black beauty
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InHAIRitance: Tracee Ellis Ross, Ayanna Pressley and Color Of Change Advocate for Small Black Beauty Businesses and the CROWN Act
Can you believe it’s nearly the end of 2020—and amid everything else, in most states in America we’re still asking for permission to wear our hair as we please? While the freedom to wear naturally textured or traditional Black hairstyles may seem purely aesthetic to the willfully ignorant some, it is in fact part of…
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Growth Opportunities: Are You a Beauty Professional? You're Invited to the 1st Brown Beauty Summit!
We don’t know about you, but all this extra time spent at home has proved an excellent opportunity to play in our makeup and try out some new hairstyles—protective and…not so much. But even us armchair hair-and-makeup experts can use some professional help, and celebrity hairstylist and salon owner Yene Damtew, whose well-heeled clientele includes…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: I Get It From My Mama
Another Mother’s Day dawns this Sunday, and if you’re lucky enough to have a loving matriarch still physically present in your life, no doubt you’re holding her that much closer this year (virtually, of course). The COVID crisis has made us all reflect on how precious life is and how much we should honor and…
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2020 Vision: With New Drops From Fenty and Taraji P. Henson, Celebrity Beauty Keeps Evolving
Celebrity branding has come a long way in recent years. Though stars have been slapping their name on products for decades, the new crop of celebrity entrepreneurs is taking an emphatically hands-on approach with their product lines. Whether it’s Zendaya bringing along stylist Law Roach to help co-design her line with Tommy Hilfiger or Tracee…
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But Wait, There’s Yet Another Black Beauty Queen to Celebrate This Year!
This year has been a groundbreaking one for black women in the world of beauty pageants—a forum that sparks understandable and ongoing debate about its enduring relevance and impact on beauty standards. Nevertheless, the pageant world’s definition of beauty has been visibly expanding, as evidenced by the crowning of four black women in internationally recognized…
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Here’s How I Went From Detroit Science Geek to NYC Pageant Chic—and Scored a Win for Heart Health Awareness
Like most science nerds, I’ve always been a little more “geek” than “chic”—unibrow and all. I’m an introverted, quiet girl by nature; I overthink pretty much everything. But three months before I packed up my big stack of books (and small wardrobe) and made the move from my hometown of Detroit to New York City…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: ‘Before I Let Go’ of Essence Festival 2019, I Have to Say Thank You to Black Women
Essence Fest tried to take me out, y’all…and I can’t wait to go back. The final day of The Glow Up’s Essence Festival diary was unfortunately delayed, due to the fact that no sleep and a permanently damaged cornea made me a half-sighted, no-voiced person yesterday as I stumbled my way back through the Louis…
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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: 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…