One and a half hours late. Came in carelessly eating. Brought her daughter along. Best weave I’ve ever gotten. Worst service I’ve ever experienced. And yet, I said nothing. Nothing to the stylist that I loved to death, but finally had it up to here with in regard to her poor service. The plan was…
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We know his deal. We know that Kanye got on and left all his Black exes for a “white girl”. It’s set in stone that he either a) just doesn’t give a damn about what we say in retaliation to his fuckery, or b) literally sees nothing wrong with how he “silently” dismisses women who…
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No one really cares if Alicia wears makeup or not. The truth is that whenever a person, more specifically a woman, makes a decision about her life and in this case, her beauty and how she wants to look on her terms, people get mad and offended and all hell breaks loose. Why? Because society…
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Let me preface this by saying that I used to model on the Today Show while an intern for their style editor, Bobbie Thomas, back around 2011. I only mention this because I understand the process (as much as I can remember) of how a fashion and beauty segment is put together and executed. If…
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Glossier has a few running ads for their Perfecting Skin Tint moisturizer and also has a few chic videos of models applying their Stretch Concealer and Boy Brow filler. Their skin tint and concealer are two products that honestly work best for women who don’t really have problem skin. The skin tint coverage is extremely…
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For some reason, I never thought about the issue of people touching my natural hair until it actually happened. My friends and relatives who I know personally do it, but what about when it’s a stranger—who’s white? I’ve felt beautiful, ugly, insecure, nappy, good, bad, #flawless, and flawed the five years I’ve been natural. Accepting…
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When I wrote my post as to why I didn’t think Michael B. Jordan was bashing black people—particularly women—in his GQ interview, I was simply trying to address some of the allegations plaguing him as a self-hater. In each article I read, there were a minority of positive comments and content. It left me wondering,…
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If it’s one thing I learned about brown women in 2015, it’s that we are unfuckwithable. Meaning, we are not to be played with in any capacity, whatsoever. We made moves, we lost weight, we started blogs, we told it like it was, we loved, we started movements, and we uplifted each other in ways…
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This weekend’s comments by Ayesha Curry hit a nerve. After tweeting her feelings about how she’s not into the “trend” that is “wearing less clothes” (if that’s even a trend right now), I was taken aback by how so many women couldn’t wait to jump in and put down women who choose to wear clothes…
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Magazines, movies, television, music videos, model agencies, casting directors, relatives, friends, Internet bullies. All of the above will tell us what they think is normal or beautiful in regard to Black beauty, but I didn’t expect it to come from my dentist office. Or, did it? When I was growing up, I was teased tremendously…
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