Five Reasons Why Emma Grede's "Girl Boss" Advice Is Wrong

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Steph and Fetch was the name that a man named Lincoln Perry, born in 1902, took on when he came to Hollywood. And he became Hollywood's first black movie star. He was known as the laziest man in the world. Uh particularly because many of his roles portrayed that. He was the shiftless, bumbling, stumbling, buffoon type black character. He was what white Americans wanted to see. He made them laugh. And most importantly, he was their stereotype brought on screen. He was one of the first black millionaires in Hollywood. He was one of the first black people to get an onscreen credit for a film. Many would say that he Uncle Tommed his way to quite a bit of success. So, why am I talking about him?

[00:00:50]It's because his name came to mind immediately when I saw Emma Greedy.

[00:00:56]Hello, we're editing to shower here. Her last name is pronounced greed. Please excuse me. I switch between greedy and greed throughout this video. Trending and trending for some of the statements that she has made recently, especially around women needing to stop working from home and needing to go into the office. So, let's discuss misstep and fetch it today and five reasons why I believe she is absolutely wrong. Work from home culture is a career killer for women. And let me explain to you why.

[00:01:29]Remembering that I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of women that work for me. Now, what is happening is that we talk about all of this sort of upside of Zoom culture, but none of the rigidity of it and no one will really tell you. But careers require proximity and visibility. You want a pay rise, you want the next promotion, you want the big corner office, guess what? You need to be there. You might not want to hear it cuz it might be comfortable in your living room, but the facts are the facts. And I'm not here to sugarcoat information or to load women up with >> a way to also I don't want to say uh push us out, but it's almost slowly a way to be like you're not needed or you don't really it's not uh there's no urgency because you're away.

[00:02:14]>> It's eroding the potential for women to be successful.

[00:02:18]>> Interesting.

[00:02:19]Period. End off. Your boss won't tell you that because they're not allowed to tell you. The way we have built human resource culture in this country and the rest of the western world is that no one can have that conversation with you. But the truth is the truth. It just is. If you're not there, if you're not in the room, there is going to be somebody else that is. And guess what? Like they will get that opportunity over you. This is not about like whether or not these things are true or properly understood or whether they're right quite frankly because I know that for some people they're like but wait a minute I need this flexibility. The way that we all come into work now is that and I listen I run organizations that are very flexible. Nobody misses things that they need to do a dentist appointment with their kids because they have to be in work from this hour to this hour.

[00:03:09]There's a level of flexibility that's assumed in the workplace right now. But I think it's a little bit like this idea that we've built for ourselves that you're like, you know, you can listen your way to success. Like if I just stack all these podcasts, like I'm going to get really successful. No, ambition has to find you working. And work is just work. And I'll be doing my makeup while we discuss this. And so I started with my two primers, including MAC Studio Fix Mattifying 12-hour Shine Control. I always put this on the areas of my skin where I get the oiliest. and everywhere else I put the Danessa Marx Yummy Skin Glow Serum. Let's get started. First up, who is Emma Greedy?

[00:03:48]While I put on my foundation, which is the Makeup Forever matte velvet skin, and my color is R540.

[00:03:55]So, Emma was born in the 1980s, 1982 to be exact, in East London. And she was born to a white British mother and a black Jamaican father. Today, she's probably best known for her success and being connected to the Kardashian brands. Specifically, she helped to found Good American as well as Skims.

[00:04:21]This foundation is mattifying, so it dries down so quickly, which is why I'm like trying to get it into my skin like a maniac because if not, it will leave dark spots. I'm not color correcting today because I do want to do more of an everyday beat. Now, it is really important to note that Emma already was a business owner before she met Chris Jenner and she met Chris allegedly first and pitched the idea of wanting to start a denim company with Khloe because of, you know, Khloe's curves. And so, she was like, "Oh, I have we won't go there. we can we won't go there. Um so before she pitched this idea of a denim company to Chris Jenner, she had already sold her company which was a very successful talent management agency that I believe she founded with her husband. So between the sale of that company and also her co-founding and being the CEO of the Kardashian brands, specifically Skiims and Good American, she is now worth over $400 million by some estimations, including a pretty vast real estate portfolio. But sister married well honey uh because her husband is Swedish and is the co-founder of the very popular and successful denim brand called Frame. I just put on my first concealer. It is Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in truffle. I need to get some more of that for the Sephora brand Sephora sale. Uh and I always put it in areas where the sun would hit my face. Um I also need to put some on this mustache. girl. Hold on. Cuz I feel like since my um parameopause, she has been showing out and it's like, don't embarrass me like that.

