In a video that has gone viral Leomie shows how there are usually no make-up artists for the Black models, forcing her to redo her make-up or risk looking horrible on the runway.
Being a black model is doing other people’s jobs and not being paid for the extra work looool pic.twitter.com/mSTmBsDb5Q
— l. anderson (@Leomie_Anderson) October 24, 2021
Then other models started chiming in with their horror stories
i was the only black girl on set for this mv. everyone else got pink ponytail extensions while i got a fucking scarf wrapped around my bun. it’s giving hate crime. pic.twitter.com/x6r5haLT0a
— jada (@jadasimonew) October 24, 2021
This is my slick back pony tail they did. I felt so ugly & hideous ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ pic.twitter.com/aFyyYMdCmq
— 🦂 (@Thelifeofkeni) October 24, 2021
What my hair looked like before plus the inspo pics and what it looked like afterwards when they tried to make “bigger” curls. Peep all the dried outlooking straight bits.. pic.twitter.com/j91iNbvzvD
— j (@xjasminem) October 24, 2021