WarnerMedia Partners with Black Beauty Roster to Focus on Diversity in Hair and Makeup on Set
variety.comAngelique Jackson WarnerMedia has partnered with Black Beauty Roster and its network of 10,000 vetted beauty professionals in an effort to advance diversity in hair and makeup on set.Through the new relationship, WarnerMedia and Black Beauty Roster (BBR) aim to address a problem that is twofold — first, addressing the concerns of talent of color who’ve been underserved on sets by helping producers and executives find hair stylists and makeup artists skilled in working with their hair textures and skin tones; and second, creating opportunity for those artists to work on productions and special events, which is oft complicated by union regulations and rosters. “We [at WarnerMedia] had done these listening sessions to hear about the concerns that were happening, and, of course, one of the biggest things was hair and makeup,” Yvette Urbina tells Variety, explaining the genesis of this initiative.
This was no surprise to Urbina, who was a longtime creative executive before joining WarnerMedia as vice president of equity + inclusion, pipeline and content.
She’d seen the harm that a monochromatic hair and makeup trailer can create firsthand. “I have seen kids cry because somebody did their hair incorrectly.
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