The NEW BLACK Journal
The art of revealing yourself,
told in words and pictures.
Makeup advice, beauty routines, behind the scenes of the house: everything you need to know to enhance Black and Brown skin tones.
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Foundation for oily Black skin: matte and long-wearing, without a plaster or grey effect
On oily Black skin, the right foundation is velvet or matte, long-wear and transfer-proof, applied thin over a mattifying primer limited to the T-zone, and set with a tinted powder. The trap is double: mattifying too…
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Compact powder for Black skin: how to choose and apply it
A compact powder for Black skin is chosen tinted, in the shade of your foundation or half a shade deeper, and applied…
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Foundation that turns grey or oxidises on Black skin: why, and how to avoid it
A foundation that turns grey on Black or Brown skin almost always has one of these six causes: a shade too light,…
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Know your undertone when you have Black skin: the 3-minute test
The undertone is the hue that lives beneath the surface of your skin: warm (golden, red-brown), cool (pink, bluish), neutral (both) or…
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Transfer-proof foundation: how it works, and which one to choose
A transfer-proof foundation forms, as it dries, a thin film that bonds to the skin instead of sitting on the surface: once…
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