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Lisa Price wished to have long blonde hair, just like Cinderella at the age of 6 or 7 years. Then she told her wish to Santa Claus to have long blonde hair.

Image of beauty as reflected in Disney’s magic mirrors didn’t resemble with Price since she is black.
From then she thought of making ideal African-American beauty by spending many hours pondering the idea. That is the starting point of the company “Carol’s Daughter, a multimillion-dollar natural skin care company” that made her president and founder of the company.
Once she planned to take her 3-year old daughter Becca to movies to see whether she looks like Disney Princess. From Dec 11 “The Princess and the Frog” a hand-drawn fairy tale set in 1920s New Orleans, featuring Tiana, a mocha-skinned lovely with full lips, big brown eyes and a diamond tiara holding back her upswept hair, in theaters.
Her personal interest towards the movie began when she started working with Disney to create a line of Carol’s Daughter children’s products tied to the movie. She is planning to bring Princess Tiana bubble bath, shampoo, and conditioner and detangling mist to stores later this year.
Disney is getting both praised and paned online for its depiction of Tiana and Naveen, her light bronze-skinned prince, when the movie trailer is rolling in theaters.
The New York Times quoted William Blackburn, a former columnist for The Charlotte Observer, as criticizing Disney for putting the princess story in New Orleans, “the setting of one of the most devastating tragedies to beset a black community.
Price is going to held panel discussions on beauty issues at a temporary Carol’s Daughter store opening from Wednesday to Sunday at 523 Iberville St. in the French Quarter where debate on the movie is likely to spark. Price has brought a “pop up” store which provides services of product-making demonstrations, celebrity appearances, beauty panel discussions and professional makeup artists, to New Orleans to coincide with the Essence Music Festival for the fifth time.
Price came up with her views and discussions on the movie during a telephone interview
“I have been a Disney princess follower since I was a kid and went to see Cinderella and Snow White. It’s important for young girls of all ethnicities to have a princess that looks like them and that they can identify with”.
Regarding the issue of Prince Naveen, who is drawn with lighter skin and comes from the fictional country of Maldonia, she said that ethnicity of the princess and the attitude of the princess, her desire to be independent and empowered, are very important.
On Princess Tiana, she said “It was so cool to see a person in that rendering who had beautiful brown skin, but not muddy brown skin and hair that has texture but not overly so. It’s hand-drawn, in the old-school way of doing animation”.
She explained how the chance of working with Disney came to her as “Yes. Princess Tiana, being so close with her family, sharing a passion for cooking with her father, encouraged by her mother — it’s not exactly identical to my story, but it’s close. I could relate to it. “Disney really worked hard on this film”.

On opening a store in New Orleans, “It’s an opportunity to connect with a lot of our consumers from around the country. It’s an opportunity to be a part of the energy (of Essence), hold panel discussions, demonstrations. There are people who come into town who won’t venture to the mall” Price said.
On the market of beauty business targeting African-American women she said that “More companies are recognizing the African-American consumer more, changing their ads and campaigns to be more inclusive of different skin tones, hair types and ages”. Full Story…