[00:06:15]You're just going to lighten her up a little bit. Now, many would also connect her to charity, including the 15% pledge. She is the chairperson of the board from my understanding. And the 15% pledge was founded by Aurora James of Brothers and it was founded to support blackowned brands. Just going to really blend that in with my beauty blender.

[00:06:38]And then we are going to set it with the Lunar Beauty pressed powder. The brand sent me this and it's become one of my favorites because it's less messy than the Laura Mercier but has pretty much the same effect. Uh this color is translucent deep. Now, if you're anything like me, you have been wondering who this woman is.

[00:06:58]Baby, I ain't know who that lady was. I ain't even going to hold you. I ain't know who her lady was. I literally, she was everywhere, all up and down every timeline that I have, YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok. And so, I said, "This lady PR machine is on it." But before I realized she was promoting her book, I thought I knew the lady. I'm not going to hold you. I literally woke up after probably day two of seeing her everywhere. I was like, "Is this the girl I met? I know this lady from." I was literally sitting understanding how effective her team is, which is not surprising given her connection to the Kardashians.

[00:07:38]I thought I knew this lady. I don't know that lady. I don't know her. But let's talk about her book uh that I also don't know the title of and I don't care to know. Um because I feel like it's just part and parcel of that same Cheryl Samberg lean in girl boss culture Hillary Clinton powers suit Martha Stewart because what they're really trying to do is promote a brand of white feminism that teaches you how to be a white man or to be used by one. It depends on the day of the week. Some would say it's the same thing. So here's what I find most interesting though, right? Because what I've heard a lot of people say is she black and not in a um disrespectful way or like not meant to make light of her being biracial, but a simple query like, "Oh, we didn't know this lady was black." But once I realized her connection to the Kardashians, I knew she was black. And let me tell you how. Because I remember being so upset when I saw that either Skims or Good American was being promoted by Nordstrom, probably both, as being blackowned during Black History Month. And I was like, "Now wait a minute. I don't care how many surgeries you get, how much you had them to darken your skin for them damn magazine covers.

[00:09:05]I don't I don't care how, Kylie, how many lip plumping overline lip kits and implants you have. We've gone too far, Chloe. I don't care how many ass implant. I We've gone too far. I don't care how many black you done jumped on, how many back shots. I don't I don't care because and then I realized, oh, the co-founder is black and that's convenient. So, let's contour. Now, we're going to start with Ebony, which is my color in the Fenty Beauty Matchick. This is my first contour.

[00:09:42]So, she said quite a few statements that uh people have taken umbrage with during her press tour for her book that the girl has no name. Um, and one of them I actually am going to give some grace around because I can understand what she was trying to say. And I saw the replay of this interview and I think she had first maybe said it in a Wall Street Journal interview and she was asked about it on the Breakfast Club.

[00:10:12]Okay. And on the Breakfast Club they asked her, "So you say that you are a threehour a week mom. Tell us more about that.

[00:10:22]And she basically was like, "Well, I don't feel bad about saying it. I work Monday through Friday. I am a core memory parent with my kids. You know, women should not feel bad. We should destigmatize this idea that we are supposed to be everything to our children 24/7."

[00:10:43]And I actually agree with that, but I'm sure I disagree with the answer to how we get there. because she's saying that from a place of such extreme privilege as someone who once again is worth almost a half billion dollars with a B. I'm sure her saying that she's a threehour a week mom is not coming from a place where CPS would have to get involved like that black lady who worked at McDonald's and while she was at work cuz she didn't have child care her child used to play across the street and then they called CPS. See, Emily, Emma, I always call her Emily. Emma agreed when had that happen to her because she gets to outsource parenting.

