The beauty world said my skin colour needed correcting – but I’ve learned to love my looks and not feel ugly 🖋️ ItsMeAnitaB writes
As some ethnic features are minimised to fit Eurocentric ideals, they are only seen as beautiful when accompanied by pale skin. In 2022, when the American model Hailey Bieber shared a tutorial for “brownie glazed lips”, a mix of brown lip liner and clear gloss,that Bieber had failed to reference a look that Black and Latina women had been wearing since the 90s in order to create a brown “nude” lip colour that suited them, in a era when only pink existed as a nude lip colour.
That hits hard for those who felt mocked or ugly because of their lip colour: in my early twenties, a girl on a make-up counter actually covered my lips with pale concealer before applying a pink lipstick over them to “even them out”. Take the recent trend for more athletic-looking figures or a larger derriére . Jen Selter, an Instagram fitness influencer who landed shoots inin 2014, is generally credited with kicking off the trend for the latter.
We aren’t responsible for everything that’s come before us – but we are responsible for what we do now, and the changes we can all make to shift archaic narratives. Considering where whiteness might be ruling your beauty standards and routines – no matter what your heritage – is a great starting point.was released, there was clear divide on social media: videos of little Black girls gasping with delight at seeing a Black Ariel, and the opposite.
For so many of us – myself included – damage was done slowly and stealthily, without anyone realising or taking accountability. Uncovering it feels like an injustice and wake-up call all in one. Ugly isn’t intrinsic – it was planted consistently during our childhoods. To say that realising this feels freeing is an understatement.Think about the five people you consider the most beautiful.
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