Is transparency the wonder industry’s newest trend?

14 Apr

The organic beauty industry is growing, with latest ‘natural’ brands cropping up left, right and centre, but are the entire ingredients used actually organic, or are we being ‘greenwashed’ into spending our money on uncertified products? Warning: this text may ignite a real-life Mean Girls Regina George Kalteen bar type realisation, except you haven’t unknowingly been eating carb bars on the reg. It’s less about what you’ve been putting into your body, and more to do with what you’ve been putting on it – for instance, that ‘all-natural’ argan oil face cream you’ve been slathering on thick and fast… The organic beauty industry is growing. In keeping with the Soil Association Certification, sales in...

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13 Mar

MAC’s Newest Collaboration Has a ‘Star Trek’ Theme –

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MAC Whether you thought Captain Kirk was dreamy, wanted Spock to be your bestie or simply thought that Uhura was cool—or should you still take photos holding your index and middle finger together, separating them from pairing your ring and pinky fingers—it looks something like this: Either way, you’ll be pleased to know that MAC announced their newest collaboration and it's a beauty Trekky’s dream! Inspired by the enduring galactic adventures of Captain Kirk and his space crew, the Star Trek X MAC collection is valiantly venturing to go where no cosmetic has ever gone before in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek. “Star Trek is an iconic popular culture phenomena whose storylines pushed gender and racial boundaries. For its...

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26 Feb

How the vulva became body positivity’s newest frontier

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With so many individuals with vulvas still experiencing deep shame and anxiety, campaigners and artists are resulting in movement to normalise and have fun the nice diversity of vaginas We're entering the age of the vulva*. If you happen to are sceptical, take stock of the present popular culture landscape for a moment. Consider Cara Delevingne gleefully crawling through her vagina tunnel, of Janelle Monae’s vagina trousers in her “Pynk” music video. Consider Goop’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle and Erykah Badu’s “Badussy” incense crafted from burning her own underwear; of celebrities left, right, and centre shilling sex toys. Slowly but surely, vulvas are making their way into the cultural conversation, a suitable...

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28 Oct

Exclusive: Victoria Monét & Latto Are Camille Rose’s Newest

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Photo: Courtesy of Camille Rose. Camille Rose founder Janell Stephens has all the time moved with intentionality. This was the case from when she began making products in her kitchen for her eczema-prone kids in 2011, to now having best sellers just like the Algae Deep Conditioner or their Spiked Honey Mousse. But this journey surely hasn’t all the time been a straightforward one. “So many individuals wanted to vary my ingredients and make the products into something that wasn’t so natural,” Stephens tells ESSENCE. “I made sure I didn’t allow that to occur.” Trusting her gut can also be what led her to, as of today, partner with two icons within the making: rapper Latto, and singer and the ESSENCE...

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