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The following Black-owned beauty and makeup brands have our attention because they transform how inclusivity, performance, and self-expression function in the beauty industry. These brands provide diverse product selections which include melanin-friendly foundations alongside bold pigments, vegan formulas, and luxury artistry to serve all skin tones and personal styles. Supporting these Black-owned beauty and makeup brands for the holidays allows you to boost your natural beauty while contributing to the Black economy.
Fenty Beauty
Rihanna’s makeup and beauty brand Fenty Beauty delivers high-performance cosmetics with broad shade ranges and standout products that serve all skin tones. The brand launched in 2017 and rapidly transformed industry diversity standards through its worldwide online presence and major retail distribution.
Juvia’s Place
Chichi Eburu founded Juvia’s Place as a makeup brand that creates vibrant pigment-rich cosmetics inspired by African culture. The brand offers bold eyeshadow palettes and lip products that deliver vibrant color payoff specifically for deeper skin tones. Juvia’s Place markets its products online and through selected beauty retailers.
The Lip Bar
Melissa Butler established The Lip Bar as a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand which offers bold makeup essentials for every skin tone. The brand started from Butler’s frustration around limited inclusive beauty options and now it has grown to national distribution. The Lip Bar sells its products through online platforms and major retail stores to fight against one-shade-fits-most beauty standards and boost confidence with clean beauty products.
Uoma Beauty
Sharon Chuter birthed Uoma Beauty as an inclusive, Afro-inspired makeup and beauty brand. Uoma Beauty delivers rich pigments with innovative formulas and broad shade ranges in foundations and lipsticks to fill industry gaps in representation. The brand was created to honor diversity through its collection of beauty tools. Customers can purchase Uoma Beauty products through its website platform and in specific Ulta beauty store locations.
Danessa Myricks Beauty
Danessa Myricks Beauty, created by makeup artist Danessa Myricks, offers pro-artistry cosmetics with multi-use, high-impact products that blend professional performance with creative freedom. Built around the idea that beauty should have no boundaries, Danessa Myricks Beauty products are available direct and at retailers like Sephora, empowering users from beginners to pros to experiment and express individuality.
Range Beauty
Range Beauty is a new beauty brand that specializes in makeup products which are beneficial for the skin. Range Beauty creates natural-finish glow-enhancing makeup products which suit various skin tones and are made for daily use. The brand develops its products to enhance skin feel and radiance across all skin tones, while delivering an empowering experience to its customers. Range Beauty in the inclusive beauty market meeting consumer needs for improved representation. Range Beauty products are available through their website and at specific beauty retail locations.
Fashion Fair
The luxury brand Fashion Fair, which was initially created for darker skin tones, made a comeback with updated formulations and new retail locations. The brand provides high-end foundations, together with lipsticks and complexion products, that are specifically designed for melanin-rich skin. Fashion Fair maintains its mission to elevate beauty standards for historically underserved consumers.
CocoLash
CocoLash is a Black-owned beauty brand that focuses on eye-enhancing products ,together with high-quality lashes. The brand provides various eye makeup options to transform any look. Their high-end lashes enable users to enhance their eyes while increasing self-assurance and completing their makeup application. The company distributes its products through online channels and retail stores.
Pat McGrath Labs
The legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath established Pat McGrath Labs in 2015. The brand specializes in ultra-luxury cosmetics, which includes couture pigments alongside runway-grade formulas and iconic palettes. Pat McGrath Labs operates through Sephora and Ulta and premium retail locations worldwide to deliver visionary artistry and high-performance products that create global makeup trends.
Beauty Bakerie
The makeup brand Beauty Bakerie was created by Cashmere Nicole to deliver playful vegan and gluten-free cosmetics that provide long-lasting smudge-resistant performance. The brand uses dessert-inspired packaging and launched in 2011. Beauty Bakerie sells their products through its website and beauty boutiques across the country, while the mission unites creative quality, clean formulas with a goal to please beauty enthusiasts.
Mented Cosmetics
The founders KJ Miller and Amanda E. Johnson established Mented Cosmetics to produce vegan and cruelty-free makeup and skincare products that serve all skin tones, including those neglected by traditional beauty standards. Since its 2017 debut, Mented Cosmetics has built a reputation for creating nude lipsticks and complexion products which enhance every skin shade. Mented Cosmetics sells its products through its website and select retailers, while maintaining its commitment to universal shade ranges and high-quality formulas with intentional inclusivity.
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It’s hard to imagine some of our most beloved films with different actors. But in another timeline, Jodie Foster became Princess Leia in Star Wars. And in yet another timeline, Sam Raimi cast Jake Gyllenhaal as Spider-Man. Now, thanks to a TikTok circulating from the Academy Museum, which we came across via Deadline, we’ve learned which big-name stars might have played some of the roles in the original Home Alone. And some names that director Chris Columbus and the film’s producers were looking at in 1990 might genuinely surprise you.
Instead of Catherine O’Hara, the Home Alone producers were looking at several other bankable names to play Kate McAllister, Kevin’s distraught mother. Kirstie Alley, then starring in Cheers and Look Who’s Talking, was at the top of the list. So was Candice Bergen, who was the lead in the popular sitcom Murphy Brown. Susan Sarandon was under consideration, but it’s unknown if the producers ever made an offer. She likely would have been busy making Thelma and Louise at the time. Rocky Horror and original Pennywise Tim Curry was also on the shortlist for the role Joe Pesci would ultimately play, adding to his already legendary resume of credits.
