The Beauty Issue

The Marie Claire Nigeria Beauty Issue is a reclamation — a tender yet radical celebration of African beauty in all its forms. It explores how African women and women of African descent are rewriting the rules of beauty by embracing heritage features, ancestral rituals, cultural adornment, and self-defined standards. This issue aims to decentre Eurocentric ideals and spotlight the politics, spirituality, and power of beauty as identity.

From skin and spirit to hair and healing, this issue will champion the everyday and the extraordinary — the rituals, products, stories, and philosophies that shape how we see and care for ourselves.