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The Glow Up Grows Up: It’s Our 1st Birthday!
What a difference a year makes! Only 365 days ago, we were celebrating the birth of The Root’s newest baby, a beauty, fashion and women’s empowerment blog coyly titled The Glow Up. A year, one awards season, two Fashion Months (and a Cruise Collection Week) and well over 1,000 posts later, we’re slightly older, hopefully…
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Being Naomi: A Fashion Legend Launches Her 1st-Ever YouTube Channel
She’s best known as a supermodel, but Naomi Campbell is so much more than a runway legend or infamously short-tempered diva. She’s also a humanitarian, socialite, editor, activist, actress, mentor, trailblazer, muse—and now she’s on YouTube, giving a more intimate view into her glamorous life with a new web series, Being Naomi. Obviously, we’ve been…
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Luxury for Less? Payless Transforms Into ‘Palessi’ for a Seriously Funny Fake-Out
You remember those vintage bait-and-switch coffee commercials, where patrons of a fine dining restaurant would be astounded to discover that the delicious coffee they were drinking was actually Folgers? Okay, maybe you don’t (because maybe I’m showing my age), but Payless ShoeSource recently employed a similar tactic when they faked a luxury boutique environment to…
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Brown Girls and Beyond: Sam Bailey Is Adding New and Needed Voices to Our Narrative
Has there ever been a better time to be a black female content creator? Conventional logic would say no; after all, filmmaker Ava DuVernay just inked a $100 million dollar deal with Warner Bros., while Shonda Rhimes has moved her evolving empire of successful series to Netflix in a deal reportedly worth $150 million. And…
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The Spice Girls' Mel B Just Gave New Meaning to 'Cutting Off' Your Ex
We’ve never been fans of the nickname “Scary Spice,” given to The Spice Girls’ Mel B. But the entertainer and judge of America’s Got Talent recently disclosed a detail about how she dealt with her purportedly “abusive” relationship and divorce from ex-husband Stephen Belafonte (no relation to Harry Belafonte) that definitely gave us…pause. The former…
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Fried, Dyed and Laid to the Side: Hazardous Hair Products Are Being Marketed to Black Women
From deep conditioners, to relaxers and gels, on any given day black women put tons of products in our hair. We don’t just wake up like this. Well, sometimes we do, but. Wait. OK. Back to the story. African Americans have tremendous spending power. In fact, according to Nielsen we spend about $1.2 trillion a…
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Dummy Boy: Did Tekashi 6ix9ine Fake on Fashion Nova (at Nicki Minaj's Request)?
Real talk: As much as it’s my chosen profession to keep up with what the kids are doing these days, I couldn’t readily identify a Tekashi 6ix9ine single if my life depended on it—and I’m fine with that. So, it came as a bit of a surprise to me that this aesthetically-challenged (and now, legally…
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Into the Deep End: Is L'Oreal the Newest Winner in the Full Spectrum Foundation Game?
Could the darkest shade available in a liquid foundation actually be available in your local drugstore? According to popular beauty vlogger Nyma Tang, L’Oreal may be the first on the market to cover the deepest skin tones, with the creation of new shades in its bestselling True Match Super-Blendable Foundation line. Tang, who is of…
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Home Is Where the Hatred Is: New U.N. Study Says Domestic Violence Causes Over Half of Female Murders
No matter where a woman may reside in the world, she may be most endangered at home, according to a new study by the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Released on Sunday in tandem with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the study found that more than half…