Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2018 i Allure

For Johnson’s ethereal photo shoot, the makeup was inspired by the Beverly Hills mansion that served as the backdrop. “After seeing the floral-wallpapered rooms, the word ‘painting’ kept coming up,” said makeup artist Emi Kaneko. “There was also a floral arrangement with the most beautiful colors. I decided to mimic those pink and peach tones with the makeup, especially for her lips.” Kaneko painted on Gucci Sleek Contouring Lip Pencil in soft and peachy Rose Dragée and then topped it with Gucci Sensuous Deep-Matte Lipstick in Blossom (a rose-petal pink). “I wanted her lips to look super matte and romantic,” said Kaneko, who offset them with dewy, fresh skin. “I used my favorite eye mask from Skyn Iceland, and Dakota asked her assistant to buy a bunch right after.” Hairstylist…

One day I was packing for a trip, and all I wanted was a quad of my favorite nude eye shadows. I got my product-development team together—there were three of us at the time—and said, “Bring me your four desert-island nude shadows.” That was the brief—the desert-island palette. But when we came together, the colors all looked so good. Why should we limit it to four? I know that might seem obvious now, but this was in 2010, when there weren’t any neutral palettes that large. There weren’t really any neutral palettes at all. We ended up with 12 shades. It’s meant to look like a flow of skin tones, and it was overdue recognition that there’s no one shade of nude. The name was supposed to be a little…

Beauty Garde’s Oil-Free Lash & Brow Shampoo isn’t just another makeup remover. It’s designed to remove oil-based makeup without a drop of oil (trust us, this is special) so you can take off longwearing liner or waterproof brow pomade and not compromise lash or brow extensions. And it coddles sensitive eyes, too—its sodium lauroyl methyl isethionate and lauryl lactyl lactate are gentler than commonly used sulfate surfactants, says cosmetic chemist Kelly Dobos.…

30,000 B.C. Early hair removal involves sharp shells and shark teeth, giving Homo sapiens everywhere a reason to invent the safety razor. 1400 Hairlessness is a sign of class during the Renaissance— women and goddesses in art are depicted without pubic hair. 1938 A depilatory cream called Kormelu is found to cause paralysis. Turns out it is made with rat poison. 1915 Sleeveless dresses are in style, and society decides that women need hairless armpits to go with them. Gillette’s Milady Décolleté becomes the first razor marketed to women; 1 million are sold by 1917. 1972 Body hair becomes a badge of feminism for women fighting for gender equality. The Equal Rights Amendment is passed in Congress. 1987 Seven sisters (the J. Sisters) from Brazil open a salon in New York City…

In decades past, women would lather up shampoo or swipe on face cream because...well, just because. Then we arrived at 2018: A new report from market research agency the NPD Group reveals that close to half of women now investigate the ingredient list on the back of their products to avoid parabens and phthalates and toxic chemicals. We’re questioning and Googling—so much Googling—what goes into our serums and shadows. And it’s spurring a grassroots shift: There are now websites devoted to researching beauty- product safety, and major companies are sharing information that’s never been shared before. “The cosmetics laws are lacking—certain ingredients don’t have to be disclosed,” says Paul Pestano, who researches personal-care products and ingredient safety for Skin Deep, the Environmental Working Group’s cosmetics database. It’s been that way…

Years later, I had filed this deep, deep away. But it was dredged back up into my psyche with the #MeToo movement. I recall being scared, all-nerves-firing scared. But what troubled me most was what happened afterward. I called security, who sent a guard to detain the man. Two police officers arrived shortly thereafter, and I watched from afar as the guard explained what had happened. And almost as if I were watching a movie, I looked on while they laughed. Like a bunch of locker-room bros. They laughed. I felt like my life had been in danger. It wasn’t that huge of a leap to think that this totally wasted, disheveled man who could do that in public would attack me the next minute. To them, he was just…

