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The Lip Bar Launches HBCU-Inspired Lip Glosses Just In Time For Homecoming Season Courtesy of The Lip Bar By India Espy-Jones ·Updated October 3, 2024

The buzz around back-to-school beauty—from 5 a.m. skincare routines and professional first day makeup to controversial 30-inch wigs—has hit an all-time high.

And this energy continues—especially now that Homecoming season is in full swing. Specifically, The Lip Bar is partnering with the HBCU Culture Shop to launch a limited-edition HBCU-inspired lip gloss collection

The Lip Bar Launches HBCU Glosses For Homecoming Season

As a FAMU alumni, The Lip Bar founder Melissa Butler says college was the foundation of her success. “My first customers and employees went to HBCUs,” she tells ESSENCE. “I wanted to show some love in honor of how much love HBCUs have given men and women for centuries, especially FAMU,” Butler adds. “I owe so much to my HBCU and the richness of the culture is unsurpassed.”

Her favorite shade in the 7-look collection? Red “Rattlers”, of course. “Beyond that, I really love the shades ‘HBCU girly,’ ‘Hampton U,’ and ‘Jaguars,’” she says, calling out the neutral brown, taupe, and deep brown shades she wore during her college days. “We were deeply into smoky nude glosses, ice blue shadow, and eye liner,” says. “We wore business casual to the club and our hair was fried. Flat irons hated to see us coming.”

The Lip Bar Launches HBCU Glosses For Homecoming Season

However, the latest collection to join The Lip Bar’s current offerings—including lipstick, lip liner, and lip oil—is not like the other products. “The sheer wash of color in the HBCU Collection is an innovation we have not done before,” Butler says, with the intention to develop a universal lip. And, safe to say, they succeeded.

The limited-edition collection is available on thelipbar.com while supplies last.

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October 4, 2024

The Lip Bar Launches HBCU Glosses For Homecoming Season

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The Lip Bar Launches HBCU-Inspired Lip Glosses Just In Time For Homecoming Season Courtesy of The Lip Bar By India Espy-Jones ·Updated October 3, 2024

The buzz around back-to-school beauty—from 5 a.m. skincare routines and professional first day makeup to controversial 30-inch wigs—has hit an all-time high.

And this energy continues—especially now that Homecoming season is in full swing. Specifically, The Lip Bar is partnering with the HBCU Culture Shop to launch a limited-edition HBCU-inspired lip gloss collection

The Lip Bar Launches HBCU Glosses For Homecoming Season

As a FAMU alumni, The Lip Bar founder Melissa Butler says college was the foundation of her success. “My first customers and employees went to HBCUs,” she tells ESSENCE. “I wanted to show some love in honor of how much love HBCUs have given men and women for centuries, especially FAMU,” Butler adds. “I owe so much to my HBCU and the richness of the culture is unsurpassed.”

Her favorite shade in the 7-look collection? Red “Rattlers”, of course. “Beyond that, I really love the shades ‘HBCU girly,’ ‘Hampton U,’ and ‘Jaguars,’” she says, calling out the neutral brown, taupe, and deep brown shades she wore during her college days. “We were deeply into smoky nude glosses, ice blue shadow, and eye liner,” says. “We wore business casual to the club and our hair was fried. Flat irons hated to see us coming.”

The Lip Bar Launches HBCU Glosses For Homecoming Season

However, the latest collection to join The Lip Bar’s current offerings—including lipstick, lip liner, and lip oil—is not like the other products. “The sheer wash of color in the HBCU Collection is an innovation we have not done before,” Butler says, with the intention to develop a universal lip. And, safe to say, they succeeded.

The limited-edition collection is available on thelipbar.com while supplies last.

