makeup tutorials
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Jackie Aina Just Blew My Budget—and I'm Not Mad
Jackie. Or should I say “Jackie, Jackie, Jackie, Jackie…” You know those times when you’re trying to be a responsible adult and have your biweekly budget planned to the penny, including your social calendar and contingency savings? Well, consider this an emergency, because beauty influencer Jackie Aina just threw my budget off by $45 plus…
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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…
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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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#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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Sun in Your Eyes: How to Get That Sunset Eye Shadow Look for Summer
It’s the freakin’ weekend. Time to have fun with some makeup. Sunset eye shadow is a hot look for summer, but you can go into a meltdown unless you know a few basic tricks. Pro makeup artist Marc Cornwall talked me through the steps on how to make this eye shadow trend my own. Here’s…
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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…
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All About Eve, Part 2: We’ve Got the Goods on Her Gorgeous Grammys Look!
Glow Up gang, you asked, and we’ve got answers! Some great moments deserve a sequel, and we’ve therefore done some deep investigative journalism to get the details on our favorite look of Grammy night 2018. As previously posted, Eve was our hands-down winner of this year’s awards ceremony, despite not being nominated this year (sorry,…
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She Got That Glow: We Got the Secrets Behind Yara Shahidi’s All Grown-ish Up Look at the SAG Awards
The 2018 Grammys are tonight, but the fashion world is still raving about the looks from last Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. And we can’t breathe one word about that evening’s red carpet without acknowledging our current and forever #Fave, Yara Shahidi. Like, we may have to come up with a concept stronger than #Goals…
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Love Without a (Price) Limit: Love Mary J.’s Look at the SAG Awards? Get It With Black Opal!
It’s no secret that we’re all about Mary J. Blige’s glow up this awards season; in fact, we’re not sure we’ve stanned this hard for her since What’s the 411? The singer and actress has been nominated for Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards, and now a history-making two Oscar nods for…
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50 Shades of Beige: Can Tarte Make Up for Excluding Us?
This past May, when Miss USA 2016, Deshauna Barber, crowned her equally beautiful successor, Kara McCullough, during the 2017 pageant, I knew it was going to be quite the year for a new brand of unapologetic #BlackGirlMagic. Because not only the pageant world, but the beauty industry as a whole has been making some major…