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About six months ago, I told our staff to get lost, and I meant it. Allure editors jetted off—to Dublin, Dubai, San Antonio, Rio de Janeiro, and all the way to Tokyo—to produce this, our first-ever Out of Office issue, dedicated to travel and beauty around the globe. We’re a culture that loves travel and new experiences. And the world is getting smaller. This issue was born out of the idea that technology is shrinking the distance between us. The mysteries of the French pharmacy have been unlocked for a global audience. A teenager in Wisconsin can watch a live Instagram Story about a new snail essence sliding through Seoul. And as the nature of work becomes less tethered to a physical location and shifts to the cloud, hitting the…
12 Percentage of people who dream only in black and white. According to a 2008 study, the unnamed phenomenon is linked to how much black-and-white media you consume. In 1940, this figure was more than six times higher. 20 Approximate number of minutes Princess Aurora was actually sleeping in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. 5 Estimated number of minutes it takes for us to forget 95 percent of the details of our dreams upon waking. $239 Cost of one 60-minute phone or Skype session with a particular Australian dream-interpretation specialist. $8.95 Price on eBay for one ounce of Calea zacatechichi, or “Mexican dream herb”—a hallucinogenic herb that has been known to induce lucid dreaming and was originally used by indigenous Americans. It’s not a controlled substance in the United States, but it…
The only thing that gleams brighter than Hailey Baldwin’s skin is the diamond that swallows half of her ring finger. How ever did she get it? The skin, not the ring! A careful regimen, and makeup helps, too—Baldwin is the newest face of BareMinerals. “I always remember my mom using BareMinerals: the blush, the powders, the lipsticks,” she says. More on the model’s beauty obsessions: On being a fake-lash prodigy: “I used to be a ballet dancer, so one of my earliest beauty memories is of stage makeup. Red lipstick, crazy cheeks, the eyeliner with the white in the middle to make your eyes bigger—the whole thing. I was doing fake lashes at age 12.” On her Achilles’ heel: “I’ll only wear liquid eyeliner if someone else applies it. I’m…
THE NETHERLANDS SHOP WHERE THE LOCALS DO: “We have a little street called De Negen Straatjes with vintage stores that’s really popular here, but you won’t find it in a guidebook. Backstage is an under-the-radar gem in the city—they’ve got wigs and prosthetics and beautiful, creative makeup.” BUY JEWELRY. AND THEN BUY MORE: “Dutch girls wear a hundred mixed-metal necklaces and stack the most random earrings. It’s total chaos, but it looks so good that I’m always inspired to get another ear piercing, and another. I have, hmmm, let me count—1, 2, 3…10. I like to stack Maria Tash hoops and statement pieces.” TRY A MAKE-UNDER: “The first beauty product most Dutchies get is Max Factor mascara. But a lot of people here still only buy mascara and a little…
ISRAEL dead sea There is romance in seeking refuge in the Dead Sea—this is, after all, where Cleopatra came to bathe in its mystical powers (or so the legend goes). The Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth, and one of the saltiest: Swimmers float like buoys here, propelled to the surface by the water’s incredibly high salinity. (The Dead Sea has 10 times more salt than an ocean, and technically it’s not even a sea—it’s a lake.) On its shores, visitors cake themselves in mud with anti-bacterial properties. This has made the Dead Sea a place of pilgrimage for those with skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema, and acne. Others come to relieve asthma and arthritis, since the water’s magnesium bromide content is said to calm inflammation. The…
