What not to wear

Fashion Police: Making fashion trends work for you

By: Aviwe Ndyalvane

 

Being a varsity student means your school uniform no longer defines you. Fashion is your new tool to building your identity; your personal brand. Those around you can either associate themselves with you or stay away from you, because of what you wear. It is very important that you make fashion trends work for you to avoid being known as the Campus Fashion Victim.

Here are the Top 5 tips to consider before rocking a new trend.

1.      Campus Hobo: wearing cut jeans makes you look hip and funky. However, be careful that this trend does not make you look like a campus hobo. Cutting your jeans too much in all the wrong places makes you look trashy and homeless.

Never cut your jeans below your behind nor have big square shapes on your thighs. Looking trashy does not only make people judge and label you, but it also makes them question your self-respect.

Solution: cut your jeans in small equal cuts on your things. However, do not pull this look with a very tight jean, because it makes your flesh look like sausage rolls. Additionally, it makes you appear fatter and is very unflattering. Likewise, do not rock this look with baggy jeans, because it will make you look homeless. Your jeans should be normal fitting size, to allow room for movement but not exaggerated.

 

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Campus Muffin:  Skinny jeans hug our bodies and make us feel sexy. However, wearing a very tight jean makes you look like a walking muffin. Additionally, squeezing yourself in a smaller jean size makes you have a flat behind.  Moreover, wearing a small tight jean is not good for your health as it prevents blood circulation hence you may experience cramps.

Solution: If you give out a huge sigh after taking off your jeans- let them stay in that laundry basket, because they are dirt to your health.

 

 

3.      Jeggings: This is one fashion crime that remains apparent in all seasons. Never substitute transparent leggings for jeans; it does not work for all body shapes, because leggings outline and expose your body shape. Secondly, never wear a smaller size of legging and force them to fit you, because this will outline your private part, and leave little to the imagination.

Solution: Buy printed leggings with animal and African prints instead of normal black leggings, because they have a T-shirt material that is not transparent and stretchy.

 

4.      Mona Lisa Eyebrows:  never ‘erase’ your eyebrows and ‘redraw’ them again, especially with liquid eyeliner. If you cannot shape your eyebrows; brush them. It is more horrifying when you re-draw your eyebrows above their natural position, especially if you have oily skin, because the liquid eyeliner starts to wear off making your eyebrows smudgy and grey.

Solution: Please do not traumatize those around you; not everyone is fond of clowns. Brush your eyebrows if you do not want to pay for a makeup artist to shape them for you.

5.      Chocolate VS. Vanilla: wearing the perfect foundation is very important, because you do not want to wear too light or too dark makeup. Wearing too light foundation makes you look like a corpse; wearing too dark foundation makes you look like a preserved animal from a zoo museum. Your foundation should match your skin tone so that it can enhance your complexion and hide your imperfections.

    Solution:  Do not be afraid to ask in store makeup artists to perform a skin match test on your face before you buy a skin foundation.

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