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For years, hair and makeup products tended to exclude women of colour. Here, beauty columnist Funmi Fetto reveals how she faced up to racism in an industry that’s finally undergoing its own makeover
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If you had told my teen self I’d be a beauty journalist and that I would write a book on beauty, particularly one geared towards women of colour, I’d have called you a false prophet. “You can’t be what you can’t see” is a hackneyed phrase, but in my case rang true. I loved magazines, but I always skipped the beauty pages.
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Funmi Fetto wears dress by Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, mytheresa.com. Photograph: David Titlow/The ObserverAdvertisement