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L’Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
Beyoncé Is Right: My Hair Isn’t Anyone’s Business
L'Oréal Blackett
Apr 24, 2024
Worth More
Manifesting Money Wasn’t Working For Me, So I Successfully Turned To Loud ...
L'Oréal Blackett
Mar 15, 2024
Unbothered
I Spoke To Chat GPT’s “Black Female Therapist.” Will AI Save Our Mental ...
L'Oréal Blackett
Mar 13, 2024
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
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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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
The
Queen Charlotte
Press Tour Is A Masterclass In Natura...
There’s a striking moment in Netflix’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story when the young Queen (played by India Amarteifio) is about to walk down the
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L'Oréal Blackett
Beauty
I Was Accused Of Wearing The Wrong Foundation Shade, So I Switche...
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, hair and makeup trend
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L'Oréal Blackett
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Unbothered
King Charles’ “Diverse” Coronation Was Designed To Distract
Over the weekend, I thought I would be able to let the King Charles III’ coronation pass me by. “It’s just like any other weekend,” I convinced mys
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
How ADHD Makes Natural Hair Care Hard For Black Women
“I think about cutting all my 4C hair off every wash day,” reads an anonymous post from one Reddit user who identifies as a Black woman with ADHD. “I
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
Netflix’s
The Strays
Highlights The Horror Of Colorism
Spoilers ahead. In a week where a reality TV favourite finally addressed its known colorism problem, Netflix UK dropped The Strays (February 22) a psycholo
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
I Found My Post-Breakup Glow Up While Still In A Relationship
There is a truly magnificent moment that comes a few weeks, months or years after a breakup: you start really believing you’re going to be OK again. The
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
Mielle Hair Oil & The Case For Gatekeeping Black Hair Products
There was a noticeable gap in the Black hair care aisle at my local drugstore over the weekend. Mielle Organic’s now TikTok viral rosemary mint scalp and
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
Meghan Markle Tried To Tell You
We’ve been here before: the royal family at the centre of a “race row” and a Black woman exasperated by it all. Ngozi Fulani, a Black domestic violen
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
I Thought Being Nice Would Shield Me From Racism At Work — I Was ...
It will come as no surprise that I don’t have much in common with “Hot Girl” rapper Megan Thee Stallion. But, turns out, we are the same height, and
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
Inside One Of The First Black Hair Salons In London
This story was originally published on Unbothered UK in honor of Black History Month in the UK... When Black men and women began migrating from acros
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
These Y2K Rave Photos Capture The Black British Style & Joy Of Th...
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L'Oréal Blackett
Mane Character
I’m A Black Woman Who Wears Hair Extensions — But Is It Ever Ethi...
There are rows upon rows of human and synthetic hair extensions lined up in plastic bags across a beauty supply store on a busy city center street in Manch
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
“I’m Struggling To Afford Black Hair Products As Costs Rise — & I...
Welcome to Beauty & The Bag, a guide that keeps a close eye on high-value skin, hair and makeup trends aimed at Black consumers and questions whether i
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
How Romanticizing My Wash Days Helped Me Learn To Love Them
I can’t remember exactly when I began to see my hair and its care as a burden. But, I do know it probably involved a prolonged wash day and a painful bat
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L'Oréal Blackett
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