The most surprising name on the list might be none other than Jimmy Stewart, who starred in a different iconic Christmas movie decades earlier, It’s a Wonderful Life. He was looked at for the elderly neighbor who saves the day at the end. Apparently, his agent showed interest, but the producers cast Robert Blossom in the role instead. More than likely, this came down to budget, as Jimmy Stewert surely didn’t come cheap. Would Home Alone have been different if these other actors were playing alongside Macaulay Culkin? Who can say? But it’s an interesting glimpse into what might have been.
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I first found out about Jay Jurden from his appearance on the X of Words podcast, where he was talking about X-Men. Jay’s passion and social commentary on the X-Men let me know that this man is a top tier nerd. I then found out that they were also a comedian. So I followed their social media. Glad to say, it’s one of the best choices I’ve made. It’s one thing to give social commentary on the X-Men through a Black queer lens but to be able to do that on stage nightly in New York’s comedy scene, on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, writing for The Problem with John Stewart, and Marvel is a whole other thing to have accomplished. Jay Jurden been out here workin’, and now we get to see him work his debut comedy special Yes Ma’am.
Jay Jurden opens his set by talking the blue dot cities he’s stopped in for the comedy tour so far. Then, he informs the crowd on what a blue dot is. “It’s a liberal city inside of a conservative state. So a fun place, inside of a not so fun place. It’s, just think, a prostate becaaaaaaause what is America but a prostate? And I believe that’s a poem by Langston Hughes.” We see Jay temp check the crowd with that joke, and realizing that it’s his type of crowd he then talks about meeting the best people that reside in blue dots. “They’re kind of backwoods but also kind of progressive. So they say things like, ‘My gun is non-binary *cocks shotgun* is non-binary, and it’s also polyamorous so both of y’all can get it. And y’all, that was my experience in Austin [Texas].”
And there, just that quickly, Jay Jurden hits the audience with two jokes like jabs to leave them reeling. It feels almost ‘blink and you’ll miss it,’ but what I love about Jay Jurden’s comedy is not only the speed and rhythm of his performance, but the complexities he stitches them with seamlessly. Jurden checked the audience with jokes mixing in the social climate at the moment, Black literature, and then maneuvering progressive stances from ignorant people’s point of view. To me, that’s how you fucking comedy. With just the opening lines, Jay Jurden let’s the viewer know he’s not just a seasoned veteran but a master of his craft. Watching Jay Jurden perform, he has this uncanny ability to switch the point of view depending on the topic. He’s able to work a crowd as a narrator, a storyteller, or a conversational friend. I know that may seem like what all comedians do but I’d argue, some can only do one of three and that the best have mastered all three. Jay Jurden is without a doubt a grandmaster and innovator of captivation.
I’m always invested and interested in how performers move on stage. My go-to comparison would be that of a fighter. Some comedians pace back and forth, like the audience is an opponent they need to hunt down. Others are completely still, as if they’re a counter puncher. Allowing the audience to get close to them so they can strike a joke from an angle the audience isn’t expecting. Watching Jay Jurden perform, you realize, he doesn’t move like a fighter. He moves like a gunslinger, and not only that, he’s the quickest draw this side of Mississippi. I don’t mean like ten paces, I mean this walking the crowd down shooting from the hip. Jay Jurden’s pace is the perfect amount of fast. My favorite line was when he said, “Homophobia is real. I recently had to deal with homophobia and by that I mean I did not get my way. So, I was walking in Harlem. Imma be honest, I was prancing.” I fucking lost it. Jay Jurden’s set makes you feel like you’re watching him in the wild west, stand in the middle of a shoot out at the center of town, and just nail every single shot with no fear or hesitation.
This man is a sharpshooter. The pace and cadence feel like he’s nailing so many targets with a single joke or theme. But when he stays on a theme, it’s like he’s emptying the clip into a specific target. Perhaps a better way to put it would be like as my friend and fellow poet Caroline Rothstein once said, “You use the stage like an instrument.” Watching Jay Jurden move not only physically on stage during his Yes Ma’am special, but weave through different themes, he picks different topics and plays them masterfully. This makes me think of him in this instance as more as a maestro. He’s taking all these themes, topics, social commentary, and jokes and puts them together into one large orchestra.
For me, the biggest take away during this comedy special: it felt like Jay Jurden was giving a blueprint on comedy. Jay is very vocal on the craft online which I appreciate. In an era where we see comedians online relying heavily on punching down and saying they’re censored, Jay Jurden’s Yes Ma’am serves as a beautiful reminder that comedy isn’t making fun of people. It’s making light of the situation that people go through or experience and finding a way to uplift the oppressed. It’s being able to find silver lining. Jay talked about himself being bi, about his husband, then about the queer community. He doesn’t do it by punching down. He literally says, “I will never make fun of anyone who currently has it worse than me politically or socially. So per that logic, I don’t make fun of lesbians because lesbians can fight. Oh, my god! You ever been kicked by a pair of Doc Martens? You make that mistake once.”
Jay Jurden makes light of situations and cirumstances in a way that uplifts people that are being shitted on constantly by society. It really seems like a majority of comedians have forgotten how to do that part of the art form. I’m always glad to see Jay online calling out comedians on this, and then in his comedy special, he is showing motherfuckers how real comedy is done.
You can see Jay Jurden’s comedy special Yes Ma’am streaming now on Hulu.
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