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Queen: CCH Pounder Celebrates the Art of Black Womanhood With an Exhibition at Xavier University
If you watch television, chances are you’ve watched CCH Pounder. Over the past 38 years, the Emmy-winning Guyanese actress—who celebrated her 65th birthday on Christmas Day—has accumulated well over 100 acting credits, including recurring roles in the Avatar franchise, ER, The Shield, Law and Order: SVU, Sons of Anarchy and, currently, NCIS: New Orleans. New…
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Read My Lips: L’Oréal x Balmain Is the Budget-Friendly Designer Collab of the Season
It’s safe to say that 2017 was a big year for fashion’s golden boy, Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain and Instagram impressario. At the tender age of 32, this year has marked his sixth at the helm of the French luxury label, and it was his biggest to date. Since June, Rousteing has overseen…
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Let’s Get Our Skin Tight in Time for the New Year With Hanacure!
New Year’s Eve is the last day of beauty for the year, and I plan to make it a good one. I don’t know about you, but the holidays are hard on my skin-care habits. “Jingle Bells” are the death knell for my exercise routine; I eat whatever I want; I stay up late binge-watching…
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To Be Real: Dressing My Way out of ‘Butch Envy’
In the summer of ’98, I lived in Harlem. There’s a longer story behind how a Midwest-raised black tomboi found herself in the Big Apple, but the short version is that technically, I was homeless, so my best friend offered me a place to stay until I started undergrad that fall. For most of my…
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The Hair Hits the Tour: Behind the Velvet Rope With Cassidy Blaine
“I’m like—that’s Janet Jackson! I do the cabbage patch and everything every time I see her!” So says Cassidy Blaine, who’s been turning out sick-ass hairstyles for Miss Jackson (if you’re nasty) and her touring crew for the last decade. And we can’t blame her; Jackson is indisputably an icon. You know it, and we…
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The Best Gifts Come Unwrapped This Holiday: Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 4
“No matter how uncomfortable, how intense or how inconvenient your feelings are, facing your emotions, feeling them and accepting them for what they are is the best way to heal yourself and live a more balanced and peaceful life.” —Aletheia Luna Signs of the holiday season had barely rolled around before I began experiencing the…
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#BlackBoyJoy: The #CastMeJCrew Grand Prize Goes to 4-Year-Old Cayden!
Watch out, world! In what might be the best holiday present ever, the dapper and diminutive Cayden (aka @cayden_style on Instagram) beat out all other contenders for the grand prize in J.Crew’s inaugural #CastMeJCrew contest—a campaign notably started by a hashtag from Elle Fashion Features Director Nikki Ogunnaike. Cayden, who just started pre-K this fall,…
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Wonder Woman: Happy Birthday, Flo-Jo!
The track and field and fashion phenomenon Florence Griffith Joyner—fondly known as Flo-Jo—would have been 58 years strong today, and undoubtedly still slaying us with her inimitable style. Long before Serena Williams stunned in her on-court ensembles or Ibtihaj Muhammad stayed true to herself and her sport in hijab, Flo-Jo was showing the world what…
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There Is Hope for Depression This Holiday Season
I’ll never forget the day I got the phone call that one of my closest friends for 20 years—a beautiful young wife and mother—had suddenly and inexplicably taken her life. Her depression, which had gone undiagnosed by doctors and unrecognized by those of us who knew her well and loved her dearly, just became too…
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Traveling Light: Do You Know How to Pack Like a Pro?
True story: I’ve been more or less living out of a suitcase for the past 20 years. Actually, maybe more: As a child of divorced parents living in different states, I began boarding planes on my own at age 6 and remember well the annual ritual of packing for a full summer at my father’s…