About Us
Paradise
Black women are beautiful, talented, over-achievers
Beautiful women are a dime a dozen - if you're most men in U.S. society today, and you subscribe to today's prevailing view. However, We aren't most men. (Most of us here aren't men.) And all of us are far from average, and quite capable of independent and sound judgment.
Beauty is more than skin deep. (This isn't a lecture about ignoring your sense of sight.) Here, we LOVE beauty, but we also control for harmful behaviors of models and other talent that diminish beauty and negatively influence society. (Think beauty with a conscience.)
'Free the boobies' was never on the agenda for us. We were lobbying the U.S. Congress, on a U.S. military deployment, or in the midst of an eighteen-hour day running a self-owned Black startup, and nurturing a family. We worked full-time through undergraduate and graduate school, and walked twelve miles each day with books when our budget could not cover college and transportation costs. (Two years.) We managed to do everything right and still got a D on a final; the reality of the United States is that hard work does not always equal success. But we pressed on.
If our experiences and journeys sound familiar to you, we are glad. We are women who play by different rules. We are women who write our own rules; we live, work, play, and nurture in communities that never imagined we would thrive, and so we are free to carve out our own narratives. We create movements, shape our destiny, and we get up as many times as we've been knocked down. We control our destiny, and are keepers of the true narrative concerning our history. Our brand, blog, and site is about and for women who shape their destiny.
Too often women fall victim to marketing campaigns, social media influencers, and paper leaders who tell us we are not good enough. We - the women at BeautifulBumBum.com - refuse to be silent when our communities are exploited, denigrated, and belittled by unjust rules and disingenuous leaders who benefit when some members of American society are intentionally kept down.
Being raised in a home where a woman's worth was not defined by cosmetics, enhancers, surgical alterations, or labels, I learned to define beauty for myself. I learned to create a world big enough and bold enough for me. Big Brands that bully women into believing that women have body issues that can only be fixed through expensive products and painful procedures provided by their Big Brand, is a manipulative, predatory mindset. Manipulators and predators are NOT present or welcome here.
Here, we nurture and build women up, we don't tear them down. And, as leaders, we hold ourselves and others accountable, because that's what leaders do. We look out for each other, we look out for our community.
How we define beauty.
Beauty is smart, informed, opinionated, well-read, educated, confident, independent, highly skilled, bold, talented, very real, creative, brave, natural, and yes - beautiful. We are unbothered by ads and brands that tell women that they need to be augmented, cosmetically or surgically improved, enhanced, censored, edited, revised, or anything less than who we are. However, we understand the harmful impact that such campaigns have on women and society. Our bodies have not been cosmetically surgically altered or surgically cosmetically enhanced. We do not use skin lighteners, and most often we model our natural hair texture and 100% makeup free.
We have unique and bold identities, and we were born that way. We are humanitarians, entrepreneurs, activist investor-shareholders, athletes, and business professionals. We hail from every corner of the globe and we are limited by no one. We strive to create a healthy community where all Black and Ethnic women feel validated and welcome, however, we are not infallible - and we do not compromise our values.
The status quo doesn't work for us, so we rewrote the book. We continue to create, nurture, connect, share, love, and network through our blog, brand, and company - to inspire all women (particularly those who have lived similar experiences to ours; we know big cities, like New York, and even small towns, can feel unfriendly, stifling, or simply not right for a woman of color who dares to stand tall and pursue her destiny). This is our real-life, beauty, fitness, travel, business-brand-building blog site.
Welcome! We love beautiful, natural, ethnic, Black women. (All women.)
We hope you will see yourself reflected, and feel incredibly loved, by our work.
Beauty is more than skin deep. (This isn't a lecture about ignoring your sense of sight.) Here, we LOVE beauty, but we also control for harmful behaviors of models and other talent that diminish beauty and negatively influence society. (Think beauty with a conscience.)
'Free the boobies' was never on the agenda for us. We were lobbying the U.S. Congress, on a U.S. military deployment, or in the midst of an eighteen-hour day running a self-owned Black startup, and nurturing a family. We worked full-time through undergraduate and graduate school, and walked twelve miles each day with books when our budget could not cover college and transportation costs. (Two years.) We managed to do everything right and still got a D on a final; the reality of the United States is that hard work does not always equal success. But we pressed on.
If our experiences and journeys sound familiar to you, we are glad. We are women who play by different rules. We are women who write our own rules; we live, work, play, and nurture in communities that never imagined we would thrive, and so we are free to carve out our own narratives. We create movements, shape our destiny, and we get up as many times as we've been knocked down. We control our destiny, and are keepers of the true narrative concerning our history. Our brand, blog, and site is about and for women who shape their destiny.
Too often women fall victim to marketing campaigns, social media influencers, and paper leaders who tell us we are not good enough. We - the women at BeautifulBumBum.com - refuse to be silent when our communities are exploited, denigrated, and belittled by unjust rules and disingenuous leaders who benefit when some members of American society are intentionally kept down.
Being raised in a home where a woman's worth was not defined by cosmetics, enhancers, surgical alterations, or labels, I learned to define beauty for myself. I learned to create a world big enough and bold enough for me. Big Brands that bully women into believing that women have body issues that can only be fixed through expensive products and painful procedures provided by their Big Brand, is a manipulative, predatory mindset. Manipulators and predators are NOT present or welcome here.
Here, we nurture and build women up, we don't tear them down. And, as leaders, we hold ourselves and others accountable, because that's what leaders do. We look out for each other, we look out for our community.
How we define beauty.
Beauty is smart, informed, opinionated, well-read, educated, confident, independent, highly skilled, bold, talented, very real, creative, brave, natural, and yes - beautiful. We are unbothered by ads and brands that tell women that they need to be augmented, cosmetically or surgically improved, enhanced, censored, edited, revised, or anything less than who we are. However, we understand the harmful impact that such campaigns have on women and society. Our bodies have not been cosmetically surgically altered or surgically cosmetically enhanced. We do not use skin lighteners, and most often we model our natural hair texture and 100% makeup free.
We have unique and bold identities, and we were born that way. We are humanitarians, entrepreneurs, activist investor-shareholders, athletes, and business professionals. We hail from every corner of the globe and we are limited by no one. We strive to create a healthy community where all Black and Ethnic women feel validated and welcome, however, we are not infallible - and we do not compromise our values.
The status quo doesn't work for us, so we rewrote the book. We continue to create, nurture, connect, share, love, and network through our blog, brand, and company - to inspire all women (particularly those who have lived similar experiences to ours; we know big cities, like New York, and even small towns, can feel unfriendly, stifling, or simply not right for a woman of color who dares to stand tall and pursue her destiny). This is our real-life, beauty, fitness, travel, business-brand-building blog site.
Welcome! We love beautiful, natural, ethnic, Black women. (All women.)
We hope you will see yourself reflected, and feel incredibly loved, by our work.
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TheresaGiovanna.com is our latest site (launched August 1, 2020 as part of The Career Challenge).
Challenge accepted and delivered!
TheresaGiovanna.com is our latest site (launched August 1, 2020 as part of The Career Challenge).
Challenge accepted and delivered!
