Building What Comes Next
The Black Beauty Club is entering a new chapter.
Over the past few months, one thing has become clearer: our work begins with beauty, but it does not end there.
Beauty is how we talk about image, culture, commerce, capital, authorship, visibility, and power. It shapes who is seen as modern, credible, desirable, premium, influential, and worthy of investment.
The Black Beauty Club exists to expand how Black beauty is seen, understood, and valued, and to turn that cultural influence into lasting creative, commercial, and institutional power.
This year, we launched the Beauty Vanguard Awards, a new platform recognizing the people shaping the future of beauty. Not just who is trending, but who is building what comes next.
In February, we hosted an intimate dinner with L’Oréal and SirDavis to celebrate the BeautyVanguard 50, a select group of cultural leaders helping define that future. It was one of the clearest expressions yet of what The Black Beauty Club is becoming: a place where the people influencing beauty’s next chapter can be seen, recognized, connected, and properly valued.
Now, we are moving into the next part of the year with a full calendar and a clear sense of momentum. Here is what is coming up
Mirror Work
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
The Malin Flatiron, New York City
For Mental Health Awareness Month, The Black Beauty Club will host Mirror Work: Beauty, Self-Perception, Mental Health, and the Weight of Aesthetic Culture.
This is an intimate salon conversation, and space is extremely limited. This is an invite-only gathering, but we are opening access to a limited number of community members.
Please note: RSVP does not guarantee entry unless you receive confirmation from our team.
The Black Beauty Club X MAC Cosmetics Dinner - DC
Thursday, May 29, 2026
Elmina, Washington, DC
We are heading back to DC for an intimate influencer and community dinner with MAC Cosmetics at Elmina.
We are excited to gather with our DC community, reconnect with friends of The Black Beauty Club, and continue creating thoughtful spaces for beauty, culture, and conversation in cities that matter deeply to us.
The Black Beauty Club X MAC Cosmetics Dinner - ATL
Friday, June 13, 2026
Atlanta, Georgia
We will continue our collaboration with MAC Cosmetics in Atlanta with an intimate influencer dinner to help kick off Juneteenth.
Atlanta has always been an essential city for culture, beauty, creativity, and influence. We are excited to gather with creators, community voices, and beauty insiders for a night of connection, conversation, and celebration.
Beauty on the Block
New York City: June 21, 2026
Chicago: August 8, 2026
Beauty on the Block brings beauty, wellness, services, shopping, food, music, culture, and community directly to the street. It is designed as a live beauty economy in public, where brands, founders, service providers, creators, and consumers can connect in real time.This summer, we are launching Beauty on the Block, our first open-access beauty block party and marketplace, created in partnership with Cash App and Square.
This summer, we are launching Beauty on the Block, our first open-access beauty block party and marketplace, created in partnership with Cash App and Square.
Our New York marketplace will feature a powerful mix of beauty, skincare, fragrance, haircare, body care, and service-based brands, including: Moodeaux, Good Weather Skin, SLIQ, K brown, KOBA Skincare, Koromas Aromas, Sable Labs, and more.
Beauty on the Block was recently announced by WWD and Fashionista, and we are excited to bring the experience to life in Harlem on June 21, 2026, and Chicago on August 8, 2026. There are still limited partnership opportunities available for New York, and more expansive opportunities available for Chicago.
If your brand is interested in collaborating, participating, or supporting the platform, now is the time to reach out to partnerships@theblackbeautyclub.com
The Black Beauty Club x Tatale Dining Series
Friday, June 26, 2026
Atelier Jolie, New York City
On June 26, we will host a special dinner with Tatale as part of our expanding dining series, held at Atelier Jolie in New York City. This gathering will continue our work of creating intimate, culturally resonant rooms where beauty, food, art, identity, and conversation can meet.
The Black Beauty Talks
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Times Center, New York City
This fall, The Black Beauty Talks returns to The Times Center for a full-day summit.
We are excited to bring together leaders across beauty, media, technology, capital, entertainment, and culture for a day of conversation, connection, and future-facing ideas.
Before we move fully into what is next, we want to acknowledge what has already been built this year:
January: We kicked off the year Debunking Hair Mythswith Xtresse
February: We hosted a Founders & Friends breakfast and conversation with Carol’s Daughter, Lisa Price, and Tatiana Pile on Black Beauty After Hype, exploring what it takes to build brands that can survive, scale, and matter in 2026 and beyond.
March: We hosted our Eid Reset & Restore Luncheon with La Mer and French Bloom, creating space to celebrate Black Muslim identity, beauty, rest, care, and the ways Black women are often fragmented rather than seen as full.
March: We also hosted a Women’s History Month Founders & Friends conversation with Muna Ikedionwu and Jaimee Woodard on building standout businesses that captivate both customers and investors.
Across these moments, one thing has become clear: The Black Beauty Club is not only growing in scale. It is growing in purpose. We are building a community, but we are also building a system of access, visibility, conversation, partnership, and opportunity. And we want to be intentional about what community means.
The Black Beauty Club is for the people who show up for it. The people who read, share, attend, invite, repost, recommend, engage, and help build the work are the people who will continue to receive access to what we are creating. Community is not passive. It is participatory.
Thank you to everyone who has supported The Black Beauty Club over the past six months and over the past several years. Thank you to our partners, speakers, guests, collaborators, founders, creators, editors, operators, and community members who continue to believe in what this can become.
We are growing. We are refining. We are building. And there is so much more coming.