International Beauty Brands
Vive Cosmetics' co-founders stress, "Our community’s pockets requires a lot more than one token Latina in the ad campaign or Spanish copy."
Today we’d like to introduce you to Joanna Rosario-Rocha and Leslie Valdivia. Joanna and Leslie, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? Vive Cosmetics is a cosmetics brand created by Latinas for Latinas and the Latinx* community. We unite our love for all things beauty and culture […]
These nine Afro-Latina-owned beauty brands are celebrating their multicultural heritage and fighting against harmful beauty ideals that permeate the Latinx community.
In 2017, KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson founded Mented Cosmetics to compliment dark skin tones first. The dynamic duo is most known for their vegan, paraben-free, non-toxic and cruelty free lipsticks and ultra-hydrating foundation sticks for every shade. Read more.
As the nation continues to fight against racism and injustice, another way to do your part is support Afro-Latina and Black-owned beauty brands.
One-quarter of all U.S. Latinos self-identify as Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean or of African descent with roots in Latin America.
Pollyanna Rodrigues De La Rosa is Cuban and Panamanian, but only recently learned that she is also Afro-Latina
In a Q&A for his 2011 PBS documentary "Black In Latin America," Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said: There were 11.2 million Africa...
One quarter of all U.S. Latinos self-identify as Afro-Latino, but there many Afro-Latinos who choose not to identify as such. Why is that?
"There's people like us and don't speak English. We're not all African-Americans. We are diverse in every single possible way you can imagine.”