Rihanna truly knows how to spoil her beauty fans (music fans, on the other hand, may disagree — where’s the album, Riri?). As always, all orders come with free shipping, no matter if it’s a full haul or a single-product restock. With all of the jaw-dropping items on sale, it’ll be hard to whittle down … Read more
Box braids are a timeless staple in the arsenal of Black girl hairstyles. Whether you’re two or 102, nothing beats the feeling of first seeing your hair in the neatly parted plaits. While the hair look is mainly worn as a protective style, its appeal doesn’t stop there. Box braids can add length and even … Read more
The beauty team at Allure considered many, many factors when picking the Body Care winners of our 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards. Our desire for perfect skin doesn’t end at the collarbone. And yet, so many of the products we slather on our bodies seem perfectly content to do the bare minimum. They smooth … Read more
There are two types of people in the world: those who watch a beauty tutorial and nail the look on the first try, and those who watch a beauty tutorial and call up the salon for an appointment. Like the general population, each Allure editor falls squarely into one of the two camps. Some of … Read more
We’ve all stood in front of a rack of brightly colored bottles of nail polish at the local salon and wondered, How do I choose? Imagine confronting hundreds of those bottles and you’ll have a sense of the challenge facing Allure editors when it’s time to determine the very best chip-resistant lacquers, as we did … Read more
What will daily desk-side fragrance trials get you? In most offices: fired. But in this one, it’s a necessary step toward discovery. At Allure, we know there’s no easy way to navigate the search for the perfect scent, particularly in our pursuit of naming the year’s very best picks for our Fragrance category of the … Read more
If you really think about it (and we’ve really thought about it), foundations, concealers, and face-contouring products have the most thankless job in the beauty world. As our editors tested products for our Base Makeup category in the 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards, we couldn’t help but notice our high expectations. We look to … Read more
You’re probably a big fan of beauty. Which means you probably recall the first product you ever fell in love with. And that product was probably a lipstick. We’re not trying to make assumptions — though it feels fairly safe to guess that someone reading the Lips category of the 2023 Allure Best of Beauty … Read more
At Allure, we pride ourself on our longstanding tradition of recommending only the products that we have truly tested, loved, and deemed worthy of your hard-earned cash — something we kept in mind throughout the entire 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards process. We know the economy has been bananas lately (seriously, have you seen … Read more
Biologically speaking, hair has evolved to protect us, to keep us warm. But over a few thousand years, it has become so much more. Hair is power. It’s identity; it’s confidence. It’s deeply personal, and it connects us to a larger world — to our family, our community, our culture. And at Allure, it connects … Read more