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<title>Olandria on Embracing Barblandria For Her Very First Coachella</title>
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The palms were swaying and the sun was out on Friday - the first day of Coachella - when Olandria Carthen stepped onto the festival grounds for the first time ever. She was checking out Barbie&#039;s very pink activation - a mirror mirage with a charm bar, photobooth, and more inside. There was even a larger-than-life hologram with Paris Hilton and Barblandria herself, and seeing Carthen pose with her hologram was uncanny and also downright fabulous. &quot;This entire Coachella, I&#039;m going to be Barblandria, and it&#039;s going to be fab,&quot; she told Popsugar. &quot;I named this weekend Ochella, because it&#039;s my first one and I&#039;m going with Barbie.&quot; 
But despite being a first-timer, Carthen came prepared. She worked on her packing list for weeks. &quot;It&#039;s been a long process,&quot; she said. &quot;Mini fans, sunscreen, body glow, mini deodorant, cowboy hats. So many different bandanas. I&#039;ve been grabbing everything. Press-on nails - I have so many different colors, sizes. And earplugs.&quot; 
That body glow is a signature beauty look for her - she&#039;ll mix together body shimmer, oil, and sunscreen. As she puts it, &quot;You gotta be glistening.&quot; And of course, so many of her fans are excited for her outfits. She teased a &quot;scandalous&quot; brown outfit, custom made by Baby Phat, as her favorite look of the whole weekend. 
Now that she&#039;s actually here, she can fully lean into her Barblandria festival persona. &quot;I feel like my festival vibe is that I&#039;m going to be a dancer. Drink in my hand, dancing to the music.&quot; (Her go-to drink, by the way, is a French 75.) She&#039;s most excited to see Justin Bieber, who performs on Saturday. She&#039;s been a Belieber since childhood and loves his latest albums. &quot;Yukon&quot; is one of her favorite songs; &quot;I love to see him tap into his R&amp;B side,&quot; she said.

This Coachella is also special because Carthen brought her two best friends, who have also never been to the festival before, to experience it with her. She said that carving out time for friends and family - and involving them in new experiences like this - has been something she&#039;s committed to since she shot to stardom.
&quot;One thing that really surprised me about being famous is how intense this life really is. The amount of dedication and hard work and sacrifices that you have to do to build a brand - it&#039;s a lot, and it&#039;s tiring,&quot; she said. &quot;But I&#039;m making it through and I&#039;m doing it my best. It&#039;s an intense lifestyle, but I wouldn&#039;t have it any other way. I&#039;m learning how to adapt.&quot; 
As for recovery come Monday, rest is going to be key. &quot;I&#039;m going nonstop for the next few days, so I&#039;m going to need to just binge-watch a show and rest in bed,&quot; Carthen said. Amen to that. 
Lena Felton (she/her) is a senior director of special projects at PS, where she oversees sponsored packages, tentpole projects, and editorial partnerships. Previously, she was an editor at The Washington Post, where she led a team covering issues of gender and identity. She has been working in journalism since 2017, during which time her focus has been feature writing and editing and elevating historically underrepresented voices. Lena has worked for The Atlantic, InStyle, So It Goes, and more.
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<title>Step Inside Popsugar&amp;apos;s Award Season After Party</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For a city that famously turns in early, Los Angeles was out late last night for Oscars Sunday, with men in tuxedos jetting across the Sunset Strip, valet stands slammed, and a vast array of after parties taking place across the city. And this year, one was our own: Popsugar hosted an award season after party in partnership with Affinity Nightlife on March 15 at Skybar in West Hollywood. 
Taking place at the rooftop bar of the Mondrian Hotel, the event was a raucous sendoff to that annual string of award shows ending, of course, with the Oscars. Notable attendees included &quot;Love Story&quot; actor Noah Fearnley, PS Fit favorite Tanner Courtad, &quot;Love Island&quot; alums Andreina Santos and Jeremiah Brown, as well as Chloe Veitch of &quot;Too Hot to Handle&quot; and &quot;The Circle.&quot; 
Stars stopped by the Popsugar lounge to answer questions about hidden talents and the Oscar-worthy aspects of their daily routines. For the latter, Santos shouted out her &quot;booty workout&quot; next to a stunned Brown. Meanwhile, Fearnley, who most recently portrayed Calvin Klein model Michael Bergin opposite Sarah Pidgeon&#039;s Carolyn Bessette, revealed he could see himself being a personal chef (if he wasn&#039;t, of course, a model-turned-actor playing a model). When these celebs were done with the hot seat, they picked up VIP gift bags full of goodies from Popsugar-favorite brands like NYX Cosmetics, Kosas, Solawave, M&amp;Ms, The Lip Bar, Uni, Eos, Sacheu, and more.
