It’s not easy to live, but it isn’t that hard either.It’s not a secret that we love make up. We use lots of it, almost every day. We often get compliments that our make up looks nice and sometime people ask how we do it. Earlier today we were reading a norwegian magazine and noticed that there where no make up tips for girls of a darker shade than your average white girl. This isn’t new, so we decides to google it instead.

If you didn’t notice, it’s Paris Hilton posing as a black girl.

We found an article on the norwegian magazine Kamille‘s website, about make up from black women. We found the article very disrespectful and racist. They where basically saying that black women should downsize all the features that emphasises their ethnicity. Like tips on how to make your nose appear smaller and lips to appear less full. A tips like that, would be to not wear light colored lipgloss/ lipstick, as it will make your lips seem bigger. You can read the article here.As black women we want to be able to pick up magazines, especially norwegian ones, where we can relate to the girls there. We want to learn how to emphasis our beauty and the features that make us who we are, instead of trying to transform us into something else. Black women come in diffrent shades, so it’s weird that they either use models with Beyonce- shade or Alec Wek- shade. What about those in between? We don’t all look like Beyonce and Rihanna.Here are some great examples of everyday or party make up, that we think a lot of girls would love to learn how to do.Kerry WashingtonKeke PalmerAlexandra BurkeCiaraTyra BanksNorwegian magazines should use darker Norwegians more in their magazines; such as Sonja Wanda, Mimi Blix, Maria Mena, Mira Craig and Elisabeth Carew.