• 50 Shades of Beige: Can Tarte Make Up for Excluding Us?

    This past May, when Miss USA 2016, Deshauna Barber, crowned her equally beautiful successor, Kara McCullough, during the 2017 pageant, I knew it was going to be quite the year for a new brand of unapologetic #BlackGirlMagic. Because not only the pageant world, but the beauty industry as a whole has been making some major…

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  • Unnatural: The Beauty Industry’s Natural-Hair Bias

    Black folks have always had a list of unwritten rules for navigating life. A quick Google search of “unwritten black rules” will yield you hours’ worth of pure comedy—there are more than 1 million hits. You’ll find pearls such as “If you drink the last of the Kool-Aid, make some more,” and “Kids, don’t ask…

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