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Young Black Lady Celebrates as her company Becomes the Biggest Makeup Company

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By Festus Conteh Published March 16, 2023 187 Views 1 Min Read

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Young Black Lady Celebrates as her company Becomes the Biggest Makeup Company

Young Black Lady Celebrates as her company Becomes the Biggest Makeup Company

As start up business are going down the drains in a flash tide Melissa Butler who happens to be the Founder and CEO of The Lip Bar a makeup company has a clear reason to celebrate.

Her company has just become the biggest black-owned makeup company in the world with a market valuation of $7 million dollars.

In addition to starting from humble beginnings, Butler’s vegan beauty company faced rejection. As previously reported by AfroTech, she and her business partner appeared on “Shark Tank” in 2015 and didn’t walk away with an investment and she was asked to quit. However, Butler took the “no” as fuel to keep going.

In February 2022, the company had billboards in Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. that read:

“‘Shark Tank’ told me to quit. 10 years and 2 million units sold. Thanks, Mr. Wonderful.”

Melissa Butler’s journey is one with not a smooth ride she faces a lot of rejection along the way before she finally hit her target. Today her story is serving as a testament to hard work and young girls coming up.

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Festus Conteh is an international youth that functions conveniently in all forms of writing including article writing, news, script, content writing, constitution and project/proposal writing. Writing is fun to Festus and has brought fame and recognition in his clime. In 2019, he was awarded best upcoming writer in an online writing completion that was organized by the Association of Sierra Leonean Authors (ASLA). After his impactful contribution to national development and cohesion through writing, he was nominated for the African Genius Award for the Best Writer in Africa Award Category an award he lost to one of the greatest African Writers - Chinua Achebe. In 2022, Festus was one of the applicants to the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) as Vice Chairperson (Policy and Advocacy) a process that met imperil feedback. As a freelancer, Festus has written articles for magazines, newspapers, and media houses and his articles have attracted big media houses including BBC, Aljazeera and Legit. Ng and is the Head of Programs at Salone Messenger a public relations firm based in Sierra Leone with the latest news and information. He is the founder of Africa’s Wakanda a platform that spotlight the beauty of Africa. Festus is also a perpetual volunteer in life-changing causes and has shown great commitment and dedication to being a catalyst and solution to the challenges faced by young people like himself. Festus currently serves as the Secretary General of the Africa Youth Leaders movement which is a network of youth between the ages of 20 – 30 years who have shown achievement, leadership potential and commitment to make a difference. Festus is also the Africa Focal Point of Youth for Change Initiative, which is a platform through which young people can access resources, be empowered and given the opportunity to grow to become useful members of society who will participate in the development of their communities and nation. Along with another Africa Youth platform, Festus has Co-Founded the Future of Africa initiative which is an advocate forum with the aim to bring together local and international socio-economic stakeholders to support innovative programs aimed at advancing the radical and practical progress of adoption awareness-vulnerable children and youth and youth leadership-through interlinking local, regional and international resources and opportunities.