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...last column I commented on some of the frustration I experience when trying to shop for make-up products because cosmetics lines rarely, if ever, cater to my skin tone. Though I haven’t got the willpower to make most cosmetic trends a reality even if they did include my hue in their palate, I’ve come to expect that ads and how-to’s will feature great products and tips for everyone who is lighter than, say, a paper bag. After just about a year of mindless investigation into the highs and lows...
Brown, Tufts and Columbia are currently awaiting that national board review, which upheld in November 2000 the NYU students’ right to unionize. The board’s make-up has changed with President Bush’s appointment of more conservative members, leading some to speculate that it might overturn the decisions of the previous board as it reviews the upcoming cases...
With the postponement of yesterday’s second game due to the weather, Harvard and Brown both claim 10-5 Ivy records. With only five league games remaining for both teams, today’s 3 p.m. make-up contest with the Bears is the biggest game of the season...
...giving skin-tone specific beauty advice. I mean, it does if your skin tone is somewhere between Swedish pale pink and J-Lo bronze. I suppose if I want to learn which dark-people lipsticks or blushes to wear with a particular outfit, I could refer to the make-up artists who are dishing out advice in the dark-people magazines. And there are “special” make-up lines made especially for black people with invitingly dark shades that start somewhere around caramel and only get better from there. I use these products…provided...
...really, and bought this mildly vain, mildly sensitive and starkly black soul a cadre of beautiful black dolls (and a few Hot Wheels, Tonka Trucks and GI Joes to make sure seven-year-old me didn’t get too girly). I don’t expect the make-up industry, or the world for that matter, to be as comfortable with me as I am, but it would be nice if they (ahhh, the comfortably vague “they”) made more of an effort to inch a bit closer in that direction...