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Revolution by rouge - the beginnings of the black beauty industry
Revolution by rouge – the beginnings of the black beauty industry
For many years, much of the beauty products sold to the black community, were made and developed by white owned companies. Which went just as well as you’d imagine. Most of them were designed to bleach skin and make it lighter in colour. Playing up to the idea, that the darker a persons skin tone, the more undesirable they were. This had some unfortunate merit, based in slavery.
It was an…
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