Tracey Norman

Tracey "Africa" Norman on the Clairol box, 1975, and again in 2016 In 1975 Norman's face went on the front of a Clairol hair dye box, Dark Auburn shade 512, and stayed there for six years. Nobody at the company knew she was transgender, and when she was outed on a magazine shoot her career ended almost overnight. That is the honest shape of this first: a Black trans model succeeded at the top of mass-market beauty, then was pushed out for who she was. The ending was partly rewritten in 2016, when Clairol brought her back for its Nice 'n Easy "Color As Real As You Are" campaign.