WELCOME

Without much further ado, welcome to FTLLP! One year in the making (in my mind at least), I’m finally ready to dominate a little slice of the internet and infuse a little bit of magic.

Who am I, anyway?

In a nutshell: Olivia, 24, Kenyan born, Mancunian bred (#thecityisRED), humanitarian lawyer by training, and creative by calling. Stuff junkie (read: shoe, bag, jewellery, clothes, makeup…basically, anything-that-looks-nice junkie), notorious over-packer (I am the woman at the airport with seven pieces of luggage in tow), involuntary-eyebrow shade giver, lewd-lyric lover and full of life!

For the nosier folk out there yeah you: I’ve lived almost all my life in the UK and after a three-month-turned-two-year-stint in Kenya after my undergrad degree, I made a decision to move home FOR GOOD. So here I am, three years after my first toe-dip (via a year-long masters degree), settled home for the long haul and ready to ignite my much-neglected creative gene.

What is FTLLP and what can you expect?

FTLLP actually came around just over one year ago on Tumblr (take a look and follow me HERE), as a creative outlet and a place for me to share with me, more than anyone else, little snippets of fashion, poetry, inspiration that I bumped into while surfing the net. I was having so much fun and figured this is the next step in that journey (we aren’t in Kansas city no more)!

So what can you expect to find on FTLLP? Primarily:

• Beauty reviews – beauty is slowly but surely becoming big business in Kenya, and as a beauty nut I want to bring you information about what’s out there in the market, what’s to love and what to steer clear of
• Fashion musings & personal style - the latter if I get brave enough!
• Lifestyle natter
• And because I don’t like to be confined to any box, look out for smatterings of what I like to call Glitters of a Dreamer’s Mind – basically, anything off topic that might take my fancy, or anything you’ve requested me to talk about!

Thank you for making it this far (I tried to keep it as short and sweet as I can)! I hope you check in regularly (add me to your RSS feed). I’d love to get some feedback from you of what you think of the blog - don’t leave me hanging, leave me a comment, let’s talk.

Oh and before I forget, for a daily dose of crazy and updates on new posts, follow me on twitter here:@oliviaakumu  and email me here: fortheloveofleopardprint@gmail.com

- Olivia