Yoza Mnyanda. Katt Daddy. Vocalist and creative director. Rapper and VO artist. Romantic partners. Parents of three. And since 2016 - Darkie Fiction.

Adidas ambassadors. Afropunk headliners. Apple Music spotlight artists. Multiple EPs, a music documentary, and a sound that draws from kwaito, afro-funk, neo-soul and hip-hop - rooted in South Africa, made for South Africans. Their hit "Bhoza" found its way into a KFC ad six years after its release. That's what longevity looks like.

For the third chapter of shelf-made, we followed Darkie Fiction through a single day that holds all of it; school runs in the morning, new music in the studio, and the launch of their first-ever merch drop at Glory JHB, released exclusively with lelive. Two people who do everything together, on the most significant day of their creative year. The routines, the studio, the launch, and the late-night debrief back at the bathroom shelf.

Because shelf-made is about more than what's on your shelf. It's about the people, products and ideas that earned their place there.

And two things working in combination will always outperform one thing working alone.

School runs to studio sessions, merch drop to late-night shelf debrief - we followed Darkie Fiction through the whole day. Settle in. It's worth the wait.

Two members. Two routines. Every product from the trailer - right here.

"I'm not much of a make-up girly and these make me have that glow without make up. I must say, I just took a shower and used our lelive Clean Slate body wash. The smell - DELISH." That packaging is also such a blessing. What a treat! The sensorial experience and how it interacts with water? Yum! 

Between school runs, studio sessions and the stage, Yoza's approach to her skin is the same as her approach to everything - clean, considered, nothing unnecessary.

"That's the combination [African botanics and scientific actives] that actually worked for me and my sensitive skin."

Between the studio, the school runs and the stage, Katt Daddy's bathroom shelf is about one thing: finding what works and committing to it. Sensitive skin needs consistency. His routine delivers it.

Not everything earns a place on the shelf.

The music you keep coming back to. The products you repurchase. The partnerships that make sense without explanation. They're there because they've proven themselves - over and over, without being asked.

Two things working in combination will always outperform one thing working alone.

That's what lelive is all about.

African botanics meets modern science.