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Ashley Graham Calls Out Rihanna's Fenty Runway Show For Not Using Curvy Models


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Ashley Graham has long been the face of size inclusivity on the runway, constantly pushing designers to do better and cast more plus-size (or curvy, as Graham prefers to be called) models in their shows. And though the fall 2017 shows saw a record 27 plus-size model appearances in New York alone—up from 16 the previous season and a mere six the one before—Ashley says there’s still lots of progress to be made.

In an interview with Yahoo! Beauty, Graham, who has her own lingerie brand, the Ashley Graham Collection, does not think that this year’s collections will be as progressive as last season’s. “It’s sad,” she says. “It’s funny to me, because I’ll look at runways and think, ‘I’d look so great in those clothes’ or ‘I know curvy women who would look so great in those clothes.’”

And she even called out a few names in particular. “I was at Fenty, and that was an amazing show. But how dope would it have been to see some curves on the runway? I think Baja East would be really cool to have curves on the runway. Philipp Plein would be really cool.” Though Rihanna has proved that she’s devoted to providing every woman with an option in the beauty industry—stores cannot keep the deepest shades of Fenty Beauty in stock just days after it dropped—Ashley does have a point that true diversity is not just limited to skin tone.

But it’s not all bad. There were the Christian Siriano and Prabal Gurung runway shows, both of which Graham and other plus-size or curvy models walked in, plus the Chromat show, which was one of the most diverse, with plus-size, transgender, and older models. Nevertheless, designers should all strive to include as many different skin tones, body types, hair textures, etc., as possible.

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Stores Can't Keep Fenty Beauty's Deep Foundation Shades in Stock


Less than a week after launching, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty is flying off shelves. While most of Rihanna’s mega-successful makeup line has managed to stay in stock, there’s one product in particular that is selling out at lightning speed, according to social media, and that’s Rihanna’s deep foundation shades.

At the time of writing this, six out of the available 10 deep shades are already sold out on sephora.com, though it looks like restocks are happening pretty regularly. Normally, fans react with disappointment, frustration, or even anger when they can’t get their hands on a highly anticipated beauty launch. But with Fenty Beauty, the response to the limited availability of deep foundation has been markedly different, for a damn good reason.

After decades of being told by big beauty brands that there isn’t enough demand for deep complexion makeup (despite actual economic reports that point to the contrary), black and brown skin women are being heard and seen. What’s more, we’re being heard and seen by Rihanna.

I wasn’t able to get through all the tweets above with getting misty-eyed. Even through happy tears, I know I’m seeing history in the making. It’s more than monumental. It’s affirming in a way that the beauty industry hasn’t been before, but would do well to repeat. Just take a look at the Instagram post below and try to keep your heart from swelling three sizes, I dare you.

Since Rihanna first revealed that she would cater to women with all skin tones, Fenty Beauty stood out as an inclusivity game changer. The fact that the dark foundation shades are the first to sell out is just more proof that women of color deserve and demand an equal space in the beauty industry. Hopefully, other brands will follow suit and push for even more options in their shade ranges. There’s clearly money in it.

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We Tested the Fenty Beauty Highlighters On Different Skin Tones, and It Lives Up to All the Hype


We’ve seen big launches in the beauty world, but honestly, very little has been on par with the Fenty Beauty debut. It could be that it’s Rihanna, and gorgeous, outsized spectacle is just her bread and butter, but more likely, the huge response has been thanks to the fact that right off the bat, Fenty Beauty treats women of all colors as equally worth representing. It’s 2017, and that should be normal, so Rihanna’s pioneering the way. And after spending two years developing the line, she did us right: from the 40 foundation colors to the sole, all-you-need lip gloss, the products are beautiful.

And the thing is, Rih understands how products play. After 12 years in the spotlight, she knows foundation needs to be a spot-on match, and she knows highlighters need to pop—which rang loud and clear at her Fenty x Puma fashion show last night. (According to our fashion editor who was there, models’ cheeks could be seen across the room.) Available as powders and in creamy stick form, they’re stunning to look at. But it’s one thing to see them in the pan or on Slick Woods’ cheekbones. It’s another to see how they live on us mere mortals of varying skin tones.

