Indya Moore photographed by Agnes Lloyd-Platt

15 Beauty Problems Black Women Struggle With

1. When people try to mess with your curls and you’re like, NAH.

2. When headphones and hats become your hair styling nightmare.

3. When drugstore makeup forgets that you exist.

4. When your lotion tries to play you.

5. When “nude” isn’t your nude.

6. When your bathroom counter looks like a Sally’s display window of half-open hair products.

7. When you’ve had to say RIP too soon to a good brush.

8. When Wash Day arrives.

9. When the time comes to twist your hair.

10.  When your friend texts you to chill after your head scarf is on.

11. When you’re trying really hard to find a salon…

12. …Like, really hard…

13. …Like. Unbelievably hard.

14. And then you find a place and they want to charge you more for your hair type.

15. But on the bright side, at least you kind of get a mini vacation out of your trip to the salon.

This is too real.

Lol but this really is me. And that facial reaction matches the tone of his response.

Anything Helps🙏🏿 Too many Black Girls are going Missing.

A Different World, 1991

But what’s crazy is that it’s really not a different world at all. Many of us are still dealing with the same problems our parents dealt with over twenty years ago. And this is why we still need shows like this; because they really spoke the truth.

this is how you nip internalized self hatred right in the bud as a parent.

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.

People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!

Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!

I stopped complaining and it was annoy– it was great!

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated. Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?” Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

Relevant magazine  (via awelltraveledwoman)

Not the most fun experience, but thank you for this job!