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21 Apr

Beauty YouTube Vlogger, Jackie Aina Calls Out Brands For

Isaac Sterling/Getty Images YouTube sensation Jackie Aina is thought for being outspoken and never shying away from tough conversations on her insanely popular channel. As well as to reviewing the newest mascaras and highlighters, the sweetness vlogger is thought to call out brands — something often surmised from their limited shade offering —who refuse to acknowledge Black women. In her latest video titled “I Don’t See Color,” Aina explains why it’s extremely problematic to dismiss race as insignificant. Through the black and white tutorial, where she does her makeup under the guise of not seeing color, Aina proves just how silly that sounds. The final result is a face of ill-matching foundation with terribly colourful brows and lids. While it’s easy to dismiss the tutorial as silly, it illustrates a vital point....
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16 Apr

Nadine Ijewere & Jawara on Tallawah, the exhibition celebrating

Nadine Ijewere & Jawara on Tallawah, the exhibition celebrating
This week marks five years for the reason that launch of Dazed Beauty! Over the following five days we shall be celebrating this anniversary by bringing you big celebrity interviews, cultural deep dives into the bizarre trends of today, and going back through the archives to resurface a few of our favourite pieces. To cite our co-founder Bunny Kinney in his original editor’s letter, Dazed Beauty is: “an area for us to document, deconstruct and experiment with beauty in all its forms, in every dimension, and tell the stories of the lived experience each one in all us has in our own individual bodies as we navigate the world, each online and off.”...
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4 Apr

KeKe Palmer’s Latest Industrial Reminds Us That There’s Nothing

KeKe Palmer’s Latest Industrial Reminds Us That There’s Nothing
Photo: Getty 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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