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At Lime Ricki, we’ve been spending the last few weeks listening, learning, speaking out, and taking action in hopes of becoming better allies and bringing awareness to the injustices faced by the Black community in this country. Today we’re sharing how we’re celebrating Juneteenth! What is JUNETEENTH? Juneteenth, or Freedom Day, is the oldest nationally celebrated holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19th 1865, nearly two and half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers led by General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that the war had ended and that...

Calling all artists, designers, and swim enthusiasts – the second annual Lime Ricki design contest is here! Our original prints have always been a major part of the Lime Ricki brand, which is why we’re so excited to announce the 2020 Design Your Swim Contest! That’s right, we want YOU to design an adorable print to feature in an upcoming swimsuit line! Here’s How to Enter: Design a print you would love to see on a swimsuit (see rules below for design requirements). Upload your design to a new post on Instagram with the hashtag #DESIGNYOURSWIM2020 and tag @limericki so...

If you’ve been following Lime Ricki for a while, you might know that we held our first ever Design Your Swim Contest last spring, where we asked YOU to design and choose a print to be featured in a Lime Ricki Collection. After gathering almost 700 entries, we picked our top 10, the public voted, and a winner was chosen! That winning design has now become the Blossoms print featured in the Newport Collection, and the winner was artist and designer Sue Douclette-Allred of Wild Rose Lane. Today, we want you to introduce you to Sue and get to know...

In recent years there has been a major push in our culture to end the negative stigmas surrounding mental health and we’re here for it. With more and more people being transparent about their struggles with things like anxiety, depression, body image issues, etc., there has never been more readily available and accessible resources for improving and maintaining a healthy state of mind. One of these resources is something most of us have easy access to – in fact, it’s usually right in your pocket. You guessed it…Instagram! We’ve rounded up our 5 favorite Instagram accounts that offer unique perspectives,...