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This Black-Owned Brand Has the Perfect Nude for Brown-Skin Girls—No Lip Liner Required!

This Black-Owned Brand Has the Perfect Nude for Brown-Skin Girls—No Lip Liner Required!

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Like so many of you, I’m spending more time on camera than ever. These days, I’m trying to find a balance between trying to look like my usual self but not doing too much. A bold red lip doesn’t quite hit the same when you’re always in the house!

Propa Beauty may…

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I'm Getting Married! ...Sometime.

I’m Getting Married! …Sometime.

What can I say—the title pretty much says it all! I’m getting married! My fiancé, Brian, proposed to me after he took me to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at New York City Center back in January. I totally knew it was coming; I accidentally peeped the ring in his top drawer earlier in the day. With my usual inability to control my reactions or keep a secret, I immediately yelped, began…

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Around Here: My Colorful Brooklyn Home

Around Here: My Colorful Brooklyn Home

Light filters into the room through two domed 5 ft windows.

It’s Sunday morning in Brooklyn and the light pouring into the living room paints the walls with streaks of sun. This is life around my way these days. It’s been about three and a half years since I moved back to New York and a short five months since my boyfriend Brian and I moved into this cozy apartment in the neighborhood of…

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The Met Gala and a Blog Reborn

The Met Gala and a Blog Reborn

I am back. Let me rise from the ashes on this most sacred of days. . It is a day of deep analysis and reflection where we gather together to reflect upon the previous night’s events— it is the day after the Met Gala.

Too much?

It is true that this morning, I woke up inspired. It has been a while since I’ve seen a fashion event and just breathed, “YES.” This year’s gala theme was “Heavenly Bodies:…

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Hide Hyperpigmentation: The Brown Girl's Guide

Hide Hyperpigmentation: The Brown Girl’s Guide

Raise your hand if you were blessed with perfect skin! No hands? Yeah, I thought so. Even those among us who have “pretty good skin” tend to have some things that they’d like to refine and polish. I, like so many other women of color, deal with a bit of hyperpigmentation. Hyperpigmentationoccurs when too much melanin, the very essence of #BlackGirlMagic, gathers in the skin. Hyperpigmentation…

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TRS, Welcome to New York!

TRS, Welcome to New York!

Don’t be mad at me, please. TRS fam, I KNOW that I have abandoned you this summer. Before you swear me off forever, I promise I have a good reason: I MOVED! Yup, your girl packed her bags and crammed her copious amount of stuff into her car and drove up north. I spent the early part of the summer hanging out in New Jersey, safe and well taken care of thanks to some amazing family friends. It…

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Michelle Rodriguez tells trans people to “calm down” over (Re)Assignment

Michelle Rodriguez says take a chill pill. The actress responded to criticism of her movie (Re)Assignment, about an assassin forced to undergo sex transition surgery, by saying it’s not deep and people need to calm down. This echoes her previous statement where she argued why trans people should be grateful.

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Why do people continue to ask this woman her thoughts about anything? There are many actors who are smart. There are many actors who are Michelle Rodriguez.

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Jimmy Fallon handled Trump with the softest of kid gloves last night, even by late night standards — and many are responding in anger. One smart tweet about The Roots hit the nail on the head.

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Francesca Liberatore September 2016. #NYFW

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This was my first NYFW show. When I left, it wasn't really the clothes that stuck with me but the idea that what is presented as beautiful and what is real are two very different things.

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On Sept. 11, 2001, two men arrived at the ticket counter late for American Airlines Flight 77 out of Dulles International Airport. This was before the days of the Transportation Security Administration, when airport security was quite different from what it is today. At the time, the man working at the counter, Vaughn Allex, followed procedure and checked them through.

Those two men were among the five hijackers who crashed that flight into the Pentagon — killing 189 people, including themselves.

“I didn’t know what I had done,” Allex recalls, on a recent visit with StoryCorps, in Potomac Falls, Va. He didn’t find out until the next day what had happened. “I came to work and people wouldn’t look at me in the eye.” Officials handed him the manifest for the flight. “I just stared at it for a second and then I looked up, I go, ‘I did it, didn’t I?’”

On Sept. 11, He Checked Hijackers Onto Flight 77. It’s Haunted Him Ever Since

Illustration: Matt Huynh for StoryCorps

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It used to be so different.

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Earlier this year I was quoted saying I’d rather have an enema than an Emmy, but thanks to the Television Academy I can have both!

RuPaul, while accepting the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program 

(More: why he doesn’t need your validation)

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Cynthia Erivo sings “You Will Be Found” from new musical Dear Evan Hansen at Elsie Fest. 

This could be played on the radio right now.

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Every since I saw The Color Purple, I have been lightly obsessed with this woman.

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You Glow! Review: Marc Jacobs Glow Stick on Dark Skin

You Glow! Review: Marc Jacobs Glow Stick on Dark Skin

Glow. Glow. Glow. Word on the street is that if you say it three times you can make it so. I personally believe that my highlight is the foremost way in which I win friends and influence people, so you need to know that I am treating this review like SERIOUS BUSINESS. Thankfully, the Marc Jacobs Beauty Glow Stick Illuminator is worth it.

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CoverGirl Queen Collection= Black Girl Magic

CoverGirl Queen Collection= Black Girl Magic

CoverGirl Queen Collection. These three words add up to unending possibilities for Black Girl Magic. CoverGirl’s line of lipsticks, bronzers, foundations, eyeliners and mascaras are specifically marketed to all of us brown girls; a group of women who are often overlooked when it comes to beauty.

She’s Your Queen To Be!

When I walk down the aisle of the drugstore, sometimes it feels like I’m…

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Never Say "I Don't Have Time" With These 7 Beauty Essentials

Never Say “I Don’t Have Time” With These 7 Beauty Essentials

I am not a morning person. Don’t try to change me or send me any articles promising to teach me how to be a morning person– you’re just going to have to accept me as I am. Since I am well aware that I am not always at my best first thing in the morning, I have 7 beauty essentials in my bag at all times.

When it comes to putting together a beauty essentials kit, you’ve got to assess your own…

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