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October 3, 2024

Patrick Stewart Reveals His All-Time Favorite STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Episode

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Over its seven-year run, Star Trek: The Next Generation had no shortage of all-time classic episodes. It had quite a few stinkers too, but hey, that’s how it was back when a show had 26-episode seasons. They couldn’t all be winners. But with 178 episodes to its name, what was Sir Patrick Stewart’s favorite chapter of the show? Well, if you’re a big TNG fan, you might have already guessed. But now we know for certain. Via Slash Film, we learned that Stewart’s favorite outing as Captain Jean Luc Picard was an episode where he (mostly) didn’t even play that character, season five’s “The Inner Light.”

Captain Picard, Data, Worf, and La Forge on the Enterprise bridge in the Star Trek: TNG episode "The Inner Light."
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In “The Inner Light,” the Enterprise encounters an ancient alien probe (there’s always one of those) from a long-dead world. The probe scans Picard’s mind and implants the memories of an entire lifetime into his head. Picard awakens on a planet called Katann, now with the name Kamin. On Katan, he married, had children and grandchildren, and grew to old age. He even became an accomplished flute player. Eventually, he found out the life he lived was a simulation. It was a kind of time capsule recording of a planet facing extinction. When Picard returned to his old life, decades had passed for him. Yet only a few minutes had passed in the real world.

Here’s what Stewart said about the experience of making “The Inner Light:”

I become someone other than Jean-Luc Picard over decades of living a different life, and therefore become a different person. A domestic person, not a starship captain. And there is another, personal reason. My son Daniel played my son in “The Inner Light.” That was an extraordinary experience.

Picard clutches his flute from his other life in the TNG episode "The Inner Light."
Paramount Television

While our favorite Star Trek: TNG episode remains season two’s “The Measure of a Man,” we certainly understand why Patrick Stewart would love “The Inner Light” so much. It’s a beautiful episode, and it afforded the classically trained actor to go through an entire lifetime of a character in the span of 50 minutes. It’s one of those episodes that always leaves you a bit teary-eyed at the end. If you plan on doing a TNG rewatch anytime soon, there are far worse places to start than with “The Inner Light.”

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October 2, 2024

‘Sinners’ Trailer Came Out Swinging

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I’m sorry, what!? Warner Brothers are trying to get on Black folks’ good side with this one. It’s been a while since a trailer has hit with the same impact as the ones from the early 2000s. You know, back when the trailer didn’t feel the need to spoon-feed you the whole damn plot in two minutes? Either way, Sinners has us all leaning in and wanting to know what could possibly require the use of two entire Michael B. Jordans in prohibition-era attire.

If there was a checklist of things to get people jazzed, this trailer goes the extra mile. Matter of fact, let’s see what gets brought to the table here. This trailer has…

*checks notes*

More Oscar and Golden Globe wins and nominations than you can shake a stick at? Check.

Ryan Coogler writing? Check. Getting back on his pen game after the last few years (needfully and rightfully) grieving Chadwick Boseman.

Ryan Coogler directing? Check. Bringing his unique and particular vision behind the camera to the horror genre? Hyped.

Not one, but two Michael B. Jordan characters rocking suits and shooting off drums of tommy gun ammo? Check. At this point, I feel like there’s a clause in his rider since Creed that ensures there’s at least one scene where he shows off his arms.

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Michael B. Jordan shooting a gun and showing the guns. Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (2024)

Wunmi Mosako getting the bag and popping out for some more supernatural horror vibes after doing it big in the MCU? Check. This woman can act the house down, I cannot wait to see what she does here.

Delroy Lindo in the mix!? The legend himself lending his gravitas to the Black film excellence that is about to be this movie!? Check. Hopefully, he busts out that dance from Da Five Bloods unnecessarily. 

Hailee Steinfeld as the talented diversity hire? Check. She only pops up in this trailer for a second, and she’s giving ‘southern belle that is really into Division One ball players’. Very excited to see what wrinkle her character brings to the movie. Steinfeld always brings one-hundred percent of herself to every role.

For my cinephiles, DoP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, production designer Hannah Beachler, editor Michael P. Shawver, composer Ludwig Göransson, and costume designer Ruth E. Carter back?!? Coogler brought out the Black Panther production team? Check.

