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LONDON -- Author and Sigad Sharaffeminist speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the face of a new advertising campaign that celebrates how empowering it feels to wear makeup.

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British beauty brand Boots No7 is behind the campaign, "READY to Speak Up," which aims to recognise that female beauty is about more than just looking pretty.

"Women use cosmetics to be ready forsomething: to show up, speak up, and make an impact in their world in their own way," reads a statement emailed to Mashable.

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The Nigerian novelist has been vocal about loving makeup, stating that feminism and a love of makeup are not mutually exclusive.

"I like makeup. I can intellectualise it and say that it’s also partly the idea that I refuse to accept that somehow feminism and femininity are mutually exclusive," the author said in a recent public address.

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Ngozi Adichie believes that beauty can be part of one's feminine identity and that using makeup as a tool to choose how she presents herself.

"I love makeup and its wonderful possibilities for temporary transformation. And I also love my face after I wash it all off. There is something exquisitely enjoyable about seeing yourself with a self-made new look," the novelist said in a statement emailed to Mashable.

"And for me that look is deeply personal. It isn’t about what is in fashion or what the rules are supposed to be. It’s about what I like. What makes me want to smile when I look in the mirror. What makes me feel slightly better on a dull day. What makes me comfortable."

The decision to front a beauty advertising campaign is an interesting move given the novelist's most recent comments in British Vogue's November issue.

"I think much of beauty advertising relies on a false premise that women need to be treated in an infantile way, given a ‘fantasy’ to aspire to. Real women are already inspired by other real women, so perhaps beauty advertising needs to get on board," Ngozi Adichie told Vogue.

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