No Lye: An American Beauty Story (2019)

Directed by

Bayer Mack

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

55 min

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary traces the history of black-owned businesses in the ethnic beauty industry in the United States. It shows how these businesses grew and later faced challenges that led to their decline.

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What happens

No Lye: An American Beauty Story is a 2019 documentary film by Bayer Mack that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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