Victoria Beckhams clothing line

Victoria Beckham launched her own clothing line this month and attend a private preview evening at Selfridges.

Her clothes are reported to have already sold out. Have to say I am a bit disappointed about that because i really love the dresses and cannot wait to see what Victoria will create next.

Prices ranges between £650 and £1,900, Hmmm a bit on the pricey side wondering if she would create something for the everyday high street shoppers like moi.

Word is Posh gained some assistance from designer Roland Mouret, remember the Roland Mouret dresses worn by every one from Beyonce to Dita Von Teese? Have to say good work POSH

Black AndSilver New Shop In Abuja

New store opening Monday the 24th of November

Shop 9
2nd Floor
Omega Centre
Plot 527
Aminu Kano Crescent
Wuse II
Abuja FCT

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Napket, SNOB Food!

Look what we found!

Ok we kept it away from you for 3 weeks now but i think this lovely chain of boutique cafes will blow you away this its amazing organic food.

Napket has a very slick interior design, including iPods at the breakfast bar and Philippe Starck chairs. The whole thing is covered in black gloss, even the toilet paper is black, creating a style more usually found in a slick bar than a cafe.

The name Napket comes from merging 'Napkin' and 'Market' which gives a clue as to the kind of food you get and the way its served up.

There's a 'create your own' salad bar as well as good quality ready-made salads and sandwiches.

'Snob food' is Napket's strapline but really it's neither expensive nor exclusive. It's a chic and surprisingly affordable place to eat.

Our Favorite at the moment here at "Hotbabes" is the GRANNY’S POT : Greek Yogurt, Homemade Granola, Honey £2.40 and FRESHLY JUICED FRUITS

Branches
Chelsea
Kings Road
London, SW3 5UR
0207 352 9832 5 Piccadilly

Mayfair
Brook Street
London, W1S 1BB
0207 495 8562

Vigo Street
London, W1S 3HD
now Open

Enjoy

BET Awards 2008

Kanye West, Chris Brown and Alicia Keys were big winners at Tuesday's Black Entertainment Television Awards in Los Angeles.

Kanye picked up 2 awards for both best male hip hop artist and best collaboration for his single "Good Life," sharing the award with rapper-producer T-Pain. Other winners included Chris Brown, best male R&B artist award, Alicia Keys, best female R&B artist award, Missy Elliott best female hip hop artist, Halle Berry best actress, and Denzel Washington best actor.

Lifetime achievement award went to our Favorite Al Green who was paid a musical tribute from Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton and Maxwell.

Fun Fun Fun...

Candy Cakes

Follow up from our Sprinkles Cup Cake blog we covered in march. For those who can not wait here is what we found in Covent garden.

It is called 'Candy Cakes' and was founded in 2004 with the intention of bringing innovation to the world.  They sure did. Thier cakes are baked fresh every day in their Covent garden bakery and they are said to be constantly trying out new flavour.

They do deliver and orders can be made online each cup cake cost around 2.60 and will be shipped in the next day . Delivery charges may vary, Payments are taken via paypal or all major credit cards. Minimum order 13  bucks or 5 cakes

Belive us they are worth it! Our favorites here at Hot babes Alphabet City and Blueberry Cheese cake

Address

Candy Cakes 36 Monmouth Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9HB

Open Mon- Sun

Contact

email: admin@candycakes.eu 

Phone: 0207 497 8979.

Enjoy

Its our BIRTHDAY!

1 Year of Blogging!!

To celebrate we have come up with a special cocktail of the month.

Ingredients

1 part vodka
1 part Chambord
1 part dark cream de cacao
1 1/2 parts half and half

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Directions

Shake ingredients with ice and strain.

éthiopiques

The hottest intro to ethiopian musiq. For music aficionados around the world, éthiopiques is a selection of 28 tracks from the original 21 ethiopiques series. Must have, Rich, Sexy, Groovy sounds.....the essential introduction to Ethiopian music!

Be prepared to be captivated by funk blues and jazz from the swinging clubs of Addis Ababa in the 60's and 70's.

Be prepared to be mesmerized by the jazz style piano or the big band sax flavour.

Be prepared to be addicted to the unique sounds of Ethiopia.

