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Sometimes I feel like the best hairstyle for black women are locs

Like you can NOT find me a picture of a black women with some ugly locs

And starters locs don’t count cuz everyone looks shitty with starter locs

But that’s just me🫣

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Afro Queen

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Gabi (@_eugabialmeida)

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Doechii

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The Earth 🌍

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The Earth 🌍

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hope is a skill

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Keke Palmer

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So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know. 

Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.

Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!

Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils. Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses. Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)

If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE. 

Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.

Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.

OK THAT’S ALL YOU GUYS

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💙 USA 💙

national suicide prevention

national domestic violence hotline

national sexual abuse hotline

trans lifeline and resources

💙INTERNATIONAL💙

list of suicide hotlines by country

domestic violence hotlines and resources by country

sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country

international trans resources

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Got too obsessed with the leaves so I wanted to be an Autumn Witch for my first real real Halloween 🙂‍↕️

I did my own stunts including putting the decorations on the dress & hat, crocheting the bat, and my makeup which I tried so hard to get the wing to wing 😭

I got a lot of compliments 🥹

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Let’s bring back these hairstyles… 😩😩😩

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LILITH for sickymag.com

Photography Takeuchiss Model Thais Borges at Allure Management Hair & Make-Up Sue Abreu

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Ashley Okoli in Mazelle Studio by Tosan Ukuemoluwa