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The use of the Black church as sanctuary. Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (2024).

Outside of this very appealing and perfectly mysterious trailer, there’s a draw to Sinners that transcends the nature of a trailer. Typically, Black horror is centered around the relationship of the Black experience to whiteness. Where the white status quo is the source and subject of terror for Black people. On the flip side of that, it looks like Sinners is giving us Black horror alongside Black spirituality – centering on how this community approaches the coming evil. In the trailer, we see imagery invoking both Black Christianity and African-American herbalism. That alone tells me attention to detail and cultural competency are going to be leveraged to scare the hell out of audiences.

It has the feel and texture of episode three of Lovecraft Country with an air of Eve’s Bayou and the trailer does well to keep to the imagination. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m sold on it. Sinners drops in theaters March 7th, 2025. Let’s run the numbers up on this one.

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October 2, 2024

NFL Week 4 Picks and Week 3 Prediction Updates

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Good evening everyone! Today I want to discuss which picks I got correct and which one I got wrong! So, let’s get started, shall we?! I predicted that the Packers would beat the titans 31-20, but the final score was 30-14 Packers over the Titans. I was pretty close with that prediction. I predicted that the Vikings would beat the Texans 31-27, but the final score was 34-7 Vikings over the Texans. I predicted that the Chiefs would beat the Falcons 34-19, but the final score was 22-17 Chiefs over the Falcons. I predicted that the Ravens would beat the Cowboys 36-23, but the final score was 28-25 Ravens over the Cowboys. The Ravens almost blew another big lead, but they held on. I predicted that the Bills would beat the Jags 37-21, but the final score was 47-10 Bills over the Jags in a huge blowout.

I predicted that the Saints would beat the Eagles 35-30, but the final score was 15-12 Eagles over the Saints. I predicted that the Chargers would beat the Steelers 24-17, but the final score was 20-10 Steelers over the Chargers. I predicted that the Bucs would beat the Broncos 34-26, but the final score was 26-7 Broncos over the Bucs. I predicted that the Dolphins would beat the Seahawks 28-25, but the final score was 24-3 Seahawks over the Dolphins. I predicted that the Cards would beat the Lions 38-31, but the final score was 20-13 Lions over the Cards. A lot of players got hurt and the Cards offense just could not get going despite the defense trying to help out the offense. I predicted that the 49ers would beat the Rams 23-17, but the final score was 27-24 Rams over the 49ers. The Rams came back from the deficit without their star wide receiver Cooper Kupp and kicked a game-winning field goal. I predicted that the Bengals would beat the Commanders 24-23, but the final score was 38-33 Commanders over the Bengals.

Overall, I have gotten 5 out of 12 picks correct!!! Now, let’s get to the NFL week 4 picks, shall we?! The first game I will predict is the Rams @Bears game. I think the Rams will beat the Bears 27-13. The next game I will predict is the Vikings @Packers game, the divisional rivalries. I think the Vikings will beat the Packers 31-25. The next game I will predict is the Steelers @Colts game. I think the Steelers will beat the Colts 34-17. The next game I will predict is the Broncos @Jets game. I think the Jets will beat the Broncos 35-17. The next game I will predict is the Eagles @Bucs game. I think the Bucs will beat the Eagles 29-20. The next game I will predict is the Commanders @Cards game. I think the Cards will beat the Commanders 27-20. The next game I will predict is the Pats @49ers game. I think the 49ers will beat the Pats 34-21. The next game I will predict is the Chiefs @Chargers game, the divisional rivalries. I think the Chargers will beat the Chiefs 23-20. The next game I will predict is the Bills @Ravens game on Sunday night football. I think the Ravens will beat the Bills 31-30. The last game I will predict is the Titans @Dolphins game and the Seahawks @Lions game on Monday night football. I think the Dolphins will beat the Titans 31-23 and the Lions beat the Seahawks 31-21.

So, what do you guy’s think about the NFL week 4 picks?! I would love to hear your thoughts and comments down below!

Stay tuned for NFL updates.

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