makeup tutorials for black women
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The Shade: Cut Out the Hard Contour and Get Into Some Subtle Sculpting with Joan Smalls
If there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that most of us aren’t (and will never be) blessed with the naturally-chiseled features of Puerto Rican goddess Joan Smalls. The modeling phenom was blessed with high cheekbones and full lips and brows—the type of features your Insta-faves are trying to recreate with exaggerated pencil-and-contouring techniques.…
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Can't Stop, Won't Stop: NYX Cosmetics Collabs With Vlogger Alissa Ashley on 45 Shades of Foundation
The Fenty Effect can’t stop, won’t stop; and thankfully, it now doesn’t cost $34 to find your perfect foundation match, as less than a year after Fenty Beauty’s groundbreaking 40-shade launch, it now feels almost requisite for other cosmetics brands to get into the act. Doesn’t inclusion feel—and look—good, y’all? Who got next? Affordable favorite…
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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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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,…
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ColourPop Just Got More Colorful With 42 Shades of ‘No Filter Foundation’
Will the Fenty effect ever end? We hope not, because more inclusive foundation options for women of all shades are quickly becoming the norm. The newest comer to the market? Award-winning, vegan, cruelty-free and cost-friendly cosmetics cult favorite ColourPop, which just dipped its toe into the full-spectrum-foundation pool with the launch of its No Filter…
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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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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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Bad Girl Blues: The Coachella Makeup Trend to Try Now
All praises due to fashion and beauty rule breaker Rihanna, our triple-threat superstar songstress, fashion designer and makeup mogul who redefined the makeup game again this year at Coachella. Thanks to her, blue eye shadow is officially a thing again this spring. The trend was kicked off back in B.C. times; think Cleopatra, when the…