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20 Jan

I Discovered My Recent Favorite Protective Style, French Curl

Have you ever ever been on the hair salon only to appreciate that each other client within the room is getting the identical hairstyle… apart from you? This was me during my recent trip back home to Ghana. As I sat in my favorite salon in Accra, I noticed I used to be the one person not getting French curl braids. Also often called Nollywood braids, this regal type of box braids starts with neatly parted thin braids and cascades into voluminous curls at the top. “The appeal [of this style] is the silky, bouncy look of the braids, not to say they're lightweight,” says Nigerian content creator, hairstylist, and owner of Chi’s Luxe Braiding hair Chinyere “Chi-Chi” Adogu. And...
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30 Nov

This perfumer discovered the scent of pure evil –

David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi’s brand Toskovat creates concept-based perfumes designed to evoke memories, from a Christmas-themed critique of capitalism with notes of cocaine, to a scent that reveals we're all just moths to the flame of evil The creator of Toskovat doesn’t want you to wear his perfume. Specifically, Inexcusable Evil – a scent that incorporates notes of blood, bandages and burning flowers. “I actually despise the smell,” he tells Dazed, speaking from his creative hub in Romania. David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi is the Bucharest-based nose behind this small batch perfumery that’s drawn a surge of interest amid an increase in perfumes with creative, unusual and even disturbing accords. “If we lived in a greater world, there...
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12 Jun

Joan Ballard, pioneering Portland wrestler, discovered her true self

It was a late afternoon in April when Joan Ballard received the invitation to revisit a world she’d left behind way back.The lifelong Portlander, 86, lives alone. Her parents and two siblings have died, and he or she never married. She showers love on Lulu, a small dog that barks at visitors.Ballard settled in a straightforward chair that Tuesday and held the ticket that, if she wished, would take her back to the wild lifestyle that when defined her. She dismissed the offer with a wave of her hand.“That,” she said, “is prior to now.”A past that involved throwing other women around a tattered canvas ring and crashing down on top of them. All to the hoots and cheers of...
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27 Oct

5 Beauty Trends We Discovered On Tiktok This Week

Nowadays, with regards to learning in regards to the latest trends, people head over to TikTok to see what’s getting people excited. With nearly a billion users, it should come as no surprise that the favored app is the place to be for maintaining with current trends. With the power to create short stories which can be grouped together using popular hashtags, songs, or sound effects, users are capable of populate recent trends every day, which is partly the explanation why TikTok is one of the creative and entertaining social media platforms up to now.  This week, as we scrolled through our Discover page, we became fascinated by numerous recent beauty trends which can be starting to seem in real life as we...
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