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Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty Images By Larry Stansbury ·Updated November 4, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

At this year’s CFDA Fashion Awards Black women are proving once again thatsrc=”https://www.essence.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2244868846.jpg” alt=”The Best Fashion Looks At The 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards” width=”400″ height=”599″ />NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 03: Teyana Taylor attends the 2025 CFDA Awards at The American Museum of Natural History on November 03, 2025 in New

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By Stixx Mathews ·Updated November 4, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

In an industry where there is an overwhelming amount of product launches daily, Product Of The Week helps you cut through the noise. To help you find your new beauty and wellness favorites, this series highlights the tried-and-true products that our writers can’t live without.

To know me is to know that I’m obsessed with body care products, especially

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Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty Images By India Espy-Jones ·Updated November 3, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Tonight, the 2025 CFDA Awards—held at New York’s American Museum of Natural History—celebrated this year’s feats in fashion with a star-studded guest list at the front.

This year, a smoky-eyed, hybrid-braided Teyana Taylor was the host, pulling out a number of beauty looks of her own and talking all the guests, nominees,

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Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA By India Espy-Jones ·Updated November 3, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Doja Cat is slowly gaining acclaim as one of the leading beauty icons out right now. Aside from headlining Coachella in over 20 pounds of a hairy wardrobe 2024, she bit into a “lady danger” lipstick at the VMAs to announce her role as global brand ambassador at MAC.

Then, she released

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By India Espy-Jones ·Updated November 3, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Fall is a season full of >celebrities used beauty to do exactly that throughout Hallo-weekend.

A fresh-faced Halle Bailey >more imagination. For example, Lizzo became the cover of three Quan Millz books (an author known for his Tubi-like titles), including Pregnant By A YN Crashout Labubu From Hell which pictured her with cheetah-print tattoos and a pink lip

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Just a couple weeks after Kim Kardashian’s brand, SKIMS, sparked intimate conversations around the taboos of pubic hair (and its various textures) with their controversial “bush thong,” we thought our jaws couldn’t drop any wider. But, in true Kardashian fashion, it has. And, the latest news out of SKIMS’ HQ is even more pleasantly surprising than merkins and

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When Marshawn Lynch moves, he moves with purpose. The NFL legend recently dropped the limited-edition BEASTMODE Collection, available exclusively at Target, and it’s already redefining what it means to smell good and show up with confidence.

The collection features two new scent variants—You Just Got Got and Beast to the Bone—each available in both body

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(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) By Shelby Stewart ·Updated October 30, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Eva Marcille, the stunning supermodel who first captured our hearts as the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle three, has cemented herself as a beauty icon and a force in the fashion world. With her captivating eyes, radiant smile, and effortless ability tosrc=”https://www.essence.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/tumblr_29d26fa20595d178c61a2581efd7a4da_a973f8f5_1280.jpg” alt=”6 Times Supermodel Eva Marcille Proved She Had

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By Akilah Sailers ·Updated October 29, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

A few weeks ago, Trump addressed reporters in the Oval Office about the possibility of deploying the National Guard to Chicago to threaten and harass civilians. His political leverage? The beauty of Black women. “African-American ladies [in Chicago], beautiful ladies,” he lied, “are saying, ‘Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please.’”

I know I am a beautiful Black woman