The women of today’s Beauty Crush Wednesday are two women that really pull at my heart strings…and not just because they took a photo with me at New York Fashion Week.
These beauties are known individually as TK Wonder and Ciprianna Quann, but collectively known as the Urban Bush Babes.
The first thing many people flock over is their hair, which, yes, is all theirs. Aside from carving out their niche in the natural hair community and true testaments that people with 4C textured hair CAN grow their hair long with proper nutrition and hair care, both young ladies have fostered individual communities through the platforms of motivational speaking, blogging, modeling and music. 
In addition to being a place for naturalistas to feel welcome and at home, UrbanBushBabe also tackles the worlds of beauty, arts, culture, self-affirmation, and definitely female empowerment. Both women have opened up before on how they were bullied about their hair (which I could definitely relate to), their style, and even opened up about their tumultuous childhood racked with addiction, abuse, and self-worth issues:
In all honesty, these women are beautiful for so much more than their physical aesthetics of beauteous facial features, eclectic style and out-of-this-world hair. Anyone willing to share their story and rise on top to not only better themself, but work to inspire and better the community, is totally worthy of being a beauty crush.
“I decided a long time ago that I wasn’t going to let my past decide who I was,” was one of the most powerful quotes of the video, which also reveals the beauty in these women who are opening the door, through their own stories, the issue of mental health and addiction in the Black community. While we can sit and discuss how beautiful these women physically are or covet the locs of hair that fall from their crown, I would say the true beauty lies in the fact they represent hope for other young people in similar situations. That we are not byproducts of our past…we possess the magic to create our future.
I love these women so much and now, maybe you’ve been introduced to two more women you can add to your #BlackGirlMagic/BlackGirlsRock list. So that’s why they’re our Beauty Crush, are they yours?