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“Sit down and let me do your hair.” It’s a simple phrase that, for many Black people, calls to mind memories of love, connection, and maybe a little pain. Our kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms are often transformed into hair salons, strewn with the necessary tools: Afro picks and beads, rubber bands and hooded dryers. As COVID-19 brought the world to a pause, many professional Black hairstylists returned to this tradition of creating at home. Instead of high-profile red carpets or clients at…
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Look inside the July 2020 Allure Beauty Box.
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Features director Jessica Cruel tests out the Avarelle Acne Cover Patch — a transparent hydrocolloid patch coated in tea tree oil, calendula oil, and cica — for the Allure Beauty Box.
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Destroyer. Syren. Space Black. These are not the names of intergalactic rovers (though they do sound like they might have come from another planet). They’re three of the quirky products you will find in Byredo’s new makeup collection.
It’s not the first time the Scandinavian fragrance house has enticed us with something that seems otherworldly. When founder Ben Gorham launched Gypsy Water, its unusual name, minimalist bottle, and oddball, woodsy scent were unfamiliar, but with a few spritzes we…
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Sitting in my grandma’s dining room, surrounded by peach-patterned wallpaper, my bare feet digging into the mint-green carpet, I log on for my Zoom interview with Precious Lee (the star of our 2020 Best of Beauty Awards portfolio). When she comes onscreen — her pecan complexion glowing, wearing a welcoming smile and a red-and-teal African-print two-piece by Grass-Fields with matching turban — I can’t help but smile at her. Though she’s sitting in her apartment in New York, her snapshot would fit…
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Look inside the October 2020 Allure Beauty Box.
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Features director Jessica Cruel tests out Wilma Schumann Hydrating Collagen Eye Pads, which help depuff and cool tired undereyes, for Allure Beauty Box.
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This year is Allure’s 30th Anniversary, and we’re celebrating by looking back at iconic moments in beauty from the past three decades. You can read more articles like this one here.
Let’s start with facts: In a study conducted by Dove in 2019, 80 percent of Black women surveyed reported having to change their hairstyle from its natural state to “fit in at the office.” From the postal service to the military to Fortune 500 corporations, racial discrimination has been forbidden since 1964, when Pr…
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Parents bequeath many things to their children: eye color, hair texture, freckles… and maybe an appreciation for gua sha. And children are like shadows, mirroring mannerisms and picking up healthy (and unhealthy) habits. The pandemic has created quiet moments at home (so many quiet moments at home) to pass down beauty routines and precious rituals — and to learn a few things in return. From wash day laughs to movie night facials, multiple generations have gathered together to practice self-care…
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A look behind the scenes of this month’s splendidly brown pages.
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“Let me give you a trim.” This is a phrase that typically strikes fear in a Black woman’s heart. It takes only one salon appointment gone awry, where you ask for a dusting and get a three-inch haircut instead, to create trim trauma. But on this day, I don’t think twice and say, “I’m game if you are.”
The fact that it’s been only four weeks since my last appointment with the scissors (I typically go every three months) doesn’t even faze me because the person who is going to cut my split ends is M…
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