black haircare
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Lighten Up: Pattern Beauty's Newest Formula Is a Whole 2021 Mood
Happy New Year! It’s the first Big Beauty Tuesday of 2021—and after the heaviness of 2020, we are understandably looking to lighten up this year, in every way imaginable. “Here’s to a collective sigh and release of what needs to be discarded, dismantled and moved away from as we gather all the good, and move…
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Get Your Mirror Raps Ready Because Issa Rae's Bringing Her Star Power to Haircare
We’ve long suspected Issa Rae might be the busiest Black woman in Hollywood—but unbelievably, she’s equally a multitasker when it comes to her hair. Braids, blowouts, baby fros, big hair…our Insecure It Girl is a bona fide hair icon for #TeamNatural—and as she recently told Allure, it’s a big part of her personal brand, as…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: BREAD Has Arrived—With a Delicious Mission to Simplify Our Not-So-Basic Hair Routines
With so many new products coming to market in recent years, you’d think textured hair was a new phenomenon—but what it really indicates is a new perspective: many of us are well past tired of taming our hair into “submission,” and with the growing awareness of hair discrimination and initiatives like the CROWN Act, we…
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A Flawless Revival: Gabrielle Union Is Relaunching Her Haircare Line—With Something for Every Style
I take one little week away from my daily duties here at The Glow Up and come back to the news that yet another celebrity-owned haircare brand will soon be making its way into the now-bountiful Black haircare market. But as we know, when it comes to our hair, there’s no such thing as too…
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Ponytails and Protective Styles, Meet Pattern: Tracee Ellis Ross Debuts Accessories Made for the Moment
If like me, you’re finding yourself relying heavily on ponytails, buns and a growing array of protective styles as the pandemic wages on, you’re not alone. Since our social lives have mostly become comprised of social media, as of late, some aspects of our personal grooming routines have understandably become a bit more…lax. Besides, if…
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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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Birchbox Gets Unbothered: A Popular Subscription Box Gets a ‘For Us, By Us’ Curation
It’s not news that black women are the beauty and hair care market’s biggest spenders; as Nielsen research famously revealed in 2017, black women spend approximately nine times more on beauty and hair care than our white counterparts. And yet, until recently, we have been persistently ignored and marginalized by the same market we help…
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Watch: The Hair Struggle Without Mom Is Real in This Clip From Matthew Cherry's Hair Love
Oh, dads. A black girl’s relationship with her hair is special. As is her relationship with her dad. Put those two things together and shenanigans can follow. Luckily (for my tiny ego), my dad had his mother around to take over my hair duties. Really, I legit grew up in the same apartment building with…
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Thank God It's April
You know what I hate? April Fool’s Day. What use have I for a day full of deliberately fake news and nonsensical pranks that rarely land properly? You know what else I hate? Equal Pay Day, because I don’t need a reminder of how women—women of color, in particular—are undervalued and under-compensated for their labor.…
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Can a Naturalista Find a Sweet Spot with…Suave? Our Writer Tries Out the Old-School Brand's New Product Range
I’m a lazy natural. I’m two years into my second big chop, and a year into growing it out—and admittedly, that Caesar life was sweet. But it’s hard to be lazy when you have kinky 4c hair like mine, since it’s so dry. The first time I went natural was back in 2001, when natural…