There was only one way to find out. We got our hands on the Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter duo in Lightning Dust/Fire Crystal (a pearlescent shimmer duo on the more natural end of Fenty’s highlight spectrum), and put it to the test. Below, three Glamour staffers weigh in.

Khaliha Hawkins, digital administrative assistant

Skin tone: “Medium dark.”

What she thought: “I feel like for my skin tone, Fire Crystal was a bit too light. But Lightning Dust was perfect, which is shocking, because I thought it was going to be the other way around. I’d wear Fire Crystal when I go out, because it’d be darker and I’d want that pop of color to stand out. But Lightning Dust would definitely be an everyday kind of thing. The brush is really cute, and it was honestly very accurate. Everyone always says a fan brush is best for highlighter, but the Fenty one seems better, and it picks up a lot of product.”

Jessica Militare, assistant editor

Skin tone: “Light olive.”

What she thought: “I really liked the consistency of the Fire Crystal powder. There was an instant shine that was really pretty. You have to be daring enough to want to wear it to the office, but I think you could totally get away with it, especially saying it’s Fenty Beauty. Like, this is Fenty—leave me alone. Lightning Dust is lighter, but it’s that pale, brightening feel, so it still gets the job done. For me, I prefer Fire Crystal because I want my highlighter to really show. That’s the problem that I find with highlighters—I have to coat it, I really want to see what this is doing. And sometimes with certain highlighters it takes longer, but this is an immediate effect.”

Rachel Nussbaum, beauty writer

Skin tone: “Very pale, with neutral undertones”

What she thought: “When I first brushed Fire Crystal on, I was a little wary—it’s a lot of glitter, and I’m not here for a My Little Pony sitch. The champagne color is maybe just a touch too dark for my skin, but after a minute, I loved it. The powder has such a creamy consistency that once you give it a second to settle, it melts right into your skin. Lightning Dust is way more subtle, which isn’t what I typically look for in highlighter. But I’m super into it! A light, slightly matte powder feels really modern, and it’s great for places you want to highlight while being under the radar about it. Like definitely, Rihanna, help me weave that illusion.”

Fenty Beauty By Rihanna Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter in Lightning Dust/Fire Crystal, $34, sephora.com

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Rihanna's Fenty Beauty Is Here and It's Even Better Than We Dreamed


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In February, when a range of new faces were being cast for campaigns, it felt refreshing. But that representation elation didn’t last long. When women of color weren’t being insulted by poor choice in product names, we were discovering that many beauty brands still don’t have a real firm grasp on what inclusion is and what it isn’t. We’ve been left with promises of shade expansions to come—or the introduction of, say, maybe three deep options—and pledges to do better. But thankfully, there’s a major mogul who gets it: Rihanna. And praise the makeup Gods because today she officially revealed her entire Fenty Beauty line.

News of the line has had us in a frenzy since it was first announced, but after last week’s teaser posts on Instagram suggested that women with a huge range of skin tones had grounds to get excited, we all gave up hope of maintaining any semblance of chill. It wasn’t just that the long wait was coming to an end that got us so stoked—it was that Fenty’s campaign, which featured a diverse cast of models, suggested that Rihanna wouldn’t join the ranks of brands that launched with a few dark shades and swore an expansion would follow.

Makeup addicts with skin tones like Duckie Thot to Camila Costa and 38 shades in between had reason to rejoice. Now it’s finally happening and we’ve got all the details, straight from RiRi herself and our reporter on the ground at the Fenty Launch party tonight in Brooklyn, NY.

Let’s dive right in.

Since Rihanna herself is larger than life, I for one wasn’t shocked that Fenty Beauty is as well. At its debut, the line offers a whopping 91 items, including 40—yes, 40—shades of foundation, 30 magnetized concealing, contouring, and highlighting sticks, and a single stunning lip gloss. The shades for all the products are evenly spread across multiple skin tones. No shade is an afterthought. No one is ignored.

