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laughingsquid: The Nature of Ambition Thought provoking

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:51:13 +0100

laughingsquid:

The Nature of Ambition

Thought provoking

She did the robot!!

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:32:09 +0100

She did the robot!!

lovefashionstylebeauty: Jourdan Dunn for Rag & Bone D.I.Y....

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:00:06 +0200

lovefashionstylebeauty:

Jourdan Dunn for Rag & Bone D.I.Y. Project 2012.

Love!!

Love me some Joan Smalls

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:08:41 +0200

Love me some Joan Smalls

get it!!

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:01:12 +0200

get it!!

modelsofcolor: For all my Wakeema Hollis fans & Natural...

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:43:05 +0200

modelsofcolor:

For all my Wakeema Hollis fans & Natural Beauties, I suggest you to check out model Wakeema Hollis’s new site http://hollistics.com The site is dedicated on natural hair, Fashion & Beauty along with getting to know more about Wakeema’s and her modeling career & hair journey. She’s actually active on the website. Still very new! So join! to communicate her & other natural beauties

evanescen-t: love

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:18:52 +0200

evanescen-t:

love

nok-ind: Kenyan model Ajuma Nasenyana fights skin lightening...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:14:50 +0200

nok-ind:

Kenyan model Ajuma Nasenyana fights skin lightening and European standards of beauty

From Clutch Magazine – Like many other parts of the world, Africa is no stranger to European standards of beauty. The practice of skin lightening is becoming rampant in many African countries as some folks go to drastic lengths to shed their dark complexions for lighter, “more acceptable” ones. And from advertising and magazines, to TV and film, the black aesthetics are being pushed out, while European standards of beauty — blonde hair, blue eyes — are becoming more mainstream.

“It seems that the world is conspiring in preaching that there is something wrong with Kenyan ladies’ kinky hair and dark skin,” Kenyan model Ajuma Nasenyana told the Daily Nation.

Nasenyana wonders why European skincare companies that push lightening creams are entering Kenya marketing the European standard of beauty.

“Their leaflets are all about skin lightening, and they seem to be doing good business in Kenya. It just shocks me. It’s not OK for a Caucasian to tell us to lighten our skin,” she said.

Despite her beauty and that of women like her, Nasenyana is dismayed that while she is heralded abroad for her dark skin, at home she is seen as less than ideal.

styleonnet: (ⓔditorials / Anne Vyalitsyna - Harper’s Bazaar...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:27:29 +0200

styleonnet:

(ⓔditorials / Anne Vyalitsyna - Harper’s Bazaar Spain March 2011 gönderdi)

Hot dam!!

The Stories That Europe Tells Itself About Its Colonial...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:10:25 +0200

The Stories That Europe Tells Itself About Its Colonial History

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie breaking it down…

“She said once she was shocked that her son while being taught Belgian history, was taught nothing about Congo. She said “They teach my son in school that he must help the poor Africans, but they don’t teach him about what Belgium did in Congo.” Of course, all countries are evasive about the past for which they feel ashamed, but I was shocked by what seemed to me not evasiveness but an erasure of history.

If her son doesn’t learn that the modern Congo State began a hundred years ago as the personal property of a Belgian king, who was desperate to get wealthy from ivory and rubber, if her son doesn’t learn that the hands of Congolese people were chopped off for not producing enough resources to meet the king’s greed, if her son doesn’t learn that the Belgian government later led Congo with a deliberate emphasis on not producing an educated class, so that Congolese could become clerks and mechanics but couldn’t go to university, if her son doesn’t learn that more recently, even thought it was the Americans who installed the Mobutu’s dictatorship, Belgium was a major force behind the scenes propping him off, if this young Belgian boy, knows nothing about these incidents, then, at some point, they would perhaps no longer have happened because the past after all is the past because we collectively acknowledged that it is so.

This young Belgian boy would grow up to see Africa only as a place that requires his aid, his help, his charity with no complications for him. A place that can help him show how compassionate he can be, and most of all, a place whose present has no connection to Europe.

It is not that Europe has denied its colonial history. Instead, Europe has developed a way of telling the story of its colonial history that ultimately seeks to erase that history”

Frolic “Under the Tuscan Sun” - Radda in Chianti

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:22:38 +0200

Frolic “Under the Tuscan Sun” - Radda in Chianti

“Look at me. I’m skinny, I have a big nose, no tits and no ass,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:21:30 +0200

“Look at me. I’m skinny, I have a big nose, no tits and no ass, but in a room full of beautiful women, I would still leave with the most gorgeous guy.”

— Zoe Saldana

fuckyeahdarkgirls: fuckyeahdarkgirls!

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:10:16 +0200

fuckyeahdarkgirls:

fuckyeahdarkgirls!

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls: Ok I know this beautiful woman isn’t...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:59:50 +0200

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

Ok I know this beautiful woman isn’t necessarily famous but I ran across her post and thought it was too amazing to not share!

“GOD FAITH PASSION: The bald and bandage lady was me mid Jan 2012. I had a double mastectomy, Stage 3b cancer, and a 50/50 chance of survival. Today, this is me w the big smile, implants, and a second chance of living. You ask me can I stand the rain?? Yes..and floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and any other storm! U hear me?!! …Thank you Lord for strength of super heroes to fight. Thank you Jesus for another year of my life Thank you everyone for your support!” —Coqueace Koco Powell co founder of Sexy after 30.

Like this facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sexy-After-30/156503329867

Wow. What a journey