Latina Beauty: A Get-Gorgeous Guide for Every Mujer

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Now that I’m older, I’m more educated on these topics and understand that I look completely fine, but every once in a while those insecurities sneak back into my head. Julissa Prado’s mother taught her that “there’s nothing more Latino than natural living,” a principle she observed in her predominantly Latin Los Angeles neighborhood. So while we conform to expectations and put on our best face, we’re defining our own sense of beauty too. Resistance was a mode of dress with specific Nikes and press shirts and firmly crease pants or things like that.

To not be accepted by the people I thought I looked like, and that I felt would connect with me, was very hard,” she says. I fell into the chola stereotype when I was younger,” Cano says, referring to an American stereotype of Mexican women who are perceived as tough.

Appropriation is misunderstanding and exploitation; it's mockery of, and/or copying, a part of a culture for personal gain. Scrunch in Mizani True Textures styling products, then take small individual sections and wrap each piece around your finger to make tiny corkscrews. The legacies of our ancestors, far from holding us back, have become the very shoulders we stand upon.

Featuring insider tips from the hottest stars, models, and beauty experts, it redefines total beauty from the unique perspective of the Hispanic woman. But don’t mistake her grandmother’s complex beauty routine for vanity, because it’s not — it’s a kind of armor, Nakama says. So what you all are about to hear is a two-part series where we unpack not only the impacts that these beauty standards have on our Latinidad, but really interrogating, Maribel, where do these beauty standards even come from?She swore by it, even putting it in the microwave for five to 10 seconds to heat it up, you know to really get its properties "working. You can just go through all of this history of how we’ve been displaced, and the common thread you can find for all of us, Cubanos, Colombianos, Puertorriqueños, Mexicanos, we all come from somewhere, and yet we are still standing here today to tell the story.