[00:11:26]And this is my issue with people like her. And I said this over on uh Instagram that a broken clock is right twice a day. And so, she may be discerning the right time, what she is failing to recognize that the clock is actually broken. So, should women have more time to themselves? Should they be able to focus on their careers and be parents? Obviously. But is the way she's able to do it the way the majority of us are going to be able to do it?

[00:11:54]Absolutely not. Now, let's use our Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer to really make that cheekbone pop.

[00:12:00]Where Miss Emma lost me was when she said, "I'm not going to sugarcoat it."

[00:12:07]She says, "Women need to go back to the office. we are not going to get ahead by being at home by working from home. So, I've set up who she is and now it's time to get into my five points of why I think she is wrong. So, I've kind of began to buff out that line, but we are going to make it even more seamless hopefully with the Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer.

[00:12:39]and it's like a creamy powdery bronzer and I always concentrated on this line.

[00:12:51]But my first point is that her data set is completely skewed because working from home study after study after study including one by the US Department of Labor by the Harvard School of Business has said increases our productivity. It also increases employee well-being. We have a better output by being able to work from home. And I would say many of us because we are at home work much longer hours at that. Not to mention if you were somebody who is running a small to medium-siz business, actually being able to have a remote team or even a nonprofit, being able to have a remote team means that you are saving thousands upon thousands of dollars a year on the cost of having to have a physical building or a physical office space.

[00:13:46]That is not a cheap investment for a business. And so I think from that perspective, her advice, if it is misconstrued, can actually be dangerous to women business owners. And you would think since she's someone who cares so much about women at work, that she would recognize that women actually fare a lot better in flexible work environments where working from home is at least a part-time option because of the fact that the caretaking responsibilities if we have children, even if we are partnered, tend to fall disproportionately on our shoulders. So taking away additional child care responsibilities if we are strapped for cash and or taking away a long commute if we are responsible for getting our kids out the house in the morning, picking them up, taking them to extracurriculars, etc. benefits women disproportionately.

[00:14:34]So do you care about the women that you are proclaiming to give advice to in your book? And that gets me to number two because someone's going to say, by the way, I am using Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz pencil in ebony. My eyes are microladed, but I always go back over it with an eye pencil. That gets me to point number two, because someone is going to say, well, and this is the response and the rebuttal to support Emma. That just burns my biscuits, baby.

[00:15:04]Her advice wasn't for you. If you are not someone who seeks to be a seuite executive, then her advice wasn't for you, right? You do have to be in proximity to power to get the promotion to be the seauite executive. And let me tell you something, women were not getting those jobs before the internet existed, before work from home was even a possibility.

[00:15:31]Black women especially were not. black queer women, disabled women, wem we were not getting the um VC funding.

[00:15:43]We were not getting the corner office.

[00:15:46]And if we were, we were the exception and we were not the norm. And so what people like Emma do, especially when they are part of that billionaire or billionaire adjacent class, is it benefits them to ignore any structural condition that leads to our circumstances. They want to isolate like very topical and surface level variables. Well, you're just you're not coming in to work. That's why you ain't get the job. Well, well, no, cuz statistically I'm working twice as hard at home. So that don't have really I mean I thought jobs were based upon m well now help me to understand well I because the real issue is sexism. It is misogyny. It is misogynir especially at the very least. It is a structural predicament that allows women to not get promoted and to also be paid the least especially if you are a black woman.

[00:16:42]Now, she has said, "I'm not saying that it's right, but I'm telling you that's the way it is, babe.

[00:16:48]Get a job. Go back to work. Get into work. You you You share cropper. You filled hand.

[00:16:58]Get back in the office."

[00:17:02]And I thought to myself on this point that if she truly was just again saying what time it was, even if she was recognizing the clock was broken and she just said, "Well, this is what time it is." My problem with that is that she is someone who is quintessentially and she said, "I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds employee of employees." She is someone who could be actually towing a message of how to change it, but instead she wants to keep keep things exactly the way that they are. And we'll get to that in a moment. It reminds me, I'm just saying, of Tyra Banks when her whole brand of ENTM was that she was going to change the modeling industry and all she did time and time again was just keep towing the line doing the master's bidding. And that leads me to point number three, which is if she lacks a structural analysis. I'm gonna just underline under my brows with a little bit of the concealer. If she lacks a structural analysis, then you see how that already made them pop. Then what position is she speaking from? Especially because many of us may find some of what she says to be helpful. If you are a corporate girly, I could see how if you are a certain kind of entrepreneur, I can see how.

