• Aaliyah Arnold is a 21-year-old entrepreneur whose cosmetic business went viral in 2022. • She wanted to take her cousins on a vacation to Disney World and Universal Studios. • Her cousins kept saying "thank you" for the entire trip.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aaliyah Arnold, Founder and CEO of BossUp Cosmetics. It has been edited for length and clarity.

When I was a little girl, my single mom, who was working paycheck to paycheck at the time, took me to Disney World. Although magical, I remember we had to be aware of what we were spending money on.

Now, at 21, I have made enough money through the sales of my makeup business (the business brings in six figures most months) to not only return to Disney on my own, but to take three of my cousins, and to do

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