Bubu Girl

// SHE SURVIVED. NOW SHE SPEAKS. //

Her name is Bubu Girl.

She arrived on the 17th of May 2026 at 5:22pm. Born from childhood traumas and adulthood heartbreaks.

Bubu is what they called her when she was small. Before the silence was forced upon her. Before the things that happened in the dark were buried in the light. Before a childhood that should have been protected became the wound she spent decades trying to name.

For over 20 years she carried what was done to her alone. Until the day she stood in front of the people who should have protected her and finally spoke her truth out loud.

Then adulthood brought its own betrayals. The people who were supposed to welcome her - didn't. The ones who claimed to care - proved otherwise. She learned that sometimes the deepest wounds don't come from strangers.

Some wounds don't wait. They find their way out.

Doctors called it Bipolar. She calls it survival.

Bubu is short for Mbua. And Mbua created her - so the part of herself that was silenced could finally be heard. So the little girl who was told to be quiet could finally be loud.

She's not to be messed with. Her emotions are real and raw.

She survived. Now she speaks. 💙

MamiRose

// THE FACE OF MBUA COSMETICS . GLOWBABYGLOW //

Meet MamiRose - the face of Mbua Cosmetics.

She did not arrive all at once. She came the way all beautiful things do - slowly, quietly, and then all at once. A light here. A colour there. A decision that turned into something I never expected.

It started with a logo.

When Mbua Cosmetics was born, MamiRose was already there - a simple illustration. A pair of eyes. A set of lips. The quiet suggestion of a face that carried the soul of the brand before the brand even knew what it was becoming. She was the first thing people saw. The first impression of everything Mbua Cosmetics stood for.

But she had more to say.

Over time, she evolved. What began as a logo became a vision. What began as a simple image became a full creation - built with intention, shaped by digital artistry, brought to life through colour and light and the kind of imagination that refuses to stay inside the lines.

MamiRose was born in the digital world. She has no passport. No address. No age. She exists in the space between imagination and creation - and that is exactly where she belongs.

Her skin holds light the way water holds the sun. Rainbow refractions dance across her face like she is made of prisms. Her eyes carry the kind of stillness that makes you lean in. Her lashes - blue, electric, impossible - remind you that in this world there are no rules. Only vision.

I created her. But she surprised me.

That is the thing about making something truly original - it takes on a life of its own. MamiRose became more than an avatar. She became a feeling. A standard. A promise of what Mbua Cosmetics stands for.

Beauty without limits.
Colour without apology.
Art that lives where no makeup brush can reach.

She began as the face of a logo. She became the face of a movement.

She is rare. Like the name that made her. Like the hands that created her. Like the brand she now represents.

GlowbabyGlow. 🌹

People always ask me where my avatars come from. Honestly? They come from everywhere. From my bathroom mirror in the morning. From old family photos. From a scene in a film that stopped me in my tracks. From a feeling I couldn't quite put into words but knew I wanted to capture somehow.

So let me take you through it properly - how I actually build a digital avatar from scratch.

It Starts With Me

The very first place I look for inspiration is myself. I've been doing my own makeup for years and I have a whole archive of past looks - photos saved on my phone, old pictures, selfies from nights out. When I'm creating a new avatar I'll go back through those images and ask myself: what was it about that look that worked? Was it the eye shape? The colour? The confidence it gave me?

A lot of my avatars carry pieces of my real face - the way my eyes sit, the shape of my lips, the energy I try to bring when I'm feeling my best. It's personal. I think that's what makes them feel real rather than just generated.

Family is My Archive

Beyond my own images I go deep into family photos. There's something about the way features pass through generations that fascinates me. A cheekbone from my mother. A jawline from a cousin. The way someone holds their expression in an old photograph. I find these details and I bring them into my work - not as copies but as tributes. As a way of saying these faces matter and they deserve to exist in the digital world too.

Film Changes Everything

Film is probably my biggest creative influence and I won't apologise for it. I watch a lot of films - all genres, all eras - and the visual language of cinema shapes how I think about building a face. The lighting in a particular scene. The way a character is framed. The makeup choices a director and their team made to tell a story without words.

When I'm stuck on an avatar I'll often go back to a film I love and just watch it differently - not for the plot but for the faces. How does the light catch the skin? What makes this character feel iconic? I take those feelings and translate them into something digital.

The Technical Side

Once I have my inspiration I move into the build. My avatars are image-based - I work with PNG files for transparency so the avatar can sit cleanly on any background without a white box around it. That matters more than people realise. A good avatar needs to be portable.

For the website and the Cube Theory game I host all my avatar images on Cloudinary - a cloud image platform that gives me a direct URL for each image. That URL gets dropped into my HTML code like this:

The images are then styled with CSS - I use border-radius: 50% to make them circular, object-fit: cover to make sure they fill the frame correctly, and I set a fixed width and height so they're consistent across the grid.

It sounds simple but getting the sizing right, the spacing right, and making sure everything looks good on both a phone and a laptop takes real attention to detail. I test everything on multiple devices before I'm happy with it.

What Makes an Avatar Feel Alive

Technically an avatar is just an image file. But what makes it feel alive is the intention behind it. The choices you made. The reference you carried in your head when you created it. The story it's quietly telling.

That's what I'm always chasing - that moment when someone looks at one of my avatars and feels something. Even if they don't know why.

That's the whole point of Mbua Cosmetics and everything I'm building here. Beauty doesn't stop at the physical. It lives in the digital world too - and I'm just getting started.