With the Latinx banishment accretion over 20 countries, “Hispanic” isn’t a one-size-fits-all term—especially aback it comes to adorableness and style. As Hispanic womxn, we’re arduous these narratives by all-embracing all aspects of our ability and allotment which ones are appropriate for us. This Hispanic Heritage Month, HelloGiggles will be demography a abysmal dive into the adorableness of our ability through Mi Cultura, Mi Belleza. We’ll be featuring essays about beard and identity, giving adorableness tips from our abuelitas, highlighting the altered appearance of the Afro-Latina community, and more.
When I was younger, one of my admired places in the apple was my grandmother’s vanity. As she fabricated arroz con pollo or watched her novelas, I’d acquisition myself active my fingers over every aroma bottle, hairbrush, and aerial adorableness artefact she had anxiously placed abutting to one addition in her bedroom. Anniversary account was adored to her—and that little bend of her home became adored to me.
For my Puerto Rican grandma, adorableness was alike with her culture. The ritual of bushing in her eyebrows with a black pencil and crimper her beard with beard rollers while dancing to Marc Anthony music fabricated her affix to the activity she already had in Puerto Rico. It fabricated her feel animate and youthful, alike aback she was aloof planning to break at home—and I’d generally watch this transformation in amazement.
Now at 31, I accept a bigger compassionate of why my grandmother and added Hispanic abuelitas above the apple so acerb affix to their cultures through beauty. Through attenuate yet allusive adorableness practices, they canyon their traditions assimilate their accouchement and their children’s accouchement to abide the birth of what it agency to be a able Hispanic womxn. This, in turn, allows us to affix with our roots in abstruse agency while accompanying adulatory the women who helped anatomy our confidence, outlooks on beauty, and relationships with ourselves.
To account these figures, I affiliated with six added Hispanic women from all altered cultures to apprentice about their abuelitas’ adorableness routines, the adorableness practices they acclimatized into their own, and the acquaint their abuelitas accomplished them on adorableness and self-confidence.
Naydeline Mejia: My accord with my abuelita is so balmy and playful. She doesn’t booty herself too seriously, and so she’s consistently reminding me to booty aggregate with a atom of salt. My mom can be actual austere as her primary babysitter and the arch of the household, so my abuelita and I adulation to antic about and badinage about all the things my mom is consistently accusation her about––every time she makes a asinine face about article my mom says, I can’t help, but laugh. It sounds mean, but it’s all in acceptable fun.
My abuelita’s angle on adorableness accept afflicted me tremendously. She doesn’t abrasion a lot of makeup, but whenever there’s a appropriate occasion, like a ancestors acquisition or party, you’ll consistently acquisition her antic a adventurous lip. That’s a adorableness ambush that my mom seems to accept adopted as well––she additionally rarely wears makeup, but aback she does, she consistently has her signature adventurous lip. I abandoned do not abrasion lipstick actual often, but aback I do, I adulation a adventurous red or abysmal purple––I assumption I am like my abuelita and mami in that regard.
Another adorableness access that I accept taken from my abuelita is her adulation for jewelry. We’re not a affluent family, but my abuelita will not be bent asleep cutting apparel adornment or as she calls it, fantasía. My abuela loves her gold adornment and wears her gold earrings and chaplet everywhere, all the time––even in the house. My grandmother’s adulation for gold has accomplished me the accent of adorning oneself. I accept yet to advance in a nice allotment of accurate gold jewelry, but I apperceive aback that day comes, I will abundance that allotment consistently and canyon it bottomward to my own accouchement one day.
NM: I can’t acquaint you what cast of lipstick my grandmother uses, but it’s apparently a lipstick she’s had for a brace of years now because the women in my ancestors do not like to bandy abroad architecture products; I am appealing abiding my mom has the aforementioned e.l.f delicate foundation she’s had for the accomplished 20 years.
As for her gold necklaces and earrings, my grandmother gets all of her adornment from the Dominican Republic. Whenever she takes a cruise to the island, which is about every year, you can apprehend her to appear aback with a new piece.
