Love Thy Self & Complexion

I've had so many discussions that bring this up with friends, family, episode Beauty in Black that I did in 2023 with Drake, Coming Up Black that I also did with Drake on our small series that we did.

We can run that back to Drake.

Okay, talks they don't want to have.

Yeah, we talked about this a little bit.

I wanted to highlight the love of our complexions because those discussions can get complex.

So many other countries deal with a caste system based upon the color of your skin.

India, Mexico, and even a state here, Louisiana.

Where a lot of the prison practices are very much mirroring slavery times of Black people.

But that's not what we're here to talk about.

But I wanted to talk about our complexion as Black people.

The variety of our complexion.

Um... how we can start to embrace it in a positive light.

I think a lot of people have embraced it in a positive light.

I think we are all beautiful in our different complexions.

People have preferences, but we also have to be aware of the companies and the products who are against our complexions.

We have to be mindful of the media that pushes an agenda that is against our complexions.

And we have to teach our kids that.

And we have to let the older boomer people be aware of the way that they think sometimes is detrimental to The young people, when you speak about that, don't stay in the sun too long, you might get dark.

Or you should be using this cream because you don't want your skin to be dark.

Or use this soap so your skin is not dark.

Why are you so against what your skin is? Why are you so against your skin being a darker shade? Where is that mindset coming from? And for me, coming from a Caribbean household, When you look at my sisters, my grandmother had 11 kids.

When you look at my sisters, they are not all the same complexion.

Some are lighter, some are darker.

Some have a reddish, brownish skin tone.

Some have a very light, light skin tone.