With stylists ready to style our hair in the UK, France, Canada and the US, we’re certain Bantu is on to something major. Co-partner of Bantu, Meron Berhe shares the vision behind the app dedicated to Black hair. What made you even think to join Bantu? From as far back as I can remember there…
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Nudes for every skin tone at a drugstore price? Thanks, Maybelline. The creamy formula is where a rich lip balm meets a buildable lipstick. With a shade collection of 10 options, Maybelline’s new Inti-Matte collection shows that they have figured out how to match top trends with affordability. No shade to our favorite intense liquid…
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Kink isn’t the average self-help book or even a natural hair journey memoir. The UK-based ‘Curlture’ founders, Jay-Ann Lopez and Patrina Charles, could not have given this work a better title. The photography centers cocoa-skinned women with 4C hair, TWAs and dreadlocks—skin tones and hair types often under-celebrated in mainstream media. Most of us sport…
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Him: “Is that your real hair? Nevermind, yeah that’s your hair I can tell. Yeah, that’s all you.” Dafuq? He said it so confidently and so damn loud that I didn’t have a chance to actually respond. He also had a full blown, 15-second conversation, aloud, with himself about my hair and it’s potential realness,…
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One swift scroll through the Instagram feed of Natasha Bacchus-Saunders, bka Naturally Tash, and you won’t protest her profile description, which reads “Queen of Temp Hair Colors”. Emoji crowns included! Today, her bouncy ‘fro is a ‘Royal Navy’ blue. Before that, the 38-year old hair colorist and owner of the I Rock My Natural blog…
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You know how you always see those random lipstick colors that look striking in their packaging but you’d never even think of trying? That’s how I felt about this OCC shade called Sebastian. I saw it in Urban Outfitters and tipsily bought it, because two champagne flutes and a random spring day in New York…
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Can we talk about nail polish for a moment? I used to buy one every, single week. It was pathetic. When I first moved to NYC, my internship only gave us $10 a day for lunch. Which meant my mom and dad were paying my rent. Which meant that any money I made from working…
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Mama’s battle with eczema began with an itchiness from barely-there fine bumps that only she could see in the mirror, before covering them with face powder. She was the 30-year old single mom and daughter of a nurse, so heading to the doctor every time a small thing came up just wasn’t the mindset. There…
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Renowned beauty expert Tricia Lee is back with the realness. Brace yourselves. Okay first, seriously: what’s in your beauty bag? A combo of beauty and geek products. I am a beauty expert and have been working in beauty since I was 19 years old. I also love technology and anything that improves efficiency. This is…
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Remember the NYX Cosmetics Wicked Lippies? They were a thing in 2014 and I fell head over heels for them. Lip colors so bold, so bright that most people wouldn’t dare to try them. Especially darker girls like me. But, alas, times are a changing. We’re not afraid of bold makeup, as we shouldn’t be (and shouldn’t…
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