Back at the party, guests danced and enjoyed Popsugar Spritzes by the pool as Golden Reserve Caviar servers made their way through the crowd, equipped with blinis and bottles of crème fraîche at the ready in a holster. When you&#039;re out late on a school night, a little caviar - coupled with celeb sightings - doesn&#039;t hurt. 
See photos from Popsugars Award Season After Party ahead.

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Kelsey Garcia (she/her) is the lifestyle director at PS, where she oversees coverage across Balance and Health &amp; Fitness. Kelsey is passionate about travel, wellness trends, and evolving parenting styles. Before joining the PS team as an editorial assistant in 2015, she interned at Elle and Harper&#039;s Bazaar, among other publications.
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<title>32 Legendary Musicians You Should Dress as For Halloween This Year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Choosing a Halloween costume is pretty much like choosing a new identity: it&#039;s one night to be whoever you want, and what&#039;s more fun than pretending you&#039;re a famous musician? Of course you could go more current and channel Beyoncé&#039;s &quot;Cowboy Carter&quot; Tour outfits, Taylor Swift&#039;s &quot;Eras&quot; Tour, or Sabrina Carpenter, but going back in time can be really exciting too - especially when it comes to paying homage to an iconic musician. 
As far as musician Halloween costumes go, you&#039;ll be in good company. In 2017, Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney channeled Madonna and Michael Jackson with spot-on looks, while both Demi Lovato and Kim went as Selena Quintanilla in 2017. Beyoncé herself has often favored famous musician costumes for Halloween, dressing up with Blue Ivy and Tina Knowles as Salt-N-Pepa in 2016 and going as Toni Braxton in 2018. Other stars have paid homage to legends like Amy Winehouse, Cher, or Prince. But you don&#039;t have to be a celebrity in real life to choose to embody one on Halloween – that&#039;s the beauty of the holiday, which allows you to become whoever you want, whether that&#039;s a member of Kiss, Freddie Mercury, Aretha Franklin, or whatever musician you grew up loving. 
If you&#039;re thinking about taking a trip down memory lane, keep reading for our iconic musician costume inspiration. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taylor Swift Halloween Costumes For Every Era, From &amp;quot;Fearless&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;TLOAS&amp;quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Enter our Spooky Home Decor Challenge and show us how you&#039;re bringing Halloween to life in your home to win $300 worth of fall decor from Anthropologie.
Taylor Swift is entering a new chapter and embracing her &quot;The Life of a Showgirl&quot; era. Though her Eras Tour is over for now, Swift&#039;s tour outfits, or even her football season &#039;fits, are perfect for any die-hard Swiftie looking to dress like her this Halloween. Starting with &quot;The Fate of Ophelia,&quot; Swift&#039;s iconic music video outfits make for the perfect inspiration. Just team these looks with her signature red lipstick and you&#039;re good to go! Ahead, check out 27 Swift costume ideas based on her music video outfits. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Hot Take: I Actually Don&amp;apos;t Want to Embrace My Gray Hair</title>
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It wasn&#039;t too long ago that women were shamed for aging - told they looked &quot;old&quot; if they dared to embrace their gray hair. In fact, I never saw the women in my own family lean into it until well into their 70s or 80s. My Abuela Celeste didn&#039;t start rocking her grays until her 70s, after my grandfather passed away. Before that, she always sported these beautiful ginger tones that looked stunning against her olive skin. My mom didn&#039;t actually start graying until her 50s, and even now, at 66, she&#039;s still not quite ready to make the plunge of going fully gray.
In recent years, though, we&#039;ve seen a growing movement of women - celebrities included - proudly refusing to cover up their grays. And while I deeply admire it and find it beautiful in so many ways, I&#039;m not ready to join that bandwagon anytime soon. I&#039;m 39, and only in the past few years started noticing a gray hair or two sprouting up. But this year - and I blame the stress 2025 has brought - I&#039;ve started spotting a few more around my crown. And honestly? I&#039;m just not ready to embrace them quite yet.
