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“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” - Maya Angelou This month we are posting our #BodyNoire2 series in color. Photo: Makeup: Yetty Bames Creative Director: Abi Ishola #BeyondClassicallyBeautiful #BCB #Beauty #BodyNoire #BlackBodies #Afros #NaturalHair #BlackWomen #melanin #Melanin Poppin

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“Self-love is asking yourself what you need — every day — and then making sure you receive it.” This month we are sharing our #BodyNoire2 series in color. 📷 @shotbybank Makeup: Yetty Bames Creative Director: Abi Ishola Muse: @jezra_m #BeyondClassicallyBeautiful #BCB #Beauty #BlackWomen #BlackGirlMagic #BodyNoire #BlackBodies #BlackBeauty #Melanin #MelaninPoppin

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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha This month we're posting our #BodyNoire2 series in color. Photo: @shotbybank Makeup: Yetty Bames Creative Direction: Abi Ishola Muse: @tajmahalll #BeyondClassicallyBeautiful #BCB #BlackWomen #BlackGirlMagic #SelfLove #BodyNoire #BodyNoireInColor

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“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” -Ruby Dee This month we will post our latest #BodyNoire series in color. Photo @shotbybank Makeup Yetty Bames Creative Director Abi Ishola for BeyondClassicallyBeautiful.com Muse @saynattu #beyondclassicallybeautiful #bcb #BodyNoire #BodyNoire2 #BodyNoireInColor #Beauty #BlackWomen #blackbeauty #blackbeauties #blackgirlmagic

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“I found God in myself, and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” - Ntozake Shange This month we are posting our #BodyNoire3 series in color. Photo: @shotbybank Makeup: Yetty Bames Creative Director: Abi Ishola Muse: @say_natu #BeyondClassicallyBeautiful #BCB #Beauty #BlackWomen #Melanin #BlackBodies #BodyNoire

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“The magic is to surrender to God’s dream for you. Quit fighting and pushing against and disallowing against and stop trying to tell the Creator what you’re supposed to do. Get still and know that His dream is for you.” — Oprah Winfrey Photo #BodyNoire2 in color, by Kunle Ayodeji Makeup Yetty Bames Model @lola_adesanya #BeyondClassicallyBeautiful #BCB #BodyNoire #BodyNoireInColor #Beauty #BlackWomen #BlackBeauty #Melanin

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#BodyNoire "At age 14, I was diagnosed with an auto-immune condition, known as alopecia areata, which causes your immune system to mistake hair follicles as bad cells, thus causing it to attack the hair follicles and causing the host to lose all or partial of their hair. For me, it was a very traumatic experience because the dermatologists had no idea what caused it or how to cure it. Shortly after being diagnosed, I had experienced cyber bullying behind me having alopecia and it caused me to go into depression. I was humiliated and embarrassed, so instead of expressing that emotion outwardly, I began to internally dissect all the things I didn't like about myself. I began putting on more and more weight until one day at age 21, I was diagnosed as a pre-diabetic with sleep apnea (skipping breaths while sleeping ) and it woke me up. I began working out and taking charge of my body. I was doing great until a few years after college, I had gotten into a very unhealthy relationship. It was an emotionally and physically painful experience, and I was blessed to have gotten out of it alive However the mental toll it had taken on me, was undeniable." _____________________ For our Body Noire 2 photo series we photographed 6 beautiful women who share how they've come to love their bodies over the years. Read more of @tajmahalll's story on BeyondClassicallyBeautiful.com. #beauty #BlackWomen #blackgirlmagic #blackbodies #baldie __________________ Creative direction, Abi Ishola @aishola 📷 @shotbybank MUA, Yetty Bames

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#BodyNoire "In music performance, there is a term called legato. When this is noted on sheet music, it indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected, and the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. When I think of my body, it is legato:agile, ever-evolving and connected." ____________________ For our Body Noire 2 photo series we photographed 6 beautiful women who share how they've come to love their bodies over the years. Read more of @shanikahillocks' story on BeyondClassicallyBeautiful.com. #beauty #blackwomen #blackbeauty #blackgirlmagic #blackbodies _____________________ Creative direction, Abi Ishola @aishola 📷 @shotbybank MUA, Yetty Bames