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Behind the Brand: BLK/OPL Is Finally Black—and Female—Owned [Corrected]
We’ve got something major to celebrate this Big Beauty Tuesday (soon to be relaunched as “The Glow Up Gets…”)! It wasn’t widely known until recently, but Black Opal, one of the most established global beauty brands for black women, was never black-owned. While the brand was created in 1994 with women of color in mind—specifically,…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: What Makes a Beauty Boss?
“We Gloss, We Floss, We Boss”—it’s a little known fact, but that’s The Glow Up’s motto and our founding ethos, as we report on all things beauty, fashion and black women’s empowerment here at The Root. But when it comes to encompassing all three of those principles, no one does it better than black beauty…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: How to Turn Lemons Into (Pink) Lemonade
Fun fact: I hate pink lipstick. Like, even during that phase in childhood when, for the sake of peer pressure and a blind love of all things Barbie, I tried to convince myself that pink could be my favorite color (spoiler alert: it’s not), I could never get onboard with a pink lip—and it was…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Can a Turban Help Me Embrace Change?
Honest question: Do you need to be a woman of a certain age to effectively pull off a turban? While my extensive history with headwraps, hats, scarves and the like would suggest otherwise, I’d have to argue that a turban might be a rite of passage of sorts, imbued with either deep spiritual symbolism or…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Glow Up in One Stop With Brown Beauty Co-op
What’s your formula for the five-minute face? C’mon, you know you’ve got one; your desert island must-haves for minimal yet polished glamour? Mine is a flawless foundation, a brow pencil, several coats of mascara and a red lip, which automatically amps up any look—and if I’m honest, in spite of cabinets full of makeup, I’m…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Got Pride?
I’m smiling in this picture, but just before writing this, I learned of the murder of yet another black trans woman in Texas. Last night, I went to a hilarious but poignant play starring Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, commemorating the little-known first (and to date, only, to best of my knowledge) drag queen to…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Fake It ’Til You Bake It With Prime Beauty’s ‘Brownzers’
I’m sick of waiting for warm weather to arrive. I don’t know what the temps are in your part of the U.S. (or abroad), but a current look at Chicago’s local forecast is a smooth 51 degrees—that’s right, an actual degree cooler than when I checked in with you guys last week! Nevertheless, we are…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Black Beauty Entrepreneurs Do It Better
This is not a product review. At least, it’s not a product review in my standard Big Beauty Tuesday format. Frankly, since I recently returned to my home office (also known as TGU headquarters) after weeks away, I haven’t really had time to properly dig into the new products awaiting me upon arrival—and I like…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: A Tale of 2—No, 3!—Cities
It will have been twenty days spent in three cities, two very different climates, juggling business, pleasure and one vicious sunburn until I see my bed again this weekend, and whew! Since mid-April, I’ve hit the Florida beaches for my birthday, revisited my days as a New York City girl at the Tribeca Film Festival…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Tabi Bonney's ITADI Body Honors His Late Father's Legacy
(Editor’s note: If you’re wondering where your regularly scheduled Big Beauty Tuesday writer has been, she’s on a well-deserved vacation. Nevertheless, our cadre of talented writers is here to keep you briefed on the best of black-owned beauty—this week, enjoy Starr Rhett Rocque!) In 2015, I went on a life-changing journey to Togo, West Africa,…