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From Ingenue Entrepreneurs to Enduring Icons, Essence Beauty Carnival Brought Out the Best of Black Beauty
The energy? Buoyant. The crowd? Beautiful. The inspiration? Boundless. In the first stop in their first-ever Beauty Carnival tour, Essence magazine created a mecca for black girl magic this weekend in New York City, with some of the most notable names in the beauty, fashion and entertainment industries on site at the South Street Seaport’s…
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It's a Beautiful Weekend to Be at the Essence Beauty Carnival!
Here at The Glow Up, we are firm believers in taking downtime when and wherever we can get it. But this weekend has presented us an opportunity to turn up that we simply couldn’t miss, as Essence kicks off its inaugural Beauty Carnival tour in New York City on April 27th & 28th! Making the…
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Black-Owned Beauty Month, Day 27: Time to Put on Our Rose-Colored Glasses
Has anyone else moved homes lately? If so, you might relate to the concept of seeing red—which may or may not have inspired today’s red and pink eye. But honestly: this look was inspired by YouTube beauty star Jackie Aina, who consistently wows me with her ability to pull off red and pink eyeshadow looks…
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Canceled? Why Beauty Vlogger Destiny Godley Is Closing Her YouTube Channel
Is YouTube to blame for the demise of a popular beauty content creator? That’s one of the suspicions of vlogger Destiny Godley, who on Monday took to her YouTube channel to announce to her followers that after 11 years, she was “cancelling” her eponymous channel. Godley, an “OG” in the beauty vlogger space, has made…
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Beauty's Biggest Weekend: All the Highlights from Beautycon LA 2018
If you haven’t already heard, beauty is big business—an over $400 billion business, to be exact. So it’s not surprising that beauty conventions have become big events, occurring around the world and attracting not only beauty junkies, but celebs—some of whom you’d never expect. The phenomenon known as Beautycon is the biggest and arguably, the…
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Born This Way, Baby! Jackie Aina’s Too Faced Foundation Collaboration Has a Launch Date!
Beauty influencer and The Glow Up fave Jackie Aina has continually expressed the need for inclusiveness in the beauty community. With that in mind, at her 30th birthday celebration last year, Aina announced that she’d be working with cosmetics brand Too Faced to expand its popular Born This Way foundation range. Both the brand and…
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Music, Meet Makeup: Beauty Influencers Are Taking Their Tutorials to Jay-Z’s Tidal
Makeup lovers, we’ve hit the jackpot. Tidal, Jay-Z’s music-streaming service, is now slaying the makeup game! We can now watch our fave gurus give beauty tutorials on iconic music-video looks on the app’s beauty show, Get the Look. First up, we have Rosa Chang-Crespo—also known as Rosita Applebum on YouTube. Chang-Crespo kicks things off by…
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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…
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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…