[2][3] She is the founder of Elite Makeup Pro, and the artistic director of Maybelline in Nigeria].
According the Women of Rubies Initiative, Onakoya is the first African-based makeup artist to work at the New York Fashion Week.
[4] She has worked with several top designers including DKNY, Lacoste, and LaQuan Smith.
After the Hall Week show, she became popular and a go-to makeup artist on campus doing it for free for fellow students.
[1][6][5] Onakoya and her husband were rubbed in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2016 while she was with advanced pregnancy and dispossessed of all their belongings leaving them stranded in the country.