Browsing: Beauty

Allure editors tested eight nail polishes in 2026 under real daily wear — all eight passed. Here’s what that process actually looked like.

Mascara technique matters more than the formula. Learn root placement, coat timing, smudge fixes, and brush types for defined lashes.

Madonna spent four decades reinventing her beauty look without settling on a signature — and that refusal to hold still remains genuinely radical.

Black women are traveling to Istanbul for hair transplants and documenting it in detail, pushing clinics to specialize in Afro-textured hair restoration.

Hair department head Frédéric Bélanger breaks down Lili Reinhart’s color transformation for The Love Hypothesis, where storytelling and technique converge.

Dr. Lisa Cassileth tells Allure’s Perspectives podcast how GLP-1 prescriptions and technology trends are directly changing the procedures patients request.

Selena Gomez debuted long extensions at the 2026 Emmys, then wore a sleek middle-part blowout in NYC. Here’s what the look actually involves.

Allure’s 2026 Best of Beauty body winners span sun spot-fading, teeth-brightening, and leg-smoothing — proof that body care has raised its standards.

Mariska Hargitay wore easy waves on the red carpet, then switched to a bombshell blowout during the 2026 Emmys as a tribute to her mother Jayne Mansfield.

Allure’s Best of Beauty Awards turns 30. Founding editor Linda Wells and key players recall why calling a product “the best” in 1996 was a genuinely radical fight.