1. Always Place 1-2 shirt boards in between your outfit to Separate front piece from back piece. Sometimes the glue melts and sticks both front and back piece together especially if your outfit fabric is light.
2. Cover your stones and the area of the outfit you are stoning with a sheet of Ankara before placing yourelectric iron on them. The Ankara fabric serves to protect your outfit from heat marks and iron burn.
3. Apply pressure. Use a table or stool that is below your waist line; rest your body weight on the electric iron. Press for 5 seconds; check if stones have stuck, if not, press for another 5 seconds. There’s a science behind heat pressing and it has got 2 components: heat and pressure! Be sure to use both. Even if you’re using the single stone applicator, still apply pressure. I hope this helps
Ore-Oluwa Ekanem Solana is the CEO, Bedazzle Innovations Multi-Services Limited and Founder, Ibejulekkiconnect, a Social Enterprise and neighbourhood platform that promotes communal living and access to information among residents and businesses on the outskirts of Eti-Osa-Ajah-ibeju-Lekki-Epe axis of Lagos state, Nigeria.
While she holds a first degree in Pharmacology from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, excelling in Business as well as teaching entrepreneurship to aspiring and startup entrepreneurs is her passion.
Ore-Oluwa has given talks on entrepreneurship at three United Nations (Lagos office) World Youth Skills day events. She has a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management from the Enterprise Development Centre, Pan-Atlantic University; Certificates in Basic and Advanced leadership from Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos, A certificate of participation from the Cherie-Blaire Foundation 2019 Road to Growth program for female entrepreneurs and A Finalist of Cohort 1, Standard Chartered Bank, Nigeria, Women in Technology Incubator program.
With 9 years (and counting....since 2010) entrepreneurial experience, Ore-Oluwa aspires to become a Serial-Investor-Entrepreneur that makes money even when she sleeps.
