Moving Beyond '#BlackGirlMagic' Ft. Lindsey Day (founder of CRWN Magazine)

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🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

"Hair is politicized whether we want it to be or not” — Lindsey DayOn this episode, Lindsey, founder of CRWN magazine — a revolutionary print magazine focused on black women and natural hair, comes by to talk about why she started CRWN, her hair journey, and how her upbringing informed her approach to the content she creates today.

We get into discussion around the language that surrounds the natural hair community — the complicated grading system of 4A vs 4C, the cliche language that makes us cringe e.g. #BlackGirlMagic and even the term ‘natural’ itself.

Topics

5:08 Why Lindsey created CRWN 7:12 Her natural hair journey 11:15 Being one of two black women in her *entire* high school 16:40 Hair type politics (4a,4b,4c) and the divisions within the natural hair community by hair texture 22:30 Perception of an afro in the workplace 23:40 Why Lindsey almost didn’t start CRWN 35:15 Kylie Jenner’s negative influence on beauty & the Kardashians using blackness to stay relevant 51:40 When Lindsey feels most beautiful & benefits of a low maintenance beauty approach

Products Mentioned

Natural Lip Balm (https://www.hanahanabeauty.com)

5-Free Nail Polish (https://www.mischobeauty.com/)

Where to Find & Follow CRWN http://www.crwnmag.com

https://www.instagram.com/crwnmag/

https://twitter.com/crwnmag

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.0	Hello, hello, it's the Naked Beauty Podcast.
0:05.9	I am here with Lindsay Jay, founder of Crown magazine.
0:11.0	Very excited to have you on and we met pretty recently like what a few
0:16.2	like a month ago a few months ago. Yeah something like that and for your trip. Yes before my
0:21.0	trip to Turkey which it's actually really interesting.
0:24.7	I didn't realize that women in Turkey have like Afro-textured hair.
0:27.5	A lot of them do.
0:28.4	A lot of them straighten it and dye it blonde because it's always that thing like you want
0:31.9	what you can't have but I was
0:34.4	surprised by the like number of afros I saw there. Oh my gosh that's not. I mean I
0:40.0	guess it shouldn't be that surprising because we're everywhere. I know but like they had like white like they were white I guess.
0:46.6	She's already considered white.
0:47.6	Yeah and they had like really kinky textured hair.
0:50.1	Well I don't know enough history but I feel like you know we're mixed in there.
0:54.0	So you launched Crown how many years ago?
0:59.0	We launched with a zine at a music festival almost two years ago.
1:05.0	Oh amazing. And so we had our first zine that we went out and we're like,
1:09.0	hey guys, we're crowned, you know, we use that to build up our Instagram following and our email list so that we could kind of keep in touch and really learn even more our reader and you know who was going to be our customer and we use it to drive free sales and then launched our first issue last year.
1:28.0	Oh amazing and Crown is like a natural hair. It's a life for me it's a lifestyle magazine where the women happen to
1:36.5	have natural hair. I don't see it as like a natural hair magazine but how would
1:40.9	you describe it? It's positioned around hair. We all have hair or if we don't we have a relationship to it in some way.
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