After launching her skincare line in 2021, Naomi Osaka has recently onboarded new members to KINLÒ’s leadership team. The tennis star and her partners at A-Frame Brands have added fellow athlete Colin Kaepernick to the brand’s board of directors, according to Black Enterprise. He will now be joining alongside Osaka, A-Frame co-founders Hill Harper and Ari Bloom, plus Osaka’s agent Stuart Duguid. The announcement comes in addition to the news of him and his partners Jim Nikopoulos and Akim Aliu investing in KINLÒ’s seed round. Osaka’s brand advocates for the Black community’s skin health, which Kaepernick fully supports. “Not only does KINLÒ produce compelling and sustainable personal care products, but it also calls attention to the ways that melanated skin-toned communities are often marginalized in research around sun care and often excluded from clinical studies on skin cancer. I believe KINLÒ has the capacity to right this wrong,” Kaepernick said, according to the outlet.

Naomi Osaka wants skincare for all shades of melanin! According to Face2Face Africa, the tennis superstar is marking her territory in the skincare industry with a new line, KINLÒ, specifically made with our beautiful skin hues in mind. Like many others blessed with melanin, Osaka has found it difficult to find products that work for her skin. It was this that led her to launch not only a skincare line that gets the job done but one that is easy on the pockets for consumers as well. For years, there’s been a stigma that Black people don’t have to worry about protecting their skin. Thankfully, that’s a thing of the past and Osaka is taking everyone with her to a healthier skin regimen. She even admits that it wasn’t until recently that she even learned how to properly wear sunscreen. “What drew me towards this project is having memories of being a kid and not knowing how to protect my skin,” said Osaka in an interview with Business of Fashion. “I only started wearing sunscreen...