hey, y’all!

so this is blogging, huh? truth be told, I’ve always wanted to be a blogger. i juuuuuussst missed the myspace days of programming your page and being a baby coder so unfortunately it’s taken me more than a few years to make this realization. 26 to be exact. that’s how old I am as I write this post. and now that you know my age and a deep childhood desire, I guess I should tell you my name and who I am.

my name is ebony charleste elder and I run the social medial accounts under the username @ebony_hd. from a little girl growing up in Southfield, Michigan, I’ve always been obsessed with any and everything beauty related. as I got older, makeup became my creative outlet and safe haven. in the summer of 2014 right before I was to become a baby bison at the Illustrious Howard University, I created my YouTube channel that I just knew was going to get me and mine up out the hood a-la-Jackie Aina style! makeup tutorials and wash-and-go galore were the vibes over at HairFlipsandLipstick. well… you know how the story goes–college was definitely a full-time job and I hadn’t mastered the skills to stay consistent. the next thing I knew, it was years later and I felt myself really wanting to express that side of me more to random people on the internet.

imposter syndrome be damned.

In 2022, after years of what I like to call being a “fake content creator”, I got really serious about what I wanted and said what if instead of why not. I’ve been growing an online community on Instagram and TikTok. while I love sharing pictures and videos to get a message across, there’s always been something enchanting about reading another person’s thoughts. I thought why not make a landing page for my personal brand. one that encompasses as much of me and my brain as i’d like to on the internets. that day, the idea of look good|smell better was born. now it would only take another 10 months for me to muster up the energy to start a wordpress blog 😆.

my hopes for lookgoodsmellbetter.com

I want to create a space where I can expand upon my thoughts and create a deeper community around all aspects of the beauty and fashion space. there will be lots of how-to’s and guides and candid blog posts on my musings as a late 20s black woman navigating the beauty content space. I want you to leave this blog taking away something as small as a product suggestion or as big as a new perspective. join me on my journey.