Hello blog!
Today's post lies near and dear to my heart.
Growing up I struggled, like many other WOC, with accepting my beauty and skin color. I grew up in a suburban area and I was often the only black person in my friend group. The majority of the media I viewed did not show any women that looked like me and other than my mother, I had no black women I could identity with. Because of this, I never was able equate my non-eurocentric features with beauty. This unhealthy self-esteem issue resulted in a lot of emotional turmoil, self-doubt, and depression during my years as an adolescent. Believe it or not, there was a phase in my life that I truly believed that I would be more beautiful, loved, liked, etc if I was white.
Now, several years later, being that I am officially out of my teenage years can say that I am slowly but surely learning to love my blackness. Living in the age of beautiful black women such as Michelle Obama, Zendaya, Princess Tiana, Yara Shahidi, Duckie Thot, and so many more, has been a tremendous blessing. Being able to see other women who share my similar features wholeheartedly embracing their blackness and beauty is something 14 year old me could never comprehend. On top of their being amazing black women in media, there are now amazing black women in business
Big and small black women are stepping out of the shadows and making themselves known. My favorite thing about this movement is that these women refuse to be silent, their emergence is powerful and loud. I had the opportunity to work with a black girl who is dead set on making some noise. While aimlessly scrolling on Facebook one day I came across a post in a huge Facebook group about a black-owned, t-shirt brand owned by a 14 year old girl named Trinity. After reaching out and having fate bring us together, (get this: I was in ATL for less than 2 days and it just so happened that Trinity lived in ATL) we were able to create this magical shoot.
If I could go back in time and tell young me that there are beautiful, powerful, and glowing black women out there, I would do it in a heartbeat.
...pssst
Today's post lies near and dear to my heart.
Growing up I struggled, like many other WOC, with accepting my beauty and skin color. I grew up in a suburban area and I was often the only black person in my friend group. The majority of the media I viewed did not show any women that looked like me and other than my mother, I had no black women I could identity with. Because of this, I never was able equate my non-eurocentric features with beauty. This unhealthy self-esteem issue resulted in a lot of emotional turmoil, self-doubt, and depression during my years as an adolescent. Believe it or not, there was a phase in my life that I truly believed that I would be more beautiful, loved, liked, etc if I was white.
Now, several years later, being that I am officially out of my teenage years can say that I am slowly but surely learning to love my blackness. Living in the age of beautiful black women such as Michelle Obama, Zendaya, Princess Tiana, Yara Shahidi, Duckie Thot, and so many more, has been a tremendous blessing. Being able to see other women who share my similar features wholeheartedly embracing their blackness and beauty is something 14 year old me could never comprehend. On top of their being amazing black women in media, there are now amazing black women in business
Big and small black women are stepping out of the shadows and making themselves known. My favorite thing about this movement is that these women refuse to be silent, their emergence is powerful and loud. I had the opportunity to work with a black girl who is dead set on making some noise. While aimlessly scrolling on Facebook one day I came across a post in a huge Facebook group about a black-owned, t-shirt brand owned by a 14 year old girl named Trinity. After reaching out and having fate bring us together, (get this: I was in ATL for less than 2 days and it just so happened that Trinity lived in ATL) we were able to create this magical shoot.
If I could go back in time and tell young me that there are beautiful, powerful, and glowing black women out there, I would do it in a heartbeat.
...pssst
Want to see how these photos came to be? Click the link above to watch to the behind the scenes video from the shoot!
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| CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO!. |
Follow us on Instagram!
Me: @alyceebyrd
Black Vibe Tribe: @blackvibetribe (website: blackvibetribe.com)
Tommy (videographer): @systemoutprintt@tommytoonami
Zanetta (model): @pinkcurlsnheels
Jakira (model): @jakiramou
Amber (model): @amberbriana
Alicia (asisant): @alicia_costa88
Thanks for reading!
Hello blog!
Today's post lies near and dear to my heart.
Growing up I struggled, like many other WOC, with accepting my beauty and skin color. I grew up in a suburban area and I was often the only black person in my friend group. The majority of the media I viewed did not show any women that looked like me and other than my mother, I had no black women I could identity with. Because of this, I never was able equate my non-eurocentric features with beauty. This unhealthy self-esteem issue resulted in a lot of emotional turmoil, self-doubt, and depression during my years as an adolescent. Believe it or not, there was a phase in my life that I truly believed that I would be more beautiful, loved, liked, etc if I was white.
Now, several years later, being that I am officially out of my teenage years can say that I am slowly but surely learning to love my blackness. Living in the age of beautiful black women such as Michelle Obama, Zendaya, Princess Tiana, Yara Shahidi, Duckie Thot, and so many more, has been a tremendous blessing. Being able to see other women who share my similar features wholeheartedly embracing their blackness and beauty is something 14 year old me could never comprehend. On top of their being amazing black women in media, there are now amazing black women in business
Big and small black women are stepping out of the shadows and making themselves known. My favorite thing about this movement is that these women refuse to be silent, their emergence is powerful and loud. I had the opportunity to work with a black girl who is dead set on making some noise. While aimlessly scrolling on Facebook one day I came across a post in a huge Facebook group about a black-owned, t-shirt brand owned by a 14 year old girl named Trinity. After reaching out and having fate bring us together, (get this: I was in ATL for less than 2 days and it just so happened that Trinity lived in ATL) we were able to create this magical shoot.
If I could go back in time and tell young me that there are beautiful, powerful, and glowing black women out there, I would do it in a heartbeat.
...pssst
Today's post lies near and dear to my heart.
Growing up I struggled, like many other WOC, with accepting my beauty and skin color. I grew up in a suburban area and I was often the only black person in my friend group. The majority of the media I viewed did not show any women that looked like me and other than my mother, I had no black women I could identity with. Because of this, I never was able equate my non-eurocentric features with beauty. This unhealthy self-esteem issue resulted in a lot of emotional turmoil, self-doubt, and depression during my years as an adolescent. Believe it or not, there was a phase in my life that I truly believed that I would be more beautiful, loved, liked, etc if I was white.
Now, several years later, being that I am officially out of my teenage years can say that I am slowly but surely learning to love my blackness. Living in the age of beautiful black women such as Michelle Obama, Zendaya, Princess Tiana, Yara Shahidi, Duckie Thot, and so many more, has been a tremendous blessing. Being able to see other women who share my similar features wholeheartedly embracing their blackness and beauty is something 14 year old me could never comprehend. On top of their being amazing black women in media, there are now amazing black women in business
Big and small black women are stepping out of the shadows and making themselves known. My favorite thing about this movement is that these women refuse to be silent, their emergence is powerful and loud. I had the opportunity to work with a black girl who is dead set on making some noise. While aimlessly scrolling on Facebook one day I came across a post in a huge Facebook group about a black-owned, t-shirt brand owned by a 14 year old girl named Trinity. After reaching out and having fate bring us together, (get this: I was in ATL for less than 2 days and it just so happened that Trinity lived in ATL) we were able to create this magical shoot.
If I could go back in time and tell young me that there are beautiful, powerful, and glowing black women out there, I would do it in a heartbeat.
...pssst
Want to see how these photos came to be? Click the link above to watch to the behind the scenes video from the shoot!
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| CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO!. |
Follow us on Instagram!
Me: @alyceebyrd
Black Vibe Tribe: @blackvibetribe (website: blackvibetribe.com)
Tommy (videographer): @systemoutprintt@tommytoonami
Zanetta (model): @pinkcurlsnheels
Jakira (model): @jakiramou
Amber (model): @amberbriana
Alicia (asisant): @alicia_costa88
Thanks for reading!
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