"some of the most blistering big band funk, soul and jazz work outs" (Mojo)
"Is there any music more alluring (...) more down right sexy?" (HMV)
"astonishing music" (Music Week)
"This double CD is a revelation" (Independent)
"Thrilling, loopy, intriguing, an emotional cauldron" (Froots)
"A rich and enjoyable box of musical delights" (Wire)
"almost every track is thrillingly addictive" (UnCut)
"The essential introduction to Ethiopian music" (Songlines)

For more info, reviews or to hear a sample try http://www.ethiopiques.info/
or http://ethiopiques.calabashmusic.com/ for the original 21 album releaseas.

Hot, inspiring, wedding shoes.

Hey, are you guys ready for some shoe shopping? check out what we found, All we can say is these are the most irresistible shoes we've spotted, take a look

#1. Designer is Bettye Muller (our favorite)

#2. Designer is Carmen Marc Valvo

#3. Designer is Christian Lacroix

#4. Designer is Jimmy Choo...so sexy and just simply STUNNING!

#5. Designer is Anne Klein

FABULOUS!!! Right?

lizz Wright

Right, this week we are loving the sultry voice of, 28-year-old Jazz vocalist Ms Lizz Wright, on her current album, 'The Orchard', she decided it was time to return to her roots, capture the simplicity of the blues and gospel music she heard whistle growing up as the daughter of a minister, in the rural town of Hahira, Ga, where she sang in church there with her two siblings.

Her first two albums, "Salt" (2003) and "Dreaming Wide Awake" (2005), were hits on Billboard's contemporary jazz chart.

This current album has a variety of producers including Craig Street, who has worked with Cassandra Wilson and k.d. lang, musician Toshi Reagon, and guitarist and longtime Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell. It look lizz two years to work on "The Orchard" album and we have to say her work is one to look out for



Enjoy.

Table Topic

This is one of the most fun things we came across a great way to start conversations! Table Topics was created to bring better conversations to the table, instead of just going over old topics over and over again. These fun, thought-provoking questions jump start entertaining conversations at dinner and cocktail parties, family dinner, a night out with girlfriends, between couples, or in the car with your kids. You sure find a matching set for yourself.

Different topics include

Original
Family
Teen

Couples

Girls Night Out

Spirit

Book Club
Gourmet

Each clever card poses a different question, from the super fun to the never-thought-about-that-before serious. Appropriate for all ages, although especially created for adults to enjoy with friends over a glass of wine or to enjoy dinner parties.

TABLETOPICS ORIGINAL

TableTopics is the nervous host's best friend. Intriguing, funny, and enlightening, this set of conversation starting questions is guaranteed to entertain in even the most awkward situations, and will get your dinner table conversation flowing.
i) What historical sporting event would you like to witness?
ii) If you could have any view from your back porch, what would it be?
iii) What's the perfect age?
iv) Which other culture would you choose to be born into?

GIRLS NIGHT OUT TOPICS
You already know how easy it is to have fun with the girls on a girls night out. Now make the experience even more memorable using these conversation starters for women. Girls night out questions range from hilarious to thought-provoking, guaranteeing an entertaining evening for everyone. You never know what you’ll find out about your closest friends!
i) If you had to gain 10 pounds what would you eat to gain the weight?
ii) What would the "perfect" man be like?
iii) What was the worst hairstyle you ever had?
iv) What's your favorite chick flick?

COUPLES TOPICS
Whether you've recently begun dating someone new, are engaged to your best friend or celebrating your 50th anniversary with the love of your life, these thought-provoking, engaging and entertaining couples conversation starters will challenge and inspire you. Learn something new about your partner and even yourself!
i) What possession of your partner's would you like to throw away?
ii) Is it your similarities or your differences that attract you to each other?
iii) How much money do you need in the bank to feel secure?
iv) Is sexual quality or quantity more important to you?


Enjoy

Sprinkles Cup cakes!

Look what we found!

Have you ever heard off Sprinkles Cupcakes? Its coming soon to London, we hear, we just hope its not a rumour, I mean how cruel will that be?!?

Sprinkles is One of Oprah's faves!! Owned by Charles and Candace

Apparently a producer from Oprah Winfrey Show, asked if the Beverly Hills shop could deliver 300 designer cupcakes to Chicago by 7 a.m the next day to be featured on "Breakfast with Oprah," where the influential talk-show host goes on about her favorite treats before millions of viewers, Luckily for them.

After the show aired after the Feb. 1 show, sales of Sprinkles cupcakes, which go for $3.25 a pop, grew 50 percent to 1,500 per day.

"You can't say no to Oprah," Sprinkles co-owner Candace Nelson said about the opportunity.

