Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Living on solid ground

It's been along while since I have posted, or even been active on social media apart from on Twitter (are you following me? If you lurve God, luxury fashion - I talk a load about that, black business within the UK? - I talk a lot about that and lingerie crisis ? (I suffer with being a size UK12 except God anointed my cup to runneth "plus size") - I blast on the chance the subject comes up ^_^

But back to apologising for not being active - I've been going through some things. At 24 I'm still observing low-key madness with acquaintances overstepping their mark, mean-girl movie style backstabbing attempts, confidence (we'll get to that in this post) and honestly a broken iPhone camera haha.

The older I become, the more I evaluate and observe the people around me; growing up I've watched my mother keep so call friends around because they 'grew up on the estate, mothers got their hair did on the Saturday, went to school blah blah blah' and I'd be damned if I followed such a practise in the matter of quantity over quality.

There has been an instance this year where I have had to ask myself when releasing myself from some people 'am I the problem?' and God revealed simply; 'You are enough'. 

Gosh I love having Abba on my side. 

The world as a homegirl says 'is truly going mad' and will have you thinking that you are a problem but really and truly you as a person are enough when you are :

Truthful - to a situation 
Honest - to your peace
Forgiving - to the world you are in and surround yourself in

Knowing who you are in Christ will have you walk differently (blessed), talk differently (blessed) which will be received by many (including frenemies) as 'over the top', 'assertive', 'ignorant' and sometimes 'arrogant' .


You ever notice somebody finds a problem when you publicly dedicate literally every small and big victory to God but are chilled when you thank the universe? 
A prime example of the world, going, absolutely mad.



This honestly lead me to low-key not post myself on the gram, go out with a group of my girls etc etc. I was afraid of the image I would put myself on not correlating with the feelings I was experiencing with presently , carrying on day after day at the view of the world (people that claim to know me) at a higher authority than my own, immaculate creator.

You see, God is who I call - the Picasso of Picasso's. Who cannot tell me nothing about his work of art. So why do we look at the poison in Instagram likes?

On Christ the solid rock I (and you) will stand / On other ground (Instagram / Twitter / workplace with co-workers who befriend you simply out of the four walls you share your 8hour shift) is sinking sand.

So I share my latest upload, something that I took (obviously at a wedding haha) that I was well pleased to see capture my million dollar smile from an angle ;) 

  


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Thursday, 30 March 2017

Longer days and warmer nights

Happy Spring! I just thought I’d share a really cute OOTD fit from Mother’s Day. In the UK, we celebrate on the last Sunday of the month of March.

 So spring has come and I have tilted my head over to the Zara mid-season sale site, haven’t purchased anything as of yet, but that silk flower print kimono that Shirley posted sometime this month got me thinking lol. For this transitional period though, blush pinks, creams and nudes along with a cool denim (yay for tucking the dark denim back into the winter file to not be seen until September!) are my go to palette for me.
Sleeveless turtleneck top - REISS
Jeans - TOPSHOP (JONI)
Shoes - CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN So Kate
What go to colours are hiding in your palette ?

 Also during this past weekend, I attended my first wedding of 2017. I haven’t been to a wedding in 2 years! The occasion was so beautiful and intimate, a first for me. Imagine, I had around 2 weeks to actually find an outfit for the occasion and seeing as I’m so conscious of my body, can you just imagine the slight panic going through my head?

Shout-out to my home girl Bernie! She hooked me up with her aunt from Fantascreation whose designs have featured on many cool Ankara / kente bespoke tailoring Instagram pages including bellanaijaweddings and idoghana! Within 2 weeks (more like 5 days) me, a Caribbean, learnt a thing or two about buying lace material and how to differentiate kente (it was low-key a headache lol).  But I loved my outfit!

Bespoke dress - Fantas Creation
Shoes - Christian Louboutin So Kate


A satin-rose off shouldered high-low dress with gold lace applique and orange beading.
And the slay for the weekend:
  

Sunday and Saturday

This is like my go-to basic necessities whenever I'm pulling out a look ;)
Foundation: A mixture of Dior So Nude and YSL -Concealer: LA Girl set with Sacha Banana Powder
Setting Powder: Mac Mineralizer -Bronzer: The Body Shop
Highlighter: MUA at Superdrug -Eyebrows: Sleek eyebrow kit
Eyeshadow: Morphe 360 palette with Barry M loose glitter in Rose Gold -Eyelashes: Liza Lush
Lips: NYX chestnut eyeliner with Tom Ford Nude


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Thursday, 2 May 2013

White Denim || OOTD

Hi all, happy Thursday !I can't believe we are May already !! Summer soon come ! 
- Oh yeah 

 I hope everyone is enjoying the weather in London today and using it to their advantage ! I certainly have ^_^ . Ernela and I had fun in LCF library being 'good' students *as per usual * . Whilst in the west end, I popped into Body Shop to re-stock on some items, for today and tomorrow, they have a promotion of 30% off EVERYTHING ! I couldn't let that opportunity waste. 

 
Peplum top, gradient leggings, flats - Topshop | Sunglasses from eBay ! 


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Tuesday, 2 April 2013

OOTD || Easter Monday

Heyy everyone ! Happy April (can't believe how quick time is flying) and happy Easter Tuesday (yurp, I said it.... Easter Tuesday ^_^ lol). I hope you all had (are still having) a lovely time with loved ones, and taking a rest before we get back to world of reality in a week or so's time.

Yesterday, my whole family spent the day  (and night) together chilling and carried on celebrating, we have a lot of things to be grateful and the bank holiday was an excuse to meet up with those who we hadn't seen since around Christmas.
Tried something which I'm not use to - mixing textures and print. Liked the end result if I say so myself 
 
 Blazer, Jeans and heels - Zara
Top - H&M
Clutch- Louis Vuitton
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Thursday, 7 March 2013

New Purchase: Zara



Jacquard Blazer and Leopard Heels : Zara

Something about these two individual items struck me during a stroll in the Covent Garden Zara that sunny afternoon during fashion week, (does anyone remember that burst of sunshine and mild warmth the Friday of London Fashion Week?) and I was tempted to buy the blazer and another light jacquard blazer there and then, but thought I should have a little think about them. Soon ended up changing my mind about the other one as my eyes found these babies, recently I grown a slight fetish with leopard print, recently bought a scarf form M&S, courts from Wallis, reconstructed my skater skirt (from river island which I bought from last yea)r, and when I found these on the app, I was like BOOM! They're cute for a daily outing in summer or during the night with a LBD.  

Hopefully, an OOTD post will come up soon ...

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