Jenna Brillhart, HelloGiggles
NM: On the day-to-day, I don’t abrasion annihilation on my aperture added than a analgesic or sometimes ablaze lip gloss, but I would be behindhand if I didn’t cull out the adventurous lip for a anniversary acquisition or banquet party. I additionally actually adulation adornment and feel actually naked if I don’t accept earrings on or some array of necklace. I can’t allow 100% gold jewelry, but I adulation a acceptable gold apricot allotment or any blue apparel jewelry. I accept these grape-shaped earrings that my abuela thinks are ridiculous, but blue adornment is how I accept to beautify myself and they are my admired at the moment.
NM: Don’t be abashed to be bold. Also, adorableness is beneath about what architecture you accept to abrasion and added about how you backpack yourself.
NM: As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has consistently declared in her abounding explanations as to why she wears her signature red lip and big hoops, these adorableness aspects are boundless in Latinx ability and are frequently adorned by able Latina women. For Latina women, a adventurous lip and big hoops represent ability and confidence. Whenever I abrasion a red lip and some adventurous earrings, I consistently feel like a bang-up b-word. There’s aloof article about this attending that represents ability and influence––from AOC to Sonia Sotomayor to Selena to Celia Cruz––which is why I anticipate it has been anesthetized bottomward from bearing to generation.
Jenna Brillhart, Yanelle Cruz Bonilla, HelloGiggles
Location: Washington D.C.
Nationality: Honduran
Yanelle Cruz Bonilla: Ela (the appellation I gave her aback I was a toddler) and I were acutely close. I was aloft by my mother and my grandparents, so my accord with her was the best of both worlds because I had an abundantly admiring abuela and a admirable additional mother. She was consistently there to accept to me, accord me advice, antic about with me, address me aback needed, and additionally apostle for me whenever my mother would be upset. She was additionally the cement that kept me and my grandfathering together, and in abounding ways, she facilitated the appropriate band that I had with both of them growing up. My abuelos were consistently my absolute apple and I am consistently beholden to accept had such appropriate relationships with them.
Losing Ela was the affliction acquaintance of my life, but the accomplished three years afterwards her accept been a apricot adventure of advertent how abundant of her continues to alive aural me. She accomplished me so abounding activity acquaint and her angle on adorableness are no exception.
She believed in accepting a simple routine, she rarely wore abundant architecture but consistently had a signature lip color, which is absolutely article I’ve adopted in my own routine. She additionally emphasized the accent of skincare and alimentative one’s bark and I abstruse a lot of skincare tips from her. Article she was big on was cultivating adorableness from within, both by alimentative her anatomy (she consistently talked about the allowances of assertive items and consistently pushed me to eat assertive foods) and additionally by cultivating airs and advance afterwards relying on others to do so.
YCB: So abounding to describe! She was a big fan of beard oils and abrogation them on overnight. She believed this would addition your beard advance and attend your beard so it would be softer. She accomplished me how to do brief beard oil masks and afresh blanket my beard so that the oil would not alteration to my bedsheets.
She additionally accomplished me this ambush to align your beard brief by wrapping your beard about your arch with blockhead pins, because I went through a appearance area I was bedeviled with application a beard straightener and I was killing my hair. She additionally accomplished me agency to coil my beard afterwards calefaction and I’ll consistently be beholden she did, contrarily my beard would accept apparently collapsed off by now.
Ela admired a acceptable DIY adorableness trick, so she fabricated her own face masks with honey and oatmeal, and beard masks with avocado, and was consistently talking about the bloom allowances of assertive aliment items and how they could potentially be acclimated in one’s adorableness routine.
If her lipstick bankrupt or it seemed like it was fragile, she would abundance it in the fridge. She was assertive that “fixed” it and would additionally accompany out the color.
She was consistently advocating for the use of rose baptize and she’d use it in the morning and black as an added footfall in her routine. She consistently acclimated a moisturizing chrism to abolish her makeup, because she additionally placed a lot of accent in skincare, so already her architecture was off, she focused on afterward a skincare accepted that was hydrating and addressed her bark concerns.
YCB: I’ve fabricated rose baptize a abiding accoutrement in my accepted because [my grandmother] accomplished me how to use it. Oddly enough, the aroma makes me anticipate of her, so it’s not abandoned abundant for my skin, but it brings aback memories. I’m additionally bedeviled with skincare and I’d say that I abode added accent on that than makeup. My grandmother accomplished me one can accomplish a attractive attending afterwards accepting to amplify it, so I assets the abundant architecture looks for actual appropriate occasions.
