This is BlackBeautyPop
BlackBeautyPop is the place for Black Beauty & Pop Culture enthusiasts.
What is it, exactly?
Black Beauty Pop is a newsletter and digital content hub for anyone interested in the intersections of Blackness, Beauty*, & Pop Culture. BBP generates critical and sustained conversations about Black women’s beauty trends and historic practices. BBP explores topics such as Vaseline as a Southern beauty staple, BBLs and hip hop culture, and AI wigs as the new hair frontier.
*Within the context of this project, beauty may refer to skincare, makeup, hair, and/or style.
Specifically, BBP has four primary areas of interest:
the beauty rituals of Southern Black women,
current trends in beauty enhancements & product development,
critical engagement with Black women’s influence on Black/Popular Culture, &
illuminating the experiences of marginalized people’s approaches to beauty, especially those who are disabled and LBGTQ+.
Paid Subscribers get:
subscriber-only access to deep dives on BBP content we're all obsessed with
early access to exclusive interviews with beauty enthusiasts + tastemakers
a weekly recap of my favorite beauty content (read, watched, & heard)
commenting privileges on all posts + community threads
an occasional playlist inspired by my research
full access to the BBP archives
Subscribers get:
previews of longer essays
limited commenting privileges on some posts + community threads
a weekly recap of my favorite beauty content (read, watched, & heard)
access to exclusive interviews with beauty enthusiasts + tastemakers
Who am I?
I’m Ashely, a literary and cultural studies scholar by day and chronic researcher by night. My first public online research project, Cult Community, inspired a weekly newsletter and a 40K+ TikTok community. If you want to learn more about my approach to cults, history, & pop culture everything is still up for your viewing pleasure here. Also, I have an adorable dog named Robert Brownie Jr.