Category: Skin & Body Care

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I've been dealing with acne for so long that oftentimes, I forget what my clear, baby-faced skin once looked like back in middle school. If you, too, have been

The cherry on top of this unprecedented, difficult year is actually more like a cyst. Or a whitehead. Or a blackhead. As many readers have discovered firsthand, periods of stress can lead to an increase in a stress hormone called cortisol, which in turn causes breakouts — and not necessarily on the face. Pandemic stress-induced

Everyone who gets a tattoo goes into the shop knowing that how it looks at the end of the session is the most sharp and vibrant it's ever going to look. Once healed, work done by a talented, professional tattoo artist will still look fresh and vivid, but from that point on, other factors play

The Black community loves Vaseline. The 1.75-ounce tub of petroleum jelly is a staple in many households to combat ashiness — especially during the cold winter months — and it's responsible for the dewy glow on so many Black children's faces.  Now, the skin-care brand is deepening its connection with the Black community through its

Pattern Beauty isn’t just a hair-care brand. To actress Tracee Ellis Ross, its chief executive office and founder, it’s personal. “Like so many Black women and women with curly and coily and tight-textured hair, we could probably chronicle our journey through self-acceptance with our journey with our hair,” Ross said in conversation with WWD executive

Hydrocolloid bandages are about the closest thing you can get to a vacuum for acne. And people all over TikTok are proving just that. They're sticking the gel-textured strips all over their faces where they are experiencing breakouts. Over time, the bandages go from clear to speckled with white spots where they've sucked the nastiness

Cordless beauty tool maker Lunata Beauty has raised a $3 million Series A. The capital was raised from Enfield Investments Holding Ltd. Lunata Beauty was founded by Monica Abramov and Stacey Boguslavskaya in 2017 in order to bring a selection of cordless styling tools to market. The brand makes cordless curling wands and straight irons

It's fair to say it has been a successful year for Jennifer Lopez. The multi-hyphenate started off by making history with international superstar Shakira as the first two Latinas to headline the Super Bowl and is ending 2021 with the launch of her skin-care line, JLo Beauty. And on the evening of December 10, Lopez

Look, we all get acne. Some people get more than others, but it's something we all experience at one point or another (or a lot of different points). The scarring and hyperpigmentation that can result from acne, in turn, is also a sheer fact of life — so why do we applaud people so aggressively

Chances are, you clicked on this article because you're a big fan of Alo Yoga, the California-based activewear brand known for its incredibly comfortable workout clothing and high-quality yoga gear. (If you're a yogi and haven't tried one of its mats yet, what you waiting for?) Now, after nearly 14 years on the market, the

Kira Upin has a mustache. Little wisps of brown and blonde hair line her upper lip as she looks into the camera and lip-syncs to a 15-second audio clip of "Special" by Young Thug. The caption above her reads "When my teeth were so crooked in elementary school that my orthodontist asked to do a

Thirty percent of Americans have at least one tattoo. For the rest of the population, there's been the option of a temporary version for at least a century. But it's just recently that fleeting tattoos have become a varied and nuanced art form much like their permanent counterparts. Many companies now collaborate on designs with

Navel piercings have long been a ubiquitous symbol of sex appeal and youth, especially during MTV's TRL era of the early aughts; belly button rings were everywhere, and the accompanying shimmering hardware was displayed proudly. Fast forward almost 20 years, and many of those teens with belly button piercings have become parents. "Navel piercings in

LONDON — Hands. Face. Space. It’s been the British government’s germ-busting chant since the pandemic began, and while those three words may be saving lives, they’ve nearly killed businesses that rely on physical contact — at the spa or the beauty counter — to engage customers and sell products. Noella Gabriel, cofounder and global president of

At long last, four months after E.L.F. announced that Alicia Keys would be joining its family with a new "lifestyle beauty brand," Keys Soulcare is here. And, as promised in a September update, three products, which the brand refers to as the First Ritual when used together, have arrived. Arguably the most highly anticipated of

Here's the least surprising fact, possibly, ever: "The number one thing that people ask me about, more than movies or music or anything, is my skin," says Jennifer Lopez, 51, who, for the record, has been in 31 movies and released eight studio albums and 47 singles. "It's always been on my mind, and it's

As far as skin-care lovers are concerned, Dr. Dennis Gross is synonymous with exfoliation. Although Gross is many things, including a brand founder and a practicing board-certified dermatologist, he's best known for the many variations of exfoliating products he's introduced to the world. (Gross's best-selling Alpha Beta Daily Face Peel Pads introduced me to the concept

LONDON — There’s no stopping the perfumer Jo Malone — not lockdown nor retail closures nor a ban on travel to her newly opened stores in the Middle East and China. The London-based Malone has, over the past nine months of quarantine and restricted movement, built on her collaboration with Zara, opened a string of

While Bella Hadid has dabbled in her fair share of different hair colors over the years, she always tends to come back to her signature dark-chocolate brown hue. For instance, a little over a month ago, the supermodel dyed her hair a lighter shade of brown with blonde highlights in the front for her 24th

Schitt's Creek ending its hilarious run was mood-ruining enough without the skin-care collaboration it inspired — Rose Apothecary x Beekman 1802 — selling out faster than you can say "Ew, David." But while the show may not be coming back, the limited-edition beauty collection is. Originally launched (and tragically depleted) in January 2020, Beekman 1802's