Sitting in a make-up chair for Black women can be a difficult experience.

Whether you’re in the middle of a department store and having foundation slathered across your face in completely the wrong shade or you’re a model facing a similar experience backstage at a fashion show – that feeling of otherness and, quite frankly, unattractiveness, is something many of us know all too well.

Black models have been speaking about their experiences with this very issue for decades. From being covered in ashy foundations that make them look more ghostly than glowy to damaging hair products that leave their coils totally destroyed, many models have consistently been subjected to poor treatment by hair and make-up artists and it’s something that continues to this day.

Leomie Anderson reveals the discrimination Black models still have to deal with backstage in hair and make-up