black beauty

The latest edition of the Melanin Edit celebrates all those people who were told they couldn’t be nerdy — and the communities they built anyway.

Each brand has something fresh to bring to your vanity.

After a three-year hiatus, attendees showed up to the world's largest natural beauty festival with ‘fros full of flowers, curls in all shades of the rainbow, and intricate braids.

One woman's account of taking the plastic surgery plunge.

Surgeons are finally wielding their scalpels differently, honoring beauty beyond Eurocentric constraints. 

Treatments that are safe for dark skin tones? We love to see it.

Well, my next vacation hairstyle is decided. 

It's a work of art.

From cottagecore to kawaii and soft living, these TikTok creators are showing up in spaces that have historically left Black women out. 

This artist proves there's another way.

Step right this way for award-winning products that celebrate diversity.

These salons want to give you an experience that doesn't waste your time, energy, or money. 

How one TikTok user's attempt to embrace her full self turned into a whole social media trend.

In warm glow we trust.

We can't decide what's more glorious: her radiant skin or those long braids. 

The Girlfriends star's bouncy curls take center stage in this short clip. 

Writer Karen Good Marable chronicles her life through memories of three staple products.

In the '70s and '80s, top makeup artist Joey Mills was a model's best friend. He was also a Black man in an overwhelmingly white business.

Makeup artist Samuel Paul and hairstylist Larry Sims share the behind-the-scenes details on how they created each golden-themed look.

Three Black beauty editors talk about sisterhood, visibility, and the beauty of storytelling.