the ones that i hang with…

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I don’t like these articles that posit Black women as somehow totally off from the mainstream — “All women do this or that, except Black women.” Often it’s diet and exercise, now it’s makeup. These perceptions are false and unfair. Some of us won’t leave the house without makeup. Some of us skip it. I don’t think it’s a Black thing to skip makeup, so why position it as such? Yeesh.

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Why thank you? I had some amazing parents.

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If you think you must wear makeup, I’m sure you have your reasons, and I say all the power to you. Go for it.

If, on the other hand, you don’t want to wear makeup, you must have your reasons. So don’t wear makeup.

I really don’t think the subject is worth the lengthy discussion devoted to it above (unless of course you’re trying to sell cosmetic products or services). It is actually as pointless (to me) as arguing over the personal decision on whether to relax one’s hair or not. Live and let live.

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You are always a sweetheart, a gentleman, and obviously very smart and thoughtful. I truly appreciate you.

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I refuse to wear makeup in the humidity and feel like my face is melting (even when/if it’s just a little) because my bare face, the one I was born with, is “offensive” to you. I think you need to reevaluate your ideals about beauty.

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While it may be the lack of make-up, I’m thinking ideas of black women being sexy but not beautiful have much older and insidious origins. I’m sure you are familiar with the Jezebel stereotypes concerning black female sexual deviance. These originated many centuries ago as Europeans ventured out into Africa. Several “evidences,” such as relatively less clothing and body shape, were used to justify their stupidity, but I haven’t heard of them trying to rationalize it with “and they don’t even wear make-up.”

Western society has defined beauty on it’s terms and that heavily marginalizes everyone deemed other. It is less likely for those that subscribe to such Euro-centric beauty standards to see a black woman as beautiful in general. On the other hand, this society has long been obsessed with the sexuality of black women. This might be why you see black women continue to be over-sexualized, while still largely not considered beautiful. But really, how many non-white women are considered beautiful in Western society? Go to any top 50 most beautiful women list and you will see a bunch of pasty, plain-looking women (with a few tokens thrown in for diversity).

this is the first one that came up when I googled it. It has 33 white women:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/sns-50-most-beautiful-celebs-pictures,0,6349327.photogallery

For those of us with different take on beauty, things are a little different. The most beautiful women I have ever seen are all black women. And not only do they not need make-up, they look better without it. I’ve never seen a white woman that can compare to a beautiful black woman. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Ladyt….take Ybs advice, if you really believe what you just wrote and the rest of you black women, who agreed, please join ladyt,ASAP….Pathetic and even more reasons to stay away from more black women.

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Korres is a Greek brand (u can get it at Sephora) that’s all natural, but if you’re darker than an NW45 and have cool undertones, then it’s probably not gonna work for you. Tarte is also an all natural brand, I’m not sure about their colour selection though. If you do mineral makeup, you can try Everyday Minerals, they have a sample pack of 7 of their bases that you can try for free, just pay shipping, once again though, if you’re very dark they might not have a shade for you and they only have loose powders. Urban Decay has some Vegan options, you should check out their website, Cargo has their Plant Love line and there are a couple of others that I can’t think of right now. If none of that works for you, I actually know someone that makes cosmetics, and all her stuff is plant and vegetable derived, I’m not going to put her info up here though cause she only does custom stuff, but you’re interested get at me on Google+ (Alithea C Hines) and I’ll give you her info.

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I know many women of all races who don’t wear make-up and they don’t seem to have any trouble living their daily lives and people don’t have trouble looking at them as they speak.

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^^^^^THAT.

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i hear you loud and clear and sadly enough i agree.it goes beyond makeup into this mindset that fights any kind of critique,correction or improvement.

@ Yb

you’re seriously telling somebody to go kill herself because you don’t like what she is saying, are you for real? smh

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He’s a makeup artist and he was being interviewed on the subject and they asked him his opinion. He is not speaking to YOU directly and ordering you to go dive in a MAC counter. IMO I agree with what he said. A lot of people don’t know where to start with makeup and it doesn’t make it easier knowing that it’s hard to find foundation shades and colours to suit being a black woman. As black women, we have great skin, natural beauty and age well… So it would only make sense to ENHANCE that beauty that we already have. It’s called making the best of yourself. It’s the same reason we put on fashionable clothes, get our hair done, nice shoes etc… So why so different with makeup?

Nowhere is he saying that we need to cake our faces with clown paint, especially as we don’t need it. Usually little things make a big difference- nice groomed eyebrows, mascara and lipgloss is enough.

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My male friends will clown these girls, then talk about how White girls have that NATURAL fresh dewy look! I tell them, do you think all those white girls are born with that “natural” dewy look? Please. But they know how to work it and enhance their looks. That’s all it is.

Why to some of us, this sounds like some form of betrayal, I don’t know why.

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You need to kill yourself. Like ASAP. If you think that there is a correlation between makeup and those misquoted stats you posted you don’t deserve to live on this earth. All those credentials you listed don’t have a damn thing to do with common sense, which clearly is something you don’t have.

And FYi 70% of black men are obese, with 60% of white men and women. Smh

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