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On the Real: Body-Positive Models Took Over Times Square for a Guerrilla-Style Lingerie Show
In âWe canât believe we missed thisâ news: Blame it on the holidays, but our thoughts are definitely indoors these days. And as we blessedly begin to wind down during the holiday season (in favor of the actual holidays), our biggest fashion aspirations involve staying stylish in âsweater weather.â But the plunging temps didnât stop…
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Celebrating Ourselves: A Toast to #TeamNatural
The year 2017 was a good year for black hair. Solange did the absolute most, impressing us with African-inspired avant-garde hairstyles. Then there was Erykah Baduâaka âSara Bellum,â aka âFat Belly Bella,â aka âMedulla Oblongata,â aka âLow Down Loretta Brown,â aka âAnalogue Girl in a Digital Worldââwho pushed all the way through in what she…
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These Ainât Red Bottoms: Cardi Bâs Putting Her Foot in a New Collab With Steve Madden
Our favorite regular, degular, shmegular reality/rapping phenom keeps making âmoney moves.â This week, Cardi B debuted a curated selection from fast-fashion fave Steve Madden, a partnership that makes her signature style accessible to the masses who can only dream about owning a pair of âred bottoms.â And while famed shoe designer Christian Louboutin may be…
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Gift Black: These Black-Owned Headwear Brands Have Got You Covered
With Christmas just weeks away, the hunt for the perfect gift is in full force. With black folksâ buying power expected to rise to $1.3 trillion this year, according to a Nielsen consumer report, the importance of buying from black-owned businesses is growing as we grow. An analysis of black entrepreneurship suggested that if we…
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Gift the People What They Want! Why Beauty Is the Best Buy on Our Christmas Lists
The Skin Store polled 2,000 American women to find out the five most important items on their lists this holiday season. Turns out itâs not as hard to make a woman happy as you might thinkâwe want more beauty in our lives! (And cash, but thatâs another story.) From twinkling eye shadows to top facial…
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Mahalo for the Holidays! Sephora Features Its 1st Afro-Hawaiian Beauty … and So, So Much More
That skin. That glow. That hair. Sephoraâs 2017 holiday campaign features a new crop of modelsâfreshly plucked from their very own stores. We got hip to this via Anne Branigin, The Rootâs news fellow, and instantly fell in love with Afro-Hawaiian curve-tastic beauty TaĂja, giving us urban-Moana realness. (Yes, we know the character Moana isnât…
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Sing Your Own Praises … Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 3
âYou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.â âBuddha Since the beginning of the month, weâve made a commitment to show up for ourselves with a little bit more love. If youâve been following along with us, we started off our December journey to self-love by practicing the…
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Mind Your Plate, Not My Stomach:Â Surviving the Holidays With Judgmental Loved Ones
Some of us are looking forward to burying our faces in Christmas dinner with friends and family in a brief 10 days. Hopefully, your dinner will be blessed with someone who has gifted culinary hands when it comes to baked macaroni and cheeseâand Iâm not talking about the disrespectful and disgusting remakes making the rounds…
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Sephora Is Selling a $38 Jar of Coconut Oil, and Black Women Everywhere Are Unimpressed
Itâs the holiday season, so Iâve put myself on a bit of a moratorium from my usual Sephora habit, since Iâm pretty sure Iâm not the only one who deserves presents this Christmas. That said, I occasionally get my fix by drifting through its virtual aisles and living vicariously through friendsâ shopping sprees, which is…
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This Christmas: Less Stuff, More Love
This year, Iâm less about stuff under the tree and more about substance in my life. Everyone is asking me what I want, and I keep drawing a blank. The thrill of materialism just ainât what it used to be. Somehow itâs all Gucci for me this yearâwithout the Gucci. What I want lies more…