There’s something about back-to-school time that calls for a refresh. That’s why this week, we’re throwing it back to the basics: putting “easy” makeup hacks to the test and a spotlight on the simple products that’ll make a big difference. Class is now in session.
We’re all about new innovations in hair products. But sometimes, when you’re teetering on the edge of a bad hair day, you just want to reach for a classic. It’s the hair equivalent of slipping into your favorite jeans—comforting and you just know you look good. To curate a list of “old faithful” products, we asked our favorite hairstylists to share the one thing they’ve had in their kit the longest. Be it a volumizing hairspray, old-school curlers, or the lifesaving dry shampoo that’s been used across Hollywood, keep scrolling for the products they can’t live without.
Ariana Grande will do anything for her fans — including, apparently, re-start a song mid-performance so they can snag the perfect Instagram. During her Sweetener Sessions show in Los Angeles over the weekend, the pop star did just that for a fan who wasn’t ready in time to record.
Grande only got about 15 seconds into her song “Raindrops” when a fan screamed out, “Wait, start again. I wasn’t recording!” The pony tail–wearing performer snapped out of her performance and addressed the fan, asking, “Did you say ‘Start again I wasn’t recording’?” Grande couldn’t help but laugh as she told the screaming L.A. crowd, “I listen! I listen!”
“Sure, are you ready now?” she asked, giggling, before saying, “That was funny!” and diving right back into the song. A Twitter user who was definitely ready for the performance captured the whole interaction on video and posted the funny back and forth — which has since gone viral.
This isn’t the first time Grande has paused a performance recently. During her Sweetener Sessions show at Manhattan’s Irving Plaza, she took a break to make out with her soon-to-be husband Pete Davidson.
Grande revealed on Good Morning America that she and her comedy beau won’t be getting married until probably next year. “We’re gonna, like, take our time to plan it,” she shared with host Michael Strahan. “We’ve been planning and my friends and I, my mom and everybody, have been brainstorming and sharing ideas and stuff. And it’s really fun. I work so much [that] I’ve never spent this much time or energy planning something personal that feeds my soul so much and my heart. I’m going to cry. I’m so excited. It’s sick. It’s really fun.”
The first person hired as an actor on Saturday Night Live was a woman: Gilda Radner, one of the most iconic female comedians. She stayed on SNL for five years—totaling 107 episodes—and left behind a laugh-out-loud legacy that paved the way for dozens of comedians. She was a game-changer, as are the other women who got their start on SNL.
From Tina Fey to Julia Louis-Dreyfus to our cover star Kate McKinnon, SNL has launched the careers of so many important performers. The show still has work to do in terms of achieving full equality—but these women have certainly helped move that dial forward. Below, a guide to historic milestones women have achieved on SNL.
1975: Gilda Radner is Lorne Michaels’ first hire for the inaugural season of SNL. “I felt there was a remarkable quality to her,” Michaels said of Radner to The New York Times. “A goodness which came through whatever she was doing.” In 1978, Radner won a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for her work on SNL.
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1975: Candice Bergen is the first woman to host SNL. She routinely hosted after this, and actually became the first woman to join the Five-Timers Club when she helmed a broadcast in 1990. (The Five-Timers Club is a group of celebrities who’ve hosted SNL at least five times.)
1976:Weekend Update hires its first female co-host: Jane Curtin. Known for her deadpan delivery, Curtin was the perfect foil to the guests and co-hosts’ antics. Years later, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Curtin opened up about how SNL was a tough place for women to work at times. She alleged that one cast member, John Belushi, was particularly harsh toward female writers.
“They were working against John, who said women are just fundamentally not funny,” Curtin said. “You’d go to a table read and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read it in his full voice. He would whisper it,” she says. “He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces that were written by women.”
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1978: Yvonne Hudson is the first black woman to appear on SNL. She started with guest appearances and was eventually bumped up to a feature player for the 1980-1981 season.
1982: At 21, Julia Louis-Dreyfus makes history for being the youngest female performer to join SNL. In 2012, she relayed a story to journalist Adam Baer about when NBC executives urged her to straighten her hair so she’d appear more “attractive” on screen.
“I was called into one of our producers’ offices (as a side note, I should say that I have naturally curly hair), and he said to me, ‘Julia, I got a call from a bunch of NBC executives after last night’s show, and they said that after seeing your hair straight, they all wanna fuck you.’ This was apparently his way of trying to entice me into straightening my hair for the rest of season,” she said. “Needless to say: I was young and naïve, but I was so shocked that anyone would say anything like that, I just burst out laughing in a hysterical way. I didn’t know what else to do.”
Louis-Dreyfus didn’t change her hair. She did something even better: made Elaine’s curly hair one of her signature traits on Seinfeld. “I was saying: ‘Not only is this hair going to be curly, it’s going to be crazy curly. Take that, motherfucker,'” she said.
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1985:SNL makes Danitra Vance its first black female repertory player. She stayed on until 1986.
1993: Sarah Silverman turns her SNL fumble into an amazing career. According to Business Insider, none of Silverman’s sketches made it to air when she was a writer for SNL in the ’90s, and after just one season as a featured player she was fired. But Silverman turned water into wine and scored gigs on HBO’s Mr. Show and The Larry Sanders Show before getting her own series in 2007.
1999: Molly Shannon releases Superstar. There are several movies that came out of SNL sketches, but Superstar is the first one to star and focus on a woman (Shannon).
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1999: Tina Fey soars as SNL’s first female head writer. She left her post in 2006 to develop 30 Rock.
2001: Amy Poehler becomes the first woman to be promoted from a featured to repertory cast member just halfway through her inaugural season. The only other cast member to do that before her was Eddie Murphy.