It’s an age-old question: How can I make my human body look more like a Greek statue of a human body? At the age of seven, Spartan boys left their homes to take on a rigorous series of physical challenges and sometimes-violent games to harden the body and mind, but this seems like an inefficient (and uncomfortable) use of my precious time. It’s 2018, and I want a taut body with much less work than it took 3,000 years ago. Conveniently, there is now a handheld device that uses electrical current (prickly, not painful) to zap muscles into a more toned-looking state. It’s NuBody, from the makers of NuFace, the handheld facial device that took professionally administered microcurrent skin-firming treatments DIY. It uses metal spheres to channel electric waves through…

Everybody wants pink hair, but nobody wants to commit to pink hair long-term, which makes rose gold —part blonde and part blush —the happiest medium there is. It’s stunning, but more importantly, it’s easy: Spritz on Kristin Ess Rose Gold Temporary Tint in the shower after you shampoo and rinse, let it sit for a few minutes, rinse again, and condition as you normally would. You’ll have the rose-quartz hair of your dreams, at least for a couple of washes. For now, the sheer shade shows only on blonde hair, but democratically so—born, bought, or bleached.…

noun \ nā-kəd pər-sən \ 1 AN INDIVIDUAL WHO DOESN’T LIKE WEARING CLOTHES. Someone who reads the Sunday paper in the buff, cooks in the nude, occasionally shocks the mailman, and might as well donate all of their pajamas to Good will. The first to share a dressing room, they take a clothing-optional approach to life whenever they can. [Prob. of Biblical orig.—see Adam and Eve.] Synonyms: free spirit, Miley Cyrus, Benjamin Franklin, French person. Antonyms: Puritan, prude, Tobias Fünke. 2 AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SENSITIVE. A deep and sensitive soul—at least, that’s how other people see them, according to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. When 527 participants looked at pictures of the same people naked and clothed, they rated the naked people as more capable…

Rachel Smith has the most soothing voice I have ever heard. It’s like listening to a babbling brook of manuka honey. Even over the phone, she instills a sense of tranquility—which explains why acupuncture, a practice that revolves around balance and calm, is something that flowed naturally into her life. “I used to be a photographer and photo editor, until one day I realized corporate America wasn’t for me,” she tells me in a voice as soft as shearling. “I had met with an energy healer when I was trying to figure out where to go next in life. She just handed me an address and said, ‘Go here.’ It was the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in Manhattan. I walked out of the elevator not knowing exactly where I…

AN ESTIMATED 80% OF WOMEN HAVE STRETCH MARKS. I was in gym class when I saw my first stretch mark. I was sitting against the padded wall with the other girls who really didn’t want to play basketball. My legs were crossed, and I was laughing with my friends about something—a crush, maybe—when my eyes drifted downward to my inner thigh. There it was. A faint purple crevice crawling along the seam of my gym shorts. I remember when I bought my first real padded bra. I was maybe 13. My friend’s father had dropped us off at the mall for a few hours, and we ambled into Victoria’s Secret. Standing naked in the dressing room, I noticed them. Somewhere between that day in gym class and this moment here,…

Each and every pore on my body is flexed shut. My anatomy—I’ll spare you the details—is visibly cold. I had thought November would be a mild month for Big Sur, California, and I was only half right: It was a beautiful and warm day to be naked outdoors among strangers, but by nightfall, freezing winds are blowing over the Pacific and into my bloodstream. Then I plunge my body into a hot mineral bath, and every cell in my body sighs. This is hour seven at the Esalen Institute, where I’ve elected to spend the weekend in the hopes of shedding inhibitions, self-consciousness, and clothing for a few days of totally nude R&R. (Vacations are a lot less stressful when you’re not responsible for a beach bag.) I’m also devoting…

Download a free tracker app. Self-awareness is the first step. Get an app that tracks your phone usage. Catherine Price recommends Moment for iPhone and Offtime for Android. Both are free. Turn off notifications. Your time is more valuable than someone else’s Instagram activity. Banish notifications for instant peace of mind. Suggest phoneless socializing. Research shows that the mere presence of a phone diminishes feelings of connectedness. When you get together with friends, suggest that everyone not only turn off their phone— really, truly off—but keep it out of sight. It’s an experiment! Get an alarm clock. Voilà! Now you don’t need to sleep next to your phone.…

