For my magazine cover, there were a plethora of ideas I've considered for my cover. The ideas I've covered were descriptive and colorful, simple and direct, and bold themes. I choose them all for the simple fact that I believed that it would compliment the overall theme of my magazine. I have a beauty magazine which would go best with with the descriptive and colorful house style. I may incorporate bold themes to create my own house style for this magazine.
Growing up, the media constantly broadcasted straight hair white women as the beauty standard which was challenging to grapple with as a curly haired girl. Shaony Lopez was consumed by the world around her and the everlasting beauty standards that were filled with people who did not look like her. The lack of representation in the media caused her longing for straight hair to grow. “I used to want straight hair really bad because I never grew up seeing people with hair like mine.” All throughout elementary and middle school she did not know how to tend to her curly hair. Her curiosity surrounding how to style or moisturize her hair caused her to make many mistakes. She went through so much “trial and error” in her terms when learning how to deal with her hair texture. As a child, she did not know that her hair had potential to be healthy and vibrant. Due to her mother not knowing how to deal with her hair texture she was not aware of how to care for her hair. “I did not know I had cu
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