Managing Stress with Beauty:Affordable Routines for When Life Gets Tough
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Aug 294 min read
Navigating Beauty Standards: How Makeup Impacts Confidence and Femininity for Black Women
While waiting for me to finish putting on my makeup, a friend asked me, “Why do you wear makeup? It seems like more time than it’s...
Dec 27, 20233 min read
27 Lessons For 27 Years
Whenever someone has a birthday, I ask them to give as many lessons as years lived in their lives. What I have is a mix of a few lessons...
Dec 23, 20233 min read
All I Want for Christmas
Coming home on Christmas break always brings a confluence of two feelings for me: reconnection and reflection. This is a reflection on...
Nov 30, 20233 min read
A Life Ever After: With Abba
A while back I wrote a blog post about Robbie Williams' “Feel.” To me the song gives a helpful phrase for the kind of life I want to...
Oct 23, 20234 min read
Letters I wrote: To Janet
This is an email I wrote to my therapist. She said something in our session that went against my experiential knowledge and pushed...
Jul 23, 20234 min read
A Life Ever After
This might turn into a little series were I break down and explore the particular impact that songs have had on me. I remember listening...
May 30, 20233 min read
Battling Racism with Beauty, Make-up and Skincare
Why the 'Black Don’t Crack' myth is harmful & how A-Beauty helps reclaim dignity without objectifying blackness. #BlackSkinCare #ABeauty
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