Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2018 i Allure

MY MOTTO: “DON’T START NONE, WON’T BE NONE.” ASHLEY C. FORD, WRITER, “AN AMERICAN DREAMER,” PAGE 62 Hometown: “Fort Wayne, Indiana.” The beauty product I use every day: “Burt’s Bees Micellar Cleansing Water.” First job: “Kirkland’s sales associate. You could get a statue of Santa, lawn furniture, and a cookie all in the same section.” Weirdest thing in my bag: “I carry a folding fan everywhere. It makes me feel glamorous.” I feel most free when: “I’m swimming in the ocean.” Guilty pleasure: “I don’t feel guilty about any of my pleasure!” Summer jam: “I’m marrying a good man this fall, but ‘Sorry Not Sorry’ by Demi Lovato really speaks to me and my summer feels.” My motto: “Don’t start none, won’t be none.” The invention I’m still waiting for: “Casual…

I moved from Korea to New York in 1990 with $400 in my pocket. I started working in a Korean nail salon—it’s what a lot of Korean immigrants did, and I had no other choice. But being a manicurist, you can talk with clients. When you don’t have anything, people are your biggest asset. One client suggested I make house calls, and I had nothing to lose. I started going to Andrea Pomerantz Lustig’s house; she was the beauty director at Cosmopolitan. She asked me if I wanted to do photo shoots. I did campaigns for CoverGirl, Revlon, and L’Oréal and worked backstage at fashion week. I was discovering my capabilities. I got a good deal on rent and opened my own salon. If you’re ambitious, you need that next…

Love Beauty and Planet Coconut Water & Mimosa Flower Showerless Cleansing Mist. This coconut-water-based cleansing mist isn’t as satisfying as a hot shower, but it made us smell like mimosas instead of our sweaty yoga mat postgym. CO2 Lift Beauty Tablets. Want to make your morning shower ridiculously streamlined? Dissolve these quarter-size tablets in a little water and you have a three-in-one cleanser that ungrimes and degreases your hair, face, and body. Dior Backstage Airflash Spray Foundation. This spray-on foundation skims about 6.33 minutes off of your makeup routine. (OK, maybe two. But two is a lot!) Its super fine mist is more delicate than the original—a few zigzag sprays across the face gives you an even, soft-focus-y finish.…

Knowledge is power, right? And you can learn a little something about the bacteria in your gut if you’re willing to collect—and mail—your own stool sample to a lab. Gross? Definitely. Worth the gross? Possibly. When they’re well balanced, these bacteria help keep you healthy; when they’re not, they can be associated with issues like inflammatory bowel syndrome, autoimmune disorders, and skin problems such as acne and rosacea, says Robert Schuman, a gastroenterologist in West Orange, New Jersey. You’d need to see a gastroenterologist to diagnose and treat gut-related conditions, but new companies are starting to offer at-home microbiome analyses. Viome and Biohm (no rhyme intended) are direct-to-consumer tests that (for $399 and $180, respectively) can shed some light on your gut’s goings-on. Which brings me back to putting poop…

Pantene Pro-V Gold Series Hydrating Butter-Crème. To anyone who’s lost at the drugstore: This styling cream adds a ton of moisture to your hair without making it feel greasy or weighing down curls. The Mane Choice Tropical Moringa Pearly Braid Out Glaze. This flexible-hold glaze perfectly defines coils and smells like the most delicious candy. It’s a little runny, but it makes hair soft (not sticky). Briogeo Scalp Revival Charcoal + Peppermint Oil Cooling Jelly Conditioner Using this rinse-out conditioner feels so tingly and refreshing, it’s like your scalp is breathing a sigh of relief.…

\ 2018 skin FACIAL CLEANSER Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser. Before #shelfies, there was the original sink-side staple. With its do-no-harm approach and consistent results, it will outlast us all. FACIAL SCRUB St. Ives Fresh Skin Apricot Scrub. Fourteen wins and counting! This blend of walnut-shell powder and citrus extracts quickly buffs away roughness and dry spots. FACIAL MOISTURIZER Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel-Cream Extra-Dry Skin. Packing hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and olive extract, this milky gel is the long, cool drink that dry skin craves. FACIAL SUNSCREEN La Roche-Posay Anthelios 50 Mineral Sunscreen. Nonsticky and nonchalky, this zinc oxide formula is easy to forget about until the next application. Which is about as good as sun protection can get. TREATMENT Sunday Riley C.E.O. Rapid Flash Brightening Serum. We all know about vitamin…

Ever since I was five, I remember being intrigued by nails. I’d sneak into my mom’s tiny stash of beauty supplies, file my little nubs, and paint them. It felt creative and fun. Like an art project, but one displayed for a limited run—just a week—and then gone. The ’90s were all about Chanel Vamp and creamy pastels from Hard Candy (remember those?). Then I fell in love with nail art about four years ago. I had gotten my digits done by a few nail artists at editorial shoots and started to experiment on my own, too. Now I change my nails about once a week, as the spirit moves me, and my only rule is always try something new. Sure, I’ve caught some side-eye over the years (especially when…

