Allure Uses White Woman to Teach Readers How to 'Achieve the Afro Look'
The struggle is real...in the publishing world.
As a notable children’s show would share with its viewers, “One of these things is not like the others; One of these things just doesn’t belong.”
Allure magazine is a nice newsstand pickup for women on-the-go looking for fashion insights and cosmetic wizardry.
Recently, the magazine compiled a story on the retro ’70s-inspired hairstyles. And while their readers are sifting through images of the chic mullet, the Mr. Spock, and whatever feathered bowl cut was trendy at a black-light party, the “loose Afro” came up.
That’s when someone in editorial thought this would be a good idea:
See any problem there? The model is white.
To state the obvious, the Afro is a hairstyle generally associated with black men and women.
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