beauty for black women
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Bedtime Stories: How We Take It All Off
Fun fact: As I write this, I’m feeling the tingle of a rather large zit on my chin—the type I’d like to think I’ve long outgrown, given that I’m now in my 40s. But I know the culprit: a visit from my college roommate this week had us both behaving as if we were back…
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#TBT: Allure Gives Us the Tea on Cardi B’s Ever-Changing Array of Looks
Few contemporary stars switch up their looks more dramatically or with more regularity than Cardi B, who, in her very brief time in the limelight, has given us more transformations than we can count. Thankfully, we don’t have to, since Allure got Cardi’s makeup artist Erika La’Pearl to give us a retrospective rundown of many…
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For Colored Girls Who Tried Braided Wigs and Clip-in Afros When Sitting in a Chair for 12 Hours Was Too Much
Yasss! Box-braided and cornrow wigs are a thing. So are curly and kinky Afro clip-in hair extensions that fluff up like clouds. Meaning: Naturalistas, rejoice if you are looking to make your protective styles even more protective this summer. Our hair is some of the most versatile and the most delicate on the planet, meaning…
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What We’re Talking About This Weekend
This is what The Glow Up is buzzing about this weekend: a world of curls; multiethnic, natural-hair care; ’90s-throwback, female-dominated streetwear; and traveling like royalty. Happy weekend! I am dying over HSI’s Groover Curler Master Kit curling iron, with 10 interchangeable curling wands. It’s beach season. It’s wedding season. That’s lots of bridesmaids’ parties and…
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Get Lifted: An in-Home Face-Lift at Your Fingertips
Ever wonder how supermodels stay supernaturally young looking? Some of it’s genetics. A lot of it’s not. Face taping is a trick that I’ve seen and admired while on set with a lot of my fellow supes and hanging with my drag queen mister-sisters, but I haven’t tried it till now. Admittedly, at 53, fatigue…
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#WCW: Danessa Myricks Is One Beautiful Boss
If we know anything about glow ups, it’s that they come in all shapes, colors, sizes, styles and times of life. But the power of a good glow up is that indescribable feeling like the universe is conspiring to deliver you to the next phase in perfect timing. That’s why we got goose bumps listening…
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Get That Glow: Danessa Myricks Teaches Us How to Get a Gorgeous Natural Glow Up
Finally, it seems that summer has some intention of appearing—and with it, the appearance of more skin. “Sundress season” is generally best accessorized with shimmering, sexy, sun-kissed skin, but since we know better than to spend too much time in the sun (melanin is no substitute for sunscreen, y’all), we decided to turn to an…
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The Mask Ball: How to Get That Glass Complexion Using Korean Sheet Masks
You’re invited to the “Mask Ball.” Bring your favorite sheet mask, and welcome all ballers on a budget. Want to get your glow up on a time and money budget? For about the price of a bag of groceries, I give myself targeted treatments for specific areas of my face, neck, hands and feet. I…
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The Exhibit ‘Black Women: Power and Grace’ Shows the Timeless Strength and Beauty Within Us All
Long before social media liberated unadulterated images of black women’s beauty, there was Kamoinge. The Kamoinge photographers collective, founded in Harlem in 1963 under the direction of the venerable photographer Roy DeCarava, author of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, is officially opening its newest exhibition, “Black Women: Power and Grace,” Thursday night at the National…
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Summertime? Check. Acne? Check. Poppin’ That Pimple? Not So Simple!
Summertime, and getting zits is easy. That’s why it’s so great when you get permission from your dermatologist to do something you’re not supposed to do—like popping a pimple. I can’t help it, and I bet you can’t help it, either, when you’ve got a juicy one that’s ready to erupt like the Kilauea volcano…