Sprinkles cupcakes come in many dazzling colours and flavours - coconut, chocolate, lemon, chai latte and mocha, red velvet and vanilla. All topped with a half-inch thick layer of butter-cream frosting, it is also good to know that the flavours change daily.

Sprinkles also cater for special occasions we think their wedding choices are spectacular for for couples looking beyond the traditional wedding cakes and wanting to try something new and more modern. You have 2 choices either stack a tower of cupcakes on tiered stands depending on the the size of the occasion or send individual homes with a sweet token of your wedding bliss

Ahhhh!

Kemi's Journal and Zack's Story.

This month we are featuring two books from the same author Abidemi Sanusi.

A little history on Abi Sanusi is we know she was born in Lagos, and was educated in the UK at a boarding schools in Sussex and Oxfordshire, and then at Leeds University. Sanusi is a human rights worker and writer, specializing in gender and conflict issues in West Africa.

A little bit about the books

Kemi's JournalKemi's Journal is the story of a twenty-something high-flying London advertising executive. Kemi has to reconcile her new found Christian faith with a demanding career, trying to get over a non-believing ex-boyfriend Zack and living in the shadow of her best friend Vanessa with her perfect fiancé Mark. Kemi's faith is sometimes very strong and can resist temptations and other times God takes a back seat as the arms of Zack appears more alluring. How does she cope with being a Christian in the cut-throat world of advertising, being intimate with Zack and the joy of a personal relationship with Jesus? This is a bold novel that tackles the moral decisions many young women have to make about crisis of faith, sex before marriage, unplanned pregnancy and abortion with openness, sensitivity and maturity.

Zack's Story
In this much awaited sequel to Kemi's Journal, readers get to hear Zack's side of the story. Welcome to Zack's world – in which he plays a rich confusion of roles. He didn't plan to be a father, but now that baby Yanis is on the scene he's determined to take parenting seriously, perhaps dealing with some of the dark shadows of his past en route. As for being a husband, he’s wanted that for a long time – but the volatile Kemi he loves so much doesn’t make it easy for him. And neither does the office temptress, Maxine! Then there is the part of the up-and-coming big shot corporate lawyer. Zack's determined to be a success, but will he have to learn the hard way about choosing between personal integrity and compromise? He also recently become a born-again believer. Is Zack just trying to please the Bible-hugging Kemi or will he make sense of the whole God thing for himself?

To find out more about the authour and other books from Cassava Republic Press, based on Abuja Nigeria,

visit http://cassavarepublic.biz/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

Dexter

'Hot babes' favorite TV show at the moment is

Dexter!!!!

Based on Jeff Lindsay's novels

1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
2. Dearly Devoted Dexter

This crime thriller follows Dexter Morgan. Dexter is a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department.

It is on a different scale to the CSI series in case you are wondering, it is something new in fact watching CSI now I wait to see when Dexter is going to make an appearance to do forensic expertise. It feels like they are missing his charter in the programme. they should have a Dexter in every CSI series!

This is one to watch guys

visit site http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do

Fashion and Charity

New Gucci Handbag

To salute the city it loves, 100% of the proceeds from the limited edition Gucci Loves NY bag will benefit the Playground Partners of the Central Park Conservancy.

This donation will go towards the maintenance and operation of the 21 children's playgrounds in Central Park.

For more information on the Conservancy, visit http://www.centralparknyc.org/.

To purchase the bag, please visit the new Flagship store at 725 Fifth Avenue.

Jolie en Rose

Yey, Elodie from the hills has launched her own beauty products range and we are so happy for her especially to know she's still out there after her exit from the hills.

Jolie en Rose is the name of her body line and it means in ‘Pretty in Pink’ in french which is where

Elodie is half French, and never lost touch with her french roots, which is why the heart of the line comes from her own experiences, growing up in France, each summer since she was born. Jolie en Rose gives Elodie the opportunity to share her wonderful memories of the town with you.

Each flavor has a different scent and story behind it. The lotion and shower gel both have an amazing silky texture and the bubble bath is pearlized. The products not only feel great, they are good to the body and the environment. The products are all natural, preservative free, paraben free, and formaldehyde free.

There are five scents for each product, which are named after French desserts and treats that can be found in Gourdon. Each scent comes in a different color, making Jolie en Rose both bright and inviting.

Barbe a Papa (Cotton Candy) , Pomme d’Amour (Carmel Apple) , Menthe a l’Eau (Mint) , Noix de Coco (Coconut), Banane Flambee (Banana) .

