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Right here at Women of Rubies ‘WOR’ We love it when women own their crown and wear is proudly.

Delectable Bisola has this to say on her birthday:

As i Celebrate my birthday today, I am chanelling the Queen Amina in me. Queen Amina was a warrior, a leader, a defender of her people and one of the most successful traders in history. My fellow queens and princesses, the power in us is undefeatable and the light in us is undimmable, the conquest ahead of us is unstoppable. Happy Birthday Queen Biyesi of the world, your best is ahead of You”

The actress wrote on her Instagram Page this morning.

Bisola Aiyesola is not just an actress, she is a singer, an Mc and was a nominee for ‘Future Award Price for acting’. She starred in blockbuster movie Sugar Rush.

She adorned herself in a northern ensemble portraying Queen Amina.

She turn 34 today Queen! Because you know this just right.

Kiki Mordi  an Investigative journalist, has won the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2019 (PJPA). The prize is backed by a $3000 (N1,000,000) endowment from Gatefield, a Sub-Saharan Africa public strategy firm.

Kiki

She is a brave one with a high level of empathy who subjects herself to torture while seeking to expose her stories.
The prize would be received in Abuja during a World Day of Social Justice event to be hosted by Gatefield on Feb. 20, 2020.

She was selected investigating the sexual harassment on university campuses in West Africa. This resulted in a wide disciplinary action and policy reforms across the institutions that were exposed by her during this event. This is a recent work with BBC Africa eye, investigative film titled “Sex For Grades”.

She won this award alongside Fisayo Soyombo, another investigative journalism who exposed the nature of corruption within Nigeria’s criminal justice system.

Kiki is also a writer, filmaker, writer, voice over artiste, presenter, reporter and an advocate for gender equality. She is the founder of the #DocumentWomen movement that aims at tackling the erasure of women and women’s stories and produced a documentary entitled “Life At The Bay” that documented the lives of women living in the remote island, Tarkwa Bay.

She bagged a double nomination for Future Awards prize for journalism and Young Person of the Year.

 

Every season is yacht season!

Sheila Ruffin is the owner of a new boutique travel agency, Soca Caribbean Yacht Charters (SCYC), Black Enterprise reports.

The Hampton University and Howard Law School graduate first thought of the idea to open a yacht charter company after landing a job on the island of St. Thomas. While practicing law, she decided she wanted to get into the travel business. “I googled yacht agencies that were one-stop-shops, but I couldn’t find any. This gave me an idea of what I could do. Plus, I couldn’t find any people of color within the industry. Therefore, I set out to start my own company,” Ruffin said. 

The yacht charter company partners with other yacht companies in the Bahamas, Grenada, St. Lucia, the British Virgin Islands, St. Vincent and St. Martin to provide immersive yacht experiences complete with private chefs and captains. “We offer a door to dock-to-door service. The minute you step out of your home, there is a luxury car waiting to take you to the airport. Once you arrive in your Caribbean destination, we provide transfers to the dock where you board your yacht. After your trip, we also provide all services in reverse,” said Ruffin. 

Ruffin grew up on the eastern shore of Virginia, gaining her love for boats from her grandfather. While not originally apart of her plans, this new venture seems almost like fate. She hopes that her place in the yachting industry can encourage other young people of color to experience luxury yachting.

“To be the anchor between the yacht industry and millenials and people of color is amazing. It’s not easy. I’m entering into space where Black women aren’t normally present. It’s an amazing feeling,” said Ruffin. 

According to Black Enterprise, in 2018, African Americans contributed $63 billion to the U.S. travel and tourism industry. Now it’s time to put some of those dollars back into the pockets of one of our own. 

 

Source : Black Enterprise

Being a confident woman begins from the inside. This has little to do with her physical looks,material gains or status. Yes! Most ladies still have bags of insecurities.

