Bri Hall
Biography
Bri Hall, formerly known online as Smartista Beauty, built her career through beauty, fashion, and lifestyle content before expanding into visual art, animation, music, cosplay, modeling, and public speaking. Her work has developed across multiple digital platforms, with Smartista Beauty becoming a central part of her online creative identity. Her current professional website presents her work across beauty, art and animation, social media, modeling, and public speaking.
Hall's creative practice extends beyond beauty content. She has created visual art and animation and performed music under the name La Hara. In 2022, she launched Count to Ten, a podcast focused on social and racial injustice, gender and identity inequality, mental health, sexuality, and other issues affecting marginalized communities. Hall has also used her platforms to discuss self-love, Black feminism, representation, and identity.
Hall has spoken publicly about her bisexual identity and the stereotypes surrounding bisexual people. Her work combines personal expression with conversations about race, sexuality, identity, and representation, while her creative projects span digital media, beauty, art, music, and popular culture. She is based in Los Angeles, California, where she continues her multidisciplinary creative work.
BQW Impact
Hall's significance to BQW comes from the intersection of her identity, creative practice, and public conversations about representation. As a Black bisexual woman, she has used her platforms to discuss sexuality, race, self-love, Black feminism, and the experiences of people whose identities are often marginalized or misunderstood.
Her Count to Ten podcast provides a direct connection to BQW through conversations about bisexuality, gender, identity, race, mental health, and social inequality. Her broader work also places Black women and their experiences within beauty, art, digital media, and popular culture, extending her representation work across multiple creative formats.
Notable Works
Smartista Beauty (2013)
Hall's beauty and lifestyle digital platform, through which she developed an audience around hair, makeup, fashion, and self-expression.
Count to Ten (2022)
Hall's podcast exploring social and racial injustice, gender and identity inequality, mental health, sexuality, and other issues affecting marginalized communities.
Invitation (2018)
A music release by Hall under the name La Hara.
Unlawful (2019)
A La Hara release featuring Hall as a songwriter.
Super CJ (2023)
Animated series in which Hall is credited with the voice role of CJ Mom.
Learn More
Hall's official website featuring her beauty, art and animation, social media, modeling, public-speaking, and creative work.
Creator-controlled hub connecting Hall's social platforms, music, and other projects.
Podcast archive documenting Hall's conversations about identity, sexuality, race, and social issues.
Music profile for Hall's La Hara work.
Acting and voice-credit record.