“Mrs. Obama gracefully handles taking up more space, and it goes beyond hair,” explained Mock. “It’s her height, her curves, her eyes, her voice. I just wanted more of her, and that hair was giving me more of her, and symbolically more of all of us — ‘us’ meaning brown girls who feel there isn’t enough space for us.”
NOTE: I discuss First Lady Michelle Obama’s photoshopped fro with Patrice Yursik of Afrobella and Image Activist Michaela Angela Davis in a The Root piece written by author Helena Andrews.
When I “came out,” Afrobella was the only blog I shared my story with.
Its creator, beauty maven Patrice Grell Yursik, innately understood my journey of being my “natural self” and gave me a platform to speak directly to women of color. So when I saw that she created her very own lipglass (from my favorite cosmetics brand MAC), I had to support her - and my vanity.
Patrice, with her All of My Purple Life lipglass, proves that beauty comes in many shades.
I <3 Janet Mock, that is all
Beaming with pride over Afrobella’s All Of My Purple Life lipglass. Indeed, purple reigns. Infinite xos - Janet Mock
