VETERAN BEAUTICIAN ADEKEMI IMEVBORE UWAGA RECEIVES BEFFTA SPECIAL SPECIAL HONORARY AWARD

BEFFTA AWARDS UK is pleased to honour veteran make-up artist Adekemi Imevbore-Uwaga with a BEFFTA special honorary award BEFFTA BEAUTY ICON.

Nigerian born- UK based award-winning make up artist has been in the fashion and beauty business for over 10 years with a long list of high profile clients including Nollywood superstar Omotola Jalade Ekeinde.

Adekemi popularly known in the industry as Kemi established KemiKings Make Up in 2003 in Nigeria at a time when make-up artists were relatively under-appreciated, she had a huge task convincing clients to take up her services yet through the lows she managed to curve a niche which enabled her to establish a beauty retail company. KemiKings Beauty has since streamed into several facets of cosmetics artistry including make-up school and hairstyling bar. The KemiKings beauty line comprises of make-up brushes, eye shadows, lipsticks and face and eye primers. Her range mainly targets the woman of colour as they are not well catered for in the mainstream beauty market.

Annually Kemi and her beauty team give back to the community through their free make-up and head-gear classes for less privileged upcoming artists. They also support the breast cancer foundation through the Look Good Feel Better organisation by providing support and make application skills to women going through the ailment. Proceeds also go to Path To Possibilities charity to help put and keep less privileged Nigerian children in school.

On receiving BEFFTA SPECIAL HONORARY AWARD Kemi said, “This definitely counts as one of the best things to happen to me. A recognition of this magnitude came as a surprise and I truly appreciate. Special dedication of the award to my husband, my rock and strength, my children, friends, family, colleagues and my clients.”

The celebrity international beauty expert will pick up the BEFFTA BEAUTY ICON AWARD on 25th October at the grand BEFFTA UK  AWARDS celebration at Hippodrome, Golders Green in the presence of an international audience. Previous recipients of BEFFTA special honorary awards include the legendary broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald OBE, Nollywood superstar Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, international designer Adebayo Jones and many more.