@Black Beauty Roster 🥹 thank you so so much for seeing us. @maudeyoaks @DanessaMyricksBeauty This year marks my 20th year in beauty. I'll never forget being 19, just starting out as a makeup artist, when beautiful Black and brown women would come up to my counter and we'd inevitably walk the entire floor together, swatching shades, only to discover there wasn't a single option for them in the entire department store. I'd have to send them away to another store, hoping the one brand I knew might carry their shade actually did. It pained me every time. And I never stopped asking why. At every stage of my career, I kept asking. The challenges facing deeper skin tones never fully made sense to me, and honestly, even when I came to understand the reasons, understanding doesn't make it better. It doesn't make it okay. Today, there have been real strides in shade options, cultural representation, and inclusion. But in our eyes, we still have a long way to go. As The Lipstick Lesbians, Chri...