Wouldn’t it be nice to spend Friday night in your sweat pants but still have an awesome time with your friends? Solution: host a girls’ night in. Rather than spending your evening doing your hair and make-up, set up your living room to be a comfortable space for you and your girlfriends to chat, play […]
Did you know you can eat your way to better looking skin? Keep your skin looking younger—for the rest of your life—with these 4 foods: Strawberries: Eating more vitamin C-rich foods, such as strawberries, may help to ward off wrinkles and age-related dryness, suggests research from 2007 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Vitamin […]
Bring some healthy pleasures into your everyday life that will help you to enjoy your days even more.
“The Fed also yesterday sharply downgraded its own view of the US economy.” The New York Post illustrated this degradation with a racy photo of an ethnic woman on the cover of their issue. In an effort to represent the wildly fluctuating stock market, The New York Post chose to use a photo of a […]
The natural hair movement is taking over Black women everywhere. YouTube views are going up and ladies everywhere are giving up the chemicals and doing the big chop! Just know you’re not alone. BlackPlanet’s group for The Natural Sister is a safe place where natural beauties can share their experiences, seek advice or products, styles, […]
Check out Mary J. Blige’s new video for “The Living Proof”, which is featured on the soundtrack for The Help, which arrives in theaters today. The video shows Mary in the studio and some footage from the movie. We love this ballad and the message that it sends. What do you think of “The Living […]
Nicki Minaj is proving once again that she can hang with the fellas, she’s now the first female rapper to make the Forbes’ Hip-Hop Cash Kings list. Making her debut at #15, the Barbie Doll rapper pulled in $6.5 million this past year. Looks like that empire Nicki wants to create is well within reach! […]
Beyonce, Rihanna and Mariah Carey are just a few of the A-list celebs who are coming together to help raise awareness of a famine in East Africa. Other celebs who are going to be a part of this noteworthy cause include Madonna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, U2, Mariah Carey and […]
Love him or hate him, Tyler Perry is not just a Black man; he’s a household name who has created an international brand in less than 20 years. A little over a week ago, I attended the White House’s Atlanta Urban Entrepreneurship Forum where the actor, producer, playwright and media mogul delivered the opening speech […]
Actress Zoe Saldana graces the cover of the September issue of Women’s Health and tells the mag why she is serious about taking care of her body. But Zoe also reveals that she can’t do it alone, she needs to be motivated: “I get bored really easily. If I didn’t have a trainer to push […]
The question is, who hasn’t this celebrity makeup artist worked with? A tiny snapshot of Joanna “JoJo” Rodriguez‘s client list reads like the Who’s Who of entertainment’s elite – Lady Gaga, MC Lyte, Mary Mary, Paula Patton, Shontelle, Tracy Reese & Zoe Zaldana, and the list keeps on going and going and going… It was JoJo’s part-time job behind the MAC cosmetics […]
Word on the street is that Kelly Rowland is in love with her songwriter/sometimes manager Tim Weatherspoon and is considering getting married. A MTO source is confirming that Kelly is considering marrying Tim. Kelly and Tim have been joined at the hip recently and earlier this week, Rowland gave an interview to London’s The Mirror […]
