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17 Oct

6 Beauty Brands Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month –

6 Beauty Brands Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month –
Spooky season isn’t the one focus in October, as this month also symbolizes Breast Cancer Awareness. Whether you’re honoring your family members with the normal ribbon, rocking your pink, or walking for the cure, our favourite beauty brands are opening their wallets to support research with just a few limited-edition releases which are price adding to the routine.  Essence has played an enormous role in sharing the stories of Black women and their breast cancer journeys, like media personality Ananda Lewis who was diagnosed with stage three of the disease in 2020, or legendary singer Mary J Blige, who recently learned the depths of breast cancer. “I didn’t find out about breast cancer or mammograms until I used to be 40,”...
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16 Oct

Pat McGrath Labs Goes Big in Britain, Opening at

Pat McGrath Labs Goes Big in Britain, Opening at
Pat McGrath Labs is preparing to take the U.K., and judging from the enthusiastic response during a recent Claridge’s event, the nationwide rollout is long overdue. Dame Pat McGrath held beauty writers in her thrall as she presented the spring 2023 season’s runway looks, upcoming trends and a choice of her brand’s products. She also talked about wearing face tapes; argued that her Divine Skin: Rose 001 The Essence was adequate to drink; and, at one point, picking up an eyeliner, said: “You may all do that kohl look — I don’t want any excuses.” Through the event, McGrath’s pal Guido Palau swung by to say hello – a move that elicited a fast round of applause from the audience — while Nicolas...
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16 Oct

Behind the Photo: The ‘Heroic Beauty’ on Omaha Beach

Behind the Photo: The ‘Heroic Beauty’ on Omaha Beach
The morning after greater than 130,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, US Army Signal Corps photographer Pfc. Walter Rosenblum captured one of the iconic images of the invasion — a black-and-white photograph of 2nd Lt. Walter Sidlowski recovering from a harrowing rescue effort to avoid wasting a gaggle of soldiers from drowning. Rosenblum would later describe Sidlowski in that moment because the vision of “heroic beauty.”It was June 7, 1944, or D-Day+1. Sidlowski, a freshly commissioned US...
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