At the time I used this curl cream, I was about to go to bed — not a good time for a wash-and-go, which is what I think this type of cream would work best for on my 3C/4A hair texture. So, in the interest of not waking up to hair that was a ball…

Read what your sign’s 2021 horoscope predictions have in store for you or check out the Virgo personality profile.  Welcome to February, Virgo. You are the healer of the Zodiac, and last month, you tried to reach a place of balance; while you tend to worry about the safety of others, unfortunately, you know that you can only…

In 2018, Allure first covered Logan Parlor, a cozy hair salon and LGBTQ-community enclave on Chicago’s North Side. At the time, Logan Parlor was one of the more influential voices in a growing gender-neutral salon movement, attempting to dismantle centuries of barbershop binary. The business closed temporarily in early 2020, along with the rest of…

At this point, it feels like there’s a subscription service for everything under the sun, all promising to save you time and improve your life with delivery straight to your door. Struggling to find time to cook dinner, much less shop for produce? There’s a box for that. Spending way too much time trying to…

Haute couture during a pandemic may seem out of the realm of possibility (and low-key ridiculous), but fashion designers took this time to whisk us away to fantasy lands with the fairytale-worthy gowns and creations in their couture spring/summer 2021 collections shown in Paris this week. After being stuck in our homes for nearly a…

Conversations surrounding inclusive beauty tend to center makeup or hair care, and for good reason. Many of those products claim to be “universal,” but actually aren’t, as they don’t work for all the complexions and hair textures that exist. However, the industry has been making an attempt to catch up to the conversation, and recently,…

It started with Mean Girls. In the cult comedy, the titular girls keep a Burn Book filled with photos of their classmates and epithets describing them. Budding skin-care company Topicals, a brand formulated with chronic skin conditions top of mind, wanted to co-opt the Burn Book’s psychological message and flip it on its head.  So…

This ad appeared in New York City’s Times Square, one of the most sought after advertising sites in the world, but remains one of the few examples of disability representation in beauty. Last year, Gucci and Benefit both chose models with down syndrome for beauty campaigns, and Ulta Beauty prominently placed ad posters of a…

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If there is one beauty product I’m worried about using too much of, it’s foundation. Since I’m working from home, I like to use as little foundation as possible…

Anyone suffering from hidradenitis suppurativa (HP) knows just how frustrating it can be. To put it simply, as Julia Tzu, a New York City-based board-certified dermatologist, explains, it’s “an intensely inflammatory condition of the skin that resembles ‘cystic acne’ or boils but is located mostly on the armpit, groin, and folds under breasts,” areas where…