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Award Winning Oglala Lakota/Filipina Nail Artist🪶
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POV: You’re my captive✨🪶
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day Y’all!
I had a second to swing by the @sfindigenouscenter powwow and got to see my family, friends and nʉmʉnʉ elder I adore 🥰
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Today I decided to dress extra nʉmʉnʉ (Comanche) with my otter cap. It’s been awhile since I’ve worn it and having it on reminded me of how much love I have for our ways and all the reasons why I was give the honor to wear one since I was a child. 🥹😭 I’ve never worn one with this style of hair before and I’m grateful to my relative @child0f_thesun for giving me the extra confidence I needed ✨
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As today honors our ancestors and our relatives in this world, I ask you to listen & honor us year round, educate yourselves on our history, appreciate our artists/creativity, and Celebrate with us by not ask anything laborious from us today 💅🏼 🪶

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Book HEAVEN💫🫶😭 We just got this amazing shipment in curated by @blackwalnutbooks for a VERY VERY EXCITING Indigenous Peoples Day special💫💕
All of these books will find loving homes through our care package program & special requests from our youth <3

Get your copies of some exciting new titles like NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: BACK FOR BLOOD (@shane.hawk/ @ireadvintage), THE KILLING SPELL (@shaykauwe), THE BIRTHING TREE (@amandapetersauthor), CHILDREN OF OWL (@dr.littlebadger), and more from Black Walnut Books! 📚🩷🫶

#ndngirlsbookclub #nativelit #books

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Photos from #DAMgrown are uploaded on our #Facebook courtesy @1upmedia and @lexxmariearts — head on over and tag us 🤘🏽

👉Link in bio or head to fb.com/thedamevent

📸 More media coming soon!

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Let me be clear for a moment: the Western fashion industry has been directly harmful to Native communities since its very foundations, point blank period. They quite literally see us as resources they can extract from: whether our ideas, our aesthetics, our spirits, our cultures, our “religions,” our sacred symbols, our voices, our bodies, our women, our youth. Who they choose to put in front of the camera, behind it, in the room. It can seem unending because it’s a structure that hides its true form from us. It can root itself inside us and make US harm others. That’s why people talk about “decolonizing” ourselves FIRST.

That becomes glaringly obvious in the age of this kind of fascism, where body fascism & real fascism & violence is EVERYWHERE because of who is in power in this country.

We are not this country. We are the people of this land.
And most importantly, we are not the industry. We are relatives. There’s a HUGE difference!

Things are not perfect all the time just because they are beautiful. That doesn’t mean we don’t deserve that beauty. I think we deserve beauty everyday. I just don’t mean beauty in the way Western language teaches beauty. I mean real beauty. More thoughts soon, but leaving us with this: To anyone who has ever felt belittled, bullied, or small behind the scenes of shows, I’m sorry. I wish I could hug you. I know what it’s like to be berated, to have people try to scare you out of your sparkle, and when someone wants to make you feel like nothing. That’s what people with power who abuse it try to make us feel like every single day, and it should never happen where only magic and movement and beauty should happen.

These moments are glimpses of that beauty. It will happen beautifully, and it will be inevitable, but only if we make it so. There are people here who are doing their very best with all they have to make this possible. Our artists deserve to shine!

That’s my brain dump, from one of many who are doing their best, to you. Let’s be good to each other, please. Things are hard enough as they are🩷

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interviewing artists, some BTS, and more! ✨ #inyfw #nativefashion

soooo many beautiful moments, stories, people, kaleidoscoping here. thank you actually for letting me take your photo, talk to you, sometimes cry in front of you. @ndngirlsbookclub ✨🩷

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Decorated in dentalium & abalone but still on duty 💖🤗

Finally got to wear this gorgeous piece by @bitterwaterforredhouse while interviewing folks in New York. 💕🤞✨ Photos by @denisogrinc & me 🪩💕 Hair by angel @kristinjimhair ✨🤗

Thank you @relativeartsnyc for inviting me 💋

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Life’s a picnic? Nah I’M THE PICNIC!😋

Thanks for all the birthday love, I truly appreciate everyone’s presence in my life! Whether we speak on a daily basis or have only interacted once before, thank you all!🥹❤️🥰

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Some outfit inspo for tonight. Good vibes only! This is a community-forward event. Please be respectful and kind to others. We’re here to have fun :) see you soon!

RSVP via the link in our bio or donate what you can at the door for entry at 11pm. Space is limited for safety! Thanks all🩷🌈🫧🪩🤞 Outfit contest is at midnight!

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Friday September 18th in Oakland, CA - dance.art.music for the 18+⁠
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A DAM returner who constantly one ups themselves with their offerings and creativity, yall have GOT to connect with Stoner Baby at DAMgrown and grab yourself (or a loved one) a set of nails while you're at it!⁠
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FEATURED VENDOR: Stoner Baby Nails⁠
Stoner Baby Nails are handmade, rewearable press on nails. Made from gel, not plastic so they move with you. ⁠
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🚪 Doors 9pm⁠
ℹ️ Get the full scoop online at thedamevent.com/damgrown26 ⁠
🤓 Positive and inclusive vibes only!

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THE BAY AREA’S 1ST EVER NAIL SHOW…

…and we got to be a part of it! 💅🏽 taking you thru what this unique show day looked like with a vlog from director @avchoreography 🫶

We at the @samasyacrew jump at what screams multi-hyphenate — featuring draped fusion sari tops, accessories from the Ananya Bazaar, & these stunning nail sets, we stomped the runway & had a blast putting our many different hats on. Each model had their big moment on the runway, with director/designer Ananya joining the flash mob performance at the end 🤩 big love to everyone who stopped by the booth, Liv for having us & all the beautiful vendors & models for sharing the space!! 🫶

Choreographer, Designer, & Creative Director: @avchoreography
Models/Movers: @aishwaryamanga @__.m4ds @rish.ika
Booth Managers: @whatgivesyoutheright @mahika_gupta @currycaturetribe
Hosted by @stonerbabyevents @stonerbabynails
🎵 @anishkumaruk

#dance #bayarea #fashionshow #crew #show

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AGOSTO ✨😌🫶🏾🙏🏾🧿 #dump

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IČÁHI RECAP 🪶

Last week, we hit the runway with jewelry from the Ananya Bazaar, nails by the talented Liv, & of course some dope fusion choreography! So grateful to make history as part of the Bay Area’s first ever Nail Fashion Show while repping our culture ❤️ huge thank you to everyone who picked up a piece at our Bazaar, thank you for having us Ičáhi!!

Styled & Choreographed by @avchoreography
Models/Movers @aishwaryamanga @__.m4ds @rish.ika
Booth Assistants @mahika_gupta @whatgivesyoutheright
Nails by @stonerbabynails @stonerbabyevents
🎵 @krave.fm

#bayarea #fashionshow #runway #nails #dance

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