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It’s officially 1 month post birthday😇Imagine doing a Birthday shoot this Gorgeous and not posting it because of a challenge😅Planned to post it on May 31st to end my birthday month slay but was busy so had the idea to post exactly One month after my birthday and I’m glad to be able to meet up because I sabi forget things like this ehn😂

Hair: @rockashairs 
Skincare: @rockasempire 
Dress: @essy_styling 
📸: @studiobyfelixcrown
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Y’all already know that I’m always extra so when I decide to throw a party,it will definitely be extra👌got this idea last year but my the time it popped in my head it was already less than 2 weeks to my birthday so told my event planner to prepare ahead for this year🥰

By January this year, wanted to sly my fam that already put mind in this party and tour 5 countries with the budget instead but my mum that likes party wouldn’t let me breathe so I gave them the party of their lives💃🥳🎉

Hair: @rockashairs 
Hairstylist: @rockasempire.lekki 
Decor: @eventsbyadunb 
Dresses: @essy_styling 
Food: @daaprilskitchen__ 
Small chops/tapioka: @agchopsandgrill 
Cocktail: @otrwithb 
Snackboard: @snackboards.ng 
📸: @favydidit 

#rockasempire #rockashair #rockasempirelekki #birthdayparty #explore
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Grateful for another trip around the sun filled with laughter, love,countless beautiful moments and lessons👌I’m not aging, I’m maturing into a legend!its my birthday 🎂 😋🥳😊🤗🎊🥳🤩

The last slide is my mood for starving you all and making y’all beg the Queen for the pictures 😂😂😂E too sweet me to feel that powerful over you all even Mr Yusuf had to beg too cos why can’t be proud 😊i ate and left no crumbs 😋

Hair: @rockashairs 
Skincare: @rockasempire 
Hairstyled: @rockasempire.lekki 
Dress: @amaka_collection_ 
Glam: @__tinamac 
📸 : @felixcrown
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MSY for #AMVCA11 #AMVCA2025

presents 

From Sketch to Skin: Itsekiri, Yoruba, and Hausa

Red Carpet, Cultural Day for AMVCA award nominee - @thegbubemiejeye 

The Look

For this look, I drew from her Itsekiri background. Sketching the original idea was interesting, as her personal style is simple and classy. It’s a great thing I get to infuse my storm in bits to her personal style. Wrapper? Yes, but please not too demure and not too loud, either. Marrying both was the decision to create the single hip cutout. Risky. That, I love. 

The Wrapper.

Her status symbol green & gold-trimmed George wrapper is a great choice. Handed down to her two generations down, it carries with it a lot of love and inherent culture. In a flattering gender-fluid way (Itsekiri men tie loose wrappers), it is tied and neatly tacked on her body and the corset. It features bead clusters in the folds.

The Corset. 

It is intricately beaded in an intentional mix of pearls, green & royal blue sand beads, with the royal blue meant to stand out. Cinched and high at the displayed hip, it leads us right to her neck pieces and bracelets.

Glass beads. 

This is for revered rich old culture. Gbubemi, although Itsekiri, has grown up in Lagos. Yoruba culture is a part of her. Glass bead production is said to date back to Ile-Ife in the first millennium AD. They are “powerful symbols of cultural identity, status, and history, particularly within the Yoruba culture”. She is not just wearing beads, she’s wearing power, wealth, and status. Royal blue, emerald green, and gold-stained beads are the colours in play.

A pebble-bejewelled gold clutch, and matching gold pointy toes heels accessorize the look. Her bronzed-up skin, oiled in Lorusa Khumra oud scented oil, made and loved by the Hausa people, is happy to be clad in the most complimentary skin tone colour shades, wrapping up the look. 

-Description by Moffee for MSY!


Styled by @namoffeebethis for @moffeestyledyou
Design created by: @namoffeebethis for @moffeestyledyou 
Custom made by: @amaka_collection_ 
Makeup: @nanalewabeauty 
Hair: @priest_touch 
Photography: @smagical_hemma MSY for #AMVCA11 #AMVCA2025

presents 

From Sketch to Skin: Itsekiri, Yoruba, and Hausa

Red Carpet, Cultural Day for AMVCA award nominee - Gbubemi Ejeye.
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