Featured Posts

To top
Title Image

Guide Tag

17 Sep

A Guide To Lasers – WWD

As summer involves an end, dark spots, sun damage and emerging high quality lines could also be top of mind. Lasers are a high-tech, efficacious strategy to address these common skin concerns and lots of consumers are increasingly desirous about them, thanks partially to social media.  “Most individuals who ask me about laser facials have concerns about their pimples scarring, hyperpigmentation, pore sizes and wrinkles/high quality lines,” says Soyoki Abo, aesthetician, certified beautician and founding father of Abosoyoki, a Recent York City-based skin service studio. “They often see different sorts of treatments on TikTok and Instagram and so they’re inquisitive about them and need to try on their skin.”  With education — good and bad — taking hold on social media, several...
Continue reading
16 Sep

WWD’s Ultimate Guide to Concept Stores

Visit an idea store as of late and you would possibly come home with a cactus, a biography, a lip balm — or a dining room suite — along along with your fix of designer clothes and accessories. Here, WWD rounds up a collection of creative retail destinations that promise to surprise, and keep the torch alive for creative merchandising. The Americas Wdlt117 7 St. Thomas Street, Toronto The concept: A Victorian-era brick town house shelters a sleek industrial space, and a rambling collection of edgy brands from Europe and Asia. Claim to fame: Clothes, gifts, homewares, fragrances and accessories which have a distinctiveness of view. The shop name is an abbreviation of “wanderlust” and managing director Jason Morikawa says the goal is for patrons to...
Continue reading
4 Sep

A guide to skincare for cigarette smokers

Cigarettes are terrible to your health and your skin – listed below are some skincare tricks to make it easier to minimise the damage done until you might be ready to quit Wellness is out, sleaze is in – not less than in some grungy corners of popular culture. On the one hand, we're still a society very much obsessive about achieving skin so hydrated it resembles a dewy glazed donut. Nevertheless, the past 12 months has seen a kickback against the infatuation with optimised health that the age of wellness ushered in: trends like indie sleaze, and the controversial “return” of heroin chic. An unmistakable smell of smoke can be within the...
Continue reading
18 Aug

Wax, Sugar, or Shave? Essence Beauty Guide to Hair

Image courtesy of Belle’s Wax Studio From vellus hair to leg hair, and all of the hair in between, hair removal is a monthly (or weekly) beauty regimen for a lot of Black women. Whether you remove hair with a razor in the lavatory or book a dermatologist appointment for laser removal, a hair-free body would be the preferred appearance. Nonetheless, the beautification of hair removal in Africa and the diaspora could also be more of a results of cultural conditioning.  In West Africa, Igbo women were stereotyped as hairy in literature like Igbo Village Affairs with pubic hair in connection to pride. In Zimbabwe, the Shona people saw pubic hair as an emblem of fertility; in Latest Guinea, for the Kwoma...
Continue reading