In an industry where the average funding for Black women is $42,000, she’s accrued millions — The war room I am sitting in is pink and soft and large, and it exists because of a bad manicure. I’m in London, in the conference room of Beautystack, a beauty-booking startup founded by entrepreneur Sharmadean Reid. The office is a hyperfeminine combination of white and pink, with iridescent…

I remember watching the women I’ve loved most vividly create themselves in front of me — curling their eyelashes from bed, gelling their hair back or spraying themselves in a cloud of dry shampoo. …

It’s always been a man’s possession — and that’s why it failed. —