As someone who only gets my highlights retouched once or twice a year, the thought of eventually having to touch up my roots regularly - even though I know I still have a few years before that becomes necessary - immediately stresses me out. To be honest, I just don&#039;t see myself embracing grays before my 60s or 70s. Like my abuela, my mom, and all my tías, my relationship with beauty and vanity has always been directly tied to feeling empowered. The women in my family - especially my mom&#039;s and my abuela&#039;s generations - endured a lot. Not only in their personal lives, but also in carving out a place for themselves in a country that constantly told them they weren&#039;t enough.
My mother arrived from the Dominican Republic in Corona, Queens, when she was 13 years old. Assimilating to a new country while learning a new language and culture wasn&#039;t easy. But one thing my abuela made sure of, as a new immigrant raising four young kids, including my mom, was that she was always going to feel good about herself and hold her head high every time she stepped outside the house. My grandmother showed up everywhere polished. It didn&#039;t matter if she was heading to work or just walking to the corner bodega - she carried herself with style and elegance. She still does today at 97.
In many ways, that was a survival skill passed down from the women before her, and one that all three of her daughters would go on to embrace. While everyone in my family has their own relationship with vanity - some more intense than others - one thing I&#039;ve always taken from it is that when I look good, I feel good. My aura shifts when I like what I see in the mirror, and honestly, most days I do. Not because I don&#039;t have flaws, but because I&#039;ve learned to appreciate all of me - a confidence rooted in how dedicated I am to taking care of myself.
The truth is, 2025 has been a challenging and scary year for many of us. One of the few things that has consistently brought me joy - and helped me hold onto my confidence in these unpredictable times - is making sure that whenever I leave the house, I love what I see in the mirror. I may not walk out with a full face of makeup like my abuela often did, but I always make sure my skin is moisturized, my nails are done, I feel good about what I&#039;m wearing, and my hair looks polished by my standards. These days, that also means being proactive about how I&#039;ll handle my grays as they start coming in.
Like I mentioned before, I don&#039;t yet have enough grays to justify regular root-touchup appointments with my colorist. But they&#039;ve become noticeable enough that I sometimes find myself plucking a few before heading out the door. That&#039;s what sent me down a rabbit hole - researching what actually causes gray hair and exploring natural ways I might slow the process down.
I started searching on TikTok and quickly came across countless videos of influencers bragging about reversing their grays with Mary Ruth&#039;s Gray Guard Liposomal. While there isn&#039;t any concrete evidence that liposomal supplements can actually reverse gray hairs, some studies suggest it may help slow or support the process by enhancing the absorption of ingredients like copper and B vitamins. 
It&#039;s only been about three weeks since I added the supplement to my routine, and so far I haven&#039;t noticed any changes. Still, I&#039;m giving it a shot - most of the influencers I saw on TikTok said they didn&#039;t notice results until at least a month in. I&#039;m also pretty convinced that my new grays are stress-induced, so I&#039;ve been focusing on managing my stress, getting enough sleep, and exercising daily to hopefully prevent even more from showing up.
I believe one&#039;s relationship with vanity is deeply personal. For me, it has never felt exhausting or consuming. I&#039;m not a big makeup girl, and most of my approach to beauty is pretty natural - with the exception of my gel acrylic nails and my highlights. I&#039;m not addressing my grays because I feel pressured to fit into society&#039;s mold of what a woman in her late 30s should look like. Presenting myself in a way that feels true to who I am - at least right now - for me is its own form of resistance. I choose to care for myself, to love myself, and to make sure I feel like my baddie self every single day in a world that profits from me hating who I am as a brown-skinned Latina woman in her late 30s. This is my armor. This is my superpower. Because no matter what obstacles come my way, I&#039;m choosing to love myself through it.
Johanna Ferreira is the content director for PS Juntos. With more than 10 years of experience, Johanna focuses on how intersectional identities are a central part of Latine culture. Previously, she spent close to three years as the deputy editor at HipLatina, and she has freelanced for numerous outlets including Refinery29, Oprah magazine, Allure, InStyle, and Well+Good. She has also moderated and spoken on numerous panels on Latine identity.
