black beauty
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Still Fine: The Glow Up Chats With Legendary Makeup Artist Sam Fine and We Get Our #BrowsOnFleek
Superstar makeup artist Sam Fine and I go back like lips and lipstick; we’ve been working together as model and makeup artist for 25 years. He is one of the premier makeup artists in the industry, and one of the few African-American artists to publish beauty books: Fine Beauty and Fine: The Basics of Beauty.…
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Oh, Honey: The (Budget-Friendly) Beauty in the Secret Life of Bees
Yeah, we know, we know … we covered honey-based beauty just Sunday—Veronica Webb’s experience with a $725 luxury bee-venom facial, to be exact. Understandably, some of you were a bit stung by the premise and the price tag, but we want to pull back the curtain on beauty treatments that aren’t widely known to the…
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Flight Time: 48 Hours in a Supermodel’s Suitcase
I’m en route to London, a city I love and know well. Sadly, I’ll only be there for two days, to honor my dear and recently departed friend Azzedine Alaïa at the British Fashion Council Awards. This trip to London requires an overnight flight, and my ass will hopefully get some sleep, since upon landing,…
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#NappyGirlMagic: She Left the Corporate Grind and Became America’s Natural-Hair Whisperer
You can see the precision of corporate influence in every crevice. The customers don’t wait a second. Appointments are tightly regimented. All scheduling is online. Kinky Curly Beauty’s Hair Studio in Birmingham, Ala., is like the love child of a Fortune 500 engineer and your favorite girlfriend’s beauty salon, but with more melanin and fewer…
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Make My Nature Rise: Why We Should All Be Using All-Natural Cosmetics
I might look as if I was raised on Champagne, but I need a T-shirt that says, “Raised on Natural Beauty”—because I was raised by a mother who was a totally natural beauty, in every way. My mother grew up on a farm in rural Ohio and was a DIY dynamo before anyone even thought…
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Makeup Mecca: Marjani Beauty Is a Marketplace Made for Us, by Us
Like many of us, entrepreneur Kimberly Smith is a self-confessed “beauty junkie.” This corporate attorney by day is obsessed with cosmetics, yet—also like many of us—wasn’t finding the variety she needed in mass retailers. Out of frustration, the online marketplace Marjani Beauty was born. Launched in January 2017, Marjani means “coral, or she who is…
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Get Haute for the Holidays With Veronica Marché and Her Line of Gorgeous Greeting Cards
Watching fashion illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison (also known as Veronica Marché) work is like watching an alchemical process: With a few deft strokes of her brushes, beauty emerges from a blank page. The Philly-based artist is known for her vibrant use of color and elegant silhouettes, and she considers women of color the ultimate muses.…
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In Praise of Sailor J: The Woke AF Beauty Vlogger We’ve Been Waiting For
Sailor J thinks she knows my life. My entire insecure, aggressively honest (or just aggressive), disorganized and easily distracted Aries life. She also does one hell of a bronzed cat eye. The increasingly popular YouTuber—more than 120,000 subscribers and rising—first hit my radar in October with “Getting a Man 101”— a hilarious yet poignant take…
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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.…