There’s something I find so immensely satisfying when I go on holiday, which is taking a day out to explore all the beauty haunts around the country/city I’m in and then smuggling hauling all my beauty finds back to the UK (insert me rubbing my hands with wicked glee here)
I recently came back from a 2-week holiday in Lagos, and what I found so exciting about the Lagos beauty landscape is that it really is the best of three worlds. I went to a mixture of shops and discovered:
1) Independent/up and coming own brands
2) Easy access to products and brands from the US with no restrictions like we would usually have in the UK, think retinol, skincare brands, makeup brands and natural hair brands
3) Easy access to products and brands from everywhere else in the world
I honestly felt like a child in a candy store and had to contain my spending. Here are the few bits I picked up as well as the beauty stores I got them from
Namaste Organics – a natural skincare brand based in Lagos, I picked up their Bentonite Clay Hair and Skin Mask as well as their African Black Soap Body Wash. I had heard some really positive reviews about the brand from friends whilst I was there and what I was particularly interested in is that they are using natural well known ingredients but combining them with other key ingredients and essential oils to increase the benefits to the skin.
I picked this up from L’Espace, which is a retail concept store in VI. Their beauty section upstairs also has a fantastic array of natural hair brands such as Shea Moisture, Karen’s Body Beautiful and Kinky Curly.
