Expanding on its efforts to support Black-owned businesses, Yelp has compiled a list of Black-owned stores, restaurants and other establishments to watch in 2021. Included in its roundup is a list of Black-owned beauty businesses, spotlighting salons and spas that work with natural hair and darker skin-tones, which are often overlooked by stylists and estheticians.Encompassing nails, hair, skin and tattoos, Yelp's index spans cities across the United States. In New York City, Harlem's Natural Ha...

I gave myself my first stick-and-poke tattoo at journalism camp when I was sixteen. It was the owl symbol from Twin Peaks, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Two years later, I'd made a habit of passing the dreary winter days at college in rural Vermont by giving myself and my friends homemade tattoos (I am not encouraging readers to do the same). On one particularly cold evening huddled up in my dorm room, I decided I wanted a flower tattoo on my right calf. I drew it out in pen, "san...

The beauty industry has a long way to go when it comes to breaking outdated standards and embracing a more diverse and inclusive community. To tackle the ongoing issue, New York-based photographer Julia Comita and makeup artist Brenna Drury have come together to develop a photo series titled Prim n Poppin.The co-created project raises questions on beauty standards of the past that were predominantly focused on white, thin and cis-female consumers. The duo took advertisements from the '70s to re...

Glow Recipe, the K-beauty brand that makes formulas based on foods like watermelon and avocado, is one of the few industry pioneers that have been able to make the Korean skincare regimen and philosophy become more accessible to the American market. First launched in 2014 as a website dedicated to K-beauty, the label has now become a millennial-favorite brand thanks to its innovative products and Instagrammable packaging.Co-founders Christine Chang and Sarah Lee, who met as colleagues at L'Oréa...