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Why Everyone on Insecure Has Better Clothes This Season

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Going into Insecure's second season, a lot's changed: Everyone's single, employed, and doing them. There's a certain glow about Issa, Lawrence, and Molly and it's not just all that melanin popping through your TV screens. They're living good (enough) and looking even better for it, starting with a style overhaul. Between seasons, everyone's closet has been revamped: Issa's mixing revealing dresses with her famous graphic tees; Lawrence has gone from bummy couch potato to Instagram thirst trap; and Molly's made room for more casualwear in her wardrobe of power suits, and traded in pastels for sophisticated darks at work. All three characters have costume designer Ayanna James to thank for their new swag. Vulture talked to James about telling stories through clothes and why she hopes Issa's outfits this season will blow up Twitter. (Already, one of them has.) We'll update this post with more looks from throughout season two. Issa In season on...

Why Genderless Fashion Is So Important

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When 30-year-old interior designer Andrew Loren hit the wedding circuit this summer, he was faced with the inevitable dilemma of what to wear. Though a standard suit would seemingly fit the bill, Loren, who identifies as a cis gay male, didn't feel as though society's expected attire of dress was going to cut it. "I wore a tux to one [wedding] and my skin was crawling, I felt so uncomfortable," he recalls. "It was just not me and so then I'm faced with this choice: Am I going to sacrifice my comfort for everyone else's or am I going to make sure I'm comfortable in my own skin?" The answer was clear: Loren picked the latter and for the rest of the season a long, sleeveless Rick Owens dress became his wedding go-to. While borrowing fashion from the opposite sex is hardly a new premise — Owens, for one, has used inventive draping and tailoring to create an androgynous, genderless tribe since 2002 — it's a concept that's really taken hold i...

Beauty Guru Huda Kattan Shares Her Eyebrow Shaping Secrets

Beauty expert Huda Kattan has been sharing her tips, tricks and amazing products with us for years, through her YouTube channel, Instagram feed (boasting over 20 million followers!), and her always-sold-out product line, Huda Beauty. We've learned everything from how to apply lip liner to how to recreate her signature look from the pro — and no matter how many times she spills her secrets, we're constantly dying to know: How does she get her brows to be so perfect? Apparently, Kattan has been reading our minds, because she just teamed up with Tweezerman to create a (super cute!) brow-grooming collection, which includes two pairs of lip-printed tweezers, a magnifying mirror, spoolie brush, brow scissors and adorable lip-shaped case. Watch how she puts the products to work in the exclusive video above, and read her secrets, below. But first, go shop her products! What's your everyday brow routine like? For filling in my brows, I use a darker shade and a shade that's 1-2 s...

I Didn't Choose It, but I'm Not Totally Innocent

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The two-part season opener chronicled the star's decision to make Sacramento high school student Albert Ochoa's celebrity dream date come true by accompanying him to the Rio Americano High School prom along with her longtime best friend Jordyn Woods. But beyond that, the episode offered a glimpse into Jenner's inner struggles with fame — read on for some of her quotes, spanning everything from selfies to self-doubt. On people who say she has the perfect life: "[I] laugh. In their face. Nobody has a perfect life. The only different thing about me, or out of the ordinary, really, is probably just that I have nice things. But what you realize when you get there — when I know I could buy any car, any house — is that that happiness lasts two seconds." "That's not my real happiness, that's not where I find happiness. I'm so blessed that I got to experience this at such a young age and learn that, so now I can find what really is going to make me happy...