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Desiree Rogers and Cheryl Mayberry McKissack, owners of the Black Opal line of skin-care and beauty products, are now majority owners of Fashion Fair Cosmetics. Fashion Fair, created by the late Eunice W. Johnson for Johnson Publishing Co. — and once the largest black-owned cosmetics company in the world — has been sold to investors that include Chicago […]

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Her longtime makeup artist, D'Andre Michael, used Black/Opal to create this entire look.

A shady debate is brewing between Black Opal and many of their loyal customers. If you’ve been following the brand’s Facebook pages, you may know that they’ve been taking some heat for their beauty campaign, which launched last fall, which declared ‘Beauty comes in ALL shades, and Black Opal is for EVERY shade of beauty!” While the […]

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Black Opal, the leading beauty destination for people of color, hosted a preview yesterday where beauty editors in the industry got a first look at the company’s new beauty and skin care line for 2013. Black Opal’s Senior Marketing Director, Maya Brown;  Artistic Director, Frank Guyton; and the stunning Dr. Cheryl Burgess, Dermatologist and Skin […]