Why Black Girls Need a "Cosmo"

My name is Jennifer and I am a 24 year old black woman. I am your typical girly girl, meaning I love fashion, makeup, hair, and anything that has to do with making me look and feel beautiful. I grew up a Cosmo Girl. I used to have subscriptions that would come to my parents’ house all the time. One day my mom asked me why I chose Cosmo as my go to bible for beauty instead of a magazine that featured women that look like me. I told my mother that I liked the way the articles were written and other special stories in it (we all know the articles I mean ;)). My mother suggested I try to read Essence magazine and I did. It was nice but it was NOT the same. Cosmo appealed to the younger woman. They appealed to the woman who was fearless and fabulous and was not afraid of her sexuality. Now that I have gotten older I now realize that Cosmo is not for me or women like me. I have realized that we need our own magazine that highlights the fun, fashionable, fearless black woman. Now all we need is someone who is willing to get his started. I raise my hand proudly to volunteer to get this magazine up and running, because we need a publication that allows women like me to see themselves in this amazing light. We need a place where we can openly communicate about relationships and sex in a positive manner. We need a place that highlights our lovely ladies that can give a tutorial on a natural hair twist out AND show me how to wand curl my 18 inch Brazilian sew in. We need a place that has a health and fitness section dedicated to black women's needs and will show that black women do indeed work out. We need a place to show the fashion trends for our beautiful curves and body types. We need a place where we can highlight and show off our own sexy black eligible bachelors (who doesn't like a little eye candy). We need a place that focuses the articles on places that are highly populated by black men and women. We need a publication to call our own featuring our amazing beautiful black women that are doing something positive.

Below is a link to an article that shows what Cosmo has been up to recently. There was an article about trends that need to disappear and mostly black women were featured in the "RIP" column. Now I believe that this section could have been a lot more diverse in t he way it featured trends that needed to be phased out.

Seriously Cosmo???

This seems like the perfect time to get my idea out of the parking lot and out for the world to see. I want to hear about what you would like to see from a publication like this and if you believe this is needed. I NEED YOUR FEEDBACK!!!

Help me spread the word about the magazine that is already in the works. More updates coming soon.

To Get Financially Stable

Black girls need a magazine that will help them with their finances. Society seems to have the ridiculous perception that we are the welfare queens. Spending money on hair weave and club clothes, but living off of the government. I have had a few people suggest that we include some financial advice that is much needed for young women. And if there is anyone who needed financial advice as a young woman it was me...... I was not a planner and I shopped before I paid my bills. It was a struggle to tell myself no you don't need that shirt, no those earring are not to die for,no that lipstick is not a necessity and NO you do not need ANOTHER pair of pumps (I'm a shoe queen what can I say).

This was me.... Not good.

THE STRUGGLE WAS REAL!

 

 

Over time I have gotten much better with managing my money. I'll let you guys know a few rules that I have been following to help me save money and pay off debt:

 

Rule 1: Have a plan!!! Set dates, specific dates and timeframes in which yo would like something paid off. Same goes for saving, set a dollar amount that you want to have saved by a specific date.

 

Rule 2: Take advantage of direct deposit. Have money transferred directly into a savings account that you do not have easy access to. Out of sight out of mind.

 

Rule 3: Set reminders. We all have these smartphones that we are glued to day in and day out. Might as well set an alert in you calender on pay day of bills due this pay period. This comes in handy so I don't "accidentally" spend my insurance payment money on MAC lipstick.

 

Rule 4: Be realistic. I set aside small amounts of money for me to do my random shopping with. Telling myself that I cannot buy anything for pleasure is torture. So I set aside a "shopping fund". Sometimes I spend what is in it sometimes I don't, but it is good to have for me and my sanity.

 

Rule 5: Unexpected things happen, don't stress if you have to use some savings to fix your car or pay an unexpected parking ticket. You cannot plan for everything just keep going on your plan

 

 

Here are a few links to some actual professionals that should help you with your financial goals:

Beginners Guide to Managing Money

10 Tips to Manage your Money

Get Your Money Straight Girl (book)

 

 

Happy spending... I mean saving :)... Good luck on getting you finances in check.

 

 

Black Girls Need a magazine that will give financial advice directed to us and our situations. We need to ensure that there is a publication we as black women have and trust to give honest and practical tips to keep us fabulous, fierce, and financially stable.



