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The Skin They Forgot to Teach

This book is not a skincare guide. It’s a confrontation.

Written as essays, refusals, and liberatory invocations, The Skin They Forgot to Teach dismantles the colonial logic behind Eurocentric beauty standards, and the textbooks that uphold them.

It’s time to return to what our skin already knows.

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Written by Judith Pluviose, Esq.

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Melanin is not a flaw to fix. It is a record of survival.

Esthetics school did not forget us. They were never built for us.

They say ‘normal to dry.’ We say, deeply melanated and divine

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Melanin is not a flaw to fix. It is a record of survival. Esthetics school did not forget us. They were never built for us. They say ‘normal to dry.’ We say, deeply melanated and divine 〰️

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You Were Never The Flaw.

This book isn’t another beauty book. It’s a refusal.

A reclamation of Black skin, science, and soul.

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