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<title>Taylor Swift Halloween Costumes For Every Era, From &amp;quot;TLOAS&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Fearless&amp;quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Taylor Swift is entering a new chapter and embracing her &quot;The Life of a Showgirl&quot; era. Though her Eras Tour is over for now, Swift&#039;s tour outfits, or even her football season &#039;fits, are perfect for any die-hard Swiftie looking to dress like her this Halloween. Starting with &quot;The Fate of Ophelia,&quot; Swift&#039;s iconic music video outfits make for the perfect inspiration. Just team these looks with her signature red lipstick and you&#039;re good to go! Ahead, check out 27 Swift costume ideas based on her music video outfits. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Best &amp;apos;90s Pop Culture Halloween Costumes, From The Addams Family to Spice Girls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This Halloween, we&#039;re throwing it back to the 1990s. We&#039;ve handpicked some pop culture &#039;90s icons who would make, like, totally easy costumes. Think: Spice Girls; Wednesday from &quot;The Addams Family,&quot; and Romy and Michele from &quot;Romy and Michele&#039;s High School Reunion.&quot;
Since &#039;90s fashion trends are basically always in style - chunky sneakers, choker necklaces, and bucket hats - it&#039;s refreshingly easy to DIY a perfect &#039;90s Halloween costume from your closet. Have bike shorts and a crewneck sweatshirt? You are now Princess Diana. Sweatpants, a crop top, and your favorite pair of sneakers? You&#039;re a master of Sporty Spice style.
Whether you&#039;re a millennial who longs for the days of your youth or Gen Z who just loves all things &#039;90s, we have some Halloween costumes that will make you the hippest person at the party. From TV shows and movies to the hottest music acts of the time, keep reading for a ton of iconic DIY &#039;90s pop culture costumes that will make sure your Halloween rocks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>16 Iconic Movie Duos That Make Perfect Couples&amp;apos; Halloween Costumes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Look no further for iconic movie duos that can inspire your next Halloween costume for couples. From funny pairs like &quot;Elf&quot;&#039;s Buddy and Jovie to classic couples like Barbie and Ken, there are so many pop culture twosomes to provide endless dress-up inspiration for your next costume this Halloween season. The best part about dressing up with a friend or your significant other is you can come up with most of your outfits at home, whether you want to scare the crap out of people this Halloween as Chucky and Tiffany From &quot;Bride of Chucky&quot; or channel an adorable romantic couple, like Jack and Rose from &quot;The Titanic.&quot; Take a look at these couples movie character costume ideas inspired by your favorite flicks ahead! ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>25 DIY Halloween Costumes For Movie and TV Buffs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s OK to admit it: you already want to be your favorite TV show or movie character IRL, so why not make that dream a reality this Halloween? Whether you want to be Wednesday Addams from &quot;The Addams Family,&quot; Barbie from the &quot;Barbie&quot; movie, or Hermione Granger from &quot;Harry Potter,&quot; you can bring your onscreen icon to life when you transform into them with a DIY costume.
No need to splurge on new items. Channel your character&#039;s cool, quirky, or unique style in a totally original (and cheap!) way for spooky season, using clothes and accessories you already have in your closet. Most costumes from movies or TV show Halloween costumes already have wildly cool looks (basically everything worn on &quot;Mean Girls&quot; and every &quot;Clueless&quot; outfit ever), so dressing the part will be easier than you imagined.
Finding easy character costumes to replicate this year should be a breeze with TV shows and movies like &quot;E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,&quot; &quot;Finding Nemo,&quot; &quot;The Office,&quot; &quot;Legally Blonde,&quot; &quot;Beetlejuice,&quot; &quot;Orange Is the New Black,&quot; and more. Ahead, take a peek at the best DIY Halloween costume ideas for some of the most legendary TV and film characters to grace our screens. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>19 Disney Halloween Costumes For Adults You Can Easily DIY</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s time to get a little more creative with your Disney Halloween costume this year. While there&#039;s never anything wrong with a classic princess dress, Halloween is a great time to challenge yourself to channel someone (or something) from the Walt Disney universe that&#039;s a little beyond the norm. Try on Cruella de Vil&#039;s red gloves from &quot;101 Dalmatians&quot; or dust off your super suit to be one of the Incredibles.
We&#039;ve rounded up a whole bunch of easy costumes that will inspire you this Halloween season: your favorite Disney sidekicks, friends, and even some foes (we&#039;re looking at you, Maleficent). And of course, we&#039;ve included some classic character favorites: Disney princesses like Snow White from &quot;Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,&quot; Ariel from &quot;The Little Mermaid,&quot; Tiana from &quot;The Princess and the Frog,&quot; and many more beloved roles. 
