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  • Burberry Burning? British Retailer Reportedly Torched Over $33 Million of Unsold Merchandise

    Burberry, baby. What is you doing? Understandably, high-end brands want to keep their cache (and fashion plagiarism is a very real thing), but the British luxury retailer Burberry has taken protecting their brand to new extremes, reportedly burning over $33 million in unsold merchandise rather than sell it at discount or donate it. This is…

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  • Whose Hand is This? Korean Company Gets Inclusivity Wrong with a Blackface Manicure

    When keeping it inclusive goes wrong: popular Korean beauty and fashion company Stylenanda’s heart was likely in the right place when it attempted to show diversity in a nail polish ad by placing a brown hand next to a much paler one. But something was a little … off. If you’re still guessing what’s wrong…

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  • Harlem Renaissance: Gucci-Dapper Dan Goes Live!

    We’ve been buzzing about the renaissance of the Harlem-based designer known as Dapper Dan so long, it’s hard to believe that his much-anticipated collaboration with former nemesis Gucci only launched this week. After all, we’ve been seeing teases for months: in Beyoncé’s tour wardrobe, on any number of red carpets, and most recently, on both…

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  • Harlem and Hijabs: Model Adesuwa Aighewi Turns Director With a Celebration of Muslim Beauty

    When Adesuwa Aighewi opened the Chanel couture show in early July with her locs flowing over her Lagerfeld-designed suit, heads turned. But Aighewi created another head-turning moment, making her production and directorial debut in a short film for Love magazine, celebrating the incomparable beauty of Muslim culture through a group of Harlem women raised in…

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  • The Apocalypse is Nigh: Crocs Created a High Heel

    Just when you were wondering what the 53 percent would be wearing to vote in this year’s midterm elections, Crocs has the answer, creating a high heel so that they can continue to vote against their self-interests in style. I kid, I kid … kind of. But seriously: As if it wasn’t terrifying enough when…

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  • Free Wigs 4 Kids: How One Woman Is Restoring Children's Confidence, One Wig at a Time

    Hair is Quilla Bohannon’s passion; it has been since she was a schoolgirl, feigning attending after-school extracurricular activities so she could braid the hair of her classmates for extra spending money, as she told The Glow Up: I like to say I got the gift of doing hair from my grandmother. … The first time…

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  • Beauty Beats Brexit: Heptathlete Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers Is the 1st Black Miss Universe Great Britain

    Here’s what you call a game-changer: For the first time in its 66-year history, Miss Universe Great Britain—the qualifying pageant for the Miss Universe competition—gave the crown to a black woman. But the history-making honor didn’t go to your average pageant queen; winner Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers is a heptathlete with a head full of gorgeous locs,…

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  • 'Mother' to Mogul: Pat McGrath's Makeup Line Is Now Valued at $1 Billion

    The “Mothership” has landed. Famed makeup artist and creator Pat McGrath, who has been the fashion industry’s most respected name in makeup for over two decades (and honored by Queen Elizabeth) just officially became the top earner in the beauty industry (sorry, Kylie) after global investment firm Eurazeo Brands bought a $60 million minority stake…

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  • Beauty's Biggest Weekend: All the Highlights from Beautycon LA 2018

    If you haven’t already heard, beauty is big business—an over $400 billion business, to be exact. So it’s not surprising that beauty conventions have become big events, occurring around the world and attracting not only beauty junkies, but celebs—some of whom you’d never expect. The phenomenon known as Beautycon is the biggest and arguably, the…

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  • #EvolveTheDefinition: Retailer Bonobos Takes On Toxic Masculinity

    What does masculinity mean to you? This is the question retailer Bonobos asks in a new spot asking its followers to #EvolveTheDefinition of masculinity. In the 90-second “mini-documentary,” all different types of men read Google’s definition of “masculine” and compare it to how they self-define, making it clear that traditional textbook definitions are inadequate when…

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Maiysha Kai is former managing editor of The Glow Up and host of The Root Presents: It’s Lit!, and your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door. May I borrow some sugar?


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