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This Designer Is Taking Ballroom Culture Global
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Landon Peoples
Because your journey to owning your identity deserves to be celebrated.
Celebrating Who You Are
Health
How Working With Black Women Makes Me More Successful
Laurise McMillian
Oct 9, 2018
Beauty
How 8 Women Learned To Love Their Natural Hair In College
aimee simeon
Oct 1, 2018
MyIdentity
How Dancing In Six-Inch Heels Gave This Ballet Dancer Confidence
Cory Stieg
Oct 1, 2018
Fashion
Has Queerness Found Its Place In High Fashion?
"Push the ideas and then draw a way in." Pat McGrath once told me that; such resistance and persistence enabled her to become the most in-demand makeup
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Landon Peoples
Fashion
8 Plus-Size Models Who Paved The Way For Today's Biggest Names
Only recently have brands and designers begun casting plus-size models. But this community was thriving long before "inclusivity" entered the collective
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Channing Hargrove
Fashion
Would You Match Outfits With Your Significant Other?
Fashion in relationships can be a funny thing. Maybe you love your significant other’s style, even though it doesn’t really line up with your own. Or
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Alyssa Coscarelli
Fashion
Blogger Lyn Slater Is Sick Of Being Singled Out For Her Age
When Lyn Slater launched her style website, Accidental Icon, in 2014, it was because she was, in her words, "having trouble finding a fashion blog or
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Alyssa Coscarelli
Fashion
A Week Of Wearing Summer Clothing For Fall
At this point, your browser is probably inundated with summer-to-fall transitional clothing stories (we're guilty of it too!). Though I've experienced the
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Michelle Li
Fashion
How To Pull Off Tube Tops When You're Plus-Size
There are so many rules when it comes to fashion, which is why we really enjoy breaking them. But going against outdated style tropes isn't always as easy
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Eliza Huber
Dedicated Feature
Dress Your Authentic Self (Without Breaking The Bank)
One of the best parts about fall is trying all the sweet trends we've been dying to get our hands on ever since last season's runway shows — scoping out
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Jennifer Mulrow
Fashion
All The Ways To Wear Sheer Clothing Because It's
Still
Clothes are meant to cover the body. But lately, I've been inundated with sheer pieces that let you show it all off. As someone who doesn't regularly wear
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Alyssa Coscarelli
Beauty
Miss Universe's First Transgender Contestant Is Competing Fo...
As a child, Angela Ponce dreamed of being a princess. She had no idea that one day her desire to wear a crown would become reality. In June, she won the
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Thatiana Diaz
Beauty
37 Beauty Products Greek Girls Can't Live Without
Take a trip to Greece and you'll quickly notice that all the European beauty rules you thought you knew go out the window. There, on the Santorini cliffs
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Samantha Sasso
Beauty
The Hair Products Latinas Are Loving Right Now
For the Latinx community, hair is everything. From a young age, we're taught to take care of our strands by deep conditioning once a week and wrapping our
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Thatiana Diaz
Beauty
The Drag Queen's Guide To Not Sweating Off All Your Makeup
Drag queens know a lot about sweat and makeup. Between the bright lights and the high-energy performances that could range from passionately lip syncing
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Rachel Lubitz
Beauty
Braided Bangs Will Be All Over Your Timeline In 3, 2...
Having box braids — or any protective style, for that matter — doesn't mean you have to stay in a box. Every festival season, we end up seeing some of
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Khalea Underwood
Dedicated Feature
Every Outfit Needs A Pair Of Jeans, According To Two Gen Z'ers
We can always count on denim to set the stage for personal style. Where one person might dress up a straight-leg cut with square-toe mules and a
by
Jennifer Mulrow
Dedicated Feature
Here's What College Kids Are Actually Wearing In 2018
Age ain't nothin' but a number, or so says Yusra Siddiqui, a precocious New York teen whose refreshing take on collegiate style (which provides plenty of
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Alison Ives
Fashion
What It's Really Like Going To Prom As An LGBTQ+ Student
Trigger warning: During the McCarthy era of the 1950s, prom — yes, the night of spiked punch and making out under the bleachers — served as a part of
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Landon Peoples
Beauty
How A DNA Kit Blew Up My Life & Changed My Family Forever
I'm four years old. I've yet to grow into the teeth that will one day take up a third of my face when I smile, just like my mom. I can understand that
by
Kelsey Castañon
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Meet 3 People Who Use Fashion To Celebrate Their Pride
Leyna Bloom and I used to shop at the same H&M, the massive, multi-level store that opened on Chicago’s State Street in the early 2000s. We didn’t
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Melissa Kravitz
Fashion
The Old, Secret Style Language Of The LGTBQ+ Community
Have you ever heard of the hanky code? The banana code? What about flagging? It's okay if you haven't, but it's actually pretty cool. In the '70s, the
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Landon Peoples
MyIdentity
The Black Woman Bringing Luxury To New York’s Diamond District
To walk around Manhattan’s diamond district, the interconnected stores or “booths” lined along 47th street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, is an
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Channing Hargrove
Fashion
How Japanese Women At Internment Camp Made Their Clothes Their Own
In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surround Asian
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Meiko Takechi Arq...
MyIdentity
We Spoke With One Of YouTube's Christian Vloggers About How ...
As of this writing, Becca Eller has 42,421 YouTube subscribers and can garner anywhere between 2,000 and 200,000 views on her videos. She isn’t an
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Sara Coughlin
Fashion
The Clothes We Couldn't Wear Until We "Came Out"
Take it from someone who's known they were gay since birth: Clothing is a manifesto. It's a mission statement, a mood, a public declaration of self and
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Landon Peoples
Beauty
For Many Trans Women, "Passing" Isn't Just Cosmetic — It...
Nicole walked into a northern Virginia nightclub ready to party. She was dressed to the nines, in her highest heels, a tight-fitted dress, and a padded
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Kelsey Castañon
Beauty
The Beauty Products Latinas Are Loving Right Now
It'd be a disservice to put Latinas in a box. With a rich and storied cultural history that spans the globe, how could you? And when it comes to beauty
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Khalea Underwood
Beauty
I'm Latinx — & I'm Fed Up With Being Called "Exotic"
Like many Latinxs, Luna Diaz, a 21-year-old retail associate in New York, had to learn how to navigate her identity beyond the stereotype portrayed in TV
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Kelsey Castañon
Beauty
The Beauty Products Nigerian Women Swear By
You can't scroll through Pinterest or Instagram's Explore page without seeing at least one Nigerian beauty blogger slaying in all of her melanated glory.
by
Khalea Underwood
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