The finishing touch arrives in the form of a bold lipstick by the Black-owned beauty brand Mented Cosmetics. “They develop colors especially for pigmented skins, skin with more melanin, magical-Black-girl skin like mine,” she says. This shade is a crimson color known as Red Carpet because, as she puts it, there’s “not a whole lot of red carpets in the real world, so let’s put them on our face.”
