Latina Beauty: A Get-Gorgeous Guide for Every Mujer

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Hernandez also remembers how most of the women had a simple routine of a little lipstick or gloss, a spritz of Elizabeth Arden and cold cream . Close up portrait of serious beautiful millennial young woman with smooth healthy skin and black hair looking at camera.

In her honor, something I can guarantee that I will always have in my cabinet is that Mary Kay night cream. Trujillo has launched products inspired by these enduring staples: the dark brown liner paired with lip gloss, the brown lipstick look, along with eyeshadow palettes and liners inspired by the vibrant colors she was surrounded by living among other Latinas in Miami. Portrait of a young latin woman with pleasant smile and crossed arms isolated on grey wall with copy space.In my young eyes, I thought those were the things I needed to be considered beautiful, to be the Latina that society wanted me to be. For a long time, Morrison says she linked beauty with "any form of whiteness," especially having straight hair. The media objectifies Latinas and sets up an unrealistic standard to which other Latinas, like myself, hold themselves to.

Jennifer took a moment to clarify a rumor about her, denying that she has a ver intense beauty routine. KPCC, staff members wrote about a study from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism that found that “less than 5 percent of actors in top Hollywood films are Hispanic, and that Latinas are more likely than women of any other ethnicity to appear partially or totally naked on screen. That belief may be shared across Latin America, but specific practices vary from country to country. Successful mature business woman looking at camera Portrait of middle aged businesswoman in modern office looking at camera. Lorena Garcia: Oh gosh, the first thing that comes to mind to me is that there is no one size fits all.

Then, in my first movie ever, I played a Latina, and all of a sudden to the wider community, it wasn’t enough to be X, or I didn’t look X enough because there was too much Y. She would take a raw egg, avocado, mayonnaise, and olive oil, and mix it together to create a conditioning mask for my hair.

Last year, Hailey Bieber faced backlash after posting a video on TikTok about the dique " brownie glazed lips trend," with many pointing out that the look originated with Black and Brown women. 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. My mom has multiple giant aloe plants that she propagated for my sister and me, so now we all have giant aloe plants! I use a shaving oil which works to moisturize my skin better during the shaving process and afterward.Latino beauty is defined in relation often in the United States to white standards of beauty especially, but also Black standards of beauty or non-Latino, Black standards of beauty, and other forms of beauty that we see worldwide. Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood in Florida, 20-year-old Nikki Cano said she felt removed from the Latinx community. By the age of 12, Cano stopped straightening her hair, embraced her natural curls, and chose to grow out her unibrow. Despite her lighthearted post about aging, Salma’s celebrity friends, flooded her comments with compliments. It hurts and frustrates us when we see white celebrities so removed from our cultures [and] copying our styles.

And like many girls back then, she idolized the blonde-haired, light-eyed pop stars of the early 2000s. So while we conform to expectations and put on our best face, we’re defining our own sense of beauty too.Cristina Mora: My name is Cristina Mora, and I’m associate professor of Sociology and Chicano Latino studies at UC Berkeley. I love that you, gave an empowering approach to our own agency and how we define our own beauty standards and that it is a mix of what we’ve been told by our families, what we’re seeing in mainstream American media, the influence in Latin American beauty standards with us once we come here in the US, how we wanna present to other women in our and the male gaze. I am very cautious on what I use to remove the makeup (so there won't be any allergic reactions, breakouts or dryness), so I am addicted to 100 percent virgin coconut oil, which removes my makeup, but keeps my skin hydrated and moisturized.