In short, these women lookrich.
As a Black woman who enjoys taking trips and looking pretty, #BlackWomeninLuxury is right up my alley.
As I scrolled further, I discovered I wasn’t the only one who had this thought.
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Almost as soon as it crossed my mind, a TikTok video from Atlanta-based modelTyler Simoneanswered my question.
“Where are all the naturals on Black women luxury TikTok?”
And she looks good doing it, too.
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Her video got over 55,000 likes, which was a surprise to her.
“I made the video but I didn’t expect people to see it.
“I just got pulled into this #BlackGirlLuxury world.”
“It’s not necessarily about self-hate.”
If you might afford all that human hair, you certainly have a few coins to your name.
“It shows other women, ‘I got it like that,'” she explained.
She’s done aTed Talkon the psychology of Black hair.
And social media offers an enticing platform on which to do it if you are so inclined.
Black women have been using their hair as a way to signal statusthroughout history.
This is just a modern iteration of the phenomenon.
But you’re free to still look expensive with natural hair, right?
That’s the question those searching for more kinks under the #BlackGirlLuxury hashtag may be asking themselves.
“Depending on your income, natural hair can cost a lot of money.
“Maybe we should entertain the idea that #blackgirlluxury captures a particular aesthetic which embraces straight hairstyles.”
It’s not terribly farfetched that some of the still-unresolved facets ofglobal anti-Blacknessare at the root of this issue.
“It doesn’t fit her aesthetic.
It makes me sad that some Black women don’t think that their hair is enough.
She said that she doesn’t feel being ‘revolutionary.'”
That last word, at least for Simone, really stood out.
Why does it have to be revolutionary for Black women to exist as they are in any space?
“We have to undo the conditioning and realize we are the blueprint,” Simone says.
That’s not their aesthetic.
They just post.”
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