COLORS BEAUTY ALLURE AROMA

Forty-one women of color share stories about diversity, inclusion, and the politics of skin color in beauty.

Allure opens up spring with this amazing article

http://www.allure.com/story/women-of-color-on-beauty-diversity-april-2017-cover

and as a special input Meghan Merkle:

              http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-says-pet-peeve-10072069

Meghan Markle, actress, Suits

“I have the most vivid memories of being seven years old and my mom picking me up from my grandmother’s house. There were the three of us, a family tree in an ombré of mocha next to the caramel complexion of my mom and light-skinned, freckled me. I remember the sense of belonging, having nothing to do with the color of my skin. It was only outside the comforts of home that the world began to challenge those ideals. I took an African-American studies class at Northwestern where we explored colorism; it was the first time I could put a name to feeling too light in the black community, too mixed in the white community. For castings, I was labeled ‘ethnically ambiguous.’ Was I Latina? Sephardic? ‘Exotic Caucasian’? Add the freckles to the mix and it created quite the conundrum. To this day, my pet peeve is when my skin tone is changed and my freckles are airbrushed out of a photo shoot. For all my freckle-faced friends out there, I will share with you something my dad told me when I was younger: ‘A face without freckles is a night without stars.’ ”

LOVE LOVE LOVE

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