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Our first interview together goes back some years. Then scheduling interfered with a second interview. I look up and now you’ve found a few more hats to put on your beautiful bald crown. Tell me about Mind Candy Beauty and why it’s important to you. LC: Yes! I am wearing so many hats now! I’ve actually started growing my hair out after a decade of being bald! But that’s a whole other transformation story. Mind Candy Beauty is something that has been percolating in my head for years. As a Black woman in beauty — first coming in through the modeling side and now working on the corporate side for the past six years — I’ve had this unique vantage point. I’ve seen the magic of what beauty can be, and also the deep gaps that still exist when it comes to inclusivity, representation, and who gets to be part of the conversation in a real way. Mind Candy Beauty is my response to that. It’s a multimedia platform that exists to uplift Black voices in beauty — not just to be seen, but to be heard, ...

Julia Blake is underappreciated as an author, a visionary, and a woman. We love Julia so much. We could not include everything in this interview in the magazine, yet we will share it all here. Enjoy: AQ: When we last interviewed you, The Blackwood Family Saga had not been released. Seven years later, you've gifted your readers with a six-book series. How did that come about, and what has been the reception of it? JB: I always intended the Blackwood Family Saga would be a seven-book series. But a side character has demanded their own story and so it will now be an eight-book one. I have so many fans of the series — surprisingly, just as many men as women — that I wanted to do something special and release it as a hardback edition. The issue was the individual books are short so won’t work as hardbacks. The idea then occurred to split the series in half and create two omnibus editions containing four books each. The gorgeous Blackwood Family Saga, Volume One was released in March and...

 Okay, okay. So, some of you have been reading the hashtags and seeing the interviews on the IG page and putting 2 and 2 together. Fine. But can you still share this moment with us? WE GOT A NEW MAGAZINEEEEEEE!!!  Isn't she purdy?  Yes! Allow us to introduce AURi Quarterly. A fun way for us to recognize peer artists that are doing great things in the independent space. And as you may also have guessed from the reels, our first special guest is the one and only PYNK BEARD ! How does Pynk Beard fit the AURi Q criteria? Well, first let us tell you what AURi Q is about. AURi Q (short for Artists United Radio for independents Quarterly) is a quarterly magazine published by AURi LLC. The magazine currently supports We-MixIt LLC which is a creators app that promotes collaboration between established independent creators and lesser-known independent creators.  ·At AURi, we have regrouped in our initiatives to support causes for creators in independent spaces by creating a ma...