Allure, the first and only magazine devoted to beauty, is an insider's guide to a woman's total image. Allure investigates and celebrates beauty and fashion with objectivity and candor, and places appearance in a larger cultural context.
HOROSCOPE BEAUTY See what it looks like when you match your eye-shadow, blush, and lipstick shades to your zodiac sign. Yes. Your zodiac sign. It’s a whole new (and surprisingly effective!) way to personalize your look for fall. Find out how at allure.com/zodiac-beauty. Just for You Want news, tips you haven’t heard, and live videos with industry bosses? Like us on Facebook. M.A.C. Studio Eye Gloss in Money Honey…
MOLLY YOUNG The writer takes on a social-media food challenge in “The Instagram Diet.” The least Instagrammable food I eat: “There is absolutely no preparation of eggs that looks attractive in a photo.” To summarize my dieting history: “Do we have any ice cream?” My superhero power would be: “Detangling my hair without pain.” My actual secret talent: “Ping-Pong.” OLIVIER POLGE The perfumer explains how he modernized Chanel No. 5 in “Scents of Place.” My first scent memory: “Holidays in the south of France with the Mediterranean gardens.” Favorite smell: “Wet earth.” My favorite piece of art: “The last Beethoven sonata, Op. 111.” People should always smell... “with imagination.” People should never smell... “without their hearts.” BENJAMIN PUCKEY The makeup artist dipped his brushes in a palette of reds, coppers,…
Upon arriving at a Santa Monica beach house for her fifth Allure cover shoot, Alba was greeted by the crew—as well as Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, who happened to be visiting the home’s owner. The three talked house renovations and reminisced about Kate Hudson’s thirtieth-birthday bash. Fashion stylist Beth Fenton chose a golden color palette for the shoot—and the monochromatic look suited Alba just fine. “I actually added more highlights to my hair because I wanted it to match my skin,” said Alba about her superior coordination tactics. After lunch (kale salad and roasted veggies for the actress), her daughters, Haven and Honor, stopped by. The girls played hide-and-seek and swam in the pool while Alba was in front of the camera. Chingy’s “Holidae In” may have played during…
Years ago, I listened mouth agape as a coworker told me that she never drank water, just coffee, tea, and wine. How are you functioning? I thought. After all, I was a fanatical eight-glasses-a-day girl who kept a 38-ounce carafe at my desk filled and ready in case of an unforeseen drought. Fast-forward to 2016. Somehow over the years, coffee and wine had pushed H2O to the outskirts of my daily routine, to be sipped only occasionally at restaurants when it was placed right in front of me. Compared with the comfort of my steamy café au lait and nightly Cabernet, water seemed so, well...boring. Then it all caught up with me. I suspect that the nervous system can only take so much ping-ponging between stimulation and depression before it…
8 SIZE IN COMPUTER bits of Ms. Pac-Man’s beauty mark, which was added in 1982 to feminize the videogame character. 2007 YEAR A BRITISH STUDY concluded that the number of moles on your body is related to how quickly your skin ages. 1987 YEAR CINDY CRAWFORD’S mole was retouched out of the cover of British Vogue. She has since appeared on more than 400 magazine covers with her beauty mark intact. 35 AVERAGE NUMBER OF moles on the human body. 2016 YEAR HADID’S constellation of stomach moles were retouched out of her Chinese Vogue cover, which was met with a major uproar from her fans. 12 NUMBER OF MOLES on model Gigi Hadid’s stomach. 28, 850 NUMBER OF TUTORIALS on YouTube showing how to draw on fake freckles, moles, and…
With Lily Aldridge Three women walk into a bar: a badass rocker chick with smudgy liner in a vintage concert tee, an impeccably coiffed fashion-world darling dressed by the latest “It” designer, and a lingerie model wearing… well, does it really matter what a lingerie model is wearing? Fast-forward to the punch line—it’s only one woman: Lily Aldridge. The Italian-English, Nashvilledwelling supermodel is an enigma. Scratch that. She is a stunning enigma. (Is the girl crush coming through yet?) With creamy olive skin and wide-set eyes, Aldridge, 30, has dominated the seemingly mutually exclusive worlds of bedazzled bras (earning her Victoria’s Secret wings in 2009) and high fashion (becoming the face of Michael Kors’s latest fragrance, Wonderlust). She also happens to be the wife of Kings of Leon singer Caleb…
