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How Does Your Garden Grow? My Hair Is a Garden Helps Black Girls Celebrate Their Hair
Though it may not yet feel like it (especially if you’re experiencing an April snowstorm at present), it is actually spring. Slowly but surely, the world will soon be coming into bloom. So, what better time to debut a new children’s book called My Hair Is a Garden? Written by textile artist, clothing designer, children’s-book…
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‘Natural Beauty Is Unfair’: Tyra Banks Gets Real About Plastic Surgery
What’s better than true beauty? Women who are truthful about what it takes to be beautiful. That’s why we’re applauding Tyra Banks for telling the truth about plastic surgery in her upcoming memoir, Perfect Is Boring, written with her mother. In an interview with People magazine, the veteran top model admits to having her nose…
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The Transformer: Celebrity Hairstylist Ursula Stephen Knows How to Turn Heads
There are hairstylists, and there are “architects of style.” Ursula Stephen is the latter. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born hair maven earned her cosmetology license even before her high school diploma, honing her craft early while working in salons after school and on weekends. Brooklyn is now the site of Stephen’s eponymous salon, a boutiquelike gem nestled…
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All That Glitters: Pat McGrath Is Bringing Sexy Back
In a little over two weeks, I will turn 43. It’s a fairly unremarkable age—except for the remarkable (to me) work I now get to do every day here at The Glow Up. But even as I try to settle into my middle-aged idiosyncrasies (and metabolism), most days I still feel like a 27-year-old just…
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I, Veronica: The Glow Up’s Veronica Webb Gets Existential (Without the Crisis)
Here at The Glow Up, we’re well aware that fashion and beauty—while big fun and a legitimate art form—aren’t always viewed as the most serious of topics. But that doesn’t mean that we (especially we models) don’t think very, very deep and philosophical thoughts. So when we saw I, Kendall, Kendall Jenner’s recent existential exploration…
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Reason No. 3,416,750 to Love Shopping at Target: You Might Run Into Beyoncé
Editor’s note: Forgive us for the above photo; that’s just how we imagine Beyoncé and Blue Ivy walking into their local Target. We can always use a little “Stars—They’re Just Like Us!” sparkle to brighten up an otherwise dull Tuesday, but this one might be the best one yet. An eagle-eyed employee with a knack…
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Grown-ish and Gorgeous: Yara Shahidi Covers Essence’s April Issue!
By now it’s no secret that we love, love, love Grown-ish star, young activist and all-around brilliant bae (Harvard, y’all) Yara Shahidi. And clearly we’re not the only ones, since our sisters over at Essence are featuring the always “it” girl on the cover of their April issue! Wearing it’s-almost-summer whites embellished with gold—even in…
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Hot Damn! Rihanna’s Bringing the Heat With Body Lava
Just when we think Rihanna can’t get any hotter, she drops another bomb on us. This time it’s the upcoming launch of her next bound-to-be-bestselling Fenty Beauty product, Body Lava. Teasing us with the hashtag #WhoNeedsClothes, the singer, actress, and beauty and fashion mogul took to Fenty Beauty’s Instagram on Monday night to give us…
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Fit for a Queen: Tarana Burke Gets Her Moment to Shine
We’ve long thought that #MeToo Movement founder Tarana Burke deserved to be treated like the queen she is, and it’s been a delight to see her profile rise in recent months, finding her on red carpets and talk shows alike. But as her platform has rightfully grown, it’s Burke’s humility that has truly stunned as…
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‘The Body Is Not an Apology’: Sonya Renee Taylor Is Leading a Revolution of Radical Self-Love
With six words, Sonya Renee Taylor accidentally started a movement. When a friend with cerebral palsy confessed that her disability made it difficult to be sexual—so much so that she didn’t even feel entitled to ask a casual partner to use protection—Taylor quickly responded, “Your body is not an apology, and it’s not something you…
