Archive - Studio Symoné

October 2024

This Week in Beauty: Girls Are Robbing Banks

Important: paid subscription back on!

Oct 28 •

May 2024

Beauty News: An Eyelash and a Bleach Blonde, Bad Built, Butch Body, Apparently.

Plus: Johnson & Johnson and its billions, Mary J. Blige and her boots, Janet Jackson is still that girl, Glossier goes back, and Richard Christiansen is…

May 25 •

Janet Jackson’s Worn-In Braids Have the Most to Say in 'Poetic Justice'

What Janet Jackson's era-defining braids in Poetic Justice communicated

May 21 •

On newsletters + perfection

I'm practicing not feeling the need to have all of my thoughts perfectly organized, categorized, and communicated seamlessly.

May 6 •

Beauty News: 'So Is That Your Real Hair?'

On Beyoncé, Spelman's news cosmetic concentration, and braiders in Louisiana

May 1 •

November 2023

Beauty News: My Man, My Man, My Man!

Closing with a beauty recc and music 🎁

Nov 22, 2023 •

September 2023

Thoughts on $ubscription$

Darian Harvin of Studio Symoné breaks down why she's passing on subscriptions.

Sep 21, 2023 •

August 2023

BEAUTY IRL is Coming Back — With A New Name

What I’ve been up to, why I stopped, why I’m starting again

Aug 9, 2023 •

January 2022

2021’s Biggest Beauty News Stories

Examining culture through the lens of beauty.

Jan 2, 2022 •

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November 2021

This Week in Beauty: NFT ME

A few months ago, I decided I’d put an NFT behind my most viral and impactful tweet.

Nov 2, 2021 •

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