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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 runningāall as a plus-size woman. I ran the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 8 and the New York City Marathon on Nov. 5āfollowed 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 Instituteās upcoming exhibit, āHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.ā Imagining how āBad Gal RiRiāāfirst of her name, currently ruler of three simultaneous covers of Vogue Paris (and…
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A Tale of Lost Edges: Donāt Try This at Home
Girl. Today in āWhat is you doinā?ā news: Popular beauty blogger Gigi Beauty shared a very personalāand teachableāmoment with her fan base, ending with a very big reveal: Girl. Through nervous laughter, Gigi explained that a beauty experiment (read: bad idea) had compelled her to relax her hair not once, but twice. In one day.…
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Everything but the Burden: Why Weāre Done Getting Mad Over Makeup
Here we go again: Another day, another blackface makeup tutorial. Cue the moral outrage … and another horrible human goes viral. Todayās transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to ālove skin of all colorsāāwhich likely inspired this idiocy, after he apparently ran out of other looks and cultures to imitate. Of course,…
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Winged Victory: The Victoriaās Secret Runway Got More Colorful This Year … but Is It Enough?
āIām rooting for everybody black.ā Issa Raeās now-famous quote from the 2017 Emmys is the gift that keeps on giving. Case in point: Now, in the season of giving, it was the exact phrase that came to my mind while watching the 2017 Victoriaās Secret Fashion Show, which aired last night on CBS. This yearās…
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Welcome toĀ The Glow Up!Ā
Whatās up, gorgeous?! If we havenāt yet met, Iām Veronica Webb, a woman with 30 years of experience in the fashion industry under my proverbial Gucci belt. Iām proud to be known as one of the original supermodels to rule the runway and slay magazine covers, and as the first black model in history to…