Beauty Tag
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We support the LGBTQIA+ community at Essence all 12 months, but during Pride Month, we make an additional effort to disrupt the conversation about gender, identity, and freedom.
We, as a people, will now not accept society’s antiquated ideals of traditional constructs, but as an alternative will enable people to seek out strength wherever they will.
This Pride Month, Essence is recognizing beauty businesses which are supporting the LBGTQIA+ community by donating to charities that help queer folx throughout their journey to self-discovery, providing them with the support they need.
The sweetness brands listed ahead are doing the work, showing up and showing love as allies to the LGBTQIA+ community, ensuring all of us stand in harmony...
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“I’m very much coming out of my character, coming back into me,” said FKA twigs.
The multifaceted talent — a singer, songwriter, dancer and actress — just wrapped filming Rupert Sanders’ “The Crow,” opposite Bill Skarsgård.
“Today has been really fun, since it’s the primary time that I feel that I’m back to myself,” she added, backstage at a pop-up event for Viktor & Rolf in Los Angeles. She’s the face of the brand’s latest fragrance, Good Fortune.
Beauty is a transformative tool, whether it’s used for filmmaking to embody a task or preforming on stage as a part of a persona. Nevertheless it’s also deeply personal. Finding herself again, FKA twigs had on her “staple, go-tos,” in braids, a lined lip, strong...
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Illustration by Mathilde Crétier
This story first appeared within the May/June 2022 issue of ESSENCE.
Within the last decade, millennials’ digital self-care movement combined with a widespread embrace of social media to create a multifaceted interest in how we appeared to others online. Out of this, wellness gurus emerged, some certified, others winging it as they advocated compassion for our physical selves. It became common to see tutorials for hair and skincare not only from celebrities, but additionally from our homegirls. Nonetheless, together with the proliferation of wellness content got here a deluge of misinformation in regards to the way we take care of ourselves, particularly for our skin.
Lately, and particularly for the reason that onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this...
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