From the archives: This story was last updated in September 2019.
For 18-year-old high school senior Cheyanne from the Bronx in New York, her daily routine is heavy on two things: academics and athletics. This young woman has to have her eyes on the prize, so she more often than not tends to overlook what many girls her age obsess over: clothes and makeup.With a goal of enlisting in the U.S. Army after high school, Cheyanne had just one more thing to do before she left home—that most American of school rituals, the senior prom. But as Cheyanne herself admitted, the typical prom aesthetic isn’t something she does often. “I do a lot of sports and there’s no need for me to put on makeup if I’m going to sweat it out,” she explained on the “Rachael Ray” show in 2019.
