Kyle Phoenix Answers: How do African-American standards of beauty differ from Caucasian-American standards?

There’s a level of comfort with simply being. White people spend so much time obsessed with being seen—-perhaps this has to do with a societal focus on them as a standard. There’s such an obsession. I was watching a Kim Kardashian/Madonna interview about their beauty lines—-ok, the interviewer should’ve brought condoms, she went beyond being ingratiating—-Madonna turned slightly from her and talked to Kim a lot. Funny body language stuff. No, I have no erudite, academic or political reason why I was watching this silliness.

But what I noticed about them both as they discussed their beauty regimens and such was how obsessive it sounded and how no one mentioned all their plastic surgery. I mean Madonna’s cheeks are in that closed eye thing with her brow. A lot of White women on TV and films have this scalded, Botoxed, snatched, yanked, pulled, kicked, flattened, angled face and invisible eyes.

Now I’m sure several Black women have had work done but it’s less noticeable because beauty has such a range in Black culture from light to dark so we’re not trying to hit a specific mark like White people. There’s like two people they seem to all want to resemble.

While I’m not sure if it’s character based, Black beauty is self-biased. We sport a very personalized style of self-beauty. It’s individualistic. White beauty seems to try to follow a mass trend of other White people.

Smile, Kyle
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