Minority Beauty Magazines
Minority Beauty Magazines
The MagCrit Blog takes a look at beauty magazines for minorities, and in particular You Make It Beautiful, a publication for black women living “organic lifestyles.”
YMIB.com is revolutionary because, while it is a beauty and fashion magazine, it doesn’t focus on losing weight and trying to attain some perfect look. Instead, the magazine focuses on holistic health as well as mental and spiritual well-being . I especially love its Creative Living section, which focuses on crafts and arts. Magazines like YMIB.com help to redefine what beauty is, and for minority women this is important since we are often not the standard of beauty. It is refreshing to see black women portrayed as beautiful not only because of their physical beauty, but also because of their creative, intellectual spirits.
In a time when the forecast looks rather bleak for minority women’s magazines, YMIB.com gives me hope. This magazine represents a very positive change in the type of content that is directed toward minority women. And that is true beauty to me.
