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This Black Model Might Be The Face Of 2025 Met Gala, But Still Has a Regular Job to Make Ends Meet
The Sad But Relatable Reason Naomi Campbell Might Skip This Year’s Met Gala Red Carpet
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Why Michael B. Jordan’s ‘COOGI’ Sweater Was a Scene Stealer in ‘Sinners’
Leather Expert Deconstructs ‘The Perfect Fake Birkin’ Bag ‘ And Spills All The Tea
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#NappyGirlMagic: She Left the Corporate Grind and Became Americaâs Natural-Hair Whisperer
You can see the precision of corporate influence in every crevice. The customers donât wait a second. Appointments are tightly regimented. All scheduling is online. Kinky Curly Beautyâs Hair Studio in Birmingham, Ala., is like the love child of a Fortune 500 engineer and your favorite girlfriendâs beauty salon, but with more melanin and fewer…
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Treat Yourself … to Some #SelfLove
Iâll bet weâre more alike than different. Iâll bet there have been seasons in your life when you, too, have felt like you had been incredibly blessed with so much, yet still felt a gaping sense of something missingâand you couldnât quite put your finger on it? For me, this mysterious blanket of emptiness became…
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Make My Nature Rise: Why We Should All Be Using All-Natural Cosmetics
I might look as if I was raised on Champagne, but I need a T-shirt that says, âRaised on Natural Beautyââbecause I was raised by a mother who was a totally natural beauty, in every way. My mother grew up on a farm in rural Ohio and was a DIY dynamo before anyone even thought…
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Makeup Mecca: Marjani Beauty Is a Marketplace Made for Us, by Us
Like many of us, entrepreneur Kimberly Smith is a self-confessed âbeauty junkie.â This corporate attorney by day is obsessed with cosmetics, yetâalso like many of usâwasnât finding the variety she needed in mass retailers. Out of frustration, the online marketplace Marjani Beauty was born. Launched in January 2017, Marjani means âcoral, or she who is…
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Cynthia Bailey Knew She Was Beautiful the Moment She Realized She Didnât Need Anyone to Validate That Beauty
When you look into Cynthia Baileyâs eyes, what you notice first isnât how beautiful or intelligent she is (and she is); because with heart and soul, she radiates a warmth and kindness that overwhelm her two most famous characteristics. Iâve had the pleasure of knowing Cynthia since she came to New York to become a…
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Azzedine AlaĂŻa and Me
Azzedine AlaĂŻa, the Tunisian-born French fashion designer, was one of the most influential talents the world of fashion will ever know, and one of the closest people in my life. Heartbreakingly, last week he died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 77. I met Azzedine on a casting call, shortly after I arrived…
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Get Haute for the Holidays With Veronica Marché and Her Line of Gorgeous Greeting Cards
Watching fashion illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison (also known as Veronica MarchĂ©) work is like watching an alchemical process: With a few deft strokes of her brushes, beauty emerges from a blank page. The Philly-based artist is known for her vibrant use of color and elegant silhouettes, and she considers women of color the ultimate muses.…
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In Praise of Sailor J: The Woke AF Beauty Vlogger Weâve Been Waiting For
Sailor J thinks she knows my life. My entire insecure, aggressively honest (or just aggressive), disorganized and easily distracted Aries life. She also does one hell of a bronzed cat eye. The increasingly popular YouTuberâmore than 120,000 subscribers and risingâfirst hit my radar in October with âGetting a Man 101ââ a hilarious yet poignant take…
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I'm a Plus-Size Runner and I Got Heckled at the NYC Marathon
This year, I ran my seventh and eighth marathons within four years of runningâall as a plus-size woman. I ran the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 8 and the New York City Marathon on Nov. 5âfollowed by the New York Road Runners 60K Ultramarathon less than two weeks later. The year 2017 was my most ambitious…
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AfroArt: Immortalizing a New Generation
A few weeks ago, the fashion world swooned upon learning that Rihanna would be a host of the 2018 Met Gala, themed to coincide with the Costume Instituteâs upcoming exhibit, âHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.â Imagining how âBad Gal RiRiââfirst of her name, currently ruler of three simultaneous covers of Vogue Paris (and…