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I feel fantastic about aging."
Richard Phibbs
I cut my hair short about five years ago.
It was just afterCaptain Marvel.
I was like, “Oh, what have I done?”
Ryan Pfluger
But I just said, “Go on, let’s go to the hairdresser’s.”
She sat with me for five hours while I thought, Take your time, yo be gentle.
I did not regret it one bit.
I’ll be short-haired, cropped forever.
I’m a new woman because of it.
I like how liberating it is.
You wake up and it is all you.
With big,curly hair, sometimes you could hide behind it.
Why am I playing with this thing?
What’s in the hair that I’m looking for in myself?
When Icut my hair, I didn’t have the thing anymore.
I had to find it elsewhere within myself.
I got rid of loads of clothes and started again.
I upgraded myself: tops that express my shoulders and my clavicle and my neck.
I was walking differently.
I’ve been playing with my hair being the length it is shaving it, different colors.
Bronze for a red carpet just felt right.
I’m so ready to try whatever.
I don’t [do] permanent [dye] because I like mygrays.
Young people think you go gray at 75.
I found my first gray at 14.
I feel fantastic about aging.
Your skin and body are like homes for that.
Charlotte Mensah’s and Living Proof’s shampoos and conditioners are great.
They’re a Black-owned company.
When a Black girl does herbaby hairs, gel kind of shines on your forehead.
I use that, probably, every day or every other day.
I have full lips and big eyes.
I like abold red lip.
I’m learning about different types of nudes.
Fenty Beauty lip glosses…just thank you, Rihanna.
As soon as those came out, I got all of them.Fenty’s blood redis my favorite.
Can’t catch me slipping.
[In my next life], I would come back as lip balm.
I have one in each handbag.Dr.
Lipp Original Nipple Balmis fantastic.
I forgot it when I was out today and I was so annoyed with myself.
I can’t concentrate, I can’t speak properly without lip balm.
“In my next life, I’d like to come back as lip balm.
I have one in each handbag.”
I own manyeye shadows, but I don’t ever use them.
If you see me outside, you will see, probably, a blackeyelinerand plain eyelids plain.
I like a clean look with a liquid eyeliner from MAC and Dior mascara.
I’ve got a couple, butDiorshow Iconic Overcurlhas a nice brush.
I’ll use aFenty Beauty Glow Stick.
I like putting it at the top of my cheek because it gives a little raised glow.
But my mom never let me get away with not cleansing.
That would be my Sunday.
I use Kiehl’sCalendula Face Washat the moment and alsoDr.
Barbara Sturm’s Cleanser, which is just a dream.
I’ve had a few facials from her.
I can say that the first 50 minutes were fantastic.
After that, I wouldn’t know because I was asleep.
If I’m not dripping, then it doesn’t make sense.
I need to look like I have the sun on my skin.
It’s great at nighttime.
Oh, and Kiehl’sMidnight Recovery Concentratetoo.
I want people to feel my aura through my skin, through the way I approach beauty.
The aura I would project is ease.
When you’re not very confident, enter into ease, into calm.
When you are going off of adrenaline, it’s also good to remind yourself to ease.
And it would be purple.
I don’t know why.
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