Hulisani Ravele wants to banish the word normal from the beauty dictionary The word seems like such a little thing, but it s not, says the media personality, who believes brands need to do more to support the positive beauty movement 25 April 2021 - 00:01 By Sbu Mkwanazi
What is normal? Who determines what that term represents? The word has been part of the fashion, beauty and skin-care industry for decades, but the industry is finally starting to realise that the normal is alienating for people who don t conform to its one size fits all precepts.
Think of your shampoo, makeup, body lotion and other beauty products the word normal is used to describe the person using those products. What if you don t fall into that category of normal ?..
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April 12, 2021
Awakening
I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in.
The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out.
My earliest memory is the raw, dank smell of the earth. I was huddled in the dark next to my mother in a root cellar in the west of Germany, surrounded by sacks of potatoes, while sirens blared above.
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If you dream about owning your own successful beauty brand, then there s a good chance you’ve seen the dizzying funding statistics: Global venture capital to women-founded brands dropped to somewhere between 2 and 3 percent of all funding in 2020 according to data from Crunchbase, a slight tumble from an already discouraging 2.8 percent in 2019. Luckily, its early 2021 numbers show that Black and female-founded investment is increasing, but it s still too soon to get excited. So who s getting the biggest piece of the pie? Still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy League-educated and based in Silicon Valley, according to a 2019 study from RateMyInvestor and DiversityVC, reported by Crunchbase News. There s some other good news for 2021: In all its turbulence, the past year has also ushered in a new era of inclusion and a crop of esteemed venture capitals, from Silicon Valley to New York City, are actively working to change the statistics especially in beauty.