29 & Unbreakable 🎂💪🏾🎈| Happy Birthday to Me ! ❤️🥹 God, thank you for another year of life, lessons, and growth. Waking up in Paris feels like a dream, and I’m so immensely grateful for this moment. Here’s to 29 years of resilience, love, and abundance. Merci, Paris 🇫🇷✨
Forgot to Overshare | A Life-Lived Dump 📸
2025 held a lot. This year reminded me that life doesn’t move in a straight line. There were moments of growth, joy, softness, chaos, community, creativity, celebration, recovery, connection, and introspection. The rangeeeee 😭
But I showed up in every season, and that’s the real highlight of 2025 ✊🏾
In 2026, I keep becoming on my own terms. Loving my people, exploring new places, and holding close the memories that carried me through.
Onward,
Derek 🤍
Anddd That’s A Wrap on 30! 🎁🎂✨ Thank you all for attending my Lace & Leather 30th Birthday Party last weekend. 🥳 A TIME WAS HADDDD 👏🏾🎉 A night I’ll never forget! Forever grateful, xo Derek 💋
Officially 30 🌹❤️ It’s My Birthday 🎈This new decade feels like elevation — like clarity, like alignment, like purpose. Thank You God for preparing me, protecting me, and positioning me for everything ahead. 🙏🏾 Here’s to the next chapter. 🥂✨ I’m ready. 😌
Courtesy of Compton ♠️ DEREK TURNS 30 🎈This November, my birthday will be one for the books!! 🎂🎥❤️🔥 Pull up to my grown & sexy “Lace & Leather” 30th Birthday Celebration 💌
LOTS of surprises OTW 😜
Hope you’re ready to party! 😉🎉
ACCEPTED & ENROLLED! 📚👨🏽💼 Masters of Science loading…✨ Over the summer, I took the leap — I started Grad School. Nearly eight years after earning my Bachelor’s, I know this: timing is everything. I’m stepping into this chapter with clarity, passion, and purpose.
[Swipe to see who I do it for ❤️]