Anyway, learn a lot about “beauty” on this blog but every time you talk about something else than that, I am sorry about this comparison, but you remind me those “beauty contest” answers….
No offenses intended.

“Sometimes people get confused and feel that anytime the word ethnic is used it only applies to blacks, thus making them inferior.”

THis is absolute inference and NOT an absolute. And no one is confused…at least Im not..nor anyone with a brain and knowledge of connotation and denotataion… I am not offended by the word ethnic used to describe me or latinas or whoever else….what I have a problem with is that the word is never used to define people who are not “white” ( that is a political term…a construct like all of them are)…that is my problem…the othering—the setting of normal…the creation of a binary (white and ethnic)…its a fallacy.

“They are tied by a common and distinctve difference in their skin (and it’s needs) from the opposite ethnic group of “white” skin.”

this is just my point..and this is where the real confusion lies in my opinion…everyone else is not just the “opposite” of white lol…that is ridiculous and borders on the deification of a politically constructed group of people ( which I know a lot of my people are prone to doing with their refusal to question and challenge whiteness and the othering of people who are not white)…the differences in skin tone and different needs for different women has NOTHING to do with what I was talking about. Newly Nappy. I think you missed the point but its okay lol cuz i shouldnt have opened the discussion here ( hint hint)

I do not feel the word ethnic in and of itself is a negative word, by its usage it can render a negative opinion but as a stand alone it simply identifies a group carrying similarities. Sometimes people get confused and feel that anytime the word ethnic is used it only applies to blacks, thus making them inferior. You could very well be an ethnic swede, hungarian, romanian, south african, etc etc so on and so on. We are all of some ethnic derivative (and yes we all have culture as you’d word it nina lol)but each ethnic group can be different from the next. Here in bella’s usage of “ethnic market” (and business america in general) she speaks of the ethnic group encompassing women of color, be they black hispanic island mixed indian asian middle eastern whtvr. They are tied by a common and distinctve difference in their skin (and it’s needs) from the opposite ethnic group of “white” skin. I think in this sense ethnic is used as a grouping, because women of color span MANY races it is not simply a matter of one specific race of people.

It is not just makeup, there is a VAST distinction. I cannot wear makeup made for nicole kidman, my curly haired bella of blue black beautiful complexion can’t wear anythg created with natalie portman in mind. On the flip my blue eyed diva bella can do nothing made with iman’s image in mind. “Products” must vary btwn the markets, otherwise it is not gonna be pretty when i come out lookg chalkfaced. I for one am proud and happy to finally have a market created with my ETHNIC skin in my mind. As well as all my other beautiful bellas of color from all the corners of the globe.

Done with my monologue…..lol Good work on all ur wonderful work bella, i look 4wd 2 ur site ery morning i get to work. THANK YOU!

lol..sorry for the monologue…i enjoy your blog…just irked by that word and perpetuation of ideas like it