?

PINCHme - Verastic

In case you have not noticed, there is a product-sampling phenomenon that's sweeping the nation!  Most of them are paid subscriptions, but the one I want to tell you about today is PINCHme because it works a little differently. Disclaimer: I received my PINCHme box, and although everything looks interesting, I am yet to try any of them (just received the box two days ago), so I cannot really tell you how great the items are. Like I said earlier, PINCHme works a little differently because Read More

Mommy Needs Some Love, Too

Garnier Whole Blends Hydrating Mask in Coconut Water & Vanilla Milk Extracts

Before I had Ada Verastic, I heard too many stories about moms spending all their time and energy on their children and letting themselves go. I did not think I would be one of those moms. Ada Verastic is now five months old, and I still don't think that I have let myself go. However, having a baby girl has shifted my focus and excitement from me to her. I'll explain. When Ada Verastic first made her debut, I was not as obsessed as I am now with dressing her up, but that might have been because Read More

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