Our list of beautiful gele styles fit for the celebrant. I promised to post this later in the day. When I did a post earlier today on classy yet elegant gele styles for invited guests, I did ask you to check back for this.
These gele styles are for women who deserve all the attention of the day. They have the unique qualities to make guests turn their heads when you walk past.
These beautiful flamboyant gele styles are for the mother of the day, birthday celebrant, mother at the naming ceremony or whoever is hosting that special Nigerian party and has invited guests to celebrate with her.
With these gorgeous geles, you have no apology for looking stunning and outstanding. You want everyone to identify you with ease. These geles put you in the spotlight instantly.
Let’s look at them below:
Beautiful gele styles fit for the celebrant
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Mama Jazz in her Beautiful gele styles for for the celebrant. Remember mama Jazz whose video went viral after she publicly knelt down at her birthday party to thank hubby for the way that he treats her and her family?
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Beautiful gold gele styles for the celebrant. Can you tell which is auto gele and which isn’t?
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Beautiful orange gele styles for the celebrant -
Navy blue matching purple. -
Beautiful purple gele styles for the celebrant -
This could go for autogele -
Shimmerin in beautiful gold gele. These gele styles look so professionally made.
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Isn’t she lovely in this gele style?
Do you know that any of these lovely gele styles for a celebrant can be used on a bride as a bridal gele style?
At weddings, we know the bride as the celebrant. The bride at any wedding is the star of the event and all she needs to wear on her head is a bridal gele. Most brides like to shop expensive fabric to use for gele and as such would love to style the fabric with so much finesse and elegance.
Who wants to spend money on expensive geles and not show off?
What is bridal gele in Nigeria?
Bridal gele is what the bride wears on her traditional wedding day. It’s the large gele on a brides head. In fact, during bridal makeover in Nigeria, the gele tying is the final stage of dressing up the bride.
After wearing the traditional wedding attir, the makeup follows before gele tying.
The moment a Nigerian bride is seated for gele tying, that means the dressing is done.
One thing I need to mention though about geles is that they can actually be tied days, weeks or even months ahead and kept safely away from touches and dust.
If you are looking for a gele style to use as a bride, feel very free to pick any of the styles listed above for your bridal gele because you dear are the celebrant who deserves to get all eyes focused on you.
These gele styles for the celebrant can actually be used by anyone looking for bridal gele styles for their Nigerian wedding.
There is also auto gele being sold by gele vendors and bridal shops. Auto gele has come to take away the work part of gele tying. Some ladies would father shop auto gele and just wear on their heads than sit down for a gele job.
Auto geles are already made gele styles. They come in different sizes and shapes.
While some Nigerian women prefer auto gele because of it’s ease of use, others prefer to sit down and get the gele tied and customized on their heads.
It’s easy to identify a bridal gele. Bridal gele is pleated and looking at these gele styles for a celebrant, most are pleated. The numerous pleats on a bridal gele makes it look so detailed and elegantly designed.
TYING GELE FOR A CELEBRANT
Gele styles for the celebrant or the bride are mostly tied by professional gele tying men or women. When it comes to professional gele trying, both men and women are really doing great in that field.
The tying of a bridal or celebrant gele style is not as easy. It takes time talent and expertise.
I am yet to see a bride tying her own gele. The professionals who tie gele for a fee are mostly booked ahead of time.
They get the most bookings towards the end of the year between November and December when people plan to end the year with weddings, year end parties and other fun events.
While the fee for gele tying is not much, auto geles are expensive. An auto gele can sell for upto 30k Naira in Nigeria. The fee for gele tying could be around 1 thousand Naira to 3K Naira depending on the gele style and the fabric texture.
It’s more expensive to tie gele in the cities than in rural Towns.
Would you love to try tying a celebrity gele by yourself in your room? Nelo Okeke shared a youtube tutorial that I find very easy to follow. She ties the pleated gele in seconds using just her thumb and index fingers to do the job:
See the simple video here and try practicing. It’s easy when you tie pleated gele using this method.
Who does gele tying in Nigeria?
The makeup artists tie gele too. Nigerian gele tying is like a part of a bridal makeover. Though some salon owners also toe gele for a fee. Nigerian makeup artists do a great job. It is a part of their job
When the charge for a makeover, gele tying is included in their charges.
Some sellers of gele fabric also do well with tying. So, it’s very easy to just walk into a market or hair dressing salon and get your gele beautifully tied for a little fee.
Not every roadside gele seller can do the celebrant or bridal gele styles. For these complicated Pleated gele styles, get a bridal makeup artist to do a good job with excellent finishing.
Is gele tying business lucrative?
Yes. Gele tying is very lucrative. Honestly, there is money in gele tying. Nigerians love to party and most events are like carnivals. Nigerians love to be happy and just have fun with food, music and dance. Weddings and other ceremonies happen all year round. They speak in November/December and that is when beauty artists work round the clock making money.
Makeup and gele tying is very lucrative here. Women pay their makeup artists so much money to travel with them to event locations and venues.
When people travel from the city to the rural areas for events, they travel along with their favourite makeover artists. Here us where they get to make money because after working on the celebrant or bride as the case may be. They get to tie different gele styles for all the friends of the celebrant. They also get to work on the bodies of other family members and this is where the money is.
For a makeup artist or gele tying expert to really make money from the job, he has to be ready to travel along with clients to places where the events are holding.
Many of the professionals also do the sales of gele fabric. You get to shop from their stock and they also make profits from these sales. Aside selling gele fabric to the clients, many gele sellers also stock bridal jewelry and other accessories for sale to their customers.
It is a complete money making business with branches of income from tying the gele for celebrant and brides to sale of the fabric and accessories.
See this YouTube video on how to tie simple gele styles yourself.