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

15 May

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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21 Apr

Black & Burgundy nails #nails #popular #viralvideo #shortsfeed #shortvideo

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19 Apr

Op-Ed: Renaming Black Hairstyles Promotes Erasure – essence.com

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Makeup, Featured

Op-Ed: Renaming Black Hairstyles Promotes Erasure – essence.com

Manny Carabel/Getty Images Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Boxer braids? Buddha knots? Cloud bob? What now? In a since-removed image of Tracee Ellis Ross in a Vogue article about flattering haircuts for thicker hair types, her bouffant afro, beautifully captured framing her face, was instead called something else: a “cloud bob.” While bobs are undoubtedly trending and Ross’s fluffy ‘fro meets the style’s length requirement, the article quickly triggered a unified sentiment: “It’s 2026 and we’re gonna stop Christopher Columbus-ing Black people’s hairstyles,” said creator RaeShanda Lias in a TikTok video with over 70,000 likes (and counting). According to another creator known as certifiedreadergirl on the same platform, “they are trying to erase the afro so white people, particularly the Kardashians and the...

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23 Mar

New Year, same messy me – Black art, soul

by Beautifaire101

Hair

New year, same messy me! This week I’m easing into January with the Nigerian Modernism exhibition, soul food and a hair appointment that didn’t end in tears. I reflect on how I was feeling about management earlier in the year and pose some questions for future me. Young Nola Soul Food restaurant - https://youngnola.co/ Ama hair salon (tell them I recommended you) - https://amashairsalon.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/iamkristabel TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kristabelplummer? My Blog: http://www.iwantyoutoknow.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamkristabel Vinted: https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/145953429-iamkristabel Substack: https://kristabel.substack.com/ Shop my outfits: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/iamkristabel & https://shopmy.us/shop/iamkristabel Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kristabel Vlogs are edited by https://www.elevatevideoediting.com/ My filming equipment Vlogs Canon M50 - http://bit.ly/2SDbhdD Mini folding tripod (similar) - http://bit.ly/2DObSPp iPhone 17 Pro Max Portable tripod for iPhone - https://bit.ly/4dxGbuh Memory Card - http://bit.ly/2DMr0wG DJI Spark Mini Drone - http://bit.ly/2SBxeK8 GoPRO Hero5 - http://bit.ly/2SI0bEj Affiliate links may be used. Find out more...

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