Comments on: Grace Jones, Still The Baddest

By: THEMrs.Oh

THEMrs.Oh — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:57:12 +0000

OMG! I love her. I’m only 15 but this woman is so beautiful to me and is my Idol. I wish we could all embrace beauty that is her beauty and stop being so one track minded of how black woman are supposed to look. She’s absolutely lovely.

By: Chata

Chata — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:44:16 +0000

I know this really is actually boring and you’re skipping to the next comment, but I just wanted to throw you a big thank you – you cleared up some things for me!

By: Dasheen Magazine

Dasheen Magazine — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:34:53 +0000

Someone kinda said, but i must reiterate – Grace Jones is the definition of FIERCE!!!

By: This Time Now

This Time Now — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:33:26 +0000

She is a force of nature. Just watched a couple of her interviews thanks to your post.

Felicia
This Time Now

By: Vonmiwi

Vonmiwi — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:57:39 +0000

@ Black Honey
I grew up in Louisiana after moving to this country and after seeing Grace Jones in my first Essence magazine I was hooked!

My Mom was my first beauty icon and so were the women in our community. At a time the full spectrum of black beauty was not even celebrated by our own to include much of the black media. Not in our home, our ancestry was celebrated and not denied. No one can deny the beauty of any black woman but us and I refuse to.

I’ve got to give it to Essence magazine because in the 70′s they changed the game of how black beauty was viewed and Black Pride was rampant all across the USA.

By: Vonmiwi

Vonmiwi — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:44:39 +0000

Icon! Icon! Icon! And a Living Legend! The cheek bones are to die for!

She tore the house down at last years Montreux Jazz Festival and at this years Victor and Rolf show.

I guess with the fashion industry’s excessive pursuit of youth they want to ignore her, but I didn’t care for the VOGUE article that compared her to copying Lady Gaga because she is not copying Lady Gaga at all, it’s vice versa. Just give credit to where it’s due and stop denying who the real trendsetters are.

By: Black Honey

Black Honey — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:17:42 +0000

“I’ve Seen That Face Before” is my favorite Grace Jones song.

I have to admit that going up in rural Alabama in the ‘70s and ‘80s Grace Jones was not a celebrated beauty icon. In fact, it was instilled in me that she was in the definition of ugly. Vanessa Williams and Jayne Kennedy were beautiful. The light skin women with wavy hair were beautiful. Grace Jones was not. Since I was closer to Jones on the scale, I took it to mean I was ugly too.

It wasn’t until I had moved away from AL that I began to appreciate different types of beauty.

One day I really looked at a photograph of Grace Jones and realized that she was spectacular: that skin, those cheekbones, those eyes.

Was I blind before?

I think people are now realizing that she was not only a performance legend but she remains a legendary beauty.

Thanks so much for linking those Grace Jones interviews.

By: shasha

shasha — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:06:41 +0000

Listening to her album- she was underrated as a singing talent in the country. Her version of “la via en rose” is classic! Although my fave is “I Need A Man!”

By: alicia

alicia — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:41:32 +0000

And still fierce she is…

By: LBell

LBell — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:56:14 +0000

Love love LOVE this woman! I’m not a big believer in role modeling or idol worship but she’s both for me. And although I think genetics plays a huge role in her perfect skin (and mine) I can’t help but wonder how much omega-3 she’s getting from eating all that fish and shellfish. Man…I’m in my mid-40s and can pass for someone in her late-20s…let ME be able to pass for someone in her 30s at age 61! Wow! Thanks for this article.