BEFORE FULL LIPS WAS CALLED LUSCIOUS.

I've always had full lips, long before today full lips has become 'a thing'. People used to call me 'onu kanda'.  I would not say I took any pride in my lips then, but I was never ashamed of them. They were my lips and they were full. There was nothing I could do about it.

Ironically, these days people undergo surgeries just to have lips as full as mine. Now we rock our luscious plum lips with great pride. I literally have more surface area to smear my lipstick.

I laugh when I see people, both young and old beating themselves up about any of their body parts they consider undesirable.

Once upon a time, excess accumulation of fat was evidence of good living. How else are people supposed to know that you 'chop money' if you do not have flesh to show for it. But today, people deprive themselves of food so they can have and maintain a slender frame. A slender frame that would have been condemned as being a sign of of malnourishment a decade and half ago. Instead is hailed today as both healthy and sexy.

Tuface warmed us all to alopecia. Today, bald hair is now mainstream. Even men with full hairline choose to shave it all now in the name of style.

Stella Obasanjo made petite look pretty. Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria, Ngozi Nwosu, have shown us that short women can stand tall.

Before black is beautiful was popularized, some people eroded their skin in an attempt to become fair complexioned.

Geeks are the billionaires, so they hold appeal now. Don't be ashamed if you are a 'ju-man'.

On a naughty note, we used the hear about cucumber, now its cassava. You never can tell, maybe tomorrow we would begin to sing the praises of 'carrot'. Maybe women would say it keeps the area together and begin to turn away from weapons of 'scatter scatter'. So never be ashamed of your 'anatomy' - whether you are endowed or not.

The society keeps changing its mind on what is attractive and appealing. No standard lasts forever,as one vogue keeps displacing another. All one needs to do is to hold on. The part of you that you consider dark today may come into vogue tomorrow. People now strike polio-like gait as a pose, can you imagine? So cheer up. No one knows what tomorrow will bring.