In January of last year, CVS unveiled a campaign to create new standards for beauty ads in their stores—namely, phasing out airbrushing and other digital alterations. Part of that included the debut of the CVS Beauty Mark, a watermark placed on advertisements confirming to customers that the images weren’t digitally altered or retouched (which CVS…
Read moreThe year was 1999, I was 15, and Brandy had just been named as the newest spokesmodel for CoverGirl. The actual news wasn’t quite on my radar, but when I started to see her face even more—on covers of magazines like Seventeen and Teen People (I subscribed to both) as well as on drugstore aisle…
Read moreIssa Rae is the success story we need right now. After gaining a rabid following on YouTube with her web series, “Awkward Black Girl,” (still, incredibly, going by the handle “actingrl112”), the actress took over HBO with her critically acclaimed series, Insecure. That all sounds like a lot of high-minded accolades—and it is—but it’s really…
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