277 - Curly, Curvy, and Passionate with Jennifer and Andrea Cifuentes

Oct 16

Jennifer and Andrea Cifuentes in Cafe con Pam

277 - Curly, Curvy, and Passionate with Jennifer and Andrea Cifuentes

Listeners, we're back this week with Jennifer and Andrea Cifuentes

CurlyCurvyPassion is the sister duo of Jennifer and Andrea. Their willingness to be different has stood out among a sea of similar bloggers and content creators. At a time when it is trendy to give into the peer pressure of creating content based on trends or popular belief, they make a name for themselves by being unapologetically unique.Jennifer and Andrea are a 40 -something dynamic duo of Colombian Americans who, like their brand, are Curly, Curvy and Passionate about many things. Whether creating content, blogging or speaking about healthy curls, self love, empowerment, culture or community, CurlyCurvyPassion creates genuine connections with followers, readers, audiences and brands alike through their content. The sisters firmly believe in empowerment achieved through vulnerable real talk. After all, why be the same as everyone else when you can be confidently you?

During this episode we talked about:

05:08 - Getting re-acquainted as adults and their different experiences growing up
07:42 - Raised by two different sets of parents
11:15 - Identifying more specifically
15:03 - Having an immigrant girl dad
21:39 - Jennifer moving to Florida in 2019
22:56 - Needing a physical change
23:41 - The blog and representation
25:53 - Stereotypical curvy
28:46 - Glorified proximity to whiteness
29:29 - Curly hair
31:27 - ‘It’s just hair but it is not'
32:46 - Colorism and assimilation
45:29 - ‘Do your hair and go live your life’
46:16 - What’s next for them and how they’re approaching life
48:51 - Permission to rest