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Adele is a multi-Grammy award-winning singer whose soulful song stylings have made her a fairly universal fave (we…
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File this under the exceedingly slim folder labeled “Good News in 2020": Virginia has become the first Southern…
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Toto, I don’t think we’re going to have trouble wearing our naturally textured hair in Kansas anymore—at least, we…
California is known for many things: Hollywood. Compton. Knowing how to party. In 2020, California may become known…
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A mere week after presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced legislation that would ban hair…
After successfully passing in California and New York with at least six more states pending, the CROWN Act (Create a…
The tangled saga of Gabrielle Union’s departure from America’s Got Talent continues, but the star continues to be…
Here at The Glow Up, we love nothing more than a happy ending, and here’s one we’re pretty sure you’re going to…
“Heavy lies the crown,” they say—and for celebrity hairstylist Sally Hershberger, the punishment for the type of…
It costs a lot to be a woman. It’s well known that we pay more for clothes, grooming and even health care—all while m…
The last time we checked, people all over the world wear their hair in myriad styles—straight, curly, short, long,…