Featured on Allure Magazine and Glamour Magazine, Beauty & Immigration is a photo series zine with a couple of poems that capture how Latina women maneuver their beauty expectations in a new country through an immigrant’s eyes. Praising the body and its energy is essential to Brazilian culture, but can be financially draining in the United States.

“My mother and I became each other's hair stylist, manicurists and used what we could at home to keep up with our beauty maintenance. Self care at home came with simple rules: vaseline as moisturizer, no citrus in the sun, nature’s remedies without health insurance, coconut oil for our hair, and carrot mixtures for our skin.”

The cover of the zine has butterflies on it, which have been so symbolic in my life. [I've heard that] when a human helps a butterfly get out of its cocoon, the wings get too weak and the butterfly dies. So the butterflies have to endure [the] pain themselves in order to flourish. That cocoon has symbolized so much for me about immigrating to the United States and trying to find my identity — and having strong wings in order to go out in the world