Hi, I’m Lina,
the hands behind OXALIS.
I spent years pretending. Until one day, I couldn’t anymore.
I moved through fashion school, theatre school, vintage shops, cruise ships, marketing jobs, always hoping the next version of me would finally fit somewhere. I’ve dropped out of schools, jobs, even lives more times than I’d like to admit. But I never stopped looking for something real. Something that actually felt like mine.
In 2019, anxious, burnt out, and tired of pretending, I picked up some old beading supplies. Not out of inspiration, more out of necessity. I made something ugly. Then something a little less ugly. Eventually, I made something I couldn’t stop looking at. So I kept going.
I found myself drawn to the triangle, again and again.
It felt like a boundary I could work within.
A shape strong enough to hold all that possibility.
I’m not trying to be spectacular. And I’m not trying to be seen by everyone. I’m here to make the everyday feel cinematic, because that’s how I experience life. To create objects that become part of your story. To give people like us, the ones who never quite found where we belonged, something real to wear.
This is OXALIS.
It’s just me.
But if you see yourself in this
maybe it’s you, too.