In honor of our 2021 Allure Readers’ Choice Awards, we’re answering readers’ biggest and most-burning beauty questions in our new series, You Asked, We Answered. In this edition: solutions to your biggest hair-care concerns. One thing 2020 taught us it’s that even in a disaster, we will always have time for beauty. Indeed, the global…

Nicki Minaj has spent most of 2021 minding her business and taking care of her new (adorable) baby. And as a first-time mom in a pandemic, who can blame her? We barely heard a peep from the Queen until May 10 when she shared a photo of herself wearing nothing but a pair of embellished…

Those voluminous, ’70s-style Farrah Fawcett disco curls are trending in a major way all over social media, especially TikTok. The platform is home to a series of videos that show people trying the look for themselves, flipping their pre-curled hair up and down so the style can take shape. The clips, set to the 1985…

In the U.S. in early 2020, the looming threat of the pandemic still felt new and uncertain. A dearth of understanding and lack of guidance at the state or federal level on the best way to combat the virus meant that millions of people were still clocking in to work each day for weeks after…

Mandy Moore is certainly no stranger to being blonde — I mean, just take a look at her most iconic roles from the early days of her acting career (ahem, The Princess Diaries). But after a years-long stint as a brunette, Moore has returned to a buttery new color, and it’s the lightest hair she’s…

Every year, come May, Allure editors eagerly await the results of the Readers’ Choice Awards, which are filled with gems handpicked by our smart and devoted Allure reader community. Just like us, we know you’re very serious about your beauty and personal-care items… and know a good deal when you see one. In fact, none…

The idea of what qualifies as a splurge varies from person to person. To those of us on a tight budget, it could be anything with a two-digit price tag. Others see a splurge as a wildly expensive and perhaps somewhat frivolous purchase that is simply worth the spend because of how it makes us…

Retinol, to be precise, is the alcohol formulation of vitamin A, not to mention the version most commonly used in skin-care products, according to Chang. “Retinol has been shown to improve tone and texture, dyspigmentation, dryness, and fine lines,” she says. But there’s a catch. “It is less irritating than tretinoin, but also 20 times…

In honor of our 2021 Allure Readers’ Choice Awards, we’re answering readers’ biggest and most-burning beauty questions with the return of You Asked, We Answered. Here, we’ll supply you with all the solutions to your biggest skin-care concerns. As part of our annual Readers’ Choice Awards, we asked Allure readers some key questions about beauty,…

Putting on Wander Beauty’s Baggage Claim Gold Eye Masks started as a thing on my to-do list. “Write this review,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said. I had seen them on social media but as any beauty editor knows, not everything that gets a ton of likes in a tiled post is as good…