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[ad_1] Being a young woman in an African Muslim country generally means staying home and raising children. But in the hot and dusty outskirts of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, girls and women from often disadvantaged backgrounds are being trained to become something quite different: car mechanics. At CFIAM Center, students are laying the foundation for…
Our world is so obsessed with appearances that the simple act of looking in a mirror can be an uncomfortable experience if you don’t live up to the (thin, white, cis-gendered, able-bodied) expectation historically set by movies, TV, social media, and even magazines like this one. For those of us with big bodies and rounder…
Only Euphoria‘s head makeup artist Donni Davy can call Hunter Schafer’s memorizing, now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t cloud makeup in Jules’ bridge episode, “Fuck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob,” a “nothing look.” Although most of Schafer’s beauty moments were pared down “to let Jules’ naked headspace have some breathing room for this episode,” Davy tells Allure, the outer…
[ad_1] You’re late for work and your nerves are fired. If you are late again, your boss will write it down. You have 1001 things on your mind and someone pulls up in front of you, going 45 in a 60 mph zone. The fury of the highway kicks in. So get started. Instead of…
We’re more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and as expected when dealing with any virus, new variants are beginning to spread. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “viruses constantly change through mutation, and new variants of a virus are expected to occur over time.” And so far, several variants of…
Tracee Ellis Ross is already an award-winning actor, fashion icon, and CEO of her own hair-care company, Pattern Beauty. But, of course, as someone dedicated to amplifying Black voices and Black culture, she isn’t stopping there. The multi-hyphenate is taking on a new role, signing on with Ulta Beauty (the retailer that just so happens…
[ad_1] Recycling talent and material, Formr makes quirky furniture pieces from garbage recovered from the construction site while utilizing the carpentry talents of previously incarcerated people. Formr Operational for only 9 months, Formr Nonetheless, he has hired six ex-inmates and designed 10 nifty home furnishings, including a coat rack, a laptop desk for the sofa,…
Key Takeaways Many people claim that eating fewer calories than your basal metabolic rate (BMR) “damages” your metabolism and makes it much harder to lose weight. Very-low-calorie dieting of any kind (above or below BMR) can slightly decrease your metabolism and increase the risk of muscle loss, but there’s nothing inherently bad about eating below…
[ad_1] February 3, 2021– “For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings worked through trauma in community through ritual practices. Ritual was the re-regulatory practice after trauma or death. What happens when we abandon those forms? again, another thread of what the soul yearns for because it is abandoned. I have spent the last 20…
Approximately one billion beauty products have launched since the first issue of Allure hit newsstands in 1991, but some are so classic, so nostalgic, we just can’t part with them. For our 30th Anniversary, we’re introducing Allure Recommends to celebrate the beauty innovations we’ve loved over the years and still use and cherish today. Without…