What I’m Leaving Behind In 2018

Hey Readers ! So I’m back with a new post today, and I just had to squeeze this in before the year ends, otherwise the title of this post would be completely pointless. I’m sure if you’ve been on YouTube lately then you’ve seen the “Things We Need To Leave In 2018” videos piling up […]

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#ESSENCEINTERVIEWS 1

Check out my interview with athlete Desiree Henry
Reading time: 10 minutes

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Setting Your Mindset Up For School

So, it’s officially September (seriously guys this year is going too fast, I can literally remember the 31st of December 2017 when I was in church getting ready for the new year ha ha) and if you haven’t already seen the back 2 school adverts on television and the college enrolment posters on billboards and […]

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Something I’ve Never Written Before…

This is something I’ve never written before I guess it’s self-explanatory, the fact that such words or thoughts have never escaped or made a conscious departure from my thoughts Never have I uttered such thoughts and wonders, many that I keep hidden away, locked up in a psyche that refuses to bare it’s nakedness to […]

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My Culture is Not for Sale !

So, this week I have decided to blog about my opinion on the idea/theme/social construct or whatever you would like to phrase it as – Cultural Appropriation. The whole scepticism around the concept, and how it has affected me directly or exactly how it has affected girls my age or around my ethnicity. But first, […]

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Is H&M Racist ??

So if you’ve been scrolling down your social media pages this week, you probably would have come across this picture… This was a picture released by clothing store H&M this week , showing a young black boy modelling children’s clothing, perfectly fine right ? However what has sparked global outcry, as I should say is the backlash H&M […]

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How To Survive A-Levels

Woow, I can really say that time goes quickly, it was just this year that I had finished my A Levels and I had collected my results and now I’m in Uni! Time does go really quickly. Being completely honest, A Levels are not a joke… point blank period. They are really stressful, hard and […]

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The HI’s and LO’s of Social Media

Heyy !! Back at it again with a new post, been so MIA lately due to the move into university and I’ve really missed my blog so I  forced myself to put this post out which had been on my mind for soo long to do so, did I mention I was the queen of […]

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Dear Makeup Brands…

This is the beautiful Nyma Tang, a South Sudanese Youtuber, who has a channel with over 200,000 subscribers. As you can see she is a beautiful, dark skinned woman with skin to die for. Her inner melanin is filled with glow and sparkle and I am really enjoying her posts on her channel of recent. She is […]

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