Let’s just address the elephant in the room: Times are weird as hell right now. Anxiety is high. Chaos, uncertainty, and fear are all around us. People are losing their jobs. COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. With salons and spas closed, many of us are forced to forfeit the comforts and conveniences we’re …
When you’re talking about Nikki Nelms and her work, it seems like an understatement to describe her as a hairstylist. Sure, technically, she does style hair, but the sculptural, experimental, and downright dope things she does with all that stuff coming out of your scalp makes hair artist a more appropriate term. Over the years, …
Each month, your trusty Allure editors break down the best new hair, makeup, and skin-care launches to hit the market. Once a year, the Best of Beauty Awards spotlight our favorite products in the biz. We love to help readers build out their makeup bags and skin-care shelves and now it’s time we took advice …
Our audiences misses their stylists, derms, and manicurists as much as we do. Here, in our new series, we bring experts straight to the Allure reader’s home for lessons on handling at-home beauty like a pro. Welcome to House Calls. Whether you need a few minutes of self-care (and who doesn’t) or you simply don’t …
Here’s the lowdown on how to subscribe to Allure’s print edition for more beauty routines, recommendations, and features. With social distancing in full effect, booking a trip the salon to remove your gel nail polish will have to wait until it’s safe to do so. That means (quite literally) it’s time to take such matters …
Almost everyone has had run-ins with visible pimples, pustules, or blackheads. These skin blemishes, which tend to start cropping up during puberty, are symptoms of acne vulgaris, the most common skin condition in the United States. But have you ever felt like you were experiencing the symptoms of acne, like itching, redness, inflammation, and swelling, …
Hair maintenance falls pretty low on the list of “Things To Worry About During A Pandemic,” sitting somewhere under “mortality” and “the meaning of life,” after “health care” and “human rights.” But in the face of the novel coronavirus and the restless quarantine it requires — hours, days, weeks of isolation stretching ahead toward a …
Just like us regular people, celebrities are struggling with maintaining their haircuts, manicures, and brows during the quarantine. Salons and barbershops are closed so desperate times call for desperate measures. For Taika Waititi, however, it calls for some father-daughter bonding time. The award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter posted an Instagram Live video of his daughters …
When you think about it, sitting down for a manicure is an awfully personal experience. The thought of someone rubbing lotion onto our hands and painting our fingernails seems especially intimate now that we’ve been avoiding human contact and vigilantly washing our hands for so long. But with many of the world’s nail salons temporarily …
While we’re all practicing social distancing to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, it’s still important to protect ourselves from harmful UV rays. (Yes, that means wearing sunscreen when you leave the house for essential errands and using SPF while indoors because standard glass still leaves you exposed to some of the sun’s harmful rays.) …
