The Other Beauty Conversation
A few weeks ago, I came across Lauren Napier, the beauty maven and owner of La Rose makeup cleansing wipes, mentioning her lack of seeing very editorial, simplified beauty looks on women of color. It was a feeling I’d been having for years and voicing behind closed doors to my girls. Why was it that…
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It’s a quick ode to a cosmetic launch that happened, but only a few remember. I was working at EBONY.com when Sam Fine and Fashion Fair debuted the oldie but goodie, Supreme Color Collection. Probably forgotten by many, I’ll never forget the nostalgia that emerges whenever I pick up this beautiful quad and reminisce on Sam Fine developing…
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Diarrha, product marketing manager at Glossier, and I have something very similar in common: we figured out how to use the few things about ourselves (being black, a woman and a millennial) to navigate the beauty industry to our best abilities. We used the very things that could have possibly excluded us from an industry…
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The skincare routine is the only routine I believe every woman should do her ultimate best to perfect. Based on your skincare conditions, especially as a brown girl, understanding what your skin needs, how it reacts (to your environment, specific foods, etc), and how to keep it healthy and treated is extremely important. While…
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I had to be honest with Briana, the founder of Spiked Spin, a chic yet intense spinning class with a hip-hop touch. When I saw her post about how she felt like she played with her dreams for a while, and did it out of insecurity, I was like, “okay, I have to interview her.”…
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I met Raven while she was working at Eberjey NYC. I walked into the store just because of her. She doesn’t know this, but she will when she reads this. I was on severance, and I would wake up in the AM and go to Liftonic, this really sexy, Meat-Packing boutique workout class that I…
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Lenora and I developed our girl crush on Instagram. I don’t know how I found her, or how she found me. But, she caught my eye with her beauty and her unapologetic attitude towards it. Her bold photos, striking full lips, pronounced cheekbones and golden brown skin always has me on the edge of my…
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I pulled this excerpt (edited and all) from Kristie’s podcast interview. We’ve known each other for years, since our days at Temple University. But we weren’t always close. Over the years, I’ve gotten to know Kristie, and really understand her background growing up in Maryland as a bi-racial young woman. I really wanted to share…
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I was really intrigued to be interviewing a millennial working for Avon. In all honesty, Avon, for me at least, was pretty much associated with my mom’s generation. That was until I was 16, and .Mark happened. Avon’s 2003 launch of .Mark was a memorable one for me. I’d get the catalogs and beg my…
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First of all, we bow down to the owners of Mented Cosmetics. These two women listened very carefully to women of color all over, yearning for rich, appropriately toned nude lipsticks that for the longest time, we haven’t been able to find in stores. Their lipstick collections have taken media outlets and women all over social…
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