Women in the beauty industry tell us about the products that send them back in time the most. Amanda Bell Pixi Beauty global colour ambassador “As a child in the ’70s, I used to watch old black-and-white films and flip through Vogue with my incredibly beautiful neighbour, a woman who bought clothes in Paris and […]
Unless this is your first time here, you probably know that we love minimal nail art here at FASHION. Anything that’s both easy and chic is an instant win in our books, tbh. So you can imagine our excitement when we started seeing the latest nail trend, outline nails, creeping up on our Instagram feeds. […]
I’m just going to say it: nail art can be kind of cheesy. It’s not that it doesn’t look good—okay fine, sometimes it straight up doesn’t look good. I’ve just never felt compelled to glue mini pearls and ribbons onto my nails. Even many of the nail art designs that actually look cute scream “try-hard,” […]
A photo posted by Gigi Hadid (@gigihadid) on Apr 12, 2015 at 9:49am PDT Gigi Hadid With a Calvin Klein contract already under her belt, supermodel Christy Turlington landed her first Maybelline New York deal in the early ’90s after years of runway and editorial work. In 2015, Palestinian-American model Gigi Hadid already had a […]
See how to do Stella McCartney Autumn 2015-inspired nail art » Nail art fanatics, you may want to sit down and get comfortable for this; we caught up with nail artist and Sally Hansen Colour Ambassador Madeline Poole backstage at last night’s Stella McCartney Autumn 2015 presentation and found out how to get a cool […]
Want to own two super-exclusive Sally Hansen shades that won’t be available in stores? Of course you do. Sally Hansen’s Official Colour Ambassador, Madeline Poole has hand-mixed two gorgeous shades (a green and a purple) that three of our Twitter followers will win. Only a handful of the colours are available in Canada so you’ll […]
In the days before the Academy Awards, actress Lupita Nyong’o could have stuck to primping for her big night, but instead she chose to speak about “dark beauty” at the annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon. She read aloud a letter from a fan who, after seeing her success, had decided not to buy a skin-lightening cream. Nyong’o explained that she too once hated her skin tone, that she was teased and taunted, and that her “one prayer to God was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.” That fan wasn’t the only one paying attention: When Vanity Fair was accused of lightening the 12 Years a Slave star’s deep brown skin for her portrait in its February 2014 Oscar issue, armchair comments ranged from “Black people like to be adequately lit too” to “It’s so nice to finally see a black celebrity with really dark skin.”
It’s easy to think of Beyoncé, Rihanna and Freida Pinto as symbols of inclusivity; they are, but with their light skin and/or light eyes, they represent a beauty ideal that many women of colour can never hope to achieve. Colourism (or shadeism) is a type of discrimination that occurs within ethnic groups, creating a quiet divide between light- and dark-skinned people of colour. It drives women to choose too light a foundation; use lightening creams with dubious ingredients and results; or opt for surgical treatments. If you’re any type of brown, hearing an auntie say, “Stay out of the sun or you’ll get too dark!” is about as common as being told to eat your vegetables.
There’s some debate right now as to whether nail art is still thriving as one of the biggest cosmetic trends. One one hand (see what we did there?) new nail art polishes, products and tools are being released almost every single day. On the other, when it comes to runways and red carpets, we didn’t see as many nail art designs this season as we have in the past. Whatever the trend, we’re still in love with nail art and it seems like most of the internet is too. Read on for some of the best tutorials and news stories that we’ve come across this week—and see how long you can resist reaching for a bottle of nail polish.
Photography courtesy Move Slightly16. More than reason enough to still love nail art: This Prada Spring 2013 design is simply sublime [Move Slightly]
