Have you ever noticed your hair looks and feels different depending on where you shower, even if you use the same shampoo and conditioner? Maybe you're like me, and you're used to your hair feeling soft and silky, but when you shower at your boyfriend's house, it suddenly feels rough and dry. It all has to do with the type of water you're working with—soft or hard.  Somewhat surprisingly, the water you're showering in can make a major impact on your hair. And if you're not using the right pr...

Unless you've been living under a rock, we're sure you've been watching HBO's anticipated series, The Idol. It seems like everyone is talking about Jocelyn, played by Lily-Rose Depp. But honestly, we're more interested in Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd or Tedros and his sinister "rattail" braid.As soon as Tedros made his first appearance on the show, I couldn't shake off this eerie feeling that something wasn't right about him. Growing up in Black southern culture, I was taught to be wary of men w...

The emergence of status-inspired aesthetics among TikTok's fashion crowd is perhaps one of the most defining (albeit confusing) characteristics of the social media platform. I grew up up at the height of Tumblr, when blogs were used as pseudo mood boards, usernames were taken to the grave, and the few 'influencers,' that emerged interacted with their followers through anything from cryptic posts riddled with song lyrics to spilling the details of their personal lives to anonymous commenters. ...

Trying to wrangle your brows isn't the easiest. And if it's easy for you, can you please let us know all your secrets? But for the rest of us, finding the perfect way to style your brows can seem like an unattainable goal. There's a lot of trial and error (and sometimes our "error" eras get immortalized on social media).Personally, I've had a lot of ups and downs with my brows. When I was growing up, they seemed so thick and bushy. I'm really glad my mom forbade me from overplucking them becaus...