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The ’80s Called; They Want Your Hair Back
It started with a scrunchie—you know, those ruched-fabric-covered elastics a lot of us once color-coordinated to match our junior high wardrobes? (OK, maybe that was just me.) Well, sometime last year, I was doing a little light online shopping when I stumbled across one at Nordstrom, of all places. My first instinct was to laugh,…
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Call It a Comeback: J.Crew Returns to Its Roots With the Heritage Collection
In college, my favorite item of clothing was a chocolate-brown wool J.Crew roll-neck sweater, an item I’d borrowed (but never returned) from my still-bestie, who had, in turn, nipped it from her then-boyfriend. The year was 1994, and it was a single item that looked and felt great on all of us, pre-Sisterhood of the…
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Curves, Meet CoEdition: Finally, an Online Emporium That Doesn’t Stop at Size 10!
If you’ve spent any significant time here at The Glow Up, you likely know that in addition to being a devoted managing editor, I’m also a veteran plus model. Matter of fact, I just celebrated my 20th year in the business (woot-woot!). But as much as I love the fashion industry—and the fuller side of…
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Eloquent Rage: Brittney Cooper Knows the Beauty of the ‘Angry Black Woman’
Author, intellectual and educator Brittney Cooper is a Black Feminist; capital “B,” capital “F.” It’s a distinction so important it’s the title of a chapter in her latest book, a groundbreaking work titled Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, out now on St. Martin’s Press. Of course, some know Cooper better as a…
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You Get a Ponytail and You Get a Ponytail! Oprah Gives Us the Scoop on Going Blond for A Wrinkle in Time
Whether or not you’ve seen A Wrinkle in Time yet, you’ve undoubtedly seen images of the great and powerful O (as we like to call her here at The Glow Up) as we’ve never seen her before: blond, baby. Full Disclosure: Disney spent all the coins to invite The Root’s Danielle Young out to Los…
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The Get List: Glamour Magazine Just Released Its 2018 Beauty Awards, and We’re Going Shopping!
As you know, we love a good beauty find here at The Glow Up, which is why we were seriously excited that Glamour magazine dropped its annual Beauty Awards list Monday. Aside from being one of the longest-running fashion magazines around (79 years and counting, to be exact), it’s also one of the more inclusive,…
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Hello, Yellow! ’Tis the Season to Serve Some Sunshine!
Last Christmas, to fight the winter blahs and celebrate our first successful month at The Glow Up, I indulged in a little “I love me” present. OK—given the price tag, it was a big “I love me” present, but I budget at cost-per-wear, so there’s that (that’s another post, for later). Anyway, I fell in…
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Mommy and Me: Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Go for the Gold at the 2018 Wearable Art Gala
This weekend, while we were doing super-glamorous things like laundry and dodging drunken St. Patrick’s Day revelers, Beyoncé, Blue Ivy and the Knowles-Lawson-Carter clan showed up and out at the WACO Theater Center’s second-annual Wearable Art Gala in Los Angeles. WACO, an acronym for Where Art Can Occur, was co-founded by Tina Knowles Lawson and…
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Leave Tamar Alone! People, Can We Stop Equating Hair With Femininity?
Grammy-nominated singer, reality-television regular and Braxton-family baby sister Tamar turned heads this week when she took to Instagram to post footage of her having her head shaved with the chorus of Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative” playing in the background. The diva—as well-known for her array of hairstyles as for her multioctave voice—has notably been estranged…
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Everybody’s Talking About the ‘Penis Facial,’ and It Doesn’t Mean What You Think (It’s Worse)
Today in “Things we wish we didn’t know about” news: This morning I had the unique pleasure of explaining to my colleagues here at The Root what a “penis facial” is. Slang connotations notwithstanding, it wasn’t what they thought. It was worse. The discussion started rolling when The Root’s weekend social media editor, Corey Townsend,…
