“This playlist is quite random I guess. But absolutely everyone one of these songs made me listen to them over and over again the first time I heard them and think ‘How have they done this?’. Music is art, and these songs are beautiful, inspiring, spacious and have influenced how I see and hear music in my own musical journey.”
and though since then her skill set and aesthetic have been refined immeasurably, the makeup looks she produces still retain a childlike playfulness and sense of character from that first job.
Despite both of our mother’s (and some of our separate friends) insistence, we were not romantically involved but were very much smitten.
I felt like a Krispy Kreme donut immediately after my first dermalinfusion.
I felt seen, validated, and beautiful. Here I was, another curvy black woman from Houston, with Jackson 5 nostrils, baby hair and an afro, part Louisiana Creole and just straight up black. It was hard to feel like that song wasn’t made for me. It just was.
The conversation helps us address the ‘grey areas’ so often disputed, and to go out into the world with a heightened sense of self-awareness as well as a reminder that regardless of the situation; no is always an option.
Today, women of many demographics wear hoops, but the history of the hoop is a long and complicated one.