[00:18:23]But I won't let this analogy go that a broken clock is right twice a day. And so her frame of reference to me seems to be rooted in respectability politics, right? It is very let's get along to get along. Let's recognize the rules. Let's complain about them typically in a closed door setting, but let's not rock the boat. And most importantly, if you can be a happy negro like me, if you can be the best at being step and fetch it, then you too could shuck and jive your way into millionaire in her case almost half billionaire status. It's kind of like when Bill Cosby kept telling anyone who would ask, even when they didn't.

[00:19:12]Um, that the problem in the black community was that black boys need to pull their pants up.

[00:19:19]That was the reason for a lack of opportunity for black men completely negating or refusing to believe in the school to prison pipeline. Okay. Now, you can believe what you want to leave about styles of dress. Again, a broken clock might be right twice a day, but that does not deny the larger forces with which we are contending. And under this larger vein of respectability, I do want to talk about Emma Greed's phenotype. I just think we have to go there. Uh, and I'm going to do that while I am applying Anastasia Beverly Hills's soft glam palette. It is that her racial ambiguity because again, we was like, she her racial ambiguity certainly helps her and that cannot be denied. between colorism and texturism. And don't get me started on the accent and how Americans tend to believe that British people are smarter because of their accent.

[00:20:16]These three things very obviously have worked in her favor, especially in this country that has the kind of history that we do. Not denying that the same conditions may be uh present in the UK, but I don't know as much about that history here. I can definitely tell you based upon my own lived experience and that of those around me is that colorism is real. And her being, as we say in our community colloquially, light, bright, and damn near white, has allowed for a certain possible advancement, dare I say, that someone who looks a little more melanated might not have received. I'm just going to say the thing. I came on here to say the thing. Just cuz you don't want to hear the thing, don't make the thing not true. because the thing is still that's been the thing since enslavement.

[00:21:14]The color on my lids is sienna and then in my crease is going to be cypress umber. Um there are not a lot of speaking of colorism, there are not a lot of brown eyeshadows that show up on my skin tone and that's another reason why I love this palette.

[00:21:31]I'm going to clean it up on the edges, but that is what it's given so far. And then we'll do a little pop right in the middle. So to be running around as a light-skinned, racially ambiguous woman who identifies as black, being in the circles that you're in, specifically the Kardashians, having, let's just call the thing a thing, a white husband, running a company, Skiims, is valued at $4 billion with a B, and telling us because she's in black spaces. She was in a black space when she said this, telling us, especially the 600,000 black women who lost their jobs in 2025 alone, that your problem uh uh sharecropper, your problem, field head, your problem, she said your problem, get back to is that you just need to go into the office is absolutely insulting.

[00:22:35]And this is what someone who I respect a lot, Malik Teal, has had to say on this matter.

[00:22:44]Walking around and pretending like you were giving us this advice that is absolutely groundbreaking is insulting.

[00:22:54]Obviously, being able to rub elbows with people who are in power in a workplace, we could understand how that might be helpful, but that's not the conversation. The bigger conversation is job loss among black women. The bigger conversation is structural are the structural impediments and injustices that black women face. Like, are you okay, Emma? Are you okay? put a little burnt orange in the middle again just to give it like a little pop. Then I'm going to go back over it with the darker color as well.

[00:23:35]And that brings me to point number five as I wrap up today. Love a good old Baptist minister. I got five points and I'm going to get up out of here. Right.

[00:23:45]That brings me to my fifth and final point that I just alluded to, which is I don't care what people say. She was talking to us. She was She was literally talking to us. And don't I miss me with the Well, if it didn't land for you, it wasn't meant for you. No, baby. It it it did not land and it was still meant for us. between her proximity to the billionaire class and also her being this business owner who runs a business daytoday. I sincerely believe that she was dog whistling to us to workingclass people and dare I say to her own employees. I just started lining my eyes a bit with noir which is the black in the Anastasia Beverly Hills palette. I actually have been loving black eyeshadow more than a black eye pencil lately. I don't love liquid eye pencils and um a non-liquid one. I just have a hard time getting it to show up on my skin.

