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Lean In To Yourself I woke up this morning exhausted. How does one start their day exhausted? I woke up wondering how I was going to accomplish it all. Yes, I think many of us wake with that sense of anxiety. On my way into the city I stopped by my local bodega (support bodegas) for some coffee and browsed for some caffeinated tunes - plugged in Lena to find this classic. Advice: Never stop dreaming or thinking big - just take small steps everyday to attain your goals. Big or small. Wake up, believe in yourself, and take action. No one will knock you off the road to your goals but you. 👑 Stay Fashion Conscious. Move Fashion Forward. 🎥: Lena Horne Believe In Yourself (courtesy MyyyTunes5) #TheEmpressofstyle #TheEmpressofStylePlaylist #LenaHorne #StyleIcon #EmpressByDesign #Empowerment #Discipline #DesignYourWorld #Grit #Entrepreneur #Artist #Mood #TheEmpressofStyleMoodboard #DesignBlog

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Sunday NightCap Check out my latest post on Medium.com entitled "Act Like Your Worthy" (link in my bio). After dropping this knowledge I got my headscarf on and now off to bed. Tootles. 👑: @jadaisreal_01 Stay Fashion Conscious. Move Fashion Forward. #TheEmpressofstyle #TheEmpressofStylebyDesign #SundayStyle #DesignBlog #Styleblog #EmpressStateofMind #Designer #Stylist #Artist #HairInspiration #knowyourworth

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My Hair Is My Moodboard "Sameness is depressing & even dangerous. Let's have something different. I am always going upstream when everyone else is going downstream. This is something I was born with." - Grace Jones I loc'ed my hair 11 years ago to embark on the journey of loving myself. I hated my hair. It effected my self image. I tried weaves, perms, extensions & was never satisfied. I found it all to be too high maintenance & restricting. I cut my hair all off & began loc'ing my hair & it was the best decision I ever made. It's an extension of my artform; It serves as my walking installation piece. I enjoy pushing the boundaries of what my hair is capable of doing & also consider it a social experiment. People are fascinated & fearful of black hair -of blackness. For instance my knotty knots were assaulted by snickers & giggles by two hispanic women sitting beside me on the train. I saw them glancing over & talking in spanish. My instinct was to shrink but I held my head high. Immediately shrugged off their ignorance. Later the same day a young black man came up to me in awe, said he loved it & told me to keep doing my thing. Lesson learned is you can't bend & fold to what people want when a majority are stuck in their comfort zones. No one knows what they want. There are two sets of people - those who conform & those who do not. To focus on exploring who you are is to subject yourself to the court of public opinion. Your inner voice has to scream louder than any external force. You have the right to figure out who you are as a human being. Please expect me to keep pushing the boundaries of your consciousness as my crown twists, turns, & takes you to new heights. Excuse me while I fall in love with myself. I encourage you to explore your own masterpiece. Stay Fashion Conscious Move Fashion Forward © #TheEmpressofStyle #wearfashionconsciousnessunite #TEOS #Naturalista #BlackHair #Crowns #EmpressbyDesign #Fashionista #CrownHeights #BlackGirlMagic #SundayStyle #Masterpiece #Ignorance #Artists #SelfLove #selfexpression #stylishandbuddhist #women #SelfMastery #DesignerMindset #GraceJones #Influencer

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WARRIOR WON| . . . In Yoga, Warrior 1 also known as Virabhadra's Pose; "What's really being commemorated in this pose's name, and held up as an ideal for all practitioners, is the "spiritual warrior," who bravely does battle with the universal enemy, self-ignorance (avidya), the ultimate source of all our suffering". - @yogajournal . . . It has been a definite battle for clarity over the past 3 to 5 years through anxiety, depression & PTSD from toxicity surviving this business & personal battles - when I revisited studying Buddhism (don't know why I put it down in the first place) I quickly realized everything I was carrying was not my own. I became a waste basket for the failures of others. When I learned of the concept of "othering": view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself; it all made sense. Read Toni Morrison's The Origin's of Others. All of the destructive [isms] in the world are people wrangling with their own identity & the unwillingness to share & create space for others to do the same. Humans have an obssessive need to justify their own world by nullifying others in an effort to create value. A multitude of worlds CAN exist at the same time - we shouldn't feel the need to colonize one another. The ultimate violence is to prohibit others from fully realizing there own existence. Thank you @angielmv for documenting the creative process of ME designing ME. . . . Stay Fashion Conscious. Move Fashion Forward.©️ ... #Repost @esc_artists Made by @report.for.insta ... Escape Artists Collective on Instagram: “#portraitphotography captures during opening night 11/28 of #ResponseAndResiliency recognizing the global campaign #16DaysOfActivism 💜…” __________________________________________ #TheEmpressOfStyle #TheEofS #EmpressStateofMind #TheEofSReadingList #ToniMorrison #Stylist #Designer #CreativeDirector #CreativeProcess #AntiBullying #AntiViolence #StylishandBuddhist #Photography #StayHuman #Yoga #Healing #MentalHealth #IOwnMyRhythm #RhythmofHumanity #SelfAwareness #Artivist #MondayStyle (at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq7aTYfhHeE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=115xgeii4wfzv

