I was 11 when my 20-year-old sister drove me to my first nail appointment. Until then, I had observed for years my mother and my two older sisters visit the nail salon about five miles away from our home in Pico Rivera, a predominately Latine suburb of Los Angeles. I’d watch my sisters set aside $25 for an acrylic set, plan the day they’d go...

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While images of la Virgen de Guadalupe, el Sagrado Corazón, and the festive, rainbow-bright colors so often associated with Latin America have indeed graced the beauty world’s tiniest canvases, fingernails, today’s Latina influencers are taking more modern, albeit just as exuberant, approaches to nail art. In Miami, Columbian-Ecuadorian nail...

For much of my life, I have found myself sitting in a salon chair every two weeks, getting my nails clipped, my cuticles nipped, my acrylics filled, and my hands painted into an elaborate work of art.  This self-adornment practice started back when I was 12 years old. Growing up in East Orlando in the early 2000s, my mom would drive us...

Modest fashion means something different for everyone. For some, it’s wearing looser or longer garments, and for others, it's wearing a hijab, turban, niqab etc., or just taking small steps every day to work towards ultimately dressing more modestly. For Muslim women, dressing modestly is an act of worship and is done to strengthen one's faith and...

After starring in Minhal Baig’s nostalgic coming-of-age film We Grown Now, Jurnee Smollett understands all too well how art imitates life, even at its bleakest moments. The real-life single mother of one plays a hardworking mom of two, Dolores, in Baig’s sentimental drama, set in Chicago’s famous Cabrini-Green housing project during the early ’90s....