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By Brooklyn White ·Updated May 2, 2022
With glimmering, green lids and the perfect amount of rouge, Normani is giving us everything we need at this year’s Met Gala.
The singer, who is currently working on her debut album, has previously attended the event once before. She came last year in a marigold dress by Schirapelli with her hair pulled back into a bun.
This year, for the “Gilded Glamour” theme, she
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated May 2, 2022
It’s the first Monday in May, so you know that means the Met Gala is upon us. It’s the time of year when celebrities serve as muses for major fashion lines in support of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. The fundraising event has become a fixture in popular culture, with some of everyone itching to see who will attend and of course,
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 30, 2022
A smile is worth a thousand words—and about $100,000.
“A lot of people are working from home and on Zoom calls staring at their own teeth all day long,” says celebrity cosmetic dentist Dr. Marc Lowenberg of Lowenberg, Lituchy & Kantor. Dr. Lowenberg has worked with big names like 50 Cent, Roberta Flack, and the Rolling Stones.
The increased amount of time spent focusing on smiles
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 29, 2022
Women with lime green pigmentation, pointed hats and elongated, pimpled noses are one of the primary emblems of Halloween. They’re the ones plastered on the walls of elementary schools during the fall and who people aspire to look like when piecing together their costumes. When considering them through a more historical lens, we are commonly introduced to witches through the Salem witch trials
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 29, 2022
“The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison’s 1970 look at the aftermath of slavery (and by proxy, colorism) and gendered disregard on an impoverished, 1940s Midwest, is hard for White Americans to digest. It was never meant for that particular audience, but the offense exists nonetheless.
The novel centers Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old who is slowly driven insane by societal abuse and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 28, 2022
Amid a mass job exit, one generation is standing out for their relationship with employment, what they look to gain from work, and how long they’ll stay in one spot. Gen Z, which caps off around 23-24 years old, with inbetweeners being maybe one year older, is staying at a job for 2 years and 3 months before moving on to the next gig, one 2021 study from
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 25, 2022
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, the rapper who was one-third of TLC, had serioustarget=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Afrofuturistic hairstyles to the condom she wore over her eye to promote safe sex to her purple leather looks, she constantly raised the bar across fashion and beauty.
At the time of her passing in 2002, she was working on a clothing line in collaboration with her
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By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 25, 2022
The world knew Raina Lopes’ older sister as Left Eye, TLC’s forward-thinking rap diva who died in a car accident on April 25, 2002. To Raina, she was Lisa, a fun-loving sister-friend with a heart of gold. This high regard is the backbone of a forthcoming, untitled documentary about the musician. It will be noticeably different from VH1’s made-for-television biopic on the
Essence Magazine:
By Brooklyn White ·Updated April 25, 2022
The world knew Raina Lopes’ older sister as Left Eye, TLC’s forward-thinking rap diva who died in a car accident on April 25, 2002. To Raina, she was Lisa, a fun-loving sister-friend with a heart of gold. This high regard is the backbone of a forthcoming, untitled documentary about the musician. It will be noticeably different from VH1’s made-for-television biopic on the