Beauty documentary series, Pretty by Un’Ruly,
launched a few months ago as a way from diverse women in the world to
reach out to others on matters of beauty. It seeks to explore the many
ways beauty is viewed by the world, countries and even cities.
From
the aisles of Paris to the City of London, they meet with women who
have experienced different aspects of beauty and have been treated
differently based on their skin colour, makeup choice, clothes, hair or
accent.
In a recent episode, they meet with Nigerian-Ghanaian women – Adora Mba
in London. Born there, Adora talks to the Un’Ruly crew about growing up
with questions about her braids, having to fix her gap tooth after
being teased in school for it, why she feels the need to always be
impeccably dressed, how she would be stared at by people in some parts
of London who were not used to seeing people of colour, feeling a
pressure to be slimmer, and how, now, she has come to terms and even
loves how different she is.
Her
message to others about beauty? “We shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves.
We are so much prettier than we think we are. Every morning we should
look in the mirror and go ‘you know what, I’m okay.’
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