Model Yomi Abiola was the first African face to score a contract with cosmetics giant Maybelline. She’s also graced many publications all over the world, including Elle and Vogue Italia. When Yomi was signed to a major modeling agency in London at the age of 15, for the first time in her life she felt that her beauty had been validated. But the feelings of elation and validation soon changed when she began to encounter stereotyping and rejection in the fashion industry due to her skin color.
Model Yomi Abiola was the first African face to score a contract with cosmetics giant Maybelline. She’s also graced many publications all over the world, including Elle and Vogue Italia. When Yomi was signed to a major modeling agency in London at the age of 15, for the first time in her life she felt that her beauty had been validated. But the feelings of elation and validation soon changed when she began to encounter stereotyping and rejection in the fashion industry due to her skin color.
[…] its ads that tell the real story. Watch as the show’s host alongside model and journalist Yomi Abiola take an actual count of the number of white models versus non-white models appearing the ads that […]
I’m a bit biased with stuff but yes she may be a darker skinned girl. Shes gorgeous. I doubt she knows the actual CHALLENGES though of other black women who dont have her features. She still has a straight nose and looks more ambiguous than anything else so I dont feel any compassion. Pretty hurts and so does ugly, get over it. At least you get attention for being beautiful some of us cant get attention being who we are because were not “good enough” cry me a river.