The evening of Sunday, November 15 was the 2020 People’s Choice Awards, an opportunity for celebrities to add more trophies to their mantles, only this time, us non-famous folks got to dole out the prizes. Tracee Ellis Ross won a Fashion Icon Award, Jennifer Lopez got a People’s Icon Award, and so on, and so…

Twice a day every day for weeks, Lauryn Hunter, 32, of Stanton, VA, brought out her “smell basket” and one by one took a good long whiff of the few strongly scented bottles inside. She was olfactory training, also called smell training, a practice that theoretically sharpens the nose’s ability to do its job. Her…

Do you ever see a tremendously beautiful or sharply dressed person on the street and have the somewhat creepy but reflexive thought that they must smell really nice? That’s exactly how I feel talking through a screen to Ciara and Russell Wilson, whose matching pair of beaming white smiles might be bright enough to light…

When your place of employment happens to be Allure, everyone and their grandmother tend to treat you like a living, breathing beauty encyclopedia. Not a single day goes by when at least one person randomly asks us, “What is your favorite [insert beauty product here]?” The best mascara is, without a doubt, one of the…

I tend to prefer powder to liquid eye shadows because sometimes liquid formulas can be tricky. However, the Joséphine Cosmetics’ Eye Dazzle, soon won me over.  I tried the glittery rose-gold shade, Leona, which turns into a lighter blush hue on the lids, so fI opted for a neutral smokey look. Whenever I do my…

UPDATE (November 16, 2020, 10:50 a.m.): In November, Revolution Beauty expanded its offering of official Friends makeup products with a second installment of the collaboration.  The Revolution x Friends 2.0 collection includes four eye shadow palettes inspired by iconic references from the show (the keyhole frame, Central Perk coffee mugs, Phoebe’s taxi cab, and more). …

Chrissy Teigen has always let her adorable daughter, Luna, partake in a few kid-friendly beauty rituals. Whether they’re doing Disney Princess sheet masks together or Luna is insisting on washing her mom’s hair, the pair clearly loves to bond over beauty. And sometimes they even invite Luna’s dad and Teigen’s husband John Legend along for…

Peek inside the medicine cabinets of models, celebrities, and makeup artists (or, really, anyone you meet with flawless skin who just happens to speak with a French accent), and there’s a very good chance that you’ll see a bottle of micellar cleansing water. Long popular in France, this skin-care product that looks and feels just…

This post originally appeared on August 24, 2020: Jennifer Lopez is no stranger to the beauty industry. She has launched more than two dozen fragrances, had a blockbuster makeup collaboration with Inglot, and has probably inspired millions in hair-extension sales. Nearly two years ago, she said she’d be launching a skin-care line, and we’ve been…

No matter how you define “clean beauty,” you have to admit, CoverGirl has been making major strides toward significantly cleaner makeup formulas. After becoming the biggest makeup brand granted the Leaping Bunny seal in 2018, the drugstore mainstay launched the Clean Fresh collection with products that are vegan, and free of some increasingly unpopular ingredients…