“I'm still dismantling the way I feel when I hear the word beauty or beautiful. I want to talk about beauty in a way that feels authentic to me and it might not resonate with everyone. Beauty functions as an ethical ideal in our society—it’s a thing to achieve. It's beautiful to have an opportunity to talk about that. I don't have the power to completely overhaul the way that we function as a society, but if I can speak more authentically about where I come from and how I approach my own beauty routine, hopefully, I can maybe inspire some other people to take a closer look at that as well.”