Full Name
Jackie Aina
Job Title
Content Creator, Businesswoman & Beauty Maven
Company
FORVR Mood
Speaker Bio
Jackie Aina is a Nigerian-American beauty content creator who started her channel of makeup tutorials in 2009.
Ms. Aina's engaging videos, which teach, inspire, and give confidence to people of every color, have cultivated a fanbase of more than 7.3 million across her social platforms, including 3.5 million YouTube subscribers. She has launched inclusive product collaborations with brands such as Anastasia Beverly Hills, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Too Faced, Sigma Beauty, Uoma Beauty, and more. In 2020, she launched a self care-focused lifestyle brand, FORVR Mood featuring candles and accessories. The brand had a pre-launch wait list of more than 45,000 and is in Sephora stores nationwide. Ms. Aina expanded her lifestyle offerings in 2021 with the launch Lavishly Jackie, a self-care, home, and luxury content vertical across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Ms. Aina continues to advocate for inclusivity, given that people of color are poorly represented and often ignored within the beauty industry, and has openly criticized makeup brands for not providing enough shade ranges within their lines. For her advocacy efforts, she was deemed the NAACP’s first-ever YouTuber of the Year at the 49th NAACP Image Awards, Glamour’s Woman of the Year, Refinery29’s Beauty Innovator of the Year, WWD Beauty Inc Awards’ Influencer of the Year, and she has been nominated for three E! People’s Choice Awards.
Ms. Aina's engaging videos, which teach, inspire, and give confidence to people of every color, have cultivated a fanbase of more than 7.3 million across her social platforms, including 3.5 million YouTube subscribers. She has launched inclusive product collaborations with brands such as Anastasia Beverly Hills, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Too Faced, Sigma Beauty, Uoma Beauty, and more. In 2020, she launched a self care-focused lifestyle brand, FORVR Mood featuring candles and accessories. The brand had a pre-launch wait list of more than 45,000 and is in Sephora stores nationwide. Ms. Aina expanded her lifestyle offerings in 2021 with the launch Lavishly Jackie, a self-care, home, and luxury content vertical across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Ms. Aina continues to advocate for inclusivity, given that people of color are poorly represented and often ignored within the beauty industry, and has openly criticized makeup brands for not providing enough shade ranges within their lines. For her advocacy efforts, she was deemed the NAACP’s first-ever YouTuber of the Year at the 49th NAACP Image Awards, Glamour’s Woman of the Year, Refinery29’s Beauty Innovator of the Year, WWD Beauty Inc Awards’ Influencer of the Year, and she has been nominated for three E! People’s Choice Awards.
