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1 Oct

Zaya Wade On Receiving ‘Hateful’ Comments About Her Femininity

Zaya Wade On Receiving ‘Hateful’ Comments About Her Femininity
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images In an interview together with her stepmom Gabrielle Union, Zaya Wade opened up in regards to the negative comments she received from people after coming out as trans. The 14-year-old said there was commentary around how she should present herself and she or he selected to reject that advice.  “As a trans person, once I got here out, there was a variety of hateful comments about how I should grow my hair out long or fit right into a certain version of femininity, despite the fact that that’s not true in any respect,” she says. “That type of advice is just attempting to break you, but don’t let it.” In a story earlier this month, we reported that Zaya and...
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30 Sep

Clean Beauty Brands With Highest-growing Online Sales – WWD

Clean Beauty Brands With Highest-growing Online Sales – WWD
While total online beauty sales are down as consumers return to brick-and-mortar shopping, many brands have still managed to see recent growth in online sales volumes. Notably, Olaplex is just not only the most important clean beauty brand in total online beauty sales, but additionally the top-growing, posting 39 percent year-over-year growth in online sales within the 12 months ending July 2022, versus the 12 months prior.  Trailing behind Olaplex are Not Your Mother’s Hair Care and Supergoop, which saw respective increases of 23 percent and 21 percent throughout the same period. The highest decliners in online sales were Fresh, BareMinerals and Drunk Elephant, which saw decreases of 40 percent, 31 percent and 18 percent, respectively.  In its evaluation, 1010data defined “clean” beauty...
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28 Sep

‘Black People Are All the things:’ Stars Have a

‘Black People Are All the things:’ Stars Have a
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