Dress For Yourself

Dress For Yourself

I feel like the world’s biggest hypocrite writing this post. I remember I walked into Urban Outiftters, which I am ashamed to admit is a store I absolutely love, and seeing these gold glitter socks and thinking ohmygod these are stunning. I knew I needed them in my closet so I skipped right down to the cashier and paid for them. As I was walking back to my apartment, I…

My favorite albums right now

My favorite albums right now

Music is my biggest source of inspiration- everything from Beyoncé to Kwadee to Beyonce to Wizkid to yes, even Bobby Raps and Corbin. I was thinking about when to do this post when I saw a list of all the new music coming out this month. While I’m not the biggest fan of Drake, and have only ever accidentally listened to Childish Gambino, I thought I would use this time…

The Thrifting Life : How Thrift Fashion saves more than your budget

The Thrifting Life : How Thrift Fashion saves more than your budget

Click on the subscribe button on the right, I’d love to have you back.   Over the summer I spent some time working at Accradotalt, organizers of the Chalewote street art festival and general safe space for Ghanaian artists and art enthusiasts. During this time, I worked on a project about thrifting and thrift fashion in Accra which is in part the inspiration for this post. My first meet with…

Black Girl Joy

Black Girl Joy

Laura Mvula x The Dreaming Room In the face of recent events, I have no words yet but I do have images. And I hope that these will remind you that black girl magic, black girl joy, they aren’t going anywhere. Yeah, love and let yourself be loved.   Take care of yourselves. Love, Amoafoa

Five Ways To Always Look Put Together

Five Ways To Always Look Put Together

Photocredit : Me, photographing street style in Milan A few days ago, I had a friend tell me I always look fashionable, even when I’m wearing sweatpants. It’s a really sweet compliment, even if I know it’s only partially true, but thought I would dabble into more how-to blogging and share what I think helps to create that sense of my looking nice- basically my cheat sheet for my personal…

Back At It Again

Back At It Again

  Hello everyone, it’s ya girl Amoafoa back at it again. I cannot say how thankful I am for all of you who have been here with me and have criticized, complimented, contributed to the growth of this my section of the internet and to my own growth. To all of you who are new to this site, welcome and I hope we can grow together. The expat mannequin began…