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Be Attentive, Be, Be Attentive: Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 2
Editor’s note: Angela N. Holton, of online spiritual portal and self-development site Love Sanctuary, is a life coach joining The Glow Up to help and encourage our readers through a journey of self-love. Whether or not you feel like you’re struggling, Holton’s monthly essays and weekly action items are gentle, loving reminders to become the…
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We Gon’ Run This Town … in Fenty x Puma’s Newest Release
While you were sleeping, Fenty x Puma dropped a new take on high-top sneakers, just in time for the weekend. Visually, the Mid-Geo sneakers are like a ballet-meets-basketball-dream-team shoe collab. Day one Fenty fiends know what I’m talking about: prep school style meets new-school sass and cleverly serves both fashion and comfort, under the creative…
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She’s Your Queen-to-Be: @Krissychula Stays Saying What We’re All Thinking
Fun fact—or, in this case, funny fact, for a beauty vertical: I first fell for YouTuber @krissychula on a bad hair day in 2012. It was a really bad hair day, to hear her tell it: Since being “pissed off” at her hair (and who here can’t relate?), @krissychula, also known as Krystal, has elevated…
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Nailing It, Naturally: How I Do a DIY Mani-Pedi
#BlackGirlTragic: I am ashy. Tip to toe. The reigning Queen of Elephant Skin. Dry winter skin has my hands looking like I’m half eagle; I need a manicure so badly. In short, it’s not a good look. But true confession? Mani-pedis are one of the areas in my beauty routine where I am consistently thrifty…
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The Purple One Would Approve: Pantone Finally Gets It Right With 2018’s Color of the Year
Full disclosure: I’m a Minnesota native. Minneapolis, to be exact. I’m also a black woman, and a musician who counts among her first musical memories seeing the Purple Rain tour live at the Humphrey dome in 1984. Suffice to say, last year I didn’t take Prince’s passing well … But while it may feel a…
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If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late: An Insomniac’s Lament
I do my best writing at 4 a.m. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself, night after night, when I start writing after hours of tossing and turning. I remind myself that studies say that smart people are typically night owls (as well as messy and profane—don’t judge me). By that logic, I must…
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Hey, Kylie Girl, Rihanna Got You Shook Again?
Everyone is still going crazy over Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line. From the foundations (I still don’t know what shade I am—I should get on that) to the lipsticks (I do know Stunna is my fucking color, bitch!), she has something for everyone, and by “everyone” I mean all the black women willing to go broke…
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Lupita Back on the Cover of Vogue Is All the ‘New Year, New You’ We Need
In #Faves news: She’s beautiful, she’s black, and this January, she’s back on the cover of American Vogue! Lupita Nyong’o is ushering us into 2018 with Little Mermaid-after-she-made-the-trade realness (The Root staff has been lobbying for her to star in a live-action remake of the animated classic, and we won’t let it go). This marks…
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Is #TeamNatural Ready to Go Coed? 9 Natural-Hair ‘Guy-rus’ Who Might Teach You a Few Things
While I was talking wash-day routines with some of my natural friends, we found ourselves scrolling through a seemingly endless list of natural-hair gurus giving all types of product suggestions, protective-style techniques and hacks for maintaining healthy hair. After clicking on about the 12th video geared toward women and our natural-hair needs, our guy friend…
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The Cover That Time Forgot: Why We’re Placing #MeToo’s Tarana Burke Front and Center
News that the #MeToo movement had been named Time magazine’s coveted 2017 Person of the Year confirmed a truly watershed moment in American history: one in which victims of sexual violence—in this case, predominantly women—refused to be shamed or intimidated into silence, while predators would (finally) be held accountable. The nonprofit and accompanying campaign, created…