[00:24:46]But nevertheless, um I want to use my life as an example of how I know she's speaking to us and why. I am someone who has lived, as I recently heard on an IG real that she shared with me, hey girl. Hey. um that has lived a life of improbable circumstances and opportunities.

[00:25:08]Born to teenage parents, father who had a drug addiction for many years of my life and raised by grandparents who are not formally educated. My grandfather was a phosphate minor and my grandmother was a domestic worker. We used to when our propane tank ran out have to boil hot water to take a bath. And one day, one of my core memories is my grandmother was taking the water off the stove and it spilled on her and she ended up with thirdderee burns. So I have come from poverty and from being associated with and around dope boys in the trap house all the way to the White House. Been there for meetings, for presentations, consultations, etc. Georgetown Law School educated along the way.

[00:25:58]And what I have found out in living as a part of every class or cast system nearby in this country and having a high proximity to wealth between law school and post-law school is that we are given opportunities very very young based upon our class. And the way that these wealthy people live and the messages that they give us are so skewed. They tell us you have to run twice as fast or that's the summation that we get. They tell us that we live in a meritocracy and you got to just run twice as hard and you just got to the early bird catches the worm. You got to burn the midnight oil. Well, if you want it bad enough, you do. They tell us all of these monikers of like capitalists like the the rat race and how hard we have to work. And it's true. There is value in working hard. But they give that the sole meaning and definition of success and it is absolutely not. When you get to a certain class, these people are not working as hard as they tell us that we should be working.

[00:27:09]They're just not doing it. As a matter of fact, speaking of Mileik Till, we had a call probably about maybe six or so months ago. Um I said, "Malik, I just want to chat with you. like I I need to get some of these ideas out of my head about my business, about growing it. I'm feeling tired. I'm feeling like I'm in a rut. I don't know what to do, sis. And I explained to her my day and my work style and what I have been doing. And she was like, "You were working way too hard."

[00:27:34]Imagine someone who ran a multi-million dollar business for years told me that I was working too hard. And she was like, "As a matter of fact to Shyra, when you get in certain circles, you are going to look ridiculous working that hard. These people are not working that hard. It is a lie.

[00:27:59]The jig is up, baby. It's the economic system makes us believe this." Now, do I believe there's a world where Emma Greed really feels like she is working the hardest she's ever worked? Obviously. Do I believe there is a world where Kylie Jenner don't know work? Wouldn't know work if it hit her in her face?

[00:28:21]Obviously.

[00:28:23]Now, do I believe there is a world where Kim Kardashian worked real hard in that room with Ray J?

[00:28:32]Do I believe in the sacrifices that she may have made and she swallowed like do I possibly but as a family structure as a system as a brand do I believe daytoday these people are working as hard as my grandfather father who mined phosphate for 40 years. You will never get me to believe that you won't. Oh, girl, I done work up a a sweat. That top lip sweat is my opa, ain't it? All right, I am using my big by definition mascara by Sephora. Got this during the sale. Just had to re-up. Everything I'm using, of course, y'all will be linked down below. And I will give you another example of this. I started law school at fam. And this is not to knock fam. Hear me. This is not H.B.CU knock, but I just want to talk about the differences of being educated in H.B.CU, specifically FAMU, and transferring to Georgetown for law school. When I was at FAM, my first day there, my civil procedure professor told someone to stand up and brief a case. They use a Socratic method in law school. Many of you probably know this, right? You're drilled. You just sweating and sweating bullets. She drilled this woman who, by the way, was the oldest person in our class. So she was an elder.

[00:30:00]She drilled her so hard until this woman started crying in class. And even as she was crying, she did not stop. And I know that the professor, black woman, did that because she wanted to set a tone and a message to us about what it meant to be in law school, what it meant to be an attorney, and how hard we would have to work and what it would mean for us to be on our P's and Q's, right? I'm sure she had all this symbolism behind why that was important. She may even sleep at night on a very cool pillow knowing that she made that woman cry because she believes that she taught us a very valuable lesson.

