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Page 5: Note from the editor Thi issue is all about HAPPINESS. Why we seek it, why we want it; and, most importantly, how we can hav it/experience it.

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Page 6: Cover Story: How Happiness Happens An insightful look at how happiness happens from the inside out.

Page : 10 6 New & Exciting Black-Owned Beauty Brands A round-up of Black-owned makeup, hair and skin care brands dedicated to inclusivity for all skin tones

Note from the editor: Happiness!

Are you happy? Many of us aren't so sure. The curse of the modern age is to look happy, regardless if we are actually happy or not.

What is happiness? How does happiness even feel?

These are all questions I pondered when developing this issue.

Luxury Sai Founding Editor @luxurysai_ @shopluxurysai sb@luxurysai.com

Happiness, no matter the conditions, should give you the strength and confidence to fight against all odds and come out as a winner. Don't let happiness be a reaction; but an intentional act as you live this life!

In the words of Bobby McFerrin, "Don't worry, be happy!"

COVEr StORY How Happiness Happens?

In our world of abundance, all people have the capacity to choose happiness.

Read on.

HAPPINESS YOUR WAY

If you wait until you see it, to believe it, you may have a very long wait.

If you opt to believe it right now, your life will start to fall into place - and you'll feel a lot happier.

Women have a tendency to pick up on the things that resonate with our beliefs and our view of the world.

The daily challenge to this universal truth, is to choose beliefs that serve you.

Simply put, what you focus on expands.

There are the real issues that we all contend with on a daily basis, and those issues can be very draining; especially during this COVID crisis. But, in all things we must learn to be happy. Happiness is an inside job.

One of my favorite expressions is that "you reap what you sow". While I often hear it used negatively by someone who expects some "chickens to come home to roost" I prefer to think of it as something positive. How comforting to think that all our hard work and toil will be rewarded with a crop of something good? How wonderful to think that putting love and care into some project or person will indeed be rewarded.

4 Steps to happiness

When I turned 40 years old I began working out, and it seemed like the I'd never lose the weight, but I kept at it. Then, one day the pounds started pouring off. It was if my body was waiting to see if I was really serious about losing weight. I stayed on my grind and I met my weight goal in under a year.

Step 2 -- Envision Yourself As Happy

Can You Have It All?

Happiness happens the same way - over a period of time.

Don't discount your right to happiness. Happiness is a real emotion that we can all lay claim to; happiness can be yours.

Step 1 -- Ready Yourself For Happiness Start with a will and determination to be happy. Part of being happy is wanting to be happy. Once you have committed yourself to the course of finding happiness, rid the beliefs that happiness is based on luck, just for other people or most importantly, based upon material possessions. Happiness comes from within yourself.

Every day when you first wake up and at various points during the day spend some time envisioning yourself as a happy person.

Picture yourself laughing, smiling, relaxing.

Imagine yourself as happy. The more you can fix this image of yourself as happy in your mind then the easier it will be for you to truly become happy. You can even create a happiness vision board; a visual manifestation of all good required to bring happiness to your heart.

Step 3 -- Assume Happiness Happens

Many people tend to assume that their life is relegated to "normal." What is normal? Really.

Happiness is contagious. The more Concentrate on the areas of your life that give happy people we keep around us, you happiness and bring you joy; even if it the more light-hearted and conflicts with societal norms. Polite society comforted we become. We owe it doesn't live in your house and it shouldn't live ourselves to work on our own well- in your mind. You have to that which is right being. No matter what we may (or for you. It is incongruent to be a peoplemay not have) have experienced as pleaser and doormat to others while building a child, our adult lives are our your own spiritual path to personal responsibility. fulfillment.

Step four -- Pursue Your Happiness Happiness is rarely a wonderful accident of fate, or rarely found by accident. While you may find happiness in unexpected places you must first open yourself to the possibility of happiness and prepare yourself to accept it when you find it. Some people are so miserable that they step right around happiness, or sabotage it when it happens in their life. Don't let this happen to you.

Go out and live life. Think about what currently makes you happy and spend time in those activities and think about what might make you happy and spend time experimenting. learning and growing. The more time you spend actively living your life the more likely you are to experience happiness at the highest level.

You deserve a happy life and you can lead a happy life, but in the end you reap what you sow. If you are sowing happiness in your life then you will reap happiness as well.

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6 New & Exciting Black-Owned Beauty Brands

Let Beauty Be Fun!

Briogeo is the hair care brand was founded by Nancy Twine after she was unimpressed by other solutions on the market, Briogeo was created to treat hair the way we treat our skin.

Each product is cruelty-free and formulated with mostly naturally derived ingredients, inspired by Twine’s grandma’s homemade recipes.

Superfoods are at the center of beauty and wellness brand Golde.

Founded in Brooklyn by Trinity Mouzon Wofford, Golde wants to make wellness accessible and fun through its selection of products that are natural and veganfriendly.

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Shontay Lundy founded Black Girl Sunscreen because Black people need sunscreen too!

Black Girl Sunscreen at Target

Black Opal only recently became Black-owned, but it has long been known to provide makeup essentials that really work for people of color at an affordable price.

Desiree Verdejo suffered from hormonal acne and hyperpigmentation but couldn’t find a product that worked for her — and on a mission to make one herself, Hyper Skin was born.

The brand is known for its cult-favorite brightening serum that hundreds of reviewers can’t get enough of.

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