home Letter From The Editor-In-Chief Dearest Contras & Contra readers, I was just wondering the other day, when I was thinking about the best way to write this, about success stories. The abundance of them and how we’ve come to be so addicted to them.
No Sugarcoating Priorities: Changed or Revealed by Pandemic? One of the many repetitive chimes of happy-go characters on social media is the talk about the gift of time granted to us in isolation by the COVID19 pandemic.
Contra Recommends Contra Recommends: Try Posh Shades It was my first visit to the new City Centre Almaza Mall ( back when we could go out shopping like normal people) when I stumbled on this fascinatingly intriguing store.
Beauty Home-Made: Flaxseed Hair Gel Recipe Ladies who love their curls but hate that they just won’t stick swear by this gel.
poetry Heart To Mind - A Poem "Be cautious, for not all what shines is gold Not all what makes us smile is happiness Not all that flickers is light."
Beauty Handmade Fluffy Hair Cream Recipe When I went all natural, the challenging thing was to find a way to keep my curls intact without using industrial products. I started experimenting with cooking my own products;
Beauty Handmade Hair Styling Wax Recipe If you’re into styling your natural hair like I am, you might find yourself limited by the lack of styling products in stores. Most commercial hair styling products are horrible for your hair.
No Sugarcoating 12 Lies about Adulthood Growing up, most of us were raised with set ideals of what adulthood should look like along with an invisible checklist of expectations and goals we have to meet up to, and achieve, to deserve the label of an adult.
Beauty My Beauty Haul Review You know those ladies with shopping hauls, I’m the one who does beauty hauls, that crazy lady walking out of a cosmetic store with 2 big shopping bags, yes that’s me
Beauty Going All Natural: Cleanser/Shampoo Recipe As a natural curly head, I’ve had the hardest time finding a shampoo that suits my locks in Egypt. You can’t just pick up a sulfate-free shampoo from your nearest supermarket.
No Sugarcoating How to Stay Friends With An Ex I know most of my readers expect a heftier topic but a while back; there was this time my good friend Lobna exclaimed, “how do you stay friends with your exes!”. It was quite an interesting statement, since for the entirety of my adult dating life I’d always stayed friends with my exes.
Beauty Fighting The Sanitizer's Dryness Everyone’s cringing from the discovery of how sanitizers dry your hands and all the ugliness that comes with alcohol and proper sanitizer use. Welcome to the world of science majors everyone!
Exclusives Coronavirus: A Specialist Answers All Your Questions With the shutdown of schools and universities as well as the recent decision to shut down the airports, there is no escape from the discussion of the CoronaVirus, or COVID-19.
Fashion Red Carpet Rundown: 2020 Academy Awards the red carpet was eye-popping and we here at Contra LOVE to discuss style, so let’s talk fashion. Below, I’ve listed our favorite and least favorite looks from the 2020 Academy Awards red carpet. Let’s see what the celebs had installed for us in this new decade.
Beauty How to Maintain Dyed Hair Colour-safe conditioner is essential. Not only does it make your hair colour last longer; it also adds a shiny finish to it.
Beauty The Deep Conditioning Routine A lot of people may frequently ask, “how do I get my curls back when my hair is very dry and damaged?”
No Sugarcoating Getting In With The Press, Meet The President In the past week I’ve been in Sharm-El-Sheikh taking part in the World Youth Forum (WYF), yes again! This year I wanted to do something different while I was there. I got a chance as Editor-in-chief of CairoContra to get a seat in the session of “Meet the President”.
Fashion Red Carpet Rundown: Gouna Film Festival 2019 Last night might have been one of Gouna’s craziest fashion nights so far, inspiring quite a few feather jokes on social media. Of course, while the trolls had their fun, we had
sponsored Emmkan’s Founder: 5 Years Changing Teen Education photo source Emmkan, an educational organization that empowers and enables youth to develop their social and emotional intelligence by providing the first Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) platform in Egypt, is celebrating its
No Sugarcoating Oikaa: A new pyramid scheme scamming you “Today you’ll be a new member, next week you’ll be one of the expectants…but please don’t ask questions because I am sure you’ll find them answered during my
Beauty Hair Addict Indian Recipe: Here's our verdict The Hair Addict Products I would like to note that while I received the product as a gift from The Hair Addict, this review has not been paid for and is entirely based
Exclusives The World Youth Forum: What They Said Start-up Vein Here at Cairo Contra, we take it seriously to bring in all the sides of the story. Hence, when our Editor in Chief was attending the World Youth Forum, she decided
Exclusives On the World Youth Forum with Ahmed Magdy If you’re a keen follower of Egyptian news then you might remember his face and voice as he invited the young people of the world to visit Egypt, inciting the launch of
Fashion The British Royal Wedding 2018 Rundown Abigail Spencer & Priyanka Chopra heading to the wedding church along with numerous guests I know this is not a red carpet event, but I couldn’t help running down all the fashion
Fashion Breaking Royal: Meghan Markle's Bridal Look The Duke & Duchess of Sussex depart their wedding chapel as husband & wife Ok, brace yourselves as we’re about to discuss what should have been the highlight of the day. The
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