black female entrepreneurs
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New Growth: Sally Beauty Wants to Help Develop the Next Big Female-Owned Hair-Care Brand
Are you a female hair-care entrepreneur? Professional beauty-supply juggernaut Sally Beauty recently launched a business-accelerator program specifically designed to help female beauty entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Sally Beauty Cultivate—For Women by Women is actively seeking out the next line of innovative hair-care products, offering one phenomenal female-owned brand entrepreneurial mentorship, $25,000 in financial support and…
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#WCW: Danessa Myricks Is One Beautiful Boss
If we know anything about glow ups, it’s that they come in all shapes, colors, sizes, styles and times of life. But the power of a good glow up is that indescribable feeling like the universe is conspiring to deliver you to the next phase in perfect timing. That’s why we got goose bumps listening…
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Celeb Hairstylist Ursula Stephen Is Creating Magic in Brooklyn, NY, With a Brand That Won’t Bust Your Budget
“Some people have hair that listens,” celebrity hairstylist Ursula Stephen tells me as I settle into the chair at her eponymous shop in the heart of the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. “If the hair resists, you up the intensity,” she says. That’s a formula Ursula knows well. She’s been upping the game for…
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Pop Your Melanin, Protect Your Edges and Perfect Yourself With These Tips From a Great Skin Doc
What would you ask Dr. Michelle Henry, a Harvard-trained, board-certified dermatologist, if you were just sitting around kicking it over lunch? The Glow Up caught up with the good doctor you can easily ask anything of, since she’s so approachable, and judging by her smooth-as-glass complexion—you’ll like the outcome of her advice. Henry is the…
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Beautycon Sisters Claim Theirs Loud and Proud
This weekend, New York City hosted Beautycon, a two-day festival where fans can interact with beauty brands and celebrities for seminars and photo ops. The Glow Up was on hand looking for the latest in black-owned beauty businesses and getting the word on self-care, which seems to be the one thing, besides lipstick, that’s on…
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Calling All Black Designers! Harlem Fashion Week Auditions Are Open
Harlem Fashion Week auditions are open for fashion designers who want to show their Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collections at the biannual event this September, covered by top-tier fashion journalists from around the world—including The Glow Up. In February we had the pleasure of being front row for the presentation of the Spring/Summer collections. Fashion celebs like…
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Closet Case: Fashion Psychologist Dawnn Karen Styles From the Inside Out
On Saturday I woke up to find out, over coffee and the New York Times, that “fashion psychology” is now a thing. Dawnn Karen—a Columbia grad who, in 2012, made history as the first black female psychology professor (and also one of the youngest) at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology—is an academic and…
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Always on Point: Fashion Stylist Dione Davis
Dione Davis is a woman of many talents. Her day job is as the in-house stylist at Tibi, an über-chic, under-the-radar designer collection that’s favored by fashion insiders and C-suite executives. Davis is like many of the brand’s core customers, who tend to be successful women in creative fields: She pivoted into fashion after suffering…
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Missing Your Edges? Razor Chic Salon in Atlanta Has a Solution
The New York Times recently reported on Razor Chic, an Atlanta hair salon owned by stylist Jasmine Collins that specializes in hairstyles to camouflage hair loss. This is good news for wig- and weave-dependent African-American women who suffer from thinning hair or baldness. Commonly, hair loss can occur as a result of hormonal changes due…
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Curl Hunting: Nai’vasha Johnson Is Young Hollywood’s Go-to Hairdresser
OK—did you die over Yara Shahidi’s hairstyle when she walked down the red carpet at this year’s SAG Awards? I died. Did you die over her “Weekend In Wakanda”-perfect bejeweled ’fro-cornrow extravaganza on Essence’s latest cover? I died. Hairstylist Nai’vasha Johnson is the one slaying the trendsetting actress’s red-carpet and special-event coiffures that keep us…