If you already see yourself as confident or not, or want to work on becoming a confident woman, the listed qualities below would help you identify where you are defaulting:

1.She is Optimistic

Been negative is not her thing. It reflects on how she desires good things and believe they will succeed. Her words are filled with positive words, ‘I can’ , ‘it will’ ‘yes’. This makes her unstoppable, because she believe in what she is about. No fears!

2. She Know What She Wants And Goes For Its.

She doesn’t spend her time dreaming all day. When she is sure about something, without a waste of time, she gets an action plan, then go all out to get it, knowing she will succeed and if she doesn’t,she moves on.

3. She Can Go Without Makeup

We all need to put on some nice mascaras and lip glosses most days. Your looks matter yes! But knowing you are good and still attractive without this is confidence. She breaks the trend, If she finds herself in public without this it wouldn’t it spoil her day. That’s where self care comes in.

4. She Has A Self Care Routine

This is what will make you feel really attractive and popping to move in the right energy. She takes some time off to help herself to something like a massage, vacation, or even a simple DIY or afternoon nap as soon as she is worked out.

5. She Is A Good Communicator

She will speak clearly about her opinion and will stare right into any eyes without looking away.  She will only take a good advice because she has a mind of her own. Her body language will display itself freely. She would even speak publicly when there is an opportunity.

6. She Respects Herself A lot

You can not give what you do not have. A confident woman has a graceful way she carries herself, she doesn’t have to get intimidated by another woman, with this she commands respect for herself. And her respect teaches her that she deserves the best, and the best always comes to her.

A confident woman is a Queen, this is to help you know where you are going wrong on this💛.

 

Dimma Umeh is on the cover of Accelerate Tv’s The Cover. She shares her experiences as a vlogger, influencer and talks about and how she deals with critics.

On when she started, “ First of all, I thought this whole thing was a joke, like I just started putting out videos for the sake of it, I thought it was fun, I loved the way others looked doing it. But I think that two years in, I started figuring out at that point that this could be so much more. Now I live off of Youtube, I pay my rent off Youtube. I never thought when I first started that I could live off of it.” she said.

On when her ideas are stuck and she’s having a creative block, “the easiest thing for me is that I go and watch other creators and I just start out from there. You start out just wanting to watch, but then ideas start popping and before you know it, you want to do something. “

She continues “It is so funny because a lot of people think that I am this organized person; my creative process is actually not the most organized, however, I do have a process now. So it mostly just always involves coming up with an idea, making notes of points that I’d want to highlight in that video from that idea, filming, then after filming, editing. Editing takes a lot of time, so sometimes it’s either me, cause I do the bulk of the editing, but sometimes if I have a lot to do at a particular point in time, I hire an editor who works with me. Then I upload, and after that, I figure out a good thumbnail to use, because I feel like the videos can be great but if your thumbnails don’t have a call to action then you’ve done all of that in vain ” 

She shares how she deals lightly with haters “when it comes to negative comments, the best thing I’d say is to know that all the things they’ve said have nothing whatsoever to do with you. It’s them, and they’re just saying it because they feel like they can say it to you, the moment you begin to look at it like that you know that they’re not really worth your time, you can pray for them as I pray for them”.

Read the full interview on www.acceleratetv.com

Santiago Deck is a prominent athlete and influencer who recently received the first  multi-million dollar contract offered to a woman as a football player,  the Women’s Football League Association (WFLA).

“To all the little girls who are watching this never doubt that you are valuable and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your dreams”  she posted on Instagram.

She is popularly referred to as ‘queen of abs’ online. A woman of talent and drive who is also a celebrity fitness trainer, who has published a book about child abuse awarenesses and other endeavors.

Santia

There has never been a deal like this for a woman on the football field. , there has never been a self-made athletic brand like Santia Deck according to Digital Journal

https://youtu.be/TvDbDQ5U63Y

Her brand has been thriving through several avenues and multiple partnerships.

She loves this sport,and her influence, skill level and leadership to make things better has commanded her respect. She continues to inspire women.