See all of the creative costumes for adults ahead, and win best getup at your Halloween party. ]]></description>
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<title>Bad Bunny&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Debí Tirar Más Fotos&amp;quot; Tells Puerto Rico&amp;apos;s History</title>
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The opening track of Bad Bunny&#039;s sixth studio album, &quot;Debí Tirar Más Fotos,&quot; which was released on Jan. 5, doesn&#039;t begin in the way many of us have come to expect typical reggaetón songs to start. There are no heavy synths underlining the intro, no plucky &quot;wite&quot; melody (how Puerto Ricans refer to the iconic melody sampled from Jamaica&#039;s &quot;Bam Bam&quot; riddim), and no pounding dembow bassline. Instead, &quot;Nuevayol&quot; opens with a sample from the salsa classic &quot;Un Verano En Nueva York&quot; by El Gran Combo, the first sign we are in for something different. And by the time the album&#039;s 17 tracks are through, we&#039;ve been taken on a tour through Puerto Rico&#039;s rich musical history. This is Bad Bunny&#039;s most Puerto Rican and emotionally vulnerable album yet, where he uses the island&#039;s musical soundscape as a canvas to comment on its many sociopolitical issues while cultivating the musical terroir of Puerto Rico&#039;s future.
&quot;Debí Tirar Más Fotos,&quot; which translates to &quot;I should&#039;ve taken more photos,&quot; comes at a crucial time for Puerto Ricans, both on the island and throughout the diaspora. With the same administration that has helped lead the island into corruption and decay about to take office yet again, there is no guarantee that our traditions or way of life won&#039;t be directly impacted. Such is the march of time, and the impact of over 500 years of colonization cannot be understated. 
Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez, seems to understand this better than most. The album is framed loosely by the idea of the singer entering the new year alone, reflecting on a lost love, which can easily correlate to the loss of agency, sleep, and a promising future many Puerto Ricans are grappling with. Our beaches are slowly being poisoned. Our lands are being sold to crypto billionaires. And our lights still won&#039;t stay the fuck on. 
Given these circumstances, it&#039;s not hard to see how the nostalgia of the past can serve as an escape. But Martínez, while his character might be drinking pitorro and reminiscing about an ex, isn&#039;t getting lost in nostalgia. He&#039;s using it to bridge the gap between the island&#039;s past and its future. While the opening track starts with a salsa sample, which shouts out Puerto Rican legends like salsero Willie Colón and the owner of the last standing Puerto Rican social club in NYC, Maria Antonia Cay (known as Toñita), the second song on the album, &quot;Baile Inolvidable,&quot; sees Martínez harmonizing in his typical urbano cadence over the horns, keys, and typical salsa orchestration provided by Libre de Musica San Juan. This is followed by tracks borrowed from less commercial genres, such as bomba y plena, música jíbara, and bachata. However, while the sonic landscape of &quot;DTMF&quot; owes much to the island&#039;s past, the voices it features are primed to shape the island&#039;s musical tradition for years to come. 
Puerto Rico&#039;s next big thing, RaiNao, is featured on the track &quot;Perfumito Nuevo,&quot; a sexy, upbeat reggaetón number with pulsing, alternating dembow rhythms that are perfect for a day-trip across Puerto Rico&#039;s sunbaked carreteras. The very next track, &quot;Weltito,&quot; calls in assistance from up-and-coming Latin jazz, tropical fusion quartet Chuwi. 
Martínez might be a once-in-a-generation superstar, but he&#039;s always understood that he is part of a bigger musical tradition, one that includes greats like Hector Lavoe, Andres Jimenez, Olga Tanon, Big Pun, Tego Calderon, and many more. And with that comes a certain responsibility. Martínez knows that any artist he features will be springboarded into the spotlight, and he uses his platform accordingly to ensure that the tradition continues long after he&#039;s gone. 
There&#039;s been a &quot;recent back to the roots&quot; movement sweeping across the underground scene in PR, with new artists experimenting with more traditional sounds, which the artists featured on the album, including Chuwi, Rainao, Omar Courtz, and Dei V are all a part of. Even Rauw Alejandro stepped up to embrace a more classic style and pay homage to the diaspora on his last album with a cover of &#039;Tú Con El&quot; by Frankie Ruiz. So it&#039;s no surprise that after &quot;nadie sabe lo que vas a pasar mañana,&quot; the trap masterclass that was his last album, Martínez&#039;s latest project would have him going in a more eclectic direction and using his platform to help push the island&#039;s sound in that direction. 
