black beauty
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#RedCarpetRoundup: Color Made a Comeback at the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards
Spring is coming! We know, we know … we’re still a long way off, but with the dark and gray days outside, we could use use a little pick-me-up. Cue the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday night in Santa Monica, Calif., fresh on the heels of Sunday’s Golden Globes, which kicked off awards season.…
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Making Proud Mary: Stylist Tym Wallace Shares His Behind-the-Scenes Secrets for Taraji’s Killer Hair
How dope would your hair look if you had a $10,000 wig budget? And how about an über-talented hairdresser like Tym Wallace scrutinizing your every move via a super-closeup iPhone app for moviemakers? You would be flawless, that’s what. Don’t take my word for it, though; see for yourself when Proud Mary, Taraji P. Henson’s latest…
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The Re-Emergence of the Turbante: A Brazilian Fashion Statement With a Deeply Political History
Just four years ago, Monica Almeida, 34, an Afro-Brazilian woman living in Rio de Janeiro, didn’t identify as a black woman. “When I was an adolescent, I believed in the myth of the mulata (mixed-raced woman). It wasn’t until I was 30 years old and I had already experienced so much racism, read tons of…
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: What’s Better Than 1 Black Entrepreneur? 2!
Put your hands together for two black entrepreneurs putting their heads together to cross-promote their newly patented personal-care devices! Inventors Ceata Lash and Joshua Esnard are both trying to take the struggle out of hair care while black: Lash’s PuffCuff—a hair clip specifically designed to be nondamaging to curly and textured hair—helps to create and…
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Brown Beauty Alert! This Is the Melanated Moment We Didn’t Know We Were Missing This Week
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, 6:20 p.m. EST: As if we weren’t already jelly enough, Erivo’s team reached out to let us know everyone we missed at the soiree, organized by legendary celebrity event planner Kathy Romero (who has spearheaded high-profile events such as Asahd Khaled’s birthday, Gucci Mane’s wedding and more), along with celebrity…
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How to Face-Tune Like a Red-Carpet Regular, Part 2: Before Plastic Surgery, Live the Laser-and-Peel Life
My Glow Up goddesses! You asked, and I got the answers on the best chemical peels and lasers for darker skin tones. During last week’s “snow bomb cyclone,” I checked in with Dr. Michelle Henry, a Harvard-trained New York City dermatologist, to talk about the latest offerings in her practice. As a black woman herself,…
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She Got That Glow: Love Issa Rae’s Golden Globes Look? Look No Further Than Your Favorite Drugstore
The Golden Globes happened Sunday night in Los Angeles, and while we weren’t expecting much excitement from the red-carpet “blackout,” it proved to be pretty entertaining for our inaugural Facebook thread, where The Glow Up gang rated their hits and misses. Though most of last night’s dresses fell firmly on the side of “meh,” one…
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Stay Gold! 5 Wishes for the Golden Globes Red Carpet
It’s awards season—my favorite time of the year! Some butches may look forward to the Super Bowl (I’m personally planning to hate-watch Justin Timberlake’s halftime show), but I look forward to awards season because: red carpets! Listen, I’ve spent most of my life watching hundreds of hours of Project Runway and awards shows, so I…