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The Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Willow Smith, Mereba, and More Vogue 2/7/2021
Turquoise lids decked the feeds of Instagram this past week. Ebonee Davis shared a behind-the-scenes shot from her Savage x Fenty shoot wearing sea-green shadow and baby pink lip gloss courtesy of makeup artist Priscilla Ono. Gabrielle Richardson got the memo as well, with an aquamarine wash of pigment across the eyes. “Keeping things intimate, personal, and up close,” she wrote in the caption. Meanwhile singer Mereba lined her lower lash line with a blue-green wash of eyeshadow, pairing the pop of color with twists and glowing skin.
Go Behind The Scenes Of Our Cover Shoot With Rihanna
Fine artist Lorna Simpson and Rihanna collaborated to reinterpret the narrative of modern-day beauty for our January/February issue.
For more than 30 years, fine artist Lorna Simpson has recontextualized images of Black women from vintage pages of Ebony and Jet magazines, creating arresting collages. Now in an ESSENCE exclusive, the esteemed artist collaborates with global fashion and beauty entrepreneur Robyn Rihanna Fenty.
During the shoot, Zora Simpson Casebere assisted her mother, Lorna Simpson, as a stand- in for Rihanna. For the 22-year-old writer and actor, stepping in for the singer who helped shape her womanhood was a full-circle moment.
Essence magazine’s January/February issue. Caroline Goldstein very accurately refers to
Essence’s new cover as “ravishing” we couldn’t agree more. For full article and a photo gallery of Simpson’s spectacular photos, see
We still haven’t gotten a new album from Rihanna yet, but fans can be at least partly assuaged with the release of Essence magazine’s January/February issue, which features none other than Bad Girl Riri on the cover photographed Lorna Simpson.
The collaboration between Rihanna and the acclaimed artist is an extension of Simpson’s ongoing project reinterpreting images of Black women who have posed the pages of Ebony and Jet magazines. The cover shot and 12-page portfolio inside the magazine are titled “Earth & Sky,” and feature the Barbados-born singer and businesswoman dressed in designer clothing from the likes of Prada, Rick Owens, Hood by Air, and her own Savage X Fenty.