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.