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My days are normally 16 hours and my foundation and lipstick stayed put.—SARA R., CALIFORNIA My foundation stayed put all day long and the lipstick lasted hours without needing to be reapplied.—ASHLEY L., OHIO Both of these products stay put, literally! Even after drinking, rubbing my face, hugs, kisses, etc., my makeup stayed!—COURTNEY G., MAINE Both products gave a natural finish and lasted throughout my long workdays plus the gym!—AMBER O., CALIFORNIA I received compliments on my makeup even after hours of wearing the foundation and lipstick.—ANGELIQUE S., NEW YORK I was completely shocked at the longevity of these products.—STEPHANIE G., NEW YORK Source: Condé Nast Communities (Allure, BRIDES, Glamour, SELF), December 2018; a product trial was conducted among 300 participants, each of whom received a complimentary foundation and lip…

throwing shade New primers in warmer tones seamlessly lock in foundation on all skin colors. The whole point of a primer is to invisibly smooth and prep the skin for makeup. And yet so many are milky or pearly in color, leaving a pasty cast on brown skin. Finally, formulas are being released in shades of brown, like Stila Lingerie Soufflé Skin Perfecting Primer in Sunkissed and Beautyblender The Leveler Pore Minimizing Primer in Tan/Deep. That means women with medium or dark skin can create a base for foundation without worrying that a chalky film will peek through. And if your skin is pale? These primers are sheer enough that you can still use them—they’ll simply add a warming glow. —JESSICA CHIA LAB REPORT SO FINE Using a facial mist…

i started thinking about beauty in the late ’90s, when I was about 11, because that’s when tabloid culture and magazines really started a full-on assault on women’s appearances. The Internet had just kind of started its rise. I became very aware of beauty as a concept. I started wearing makeup. All of the girls in my school wanted to be thin. Thin was equated with being beautiful. I think that lasted me until I was about 26 years old. I had this wonderful career-defining moment when I made history as the first woman to host The Official Chart, which is a huge streaming radio show in England. And all that anyone cared about was that I’d gained weight. No one cared that I’d gotten this huge job and made…

though the word “witch” might now be more associated with Kiernan Shipka and her teenage angst than Margaret Hamilton and her green-stained anger, the understanding of witchcraft has not really evolved over the past several decades. Despite general cheering for the New York–based coven that hexed Brett Kavanaugh, there is still a sense of trepidation surrounding those who practice the ’craft. And with a history of persecution dating back at least to the Middle Ages, it’s understandable that many witches keep their beliefs private to avoid being, at best, miscategorized or misunderstood. The world of witchcraft is vast (there are many forms and rituals that qualify) and varied enough to encompass a panoply of sex witches and love witches, green witches and white witches, house witches and hood witches—but uniting…

Batiste has been saving British blowouts since the ’70s. “It’s in all the high street stores,” says hairstylist Sam Burnett. 1. PANTENE PRO-V INTENSE RESCUE SHOTS For the past eight years, these hairmask ampoules have kept Brazil’s famous beachy waves soft and healthy—impressive when you consider what they go through to look tousled just so. (Women in Brazil are 60 percent more likely to use hot tools than women in the U.S., according to a Pantene survey.) Now the best-selling blend of lipids and glycerin in these single-dose masks is finally, finally available in the U.S. 2. GOUTAL PARIS CHAT PERCHÉ When this storied Parisian fragrance house unveiled its new children’s perfume—a delicate sweet pea eau de toilette—they expected it to sell well, but they didn’t expect it to sell…

Western United States For perspective, some 170 years ago, while California was being overrun by prospectors, France’s perfume trade was already well on its way to becoming the behemoth it is now (it went from a 2 million–franc business in 1810 to 75 million in 1889). Today, America’s West Coast has a bumper crop of niche perfume brands, many mixed by self-taught perfumers who work in small batches with lots of local flavor. “We buy strawberries from the farmers market and sun-dry them, then infuse them in alcohol and use it as the base of our perfumes,” says Linda Sivrican, creator of Aureum Botanica and Saguara Perfumes. “I also use a dried lavender from Ojai and sun-dried Meyer lemons.” In Oregon and Washington, perfumes tend to be just as botanically…

She’s one of the most sought-after, talked-about models in the industry—from the world’s most conspicuous family, no less—but Kendall Jenner still buys beauty tools on Amazon, giggles at her mom’s hairstyles, and swears by a meditation routine even she was skeptical of. —Kelly Bales ALLURE: If you could use only one makeup item, what would it be? K. J.: I have this Armani foundation called Face Fabric. It’s a little tube, and it’s so light. You feel like you don’t have anything on. ALLURE: What’s the last beauty tool you bought? K. J.: A roller that you use on your face to get the puffiness out. I used it on set the other day. ALLURE: What are the best tricks you’ve learned from your makeup artist Mary Phillips? K. J.:…

A Cut Above Bangs have been around at least since Cleopatra took up shears. What better way to make millennia-old straight bangs look new than by dyeing them a fiery shade? Volume Up Short, fine bangs can look a little French Revolution—until they meet volumizing mousse (hairstylist Braydon Nelson used Kérastase Bouffante). Then they just look French. Test Drive A wig can provide architectural bangs without the buyer’s remorse. Short Change Left: Microbangs are embedded in a history of rebellion, including Joan of Arc and London punks—the hair equivalent of a battle cry. Curl Power Right: Great curly fringe is all in the styling—and the styling is all in the trimming, according to Nelson, who advises curly-bang trims every month for loose curls and every two months for tight curls.…

