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  • She Think She Slick: Slick Woods’ Fenty Face Tutorial Is an Instant Fave

    There’s something about Slick Woods. Not everybody “gets” the particular brand of bald-headed, gap-toothed, full-lipped beauty that has catapulted the Minneapolis native from former homelessness to modeling for Kanye West, Mercedes Benz and Rihanna, but you gotta admit, there’s something about her. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s … Wait; wrong beauty brand. After…

  • Beach, Please! Jackie Aina Gets Frosted With Fenty (So We Don’t Have To)

    Ever since Fenty Beauty’s latest drop, we’ve been trying to figure out the perfect way to demo Rihanna’s new line of glittery liquid-to-powder eye shadows; new, foiled Killawatt combos; and glittery lip kits. While the urge is always there to just go full unicorn with some reckless finger-painting in our local Sephora, a heavily iridescent…

  • Call It ‘the Fenty Effect’: Dior Launches a New 40-Shade Foundation Range 

    Good news for those of us still in search of our perfect foundation match: The 40-shade phenomenon started by Fenty continues with a new makeup collection by Dior. On Friday, in tandem with its Cruise runway show in Chantilly, France, the luxury brand Dior launched Dior Backstage, a professional-grade makeup collection designed by Peter Philips,…

  • Our ‘Best Friend’ Rihanna Gives Us 10 Minutes of FaceTime With Fenty Beauty

    “Hide that double chin! I learned how to contour when I gained weight.” —Rihanna There’s nothing like painting your face with your BFF before you get ready to go out and have some fun. Only in this case, your best friend is now Rihanna. RiRi makes us feel that way throughout her unguarded 10-minute tutorial…

  • Slick With It: Model Slick Woods Talks Money Moves in May’s Glamour Magazine

    I’m personally convinced that quiet as it’s kept, the baddest of the baddies must hail from Minneapolis. After all, it’s the birthplace of the Purple One, Yara Shahidi, history-making state Rep. Ilhan Omar, yours truly and the face of Fenty Beauty—no, the other one—model Slick Woods (I mean, that moniker alone sounds like the title…

  • New Bops or New Bras: What Exactly Is Rihanna Teasing?

    Updated Friday, April 20, 2018, 2:54 p.m. EDT: Aaaannnd it turns out it’s lingerie. So kiss your hopes for new Rihanna music goodbye (for now). The singer confirmed over social media that she’s about to “light this up” with the Savage x Fenty lingerie collection, dropping on a yet unannounced date. Well, there goes our coin…

  • Fenty Body Lava: Love It or Leave It?

    So, have you tried it yet? We’re assuming someone has, since Fenty Beauty’s newest release, Body Lava Body Luminizer, was sold out in both shades at our local Sephoras. (Y’all greedy.) But since sundress season won’t wait (whenever it finally arrives), we had to turn to the ever reliable—and reliably entertaining—Jackie Aina to give us…

  • Hot Damn! Rihanna’s Bringing the Heat With Body Lava

    Just when we think Rihanna can’t get any hotter, she drops another bomb on us. This time it’s the upcoming launch of her next bound-to-be-bestselling Fenty Beauty product, Body Lava. Teasing us with the hashtag #WhoNeedsClothes, the singer, actress, and beauty and fashion mogul took to Fenty Beauty’s Instagram on Monday night to give us…

  • Made-to-Measure Makeup: Lancôme Shows Off Its Custom-Foundation Skills at SXSW

    Are you old enough to remember getting “color printed” at your local department store makeup counter? Cosmetics brand Prescriptives, founded in 1979, rose to prominence in the 1990s with its custom-blended foundations, allowing customers to incorporate their chosen finish and coverage into their custom-matched foundation shade, blended specifically for them. It was, at the time,…

  • (He) Got That Glow: Daniel Kaluuya Shows Us That Fenty Makes the Fellas Flawless, Too!

    This is Daniel Kaluuya’s first time running the hectic gantlet of awards season, but we wouldn’t know it. From his bold suit choices to his beauty routine, Kaluuya has emerged a real red-carpet winner. Kaluuya quickly became one of my red-carpet faves because of his love for strong suit colors—not shying away from burgundies and…