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On the 26th October 2013 I went to Be Box's Be Woman event held at the Grange Holborn Hotel.
I decided to go to this event because Heather Lindsey was the main speaker. For those of you that do not know her, she is an extremely blessed woman of God. I came across her blog and podcasts last year and I am honestly grateful for her life.
She is young woman who is married to a pastor. They both have a beautiful ministry together which focuses on developing relationships with God and also relationships in general.
She takes her walk with God seriously and I admire her a lot.
When I heard she was coming to London, I just had to be there.
Be Box are an organisation that creates special boxes filled with skin care, health care and make up items for women of colour. The Be Woman event they organised consisted of gathering inspirational females to talk to a group of woman. Quite like a sisterhood event.
The atmosphere was warm and friendly. They even gave us cupcakes which were yummy.
Jenny Jenkins who many will know as the make up beauty queen was the first to speak. She is a pretty in person as she is in the videos. Definitely a very beautiful girl. I was surprised to see how nervous she was! It's funny because she talks with a lot of confidence on her videos but she herself admitted she was nervous! Her tips to the crowd were:
- Accept your flaws, then no one can use them against you!
- Remember everyone has a different path in life to follow.
- Do not waste the gift that God has given you.
After Jenny, there was a small competition for the audience. An envelope had been hidden under one of the chairs in the room. Guess whose chair it was under? Yep, yours truly :-). I won a be box full of goodies ranging from shampoo to lotions and my nails done by Shea'd Beauty. Shea'd beauty were also there during the night doing nails for the guests!
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| Shea'd Beauty |
Chanel Boateng was up next. She did a live make up tutorial in a short space of time in quite a high pressured environment. She did well.
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| Ms Boateng does her thing! |
Lara Peters put on a beautiful fashion show for us next and I must admit she is a talented young lady. She mixes afro print with european fashion. I found her story interesting. She was a designer that stopped designing for a while. She realised that designing was her God given gift. An interesting thing she mentioned was that after listening to Heather she felt she should pick up designing again that is what she did! Check her out:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LaraPetersUK
Arhinarmah was next up. This brand describes itself as 'A luxury lifestyle brand with an African accent'. They specialise in furniture and home decor.
Catherine Arhin was a joy to watch and definitely worked the crowd. She started her brand in her room one day and now her products have appeared in the likes of Vogue, Elle UK and Pride magazine. She azontoed after naming her accomplishments which was funny. She also encouraged the crowd by saying...'Create the greatest, highest vision of yourself'.
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| Heather selling her books and jewellery #proverbs31 |
The highlight of the evening was the final piece to Be Box's event. Mrs Heather Lindsey...The fire this woman has for God is out of this world. As this event was mostly aimed at ladies she made sure her message was relevant. She spoke about being consistent with God. She spoke about the importance of prayer and spending time with God. What made me laugh was her popular phrase 'sister girl', which instantly brought her to the level of the people within the room.
'Marriage', she said should bring you closer to God as should love and ladies one thing that I will remember is her reference to Proverbs 18 v 22 'He who finds a wife has found a good thing...'. Meaning ladies we don't need to look. HE will find us...
It's something I battle with. I question my age and wonder when it is I will find that person who will wed me. At times I think, i'm not ready for marriage yet no but there are other times I see the world finding their 'Adams' and wish it were me. I thought I would marry young. I would look at twenty somethings when I was in my teens thinking that would never be me. #honestquote.
However, It is from Heather I realised that the most important things are to:
- Make God the centre
- Cut of any random waste of timers
- Focus on becoming the best me...
God help me with all of the above!
The event was a success and it was a pleasure to see inspirational young women share tips from beauty, to business to Christ.
I definitely left questioning myself.
XOXO
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