sophianwa:

diamond-heiress:

Naomi Campbell is a modern day Cleopatra. She is very successful & is the only model to have any influence in fields spanning from politics to business. She’s shown as bad tempered, cold & power hungry but actually has so much charisma, rationality & compassion if you watch her interviews. She owns orphanages, real estate all over the globe & dates billionaires for fun. She is on first name basis with influential politicians, designers, presidents, actors & musicians. Not to mention she’s into her 40s and is still featuring on international magazines. She’s powerful!

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refinery29:

This new video investigates the psychological and social toll that Black women face by being shut out of the beauty industry

Despite ubiquitous #blackgirlmagic and the fact that 35% of American women are women of color, beauty brands largely remain sluggish in creating makeup for darker skin tones. And now model Philomena Kwao has uncovered a truly dismaying fact about how Black models are treated now compared to the 1970s.

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