Nowadays, heavy makeup is in style. Because of youtube and instagram, many women think thick drawn on eyebrows, glittery cut creases and bold lipstick with blush is cute and "expressive". Yes, makeup is an art but looking like a drag queen isn't a good look for the feminine young Black woman.
Makeup shouldn't look like it is melting off your face. In the daytime , it should look like that's what you naturally look like or even a little bit more, like this:
Here are some good looks for the evening:
Stay tuned for the next posts in the Feminine Makeup series: Do's and Don'ts, General tips, Best blogs for woc makeup and Product Reccomendations.
Great post, I don't yet wear makeup (still in highschool), but I really like the makeup looks you chose. Whenever I look up makeup tips for black women I have to be specific because a lot of them use heavy makeup as you stated.
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We decided to use our passion for dance to do that...
We have a youtube vlog called "Pretty Cultured" and we are also hashtaged on instagram.
I would love to connect to help spread a positive and progressive dialogue about African American women.