Kara Jillian Brown is the senior beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...

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I got a full weave recently. My brief for the extensionist was that I wanted to look like Maya Jama, and while she couldn’t do anything about morphing my face, she nailed my hair length and shape. But ...

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