She Slayed: The Glow Up’s Best Dressed Women of 2018
To say this last year has been a challenging one would be an understatement, but there were some significant bright…
Thanks-living: How a Few of Our Faves Gave Thanks This Holiday
Real talks? We don’t all agree that Thanksgiving is a holiday worth celebrating. After all, its colonialist roots…
Changing Colors: For Fall, Fashion Continues to Celebrate Black Beauty
It wasn’t just a phase. After years of being relegated to the inner pages and being told that covers featuring black…
Think Pink: Our Faves Were Coming Up Roses at the 2018 Emmys ... and in Nike ... and Whiteface?
If there was a signature color at the 2018 Emmys, it was pink. Yara Shahidi (in Gucci), nominee Tracee Ellis Ross (in…
Famously Fly: Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 Includes Some of Our Most Fashionable Faves!
You’ve seen them on screen, on the red carpet and often, right here on The Glow Up. And now, just in time for New York…
Grown-ish Is Cute, But Yara Shahidi Wants You to Get Politically Involved
Don’t ask Yara Shahidi to choose between being an ingenue and a serious intellectual; the 18-year-old is already one of…
Is the Mainstream Ready for 4c? Mane Traces the Evolution of Natural Hair On-Screen
Online media company NowThis turned heads at the top of 2018 with the launch of Mane, a web series focusing on the…
We Ready! The 2018 MTV Movie and TV Awards Teased a Big Night With an Over-the-Top Red Carpet
The MTV Movie & TV Awards air Monday night, but Saturday’s pretaping gave us a lot to look forward to by way of the red…
Yes, Yara! Yara Shahidi Covers June Issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia
Now, this is what we call pretty in pink: Perennial fave Yara Shahidi looks poised to take flight on the cover of…
Meeting in the Ladies’ Room: Tracee Ellis Ross to Interview Michelle Obama at United State of Women
Here’s a conversation we don’t want to miss: Black-ish actress and all-around brilliant bae Tracee Ellis Ross will…
‘Everything You Think Is True’: Yara Shahidi Honors Her Family History With Prince
Many know Yara Shahidi as the adorable and irrepressible Zoey Johnson on Black-ish’s hit spinoff, Grown-ish, but fewer…
Watch: Feeling Insecure or Grown-ish? Go Behind the Scenes With Issa and Yara
Just when we thought we’d stopped swooning over the double fantasy of Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi simultaneously on Marie…
Fresh Faces: Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi Cover Marie Claire’s May Issue
Come through, Marie Claire! To coincide with the blooming of the season, Marie Claire magazine has chosen not one, but…
With ‘Nice for What,’ Drake Celebrates Some of Our Faves and Shows Us Why He Keeps Winning
I read somewhere that Drake had a song releasing on Friday night. We all know Friday as Cardi B Invasion of Privacy…
Dance Break! Yara Shahidi Covers T Singapore
We know—we’re obsessed. And clearly, we’re already missing Grown-ish way too much, since we’re giving you a day full of…
For Chloe x Halle, Being on Grown-ish Is the Best and Smartest Marketing of Their Music Ever
Grown-ish is an awesome television show set against the backdrop of a fictitious California University. We get to…
Curl Hunting: Nai’vasha Johnson Is Young Hollywood’s Go-to Hairdresser
OK—did you die over Yara Shahidi’s hairstyle when she walked down the red carpet at this year’s SAG Awards? I died. Did…
Grown-ish and Gorgeous: Yara Shahidi Covers Essence’s April Issue!
By now it’s no secret that we love, love, love Grown-ish star, young activist and all-around brilliant bae (Harvard,…
Oprah Brought SuperSoul Conversations to the Apollo and Aligned All of Harlem's Chakras
When Oprah builds it, we all come. She’s got this undeniable Midas touch, which is why we want her to save America by…
She’s Grown-ish! Happy 18th Birthday, Yara Shahidi!
Here at The Glow Up, we hate to play favorites, but we’d be lying if we said we didn’t have a very special place in our…