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Bay Area Braiding Stylist & Creative
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📍Hayward, CA

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it took a long time to shine this bright.

i bet that folks who know me IRL would describe me as someone never lacking confidence.

they are not wrong. i earned it, despite being told to modulate, to put others’ comfort ahead of my own, that i intimidate people … that i am too loud. too much.

i downplayed and muted my perception, the speed of my CPU, my ability to read and channel energy, to feel, see patterns. and, when i did trust my power, i used it to stabilize out there … the spaces and places never designed with me in mind.

well, f✨ck ‘em cuz i am one bad b🌸tch!

you see, i KNOW who i am.

my journey to reclamation has turned me inward–directing my knowing towards me and my life. true self-care on a trillion.

look, i’m not everybody’s cup of tea.

in this one precious life, i’d rather be so boldly and brilliantly myself. dare to be so FULL of myself that my people can find me.

want to join me?

trust in self first. every other kind of trust starts there.

love you. mean it.

#TrustLiteracy #SGNL #SelfTrust

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was in a ginger mood #newavatar

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rip to my natural hair color 💔💔

@braidsbydouble saved my #life

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Preparing for my Netflix documentary following survivors of hotel happy hour

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what i did in the span of 2 days #photodump

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underwater hearts beat
💧through umbilical kelp
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she turns water over
until it’s warm and ready
for another beginning
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for another being
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that will inhale her water
and fall from the formless ancestral realm
into a sensitive and sensory body
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that digests reality through its po(u)res
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I remember more often that
as we were growing in our mothers’ womb
we were breathing underwater

soaking in the memory & intelligence
kept inside each liquid pebble

In the Diaspora of African Faiths
Water ways are understood as occupying the Realm of the Unseen.
The pre and post form

💧💧💧it was in water that we materialized from formlessness 💧💧💧

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thank you @tamate.uta & @seve_scape for playing in/speaking to the water with me

thank you @anansii__ for archiving the moment

thank you @braidsbydouble for the aMazing hair design work

thank you @seraphimfairy for the garmentry

thank you river for womb-like warmth and stilling

truly, one of my favorite ways to meet friends deeper is to make art together

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Let’s discuss hair art & dandyism. The meticulous tailoring of hair art is true dandyism at its finest. People don’t typically think of defining hair as a medium that’s tailored however I beg to differ. Here’s some references of hair art I would have loved to see interpreted on the Met Gala 2025 blue carpet 💈Featuring looks that stem from intricately crisp lined hair sculpture to rigorous braid design all deriving from the true nature of Dandyism itself. Presenting as your most fabulously imagined self. & We simply cannot forget the swagger of it all.

Cheers

#hairart #metgala2025 #90shairart #runway #dandyism #blackdandy

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d͙o͙w͙n͙l͙o͙a͙d͙s͙ (´▽｀).。ｏ♡

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