Essential oils have been the darlings of the green-beauty movement since day one. They’re plant-based, they smell amazing, and they contain chemical compounds that can do everything from kill acne-causing bacteria to help regulate hormonally stressed skin. But new natural skin-care lines such as Trilogy and Natrèceutique are making an effort to leave them out. The reason: Essential oils are chemically active and potentially harsh compounds, and creams with lots of them sound nice but can irritate sensitive skin. While you don’t need to kick them out of your routine entirely, you should be conscious of which you’re using. Gentle ones, like geranium, chamomile, blue tansy, and ylang-ylang, are low in aldehydes and phenols, which are compounds found in plants that can irritate skin, says Amy Galper, New York City…

Care/of is the personalized supplement subscription service that gets it—take a lifestyle survey and they’ll make the best recommendations for you. (They also share the rationale and independent research behind each choice.) My pack: vitamin B to offset levels depleted by my boozy social life, vitamin C to balance the physical stress of my high-intensity workouts, and ashwagandha to chill out from all the other types of pressure.…

There is a place in California that has all of the answers regarding your mortal fate. There is a person there who wants to heal your emotional wounds. There is lavender tea for free and overnight parking available for $28 per day. For anybody seeking total holistic rejuvenation, going to Cavallo Point Lodge’s Healing Arts Center & Spa is a dream trip. In Marin County—one of the nation’s wealthiest constellations of ZIP codes, where the average annual household income well exceeds $100,000 and the painted mountains of California plunge into the Pacific—it’s a typical weekday activity. You can experience a soul retrieval at the hands of Cavallo’s on-staff shaman at 9, have all seven of your chakras balanced at 11, and still have time to hit the farmers’ market. Welcome…

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Editor’s note: This story represents the experiences of these officers and airmen at a moment in time, specifically June 2017. Ranks and deployments, which have changed in the interim, are accurate as of the time of the reporting. This place is hot in the sun and even hotter in the wind, which blows like a 110-degree hair dryer. Staff Sergeant Rhoniesha Seubert doesn’t wash her face full of makeup in her second of three daily showers, because it’ll undoubtedly be covered in sweat again as soon as she steps outside on Al Dhafra Air Base, 20 miles south of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Picture a beige expanse of desert and dust ringed by high fences and packed with rectangular temporary buildings and trailers, all equally colorless. At Al Dhafra,…

17th Century in which Middle Eastern and Indian women began wearing a stud in their left nostril. They believed it would ease the pain of childbirth. 10,503 (and counting): Number of piercings Elaine Davidson has. She was named the most pierced woman by Guinness World Records. 16 Number of faux eyebrow piercings makeup artist James Kaliardos secured to model Aline Weber’s face for the spring 2015 Rodarte show. 14 Types of distinct genital piercings available to men. Options! 1913 Year French singer Polaire stepped out in Paris wearing a septum ring, astonishing the public. $65 Approximate price of a new engagement-ring alternative: getting a (fake) diamond implanted in your ring finger.…

You’d probably clean your brush set a whole lot more (or, ever) if all you had to do was press a button. Consider your wish a reality: Brushean, a sterilizing machine that handily stores brushes when they’re not in use, dry-cleans up to 15 brushes in five minutes. It won’t remove caked-on makeup (only soap-and-water washing can), but it will get rid of zit-causing bacteria: Just press the lid down, turn on the self-timed antibacterial UV light, and voilà! Clean(er) brushes.…

MICHELLE THOMPSON PERSONAL-FINANCE COUNSELOR AND COACH, WASHINGTON, D.C. “I started experimenting with relaxers when I was 18 years old. I always wore my hair in curls, but the relaxer made them look looser. I stopped dyeing my hair when I was 35. My mother was prematurely gray, so after she passed, wearing my natural silver hair was a way to celebrate her life. But I didn’t stop using relaxers until seven years later. I loved the silkiness of my hair when it was relaxed and how it allowed me to copy old-school hairstyles, like ’40s waves. But around 2007, I was recently separated, trying to figure out how to create a life for my children and myself and paying for all of these additional expenses. The cost of maintaining my…

“IT’S A CONVERSATION THAT HAS BEEN 3,500 YEARS IN THE MAKING.” You’ve booked a trip to Menorca. Take a deep breath and relax. The next seven days will be filled with farm-to-table food, the sound of lapping seawater, sunset beach yoga, soft white sand, and…your period. Normally that would be an insignificant or just mildly annoying detail, but this time, it’s the whole reason you’re there. In the year 2018, there is such a thing as a period retreat—a time to reset, to rest, and to get in touch with your body. It’s just one example of a bigger movement among young women (who work in fashion, in tech, in pretty much every field) to reclaim their period in some very interesting ways. These are celebrations of Femininity with a…

makeup FENTY BEAUTY BY RIHANNA PRO FILT’R SOFT MATTE LONGWEAR FOUNDATION “For the longest time, many makeup brands looked at a bell curve of skin tones and made shades to match just the women in the middle. If you stay in that range, you’ll make money, but women with dark skin won’t get served. I still can’t find my own shade without mixing,” says cosmetic chemist Ni’Kita Wilson, who describes her skin tone as medium brown with yellow undertones. Fenty threw away the bell curve and created 40 carefully calibrated foundation shades that everyone can actually wear. When the line launched, the darkest colors quickly sold out—but that was just the beginning. Fenty has had a powerful ripple effect, with other brands expanding their own foundation ranges. “Making shades that…

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