 

Deshauna Barber was an American beauty queen (miss USA 2016), motivational speaker, and captain in the United States Army and the first woman actively serving in the United States Army Reserve.

“I have just accepted an offer to become the President & CEO of the nation’s leading (501c3) nonprofit organization advocating on behalf of all service women and women veterans”, she said.

According to nextgen; ‘Captain Deshuana is a logistics commander in the United States Army Reserve.  She currently commands the 988TH Quartermaster Detachment Company in Rockville, Maryland. She commissioned as a Quartermaster Officer in 2011 and has been serving her country ever since. Deshauna has a passion for our men and women in uniform and has spent much of her career focusing on advocating for soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).’

Her motivational speech shows how much she care cares about humanity and a life of integrity.

Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o showed up at the 25th annual Critic’s Choice Awards with a hair that’s getting so much attention.

Lupita Nyong'o hair

The actress hair was tousled up in a bun, adorned with gold wire. She is known for her natural hair inspiration.

Her stylist, named Vernon François, shared an Instagram post with details of the hair.

He partnered with Matrix to get this unique look,making her stand out with her tresses looking modern yet natural and beautiful.

Natural hair is the new normal!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, becomes a receipient of the first “Belle van Zuylenring” award

The award is a honorary prize set by the ILFU International Literature Festival. 

She was given this honour because they believe she has a unique way, in which she knows how to represent and question the world of today and its ingrained thinking patterns.

She also delivered the Belle van Zuylen Lecture and had a conversation moment with Nancy Jouwe a dutch author and public speaker.

A black woman seeking makeup application services at an Ulta Beauty store in New Jersey says an employee told that her “skin was too dark for most colors in the store.” Now, she’s calling for the beauty store chain to give its workers’ diversity training.

Ebony Kankam London, an expecting mother from Houston, Texas, told KTRK-TV that she traveled to the East Coast for a baby shower on Dec. 28 planned by her mother-in-law. She says she went to the Ulta Beauty store a day before to book a makeup appointment and confirm that their makeup artists were comfortable working with her skin tone.

“Sometimes with darker skin, some people don’t feel comfortable [or] don’t know what they’re doing,” she told the ABC News affiliate. “So, I went in the day before just to see if they could achieve the look I was wanting.” However, she says the makeup artist assigned to her did a botch job and criticized her complexion.

“So today at Ulta Beauty in Holmdel I went in to get my makeup done for my baby shower. I brought in a picture for reference and was told that my skin tone was too dark for most colors in the store,” Kankam London wrote on Facebook and Instagram. She also shared side-by-side images of what she wanted and the look she ended up with.

When London told the makeup artist that she was dissatisfied with her work, she says the staffer “got really upset” and told her that “was the best she could do” because “her skin was too dark” for most of the products in the store.

“In a store full of people who didn’t look like me I felt sad and upset,” Kankam London wrote on social media. “Like my skin tone was a problem.”

The employee also asked her if she had ever had her makeup done professionally. Kankam London told her that she did and even shops at Ulta Beauty, but the staffer didn’t believe her.

In a separate update posted on Facebook on Monday, Kankam London said she was contacted by a manager at the Holmdel store “who is apparently biracial and witnessed the entire situation” but she “didn’t want to make a big scene” by interfering. Kankam London added that the store manager told her that she felt “comfortable doing black makeup” and offered to do her makeup over along with a bag of sample lotions as compensation. Kankam London, however, declined to get her makeup done at the store since she was returning to Houston, reports NBC News.

Ulta said it was in contact with Kankam London in a statement published Thursday on Twitter.

“Guest satisfaction with our services is a top priority,” a spokeswoman said. “We never want to hear that a guest has had anything less than a great in-store experience. This is our responsibility and we take it seriously.”

Ulta provides “ongoing artistry education, and diversity and inclusion trainings across the organization, which is an important commitment that we recognize requires daily action and accountability,” the spokeswoman said. “We remain committed to provide a welcoming, inclusive environment where our guests can feel their best.”