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What Is Fanxiety Face? How Watching Sports Affects Your Skin
The Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 brought with it a lot of stress for sports fans. As any sports fan knows, experiencing intense emotions and anxiety while watching a game is the norm — in fact, it’s even exhilarating. Every week can feel like a roller coaster. Just ask Taylor Swift, who has helped bring awareness to a concerning skin-care phenomenon: “fanxiety face.” Fanxiety face involves unknowingly and habitually making severe facial movements as a reaction to excitement or anxiety as you cheer on your favorite team or player. Beyond the internal manifestation of spectator stress, it can also have lasting effects on your skin. Below, we break down…
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Hair-Salon Deserts Still Impact Black Women
As a Black woman, I can never easily walk into an unknown hair salon and get serviced due to the lack of education around natural textures. This is also the case for Washington-based TikToker Mimi Taylor, who’s been open about struggling to find a stylist in her hometown willing to work with her 4C hair. After calling multiple salons in Olympia, in 2021, Taylor documented the process of her attempt to secure a straight-back cornrow appointment that would allow her to wear a new wig. “I was wondering if you guys worked with African American hair, specifically 4C type,” she would start each call. Common replies included, “We do not;…
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Hairstylist Chuck Amos’s Favorite Hair-Care Products
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. The Expert Edit features interviews with specialists about the products they swear by in their chosen field. For the latest installment, we spoke to celebrity hairstylist Chuck Amos about his favorite hair products. Chuck Amos had a way with hair long before he became a pro. At first, his clients were Barbie dolls, then mannequin heads, and eventually, the kids in his neighborhood growing up in the Berkshires. When he discovered — and learned — the…
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Why Sisterlocks Helped My Fitness Journey
I was recently asked, “What’s one piece of advice you’d give to a Black woman who wants to take control of her health?” As a health and beauty expert who has slowly lost 100-plus pounds over the past eight years and is studying to become a certified fitness instructor, I thought about that question carefully. And I can confidently say that I could not have overhauled my wellness without my sisterlocks. So if you’re a Black woman looking for a practical shift to help you stay consistent, my advice? Lock your hair. It’s not just a hairstyle — it’s a lifestyle, and the cornerstone of my wellness journey. Before you…
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Soap Nails Are Trending: Experts Share How to Get the Look
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Minimalists, if you’ve been looking for a new nail trend to try, you’re going to want to pay attention. The latest manicure taking over our social media feeds is called “soap nails,” and it’s perfect for fans of “rich-girl” nails and “bubble-bath” nails. Plus, it’s already celebrity-approved by none other than the queen of minimalist manicures herself, Hailey Bieber. Not only did she basically invent the glazed-doughnut manicure, but she’s been the covergirl of many other…
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The Hottest NFL WAGs Trend: Game-Day Nails
By now, you’ve probably seen at least 1000 photos of Taylor Swift at a Kansas City Chiefs game on your social media feeds thanks to her romantic tenure with the team’s tight end, Travis Kelce — and we’re bound to see even more Swift-Chiefs mania with Super Bowl LIX upon us. While the singer may be single-handedly responsible for making football cool again with the masses (yeah, we said it), what we’ve really been focused on are her game-day ensembles. Of course, you’d be hard-pressed to miss her red lipstick and equally bright Kansas City Chiefs swag, but there’s one tiny detail you might have missed: her bright red nails…
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What’s With Celebrities and Their Minimal Bathing Habits?
Of all the bizarre beauty practices that celebrities have touted (like Kim Kardashian’s vampire facial era), Chelsea Handler’s shower routine takes the cake. On Feb. 5, the television host appeared on Alex Cooper’s podcast, “Call Her Daddy,” and candidly talked about her peculiar habit. For some time, it’s become public knowledge that Handler only cleans her “hotspots” when showering — her vagina, butt, and underarms. “I don’t know why my legs would be dirty, they’re covered up all day in my jeans,” she said. Handler further explained that the lather from shampooing and conditioning her hair drips down her body, offering justification as to why she doesn’t take a complete…
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Shark CryoGlow Cooling & LED Face Mask Review With Photos
PS Photography | Jessica HarringtonPS Photography | Jessica Harrington While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. While testing a new mascara or lipstick will never get old, I get especially giddy when I get my hands on a new beauty tool. From microcurrent devices to smart hairdryers, there are a lot of innovative gadgets out there that bring with them professional-quality results — and I want to trial them all. The latest high-tech tool to make its way across my desk — and…
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Is Vagina Skin Care A Scam?
Experts have long agreed that there are two kinds of douches to avoid in this world: the ones shotgunning Natty Light and the ones with pretty flowers on the box. The reason behind the latter is simply because the human vagina has been described as a self-cleaning organ, so you needn’t flush it out with fancy floral scents to keep it healthy. Why is it, then, that the beauty market of late has seen such a prominent spike in skin-care products made specifically for your vagina — or, if we’re being anatomically correct, the vulva (since the vagina is all internal) — each with varying grand claims? It’s no longer…
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How Black Women Can Simplify Their Natural Hair Routines
From the larger-than-life Afros of the 1970s to the finger waves and French rolls of the 1990s, Black natural hair movements have had many iterations. And over the last decade and a half, the modern movement has been largely shaped by online communities of Black women teaching others how to care for their curls and coils. But as the digital space has expanded, more mixed-race creators and others with looser curl patterns have begun to profit from natural hair content. Between brand sponsorships, wash-day routines that literally take all day, and the rise of TikTok, natural hair tutorials have transformed into much lengthier and more costly recommendations that not everyone…
