Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and we are finishing up the week with

Andrea Lewis. As always, we have to talk about joy. And so let's dive into our conversation again where Andrea and I talk about what Black

Beauty means to her from the lens of joy and how she maintains joy in her life in general.

And we are back with Andrea Lewis.

This is flown by. I'm so excited to have had this conversation with you. And the last thing I wanted to talk to you about is joy. And one is like what? We'll start with the more specific and then I want to go broad. So what about black beauty brings you joy? It could be products.

It could be a ritual. It could be just general. There's no parameters here, but what specifically about black beauty brings you joy? Oh my goodness. I think the entire thing of black beauty

brings me joy. I'm a product girl. I love products. Love products. Me too. Whether they be for your hair,

for your skin, for your makeup, I love products. I love discovering new things. I love glam. I love glam. I love

meeting professionals in these spaces, really great makeup artists, really great

hairstylists, getting it done on myself, watching somebody else do it.

I love that stuff.

And then I honestly really love the diversity of black women in beauty.

Like I truly, truly love to see our hairstyles and our skin tones and our fashion sense and just a whole picture of it.

And looking at things that I would never think to do for myself and looking at it on somebody else and

being like, wow, that's so beautiful.

Like you look so stunning.

I think that's why, you know, black women are like compliment queens.

We're so good at your commitment.

And I think that's just because our beauty is so prominent. It's so hard to not compliment it.

Like, and you can see it a mile away. I love being out and just seeing girls just looking cute

and being like, oh my gosh, you look so pretty. Like you really look beautiful.

And that to me is black beauty.

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