But in many ways, Bad Bunny is also kind of an anti-superstar. Whereas being a pop star often means trading in a more cultivated sound for something that appeals to the masses, Martínez has done the opposite. The more his fame has grown, the more his musical trajectory has diverged from typical pop stardom, leading him down the path of auteur and activist similar to hip hop artist and rapper Kendrick Lamar. Similarly, as his fame has grown, his albums have become less accessible and more insular. &quot;DTMF&quot; is not an album that caters to outside audiences. It&#039;s not meant to appeal to tourists, something the artist touches on in the track &quot;Turista,&quot; a caution ]]></description>
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<title>Faux Locs Have Become the Secret Weapon in My Curly Hair Routine</title>
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Growing up, my relationship with my hair was anything but simple. I was raised in a Dominican household where curly hair wasn&#039;t seen as beautiful; it was seen as something to fix, smooth out, and straighten. As a result, my family ensured that I visited the Dominican salon for regular relaxers and blowouts. It wasn&#039;t until 2016 that I truly began to embrace my natural texture. However, one of the biggest misconceptions about going natural is that caring for curly hair becomes easier once you stop straightening or using relaxers. Trust me, it doesn&#039;t. 
I have 3C-type hair, which means my curls are tightly coiled and can be a little testy at times. There are days when my curls are absolutely perfect, and I feel like the most confident woman in the room. But let me be real, those times don&#039;t last very long. On a good week, I get maybe three days where my curls are in their prime. The rest of the time, it&#039;s all about moisture, styling, and making sure my hair stays protected. In other words, caring for curls can be a full-time job. It&#039;s not something you can do half-heartedly.  It&#039;s not for the weak, which is why faux locs have become a major game-changer for me. 
Faux locs entered my life as a way to save time and protect my natural curls. I needed a break from the constant maintenance of my curls, but I still wanted a look that was stylish and easy to manage. Faux locs gave me that. I can choose the length, style, and color to fit my vibe for the day. Plus, they&#039;re a lot easier to maintain than chemically straightened hair. I don&#039;t have to worry about humidity or rainy days interfering with my hair. I can wake up and know that my hair will stay intact for at least three weeks. I can say goodbye to frizz and embrace worry-free styling every day.
And as someone with a busy schedule, faux locs have become a lifesaver for me. Whether I&#039;m heading to an audition, a comedy show, or a big event, I can rely on my locs to look great, no matter what. They give me confidence in a way that my curls sometimes don&#039;t, simply because I know they&#039;ll stay on point. Plus, faux locs are super versatile. I can try different looks without committing to something permanent.
Now, the cost of faux locs can be a little steep - I&#039;m not going to lie. In California, they can run you around $600, while in New York, you might get a good set for around $300. But here&#039;s the thing: I&#039;ve learned how to do them myself, which saves me a ton of money. It takes me about six hours to do them properly - four hours if I&#039;m feeling lazy and don&#039;t care about how the back looks. But when I&#039;m done, I feel like I&#039;ve accomplished something major. It&#039;s one less thing I have to worry about for a few weeks.
Sometimes, I think about making faux locs a permanent part of my style. They&#039;re just so easy and low-maintenance. But then I think about my curls, and I can&#039;t imagine giving them up. I&#039;ve spent so many years trying to embrace them, and now I&#039;m finally at a place where I love them. I&#039;ve come to realize that my curls are actually an integral part of my identity, and they are not something I need to change. So, for now, I enjoy the best of both worlds: curly hair for those days I want to feel unstoppable, and faux locs when I need a break.
Ultimately, what I&#039;ve learned is that hair is an expression of who you are. Whether curly, straight, loc&#039;ed, or anything in between, it&#039;s a choice, and for me, that choice is about feeling empowered and confident in whatever style I choose. And let&#039;s be real, as a Dominican woman in the entertainment industry, having the freedom to express myself through my hair is a power I&#039;ll never take for granted.
Sasha Merci is a  first-generation Dominican American actor, comedian, and viral digital creator. She showcases over a decade of diverse experience in entertainment with roles in films like &quot;Righteous Thieves&quot; and &quot;De Lo Mio,&quot; along with collaborations with renowned brands such as Target and Bumble. She shares her Bronx roots and passion for Latine culture by being vocal about mental health and navigating comedy.
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How Indigenous Artist Sophie Castillo&amp;apos;s Ancestors Inspire Her Music</title>
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There&#039;s a reason Sophie Castillo&#039;s discography doesn&#039;t focus on one genre, one language, or any one rhythm. The London-born Colombian-Cuban is a multifaceted artist whose music is a testament to the cross-cultural environment she grew up in. You might recognize Castillo from TikTok, where her song &quot;Call Me By Your Name&quot; became one of her most listened-to tracks. Her ability to seamlessly blend Spanish and English over a bachata beat has undoubtedly earned the admiration of listeners.