First up—makeup. The aesthetic is exactly what we would expect from Rihanna; sleek and modern with a touch of edge in the design. Of course, the highlighter singles and duos, contouring sticks, and brushes (more on them in a minute) are gorgeous to look at, but they’re also so much more than that. The very fact that a dewy, subtle inner gleam is the aesthetic focal point of the line seemed to say, imagine it in Rihanna’s voice, “shine bright like a diamond.”

Even the product names lean toward brightness. Killawatt Freestyle for the highlighter, Gloss Bomb for the lip luminizer, and Match Stix for the contouring sticks. As for prices, everything hovers around the “what you’d pay for designer makeup” mark. The highlighters and foundations are $34, the lip gloss $18, and a trio of contour sticks rings in at $54.

Fenty Beauty also brings us a vast range of tools (priced from $16 blotting papers to a $34 foundation brush), solidifying what many folks—myself included—believed about the line before it even launched. Rihanna didn’t want to just make pretty packaging and tons of money. By offering nine different tools from the get go, Rihanna is putting the power of beauty into the hands of her fans. Really, it’s not surprising considering that brand reps report the pop star and fashion mogul’s goal with Fenty Beauty was to help her global fan base experience the same transformative power she found after trying makeup for the first time on the pageant circuit at 15.

It’s refreshing to see a celebrity launch makeup without only her own preferences or skin tone and type in mind. I’m not shading groundbreakers like Iman who have launched lines exclusively for women of color. It’s been necessary for women of color to create their own makeup, hair care, and skin care products because bigger brands, historically, don’t always bother. But Rihanna is doing something even more radical than embracing underserved shoppers. She’s gone above and beyond the beauty industry norm with a truly inclusive line as evenly spread across the color spectrum as we’ve ever seen from a celebrity line. Fenty Beauty is the future of diverse and inclusive makeup. And as tiring as those two words have become this year, as a beauty editor and a woman of color I like the sound of that.

Fenty Beauty launches Friday, September 8 at midnight and is available online at sephora.com and fentybeauty.com.

—Additional reporting by Rachel Nussbaum.

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Rihanna Just Posted a Huge Teaser for Her Makeup Line Fenty Beauty


Rihanna fans, this is what you came for. After over a year of speculation, broken only by a launch date announcement, we’ve finally got more clues about Rihanna’s insanely anticipated Fenty Beauty line.

The singer/designer/woman after all our hearts has kept nearly every detail about Fenty Beauty under wraps since news first broke of the line back in April 2016, making fans—including all of us here—a little bit rabid. (If you’ve been keeping track, you’ll know that eagle-eyed followers have been stalking her personal Instagram for tags to the Fenty Beauty one, speculating every step of the way about what the line might entail.)

So what glorious products, sealed with Rihanna’s approval, await us? We’ll likely have to wait until next Friday, September 8 when the line officially launches for the full lineup. (Although rumor has it that she might make a big reveal sooner during New York Fashion Week, which kicks off Thursday.) Luckily, praise be to Rihanna, she surprise dropped three new campaign teasers today, and they’re every bit as awesome as you’d expect.

The first, posted on the Fenty Beauty account, features a handful of some of the fashion world’s top models of the moment—and brazen champions of diversity. Duckie Thot, Slick Woods, and Halima Aden all make cameos in the intro, followed by a just as impressive roster of women of all backgrounds, shapes, and sizes, including Camila Costa, Paloma Elsesser, and Leomie Anderson.

There’s no question, as Anderson put it on her Instagram, “this the beauty brand for girls who know who the f-ck they are and aren’t afraid to show it.”

We also got our first product confirmation: lip gloss. So plan for a huge resurgence. Beside that, we have some other clues by way of the #ShadeNames hashtag. In the Instagrams above, Woods and Costa recite the following phrases—which we can only assume are the names of bronzers, blushes, or illuminzers, no?—”Chili Mango,” ‘Trophy Wife,” “Yacht Life,” and “Confetti.”

Regardless of what Fenty Beauty makeup drops next Friday, we are dying to try every last drop of every last product we can get our hands on. Twitter, it’s clear, couldn’t agree more.

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