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Mental Health Issues, It’S Unpleasant Way November 2020 MENTAL HEALTH SPECIAL Winnie Harlow “MY SKIN IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS” FASHIONISTAS WHO BEAT STRESS, STIGMA & SUICIDE ATTEMPTS HAIRSTYLISTS TRAINED TO SPOT DISTRESS • TOOLS TO CARE & CALM n o V e M ber 2020 by 54 W . M det; harlo det; U atki a k g 18 Amethysts 101 just some of the tools Discover... Whether you wear a Canadian designers arring, $1,340, faceted stone around your are using to deal with e a. ) gerges) by Colin P neck or sleep with a chunk industry-related woes. UM to Voila! under your pillow, this M 12 News gem is known as a sooth - 26 Trailblazer hoes, $140, P age, fro s an hbC x Moschino ing one. With #selfCare, brie Code P en. 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Now, thanks to hard until she had to rebuild work and a fresh outlook, her self-esteem. her future looks bright. 30 Merch Inspo Mood-boosting colours, 54 Comfort Zone mental health give-backs Members of the Toronto and more. ballroom community Canvas discuss how creativity and competition have 20 38 Launches helped them feel alive A roundup of the latest and accepted. CBD-infused products to help care and calm. 66 Cover Story Rejection didn’t prevent 40 Regimens Toronto’s Winnie Harlow Canadian rock duo Crown from pursuing her model- Lands discuss their trade- ling dreams. And there’s mark hair and their mission no stopping her now. 66 to be the soundtrack to today’s spiritual revolution. 76 Collecting Fleeing the Biafran war 42 FASHION x meant Dr. Liza Egbogah’s Kérastase family lost many of their Hair fall is becoming personal belongings. So increasingly common, building a collection of especially given the stress Nigerian designs has of our times. Sarah Daniel deep meaning for the takes a close look at the Toronto osteopath. Genesis treatment line. 80 Identity 44 Salon Therapy Ardra Shephard feels that Hairstylists and barbers although her style has often find themselves on the stayed the same, others front lines of mental health. see her very differently Natasha Bruno discovers since she added mobility how they are helping. aids to her look. 48 Treatments 82 ♥ It Forever Restorative wraps, floata- A temptation with tion tanks and having till-death-do-us- warm oil poured over your part potential. third eye are just some of the ways we’ve found to unwind across Canada. fob_TOC_1120.indd 5 9/28/20 6:47 AM Editor-in-Chief bernadette morra Creative & Fashion Director george antonopoulos Fashion News Director Digital Director Beauty Director odessa paloma parker maddison glendinning natasha b runo Fashion Editor Culture & Lifestyle Editor Associate Art Director eliza g rossman pahull bains danielle campbell Production Editor Copy Editors/ Contributing Western Editor lindsay c ooper Proofreaders joy pecknold marjorie dunham-landry jane f ielding Contributors alexander armand, chadwin bartley, jolene brodeur, adam burrell, sarah daniel, kayleen dicuangco, chris horan, nichole jankowski, lauren jeworski, coey kerr, esther kieselhof, vai yu law, sarah mariotti, nate matthew, jasmine merinsky, tara ocansey, anjli patel, bee Quammie, ardra shephard, greg swales, william ukoh, ingrie williams, clara young Publisher ken h unt Director of Production maria mendes Newsstand/Consumer Marketing Director Production Manager caroline potter annie g abrielian Consumer Marketing Director rui c osta SVP Sales, SJM Media lynn c hambers Controller dora b renndorfer Director of Sales Finance Manager maryanne foti deidre marinelli Accounts Payable Specialist ruth m uirhead Senior National Account Manager Director of Billing & Credit carmen greene susan m ulvihill Collection Specialist patricia tsoporis National Account Manager, Interactive Senior Sales Administrator sandra cicoria susey h armer Montreal National Account & Retail Sales Manager Director, Human Resources maureen harrison suzie carrier Human Resources Generalist lisa a lli Calgary & Edmonton Account Manager Office Services Supervisor glenn c ullen liz d uerksen 204-582-4999, 877-999-1890 Director, I.T. jp timmerman I.T. Manager eagle huang Director of Events and Experiential carrie gillis Marketing Director jessika j. f ink St. Joseph Communications, Media Group Marketing & Events Coordinator angie kovacs Chairman tony g agliano Vice-Chair john gagliano Senior Program Manager damion n urse President and Publisher, SJC Media ken h unt Project Managers asmahan garrib, a da tat V.P. Strategy duncan clark Director, Digital cody g ault V.P. Research clarence poirier Art Director, Digital jennifer a bela-froese V.P. 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And her marketing offers frequent reminders that it’s OK to say “I’m not fine.” Rabiah Dhaliwal could have used that advice when she attempted suicide in her first year of university, but she grew up in a culture that believed in “powering through your problems,” she tells beauty director Natasha Bruno in “Ray of Light” (page 50). In addition to being back at her studies, Dhaliwal is creating a mental health foundation aimed at raising awareness and reducing stigma. Bruno also spoke to beauty and grooming pros who often find themselves on the front lines of mental health (“Rescue Mission,” page 44). To read that there are barbers who have saved lives after learning how to spot signs of trouble in their clients is truly impressive. For one of our fashion spreads, we invited members of the ballroom community to model some of the season’s coziest knits and share some of their challenges (“Comfort Zone,” page 54). Their stories are touching, including that of Tamar Miyake-Mugler, who first attempted suicide in grade school and never expected to make it to 18. “When the world doesn’t expect anything of you, having people to be accountable to can be a matter of survival,” she tells writer Nichole Jankowski of how she found support and At least three people acceptance amid her ballroom peers. There are some things in this issue that made me angry—like reading in “Taking Shape” (page 20), by in this issue have culture and lifestyle editor Pahull Bains, that plus-size model Mina Gerges has been called “disgusting, ugly, a been suicidal. pig.” And in “Posing Questioned” (page 28), how Bee Quammie, when she was modelling, was made to feel like And one came very close to being successful. an “inconvenience” by white makeup artists who didn’t The idea for a mental health theme came about after have her shade of foundation. our publisher, Ken Hunt, mentioned that some doctors at But there are also passages that made me smile, like in Toronto’s University Health Network told him that we are “Legacy Mode” (page 76), by fashion news director Odessa facing the biggest mental health crisis ever thanks to the Paloma Parker, when I learned that Dr. Liza Egbogah had COVID-19 pandemic.
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