Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2022 i Allure

When you walk through an art museum, sometimes the patrons are as interesting as the exhibits. You can see in their faces and body language how art educates, inspires, and entertains all at once. Beauty is also an art form. Some people can craft a sculpture out of hair or paint miniature scenes on nails in a way that sparks awe. These folks are the artists of our industry, and Allure is their Louvre. As The Beauty Expert, it is our pleasure to work side by side with so many creative minds to bring you a product that is full of visual inspiration from photographers, stylists, makeup artists, nail artists, hairstylists, and more. Once upon a time, I used to tear out pages of magazines so I could go back…

DRIES VAN NOTEN RAVING ROSE [1] AND ROCK THE MYRRH [4]: We didn’t know what to expect from a myrrh-heavy perfume (manger vibes?). It turns out the note is very luxe, very mysterious, and, when mixed with resins, very unlike anything we’ve smelled before. Rose, on the other hand, is about as classic a perfume note as you’ll find. “But I wanted to disrupt its classicism,” says perfumer Louise Turner. She paired the timeless bloom with pink pepper and musk for a new kind of spicy fragrance in Raving Rose. LOUIS VUITTON CITY OF STARS [2]: Inspired by languid Los Angeles sunsets, painter and sculptor Alex Israel worked with perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud on a blood orange, lime, and bergamot perfume that sparkles. OFF-WHITE PAPERWORK SOLUTION NO. 2 [3]: Perfumer…

Avery Williamson You will find paper, wood panels, and textiles in Williamson’s colorful Southeast Michigan studio. The multimedia artist says working with a new medium—a bottle of creamy Olay body wash—“gave me a chance to think about the movements of the ingredients [like manuka honey and aloe] inside the bottle, and the [acts] of showering and bathing and having a moment to yourself.” She hopes the dots, dashes, and swirls of color inspire you to reflect on the little things: “You’re seeing something new [on the bottle] each time you bathe. And I hope you think about beauty in your everyday life.” Matthieu Cossé Watercolors were painter Cossé’s medium of choice for his dreamy collaboration with Diptyque. The delicate, translucent textures allowed him “to create carefree illustrations that speak of…

Well, I am sure glad you asked! Makeup brushes have always drawn me in close, like they had a gravitational pull. Even when I was a kid, beauty shopping at a department store with my mother, I’d find my fingers ghosting over the soft whiskers of a powder brush or poking at a spoolie to be tickled by its tiny plastic fibers. I wondered then if every grown-up makeup-wearer was supposed to own all three dozen or so options laid out on those counters. Thankfully, I learned over the next decade of wearing makeup that, in fact, all we need is a handful. And I can confidently say that this is the ultimate brush lineup, based on my years of smudging, and blending, and a recent conversation with makeup artist…

After nearly two decades of long-haul flights, early call times, and 12-hour days on set, hairstylist Nate Rosenkranz was at the end of his rope. He hadn’t fallen out of love with his craft, but he had grown weary of everything that came with it—so much so that he began to question his career path. He was, simply put, burned out. But for Rosenkranz, burning out didn’t look like it does in the movies: A law student collapses at their desk after a string of late nights or an overworked executive has an office outburst and quits on the spot. Burnout is typically sneakier than that, says psychologist Michael Leiter, PhD, a leading researcher on the topic and coauthor of the forthcoming book The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with…

Chloé Véro Born in Queens, Véro moved to South Florida at 10 and yearned to return to her birthplace. She signed with a modeling agency in New York after contacting them through a submission portal. “I sent some pictures that I took on my MacBook. And this one fire selfie that I took in a dressing room,” she recalls. An hour later, they replied, asking for a meeting. Lately, the 26-year-old has smiled for the camera wearing jewelry crafted by Helen Harris (the artist known as Helen with the Gold Teeth): a trio of floating diamond, solid gold, and silhouetted gold caps (all are removable). “Especially being Caribbean, something about gold just fits,” Véro says. Solange van Doorn The model remembers when she knew she wanted grills—it was after she…

“For me, brown lipstick is more than a revived ’90s trend, it’s a lifestyle. Also included: smoky scents, velvety skin care, and lots of knits.”…

1. Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder. We’d say we don’t have adequate words to describe this one-of-a-kind formula, but that’s our job. A tiny scoop of this solid balm will blur, mattify, and set makeup with a tap of your finger. (Maybe three taps.) 2. Sophie Buhai Fan Shell Clip in Tortoise. This swank clip is our favorite accomplice: Tucked into the base of a low ponytail, it creates a beautiful diversion from hair that really could stand to be shampooed. 3. Benefit Cosmetics Sunny Blush. Sweeping this coral powder from our temples down to the apples of our cheeks had people asking not if we’d just gone on vacation, but where. 4. Tory Burch Essence of Dreams Electric Sky Eau de Parfum. They call it a…

GET THE LOOK Gavissi Beauty Retro Liner in Seascape, Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish: Divine Powder Blush in Divine Rose, Half Magic Sculptitude 2-in-1 Lip Liner in I Have Needs and I’ll Pray For You, Makeup By Mario Master Mattes Eyeshadow Palette “I’ve used a face chart in art school, but never of my own face. My style is avantgarde. I adore being experimental with bold makeup and fun colors. My latest passion project, gardening, inspired this look. Flowers bring me so much happiness; I’ve been exploring how to paint them on my face. I have an affinity for balance—my tattoos are the greatest example of that—therefore placing the flower in the center of my face felt natural to me. I also like to work with elements that I know…

