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  • Get Haute for the Holidays With Veronica Marché and Her Line of Gorgeous Greeting Cards

    Watching fashion illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison (also known as Veronica Marché) work is like watching an alchemical process: With a few deft strokes of her brushes, beauty emerges from a blank page. The Philly-based artist is known for her vibrant use of color and elegant silhouettes, and she considers women of color the ultimate muses.…

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  • In Praise of Sailor J: The Woke AF Beauty Vlogger We’ve Been Waiting For

    Sailor J thinks she knows my life. My entire insecure, aggressively honest (or just aggressive), disorganized and easily distracted Aries life. She also does one hell of a bronzed cat eye. The increasingly popular YouTuber—more than 120,000 subscribers and rising—first hit my radar in October with “Getting a Man 101”— a hilarious yet poignant take…

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  • AfroArt: Immortalizing a New Generation

    A few weeks ago, the fashion world swooned upon learning that Rihanna would be a host of the 2018 Met Gala, themed to coincide with the Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Imagining how “Bad Gal RiRi”—first of her name, currently ruler of three simultaneous covers of Vogue Paris (and…

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  • A Tale of Lost Edges: Don’t Try This at Home

    Girl. Today in “What is you doin’?” news: Popular beauty blogger Gigi Beauty shared a very personal—and teachable—moment with her fan base, ending with a very big reveal: Girl. Through nervous laughter, Gigi explained that a beauty experiment (read: bad idea) had compelled her to relax her hair not once, but twice. In one day.…

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  • 24-Karat Magic: Issa Rae Has Us Wanting to Get Gilded

    Yeah … she cute. Issa Rae stole our hearts once again Monday with her Insecure-inspired CoverGirl ad for its new Melting Pout Metallics line. We love Issa’s signature, self-monologuing humor and this gorgeously shot spot, and will definitely be test-driving her bronzed-lip look. (Issa’s rocking 24 Karat available here.) But alas, these shades are limited…

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  • Everything but the Burden: Why We’re Done Getting Mad Over Makeup

    Here we go again: Another day, another blackface makeup tutorial. Cue the moral outrage … and another horrible human goes viral. Today’s transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to “love skin of all colors”—which likely inspired this idiocy, after he apparently ran out of other looks and cultures to imitate. Of course,…

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  • Winged Victory: The Victoria’s Secret Runway Got More Colorful This Year … but Is It Enough?

    “I’m rooting for everybody black.” Issa Rae’s now-famous quote from the 2017 Emmys is the gift that keeps on giving. Case in point: Now, in the season of giving, it was the exact phrase that came to my mind while watching the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which aired last night on CBS. This year’s…

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  • ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ … but Do We?

    I remember the first time I saw She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s groundbreaking, critically acclaimed and very first “joint,” which premiered in 1986. When it debuted on HBO a year later, I was 12, a latchkey kid, and the parental controls that would lock me out of my parents’ premium channels after school had…

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  • No Woman Left Behind: Has the Plus-Size Industry Forgotten Its Roots?

    “I think I’m literally the biggest, blackest model at IMG,” plus-size phenom Precious Lee says plainly, referring to the persistent lack of bodies and skin tones like hers at the world-renowned agency that represents her. In anticipation of another New York Fashion Week, Lee joined a bevy of models of varying races and sizes to…

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  • Dancing With the Devils We Know: What the CDC’s New ‘Intimate Partner Violence’ Report Tells Us About the Value of Black Women

    The first time I was hit by a man, I was 11. Actually, he wasn’t yet a man; he was 13, an eighth-grader to my sixth. And we weren’t fighting, or even roughhousing. We were rehearsing for a school play when he abruptly asked me to be his girlfriend. Embarrassed and incredulous, I laughed and…

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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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