Beauty

Good news for beauty aficionados everywhere: the best early Black Friday Amazon beauty deals have begun to unfurl. Odds are your favorite makeup, skin-care, and hair-care brands are in on the fun. Because everyone at Allure is deeply dialed in, we’ve rounded up some of the best on-sale items in our carts, and our eyes are staying peeled for the deals …

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We’re big fans of all things Korean beauty, so when early Korean skin-care Black Friday deals hit, we spring into glassy-skin action. Sure, K-beauty brands are known to be pretty affordable as-is—Cosrx, Anua, and Etude, we see you—but we have no complaints if there’s a little discount to sweeten the deal. That’s why we’ve combed through early discounts while we await the …

To say fans were obsessed with the look is a massive understatement. They immediately flooded Megan’s comments praising the short hair and comparing it to the pixies and bixies of the ‘90s. “’90s type fine,” wrote a commenter. “One of your coldest looks I’m afraid,” added another. “Gimmie 14 of em RN,” commented SZA, referencing a popular TikTok meme. Megan …

In 2020, Garrette emerged from an internet-wide search for faces to represent the launch of Rihanna’s Fenty Skin. “I went through this rigorous interview process, three months long,” Garrette said. In the end, it came down to a final two. “Rihanna picked me.” A year later, tracing the pop star’s own trajectory, Garrette was called to a higher LVMH honor, …

If there’s anything that’ll get an Allure editor shimmying, it’s all the wardrobe-worthy early Black Friday Skims deals happening, well, right now. Any Skims (or Kardashian-Jenner) fan knows the deliciousness of the brand’s sales, and right now, in preparation for all of the Black Friday deals to come, Skims’s sale section is bursting with favorites. The Kim Kardashian-founded brand is one …

Key ingredients: peptide, micro-encapsulated hyaluronic acid, sugarcane-derived squalane | Shades: 3 Best for Chapped Lips: Eadem Le Couchou Exfoliating + Softening Peptide Lip Balm Eadem Le Couchou Exfoliating + Softening Peptide Lip Balm Why we love it: Think of this lip-cocooning treatment as an ultra-luxe chapstick. Made with hibiscus enzymes and lactic acid, the treatment is a beauty-aisle godsend for …

It’s hardly October, but the best Nordstrom Early Black Friday deals are already upon us. One glance at the retailer’s bountiful sales section of makeup, fragrance, skin care, and beyond speaks for itself—the discounts are elite. Brands like Maison Margiela and Dior are seeing price slashes, while other favorites are inevitable when the big day lands—crunching orange and yellow leaves beneath …

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Still, Washington, DC-based board-certified dermatologist Adam Friedman, MD, who recently co-authored a study on peptides in skin care, notes that prevention is key. He thinks that people even younger can start adding peptides into their routine if they feel called to. “There is sufficient data with respect to the decline in collagen, even within your mid-twenties,” he explains, adding that …