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25 Sep

Abbi Jacobson Talks Centering Black Women In The Reimagined

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20 Sep

TS Madison Talks Being Sampled On ‘Renaissance:’ ‘You Never

TS Madison is the queen of hearts. The unfiltered, hilarious thoughts she shares online have gained her a legion of fans and thrust her into virality time and time again. The widely shared moments range from an early Vine of Madison yelling “Recent weave, 22 inches” to a more recent one where she finds out that Selena was, in reality, not Puerto Rican. The social media and tv personality has funneled the eye into money-making ventures. Over the past three years, she’s pierced the mainstream with a 2-episode guest slot on RuPaul’s Drag Race and a task within the award-winning 2020 film Zola. She also made history as the primary trans woman to executive produce and host a reality series, The...
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20 Sep

Unilever’s Cara Sabin Talks Her Latest Role, SheaMoisture’s Amplified

Growing up as a self-professed tomboy, Cara Sabin at all times thought the sweetness industry was frivolous. As an alternative of pursuing something near the traditionally female-dominated fields, she decided to go down a more practical route and leaned toward her interest in business. Mockingly though, while pursuing her MBA, she learned the sweetness industry was more aligned together with her passion than she thought. “As I entered the workforce, about five years after business school, is after I had my first beauty project at L’Oreal,” the Duke University graduate shared with ESSENCE. “And once I entered the industry, I just completely fell in love. It’s just all the things from how fast-paced and the way competitive the environment. And...
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11 Sep

Jill Kargman Talks Signature Look, Favorite Chanel Foundation –

From “Snow White” to “Sicilian Widow,” Jill Kargman has heard all of it. The creator, actress and author has a signature look — raven black hair and alabaster skin, set off with red accents on lips and nails — that’s as distinctive as her body of labor. “My mom’s description is ‘Sicilian Widow,’ simply because I really like black and usually, I wear black. I actually have a fear of color,” laughed Kargman. Kargman’s taste extends to her work as well. She showcased her aesthetic in “Odd Mom Out,” the scripted Bravo series she created and starred in that satirized parents in Recent York’s upper echelons that was based off of her book, “Momzillas.” Through the pandemic, she took to Instagram to showcase...
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