I consider myself relatively well preserved. I’ve got good Asian genes, but I also have access to every serum, booster, and gizmo, plus a team of world-class dermatologists and specialists at the ready. My 10-step skin-care routine has kept my cheeks bouncy, and I’ve finally gotten a bout of eczema and cystic acne under control by drastically changing my diet. In other words, I work very hard to look like I haven’t tried hard at all. Still, years of less-than-ideal sun care in my teens and 20s have left me with dark spots on my cheeks, and two pregnancies gave me a stubborn band of melasma along my jaw. I’m pretty game when it comes to trying out skin-care treatments, but other than a quick zap of a freckle, I…

The Mayo Clinic advises consuming about three liters of water a day to keep kidneys functioning and joints lubricated. Gucci’s “perfumed water” in Moonlight Serenade is nearly as essential, just way more expensive. Plus: How else will you learn what such a serenade smells like? Well, it’s like being caressed by lavender flowers. It also lingers close to the skin, rather than trailing behind you (it’s not heavy on the endurance-enhancing alcohol favored by most modern fragrances). Oh, and there are two other equally pure and unobtrusive scents. Ask a doctor which one is right for you.…

Step Bright Up Is neon the new neutral? “Stylists are incorporating neon accessories with all kinds of looks lately,” says manicurist Yukie Miyakawa. And so is she. For a crisp edge, place tape diagonally across the bottom half of your nail and polish just the exposed part. (Miyakawa alternated three neons here: Color Club’s Yellin’ Yellow, Orly’s For the First Time, and Salon Perfect’s Loopy Lime.) After the polish is dry, remove the tape and seal with a topcoat (like Seche Vite). Olive, moss, chartreuse, sage: A spectrum of green on nails looks all the more interesting in a mix of textures. So go ahead and pair metallics with shimmery and creamy opaques. Team Slytherin Inspired by the animal-print takeover on the spring runways, manicurist Naomi Yasuda printed a snakeskin…

LOTS TO SMILE ABOUT It would have been a borderline sin to cover model Jean Campbell’s freckles: There’s something warm and uplifting about them, says makeup artist Kanako Takase, who created the looks on these pages. And they infuse bold makeup with the same joy. “A strong red lip sometimes feels heavy, but against clean skin it’s effortless and bright,” says Takase. (She used Nars Powermatte Lip Pigment in a mix of Light My Fire and Just Push Play to create the crisp version you see here.) “Freckles are radiant; they’re real,” adds makeup artist Daniel Martin, who helped usher in the naked-skin trend with Meghan Markle’s natural-to-the-nth-degree wedding makeup. “It’d been a long winter, and Meghan came into the church fresh and glowing—it was an optimistic look, and we…

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Self-care is everywhere and nowhere. It’s the unofficial hashtag of Instagram. But it also lurks in the shadow of sad-trombone statistics showing that—despite the meditation, despite the yoga, despite the journaling—we’re increasingly anxious. Could it be that we’ve gotten self-care completely wrong? Yes. Experts say today’s self-care barely resembles its roots in the civil rights movement: Women and people of color needed self-care because they were denied health care. Now, as a large part of the international wellness business (estimated in the tens of billions in the U.S. annually), the term “self-care” is synonymous with privilege. This new, superficial version has officially become a cliché, says Juli Fraga, a psychologist in San Francisco who specializes in women’s health. “Because stress and anxiety are far more prevalent, especially for young adults, self-care has…

Christine Ha swirls her foundation on with a brush, feeling precisely where its bristles kiss her skin. She presses an eyelash curler to her face, sensing its two pressure points on her cheekbone, and closes her eyes, trusting that her lashes are hovering between the hinges of its convex jaw. She clamps it shut. Next she positions a mascara wand near her lashes, inching it closer until the gentle tension of its stiff bristles lifts the tiny hairs. Finally, she carefully traces the outline of her lips with a pencil and fills in the fleshy part with a creamy lipstick as one would smear on ChapStick. Ha is a chef (you may know her as a past MasterChef winner), she is an author, and she is blind. Despite having only…

“I keep a foundation stick sitting out because my skin is always surprising me. I have to roll with the punches.”…

The inspiration for our favorite new makeup required a little digging. Igneous granite’s mosaic-like flecks have been reimagined as parti-color eye shadows. Polished agate’s undulating layers of color are rendered iridescent in a new face gloss. And mica’s prismatic surface is the unprissy version of metallic we wish had been discovered sooner.…

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Madisen doesn’t have a ton of extra time, but she does have a passion for beauty—she has a fully tricked-out vanity station right next to her desk at work! So when it’s time to renew her beauty stash, she needs a one-stop shop, and she wants to get the most for her money. That’s why she signed up for the Walgreens Beauty Enthusiast loyalty club. Why does she love it? Let her count the ways…. 1 REWARDS GALORE! You get a $5 reward (5,000 points) for every $50 you spend on beauty. “It’s literally free money you can spend on something you might not usually try, like an out-of-the-box lipstick color,” Madisen says. And you don’t need to spend the $50 in one trip (though Madisen definitely does!), so every…

1979 The term goes mainstream on a 60 Minutes segment about a wellness movement in San Francisco, where doctor John Travis claims self-care is recognizing health is not merely the absence of disease. 1988 In A Burst of Light, feminist poet Audre Lorde writes: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Thirty years later, Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces that she’s taking off for “a week of self-care” before going to work on Capitol Hill. 2011 International Self-Care Day kicks off on July 24. In 2017, it’s augmented by Self-Care Awareness Month. 2016 We hit peak self-care a week after the tumultuous U.S. presidential election, during which time Americans Google the term twice as much as they had in years past.…