Lola Maja

Lola Maja (born Omolola Maja; 26 January 1978), also known as Lola Maja-Okojevoh, is a Nigerian make-up artist; her specialties include special effects, eyebrows and eyelashes. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of "Sacred Beauty" & "The SFX Store"; she is known for working on several major fashion events and on major films such as The Figurine and October 1.

Quotes

• ...there’s absolutely nothing stopping anyone from raising the levels of our films to be as advanced as what we have in Hollywood. What we need is directors and producers to pay the budget because SFX is not cheap. It is not like the usual makeup.
  • Excerpt from Lola Maja-Okojevoh: On Being Nigeria’s Special Effects Queen

• People need to have more patience and focus on building themselves as a brand and building their own experience first. Because it’s not about knowing how to do it but how to save something when something goes wrong.
  • Talking about how people are not patient enough to learn before venturing into a particular profession

• When you think of make-up more than a beauty tool, you will realise its true potential.
  • Impression about the make-up industry

• The problem of colourism does not stem from the beauty and makeup professionals but the Nigerian woman who wants to have light skin.
  • Colourism

• A lot of problems people have is to take in every instruction but they failed to understand if it fits their face or not.
  • Trends, reason people should try and understand