- Hey, YouTube world.
It's me, Evelyn, coming to you with a #BGBB,
black girl beauty brand review,
but, most importantly, coming to you with a haircut.
Amen.
Let me show you the back.
All right, yes, I'm giving it to you, I'm giving it to you.
I told him, "Give me a V in the back."
You know what I'm saying?
Make it a little more feminine, you know what I mean?
So I had first heard of Coloring Pins
from one of those here's 500 black-owned businesses
to buy from this holiday season type list.
I love those lists.
I open up a million tabs,
and I see if anything suits my fancy.
I was on the market for some pins, you know what I'm saying?
I'm trying to serve the people a little something in 2017.
First stop, haircut.
Second stop, a little fashions, you know what I'm saying?
A little accessorizing.
Whenever you buy pins or patches
or any of these things that you accessorize,
you kind of want them to be little statements,
little things that are conversation starters,
little things that reflect your values, your aesthetic,
your hobbies, and so I was looking for something
that was like, Black. So I went on coloringpins.com.
Literally loved everything on the site, filled my cart.
You know how we all do the most
and we fill our cart with everything our heart desires
and then subtract.
I never got to that part.
I just left.
I just never bought anything.
And so then I went to Thailand.
That vlog is coming.
Completely forgot Black Friday existed,
and by the time I went back to the website,
not only were all the sales over, everything was sold out.
But then fast forward, I got an email from Essence Hayes.
"Who is Essence Hayes?" you might ask.
The owner and creator of Coloring Pins.
You bless me, you keep blessing me.
I don't know why, I don't know why, I don't know why.
So she sent me a box of goodies from coloringpins.com,
and I will review and unbox.
So let's start off with the one I have on right now.
It is a super cute black chick with Bantu knots,
and it says culture at the bottom.
And this one, I'm wearing it kind of lower on my jacket.
This one is probably my favorite.
It is a bucket of gel that kind of looks like Ampro
and then a bottle of Greasy Juice
that kind of looks like Luster's Pink Lotion.
All right, the memories, is it coming back to you?
And then there's a toothbrush for the baby hairs
and them little, what you call them?
I call them bally balls.
What are these called?
Little things that Mom put at the bottom of your hair
and hit you in the eye.
And it says GOAT, greatest of all time, at the bottom.
It's just so cute and so like,
if you don't know, then you don't know,
but if you know, you know.
You know?
I take that back, I take that back.
While this one is bomb, my favorite pin from Coloring Pins
is the one that says Melatone
and it looks like the Pantone color cards.
I don't know if that's what they're called,
but this one is skin tones.
It's complexions, and the shades on this pin
range from a honey beige to like a deep mahogany.
Is this giving you, is this a color match?
I feel like this one might be a color match.
They have this one right here that I'm wearing
on my front pocket flap,
and it is a dainty, small, gold,
very reflective pin with white script
that says, "My brown is beautiful."
And then kind of similar to the Bantu knot girl
that I have here, they have one that has corn rows.
Okay? Original.
Ain't no boxer braids, bih.
Ain't no boxer braids.
We are the inventors, the purveyors.
I don't know if I used purveyors correctly just then.
The corn row original, ain't no boxer braids, bih design
is also available on a phone case now.
It's the newest product up on coloringpins.com.
It is made for the iPhone 6 and 6s.
I am your grandfather, and I have an iPhone 5s.
Lucky for you, this is gonna be in the giveaway.
It is one of those soft, squishy silicone cases,
and it is fly.
Then these two are kind of similar.
It is, you know what I'm saying, a brown-skinned lady
with a huge fro and her shirt says, "Don't touch my crown."
And then this one, it's a small, dainty,
it's one of the daintier pins,
rectangle that says, "Don't touch my crown."
♫ Don't touch my hair
♫ You know this hair is my shit ♫
(vocalizing)
♫ But this here is mine ♫
Yeah!
♫ What you say to me
♫ Eh, what you say to me ♫
In addition to making pins,
you can find the designs in key chain form.
It's really about finding the little spaces and places,
you know what I'm saying, to express yourself.
You can also find the My Brown is Beautiful design
in these really cute, bright colors
that remind me of my gel pen days.
Yes.
My Brown is Beautiful, carry it with you wherever you go.
This would also make a really good gift for a child,
you know, if your kid has to have like a house key
on their little lanyard.
You know what I'm saying?
Just put a little, just a little mantra,
you know what I'm saying, in there with them.
Speaking of kids, there are also these
three other key chains that say, "I can do anything,"
with different kids on them.
I'm definitely gonna give this to my little cousin
and my other little cousin, her baby brother.
I don't know any light-skinned children,
but I'm gonna give it to one of them when I see them.
They can just put it on their zipper.
I used to put key chains on my zippers on my backpacks
so I could just rip my bag open really quickly.
I can do anything.
We gotta breathe life into the kids,
you know what I'm saying, because they all we got.
They all we got.
Oh!
In addition to the pins and key chains,
Coloring Pins also sells patches,
so these are patches for the My Brown is Beautiful design.
Beautiful colors, and they're pretty long.
I would probably put this on like the arm
or maybe like the back
from shoulder blade to shoulder blade type thing.
And then these patches, the black girl patches,
are so intricate.
I think this one would be really cool on like the arm,
I don't know, maybe the lower, the lower arm.
Then you have the Don't Touch My Crown girl,
and then the biggest patch in the bunch
is this corn row original,
ain't no boxer braids, bih girl.
This one could probably go on the back of your jean jacket.
Maybe like the bottom if you're into that sort of thing.
And the patches come with instructions.
You can iron them on, or you can sew them on
for more security, stability.
And then this is one of the things
that was hanging out in my cart, stickers.
Just beautiful, high-quality stickers.
There's also a really cute
large Don't Touch My Crown sticker,
and I think if you're making like a care package
or you're into scrapbooking or journaling,
you know, decorating journals in a fashion like such as.
Shoutout to Essence Hayes,
owner and creator of Coloring Pins.
And because you blessed me, Essence, coloringpins.com,
I am going to bless you, my Internet cousins.
Giveaway time.
All you have to do is leave a comment under this video
telling me how you rep your culture, whatever that may be,
and that will enter you, and I will select somebody to win
and notify you in a week or less.
If a week or less has passed and you haven't been notified,
that means you have not won, but it's okay.
You can go to coloringpins.com
and select something for yourself, put it in your cart,
and hopefully come back and buy it,
actually buy it like I failed to do.
Also let me know if you like my OOTD footage,
you know what I'm saying, my B-roll, you feel me?
I tried to film this speaking portion outside.
(clears throat) It didn't really work that well.
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Hey, YouTube world. It's me, Evelyn.
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Thank y'all so much for watching,
and I will see you on the Internet somewhere.
Bye.