You can buy Jolie en Rose product on the web or at Nordstrom's The Grove and Urban Angels stores. Visit website at http://www.jolieenrose.com/

Go Red

This is whats going on State side, and it is news for women, every where in the world. We all know that being women, we need to look out for women right? This is the perfect movement for this it is called GO RED!

The Go Red For Women movement asks real women from all across America, to share their heart health stories. By sharing thier stories, women will have the chance to become the official Heart of Go Red and represent the movement in its upcoming 2008-2009 campaign, including the possibility of appearing in a TV special on women and heart disease.

People sharing their stories about their own personal health choices, struggles and successes, can ultimately help us and others live a healthier life.

Your support is a vital part of the Go Red movement. So 'GO RED' is asking women in America to share their stories and support them by taking the Heart Check up or getting involved with 'GO RED' in your community.

Visit website at http://www.goredforwomen.org/grfw-tv/index.aspx

Make Dem Talk, 2shotz ft 9ice

'Hot babes' favorite track at the moment, watch video on our blog,its on for a few weeks, and for those wondering what the lyrics are, read bellow

Enjoy

Make Dem Talk.

Chorus

Make dem talk
Oun ton ri lobe, ton se waru owo
Make dem talk
Kulikuli poun kan odi naira kan
Make dem talk
We want to know wasup idi ti garri se won
Make dem talk

Verse 1
My brother which kind nonsense be this
The name Nigeria self dey backfire
You no fit get common gari for five naira
For poor man to chop now menhn omo I tire
For junction na so, so sandi police dey collect
Agbero don take style leave picking pocket
Na so dem eye balls go deh shine for dem socket
And if you no drop egunje for dem na heavy racket

Oya my friend pack your car quick, quick
Wey your license or your twenty naira roja
I no deh send you if your papa na ex-soja
Na my salary government dey use dey grease dem shoulder

Na so i drop money for ten more policemen
B4 I count ten, I drop everything I earn
Even the small salary wey I get from Tribesmen
Na only God go punish all of dem

Repeat Chorus

Verse 2
Me and 2shot we wanna settle scores
No need to rush all ye senators
Egunje collectors, men in black against us
Of course we gat the guts to burst
Soja go, soja come
Turn by turn won so doye idile
Keran maje'le lasan lafi sole
Our economy be like comedy
Talent dey waste, no remedy
See dem big belle, dem call am prosperity
Bad man plenty pass ina we society
49 sitting, 99 standing pack us like sanding,
Ye, ye, yehi yeh

Repeat Chorus

Verse 3
Second hand goods plenty now like pure water
For oversea Naija be the gutter
Lagos state don full with plenty omota
See everywhere not one aje butter
Everybody na sharp man, no slacking
This man dey give the next man close marking
Hijacking money na solo runs now
Na which level dis economy dey go, I bow
Serious issues go dey lie inside coffin
If dem discuss am, na very often
No gocking umunamu talking
Coded tunes, 9ice and I run things

Repeat Chorus

Verse 4
Make dem talk how is being run
Seka koju ibon si rawa ni oti lo
Ije teje tete emaje dagunro
Don't be offended if your name is on the roll
Kayin mu, kasufe, ikan loma gbele
Nigeria must be great, loju olo'te
Bawo lase mase, eja ka sowo po
Ka le olote kafi'mo sokan
Hausa to Igbo to Yoruba, hey!
Kafi'mo sokan
Repeat Chorus

Duro Olowu

Duro Olowu Fall 2008, Ready to Wear collection at London Fashion Week



Duro Olowu is a Nigerian with a sophisticated eye for mixing splashily printed vintage couture fabrics with seventies style tailoring and hoards of distinctive jewelry. He has steadily built his business empire, and made many friends while at it.



He has become a apparent presence at London fashion week. Building a business from his Portobello Road store, he first emerged as the designer of a single dress, he is now internationally recognized with his flowy, patchworked printed frocks.



His collection was such a combined of a mixture of multi-patterned couture, African batik print, and a touch of sophisticated styling.

In his autum 2008 collection Olowu used a virity of camouflage prints to creat outfits from tailored jackets and pants, coats, and kimono coats.

His new shop opened on the 21 September 2007

DURO OLOWU

365 Portobello Road

London

W10 5SG

TEL: +44 (0) 208 960 3485

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Thursday by appointment only, Friday and Saturday, 11am – 6pm

Visit website at http://www.duroolowu.com/

Terre D'Hermes

HOT fragrance for your Hot BOY FRIEND!!!