April 2025
When Jenna decided to ditch her smartphone last summer, she wasn’t expecting it to make her feel more beautiful. Like many, she was simply fed up with the mindless scrolling that left her with the lingering feeling that she was missing out on her real life. So, she purchased a ‘dumbphone’ with no social media apps and limited functionality; a phone that could make calls and send texts, but does little else. Six months on, the choice has transformed how she feels about her appearance. Now, when Jenna looks within the mirror she seems like she looks younger and more attractive than she did this time last 12 months. Meanwhile, she has stopped wearing make-up almost entirely.
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TAN by Aki Murakami | Fall Winter 2025/2026 | Full Fashion Show (Widescreen/4K - Tokyo Fashion Week/Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo) #TAN #FW25 #RakutenFWT
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Receiving an NAACP Image Award and a BET Young Stars Award are big accomplishments. Actress and TV host Keke Palmer has been awarded each prestigious honors, but she says to at the present time, her best accomplishment is showing Black girls “that there's nothing they will’t achieve.”
The 26-year-old reminded us on Tuesday night when she shared her first Olay Body industrial to Instagram with a heart-touching message.
Palmer became the brand new spokesperson for the brand last month, and in an interview with ESSENCE, she discussed what it means for representation in the wonder industry. Palmer says it “is so necessary.”
“I used to look at these sorts of commercials on television after I was a little bit girl, and really rarely,...
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