Welcome to Brown Girl, Bright Lips, a series on BB where I showcase some of the tried and true bright colors for my skin tone. From the beginning of my “beauty career”, which I really feel like began when I was 5, I’ve always championed for brown girls to go bold and rock bright lips.…
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It’s still Women’s History Month, which means there’s still time for me to ping some of the women-owned beauty brands and products I’ve been consistently using lately. On my nails: Mischo Beauty and 25th and June have been in my nail arsenal for some time now. First, these brands are 10- and 7-free, making your…
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Another bold color that has been on my mind to try: yellow. I’ve had the MAC lip colors in my stash for some time and made many mental notes to “try” yellow for a few summers now. I am glad to report that I finally sat down and just played around with a few shades…
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I was in the Bahamas with my family, and we were just enjoying a day at the pool. And I happened to notice that many, if not all, of the women there were confident, rocking their bathing suits (many bikinis, some thong bikinis) and seemingly free. Something I hadn’t seen when I was little and…
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Josie Britto is one of those instructors you want to wait after class to talk to because she’s like…everything.
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This Irvington, NJ brown babe has been in my beauty circle since our days at EBONY magazine, and it’s about time that I got her interview up here. Jackie Yates, currently the beauty and style reporter at Good Morning America (Digital) and running her personal site (coming soon), is one of those rare sweethearts that…
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If there was a shade that I’d throw in my purse just seconds before my Uber was about to leave me for the night, it would probably be The Lip Bar’s “Goddess” or “Class Act” shades. Both perfect for a day-to-night transition, giving your pout a subtle sultry moment. “Class Act” is a unique shade;…
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A few weeks ago, I came across Lauren Napier, the beauty maven and owner of La Rose makeup cleansing wipes, mentioning her lack of seeing very editorial, simplified beauty looks on women of color. It was a feeling I’d been having for years and voicing behind closed doors to my girls. Why was it that…
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It’s a quick ode to a cosmetic launch that happened, but only a few remember. I was working at EBONY.com when Sam Fine and Fashion Fair debuted the oldie but goodie, Supreme Color Collection. Probably forgotten by many, I’ll never forget the nostalgia that emerges whenever I pick up this beautiful quad and reminisce on Sam Fine developing…
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Diarrha, product marketing manager at Glossier, and I have something very similar in common: we figured out how to use the few things about ourselves (being black, a woman and a millennial) to navigate the beauty industry to our best abilities. We used the very things that could have possibly excluded us from an industry…
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