Allure

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.

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simply the best • Beauty editors aren’t born, they’re made. And nothing makes a team of seasoned pros like testing thousands of products for Allure’s annual Best of Beauty blowout.

One Starry Night Cream

editors’ favorites • Sure, you don’t need anything. But if you’re like us, this is the stuff you really, really want.

the stuff of dreams • Dermatologist Shereene Idriss has never been one to sleep on good science and unfiltered skin-care advice.

bright and clear

IMAGE OF HEALTH

internal affair • It’s what’s on the inside that counts—or is it?

talent show • At just 20 years old, Bismuth Arsenide is an impressive multihyphenate: signed model, photographer, makeup artist, TikTok star. And this is just the beginning.

one for all

star power • The numbers don’t lie: These celebrities’ selfies, manicures, and makeup are among the most-clicked this year, according to search data.

this or that • Just in! You don’t need diamonds to shine bright. Fall runways predict an embellishment face-off: Go with sleek studs or party-ready rhinestones—and light up the night.

BehiNd the SceneS • Finding the planet’s most elite lipsticks, serums, hair oils, and more is no easy task: It takes months of preparation and testing, crates of makeup remover, and 71 meticulously maintained Google Sheets. Here’s how it all came together for our 26th annual Best of Beauty Awards

Testing, testing…

WE’VE GOT THE DIGITS • A closer look at the making of Allure Best of Beauty:

ASK THE beauty expert • “I never buy a beauty product without checking the ingredient list first: I know my glycolic from my salicylic, my glycerin from my squalane. But there are still words I can’t make heads or tails of. What unpronounceable superhero ingredients should I be looking out for?”

the smell quest • When Long COVID stole an Allure editor’s sense of smell, she became determined to reclaim it. Here, her intercontinental search to recover what she’s lost.

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TALKING BEAUTY WITH lashana lynch • She was the first-ever woman 007 in No Time to Die and this year she appears as a fearsome warrior in The Woman King. Offscreen, her MO is less “shaken, not stirred” and more “glow, not glitter.” The actor discusses serum seduction, lip balm love, and her purple aura.

ME, MY SHELF & I chriselle lim

THE FACE CHART WITH lisa eldridge

the big BreakthroUghS • From the wildly practical to the somewhat magical, the year’s most innovative beauty products have all managed to pull off the (formerly) impossible

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the best SpLurgES • They’re over-the-top, totally extravagant, truly nonessential, and worth every… Well, you be...