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Gift Black: These Black-Owned Headwear Brands Have Got You Covered
With Christmas just weeks away, the hunt for the perfect gift is in full force. With black folks’ buying power expected to rise to $1.3 trillion this year, according to a Nielsen consumer report, the importance of buying from black-owned businesses is growing as we grow. An analysis of black entrepreneurship suggested that if we…
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Gift the People What They Want! Why Beauty Is the Best Buy on Our Christmas Lists
The Skin Store polled 2,000 American women to find out the five most important items on their lists this holiday season. Turns out it’s not as hard to make a woman happy as you might think—we want more beauty in our lives! (And cash, but that’s another story.) From twinkling eye shadows to top facial…
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Mahalo for the Holidays! Sephora Features Its 1st Afro-Hawaiian Beauty … and So, So Much More
That skin. That glow. That hair. Sephora’s 2017 holiday campaign features a new crop of models—freshly plucked from their very own stores. We got hip to this via Anne Branigin, The Root’s news fellow, and instantly fell in love with Afro-Hawaiian curve-tastic beauty Taíja, giving us urban-Moana realness. (Yes, we know the character Moana isn’t…
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Sing Your Own Praises … Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 3
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” —Buddha Since the beginning of the month, we’ve made a commitment to show up for ourselves with a little bit more love. If you’ve been following along with us, we started off our December journey to self-love by practicing the…
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Mind Your Plate, Not My Stomach: Surviving the Holidays With Judgmental Loved Ones
Some of us are looking forward to burying our faces in Christmas dinner with friends and family in a brief 10 days. Hopefully, your dinner will be blessed with someone who has gifted culinary hands when it comes to baked macaroni and cheese—and I’m not talking about the disrespectful and disgusting remakes making the rounds…
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Sephora Is Selling a $38 Jar of Coconut Oil, and Black Women Everywhere Are Unimpressed
It’s the holiday season, so I’ve put myself on a bit of a moratorium from my usual Sephora habit, since I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who deserves presents this Christmas. That said, I occasionally get my fix by drifting through its virtual aisles and living vicariously through friends’ shopping sprees, which is…
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This Christmas: Less Stuff, More Love
This year, I’m less about stuff under the tree and more about substance in my life. Everyone is asking me what I want, and I keep drawing a blank. The thrill of materialism just ain’t what it used to be. Somehow it’s all Gucci for me this year—without the Gucci. What I want lies more…
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Masculine of Center Stage: Progressive Politics Don’t Replace Progressive Thinking
When I was a kid, there was an older black woman in the house next to ours named Ms. J. who took care of her older, invalid sisters. I loved Ms. J. I was a rascally little kid who got into constant trouble and who was visibly crushing on the girl across the street. Today…
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Let’s Get Something Straight: The Real Talk of the Curl Talk Project
Put 100 curly-haired women in one place, and you’ll get at least 100 different stories about their curls. That’s why Johanna Yaovi created the Curl Talk Project; a “portfolio of experiences” about the curly-hair experience. While beauty tips for curly hair abound, Yaovi was seeking a more meaningful dialogue with deeper answers, interviewing 100 curly-haired…