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15 May

The Black Women-Owned Beauty Brands ESSENCE Editors Can’t Get

The Black Women-Owned Beauty Brands ESSENCE Editors Can’t Get
Harry Langdon/Getty Image Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Women’s History Month comes directly after Black History Month, offering a two-month long opportunity to uplift and highlight the experience and accomplishments of Black women. In the beauty field, this means celebrating the far-reaching areas we continue to occupy across skin, body, hair care, makeup, and wellness. Black women-owned beauty brands are making strides in both representation and innovation. As a result, they have earned permanent spots in our bathroom cabinets and deserve one in yours as well. According to the Harvard Kennedy School, only 2.4% of all venture capital funding is invested into women-owned businesses. In a 2021 study focusing on Black women specifically, the percentage was a dismal 0.34%.The stark support gap...
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23 Jun

25 Black Women-Owned Brands You Should Know | Essence

25 Black Women-Owned Brands You Should Know | Essence
GETTY IMAGES Blissful Juneteenth. While we rejoice being Black, fly, and excellent 365, today, we desired to highlight Black women designers. Fashion’s strides today wouldn't have happened without the contributions of Black women, from stylists and designers to PR mavens and so forth. Inside the fashion space, there are several hoops that Black women have needed to jump through to get to where they at the moment are, that they definitely shouldn’t have needed to but did so with grace. One among the numerous things that Black women do see well is uplifting one another, and in doing so, the Black fashion community has grown into something greater than simply numbers and variety quotas but a safer space to specific and...
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