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Damn! Black Women Hate Looking Like Themselves.
Looking like a carbon copy of someone else is getting less financially accessible for more women. It’s called evolution. Numbers have no end, dear.
A black woman, complete with visual enhancers (or manipulators?) like a wig, lashes, nails and a full face of makeup, had this to say about the current state of the beauty industry:
“The beauty industry has women’s wallets in a chokehold. When you look good, you feel good. It’s undeniable.
But what if I told you that you can have more money and look better more of the time if you had the skills you pay other people for? You can learn to press on nails. You can learn how to install a wig. You can learn how to do your natural hair, if that’s what you choose to do. You can learn how to do your makeup.
I am not saying you need to be dolled up every single day. But especially as black women, the world is always looking down on us. At least when we go outside we can look dignified, like we care about ourselves. Like we have some respect, some integrity.”
Answer me this, ladies: why does looking good never, ever include looking like yourself? Why must you look like somebody else to feel good about yourself? Why does looking dignified and respectable always correlate to getting dolled up in ways that completely detract from…
