dark-skinned beauty
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‘It’s Been Very Difficult’: Sistas Star Novi Brown Gets Candid About Being a Brown Girl in Hollywood
In a celebrity landscape that increasingly includes stars like Lupita Nyong’o, Viola Davis, Jodie Turner-Smith, Yvonne Orji, KiKi Layne, Danai Gurira and more, it can easy to convince yourself that we’re moving into a post-colorism era in Hollywood…and like the farce that was “post-racial,” you’d be wrong. That’s the point actress Novi Brown, who stars…
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The Cast and Crew of Queen & Slim on Black Love Being 'An Act of Resistance, Protest and Resilience'
Beyond the political allegory of two black people going on the run after killing a cop, Queen & Slim is a love story. Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) have bounties on their heads for the crime they’ve committed and throughout all of their trials and tribulations, they find a special sense of connection…
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What Skin Are You In? A New Spot Celebrates All Shades and Shapes of the Nubian Skin Woman
How do you celebrate four years of outfitting brown-skinned women in comfort and style? For United Kingdom-based intimates company Nubian Skin, the answer was simple: Celebrate the customers that made the brand such a massive success. Turning the lens on a diverse group of its clientele, the brand explained via its website: “We invited a selection…
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She Got That Glow: Anok Yai Is the Newest Face of Estée Lauder
Barely a week ago, we were applauding the stratospheric rise of model Anok Yai, whose career famously began when the then-college sophomore was photographed by a street-style photographer at Howard University’s 2017 Homecoming celebration. In the months since, Yai has signed with one of the biggest agencies in the world (Next Models), appeared in British…
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Living the Dream: Will Anok Yai Be the One to Mainstream Dark-Skinned Beauty?
Twenty-year-old model Anok Yai is living the dream—a dream she didn’t always believe could include her. When she was captured by a street style photographer during Yardfest at Howard University’s 2017 homecoming celebration last fall, she had no idea it would catapult her to the top of a crop of up-and-coming models—and include a chance…
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Did Dior Backstage Do Right by Its Darker-Skinned Clientele? Beauty Blogger Nyma Tang Reviews
In the now-heated rush for every cosmetics brand to come to market with at least 40 shades of foundation (thanks, Fenty), there’s still a question of how truly inclusive their shade ranges are. Whether it’s an issue of the majority of shades still falling firmly in the “beige” category, or undertones not being correctly addressed,…