 

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Serving Body!!!!

Black girls need a magazine that discusses what it is like to live in our skin with today's standards of the "perfect" body. Thigh gaps, big butts, flat stomach, waist trainers, ass shots, detoxing, diets, squats its all enough to make you just say screw it and lay on the couch with your ice cream and binge watch Real Housewives on Netflix. Who needs to be sexy anyway???It's all overrated and exhausting and for some of you expensive (butt injections and tummy tucks can't be cheap). Even celebrities like Amber Rose, Beyonce', and the Kardashian family are being put on blast for their bodies not being perfect in pictures that are taken off guard.

These women look fabulous even without the Photoshop and retouching. Body shaming is real and it puts too much pressure on us to look perfect. This is for the women that have ever been told that your body is too: big, small, fat, muscular, skinny, or thick. This is your body and you need to embrace the beauty that is you.

 I think that it's time for the "perfect" body to be a thing of the past. There are so many beautiful and healthy body types that are sexy and fabulous in their own way. Take a look:

Whether you are Sexy and Slim:

Fabulous and Full Figured:

Cute and Curvy:

 

 

 

 

or Fantastic and Fit:

 

 



 

 

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!

BLACK GIRLS NEED TO BE TOLD YOUR BODY IS BEAUTIFUL!

 

 

I see nothing but beauty in all the women pictured. These are women of different sizes, shapes, weights, and complexions (now THAT is a topic for it's own day) but they are all fierce, fabulous, and just damn fine if I do say so myself.

 

 

It's perfectly acceptable to not be 100% happy with your body and to want to change or improve your body and health like these women here: GO HEAD LADIES!

 

 

But going to some of the surgical extremes to be seen as perfect is just crazy.

 

 

The point is your body is for you. There is no need to try to keep up with the "beautiful people" that the media tells us we should look like. There is more than one definition of beauty. So embrace your thick thighs, small boobs, round mid section, tiny butt, you get the point. Be happy to be you or make healthy strides to change what you can.

 

Black girls need a magazine to tell them that my body is beauty.



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A "Cosmo" for us

My name is Jennifer and I am a 24 year old black woman. I am your typical girly girl, meaning I love fashion, makeup, hair, and anything that has to do with making me look and feel beautiful. I grew up a Cosmo Girl. I used to have subscriptions that would come to my parents’ house all the time. One day my mom asked me why I chose Cosmo as my go to bible for beauty instead of a magazine that featured women that look like me. I told my mother that I liked the way the articles were written and other special stories in it (we all know the articles I mean ;)). My mother suggested I try to read Essence magazine and I did. It was nice but it was NOT the same. Cosmo appealed to the younger woman. They appealed to the woman who was fearless and fabulous and was not afraid of her sexuality. Now that I have gotten older I now realize that Cosmo is not for me or women like me. I have realized that we need our own magazine that highlights the fun, fashionable, fearless black woman. Now all we need is someone who is willing to get his started. I raise my hand proudly to volunteer to get this magazine up and running, because we need a publication that allows women like me to see themselves in this amazing light. We need a place where we can openly communicate about relationships and sex in a positive manner. We need a place that highlights our lovely ladies that can give a tutorial on a natural hair twist out AND show me how to wand curl my 18 inch Brazilian sew in. We need a place that has a health and fitness section dedicated to black women's needs and will show that black women do indeed work out. We need a place to show the fashion trends for our beautiful curves and body types. We need a place where we can highlight and show off our own sexy black eligible bachelors (who doesn't like a little eye candy). We need a place that focuses the articles on places that are highly populated by black men and women. We need a publication to call our own featuring our amazing beautiful black women that are doing something positive.

Below is a link to an article that shows what Cosmo has been up to recently. There was an article about trends that need to disappear and mostly black women were featured in the "RIP" column. Now I believe that this section could have been a lot more diverse in t he way it featured trends that needed to be phased out.

Seriously Cosmo?

This seems like the perfect time to get my idea out of the parking lot and out for the world to see. I want to hear about what you would like to see from a publication like this and if you believe this is needed. I NEED YOUR FEEDBACK!!!

Help me spread the word about the magazine that is already in the works. More updates coming soon.