Makeup and Black women have a complicated history, one defined for decades by exclusion, and more recently, by revolution. For most of the 20th century, the beauty industry simply did not make makeup for Black women. Foundation ranges stopped at medium
In Step 1, you built the foundation: a compelling story idea, a protagonist with a defined dominant trait, and a three-act structure that gives your narrative shape and direction. Now comes the next critical phase — translating that written narrative
Art is how a culture sees itself. It is how history is interpreted, contested, and reimagined. And Black artists, throughout history and across every medium, have been at the centre of that conversation, even when the art world tried everything