The illustration journey of our students

 The journey of fash4dev has been a rollercoaster with different ups and downs, but has sure been an adventure for us, our partners and for the students. WorldConnect US has been an awesome support through the journey.

the illustration journey of our student has been so tremendous, just take a look at some of their works.

You think this is awesome too? yes we thought so too but this is not how we started.

😅😆😂

You think its hilarious too. 

We still believe they are work in progress but we keep pushing and we keep learning.

XoXo

Whoopy Yun

Whoopy Yun's first nomination 🤸🏽🕺🏼💃🏼

2020 has been an interesting year, like everything about life, its been filled with different ups and downs.

We started the year doing our own thing, doing what we know how to do best, impacting knowledge, first we got our first mini-grant to train women which debut our fash4dev cohort1, fash4dev is an initiative of Whoopy Yun fashion house and Whoopy Yun fashion school to raise 1,000 youths out of unemployment and extreme poverty, with this initiative we met 12 wonderful women. Fash4dev has its different challenges and as we are trying to weather the storm, covid-19 strike and shut down the world, we temporarily suspended all trainings and business activities, for a WHOLE MONTH, it was a tough period, one we are yet to recover from. Life of an entrepreneur you say😒😕

Waking up this morning to see an Instagram notification, we checked and boom!💥 we have been nominated for fashion school of the year 💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🕺🏼💃🏼,  keeping calm was hard and is still hard💃🏼🕺🏼🤸🏽💃🏼🤸🏽😎🕶 because we are not sure who nominated us, but we sure love the feeling that someone somewhere think we deserve to be at the top💃🏼🕺🏼🤸🏽.

Someone somewhere is watching what we do and believe in us, its not a win yet but we sure feels like a winner. We say a big thank you to the person(s) who nominated us🙏🏼 thank you, nag ode, ese,Dalu.

We need you all to support us during the voting period and with your help we can take the award home.

XoXo Whoopy Yun

Fash4dev: Digital space meets fashion

It is no longer news that we are Ina digital world, it is also not a big deal if you hear about website or apps for different use, however thousands of businesses still exist in Africa without an online presence, thousands of businesses in Nigeria are still not benefitting from the power of technology and enjoy the tremendous opportunities available in the digital space.

For our students not to be a part of the stone age fashion designers, we invited one of the Ibadan finest web and app designers, who is also a google representative in Ibadan Mr Femi Akintoye to speak with our students on the power of app and website for businesses.

It was a fun time learning and the Q&A time was really fun.

Guess what!!!! 🤔 All Whoopy Yun students and #fash4dev students are getting a huge discount on web design from him💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼.

One more reason to join us at Whoopy Yun Fashion School.

For us at Whoopy Yun we are not just Simplifying the Science,art and craft of fashion, we are taking our student to the next big level, its fashion beyond sewing.

Fashion Illustration at Whoopy Yun Fashion School

It is a known fact that not everyone who can sew can create style, what makes a fashion designer is not just the ability to sew, but ability to do so many things that involves creating a complete fabulous garments.

At Whoopy Yun Fashion School, we are teaching our students how to sew, how to identify fabrics, what fabrics works for what styles and we are teaching our students how to dig deep into their creativity well, how to be innovative in the fashion world,how to envision a style in their mind/head and turn it into a real picture with our design and Illustration class.

The new set of students started yesterday 2nd March,2020, we asked them to try and draw🤣😂 and we all laughed at the different drawings but as the class proceeds, we can clearly see some improvements and its just a class by the end of the month, wonderful croquis and illustration with painting will emerge from Whoopy Yun fashion school students, not just that we will birth the new generation of fashionprenuers.

YES you can............ if LEARN how to.

XoXo

 Whoopy Yun

Whoopy Yun: Raising Fashion Giants in Africa

So many businesses in Africa die with the founder for different reasons ranging from lack of leadership skills, vision less, lack of structure and process, no good successors etc, the case is not different in the fashion industry, most fashion businesses die sometimes when the founder is alive and sometimes when the founder die, again several researches had given different reasons for such failures.

At Whoopy Yun Fashion School, we wanted to raise fashion enterprenuers who will establish a successful and sustainable fashion businesses, to do these we embarked on a mini research and we found 2 major factors that make fashion businesses in Africa die prematurely are 

1. Lack of skill: a lot can sew but few can sew professionally.

2. Paucity of business running skills: its easy to start a business (if you have access to money/capital), but really hard to run a business successfully.

To bridge these gap, we don't just teach our students how to sew, we teach them how to sew professionally and how to run a successful and sustainable business in our environment, we are raising African giants💪🏼💪🏼

So we started a new cohort of #fash4Dev and we invited a business coach, Mr Wale Adebayo to take our students on entrepreneurship class and it has been wow!!! 

