It feels like I get a press release for a new celebrity-founded beauty brand every single day. And most of the time, I’m forced to ask of said brand: Why? What the hell does this person know about hair or makeup or skin care as compared to their own professional glam team? These types of…

If you caught the episode of Allure‘s The Science of Beauty podcast (shameless plug very-much intentional) all about layering, you already know that the multistep regimens that have become synonymous with K-beauty (we’re talking 10, 12, and even 17 steps) have turned the way we apply serum, moisturizer, and oil into an art form.  And…

London Fashion Week, for the first time ever, won’t have in-person audiences. Even when models walked down the runway set up at Tate Modern, not a spectator was in sight. Everyone was watching the floral-faced ladies strut from the comfort of their couches. (With this freezing weather, it’s almost a welcome change.) But as you…

For me, on my fine, color-treated, heavily hot-tool-damaged (in a word: fragile) strands, Money Masque did not disappoint. While in the shower, I smoothed a golf-ball-sized dollop of the glossy gel from my roots to ends and rinsed it out after five minutes. My blonde hair was given new life from the time I stepped…

In college, as my student debt mounted, I worked at a women’s clothing store in downtown Manhattan. It was cavernous, filled with ruffled cardigans and jeans that were made for models and priced for oligarchs. Most of us who worked the floor did not work on commission. In lieu of a financial imperative, the company…

Crafted from solid brass, Goldstein’s iterations of beauty tools are designed not just to be longer-lasting than their traditional counterparts, but a helluva lot more pleasing to look at. “I wanted artists to feel confident that their tools are there to support their creations, not get in the way, while also making them feel special…

The beauty of TikTok is anyone from anywhere can pop up on your For You page, and someway, somehow, you can relate to it. With most of us are stuck inside, not being able to meet new people with the same interests as us like before, TikTok has made introductions a bit easier. The social…

When I got my hands on Peach & Lily‘s latest skin-care secret, a powerful spot treatment, I wasn’t expecting the formula to be oil-based. I’ve had my fair share of slapping on pimple patches and dotting my face with brightly colored pastes right before bed, so I wasn’t prepared for a transparent formula (this is…

This year is Allure’s 30th Anniversary, and we’re celebrating by looking back at iconic moments in beauty from the past three decades. You can read more articles like this one here. “The history of skin care may one day be divided into its own epochs: B.B. (Before Botox) and A.B. (After Botox).” Truer words have never…

“Eyebrows are sisters, not twins.” We’ve all heard the adage time and time again to justify why we can’t get our brows symmetrical. Huda Kattan doesn’t want you to settle for sisters any longer, though. “I don’t believe in that shit,” she remarks over Zoom. “Why in 2021 would you not want twins but sisters?…