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19 Apr

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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13 Apr

Op-Ed: Coco Gauff’s Hair Isn’t ‘Unkept’—You’re Just Anti-Black –

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Op-Ed: Coco Gauff’s Hair Isn’t ‘Unkept’—You’re Just Anti-Black –

Instagram / @cocogauff Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In the Black community, being “presentable” often means having your hair “done.” And, by “done,” that means having your natural hair texture politely hidden. To the point, even tennis star Coco Gauff’s textured bun in a Miu Miu ad was subject to that same anti-Black rhetoric this week. After taking a month-long social media detox, Gauff said she returned to X to see thousands of people talking about the way she looks. “And, not in a positive way,” she nervously chuckled in a response video on TikTok. The discourse around her hair started one week ago when she posted a Miu Miu ad of her wearing a natural-textured bun on Instagram. ...

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11 Apr

Get Ready With Junelle Bromfield For Her Wedding With

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Get Ready With Junelle Bromfield For Her Wedding With

Photos by Stan Lo Photography. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… It’s only right that track star Junelle Bromfield was glowing for her “all shades of melanin”-themed wedding to Noah Lyles on April 4th. Naturally, the stunner “doesn’t wear much makeup,” as she tells ESSENCE right before the big day. That said, for her bridal look, “I’m going for foundation, setting powder, concealer, mascara, lip liner for sure, and lip gloss,” she shares of the glam, done by Tia Codrington of YSBeautyCo, that helped her natural beauty shine through. “I didn’t really have any inspiration, I just am trusting the glam team to do what they do!” Topping it all off? Her silky half-up, half-down ‘do, by Estylez, that featured a face framing...

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18 Mar

The Beauty And Wellness Trends ESSENCE Editors Are Practicing

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The Beauty And Wellness Trends ESSENCE Editors Are Practicing

McKeown/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… With every new year comes the urge to try something, well, new. But, unlike a typical “resolution,” 2026 is all about low pressure beauty and wellness trends that feel as right as they look. It could be a fresh hair color, trying out trending wellness tools, actually wearing sunscreen, or even consciously taking more time away from your phone, and instead, investing in hobbies that force you to slow down. Ahead, 6 ESSENCE Editors tell all about the beauty and wellness trends they’re practicing in 2026. India Espy-Jones, Contributing Beauty Editor In 2026, the biggest wellness trend I’m practicing is being present, unplugging (I expect going offline to be more popular this year), doing a...

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