Today I Listen, I Learn, I Commit To Doing Better
I think one of the biggest things that has come out of the Black Lives Matter movement is it taught me to listen more. I think in listening you can learn a lot more. There’s nothing wrong with just being silence for a few minutes to absorb what you are hearing around you. There’s a lot of information floating around for us to educate ourselves with. There’s so many ways we can listen, learn, and commit ourselves to being better humans. We’re still going to make mistakes because I haven’t yet met a perfect person in the universe but by learning more we’ll make less mistakes that might potentially hurt others.
I’m really reaching here this week to get back into beauty. I find it a little hard to talk about makeup when so many things are wrong with the world right now but I’m doing my best because I really am committed to reaching out to all of you. I’ll readily admit writing this blog also gives me piece of mind, some sanity, and comfort. I’ve been doing this over ten years and many of you have been here for the entire journey. Some days I wonder how long I can continue but as soon as my fingers hit the keyboard those thoughts disappear and I’m enchanted again about getting the word of beauty to you.
This week, I decided to learn more about black owned beauty brands. I’ve featured brands like Fenty, Shea Moisture, Carol’s Daughter, Juvia’s Place, Uoma, Beauty Bakerie, and others in the past but I want to dig deeper and educate myself more to support these brands. I’ll be reviewing products in future posts that I hope you’ll enjoy seeing from brands you may have never even heard about.
As someone who’s always been heavily involved with Japanese, Korean, and beauty abroad makeup and beauty trends and products it only seems logical to extend my niche further and start becoming more involved with smaller owned businesses (and larger ones) that promote, align with, and support BLM.
My question to you is which black owned beauty brands do you already use, support, and love?
I’d love to hear all about them!
Do share!