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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 Chloe, Halle and, now, a double dose of Yara. But we couldn’t possibly see our favorite ingenue on the April cover of the New York Times Style Magazine’s Singapore edition and not share it with…
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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 follow the life of Zoey Johnson (everybody’s fave, Yara Shahidi) after she graduated from high school (and Black-ish) as she learns to navigate life and love as an almost adult. The show addresses everything from social media…
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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 you die over her “Weekend In Wakanda”-perfect bejeweled ’fro-cornrow extravaganza on Essence’s latest cover? I died. Hairstylist Nai’vasha Johnson is the one slaying the trendsetting actress’s red-carpet and special-event coiffures that keep us…
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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, y’all) Yara Shahidi. And clearly we’re not the only ones, since our sisters over at Essence are featuring the always “it” girl on the cover of their April issue! Wearing it’s-almost-summer whites embellished with gold—even in…
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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 running for president, but we don’t deserve the precious soul that is Oprah as the leader of the free world. In fact, in order for her to keep her limitless effervescence, it’s…
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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 hearts for actress-activist-“it” girl Yara Shahidi. While Hollywood is thankfully steadily filling with more young, black female talent, few have shared a trajectory so relatably similar to The Glow…
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The (Other) Talk: What Last Week’s Grown-ish Got Right About Mothers, Daughters and Sexuality
Do you remember your first time? Was it awkward, exhilarating, overwhelming, tender, traumatic—or some combination of all of the above? Mine was all of those things. I was a high schooler in suburban Chicago, in the throes of my first—and at that age, what I believed would be my last—love. Even today, I can sincerely…
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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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Grown-ish Renewed for 20-Episode 2nd Season
Grown-ish isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and is that really a surprise? The show is one of the best things to happen in the past year, earning critical praise upon its release and boasting a 91 percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. And now, as Variety reports, the TV hit, a spinoff from the ABC series…
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Yara Shahidi Performing Assata Shakur Is More #BlackGirlMagic Than Our Hearts Can Stand
As media partners for the Blackout for Human Rights-produced MLK Now event at New York City’s Riverside Church on Monday, The Root found a lot to be inspired by this Martin Luther King Day. But at The Glow Up, we were pleasantly surprised to also find #BlackGirlMagic in full effect. From actress Lupita Nyong’o reciting…