The ancestors take shelter in the waters of the womb, a site from which they conjure up the future. In my belly is a bundle of stardust, my shadow is in the shape of a tree. Makeup kits and beauty stations are tools that facilitate practices of care and adornment, thinking through black women’s subjective relationship to the domestic and the marketplace as sites sustained by our disembodied repair. Re-birthing the self anew from an awareness of where and who you come from, like the waterbearer.