He taught setting up a business, raising capital, setting goals, vision, getting staff, marketing, systems & processes etc I am sure our students lives and businesses will never remain the same after his teachings, we shall be having more facilitators come in. 

Watch out for these women!

XoXo Whoopy Yun

Fash4Dev debut

It is no longer news that there is inequality and poverty in the world, as much as different research from different organizations shows that poverty is reducing, the reality on the street is different, Nigeria recently became the poverty capital and the reality in everyday experience is just not something i am Comfortable with.

For a very long time i was angry that i was given birth into the enviromnent i find myself, i see how babies die due to simple sickness the parents couldnt handle either due to none availability of health center, no money to pay private hospital or pausity of equipments at hopitals, i hate to see children malnourished, kids hawking on the streets exposed to different types of dangers and vices, the list is endless.

I wanted to help, I wanted to help people get people out of extreme poverty, but I don't know how to.

 Fash4Dev means fashion for development, it was born out of the need to reduce rising youth unemployment by creating jobs in the fashion industry.

 I have been working on the dream by training people with the little available resources. Recently, we got support from a US based organization called World Connect, world connect provided us with equipments for sewing and the equipment that aids both teaching and learning. 

We selected wonderful women that made teaching easy and the support we got from friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and total strangers has been WOW!!! 

I believe an individual can make impact and the ripple effect of the impact is unknown. Do your best for humanity.

XoXo Whoopy Yun😁

WYC "Fashion for Development": OYOMESI students

" FASHION FOR DEVELOPMENT"  is no longer a dream, it's a reality. It's a work in progress but it has been officially birthed , we debut the first summer training of WYC Fashion Institute and the turn out was tremendous, we are super glad that we touched lives and made impact, the summer training is targeted at catching future designers young and nuture their dreams early "CATCH THEM YOUNG".

It looked like a mountain that we cannot climb initially, so many questions on our minds, how do we make impact, how do we get the right young people to impact, how do we get the finance to support the dream?!

Everything sorted itself out without much sweat, don't get me wrong, it wasn't all that easy, there were days I asked myself if I knew what I was doing. Good friends, right connection and supports from family made it all easy.

 We were able to work with the Oyo state government, through the office of the Special Adviser to the governor on Education by partnering the OYOMESI Job Experience Scheme, we were able to teach much more than fashion crafts, we were able to plant the seed of entrepreneur, we were able to work with future leaders, and community developers.

We made sure the students didnt learn fashion alone, but we discussed sexual and reproductive health with them, the importance of abstinence,  we talk abt HIV and ways of contacting them,  we spoke about self esteem, negotiating skills, pricing skills and how to influence their immediate environment positively.

 Public speaking and presentation

Taking measurements

A student displaying what she cut

They were proud of their craft and had to take a picture with it

Fashion instructor with her students giving notes

Crafts making in progress

Cutting and sewing on going

XOXO Whoopy Yun

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT; through fashion

ZUCCHINI FASHION OUTFITS in partnership with WHOOPY YUN CLOTHINGS present EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT.
Learn basic and advance fashion designs.

PROGRAMS:

• Basic and advance pattern making
• Basic and advance sewing skills
• Basic and advance fashion sketching and illustrations
• Fashion styling and draping.

Program extra:

• Leadership skills
• Money management and pricing
• e-marketing.

Duration: 1 month, 2 months, 3 months and 6 months

For bookings and enquiries contact us

17, Olubadan Avenue,7UP road Oluyole Industrial estate,  Ibadan.
Email: whoopyyunc@gmail.com, zucchini.outfits@yahoo.com
Phone call and whatsapps: +2348035068092,  +2348038164750
Our prices are affordable.
Zucchini & whoopyyun, yes you can do it.

So I have a passion which I have been secretly pursuing and that is giving back to my community,  helping people and contributing my own quota to the complete eradication of poverty and women empowerment. I believe poverty is the cause of most of the vices in our society and because am a Nigerian, I realised women has greater influence  on children than men (although young men are more participatory than before ),so my focus is on women and children, if we can stop it at family level its will be easier than going to police station or courtroom.
 Also,  women are at risk of maternal mortality due to poverty . I have worked with health-based organisation, so I can direct teenage girls and women with maternal issue to where they can get assistant for FREE.

As a fashion instructor, fashion designer, fashion stylist, I want to inculcate the two passions together, if you know teenage girls or a women with passion for fashion and indigent and is in Ibadan, please let them contact me on bbm:7B884FA7 or whatsapp:+2348035068092, and they will be empowered for free.

