Death is everywhere in beauty right now

16 May

If we want to predict the next big trends, we should look inside a casket. The return of gothic fashion, the renewed popularity of vampires in media, and our growing obsession with longevity all suggest that death is never far from our minds. Recently, though, death seems to have become a defining feature of the beauty world beyond the trend cycles of gothic make-up or deathly niche fragrances: it now exists as an aesthetic, a mood, and a mode of contemporary beauty. One obvious place to start is the increasingly widespread use of GLP-1 medication and the return of the ultra-skinny body. While we are all still debating whether it is right, or helpful, to comment on women’s bodies, it is...

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15 May

The Black Women-Owned Beauty Brands ESSENCE Editors Can’t Get

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The Black Women-Owned Beauty Brands ESSENCE Editors Can’t Get

Harry Langdon/Getty Image Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Women’s History Month comes directly after Black History Month, offering a two-month long opportunity to uplift and highlight the experience and accomplishments of Black women. In the beauty field, this means celebrating the far-reaching areas we continue to occupy across skin, body, hair care, makeup, and wellness. Black women-owned beauty brands are making strides in both representation and innovation. As a result, they have earned permanent spots in our bathroom cabinets and deserve one in yours as well. According to the Harvard Kennedy School, only 2.4% of all venture capital funding is invested into women-owned businesses. In a 2021 study focusing on Black women specifically, the percentage was a dismal 0.34%.The stark support gap...

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7 May

Olandria’s Best Red Carpet Beauty & Style Moments –

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Olandria’s Best Red Carpet Beauty & Style Moments –

Chad Salvador/WWD via Getty Images Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Last night, the Met Gala missed out on one star we’ve all been swooning over: Olandria! The morning of the carpet, her makeup artist Ngozi “Esther” Edeme—who did Tyla’s makeup look for the ball and was supposed to do Ola’s—responded to a fan on X about her absence. “They played with our girl y’all. Next time,” she wrote. “I obviously can’t get into what’s happened behind the scenes but it’s not happening this year.” Regardless, it was a missed opportunity as she’s one of the most talked about celebrities—who was trending on X leading up to the Gala—since she left the Love Island villa as the season’s favorite. And, naturally, her red...

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2 May

How tech-inspired SFX is revealing our anxieties about a

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How tech-inspired SFX is revealing our anxieties about a

AI boyfriends, iPad babies, and Sabrina Carpenter Fortnite skins: everywhere you look, the boundaries between technology and the human body are fraying. As we plug in, log on, and upload, our physical selves feel increasingly secondary to the digital versions we present online. This fear of bodily displacement is now being expressed in SFX, a medium long used to dramatise anxieties through the contortions of the human form. But today, it reflects a near-future reality: the absorption of technology into the human body, and the creation of a cybernetic future. In the latest runways we are seeing the emergence of tech-based SFX make-up entangled with the human form. Throughout designer Rohan Mirza’s runways, we see gaming accolades and technology embedded into...

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