Over the past year, so many of us tried to take on some of the beauty duties we’d always assigned to professionals. Stay-home orders and social-distancing recommendations led to lots of at-home haircuts and hair-color changes, while wax lovers either attempted to remove unwanted hair themselves or just throw in the strips and let it…

What sticks out to me most about these showering habits, is that they are largely cultural. Most people in the U.S. do and (hopefully!) will continue to wash once a day. Others, like those who hail from hot, humid tropical climates, will often shower twice a day. In the morning, after a night of sleeping, probably…

Before my first pregnancy, I had read about postpartum hair loss, that the lustrous mane you’re blessed with for nine months commonly sheds. And after the birth of each of my three kids, it certainly did. This last time around, it was particularly intense. For a few months, our shower drain was regularly covered in…

Kolker adds that the specific number of breast augmentations between 2019 and 2020 “represents a roughly 10 percent change during a year that the average plastic surgery practice shutdown time was 15 percent,” suggesting that “the 2020 data have either remained consistent or increased,” if adjusting for an average 15 percent practice closure time. Minimally…

It’s difficult to imagine a time when American beauty enthusiasts couldn’t rattle off the names of 10 Korean brands faster than you can say “K-beauty.” But the reality is that less than a decade ago, it was rare to find a K-beauty product in an American cabinet. The sudden boom came thanks in large part…

The outpatient procedure, known as a lower lid blepharoplasty, reduces, removes, or repositions bulging fat of the lower eyelids. “The fat compartments of the lower eyelid can be approached and treated through an inconspicuous incision inside the eyelid, known as a transconjunctival blepharoplasty, that leaves no visible external scar,” explains Adam Kolker, a board-certified plastic…

Here’s the lowdown on how to subscribe to Allure’s print edition for more beauty routines, recommendations, and features. As the saying goes, the higher the hair, the closer to God. But when that includes unintentional or unwanted frizz, it doesn’t seem so heavenly. So, what causes our hair to frizz up, and how do we get it…

Bhatty employs a similar method and uses her fingertips to dot product onto the skin first. She, however, opts for a damp makeup sponge (i.e. a Beautyblender) to “distribute [the formula] in a diffused way” that creates “a gorgeous, glowy finish.”   At the moment, I have spotty discoloration on both cheeks from previous bouts…

If there’s one thing we’re willing to get redundant about here at Allure, it’s sunscreen. But we get it — even a religious devotion to your SPF doesn’t make you totally immune to the sun’s harmful rays. So, we asked the experts how to treat (and prevent) a sunburn on the off chance you get…

Since then, Benefit has stuck to the don’t-fix-what-ain’t-broke mantra with Hoola, the formula and packaging of which hasn’t changed a bit in the past 20 years. Clearly, that seems to be working because one box of the bronzer sold every 15 seconds throughout 2020 (the brand had to produce 1,200 bronzers every hour just to…