beauty
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AfroArt: Immortalizing a New Generation
A few weeks ago, the fashion world swooned upon learning that Rihanna would be a host of the 2018 Met Gala, themed to coincide with the Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Imagining how “Bad Gal RiRi”—first of her name, currently ruler of three simultaneous covers of Vogue Paris (and…
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A Tale of Lost Edges: Don’t Try This at Home
Girl. Today in “What is you doin’?” news: Popular beauty blogger Gigi Beauty shared a very personal—and teachable—moment with her fan base, ending with a very big reveal: Girl. Through nervous laughter, Gigi explained that a beauty experiment (read: bad idea) had compelled her to relax her hair not once, but twice. In one day.…
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Everything but the Burden: Why We’re Done Getting Mad Over Makeup
Here we go again: Another day, another blackface makeup tutorial. Cue the moral outrage … and another horrible human goes viral. Today’s transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to “love skin of all colors”—which likely inspired this idiocy, after he apparently ran out of other looks and cultures to imitate. Of course,…
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Winged Victory: The Victoria’s Secret Runway Got More Colorful This Year … but Is It Enough?
“I’m rooting for everybody black.” Issa Rae’s now-famous quote from the 2017 Emmys is the gift that keeps on giving. Case in point: Now, in the season of giving, it was the exact phrase that came to my mind while watching the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which aired last night on CBS. This year’s…
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The Glow Up With Supermodel Veronica Webb Is on The Root
Beauty is more than what you look like. It’s more than when you’re dressed nice or you bothered to dust on a little foundation. It’s more than when your shoes are both comfy and cute (or wildly impractical but still to die for). It’s more than when your nails are freshly polished, your melanin is…
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Mented Founders Raise $1,000,000 in Capital for Vegan, Nontoxic Makeup for Women of Color
Black women can continue to give thanks because not only do we now have Fenty Beauty, but there’s also Mented, which recently secured enough capital to continue making products specifically for women of color. Mented co-founders Amanda Johnson and K.J. Miller, both 31, met at Harvard Business School and had been “bootstrapping” Mented with grassroots…
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Black Model in Controversial Dove Ad Says She’s ‘Proud’ of Campaign, Especially Because It Featured a Dark-Skinned Woman
In the last few days, a shitstorm has surged around the Dove company after stills of its new ad campaign seemed to show a black woman turning white as the objective of its new body wash. If one looks at the entire commercial, however, it’s clear that the ad was trying to show that women…
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Ayesha Curry Is Yet Another New Face for CoverGirl
CoverGirl is definitely stepping up by having all sorts of women repping its brand. In addition to Queen Latifah, Sofia Vergara and, most recently, Issa Rae, Ayesha Curry, the wife and rib of Golden State Warrior Steph Curry, will now be a face of CoverGirl, too. Ayesha Curry has been a mainstay on the scene,…
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Rihanna Announces Fenty Beauty Launch. Take That, Kylie With the Fake Lips!
Riddle: What do quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Rihanna have in common? They bout to be killin’ em in the pocket! (But I will be boycotting the former, cause … Colin Kaepernick.) Anywho, bad gyal RiRi (birth name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has announced the launch of Fenty Beauty, a line of lip gloss, blush, bronzers, foundation…
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MAC Cosmetics Announces Aaliyah Collection
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the death of R&B singer Aaliyah. The singer died in a fatal plane crash in the Bahamas, shortly after filming the video for “Rock the Boat.” Aaliyah fans are some of the most dedicated fans out there, even 16 years after her death. Two years ago, a petition was…