Castillo began singing at the age of 3. While she was growing up, her Colombian mother and Cuban father, who were the first people in their respective families to immigrate to the UK, played only Latin music - specifically salsa. &quot;My family was always playing a lot of salsa, so Grupo Niche, Fruko y Sus Tesos, Joe Arroyo, Celia Cruz,&quot; Castillo says. And her love of and talent for musical theater was recognized early. When Castillo was around 5, she performed in a school show and left an adult audience teary-eyed. This resulted in her mom and uncles placing her in an after-school drama program that allowed her to practice music and pursue acting, singing, and dancing. &quot;This has been a lifelong dream of mine,&quot; the now 26-year-old says.
When she reflects on her childhood, the importance of Castillo&#039;s representation of the Latine community in UK media becomes clear. &quot;I definitely had my issues as a kid growing up with not feeling represented,&quot; she says. As a result, she idealized Eurocentric features in Barbie dolls, films, and toys. Castillo says she didn&#039;t see herself in any of these areas growing up. &quot;I never saw any type of Indigenous representation of Latina women,&quot; she notes. 
&quot;When I was a kid and didn&#039;t have the language to have those conversations, I had insecurities, but then as soon as I could express my feelings about that, I had a lot of support, and it really changed the way that I viewed myself,&quot; she continues. Castillo&#039;s advice for women who, like her, don&#039;t feel represented in the media is to &quot;remember you have the features of your ancestors.&quot; She reflects on a beautiful sentiment she came across online: &quot;You look the way you do because two of your ancestors loved those features in each other so much that they decided to come together and create a child. That child passed those features on, and eventually, they became yours.&quot;
Honoring the legacy of those who came before her has been crucial in Castillo&#039;s journey to self-love. When insecurities arise, she says she reminds herself, &quot;Hold on a minute - I might have this nose or these eyes because one of my ancestors gave them to me.&quot; 
Castillo has also learned to look inward when it comes to prioritizing her mental health and self-image. &quot;What I&#039;ve learned over time is actually just how much power we have within our own lives,&quot; she says. &quot;I&#039;m in control of my thoughts, my feelings, my mind. I can always change something to make myself feel better. I can always cheer myself up.&quot; 
Pride in her heritage serves Castillo&#039;s confidence not only physically but also spiritually as she navigates her way through the music industry. &quot;Being Latin American, our continent has gone through so much trauma as a land and our ancestors went through so much trauma, we need to honor them for what they gave us and how much they fought to survive in the midst of everything that they had to face,&quot; she says. 
The influence of Castillo&#039;s Latin American heritage inspires the sound of her music - but most importantly, the influence of her ancestors serves as an inspiration for perseverance as she rises to stardom. She also credits growing up with Latine parents for several of her most important values. &quot;There are many, but one of them is having that inner strength and general positive outlook on life - being able to pick yourself back up when you&#039;re down, dust off your knees, and continue,&quot; she says. This mindset is something &quot;everyone in our family, and in a lot of Latine and immigrant families, have had to do.&quot; 
These days, by weaving the language and sounds of her childhood into her storytelling, Castillo is able to honor these sacrifices and alchemize them. She weaves components of music that originated in Latin America with other inspirations to develop a unique sound and deeply personal voice. The result preserves cultural genres and introduces them to new audiences. 
Through social media, Castillo has not only been building a platform for her music but also working to provide the representation she yearned for growing up. As she shares on her TikTok, she&#039;s patiently waiting to become a mainstream representation for &quot;brown skin/Indigenous features women.&quot; 
As she puts it, &quot;A lot of girls message me or comment that they love that I look like them and their primas, and how they love seeing me with my features representing us in the music industry. They&#039;re rooting for me.&quot; And so are we. 
Ashley Garcia Lezcano is an audience strategist, writer, and producer with a passion for highlighting Lati ]]></description>
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<title>Shakira&amp;apos;s New Curly&#45;Hair Line Is Redefining What It Means to Have &amp;quot;Pelo Bueno&amp;quot;</title>
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Show me a curly-haired girl, and I know immediately: that&#039;s someone who&#039;s had a complicated relationship with her hair. Curly hair is never just hair - it&#039;s a history of unlearning and relearning. Behind every curl is a memory, a myth, a story, and the journey of growing to love what once needed to be tamed. 
