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How to tell a Nairobi chic from the hood she comes from

Women are very easy to rate. However they can be very cunning and adaptive when it comes to faking their backgrounds. With the availability of photo shop and filters in the social media applications a woman from Muchatha can easily post photos of her faded jeans and mtumba high heels and airbrush them together with the back ground to seem like she comes from Karen. But when you scratch deeper, certain habits among women almost always betray their social class and hoods.

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