[00:30:36]What she taught me was I had to get the up out of there.

[00:30:42]No. Mm- because I knew that I was my educational capabilities and aptitude did not depend upon humiliation. That I was capable and worthy just because.

[00:30:55]And sure enough, when I got to Georgetown, baby, it was birds chirping.

[00:31:02]I I smelled fresh roses. The professor bopping in class with some hocus on. Hey guys, buddy.

[00:31:12]Now, was it still hard? Obviously, was I still left out of the uh secret study groups with the test answers and the outlines from previous years?

[00:31:24]Obviously, they were all also on aderall. I was left out of that as well.

[00:31:28]Like, I get it. I'm not saying I went into a place that was a a utopia, but I do know that I was being educated upon class lines because those Georgetown students were being prepared to be CEOs.

[00:31:42]They're being prepared to own their own multi-million dollar uh uh uh international firms. And they were doing so without being ridiculed and humiliated. they were doing so in an environment where we just understood that we were there for a reason and that we needed to just get the job done and that we could do so with dare I say a little bit of regard and respect. So when you get into their spaces, they understand that well, but it benefits them to make us believe, well, I got to the the the the crops show is is, you know, the the harvest is slow this year, mouthful to do the backbreaking labor for them.

[00:32:24]I'm going to use what I call a wet setting spray. And then we'll do a mattifying one. And this is MAC Studio Fix Stay Over Alcohol-Free Setting Spray. I got this in like a little gift bag they gave me when I bought my primer.

[00:32:39]But I like this because I feel like it makes my makeup melt together, if that makes sense.

[00:32:48]And then we'll let that dry while I put the glue on my lashes. I just got some new lashes. I told you all about these I think in my um Sephora recommendations um YouTube short and they are the Pro False lashes 40 flared volume. Y'all, I can't imagine ever using another lash.

[00:33:11]Number one, they're so high quality.

[00:33:12]They're definitely not one and done. I probably can get about five wears out of these, maybe even more. But after a while, I'll be like, "No, those are done."

[00:33:23]And what I love about them is that they are literally flared. And so they look more natural. They look like your lashes with a pop where they're they are shorter on the inside and then they go out to be more flared. I used to wear the Ardell Wispies. And looking back now, these are such a better option.

[00:33:40]They look more chic and expensive because the Ardell's are one length from we to side to side on the weft. Um, and I don't love that. Got that first lash on.

[00:33:54]She's thriving. Sis is thriving.

[00:33:57]And I also think that on a more personal level, we have got to be able to spot out a grift when we see it. I'm not saying that Emma is universally a grifter. But what I am saying is that this PR stunt where she has completely taken over black women's timelines is on purpose because she could be in other circles. She could be talking to women in in Silicon Valley. She could be at the Wharton School of Business. She could be many, many places. She could be solely among tech and innovation and entrepreneurship. But she's talking to us once again for a reason. She's selling something. And her team has identified that we are the ones who should be the primary target for said book. Not to mention our ongoing support of Skiims and Good American, which you ain't gonna never see. I it would be even if you bury me with it on, baby, I'm coming back to haunt you. I ain't going to never. No, thank you.

[00:35:02]That's an aside. So, I would say don't let people who are who have every interest in selling us and pedalling their goods be the ones that give us vapid advice.

[00:35:17]Do-rag is off, hair is brushed down, and let's get into the one size on till dawn mattifying waterproof setting spray.

[00:35:24]Y'all already know what it do.

[00:35:33]I don't play about it. I don't. Oh, but one thing I did want to do that I just forgot y'all is my MAC MAC pressed powder. I feel like on the areas where I get the oiliest cuz my nose is already starting to shine a little bit that this is really one of the best pressed powders as a finishing step. Also, if you're worried about I forgot my blush.

[00:35:59]Hold on. But if you're also worried about your contour not quite contouring, making sure you have this on is really clutch.

[00:36:14]Let's do a blush together really quickly. See, this is why I don't do this for a living, girl. I can't remember. I can't remember. Let's do Merit cuz I'm going to do more of a muted lip. So, a nice blush that pops is going to be important. I'm going to use the color rouge.