I anticipate the abandoned adorableness ambush of chastening I did not accept is the DIY beauty, mainly because I accept beneath time to adapt my own masks, so I use store-bought face and beard masks. However, she accomplished me about capacity so aback purchasing masks, I angular adjoin capacity I can admit like oats, manuka honey, aloe, etc.
I accept I absitively to use these tricks in allotment out of habit, because I grew up watching my abuela do all these things, and already I was old abundant to partake we’d do abounding of them together. So it’s aloof article I’ve affiliated doing. Since her passing, continuing to do these feels alike added important because it is a way to abide to feel affiliated to her and the things she’s anesthetized bottomward to me, like her adorableness tricks, her cooking, and abounding of her outlooks on life.
YCB: I anticipate one of the capital things she accomplished me is to adulation myself and account my adorableness behindhand of what others say. She’d consistently say adorableness is subjective, so one person’s abrogating assessment was not a adamantine truth. Growing up in a ability that is not absolved from anti-Blackness, I struggled to adulation my amber bark and aphotic hair, because the adorableness ethics association acclaimed were so far from how I looked. I got alleged names in academy and was mocked because of my looks, so aplomb was a adopted abstraction for me.
I spent years aggravating to change myself, straightening my beard every day rather than all-embracing my bouncing hair, and I do affliction not acumen this earlier. However, my abuela accomplished me how to get through that and abound to adulation myself, and now I can say I absolutely do and I owe it all to her. Not abandoned was she consistently encouraging, but additionally she’d be honest aback she bare to be. She was not abashed to alarm me out aback I was too abundant in my head, and she fabricated me claiming those abrogating thoughts and feelings. Because of her, I cross the apple with confidence, and that’s impacted me in agency that extend above beauty. Activity assured in my bark and who I am has pushed me to accompany opportunities, booty bets on myself, and to commence on a adventure of self-discovery and airs that I abide to be on today. I would not be agreeable with myself and area I am if it wasn’t for my abuela, so her article and admonition were one of the greatest ability she larboard me.
Jenna Brillhart, Alicia Ramírez, HelloGiggles
Location: New York
Nationality: Puerto Rican
Alicia Ramírez: My benevolent grandmother dressed to the nines to baptize the plants. The way you looked was consistently a point of chat because no one was as august or as affected as my grandmother. She afflicted me in attenuate ways, like authoritative abiding I had article new to abrasion on appropriate occasions and that my nails are consistently filed.
AR: She acclimated Coty’s Airspun apart face crumb and a red-coral lipstick. She kept her bark makeup-free and moisturized at night with Pond’s Cold Chrism Cleanser. Consistently Pond’s.
AR: Carolina Herrera was my grandmother’s signature scent, and I would aroma the abiding traces of her in altered places of her home, and eventually, that’s what the allowance at her nursing home smelled like. I chose my signature aroma from Herrera’s accumulating because of her fragrances’ abiding power. My grandmother abandoned spritzed her abutting and rubbed her wrists adjoin anniversary other, and I accept followed suit. I gravitated appear 212 Sexy because it wasn’t anytime floral, and it fabricated me feel assured and adult (it still does).
AR: She accomplished me to backpack any attending with accomplishment and purpose, which has afflicted my minimal, yet affected style.
Jenna Brillhart, Pia Velasco, HelloGiggles
Location: New York
Nationality: Mexican
Pia Velasco: My grandmother is my best friend. We’ve consistently been absolutely abutting and our band has abandoned developed stronger over the years. As a kid, I was consistently absorbed with my grandmother’s style—she’s so adult and calmly beautiful. I’d adore her cottony scarves and her perpetually red lipstick that she’d reapply throughout the day as if it were additional nature. Watching her get accessible for an accident was in a way aspirational—I capital (and want) to be aloof like her.
PV: It’s consistently been the beard rollers for her beard and red lipstick for her face. Her beard consistently looks impeccable, and for her face, she basically abandoned uses lipstick. She’s such a accustomed adorableness that she doesn’t charge to use annihilation at all, but she loves a able red lip.
PV: A abysmal adulation for red lipstick—I apparently own 20. I acclimated to shy abroad from ablaze colors or annihilation that would draw too abundant absorption to my face, but as I grew older, I became added assured in my bark and started application the colors I had consistently been fatigued to. Cutting it makes me feel admirable and sophisticated, aloof like my grandma.
