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.

INTRODUCING THE A LIST

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Office Romance • COMMUTING AGAIN has its benefits. One: My couch is now a venue dedicated to watching Netflix and napping. Two: I get to nest in a work sanctuary that has everything I need to go from train to team meeting to happy hour. Here’s to loving your job!

BEAUTY REPORTER

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

Family Matters

FIRE IS NICE

SWIPE RIGHT

Shock Value • Swap out your black eyeliner and clear gloss for a palette of lime green, electric pink, and neon…everything. And maybe get yourself some splashy, colorful sunglasses to go with it. This season’s looks are bright.

Game Face

MIX MASTERS

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HOME GROWN • Two years ago, she was a determined teenager advocating for Indigenous land and climate preservation. Today, Quannah Chasinghorse, a member of the Hän Gwich'in and Oglala Lakota tribes, has walked runways for Gucci and Chloé and starred in campaigns for Calvin Klein and Chanel. She gives a voice to her people and her passions in everything she does and, with her traditional face tattoos, defies the thinking that a model is no more than a blank canvas. Here, she pays tribute to her roots—and the people who planted them—in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Cause & Effect • With Rare Beauty, Selena Gomez added entrepreneur to her pop-star-producer-actor résumé. She also wrote a new script for how a beauty start-up can create impact far beyond its blushes and balms.

(Bio)Technically Speaking • MATERIAL GIRL Meet the scientist brewing fantastical next-gen beauty ingredients with the help of…microbes.

NOW, FOR MORE ON BIOTECH… • A closer look at the field that is poised to change the face—and footprint—of the beauty world.

FROM THE LAB • The sexy side of bacteria and yeast—biotech bottled in serums and creams.

LOVE is a CRIME

THE Accessibility Advocates • There have always been beauty lovers with disabilities—and more products are finally, intentionally being designed for them. Three innovators have been there through it all.

THE IMPACT OF Molly Burke

Care Packages

ME, MY SHELF, AND I WITH Gabe Adams-Wheatley

Teen Spirit • They’re risk-takers, innovators, and change-makers—and they were born in the 2000s.

An Empire State of Mind • Paris McKenzie didn’t set out to become a role model to millions of young people, she just wanted to create a beauty supply store that catered to the needs of her predominantly Black community in Brooklyn—never mind that she was 16 years old. Today, she’s still calling the shots, while balancing college courses and—wait for it—overseeing a second beauty business.

Getting Schooled • These Gen Z’ers aren’t beauty entrepreneurs (yet), but they are passionate consumers. We visited a New Jersey high school to ask a group of teens to share their unfiltered takes on social media, self-care, sustainability, and more.

WHAT GEN Z IS BUYING • These products top our panelists’ must-have lists.

Taking It to the Streets • Shirley Raines founded Beauty 2 the Streetz, a nonprofit that provides beauty services for L.A.’s unhoused community. Now, she’s helping her chosen family through a pandemic.

Shooting Star • Donni Davy’s Technicolor makeup for Euphoria has lit up the small screen—and our imaginations—brighter than a trail of iridescent tears.

Group Effort • The star...