“Everyone wants to be black until it’s time to be black.” This phrase has never been truer. There is a desire from non-black (N-B) people to emulate black features and black cultural practices in today’s ...
The unrelenting vulnerability of Dev Hynes’ album Negro Swan celebrates and extends the meaning of blackness beyond stereotypes. He challenges expectations of beauty, masculinity and other constructs that attempt to limit the way people take ...
The natural hair conversation is something I have taken part in for five years. I waved goodbye to chemical relaxers and never looked back. Since then, I have seen the movement continuously grow as more ...
You cannot deny the mayhem that 2017 brought us, so we can’t let it pass or enter a new year without creating a 2018 wishlist. We were shocked both positively and negatively, having our minds ...
In 2014, Kim Kardashian discovered racism after allegedly coming up against racial abuse, directed at her daughter during a flight. This led to her penning of an “open letter” detailing a new found understanding of ...
#BlackGirlMagic was coined by CaShawn Thompson back in 2013 to celebrate the beauty, power and the achievements of black women. Thompson explained in an interview with Los Angeles Times that she used the word “magic ...
When Rihanna launched her beauty line in September 2017, it sent shockwaves through the beauty industry. There was no longer a finite number of women or men who could use make-up, stunted by the shade ...
In June 2018, I attended a talk. During the discussion, the former beauty director, and now Contributing Beauty Editor and Columnist at British Vogue, Funmi Fetto, raised the issue of black consumers being underrepresented both ...
If you haven’t heard of Pat McGrath at this point, you simply have not been paying attention. The world of makeup has long been familiar with this woman, whose name is synonymous with success in ...