2004: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey join forces as the first all-female Weekend Update team. Their reign ended when Fey left in 2006 and, unfortunately, there hasn’t been a female-female duo since.
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2008: Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impression takes on a life of its own. The bit was so impressionable that one group of political scientists suggested it may’ve actually affected Palin and John McCain’s performance in the 2008 presidential election.
2009: Kristen Wiig appears in more sketches for SNL season 34 than any other cast member: 124. The person directly behind her was Jason Sudeikis with 99.
2014: Leslie Jones and Sasheer Zamata join the cast at the same time—an SNL milestone. This came after Keenan Thompson announced he’d no longer perform in drag until SNL hired two black female cast members. Zamata left the show in 2017, but Jones is still on.
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2017: Kate McKinnon wins the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the second time. She’s the only woman in SNL history to win twice in a row.
2017: Please welcome your first black female host, Tiffany Haddish. It’s crazy that it took this long.
For those looking to watch the much-anticipated moment in real time, set your alarm and get your coffee (or tea?) ready: You can watch the royal wedding live right here on Glamour.com, starting at 6 AM ET.
In this post, we’ll be showing all of best moments from the couple’s big day in Windsor, from the arrivals at the chapel to the ceremony, and of course, the carriage ride through Windsor. (Here’s a complete rundown of the day’s events, in case you’re curious.) What will Meghan Markle’s wedding dress look like? Will her mother walk her down the aisle? All your questions will be answered on Saturday, bright and early.
Whether you’re watching with friends or watching alone under the covers (we won’t judge), don’t forget to set that alarm (better yet: set two) and we’ll see you here bright and early on May 19 for the wedding of the year.
After years of foundations that only cater to a light-skinned demographic, the Fenty effect has proven to brands that acknowledging and providing products for all women is indisputably a good thing for everyone. And with expanded shade ranges finally rolling out to stores across the country, that move is coinciding with a long-awaited uptick in representation in beauty brands’ campaigns. Announced this morning on The Today Show, Revlon is rolling out a new arm of its “Live Boldly” campaign. Fittingly, the brand’s tapped Ashley Graham to front the campaign—one of the best examples we have of a fearless, glass ceiling-shattering woman.
Graham teased that she had makeup in her masterplan back in July, and while rumors were flying that she was developing something on her own, her choice to pair with a major drugstore beauty brand instead means that she’ll be in front of as many eyes as possible. Given the lack of curvy women in beauty advertising, that’s a huge move, and one that will at long last shake up the models we always see in the makeup aisle. That said, she’s actually not Revlon’s first curve model. Back in 1999, the brand tapped plus-size model Emme for a campaign.
While Graham has called out brands for unrealistic advertising before, the announcement coincides with CVS’s pledge to stop Photoshopping its beauty ads, meaning we’ll likely be seeing more of Graham in her authentic glory.
Graham, along with models Achok Majak and Rina Fukushi, is joined by three other new additions to the Revlon family: models Raquel Zimmermann, Imaan Hammam, and Adwoa Aboah were also just announced as spokeswomen for the brand. Along with the announcement, Revlon also released the campaign’s first image (at top). Featuring the six women decked out in metallics and striding towards the camera, it’s a shot that feels wholly 2018.
Maria Menounos just rang in the new year with a new ring on her finger—a wedding ring, that is. The TV host is officially married after tying the knot with Keven Undergaro on New Year’s Eve—on live television, naturally. In possibly the most extra (we say that admiringly) wedding of 2017, the couple wed just before midnight in the middle of Times Square. Oh, and Steve Harvey officiated.
There are few things less dramatic and just plain magical than a New Year’s Eve wedding. Midnight kisses are kind of part and parcel of the holiday, and getting hitched as the bell drops is a pretty romantic way to get hitch. But how about if you throw in a live television broadcast and a guest list of thousands? Yep, that’ll do it. However, Menounos, who hosts a New Year’s Eve broadcast from Times Square, didn’t originally intend to turn the city into her wedding venue until a producer on the annual show dropped the suggestion.
“When I started working on the Fox New Year’s Eve special, I sat with the producer to go over what we were planning,” Menounos explained to PEOPLE. The producer wanted to include a live wedding in the show, mentioning that they were still in need of a to-be-wedded couple. “She said, ‘Unless you and Keven want to get married.’ And I was like, ‘Ha, ha, no.’ I was nervous but I got in the car and kept thinking about it, and I was like, ‘Wait, this really is kind of perfect.’”
After texting Undergaro (because the groom should probably be clued in!), the New Year’s Eve nuptials were officially happening—with only two weeks to plan!
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The wedding was kept as a surprise from most of the couple’s friends and family, making for all the more dramatic of a moment when Menounos appeared in the middle of Times Square in a stunning Pronovias lace wedding dress and said her unforgettable “I dos” in front of the thousands who had gathered to watch the ball drop and the millions watching at home.
“I’ve always wanted it to be super intimate and even though this is the opposite, we can only invite our immediate family, so the pressure of who to invite is gone. This was just so perfect,” Menounos said of the anything-but-low-key nuptials.
Following their larger-than-life ceremony, the couple planned for a small reception later that night and a morning brunch on January 1st, according to PEOPLE.
“I’m excited to be able to call her my wife. It’s been girlfriend for so long that it will be nice to finally, finally be able to say ‘my wife,'” said Undergaro, who’s been with the TV host for nearly 20 years.
The bride summed up their whirlwind wedding, saying how New York City “is going to be such a special place” for them now. “This was not something that would have ever crossed my mind,” she said. “I just feel like God puts everything in our path.”
