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Jackie Aina Blew Up the “Good Immigrant Daughter” Narrative You Really Think She Cares What the Haters Say?
The beauty influencer plans to dominate, whether you like it or not.
By Ama Kwarteng and PHOTOGRAPHS BY EMILYNN ROSE Feb 24, 2021 Emilynn Rose
Jackie Aina doesn’t do failure. It just isn’t an option. Take, for instance, her eyeshadow.
Specifically her limited-edition, 14-shade eyeshadow palette collab that dropped on August 6, 2019. Almost a year earlier, Jackie was locked in a months-long back-and-forth with one of the biggest beauty brands in the world Anastasia Beverly Hills. The company, valued at $2.5 billion, had reached out to her about 12 months earlier working together and they were now in the throes of developing an eyeshadow palette. Jackie wanted a palette where every single shade popped on deep skin tones Black girls know: There