PS: What's the best beauty advice you've gotten from Shonda Rhimes or Viola Davis?
ANK: One of the most important things they've taught me is the importance in how you treat people. These women respect everyone and are all-around great humans — and that is what's beautiful. They also carry around this exquisite confidence because they know what they are capable of. I know a lot of us move through the world feeling like we don't know what we're capable of, but if we can allow ourselves to believe that it is something good, then that brings us much closer to achieving something good.
Keeping that in mind is really challenging these days because we are all on social media viewing other people's lives. But people who are truly honing in on what matters to them are the biggest to blow up. Lena Waithe and Ava DuVernay are great examples of this. They're not looking for validation; they're just trying to show the world who they are, and I really respect that.
