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Content warning: the following story contains details of pregnancy loss, surgery, the Black maternal health crisis, and fertility struggles At her Los Ange

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Unbothered

I Tried Jodie Turner-Smith’s Epic Shower Routine & I’...

All linked products are independently selected by our editors. If you purchase any of these products, we may earn a commission. When I met Jodie Turner-Smi

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Beauty

What Cynthia Erivo’s Nail Stylist Thinks Of All The Conversation ...

We see Elphaba’s nails before we’re officially introduced to Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the hit Hollywood screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Wi

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Are We Losing Our Black Hair Care Recipes?

There’s a smell I lovingly associate with Black hair care: Dax hair pomade and Ultra Sheen’s “green grease”. I can’t explain exactly what the pot

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My Period

My Heavy Periods Left Me Dangerously Anemic. Why Wasn’t I T...

My Period: We’re getting personal about our periods. The path to menstrual equity starts with talking about it. Trigger warning: This article discuss

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Unbothered

I Found My Ancestral Home In Barbados During Crop Over & It Chang...

“It’s her!” I bellowed as I ran through a crowd full of glistening brown dancing bodies covered in glitter and fevers. I was in Barbados for its Crop

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Thirst Week

Wait, Is The Thirst Trap Dead?

A shirtless and sweaty gym selfie in front of a dirty mirror. A string bikini pic and an extremely arched back. Squats and a very, very low camera angle. A

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Unbothered

I Got Knotless Goddess Braids With Human Hair Extensions & I’m Ob...

The call for Black women and folks worldwide to get a new protective style for the summer has arrived like clockwork — or so it seems online (and at

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Unbothered

Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With Nara Smith?

I have never baked bread from scratch before. I have never, ever wanted to. I long accepted that there are people who bake and people, like me, who warm sh

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Unbothered

Black Women Are Turning To Minoxidil To Tackle Hair Loss, But Doe...

“Like many Black women, I tried numerous hair oils that promised hair growth but saw no benefits… with exhaustion, I gave up,” explains Amanda Co

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Unbothered

Golloria Went Viral For Calling Out Youthforia’s ‘Jet Black’ Foun...

When Golloria George woke up to an influx of Instagram comments urging her to try Youthforia’s Date Night Skin Tint Serum foundation in its darkest shade

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Unbothered

Embracing Luxury Made Me Feel Guilty, Until The Trip Of A Lifetime

I’ve heard the term “Black woman in luxury” a lot over the past few years. In fact, at Unbothered I have been encouraged to study it: is it the cultu

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Unbothered

Beyoncé Is Right: My Hair Isn’t Anyone’s Business

Between surprise album releases and avoiding most press interviews for the last decade, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter typically doesn’t let us (the med

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Worth More

Manifesting Money Wasn’t Working For Me, So I Successfully Turned...

Like many of my past relationships, my relationship with money is fraught, complicated, and a huge, bright red flag. And yet, I care about money so much. S

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Unbothered

I Spoke To Chat GPT’s “Black Female Therapist.” Will AI Sav...

I’ve been speaking to Black Female Therapist™ for three days. My therapist doesn’t have a name but is an artificial intelligence chatbot described by

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Unbothered

In The “Hygiene Olympics” Black Folks Always Win — But Aren’t We ...

“Enough with the hygiene Olympics, okay! We get it you’re clean!” urged TikTok creator Ciearra Tati last month. “Why do I have to take seven shower

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Press Pause

I’ve Entered My Boring Era & Couldn’t Be Happier

Welcome to Press Pause. This January, we’re asking: What does self-care look like when it’s not all or nothing? What if we simply pressed pause here

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Unbothered

My Chair, My Rules: How Much Do Black Hairstylists Around The Wor...

“I showed up for an appointment but the stylist was not there — the salon lights were out!” shared one anonymous Black woman to Unbothered earlier th

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Unbothered

I Tried TikTok’s High Maintenance Beauty Routines. Are They...

Haven’t you heard? The future of luxury beauty is Black. Beauty & The Bag is a guide that keeps a close eye on high-value skin, h

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Unbothered

I Skipped Steaming My Natural Hair For Years & My Hair Paid The P...

Earlier this year, I came across a blog post entitled “How Hair Steaming Changed My Life” by writer Jane Lebaron, who claimed that not only did hair st

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Unbothered

My Boyfriend Helped Me Take Out My Braids. We Both Learned A Lot

Let me set the scene: I have a comb in one hand and I’ve been sitting in the same spot on my living room floor for the past five hours. It’s my braid t

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Unbothered

Yomi Adegoke’s The List Is A Cautionary Tale For The Chro...

Yomi Adegoke refuses to look up reviews of her debut novel, The List, online — especially on TikTok, a side of the internet she openly admits she’s “

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Unbothered

Is ‘Undone 4C Natural Hair’ Black Women’s Answer To The ‘Ef...

Black hairstyling is a lot of things: Genius? Yes. Innovative? Absolutely. Beautiful? Undoubtedly. But it’s rarely ever described as “effortless” —

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Unbothered

Confessions From Black Women Who Sent Thirsty DMs To Their Crushes

“If you marry me, I am not against waking up at 3 am to bake scones,” reads a DM from an anonymous and evidently thirsty individual to Black Panther ac

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Unbothered

I Got My Scalp Analyzed & Turns Out My Dry Natural Hair Was Never...

A small camera zooms in uncomfortably close to my scalp, and I start to feel embarrassed. Will it see the years of neglect? I think. God forbid, can they s

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Unbothered

I Changed The Way I Think About My Hyperpigmentation, Thanks To T...

Dark marks across my cheeks and forehead have faded like old memories; the constellation-like pattern of acne scars from my teens and early twenties have g

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Unbothered

We Need To Talk About Black Women’s Struggle With PMDD

Warning: This article includes descriptions of suicidal ideation. “I feel everything everywhere all at once during that time [of my menstrual cycle],”

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