How to Update Your Face-Mask Routine to Protect Against Covid-19 Variants

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. However, some masks and respirators offer higher levels of protection than others. Courtesy of Getty Images and brands The CDC has an extensive list of approved N95 respirators, includingthis one from 3Mandthese RespoKare N95s. One of the most quickly spreading is the U....

February 3, 2021 · 2 min · 387 words · Yolanda Moreno

Lizzo Talks to Her Own Belly and Blows It Kisses Every Morning

I started talking to my belly this year. Blowing her kisses and showering her with praises, the singer writes on a February 2 Instagram post. I used to want to cut my stomach off I hated it so much. Getty Images But its literally ME. I am learning to radically love every part of myself. Even if it means talking to myself every morning. This is your sign to love on yourself today!...

February 3, 2021 · 1 min · 150 words · Nicholas Martin

Tracee Ellis Ross's Newest Role: Diversity and Inclusion Advisor at Ulta Beauty

“This work requires commitment and accountability from Ulta Beauty to ensure measurable goals are achieved. I am hopeful and optimistic our work together will create foundational change.” Check out these stories: Now, watch Taraji P. Henson’s 10-minute beauty routine: BLACK-ISH - ABC’s black-ish stars Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson. (Kwaku Alston via Getty Images)

February 3, 2021 · 1 min · 55 words · David Harper

Why I've Been Using a Classic Caboodles Case for 30 Years

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. It was a rite of passage. Photographed by Corey Olson. Prop stylist: Alicia Sciberras. There are even heavy-duty storage boxes and tiny travel containers. Granted, when I was 11, Caboodles wasn’t yet launching collaborations withnames like Barbieand JoJo Siwa. And while, yes, I will be first in line shouting “Take my money!...

February 3, 2021 · 1 min · 130 words · Gary Stone

Channel Your Inner Lara Jean With theTo All the Boysx Kitsch Hair Accessories Collection

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. If there are two things I love in life, it’s beauty andNetflix. Getty Images | Courtesy of brand The limited-edition set includes six clips and scrunchies that areLara Jean-approvedand will even be featured in the new movie. Below see everything the collection includes....

February 2, 2021 · 1 min · 135 words · Lindsay Garcia

CVS Created a $5 Million Scholarship Fund for Black and Latinx Students

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February 2, 2021 · 1 min · 6 words · Darrell Romero

Hailey Bieber Files Trademark For Beauty Brand Named Rhode

The latest one to join in on the fun could very well be none other than modelHailey Bieber. The news comes almost two years after it was first revealed Bieber was getting into the beauty business. In April 2019, she filed to trademark “Bieber Beauty.” Getty Images Maybe a gorgeous range of foundations with 40 shades or sweet-scented fragrance that makes us swoon with the scent? Regardless, we eagerly await to see what Rhode will have in store (literally)....

February 2, 2021 · 1 min · 79 words · Brittney Cherry

I Wanted to Dislike Kinship's New Face Oil, But My Stressed Skin Loves It

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. Every time I’ve decided to add aface oilto my skin-care routine has been filled with regrets. Devon Abelman/Allure So when I received theKinship Kinskin Oat Ceramide Relief Face Oil, I was skeptical. Consider me reeled in. Ipat onjust one just two dropsbeforemoisturizer, just as Powell recommended for my skin throw in....

February 2, 2021 · 1 min · 143 words · David Robinson

Ricki Lake Never Expected to Find Confidence in Gray Hair

Lake, in my mind, is a brunette. And she knows it. “Colorists are saying to me, ‘you’re able to’t bottle that.’ Courtesy of brand And being in my early 50s, it’s all about self-acceptance.” This content can also be viewed on the site itoriginatesfrom. “He felt like I’d done such a service to women to talk about this issue publicly. Courtesy of brand And he said, ‘I want to help you....

February 2, 2021 · 2 min · 228 words · Matthew Daniel

Beautyblender Gave Its Iconic Makeup Sponge an Eco-Friendly Makeover

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. The sugarcane fibers “make great biopolymers,” she says. Courtesy of brand; Illustration by Clara Hendler (In fact, you may already be familiar with sugarcane-derived products. Biossance’s moisturizingSqualane Oilis made entirely of sugarcane.) Silva’s always been aware of her brand’s environmental shortfalls when it comes to makeup sponge reduction....

February 1, 2021 · 2 min · 329 words · Edward Bennett

Bésame Cosmetics' NewMary PoppinsMakeup Collection Is Practically Perfect in Every Way

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. Just as beautifully packaged, it’s based on the gorgeous shade worn by Andrews in the movie. Courtesy of brand The set even comes with a matching tote bag featuring silhouettes of Mary Poppins and her penguin friends. The other set is actually the one I’m most excited about: theMrs....

February 1, 2021 · 1 min · 125 words · Laura Cannon

Kerry Washington's Nail and Skin-Care Routines Are Every Bit as Classic as She Is

All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. I start our audio-only Zoom call with the obligatory opening question: “How are you doing?” Getty Images The answer she gives me is even more reason not to get anxious. “I’m, like, COVID good, right?” I know exactly what she means, I tell her....

February 1, 2021 · 2 min · 313 words · April Kelley

MAC Sponsored a Music Video to Help Create Opportunities for Black Women in Theater

It’s February, which means Black History Month is officially on. Fans ofMACwill be glad to know that it hasn’t slowed its own support of the movement. Fellow makeup artist Marina Rosario also created all the subdued and warm makeup looks in the video. Women of Color on Broadway Courtesy of MAC Cosmetics Courtesy of MAC Cosmetics

February 1, 2021 · 1 min · 56 words · Natalie King