CREAMSICLE Imagine a chemist, a pastry chef, and a painter of magnificent ocean sunsets. Distill their skill sets into a single human laborer and you have the hair colorist, whose livelihood depends on aptitude in color theory and hair porosity and the properties of hydrogen peroxide. Engineering this strawberry blonde required trial, error, and two different shade formulas for the root and tip. Then a quick series of highlights—bleach powder plus water, instead of developer, so color lifts rapidly—for added flavor, like cream swirls stretching through sherbet. CINNAMON CIDER After purchasing five wigs from a local New York City not-your-hair emporium, Hazelton returned to her laboratory a few blocks south at Marie Robinson Salon. With a cohort of colorists, she began bleaching, staining, and painting the wigs into a spectrum…

Unlikely Couples Belgian designer Dries Van Noten delights in contrast. On the runway, he has presented compelling cases for tucking a vibrant floral blouse into a zebra-printed skirt, and slinging a leopard-printed cape over a polka-dot top. Now he is dreaming up lipstick tubes with the same unconventional juxtaposition of prints. Turns out they’re matches made in, well, you know—and they’re guaranteed to turn committed sheer gloss people into classic bullet disciples.…

I am from Seoul, South Korea, and studied makeup in Busan. There is a lot of ambiance there. There is a beach and it’s a very colorful city. We had a big, national makeup contest and I won the prize, so I got to go to Paris to study. At the time, I lived with a friend and she was studying fashion styling. She asked me if I wanted to collaborate with her on a project for a school magazine and that’s how I started my portfolio. Following that, I was an assistant at the Armani shows for several years. My first time backstage I was just adding creams on the legs of models. It takes a lot of time and passion to become who you want. The Paris style…

PONY UP Channel TikTok’s favorite aesthetic—minimalism—with a high-shine ponytail. At Michael Kors Collection (right), hairstylist Orlando Pita slathered on his Magnifying Glass Oil Serum and used the back of a comb to smooth down any grooves, then finished ponys with ample hairspray. “It’s a little more dressed up” than wearing wet hair down, he says. Plus, product won’t get on your clothes. PLAY IT BACK A behind-the-ear tuck is one of the most classic ways to call attention to your face (and show off your piercings). But the just-stepped-out-of-the-shower version at Jil Sander (left) makes it infinitely cooler. Use a mix of hair gel and styling cream—no need to fuss; the more undone, the better.…

Your next haircut might do more than just tidy up your ends. The clippings being swept up from the salon floor around you could actually turn into something useful—or, more accurately, a lot of somethings. “You can make shelving, you can make flooring, you can make brush or mirror handles,” says Shane Price, CEO of Green Circle Salons, a company that partners with salons to recycle waste by, for example, turning hair into pellets strong enough to form everyday items. “Hair fiber is incredible,” he says. Green Circle Salons partners with more than 4,000 salons across Canada and the U.S., including Raven Row in Austin. “I’m supporting a business that’s supporting the environment and the community,” says Betty Hovis, a client at Raven Row. “It feels good.” Hovis adds that…

In my teens and 20s, I was already acting and started being in the public eye. Suddenly I had to present myself a certain way and had the expectations of the world on me. I felt a bit overwhelmed. My mum was always like, “It’s not about your appearance. You are beautiful. You don’t need anything. You’re talented, you’re smart, kind, funny.” I could only be me at the end of the day. But I was on a TV show in England called Hollyoaks, which was a teen show. A lot of students watched it and a lot of the women [in the cast] were very beautiful, glamorous. I definitely tried to become that. There was a lot of pressure to conform, to have straight hair and do the aesthetic…

“Everything you absorb in life somehow stays in your head,” says Sabine Marcelis, an artist based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Marcelis can still remember the way sunlight struck the mountaintops and the moon would shine upon the ocean when she was growing up in New Zealand. It’s no coincidence that her work today explores light interactions through installation, sculpture, and even product design: translucent pastel tables that appear to glow and white orb light fixtures for IKEA that recall the moon. “Celebrate your own uniqueness,” says Marcelis, a lesson she has passed along to the five young artists that comprise the Women Bauhaus Collective, formed by skin-care brand La Prairie. “Because in the end, that’s what will really make you stand apart from everyone else.” “I’ve dyed my hair…

INSIDE OUT The same level of iridescent shine found on the interior of over-harvested conch shells is applied to skin, eyes, and nails. Alejandre reached for Lancôme Juicy Tubes for an ultra-glassy finish on the lips. HAT TRICK Eyes were disguised as a torogoz bird’s, framed in black and brightened with a splash of teal blue. BRIGHT AS A FEATHER A quetzal’s vibrant lime green and scarlet plumage take flight here on eyes and lips. “The most important aspect of any makeup look is the prep—massaging the skin and making sure I’m using the right oils, the right serums,” says Alejandre. With a gleaming foundation, vivid colors like these make even more of an impact. SMALL WONDERS Metallic sea cucumber-inspired nails, sculpted by Sojin Oh. BUTTERFLY EFFECT Alejandre recalls fond…