Comments on: Liya Kebede, Model/Actress

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:26:00 +0000

You are beautiful and are dead on about the look of pure skin. So much better

By: Teatodd

Teatodd — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:56:00 +0000

I agree Phil. But maybe she used some of the products and actually really like them.

Tea Todd

By: Edie

Edie — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I love this Top Shelf! I have been a fan of Liya for a long time and as a fellow Ethiopian I can totally relate to many of things she says. The butter treatment is so good for hair! I just did last week and it does so much for my hair. I completely recommend it but with organic butter only (Trader Joe's/Whole Foods). You part your hair into sections put it on the roots and then massage the left over on your hair. You leave it in for a whole day or two is better! If your hair is dry, it will absorb a lot of it. But I can not emphasize how good its for hair. Not a lot of people know about it, ethiopian hair secret!

The part about hair salons in Ethiopia is so funny but so true. Ethiopians know how to take care of their hair. I'm only 17 but I spend the most money on hair products when it comes to beauty. In addition to the butter treatment, I highly recommend Moroccan oil (the actual hair oil, shampoo, and conditioner) . Its so good for African hair and it smells great. Its on the expensive side but worth it.

By: Electrik sheep

Electrik sheep — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Lovely photo. Thanks for the interesting article.

http://www.electriksheep.co.uk/

By: Fashion-share

Fashion-share — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:18:00 +0000

Liya Kebede is one of my favorite models

By: Devi D

Devi D — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:53:00 +0000

"Shame" is too loaded and emotional of a term for the kind of criticism ITG is receiving for these posts. I don't think anyone is trying to hurt Emily, and, from her response, it doesn't seem as if she's taking that way. Also, I did say that I have no problem with brand reps being here. I just don't like the posts as much as the others.

By: Michelle Lee

Michelle Lee — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:53:00 +0000

beautiful

http://www.pinklemonincrystal.blogspot.kr

By: Eat.Style.Play

Eat.Style.Play — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Hmmm. I wasn't, I was speaking of my family, Ethiopians but we are also a diverserfamily of Germans, Ethiopians, East Indian but the Ethi features stand out in my mom. Humans have been around so long, we all get these features from somewhere, but at the end of the day it's all beauty to me and it can all be traced back to Africa.

I did say drops here and there, which in my mind means small amounts nothing to significant but in some you see it more than others.

By: LankyAlpaca

LankyAlpaca — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:50:00 +0000

if you mean ethnic somalis, a vast majority of them don't exhibit european features because they're distantly related to italians, in fact, somali's racial admixture only represents .01 to 1% of the population. and yes, it's mostly Italian, arab, phoenician and indian admixtures, but the rest of our people are pure Somalis. it's just that Africa has a plethora of different people with different looks, shades and colors to them.

By: Ekaterina

Ekaterina — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:49:00 +0000

I think the loveliness, or, lets say quality of the posts on this site has always fluctuated, and what is considered a better or worse probably differs for everyone, just like I apparently didn't dislike the most recent ones as much as other readers have. All I was trying to say, however, is that the corporate aspect has always been a part of this site (all "the MAKEUP" posts, like the ones featuring Arizona in YSL when she also happened to be the model in the YSL campaign..?) Or beauty editors name dropping Joelle products (which I love, by the way, so thank you for that!) But isn't that also what's made this site stand out from all the other beauty blogs out there? The fact that Emily has access to that corporate world? She has access to the editors of the magazines we see on the stands, to the models, to the make up artists who put together the runway looks which we than try to copy in our everyday lives, and she gets all of that straight from the people who set the beauty trends, and isn't all of that just an arms length away from the brands/corporations that produce these products? I suppose there can and probably is a counter argument to that, but nonetheless the appeal of ITG to me has always been that Emily is there, she is in that beauty world, and with that comes the opportunity to interview these brand ambassadors. So why not? I just don't think certain readers should try and shame her for these posts. They may not be as juicy as some of the others have been, but there is a certain aestheticism about them that is still very ITG