SZA Lands Sephora In Hot Water, Resulting In Store-wide Diversity Training

Bella Breakdown Customers of cosmetics retailer Sephora will have to wait an extra hour before they can happily shop due to the company closing all of its U.S. stores for diversity training. The “inclusion workshop” comes after R&B singer SZA publicly called out a California location for racially profiling her. The company denied that the workshop is in relation to SZA’s complaint, but rather as preparation for its “We Belong to Something Beautiful” campaign launch. “The plan to close our U.S. stores, distribution centers, call centers and corporate office for a one-hour inclusivity workshop with our 16,000 employees has...

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Ashley Graham Says Beauty Industry Is Not Inclusive Enough

Bella Breakdown Ashley Graham is a 31-year-old plus-size fashion and beauty model. In the year 2016, the brunette beauty, Ashley Graham, made history by being the very first plus-size model to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue and she received a lot of backlash. Basically, a great number of critics condemned the choice to put or rather to have Ashley Graham grace the cover according to them, it was glorifying being overweight. However, these criticism never for one slowed down her career as Ashley Graham went ahead to grace the cover of bigger magazines despite being plus-size....

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