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.
The Power of Beauty Singer, mother, and yoga guru K elly Rowland shares her kick-ass _itness routine, skin-care secrets, and much more at allure.com/kelly-rowland. 10 Best Tips Our editors have grilled hundreds of experts and tried thousands of products. Discover the untold secrets at allure.com/beauty-editor-tips. E.L.F. Aqua Beauty Molten Liquid Eyeshadow in Molten Bronze, Rose Gold, and Liquid Gold…
THERE ARE THE GIFTS YOU CAN’T WAIT TO GIVE, the ones you just want to keepand the presents that—for better or worse—you will never forget. MADELINE POOLE Manicurist, “Party Tips” “My former boss gave me those speakers that look like rocks— the ones they hide in moss at Disney. They were sooooo cool.” DAVID LYNCH Author and sommelier, “Oh, What a Night!” “A big, busy, old-school raincoat that made me look like Inspector Gadget was probably the worst.” LAURA FERRARA Fashion stylist, “The After Afterparty” “My six-year-old son’s handdrawn stick-figure portrait of our family was the best. The worst? A gym membership.” RO PENULIAR Bookings director, “Off and Running” “I received a bottle of peach schnapps that I actually drank. But the best was a 1976 black Gibson L6 electric…
It’sAlive! SCAN + SEE FOR MORE CONTENT I’ve been a die-hard magazine lover for as long as I can remember. I would pore over pages of music and culture zines as an adolescent and dog-ear pages in my beloved fashion glossies (I couldn’t bear to rip them out). Fittingly, one of my first part-time jobs as a teenager was maintaining the magazine display at a B. Dalton bookstore, where I’d take extra care to line up the gorgeous covers in the most attractive way possible. To this day, one of my favorite activities is visiting a tiny, hole-in-the-wall corner newsstand in SoHo where they stock nearly every obscure fashion book, including the hard-to-find international ones. We have huge things happening at Allure in digital and video, but the magazine is…
She’s a model, a boxer, a high-school volleyball champ, and possibly even a horse whisperer. When Zulu, a 14-year-old Lusitano, got spooked on the set of Gigi Hadid’s !irst Allure cover shoot, the model, unfazed, walked over to the gelding and put him at ease with a few soothing pats. After a breakfast of a Starbucks cinnamon bun and a peppermint latte, Hadid slipped into a red lace Valentino gown and hopped on the horse’s back to pose beneath a crystal-clear New York City sky. In between shots (and bites of pasta with meatballs for lunch), Hadid switched roles with photographer Patrick Demarchelier, snapping candids of him with her own Polaroid. She got so comfortable on set (even stripping down to practically her birthday suit for a series of shots)…
SCAN + SEE FOR MORE CONTENT Hair Like so many good things, Hadid’s storybook curls started with a mound of volumizing mousse and a blowout. Then hairstylist Rudi Lewis wrapped one-inch sections around two narrow curling irons of different sizes “so it didn’t look uniform and fake.” He brushed out Hadid’s hair and misted it with thickening spray, then had the model !lip her head upside down to shake her spirals for extra body. Makeup “Gigi has an all-American natural glow,” said makeup artist Sally Branca, who turned up the light by blending peach cream blush on the apples of Hadid’s cheeks and tapping highlighter at the inner corners of her eyes and down the bridge of her nose. Branca layered brown and blue shadows on the model’s lids, then…
3TABLESPOONS OF SILVER glitter used by makeup artist Val Garland to create shimmery face tattoos on models who walked in the spring 2017 Giamba show. 50DIFFERENT TYPES OF glitter in Garland’s kit. 377,303APPROXIMATE NUMBER of engagement rings and wedding bands purchased from Tiffany & Co. in 2015. $5,871AVERAGE AMOUNT spent on an engagement ring in America in 2015. 75NUMBER OF LED bulbs in artist Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room, designed to make visitors feel as if they are floating amid the stars. 207,500NUMBER OF VISITORS WHO have spent 45 seconds in the closet-size installation since it began touring in 2013.…
