App Profile: Napturalista Moji

LenaLittleCloser

Rating: 4/5

These emojis are truly stunning! It feels wonderful to be represented through animation, so I really appreciate the creators’ strides to do just that! I love that a wide variety of skin tones are depicted, and that each woman is crowned with an unapologetically Black hairstyle! ☺️#BlackGirlMagic The only drawback I discovered was that all of the women have light brown eyes. This was disheartening to see, as the vast majority of African American women actually have DARK brown eyes. Our dark eye color is a gorgeous physical attribute that is often (and unfortunately) looked down upon in Eurocentric societies, while lighter eye colors are praised. In an attempt to better represent Black women and push back against oppressive stigmas, I hope that the creators will take this detail into consideration and make the appropriate adjustments to celebrate our unique beauty!

happyHPcustomer

Rating: 1/5

I bought this app and downloaded it very excited and ready to share with my friends however I was very disappointed to find that there was no representation of my skin tone in it, or even close. I am a very fair skinned black woman and I love every shade of black. As a black woman, I would never create an African American app promoting positive sisterhood and leave out certain shades of our race as if they don’t exist. What’s even worse is I emailed the company to try to understand why, and never got any correspondence as if someone was just ignoring my comments and questions. Overall, the idea of this app I think is wonderful but to ignore a really concerned customer who was actually very excited about this product is very disheartening to me and as a result, even though I paid for the app and was very excited to support, I cannot continue to support a company that acts as if I do not exist. I will be deleting this app from my phone after this review. It is very unfortunate that these are people of my own race. My only hope is that this company will read my review and re-think their idea of sisterhood and how they represent our race. It says a lot about who you are...I guess I’m not black enough to be represented, shame.

Strwberri2

Rating: 4/5

So I was so excited to download and use the keyboard. The criticisms I have are not big deals but would make the app even better for the end user. I still use it daily and prefer it to regular iPhone emojis when applicable. 1) sometimes the mojis are out of focus and fuzzy unless the XL size is used 2) it lacks the ability to set a default skin tone & size and the keyboard does not open to the last selected choices either 3) the mojis do not automatically drop into the message compose field when tapped