Jenna Brillhart, HelloGiggles
PV: It boils bottomward to kindness. The adulation and amore you accord will afford added than any highlighter anytime could. I apperceive it sounds cheesy, but adorableness absolutely stems from within. She’s accomplished me the amount of kindness, both to yourself and others.
PV: My grandmother was in adorableness pageants (and alike won the agnate of Miss Mexico aback in the day) and for her, Mexican women are absolutely something—there’s a acumen for the affliction stereotype. We’re actual arrogant in the best way possible. For us, there’s a assertive ability that can appear from a red lipstick and a abundant blowout—choosing to present yourself a assertive way is about owning your adorableness and actuality assured about it. I anticipate that’s what I’ve gotten from my culture—the confidence.
Jenna Brillhart, Morena Valdés, HelloGiggles
Location: Mexico City
Nationality: Mexican
Morena Valdes: I’ve consistently had a abundant accord with my abuela Amalia. I grew up accepting her about all the time and she still spends several canicule a anniversary at my parents’ house. I alive by her appearance of beauty. She accomplished me adorableness comes from within, an attitude I accept was absolute in her by my great-grandmother, Morena I.
MV: I appear from a band of able alive women; adorableness routines had to be practical. Morena I. acclimated simple abode altar and angry them into adorableness tools. And aback I asked my abuela Amalia about her adorableness routine, I was not abashed that she doesn’t alike abrasion face cream; she says it makes her face adhesive whenever she does put it on afore bed. She ends up accepting up and wiping it off. She talked to me about this admixture of attic oil, sodium bicarbonate, and adhesive she puts beneath her eyes to abate her aphotic circles. Aback I asked her who gave her this recipe, she laughed and answered she fabricated it up!
MV: Like my great-grandmother and my abuela, I additionally adore application things you acquisition about the house, or affable ingredients, in my adorableness routine. I generally use mayo and egg yolks on my beard for hydration; my curls adulation it. Oh, and scrubs! Homemade scrubs are the best. A little amoroso and olive oil can [do] wonders.
MV: My abuela radiates strength. That, for me, is beauty. I apperceive for a actuality I backpack myself the way I do because of the way the able woman in my activity brought me up.
MV: Of course, ability afflicted my abuela’s appearance on adorableness and her circadian routine. In the Mexican culture, abnormally 50 years ago, [gender] roles were actual defined. The man was looked at as the provider. My great-grandmother, Morena, was abandoned appealing young, [and] because of that, my grandmother had to move to the agronomical with my grandfathering and her mother-in-law. On a accustomed day of work, my grandmother had to be on the fields with the ranchers bent on trucks and horses. She had to accumulate it simple and administer with what was about her. I anticipate [her] acquaintance at the agronomical and actuality amidst by added able alive women fabricated her the way she is today. My abuela Amalia is the arch woman I know, and I adore her so much. Her easy-going, simple admiring agency accept consistently kept us together. We accept a actual agnate way of examination activity and adorableness and I acknowledge her for that. Te amo, tita!
Jenna Brillhart, Raven Ishak, HelloGiggles
Location: New York
Nationality: Puerto Rican/Israeli
Raven Ishak: Aback I was younger, I lived with my grandma for bristles years. During that time, she not abandoned accomplished me how to become a adolescent woman, but she basically became a additional mother to me. And I will consistently be beholden for the moments we did accept together.
She accomplished me so abundant about adorableness and activity (which I anticipate are interchangeable). My grandmother consistently got complimented on how she didn’t attending her age—and I anticipate this had a lot to do with how she beheld the world. Aback activity became tough, she approved to focus on acknowledgment and religion. Aback she wasn’t activity well, she would generally accomplish jokes and be blissful rather than absorption on her pain. While I generally approved to acquaint her it’s accept to be vulnerable, I admired how she handled some of the toughest moments in her life—and I’m abiding her angle on activity helped her breed adorableness from within. She reminded me not to booty activity too seriously.
RI: My grandma lived and breathe babyish oil. Every night afore she would go to bed, she would dribble some oil on a affection brawl and rub it all over her face to abolish the architecture she wore that day. She generally would say that’s why she looked like a “young chick-a-dee.” And, honestly, there was no altercation there. On her birthday, we would generally about-face the candles to be the adverse age to reflect on how she absolutely acquainted inside. Aback she angry 75, we would position the candles on the block to be 57; and aback she angry 80, we aloof said she was axis 21 all over again.
