Lluvia Faye (@ king_lluvia)
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Oh, also I can't send links in asks but look up "Beautiful Curly Me", a doll company with dolls designed by a little Black girl that puts profits toward donating dolls to kids in need. Apparently they're having some trouble right now, so they need a plug.
It started with a 6 year old girl.
One day, she came home from school and asked her Mom why her hair wasn't straight and "pretty" like her classmates. She didn't like her hair and she struggled with accepting herself. Mom felt terrible and wondered how she could help her daughter see herself the way she truly was. And so Mom began to encourage her with positive affirmations, books, and even decided to start wearing her hair natural to encourage her. Mom also bought her a black doll. All this worked wonders, and this amazing little girl started to feel more confident about herself.
But one day she asked, "Why does this doll have skin like mine but her hair is still straight! I wish I had a doll that had braids and curls like mine." She asked Mom if they could make dolls that she and other girls like her could relate to and Beautiful Curly Me was born.
And this is why showing us with our own textures is important!! At six she was asking questions like this- that's how early on you start figuring out that there's a standard to exist in this society, and that as a Black girl, you are not the "right" way to do so. She's only eleven and she has to make this kind of charge!!
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Aya Nakamura
makeup by @paintedbyesther
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Currently crying to my boyfriend bc I work too much and it’s starting to stress me out a little
I just wanna be pretty and go new places fuck this working shit
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