Aaliyah Jay is a 25 year old YouTube beauty guru with over 1.4 million subscribers on her self-titled channel, trending makeup artist, and a young entrepreneur, She also has a significant Instagram following, clocking in at over 1.9 million followers. Jay always inspired me through her dedication, she’s a self taught makeup artist like myself. She learned from watching YouTube tutorials! She perfected her craft and turned her passion into a career. Major success on YouTube and several other social media platforms gave Aaliyah the opportunity to follow her dreams and begin teaching her own beauty classes. Aaliyah’s Flawless Face Seminars have been a huge hit amongst her massive fan base, and she has conducted several in her own city as well as traveled to other cities to give classes. She also has her own clothing line for girls with different body types called the ItGirl, empowering women.
She has a way of connecting through her fans by being brutally honest and being a relatable person. She opens up about her struggle with bullying in highschool and how it forced her to drop out and seek alternative ways to ger her Ged. Despite, her struggle she's very successful at a young age. This goes to show that even if you don’t take the traditional route, you can reach your goals no matter what, as long as you’re willing to work for it.
Jackie Aina
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“I’m gonna give you 100% honesty. I always have, and I’d like to think that’s got a lot to do with why my channel is where it is today, You have got to be out of your mind if you think, with the amount of time I put into the content I create, the money that goes into this equipment, the stuff that I buy to try for you guys as viewers… You’ve got to be out of your mind if you honestly think we should just do this for good merits and not reap any benefits”
As a champion for diversity within the makeup industry, one of the things that inspire me about her career is how she does so much to try and change the status quo on black women beauty. Aina argues that people of color are poorly represented and often ignored in the beauty industry, and has criticized makeup shade ranges for not being inclusive.
Hannah London
Besides being a makeup artist and media influencer Hannah also owns her own salon. Together,her and her sister combined their competencies with the aim to create a first class service that enables their clients to feel gracefully beautiful and confident. They specialise in offering male and female clientele overwhelmingly luxurious experience.
Umber Ghauri
Umber is a makeup and visual artist who works specifically with and for LGBTQIA people and people of color. She specialize in doing makeup for all skin tone and all gender expressions. She has a weekend workshop series that focuses on decolonizing Beauty Standards. She inspire me by creating looks that challenge the gender binary and white supremacy, we can imagine a world where differences are not punished but celebrated.
Badgalriri
Riri is world’s richest female musician, she is a style icon and makeup entrepreneur. She inspire me through her work and dedication and she walking proof of what you go through does not determines what you become. I also feel like I relate to her on a personal level because we both from the Islands and love everything fashion.
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