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No Applause: Mo’Nique Addresses Steve Harvey’s Recent Bad Luck
Earlier this week, news broke that serial sleep avoider Steve Harvey had not one, but two gigs stripped from his weekly schedule: his eponymous talk show was set for cancellation, and his hosting gig for NBC’s Little Big Shots would go to another personality, thought to be “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson. Harvey, who gained…
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Cardi B Hit with $1 Million Defamation Suit by Blogger
Bronx-born American sweetheart Cardi B has been hit with a $1 million lawsuit by a blogger who claims a war of death threats followed a lie Cardi told about them on social media. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, celebrity blogger Latasha K has filed suit two months after Cardi sued her for…
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Giants Cleans Up at Daytime Emmys, Takes Home Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor
Smash hit web series Giants continued its reign on Friday, with actress Vanessa Baden Kelly and actor Terrence Terrell taking home the hardware for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The series, which debuted on Issa Rae’s YouTube channel in 2017,…
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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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Meet 21-Year-Old Nia Imani, CEO of the App Hair Days
Meet 21-year-old Nia Wellman, known as Nia Imani on social media. Nia is a jack of all trades. She became a YouTuber back in ‘07, then started the college service-based organization Campus Curlz Inc., and now she’s the CEO of a hair growth-tracking app called Hair Days. Nia’s YouTube channel focuses on beauty, but she…
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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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Out of the 5 O’Clock Shadow: I Shave My Face, and There’s No Shame in That
The hair on my face feels like it has daily plans for a takeover.
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You Can Stream Beyoncé’s Coachella Set, so Why Bother to Go?
If we’re being generous, Coachella is something close to a literal approximation of hell: It’s really hot, there are flower crowns everywhere, and a share of your ticket price could indirectly be headed to anti-LGBTQ groups. The music’s cool, though! Luckily, the festival will again offer a way for those who stayed home to tune…
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8 Things Parents With Little Kids Are Up On That Other People Don’t Talk About at Brunch
To have children is to wade into a world of acceptable and appropriate programming and household items. Long gone are the days of blasting 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny” at 9 a.m. to get the blood flowing. Nope, now it’s tossing a kid an iPad and praying they’ll sit there quietly for at least…
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6 Jobs That People Don’t Think Require Real ‘Work’
I’m a creative. I like to think that I’m good at it. At the very least, I’m good enough at it to get paid to do it like I’m doing it for television. Do you know what this means? I’ll tell you what it means: It means that while it brings home the bacon, it…