Sharon Chuter, the Nigerian-born founder of Uoma Beauty and architect of movements that shook the beauty industry awake, has died at just 38. She was found in her Los Angeles home on August 14, and while the official cause of death is still under investigation, the void she leaves behind feels immediate and immeasurable.

Chuter didn’t enter beauty to play nice—she came to burn down the old rulebook. When she launched Uoma in 2019, she didn’t just give us lipsticks and foundation; she gave us an ideology. Fifty-one shades of foundation wasn’t a marketing ploy, it was a manifesto. Each shade carried history, culture and the bold reminder that our skin tones weren’t an afterthought.

And when 2020 cracked the world open, she gave us Pull Up for Change. Instead of hashtags and hollow statemen

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