Even Shakira - whose goddess-like curls are as iconic as her voice - has been there. After years of experimenting with treatments, products, and even collaborating with a pharmacist to develop her own customized formulas, the Colombian singer dreamed of a line that could serve other curly-haired girls - especially Latinas - who&#039;ve long struggled to find products that truly meet their needs. Enter Isima, a new line of science-backed, innovative products made for curls, available only at Ulta.
Unlike most curly-haired Latinas - especially those from her generation - Shakira&#039;s struggles with her hair didn&#039;t stem from the cultural pressure to style it straight. While she occasionally wore a sleek style or fresh blowout, she mostly embraced her natural texture, especially when she began performing live.
&quot;I guess I didn&#039;t have a choice, because when I&#039;m on stage, I need to feel empowered - I need to feel true to myself,&quot; she tells PS. &quot;I&#039;m free. I cannot wear super high heels. I cannot wear a wig.&quot;
Shakira&#039;s complicated hair journey was brought on by the damage that came with coloring, heat styling, and treatments like Brazilian keratin.
She shares that her healthiest hair days were before she started coloring it - when she still wore her natural color.
&quot;It used to be, believe it or not, really dark - almost black,&quot; she says. &quot;[It was] very shiny and wavy. I had soft waves. I guess with years and hormonal changes, the texture changed quite a lot. It has become a little more curly, I would say, and even frizzier.&quot;
True Shakira fans who have been following her career and listening to her music since the &quot;Pies Descalzos&quot; and &quot;Dónde Están Los Ladrones&quot; days remember her long dark hair as much as we remember her red hair phase. 
&quot;I had decided to bleach it and make it bright red [and] obviously, to go from almost black hair to red - I had to really bleach it. So, my hair suffered a lot, and that was kind of the beginning of the end,&quot; she says with a laugh. &quot;But it was still a very important part of my identity. That was around the time I did MTV Unplugged, and I did it with a kind of punkish, reddish hair that sort of represented an era and a period in life. The way I wear my hair has a lot to do with the way I feel. It has always been a huge part of my identity.&quot;
While many curly-haired women - including Latinas and Black women - proudly embrace the phrase &quot;I am not my hair&quot; (a nod to India Arie&#039;s iconic 2006 single), plenty of us also recognize the deep connection between our hair, our identity, and how we show up in the world. Shakira herself has admitted in interviews that cutting her hair into a short lob was one of her biggest regrets - she just didn&#039;t feel like herself. As a curly-haired girl with even tighter curls than Shakira&#039;s, I relate. Every time I&#039;ve chopped my long curls into a lob, it&#039;s felt like I&#039;m losing a superpower. It&#039;s women like us - Latinas like us - who inspired Shakira to dream up a line that truly understands and serves our hair&#039;s unique needs.
&quot;Women like us are underserved, in a way,&quot; she tells me after complimenting my waist-long curls - a mix of 3B and 3C spirals. 
I didn&#039;t always hear compliments on my hair; in fact, I grew up hearing I had &quot;pelo malo.&quot; For those unfamiliar, pelo bueno (&quot;good hair&quot;) and pelo malo (&quot;bad hair&quot;) are terms rooted in colonial Latin America, dating back to the Casta system - a racial hierarchy imposed by the Spanish that favored proximity to whiteness. Coily and curly textures were often associated with the hair of enslaved Black people and deemed undesirable, a harmful legacy that has continued to shape Latin American beauty standards. But in the past decade, younger Latinas have begun to reclaim and redefine those terms, including Shakira, who believes good hair simply means healthy hair, period.
&quot;Pelo bueno is hair that&#039;s bouncy - [it&#039;s hair] that is natural. [Hair] that makes you feel confident and that is healthy,&quot; she says. &quot;So, it doesn&#039;t matter what texture your hair is. It just needs to feel like you give it some love.&quot;
&quot;Pelo bueno is hair that&#039;s bouncy - [it&#039;s hair] that is natural. [Hair] that makes you feel confident and that is healthy.&quot;
With curly hair being especially vulnerable to dryness and breakage, Isima is focused specifically on deep hydration and repair.
&quot;This is inspired by Latina women because in my community, there&#039;s so much diversity. In Latin America, you find all kinds of textures,&quot; she says. One of Shakira&#039;s favorite products in the line is the Súperbomba Triple Repair Peptide Mask ($38), a rich, deep-conditioning treatment that checks all the boxes. Formulated with patented nonapeptides, hydrolyzed soy and rice proteins,  ]]></description>
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