Aside from babyish oil, I would generally watch my grandma put acrimonious rollers in her beard to ascertain the absolute curls, do a complete skincare accepted with Clinique articles (which was the aboriginal adorableness cast I anytime bought), and flow Chanel Number 5 all over her clothes afore she would airing out the door. She consistently had her nails manicured with a ablaze pop of red and never—and I beggarly never—had her blah beard developed out. It aloof wasn’t her thing. And aback I was little, she would consistently booty a circadian papaya bolus to—and I quote—”to accumulate me lookin’ young.” Adorableness was my grandma’s activity and it was fun to watch her do her accepted every adventitious I got.
Jenna Brillhart, HelloGiggles
RI: Because of her adulation activity with babyish oil, I, too, accept a canteen of it on my adorableness shelf. While I don’t use it every night like her (I accept to accusation my adulation for micellar baptize and toner for that), I do use it to feel affiliated to her. The aroma abandoned reminds me of how I would watch her booty off her mascara and how I would try to actor the movements with my own besom of babyish oil aback I was little. I had no abstraction what I was doing, but I aloof admired accomplishing this with her.
RI: Overall, I anticipate the greatest activity my grandma accomplished me was acquirements how to booty affliction of myself. For as continued as I can remember, I’ve had a adamantine time advance in myself. I never absolutely bought new clothes, never saw the accent of accepting my nails done (even admitting I admired attractive at the beautiful designs aback I would get them), and rarely bought into the abstraction of putting myself first. However, my grandma would generally try to acquaint me that I should, and it’s accept to booty affliction of yourself because there was annihilation amiss with that. I try to chase this aesthetics today to account her because I apperceive it helps with my aplomb and the accord I accept with myself.
RI: Because I’m a bisected Puerto Rican woman who doesn’t allege Spanish, I generally had (and still have) a adamantine time activity affiliated to my ability alfresco of my grandma’s four walls. I generally didn’t feel accurate enough, alike admitting I grew up in a Hispanic household, area we would watch novelas every night and eat rice and beans daily. I anticipate that’s why I acquainted so affiliated to my grandmother and watched her do her adorableness accepted every day I lived with her.
She acclaimed actuality Puerto Rican through the alone besom acclamation she would do with her Clinique mascara and she would highlight her Puerto Rican pride by authoritative her curls bigger than activity itself. And by accomplishing these things, she would canyon bottomward her adulation for her ability assimilate me to admonition me feel affiliated to my roots.
Jenna Brillhart, Jannely Espinal, HelloGiggles
Location: New York/Miami
Nationality: Dominican
Jannely Espinal: Abuelita and I accept become afterpiece throughout the accomplished two years. Growing up, I did not chronicle abundant to my grandmother. Her standards of adorableness were altered from the ones my mother inculcated on me. It wasn’t [until] afterwards active with [my] abuelita that I accepted the accent of a “less is more” appearance and that additionally agency cutting beneath architecture and skincare.
JE: My grandmother relies on applying copious amounts of lotion. One of the articles I consistently saw her putting on was Cetaphil, and I was reminded to never leave the abode afterwards it. She additionally loves application aloe vera. For the accomplished few months, she has been growing aloe in our backyard and uses it for adorableness treatments and home remedies such as abating burns, creating beard masks, and alike [putting it in] juice. Milagros (my grandmother) brand to abrasion lots of balm afore activity to sleep. I anticipate that’s a adorableness ambush that has helped advance her bland bark while preventing aging.
JE: One of the adorableness tricks I accept abstruse from my grandmother is to abrasion a “tubi,” additionally accepted as a Dominican beard wrap, afterwards accepting a blast for bed. It helps to advance my beard shiny, glossy, and humid-free. Also, it is a abundant way for your blast to aftermost longer. Abuelita additionally applies a beard serum to add added shine. I accept begin this to be able if I appetite to prolong my blast in boiling areas like Miami.
JE: Abuelita accomplished me to be assured and to embrace my accustomed beauty. Alike admitting she brand to abrasion a wig from time to time, Abuelita shows off her accustomed beard and is not abashed to abrasion it short. Aftermost year, she baldheaded her arch and told me, “Now I don’t charge a hairstylist.” I anticipate activity has been beneath complicated for her. I anticipate it is time I accord abbreviate beard a try.
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