Xoxo whoopy yun

For the BEARD-GANG ; Growing out your beard

The new trend in men fashion is THE BEARD, it's like an accessory, oh!! How I love the beard-gang not just because my husband wear beard #lovestruck, but because its so cool and sexy.
"The moses beard" thats what i call it hehehe, is a commitment, the experience can even be a test of character and a process of self discovery

Whether or not you should grow beard depend largely on genetics and there is little or nothing one can do than to resign to faith, although there is a plastic surgery to tranfer hair from other part of the body to the cheek,its illegal in some country and legal in but its generally expensive, if you really really want beard and you have confirmed that your gene doesnt support growing beard, please visit your plastic surgeon for best advice.

 So, a fan request that we talk about growing beard and we decided to talk to the beard-gang, read up on it and here we go.
 follow these steps and lets know how it goes
1. Make up your mind to grow out and be committed to it, it takes hard work bro,
2. Exfoliate your skin once a week,  it will remove dead skin cells and make your face breathe well.
3.wash you skin morning and evening, clean skin encourages small hair to grow.
4. Check your face for ingrow hairs (bumps)
5. Get plenty of rest, sleep well bro
6. Incorporate vitamineB into your diet, increase your protein intake and eat vegetables and fruits.
7. LEAVE THE BEARD ALONE. Stay away from clipper, there will be temptation to shape or sculpture the new beard, DO NOT SHAPE IT. Shaving does not make your beard grow thicker.
You might suffer from itch and irritation (uneasy lies the head that wears the crown)

Keep up with us on keeping the beard, watch this space.

Lets know if you find this article useful, drop your comments

Xoxo whoopy yun

Naturalistas’ Guide to Healthy Hair in 3 Simple Steps

To all the people who mailed, pinged, call and texed to find out why I stopped blogging, thank you so much, it sures feels good to be loved. Am back.
This first post is for #teamnatural #nappynation
Before I decided to turn my hair natural, I was part pf the people that feels caring for natural hair will be rocket science, believe me its not, its as simple as A, B, C.

Step 1 – Cleanse When your hair and scalp is cleansed often they will be able to function at their optimal capacity. This means that a clean scalp will be free to grow as much healthy hair as possible. Similarly, hair that is cleansed often will be free of unnecessary dirt and grease which often lead to dry hair.

For the hair to really thrive, it’ll need to be washed at least twice a month with a gentle and moisturizing shampoo. You can also cleanse your hair in between these shampoo washes with a conditioner; this method is known as “co-washing”.

You’ll know when its time to wash your hair, when your scalp starts to feel itchy or flaky, or when your hair doesn’t have a pleasant smell or when it feels greasy and excessively dry. This will help guide your hair treatments and help you with healthier hair everyday.

Step 2 – Condition One of the reasons why it’s harder to grow African hair texture to long lengths is because its coily nature makes it difficult for the natural oils produced by the scalp to be evenly distributed to the entire length of the hair. As a result, the natural moisture on the hair shaft evaporates quickly, leaving the hair feeling dry. That is one of the reasons why tightly coiled (type 4) hair is known to be notoriously dry and vulnerable to breakage.

Before going natural, I never used a deep conditioning treatment and I would only use a conditioner to help detangle my hair. And when I washed my hair in braids, I never used a conditioner since I didn’t need to comb my braids. But after reading about the importance of deep conditioning treatments for the health of my hair, I made sure it was deep conditioned on a WEEKLY basis.

A deep conditioning treatment can be done by applying a store bought hair masque to freshly washed hair and leaving it in for at least 20 minutes. Hair that is chronically dry and damaged needs to be deep conditioned on a weekly basis. You can reduce this frequency as soon as you start to see major improvements in the health of your hair. I dont condition my hair weekly anymore

Conditioning the hair also includes applying a leave-in conditioner on the hair after you’ve washed it and before styling. This will help to keep the hair soft days after the hair has been washed and conditioned. Think of how soft your skin feels after applying lotion.

Step 3 – Style Aside from cleansing and conditioning, another reason why it seems like African hair is so difficult to grow is mainly due to the type of hairstyles that the hair is styled in. Hairstyles designed to make you forget about your natural hair will only lead to more damage. Tiny and heavy hairstyles are particularly damaging to the scalp and should be avoided. This is because damaged hair can be cut off and regrown, but a damaged hair follicle (the tiny roots that produce hair) might never heal. This means a damaged follicle might never regenerate new hair again. So it’s best to stay away from styles that compromise the health of the hair and scalp.

For a stylish hairstyle which will also help you retain length, I recommend low manipulative hairstyles such as buns, flat twists, twists and pin up styles. You’d be surprised at how much your hair grows with these simple hairstyles.

If these 3 simple steps are done properly and consistently, you should start to see results in the overall health of your hair in just a few short months.

Tell me Naturalistas, what is your healthy hair routine?
From me your #nappygirl

Xoxo whoopyyun