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THAT'S A WRAP|🎬 . . . That's a wrap is used to say that the filming of a movie or television show or one of its scenes is finished. Example: It's a wrap, folks. We can go home now. - @merriamwebster . . . Working behind the scenes to support fellow creatives as they take the stage or on film sets, early start times & long hours often leaves one with not enough time to pamper themselves. This past weekend I worked a 4 show weekend as a swing dresser on Broadway (always on call 😉) and not enough sleep to top it all off. Still, have to book my hair appointment with my Crown 👑 manager @jadaisreal_01 (I will book with you soon!) and opted for headwraps with the ton of textiles I had remaining from prior design projects and for hair emergencies such as this. . . . To my Queens & Kings: If you have no fabric, grab some shears and try upcycling the fabric from a printed skirt, dress, blouse or even a tshirt if you have enough yardage. If you cannot bear to slice into your wares, stock up on textiles at your local fabric store or support creators of color such as @TheWrapLife and have it delivered to your door. . . . P.S. Much love to Empress & fellow buddha sista @Afroista & her son after bumping into you both after wrapping a 2 show day. My delirious conversation with you was delightful! 😂 . . . Stay Fashion Conscious. Move Fashion Forward.©️ . . . #TheEmpressofStyle #TheEofS #WardrobeConsultant #Stylist #Designer #Dressers #Broadway #WardrobeSupervisor #Film #Television #Theater #Streetstyle #TheEofSTips #DIY #Headwraps #HairInspiration #BlackHair #Sustainability #Upcycling #Prints #StylishandBuddhist https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkQLBxnrmv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w2v4lkefi3cq

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H&🤔 . . . . This is why community is so important. . . You tried it. . . #Repost from @bigtara . . . Stay Fashion Conscious. Move Fashion Forward.©️ ---------------------------------------------- #TheEmpressofstyle #TheEofS #SupportCreatives #FastFashion #Disposable #Sustainability #Community #Business #Entrepreneurs #apologynotaccepted #DoBetter

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BLACK COFFEE ☕ . . . . It's Monday and there is nothing better than seeing Kings & Queens of color winning. I had a chocolate filled evening last night when I watched A Wrinkle In Time. I took a break from creating to support the work of other creators (creatives support & invest not only in high profile names but your fellow independent creators as well. Stop asking for a discount 😎. Imagine we came out for one another the same way we came out to support these productions? Consistency is the key to increased visibility). Black Panther's box office success & Jordan Peele's Oscar win for Best Screenplay is the best way to start off this year. It is a definite caffeine boost to really buckle down on my own work. Thank you to @ava , #RyanCoogler, & @jordanpeele for casting a light on what is possible. Stay Fashion Conscious. Move Fashion Forward.©️ ------------------------------------------------------- #TheEmpressofstyle #TheEofS #DesignYourWorld #Creators #CreatorsofColor #Designers #Film #EmperorbyDesign #EmpressbyDesign #Trailblazers #DefyExpectations #Directors #BeTheChangeYouWantToSee #MondayMindset

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P. S.A. . . . . . Not that you didn't know already. It's #tbt thought I'd just remind you. . . . . #TheEmpressofstyle #TheEofS #TEOS #EmpressbyDesign #ThrowbackIntoYourselfThursday #EmpressStateofMind #DesignYourWorld #Creators #WomensHistoryMonth