A microsuede voice pipes in with a familiar prompt: Take this time to settle into your seat. Chatter in the room has quieted, lights dimmed, sitz bones rooted into cushioned chairs. A meditation of a sort has begun, only the collective attention is not directed inward (oceanic breathing, relaxed jaws) […]
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Black Friday Beauty Deals 2022: 40 Items From Violet Grey’s Cyber Week Sale
Black Friday, it turns out, is the one calendar event where there is absolutely no room for nostalgia. Once a crush of literal door-buster sales, the shop-a-thon has now relaxed into a multi-day sprawl (Cyber Monday included), the deals all at your fingertips. It’s still dizzying, to be sure, which […]
62 Best Black Friday Beauty and Wellness Deals for Early Cyber Week Shopping
The phrase Cyber Week means different things to different people. Some, with a laser-sharp eye for deals, have earmarked the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales that will net them the Dyson vacuum cleaner or LED face mask of their dreams. To others, the shopping bonanza is reason to run […]
Lizzo’s Hairstylist on The Art and Politics of Baby Hair
Black hair is political, and baby hair—the shorter and finer hairs that exist on one’s hairline and are colloquially called edges—is no exception. In popular culture, styling baby hair finds its roots in finger waves donned by Black female performers of the early 1900s like Josephine Baker, who is credited […]
12 Elevated Scalp Treatments for Soothing Dryness, Flakes, and Beyond
The scalp is often overlooked, literally and figuratively, in favor of all that happens on top. The market is full of products promising shine, length, and volume—but caring for the foundation is integral for strong, healthy hair. The scalp can also become a problem zone if signs of imbalance are […]
16 Beauty Leaders on Reimagining Packaging for a Sustainability-Conscious Age
This may sound like a familiar scene: You’ve reached the final pump of a beloved serum or the last inky swipe from a mascara tube, and before you go to chuck the vessel, you take a look and wonder, “Can I recycle this?” For many beauty products, the answer is […]
How Madelaine Petsch Played the Moschino Golden Girl at the 2022 Met Gala
Moschino under designer Jeremy Scott is a label that knows how to have serious fun at the Met Gala, as proven by the light-up chandelier worn by Katy Perry to the camp-themed party in 2019. But the custom canary-gold look worn by Madelaine Petsch at the 2022 Met Gala Monday […]
Inside Cara Delevingne’s Golden Met Gala Look, from Body Paint to Screen-Star Hair
Cara Delevingne is not known to be shy on a red carpet. For the 2021 Met Gala, the model and actor wore a Dior fencing vest that read “Peg the Patriarchy” (a message more acute after last night’s Supreme Court leak). Meanwhile, for the 2022 Met Gala, her move was […]
Cynthia Erivo’s Met Gala Head Wrap Spoke to Black Women’s History in Louisiana
Cynthia Erivo usually lights up the red carpet through subtle means, tinting her trademark short hair in coordinating shades of mint green or baby pink. But at the 2022 Met Gala, the central gesture—a towering white head wrap, regal in its unassuming way—created a double-take moment alongside her lace Louis […]
How Tommy Dorfman Put a Romantic Twist on Rubber Christopher Kane for the 2022 Met Gala
In the hours before the 2022 Met Gala, designer Christopher Kane offered a clue that his interpretation of the “Gilded Glamour” theme would be characteristically off-kilter, using a punkish assemblage of safety pins to spell out “Met Ball 2022.” By the time Tommy Dorfman took the red carpet in the […]