Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Receding Eyes. When a few black women began to use cosmetics, the lipsticks and makeup then available did not really work on black skins. Naomi Sims, a model, recalls having to mix her own even in the early '60s: "I used to add rouge and watercolor paint," she says. Model Pat Evans remembers makeup that "turned black women's mouths into neon signs, turned their skin ashen, made their eyes recede." The fact is that stock cosmetics are bad for blacks...
...business. For one thing, there is a wider variety of skin colors among blacks. "Do you know," she asks, "that we have undertones of browns, oranges, reds and golds-and even purple-in our skin? But never pink, which is the most common undertone in white skins and white makeup." Accordingly, makeup designed for white women is unflattering for blacks; it tends to make darker-toned skin look gray. Lips pose questions too. Many black women find it necessary to use two shades of lipstick to equalize skin color, because their bottom lips often are more pink than their tops...
Like white makeup, the black variety is designed basically to give the skin a uniform tone. But the new black cosmetics have other roles. They are synthesized to meet the problems of black skin-such as oiliness-and differ markedly in ingredients from white makeup. Thus they have lower oil content, for example, and their basic color tones are darker than the pink common to makeup designed for whites...
...Though the resolution provides that makeup exams should be granted. it makes no provision requiring professors to postpone or lessen paper requirements. Professors "may grant extensions on written work until the end of the Full term." However, a professor requiring all reading papers to be on time would not be violating the technical language of the resolution...
...change how votes are counted. It will help determine what kind of man will be elected and be a major factor in determining whether he is liberal or conservative, and how he views his constituency. Beyond that, there is a possibility, not yet fully appreciated, that the entire political makeup of the country might be affected in ways yet un anticipated and unexplored. That alone should be consideration enough to send Congress back to the drawing board in pursuit of the best plan possible...