Category: Tique a Frique

Hey guys, am back! So excited to show off my sexy Leopard Spots and open back.

 

First off, the picture on the website does not do justice to the skirt, looked like a one of those wraps you wear to the beach, and the front slit looked a bit blaahh! From the website, I was not so impressed, but I got it, wore it and loooved it! It has a lining, so you are not exposed from the front slit, and elastic waist band and the material is cotton and not transparent.

 

I wore it with the Gold chain Bodysuit, two things that make this worth buying, the Gold Chain. If you are lazy like me, lets just say you wont fuf around looking for a chain to accessorize, second, the material is thick, like a scuba suite!

If you love the outfit as much as I do, you can get it from here

Lots of love

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Hi guys,

We keep hearing the phrase “Think outside the box!”, but everything around us screams something totally different. So yesterday trolling on the net I came across an article from Gilbert Ross; 7 Things You Must Know to be a Free Thinker. It’s a really good article and thought I should share a few thoughts that got me thinking.

1. Creativity is your natural birth right

We stereotype creative thinkers as artists or bohemians who are different than the rest of us. Well that is plainly false. We are all endowed with the gift of creativity. Education, or rather schooling, has successfully stripped us from that natural disposition. It has molded us into mechanistic and reductionistic images of humanity – into cogs in the wheel. The schooling system is designed to make people think within the same parameters – those laid down by the dominating view of society and culture.

2. Group thinking and herd morality are you enemies

Group thinking is the silent enemy of free-thinking. We unconsciously follow the rhythm of the crowd. When the crowd shouts, we feel compelled to shout. When the crowd panics, we panic. Emotions, sentiments and ideas can be very contagious. So is thinking. It’s quite easy to follow the line of thought of your peers and those in authority. Yet as we become sedated with group thinking, we lose the power to claim the authenticity of our own mind.

3. Perspective is key

The free-thinker knows the power of perspective. Perspective changes everything. What we feel or think about something can dissolve or flip the other way round just by changing perspective. Even the strongest of views and beliefs can change when a newer perspective is reached. What seems like loss can be seen as opportunity just by changing your perspective. Adversity can turn into a learning opportunity; problems can turn into a solution; what is failure from one perspective can be seen as a launching pad for success from another.

4. Knowledge is provision

Conservative, authoritarian, religious or institutional structures resist change forcefully because their worldview rests on the premise that their knowledge or beliefs are absolute. Even Science can and did fall in this trap at times. Yet the free-thinker is sure of only one thing – that knowledge is provisional. What we think we know today will be debunked or dramatically changed by what we know tomorrow. Free-thinkers run away from individuals or organisations who claim to know something, or worse, know everything. They are fully aware that we haven’t got the faintest clue yet, despite big leaps forward, about the world, life and the Universe at large.

5. Defying institutional pressure

My favourite quote has to be from Albeit Einstein “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing its stupid.”

Society had two major forces at play. One is a top-down control transmitted hierarchically through the institutions. The other is a force of change, novelty and innovation which is built bottom-up from individuals and slowly accepted and adopted by larger social structures. One crazy innovative idea from a free-thinker on the fringes of society can be taken up by some influences and spread virally through the mass media until it becomes a norm. OK this is a simplistic overview but it’s enough to show the basic mechanics of social change.

Free thinkers are those individuals on the fringes of society cooking up shockingly new ideas. They refuse to succumb to institutional pressures of uniformity and control. The institutional top-down forces are there mainly to preserve their status-quo, the stability of the social system and its identity hence they resist novelty and change. The power of the free-thinker on the other hand, lies in constantly defying these institutional pressures to abide to the rules and accepted norms of society.

Note: These ideas are all courtesy of Gilbert Ross. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and his blog Soulhiker and more importantly you can take his course at Udemy.

Am having one of those long weeks that am a slave to laziness. So much so  going for a wee is a major task! I have not done my hair in like two weeks, not because am broke, but I cant be bothered with the hastle. Am one of those people that when having my hair done, as soon as they start the first line or braid, I want to stand up and leave. Cant be bothered with sitting there whilst someone is at it on my head 🙂

Having said all that, you might understand my current obsession with tying a wrap on my head. Can’t be walking around with matutas on my head! (though I wish I could). They are great for hiding bad hair and look really stylish, poshish and can be worn with anything!

 

Lets discuss my outfit. First things first, ever had one of those days you go into your closet and you feel like you having nothing to wear? Either that or your bored of your usual stuff? I have that all time. That’s when I decided to visit my nephews closet for inspiration.

 

I paired his Cherokee shirt with a pair of my skinny jeans. The Stilettos I got from Tique a Bou and my new fav bag, also from Tique a Bou. To accessorize… a pair of loop earrings and I was good to go.

I will try doing a video on how to tie different styles of head wraps.

P.S. Tique a Bou is having another offer on footwear, 500 shillings off on all pairs!

Hello ladies and gents, its been a while, apologies for that but am back 🙂

So today’s post is about strips, not that kind that make you look fat and behind bars but the sexy kind, not too sexy, but just enough to make heads turns. Its an exciting, comfy and quite casual outfit for a chilled out weekend.

This dress is absolutely my new favourite, its simple comfy with a dash of sexy!

Wore it with ‘Vices-Verso’ Real Leather Sandals and Tan Faux Leather Satchel.

For my lips, am wearing “Red Siren” lipstick shade that I got from Bodyshop Kenya. Yes Bodyshop is finally in Kenya, and you can order everything online for next day delivery. Back on my make-up which was quite simple, for my eyes I used Bodyshop Smoky Black Eye Definer, am not sure if I did a good job, but I loved it, it looked snazzy.

If you happen to spot me wearing the same outfit 5 days in a row, please do not judge, am going through an obsession 😉

Striped Maxi Dress with Knot Detail – www.tiqueabou.co.ke

‘Vices-Verso’ Real Leather Sandals- www.tiqueabou.co.ke

Red Siren lipstick Shade – www.tbspink.com

Smoky Black Eye Definer – www.tbspink.com