Special Correspondent
Texas Metro News
At this year’s International Beauty Show in New York City, Black beauty wasn’t just trending—it was testifying. Inside the Powerhouse Pavilion, amid the buzz of products and professionals, Sadiaa Black Beauty Guide hosted a conversation that felt like both a homecoming and a reckoning.
The panel was called “Building Legacy Brands: The Future of Black-Owned Beauty Businesses,” but it was much more than that. It was a reminder that legacy is a choice. A calling. A strategy. And for many of us, it started right here in Texas.
That legacy lives in names like Comer Cottrell, the Dallas-based beauty pioneer who changed the game with Pro-Line and the Curly Kit. His impact was generational—economic, cultural, and communal. And that impact was in the room, alive and thriving, through his granddaughter, Autumn Yarbrough, and through trichologist Rodney Barnett, who once worked side-by-side with Cottrell himself.
Yarbrough, now the founder of Nu Standard, carries not only her grandfather’s legacy but her mother’s as well—creator of the beloved Just For Me line. But she’s not just preserving history. She’s expanding it. She spoke with clarity and conviction about what it means to build something that’s innovative, rooted in wellness, and rooted in us…