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Lifestyle — the life in between everything else.

Neké Akua in a hot-pink wrap blouse and denim shorts, glancing back against a graffiti-covered wall, woven bag in hand.
Neké Akua in a cream cape blazer, pen in hand over an open notebook, against a jungle-leaf wallpaper.
Neké Akua laughing in a burnt-orange sweater against an exposed brick wall.

The nine minutes before I leave the house, the work that happens between school runs, the Tuesday that never made it to the grid. That part.

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Mornings, work, and the small decisions that make an ordinary Tuesday feel considered instead of rushed — squeezed in around two kids at two completely different stages, and a calendar that never really clears.

How I Get Through a Week

  • The hard things go on the calendar first. Everything else fits around them.
  • Nine minutes is a real amount of time — most mornings it’s all there is.
  • Two kids at two completely different stages means no week repeats. I stopped expecting one to.

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“A calendar that never really clears. This is the part that happens in between.”

Neké Akua · on lifestyle

Neké Akua laughing on a stool in a fringed vintage band tee and ripped flare jeans against a charcoal wall.
“Most weeks don’t have a theme. They just have a Tuesday, and then another one.”

Neké Akua · on the ordinary weeks

Written About Lifestyle

  • Neké Akua laughing on a stool in a cream graphic tee and flared denim.
  • Neké Akua in an orange wrap sweater, holding a glass of wine beside an exposed brick wall.
  • Neké Akua barefoot in an orange crossover knit and distressed jeans, leaning against a white wall next to exposed brick and a tall ZZ plant.
  • Neké Akua laughing in a black graphic tee against a beige geometric-print wall.
  • Neké Akua in a yellow satin gown with a high slit and silver heels, standing before a floor-to-ceiling pink flower wall with her train spread wide.
  • Neké Akua laughing in a yellow satin gown against a wall of pink and blush flowers, her train caught mid-motion across the frame.
  • Neké Akua in a sweeping yellow satin gown holding a two-tier birthday cake trimmed with blue and yellow blooms.
  • Neké Akua in a yellow satin gown holding gold foil balloons, the dress's long train sweeping the length of the studio floor.

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Let’s Be Friends

Once a month I send the things that didn’t make it to the grid. The hotel I’d actually rebook, what I’m cooking on repeat, the one thing I bought and don’t regret.

No spam. Just what I’m loving each month.