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Cultural Beauty: Episode 1: hair types and routines
May 30, 2024
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About the Contributors
Aurora Mena Barrios, editor
Aurora Mena Barrios is a 18-year-old Senior at Colonia High School. Mena is taking Mrs. Allen's journalism class to write about fashion while improving her writing skills. She enjoys modeling and talking about fashion. She took a year-long course at a modeling academy which helped her with her fashion knowledge. Mena spends her free time driving around or shopping. In the future, she plans on being a Speech and language pathologist . Mena loves listening to Rod Waves and went to his concert in November. She hopes to share her life experience and advice with her readers. Mena is a very straightforward person but loves giving others advice. She just hopes people can handle her honesty.
Oreofeoluwa I. Gidado, Editor
Oreofeoluwa Isabel Gidado is a seventeen-year-old Colonia High School student. She participates in a variety of sports and hobbies. The sports she plays include basketball, track, and volleyball. Gidado is active in the following clubs: Student Council, FCA, National Honor Society, Heroes and Cool Kids, Black Student Union, and SPTS. Gidado has played varsity basketball for four years. It is her favorite sport and plans spending the next four years playing at a university. Gidado hasn’t committed to a school yet but will soon. FCA is her favorite club where she is the student leader and has the opportunity to talk about her faith with other athletes. Despite being the eldest of three children, Gidado comes from a huge Nigerian family. Since it's easier for people to pronounce, she goes by "Izzy" instead of her first name. She enjoys volunteering at recreational games, church, food banks, and sports camps in her free time. Gidado's passions include traveling, exploring, taking pictures, experiencing life with her loved ones, and giving back to the community. As she gets older, she hopes to visit London, Brazil, Jamaica, and many more to add to her list.
Faith Ruth, Reporter
Faith Ruth is a seventeen-year-old junior in high school at Colonia High. She currently owns her own business in lash extensions & e-commerce. Her plans for her future are going to cosmetology school for lashing and college to become a radiology technician. She always felt a connection with entrepreneurship and loved learning a new skill to achieve greater and better goals down the road. Her hobbies include making music, self-care, and bible study. Ruth is passionate about her religion as she believes that God is the light and life in our lives, and she continues to grow with him daily. Ruth’s bucket list is to travel enough to fill a wall of travel in her future home, The places she wants to travel to are Japan, Italy, Greece, Africa, and more! She also is a foodie of culture, she loves to try new food with different nationalities attached to it, her favorite type of food is Mexican, and a go-to for her is empanadas and Mexican rice.