The video is so much fun to watch as the two sisters engage the audience with a quick Twitter Q and A session where they discuss Kylie’s interest in becoming a makeup artist, her plans to have 4 kids, Kim and Kylie’s favorite memories and many more.

It’s fun to see them have fun together and also to see that not only can Kylie make some great quality makeup; she also knows how to apply her products.

Watch the fun video below:

Don’t get me wrong it is very important to set goals for the year and have a plan for personal development. You, however, won’t be achieving those dreams if you’re not ready to put in the work. Set your goals and work on them, be intentional with all that you do. That’s the best way to achieve all your vision 2020 goals.

January is almost over and I was just going through my list of achievements for the month a few days ago and they honestly didn’t seem like much. It made me a little sad and really anxious. I almost drove myself crazy with worry lol, but then I realized one day, where is my faith? All my plans hinged on me doing this and achieving that so that my goals could be accomplished. I didn’t leave any room for God to intervene. Even when it became obvious that I was not going to get everything done myself I still didn’t want to accept help from him. It’s weird how we sometimes push God out of our plans forgetting that he’s all-knowing and all-seeing. If I hadn’t hit these roadblocks I probably wouldn’t have realized that I was walking this path alone when I should have asked for help from the all-powerful God I had in my corner.

Note to self Queens, this year is going to be amazing for us; we are going to smash our goals and win. We are going to work hard and watch God settle things for us. We are not going to let fear and anxieties get the best of us. Instead, we are going to let God perfect all our doings.

So you didn’t meet your “resolution targets” in January, so what? Girl,  drink some water, breathe, have faith and get ready to do better in February. Looking back at mistakes keeps you from going forward; you just keep stumbling along the way. This may sound a bit cliche sis, but let go and let God. That’s the only way to get true fulfillment and success this year.

Let me reiterate this, cuz I feel it can’t be stressed enough: This is our year of breathing, drinking, enough water, keeping the faith and winning. Make this your mantra ladies and you’ll be fine. When life and challenges try to bring you down, just let that mantra keep ringing in your head and watch things work together for your good.

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When I saw her on Suits, I was excited because I remembered what a good performance she gave in the last series I saw her. She was a rising star, fairly successful in her chosen field and I also loved the fact that she was so outspoken about issues pertaining towomen’s rights and empowerment.

Then Prince Harry proposes to her and then suddenly, she has to quit her job as an actress, she shuts down all her social media accounts, and she has to change the way she dresses. Her life becomes the object of public scrutiny. All of a sudden, every Tom, Dick and Harry on the street had something to say about her past, her upbringing and her family.

All people talked about during the months leading to the wedding was how history was being made and Meghan was so lucky she was being “admitted” into the royal family regardless of the fact that she is partly of African-American descent, a divorcee, a Hollywood actress and a bit older than Prince Harry.I just kept thinking to myself throughout this period, “why is she marrying this guy, she must really love him, because this just seems like a lot for one person”. Also, I kept remembering Princess Diana and the media scrutiny she faced, which tragically led to her death.

Since Meghan got “married to royalty” she has barely had a break, its one scandal or the other every day. Even when she was pregnant people came for her on social media and even the press. How can you call someone vain and an attention seeker only because she likes to put her hand on her baby bump when she’s out? It’s her baby bump, attached to her body, how do you have a problem with something someone does to herself and her baby?

Holding her baby bump probably came from some deep-rooted motherly instincts, plus let’s not forget that this was her first pregnancy and she was being hounded by the press and the judgmental masses for all the nine months of that pregnancy. No wonder she felt the need to safeguard her baby from the world.

Meghan Markle’s story shows that being married to royalty in the real world is not all fairytales and roses.

It’s a life of constant scrutiny, obligations, and responsibilities. A life of sacrifice and bottling up frustrations. You have to be strong and ready to face all manner of emotional, legal and physical battles to survive. Meghan is so lucky to have a husband that truly loves and is willing to stand for her and sacrifice anything just to keep her safe and happy. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided to step down as senior members of the royal family and their reasons for that are clear. I think it was a great decision for them to take a step back and move to Canada.

Recent pictures of the couple show them happy and looking like they are living their best life, which is really all anyone wants. We are sending love and light their way and we pray that they continue to be happy.

She bares it all in this interview: From her battle with depression, to going through menopause, learning how to be a good partner and also the struggles of living up to the expectations of being a “strong black woman”. She raised some very deep issues in this feature that help to teach a lot of life lessons. It is not often that you see a black woman be so open and honest about what they are feeling and their struggles.

One of the most compelling aspects of the interview is when she talks about “the culture of silence” in the black community, and how this culture is killing us all slowly. I say “us” because although Taraji is African American, and I’m African – specifically – Nigerian, I feel like it’s something that we can relate to as well.

Taraji mentioned that in the Black Community, people tend to talk freely about anything from thyroids, to cancer, to wife beaters, robberies, murders and gang violence, but when it comes to actually talking about how these challenges make them feel or the emotions they stir up people, or how such trauma has impacted them, most people just shut down and just sweep it under the rug. She says:

“We have to break this cycle of keeping quiet…when you’re quiet, things aren’t fixed. They get worse.”

Amongst our people, there is so much pressure to keep things bottled up and just push things down. Ignore the pain, just work through it, be strong, don’t let it keep you down, you don’t need to talk about it, it’s over; these are some of the statements that are used to encourage people to keep their emotions bottled up.

I know firsthand, how overwhelming it can be to keep feelings of discomfort bottled up. I used to be the kind of person who would never let anyone know if something was bothering me. I would keep it bottled inside till the sad feelings submerged me emotionally. Over time, I realized that if I didn’t find a way to “unbottle” my feelings, they could become detrimental to my well-being. Luckily, a particular friend of mine became my closest confidante, and my world changed. Suddenly, I felt a sweet kind of freedom to express myself with no limits whenever I was going through a rough patch, and trust me, being able to do this is a gift.

The truth is keeping things inside doesn’t help anybody. We are all human and we need to be able to talk about our pain, that’s the first step to working through it.

Taraji says she realized she suffered from depression about two years ago; this was because she started having sudden mood swings. She says:

“I would get so low, really, really low, beaten, like never before… You may have those days [when] you’re like, ‘Oh, I just don’t feel like getting out of bed. I just want to sleep in,’ but you don’t feel heavy. I was just starting to feel heavy a lot, [like] suffocating…. It just came out of nowhere.”

When she started feeling this way she realized she needed to get help. Also, her son was going through some issues as well at the time, as his father was murdered when he was nine and his grandfather died about two years later. It was a lot to deal with and he shutdown emotionally.

Henson went on a journey to find a ‘unicorn’ therapist as she called it, who could understand her cultural background and really get where she was coming from. When she finally found her therapist and started expressing how she was feeling to her she discovered that her mood swings actually stemmed from the fact that she was going through menopause – a fact she probably wouldn’t have discovered if she hadn’t sought to get the help she needed.

These experiences ignited her passion form mental health awareness in the black community – especially among kids from ages 5-18.

She started her own foundation called the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, which was started to help diminish the stigma around mental health in the black community. The foundation helps schools create “peace corners,” or areas in classrooms for students to safely express their feelings.

In addition, the foundation is also working to place culturally competent therapists in schools, and also makes available a database of therapists anyone can access, amongst other benefits. The foundation is named after Henson’s father, who was thought to have bipolar disorder.

“I hope that one day we can all be free to talk about mental health and be okay with seeking help,” she says.

And I agree with her.

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