Little Vintage Slinger

So  it's that time of the year again. As soon as January ends I start feeling the valentines day pressures. The worse time of the year for a single romantic like me. Believe it or not I choose not to celebrate this day as it has always been a let down. The best valentines day I had in the past 5 years was last year. I was newly single and still learning to adjust to not having anyone to call at the end of the night. My friends and I decided to take ourselfs out for a singles dinner where we were all dressed in black. We had lots of fun despite the fact that we were all really let down by our secret admirers. So I've learnt my lesson, I'm never getting my hopes up for valentines day ever again.

 

On a much lighter note, I'm running a competition for valentines day. Just because I've given up on this day doesn't mean the rest of you should. Here is how it works.

Share and Motivate 

Simply share my link with 5 friends and motivate them to visit the link and you could stand a chance to win this awesome vintage sling bag (thrifted). Best answer wins. Its that simple.

 Don't forget to tag me. 

Runs till the 13th of February so the winner can that wear it to her date.

My advice to the rest of you hopeful romantics out there is love yourself and look good doing it.

 With love, 

Esther

My Kinda Guy

With the start of the new year I noticed judging by everybody's resolutions or plans that we're all on a quest of happiness. I haven't made any resolutions, because the pressure of a resolution gets to me. This year I want to better myself, every day better than the day before and maybe find love. 

A question I kept getting is what is my type and unfortunately that list is so long and so vague but here is an idea of my favorite type of mens fashion.

Currently I've been obsessing over hipsters. I even went as far as starting a facebook page on Hipsters and Fashion .

I respect people that are bold enough to make fashion statements by being different or ''weird''. Not following the masses where your clothes become uniform. 

When it comes to Hipsters and their fashion its the mens fashion that I'm obsessed with. Lets just say if I met one I'd want a closer look.

 

 

From the extreme hairstyles, facial hair, piercings and tattoos to their well tailored suits,bow ties, cool tees nerds and fedoras. I can't even properly express how much I love these styles. 

Celebrity Hipsters and Blipsters (Black Hipsters)

Pharelle

Ryan Gosling

Kanye West

Andre 3000

Miguel

I guess until Mr. Right comes along I'll continue obsessing over these stylish celebs.

So for the rest of 2014 lets make an effort to stand out and be different by not dressing like the manikin but rather making it your own. What I do is when I shop, I ask myself how I can wear a specific item differently.  I do things like getting a bigger size, wearing it back to front , accessorizing, Wearing a dress as top or a skirt as a dress. There are no limits when it comes to fashion and you should never be afraid to try.




 

Lastly, another new obsession of mine





Thanks Pandu

With love,         

Esther 

.....addicted to retail

This was one of my less inspirational weeks. With exam stress still fresh writing on my blog is a last concern. I today realised how therapeutic it is to spill my beans to you, my faithful reader.

 

I can't believe its been 3 months and I haven't had the urge to text him. I unfortunately still think about him as evident but more thought of his well being. Breakups are scary and work in phases, I'm at a good place and blogging keeps me busy. 

In other less depressing news in my life my braids are out and for those who don't know I'm a newly natural 4c girl. Ahhh, the struggles of a black girl. Due to being lazy I paid the people at the salon           

N$100 to take out my braids, I then just braided them down for a Cigar and Coiac party on friday and did a twist out on sunday. Now I'm rocking my fro in a hat.

Before: Rocking braids, soft dread (first time)

The handsome man in the stripe shirt is a friend  Jean-Michael Twinplatinumgun. Check out him out sound cloud.

 

 My hair: Friday

My Hair: Wednesday

Speaking of Wednesday......Outfit post

   

Denim shirt: Mr Price
Neon Mesh top:Guillotine by Lisa Jaffe
Denim shorts: Mr Price
Shoes:Tommy
I own 1 designer piece of clothing and its this top by South African Designer Lisa Jaffe which I even got as a gift. Best believe it'll make another appearance on the blog.

Okay now I dedicate this next song to anyone who relates to the first verse of Kanye West's 'All falls down'. Single black female addicted to retail.

            

With love,         

Esther

32B or not to Be

Ever get caught stuffing your bra? It was rather very embarrassing as my mom grabs my sock stuffed chest trying to brag to her friends about how much I was growing. Luckily her shock was contained and played off. As for me being a tom boy for most of primary school I was really hoping no one would ever find out, despite the fact that it was just my mom. Little did I know 9 years later I figured out how to dress my little chest.

I am a 32 B and proud! I can only now say this with conviction. When I was younger all the girls considered hot were the ones with the slightly more developed chests. As the years went by I realised that unfortunately their perceptions of what's hot was tainted. To me now learning to love my body and learning to work with my 'so called 'flaws' is what's hot. If you're bottom heavy,short, tall, skinny, athletic, top heavy, heavy all over and you're not hiding under piles of clothes or dressing like everyone else then do it with confidence. Always aim to look and feel great in what you've got, then my friend you've won the war.

As I love fashion I constantly critique people in my mind but I always give props for anyone wearing anything with confidence, that I can say is the biggest fashion statement.

With love,             

Esther

Kiss me more before you go.....

 Hello springtime! Spring, a season that doesn't seem to exist in this part of the world but still really I believe it's the best time of the year for fashion. My theory is that during the transitional seasons such as autumn and spring, fashion all around the world is more or less similar. According to the weather in these seasons some days its hot and other days its cold, thus for 6 months in the year the fashion of the world corresponds. Although winter remains my favorite season, in terms of fashion spring allows diversity.
The rules I live by for spring/summer fashion this year is remembering to keep it simple when living outside the box.

Spring party was the theme of my 3rd closet exchange. The 18 ladies in attendance had a lovely afternoon eating cupcakes, drinking cocktails and socializing while getting some awesome pieces of clothing in the processes. Here are some of the stuff that were available.

The skirt and the shoes featured

this is a white knit throw over which I wore backwards and these shoes were available

The top and skirt were both available

 These brogues have never been worn

More pictures from the closet exchange

and too the coolest lady I've seen......

With love,             

Esther