IRIS D. Model “I first shaved my head about a year and a half ago. I had been toying with the idea for some time, but the actual act of doing it was rather spur of the moment. It felt right, and emotionally it was very liberating. At school the reaction hasn’t been the most positive, but in the real world I’ve only been told wonderful things. Luckily, I don’t measure my self-esteem through my physical attributes. My confidence doesn’t come from my hair—it comes from within. My opinions and thoughts are what matter, and now those are on full display because I have nothing to hide behind. The sense of freedom is unbelievable.” WHAT INSPIRES SOMEONE TO HOLD A PAIR OF CLIPPERS TO THEIR HEAD AND NEVER LOOK BACK?…

3,858,425 (and counting): Posts on Instagram that use the hashtag #FreeTheNipple. 1952 Year Lucille Ball’s character in Year Lucille Ball’s character in I Love Lucy got pregnant; the p-word couldn’t be said on the air. 8 Number of times the terms “having a baby” and “have a baby” were said in the episode instead of “pregnant.” 1896 Year Fatima’s Coochee-Coochee Dance became the first film to be censored for sexuality. The Syrian dancer’s gyrating pelvis and shimmying chest were covered by what appeared to be a white picket fence. 20151 Year London mayor Sadiq Khan—a father of two teenage girls—lobbied to censor ads on the Tube that promote unrealistic body expectations. 1.01 Seconds for which Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s nipple on air during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, broadcast by CBS. 540,000 Number of complaints filed…

It’s shaving 101: Push the blades forward and there will be blood. That forward motion, however, is precisely what Schick Intuition’s new F.A.B. (Forward and Back) razor was engineered for. And it’s going to freak you out a bit. The first time I held it—with its two sets of blades, each facing an opposite side —I had one thought: This is a really bad idea. I gingerly touched it to my shin, pulling toward myself, then slowly pushing it away. And... it worked! Without a drop of blood! Then I started pushing and pulling with abandon, as I would a vacuum. Not having to pick up the razor between strokes made shaving my legs speedier, though I still got the closest shave when pulling up, against the direction of hair…

The stomach: You can get rid of small, stubborn pockets of fat in this area by freezing, heating, or destroying fat cells with ultrasound energy. (Current options include CoolSculpting, SculpSure, and UltraShape, respectively.) But anything more than a slight reduction in abdominal fat still calls for a tummy tuck. Conveniently, the procedure has gotten, well, less inconvenient. A new adhesive called TissuGlu eliminates the need to drain the fluid that fills the large space created between the muscles and overlying tissue after the surgery. Prior to its existence, tummy-tuck recovery involved having a drain, at home, for one to two weeks. Which is gross and weird but was part of the deal. “TissuGlu seals the tissues together after a tummy tuck so that there is no space that can fill…

Before arches of hair dominated your Instagram Explore tab, before “fleek” was recognized as an adjective by the Oxford Dictionaries, an intrepid tattoo-shop assistant dared to take her needle and pigment where few had gone before: the little stretch of skin between your eyelid and your hairline. Your forehead is Bethany Wolosky’s canvas, and if you give her a shot, she’ll change your life with a pair of spectacular, incredibly precise brows, any way you want them. (Plus, she’s always available for yearly touch-ups.) Wolosky has been “obsessed”—her word—with brows since forever, having grown up filling in her older sister’s and her sister’s friends’ when they’d come over. As an assistant to the artists at Three Kings Tattoo in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, she noticed eyebrow tattooing happening in two places: the…

A prescription retinoid. This topical vitamin A derivative stimulates new collagen production. A 2014 study published in the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery showed that daily use over 16 weeks can help reduce the appearance of those newer, red marks. Caveat: This one isn’t recommended if you’re pregnant. A rich lotion. “A petrole-umbased moisturizer forms a protective seal over the skin and allows your skin to heal optimally, which could minimize the formation of stretch marks,” says Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital. We’re fans of the new Dove DermaSeries Dry Skin Relief Expert Repairing Balm. Fractional lasers. Many dermatologists use a fractional laser, like the Fraxel Dual, to treat stretch marks. Three to five treatments over the course of three months can…

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