[00:36:32]It's a little bit of my makeup on it. I don't know if you can tell, but let's just That's what it's giving.

[00:36:44]And I always buff that out with a brush.

[00:36:47]This one is by Rare Beauty. I don't remember if Jana gave this to me or if they sent this to me. I think Jana gave this to me.

[00:37:00]And again, this is everyday makeup. For non everyday makeup, we could have gone a lot more dramatic. Who am I kidding? I don't have a lot of more lot of extra steps, but I would definitely use more than one concealer, but I'm going to keep it simple today.

[00:37:18]And then on top of that, I'm gonna follow it up with the Grateful Bounce Blush by Rare Beauty. And I think these two go well together. But most importantly, as Chana taught me, you want to follow up something cream with a powder just to make it pop even more. And I think that's important on dark skin. I am going to use what's left over. nothing new on my sponge from um Lunar. And that pressed powder helps to bring it down a little bit. So you see how it made it a little bit more seamless. So if you were somebody who was like, I don't want to look like a clown, I get it, sister.

[00:38:04]That pressed powder is going to be a very important hack for you.

[00:38:10]And let's not forget to put on top of her a little highlight. This one is from House Labs.

[00:38:21]I will have it once again linked down below.

[00:38:26]And I still do the tip of the nose.

[00:38:28]Y'all still do that? I like how that glow looks and at the very top of the cheekbone. My lash glue is still drying, y'all. So, if it looks a little white, that's why.

[00:38:40]It's one of the reasons why I prefer black lash glue.

[00:38:45]go back to my MAC powder again just to make sure everything is as seamless as possible.

[00:38:54]And because of that, we're going to do one more round of setting spray. I know this is excessive.

[00:39:00]Last but not least, we're going to use the Straight Living Lip Pencil. I alternate between this and MAC's Chestnut. This, in my opinion, depending on what you mix it with, pulls a little bit. Girl, let me condition my lips.

[00:39:14]These things is as dry.

[00:39:18]This is embarrassing.

[00:39:21]My lips look like I have been eating powdered donuts.

[00:39:25]Okay, hold on. We're going to do a little girl.

[00:39:32]That Dior Addict lip balm will put you back in the game. Okay, now we're going to go in with Straight Living. And like I was saying, this tends to pull a little red depending on what color lip I'm using.

[00:39:52]So, I have to be careful with it because there have been times where instead of it looking ombre, it just looks like I'm giving a coral colored lip and I don't love that.

[00:40:04]We're going to do '90s fine, which is Jana's lip color with the lip bar.

[00:40:12]I love this cuz it's so long lasting, y'all. And you don't do not need a lot of it.

[00:40:26]And I wanted to pull more pink. And so I'm going to do two glosses today.

[00:40:30]Number one, the Merit Twin Set right in the middle. This is also just a great everyday gloss, y'all.

[00:40:44]But again, I wanted to be more pink. So, we're going to do the PH Reactive Gloss by uh Pixie. And this one is the pink patina.

[00:40:57]And this one has a little bit of a You see that? a little glitter in it and as it warms up it gets pinker over time.

[00:41:11]I just think it's one of the this gloss and this and the other color prettiness. I'll link both are some of the best gloss toppers if you are melanated deep chocolate and you want to do a pretty pink nudie lip. when I tell you Pixie did their big one with this and it's like $8 for sure. And that's it. That is today's makeup look. The last thing I'll say is this, y'all. And I said this over on IG as well.

[00:41:41]Back to who we are getting advice from.

[00:41:44]I will say that we have got to stop inviting everybody to the cookout. I don't care what our algorithms tell us to do cuz everybody can't come.

[00:41:55]Especially not, as I've said previously over on IG, when all data point to the fact that they put raisins in their potato salad and dare I say make their macaroni and cheese with with Bri and Bri alone. You see, we don't everybody can't come, sister. And that is a okay with me. This has been a big topic. It's been trending everywhere.

[00:42:22]hair. Let us know down below what are your thoughts. Again, all my makeup will be linked down below. Subscribe to my channel and I will see you good people next time. Peace.