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This Is a Love Letter to Edges
We asked image activist Michaela angela Davis to write a piece inspired by all that edges have done for Black women past, present, and future. By Michaela angela Davis Jun 9, 2021
Black hair is rain forest, lush and ancient like El Yunque¹. It’s an endless field of fluffy cotton blossoms nestled in prickly claws, rising out of wet, dark-red Georgia dirt. It’s the deep Mediterranean Sea with secret wild gardens growing up from the murky Egyptian floor. And like the Ogun² and Combahee³ Rivers, it is powerful and mysterious and can hold a hundred generations’ worth of secrets. And at its shorelines the ones that frame beautiful Black, brown, and beige faces
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7 Curly Hair Hacks That Will Upgrade Your Routine
Three curl connoisseurs share their real-life secrets to healthy, sexy curls.
By Blake Newby May 19, 2021
Naturals know that no two curls are created equal. That’s why finding the perfect product cocktail and styling technique is so crucial. Summer is around the corner, and the last thing you want to do is be caught with limp, dry, undefined curls. Ahead, a list of tips informed by three real curly girls, who explain how they keep their curls popping and how TWIST (a new, moisture-focused line from the makers of Ouidad that is formulated with the needs of waves, curls, and coils in mind) falls perfectly into their routines.
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Cosmopolitan’s Holy Grail Beauty Awards
The be-all, end-all products and treatments that our editors really want you to try right now. May 10, 2021
Hi, hello, and welcome to our Holy Grail Beauty Awards. This seemingly endless scroll contains the best products, treatments, and tools of the year. It’s basically beauty’s greatest hits list and our biggest awards ever too.
And JSYK, curating these awards is no easy feat. It’s the cumulative effort of months yes, literal months of ~research~. First, our team of editors collected all the new, exciting, and noteworthy beauty launches, and then we tried, tested, and swatched them (and then retried, retested, reswatched them again) to narrow down the hundreds of options to these 167 winners. Along the way? Some epic fails, some epic discoveries, and some LOL-worthy moments too (TBT to the time I unknowingly attended a
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There comes a time in everyone s acne journey when they feel like throwing their hands (that are probs full of spot treatments) in the air and giving up. But don t stress breakouts aren t the same for everybody, which means the treatment for them isn t either. So if you ve tried all the classic pimple products and are lookin to play around with some natural skincare options, let s talk about tea tree oil first.
You ve probably already used an acne product that contains a bit of tea tree oil (or TTO, if you re ~cool~), but what about using straight TTO to help with your breakouts? Is it as easy as just.dabbing it on? Spoiler: Nope. So to help you out, we enlisted help from board-certified dermatologist Elyse Love, MD, to answer your Qs and bring you all the tea-tree-oil facts below.