Browsing: Beauty

Braids, twists, Bantu knots, and weaves protect natural hair from breakage and environmental damage — but only when installed and maintained correctly.

Blonde balayage adapts to brunettes and blondes alike, using freehand painting to create natural-looking lightness with less maintenance than traditional highlights.

Hairstylist Jaime Leigh McIntosh and makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir break down how Florence Pugh’s two “East of Eden” characters are built from the beauty chair up.

The 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show revived its original body-conformity framework, reversing years of beauty industry progress toward inclusion and wider ideals.

Fig fragrance spans five olfactive families at once — green, fruity, creamy, woody, floral — making it one of the most versatile and wearable notes this season.

Laura Bibbs, trumpeter on Harry Styles’ Together, Together tour, shares how she maintains natural curls and wears glitter eyeshadow performing three shows a week at MSG.

Ukrainian manicures, a dry-technique nail method brought to the U.S. by displaced professionals, are winning over American clients with precision results.

Women report clearer skin and better sleep after breakups. Medical professionals explain the cortisol, inflammation, and sleep science behind it.

Stephanie Germino, known as “Thee Boobless Babe,” shares why she chose aesthetic flat closure over reconstruction after her preventative BRCA double mastectomy.

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