I open beauty products all day long for work so chipped nails were my signature look until I tried these custom-fitted gel nail stickers.  I uploaded a few photos of my nails to the ManiMe site, selected a butterfly design (called Spread Your Wings), and a week later a 15 pack of 3D printed nail…

Getting shampooed at the salon has always been one of our favorite rituals. There’s nothing quite like kicking back in a big chair, neck nestled in a specially curved sink as a stylist or assistant turns the usually mundane task of washing your hair into a mini massage you wish could go on forever. And…

ALLURE: Which artists of the non-makeup variety do you admire? PM: I am always deeply inspired by 17th and 18th century French and German rococo and baroque styles, specifically the architects of Nymphenburg and Versailles, mixed with Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Besson’s Le Cinquième Élément. ALLURE: Most descriptive beauty adjective in your vocabulary:…

With salons continuing to battle COVID-19 restrictions without a clear end in sight, at-home manicures and press-on nails have been surging in popularity. Since the onset of the pandemic, professional nail artists have been creating customized press-on sets to offset business losses. And even prior to the pandemic, we started spotting more fake nails (from…

Chrissy Teigen loves giving her over 33 million Instagram fans a candid look at her life. Sometimes it’s a super cute video of her son Miles or a short clip of the latest delicious-looking dish for her next cookbook. Her latest life update is a new tattoo that’s running down her spine, and its significance…

Jonathan Van Ness is known for a number of things: giving great grooming advice on Queer Eye, his morning coffee dances on Instagram, being a human ray of sunshine, his partnership with skin-care brand Biossance, and his seriously gorgeous hair. That last one alone would make him a trustworthy hair-care line founder, and when you…

Ignore deadlines. Look, these are Pat’s rules, I’m just the messenger. (Allure‘s visuals director is still breathing into a paper bag after coordinating this shoot.) “Everything’s done at the last minute. That’s how she works,” says Hahn. “[Sephora’s] a big machine and sometimes we have to break the machine to get her product in. I…

“We’re going to have some fun.” Those were the first words Pat McGrath … excuse me Dame Pat McGrath, ever said to me. For nine years, 18 seasons, I covered beauty backstage for Allure at Fashion Week in New York, Milan, and Paris. But that single moment — crammed backstage at Gucci, reeling from a red-eye flight, high on…

Although I did this in April, during quarantine, I insist that this was not a stay-at-home impulse decision. Mastering different hairstyles had made me feel special, And I wanted to find that again. I should say that I don’t love the color pink, but, Like Audrey Hepburn (probably) once said, “I believe in pink.” Turning…

Why do I love it so much when my brow hairs stick straight upward? I’m not quite sure, but whatever the reason, I try my damn hardest to get that fluffed-up look every time I do my makeup. “Soap brows” is likely what you call that look. The old-school hack of grooming brows with glycerin-based…