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For most of the past decade, makeup artists have been inundated with requests for these effects and more.
How you feel about their influence might be how you feel about class and race in America.
Lauren Michele Jackson, author ofWhite Negroes,describes Kim as representative of American race discourse.
In one photo, Kim may look California pale, withwhite-blonde hairand heavy, black sunglasses.
In another, she’s browned enough to garneraccusations of blackfaceand having to address that on the show.
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The thread was retweeted almost 30,000 times; the responses were rife with Kardashian lookalikes.
They have been able to capitalize off Black bodies, and people will want to emulate that."
Kim Kardashian West at Paris Fashion Week in early 2020.
Kim Kardashian West at Paris Fashion Week in early 2020. Her braids drew familiar accusations of appropriating Blackness.
Her braids drew familiar accusations of appropriating Blackness.
When they drop a product name in an interview, supply levels vanish.
“The devil works hard,” the saying goes, “but Kris Jenner works harder.”
The questions of their future remain: What will they build?
What will they plunder?
And most notably: Will the masses continue to care?
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