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Power of Women: Tarana Burke Brings Message of Strength to New York City
Tarana Burke, who founded the #MeToo movement in 2006, came to New York City this week to let us know how we can be of value to the movement and how to protect everyone from “the disease of sexual violence.” She gave a moving speech Friday at the star-studded Power of Women luncheon, hosted by…
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones
There’s an interesting new documentary about performer Grace Jones out this weekend. The title, Bloodlight and Bami, is taken from Jamaican slang for the red light in the recording booth, and bami is a kind of Jamaican flatbread. I don’t know if I’ll see the documentary or not. To me, Grace Jones was simply everything…
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How to Get Some Big-Ass Lashes in 3 Moves
I’m always looking for some big-ass lashes in my life, but the problem is, either big-ass lashes take time and much money, or it’s a struggle to apply a strip lash—a battle that, usually, I don’t win. Even with my supermodel powers honed for decades on runways all over the planet, applying lashes ain’t easy.…
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Mad Hatters: B.M. Franklin Has Your Custom Crowns
Is hat-making a lost art? No way. At B.M. Franklin & Co., a black-owned bespoke haberdashery in the heart of New York City, founded by classically trained hat-maker B.M. Franklin, the art of hat-making is thankfully alive and well. Recently, The Glow Up’s Veronica Webb dropped into the studio to find out how we can…
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Protect Your Glow: Don’t Sleep on Sunscreen!
Sunscreen is a must. I do not care how young, how gifted or how black you think you are, it’s the lotion none of us can afford to forget. “Black don’t crack—but it does crease,” The Glow Up’s managing editor, Maiysha Kai, likes to joke. Black people can also fry, as our editor-in chief, Danielle Belton,…
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Curl Hunting: Nai’vasha Johnson Is Young Hollywood’s Go-to Hairdresser
OK—did you die over Yara Shahidi’s hairstyle when she walked down the red carpet at this year’s SAG Awards? I died. Did you die over her “Weekend In Wakanda”-perfect bejeweled ’fro-cornrow extravaganza on Essence’s latest cover? I died. Hairstylist Nai’vasha Johnson is the one slaying the trendsetting actress’s red-carpet and special-event coiffures that keep us…
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Mama Said Knock You Out! Tyra Banks and Her Mom Team Up for a New Book
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include an interview with Tyra Banks. Modeling costs, baby! Perfect Is Boring, the new book from Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyne London, a former nurse and photographer-turned-Tyra’s-sometime-manager-and-always-confidante, details the pitfalls of both Tyra’s life and career, and gives advice on finding ways to pick yourself up…
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Fashion Models Are Changing–and It’s About a Lot More Than Clothes
Is fashion really more inclusive? If you ask Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s first black editor-in-chief, the cover of the magazine’s May issue—featuring nine models “changing the face of fashion”—defines diversity. “Even five years ago—and certainly 10 or 20 years ago—if you were shooting a group cover like this, the girls would not have looked like…
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This Is Why We Can Have Nice Things: Wine Educator Larissa Dubose Raises a Glass to the Good Life
Want to sound like a genius while getting your drink on at a cocktail party? Wine educator Larissa Dubose is here to teach us everything we need to know about the art of ordering, buying and drinking wine. You can log on to this certified wine steward’s YouTube channel or visit her blog, the Lotus…
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Designer Agnes Baddoo Has It in the Bag
What’s the handbag that would give you life—if only you could find it? Agnes Baddoo answered that question for herself, and it became a business. Formerly a fashion stylist for Elle magazine, Baddoo cut her teeth on the international fashion circuit of New York, London and Paris in the ’90s. When The Glow Up caught…
