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Ultimate Guide to Last-Minute Mother’s Day 2025 Gifts

Mother’s Day is May 11, but it’s not too late to show the woman who did your laundry for years how much you love her.
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The Powerful Hidden Meanings Behind All These Met Gala Looks Tell a Deeper Story You Missed

From Damson Idris to Teyana Taylor, there’s more to these celebs’ outfits than what meets the eye.
17 Fashion Trainwrecks from Met Gala 2025
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17 Fashion Trainwrecks from Met Gala 2025

While some celebs at the Met Gala really understood the assignments, others had us twisting our thumbs down.
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TikTok Thinks ‘The White Lotus’ Star Wore Rosa Parks’ Face on Her Panties For the 2025 Met Gala, and Folks are Pissed

Lisa Manobal’s lacy look has started a viral conversation online.

  • 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 Institute’s upcoming exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Imagining how “Bad Gal RiRi”—first of her name, currently ruler of three simultaneous covers of Vogue Paris (and…

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  • A Tale of Lost Edges: Don’t Try This at Home

    Girl. Today in “What is you doin’?” news: Popular beauty blogger Gigi Beauty shared a very personal—and teachable—moment 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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  • 24-Karat Magic: Issa Rae Has Us Wanting to Get Gilded

    Yeah … she cute. Issa Rae stole our hearts once again Monday with her Insecure-inspired CoverGirl ad for its new Melting Pout Metallics line. We love Issa’s signature, self-monologuing humor and this gorgeously shot spot, and will definitely be test-driving her bronzed-lip look. (Issa’s rocking 24 Karat available here.) But alas, these shades are limited…

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  • Everything but the Burden: Why We’re 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. Today’s transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to “love skin of all colors”—which 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 Victoria’s Secret Runway Got More Colorful This Year … but Is It Enough?

    “I’m rooting for everybody black.” Issa Rae’s 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 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which aired last night on CBS. This year’s…

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  • Welcome to The Glow Up! 

    What’s up, gorgeous?! If we haven’t yet met, I’m Veronica Webb, a woman with 30 years of experience in the fashion industry under my proverbial Gucci belt. I’m 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…

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