Glamour. After everyone on the street was complimenting her hair and makeup, something clicked in her mind. “I was like, this is just all a mask to hide my trauma and pain.
Do you want a mask too? Because I can give you one too,’" she says. After a year of working with another organization, she started Beauty2TheStreetz with the help of her six children.
Three years later, she has her official non-profit status and a team of 30 people behind her. The power of beauty is something Raines knows intimately. “I got tired of looking in the mirror and seeing a woman who buried a child,” she says, explaining how she discovered her signature Rainbow Brite makeup look. “I wanted to do everything they said I couldn’t do.
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