Fashion and Style: Trending Stories from Allure Magazine

The Best New Color Correctors for Perfect, Even Skin
Not sure how to use color correctors? Well, that’s easy: Green hides zits (and other red spots); yellow, orange, and peach cover dark circles; and purple brightens general sallowness. Layer one of these neutralizing shades under your concealer or foundation and bam! You’re left with skin so perfect, it rivals even the most generous Snapchat filter. Now you just need to find the perfect formula for you. We’ll let you in on our favorites.

How to Repair Your Hair After Winter, According to Experts
OK, winter itself isn’t technically damaging to your hair, but all that dry heat from your radiator coupled with more-frequent blow-drying, (you weren’t about to walk outside in January with a wet head, right?) can leave your hair dry, frizzy, and broken. Ahead, the masks, oils, and hair treatments that beauty experts swear by to repair the damage done come spring.

What Allure Editors Plan to Blow Their Tax Refunds On
Look, we’re all responsible adults here. That means most of us will probably wind up putting our tax refunds into an IRA or a kid’s college fund. But that doesn’t mean we can’t daydream about what it would be like to forget that whole responsibility thing and treat ourselves to these insanely covetable items.

What’s the Deal With Adult Acne, Anyway?
Many of us spent our teenage years fantasizing about being a grown-up: You’d have your own house, make your own money, and wake up with flawless skin, because that’s what adults do, right? The reality—you know, the part where you’ve got a mortgage and adult acne—is a lot less exciting. We can’t do much about the house and the money, but we can help you out with that last problem. Here, the ultimate guide to dealing with adult breakouts.

10 Editors Share Their Nighttime Skin-Care Routines
It’s our job to test every skin-care product in the world. (Yes, it’s really a job.) With access to the best of the best from every luxe brand, drugstore aisle, and pharmacy in the world, our editors’ routines are worth talking about—or straight up copying. We compiled ten nightly routines, step by step, for your convenience.

5 Beauty Products We’re Obsessed With This Week
Younger-looking eyes in minutes, a lip product we can’t stop swiping, and our softest hair yet.

14 SXSW Beauty Street Style Looks to Copy Right Now
Spring is already under way in Austin, SXSW has become the temporary home to inventive makeup looks, warm-weather hairstyles, and other must-see beauty inspiration. Ahead, the 14 best beauty looks we saw at SXSW.

The 15 Most Popular Lip Colors on Pinterest
Crowd-favorite lip colors are crowd favorites for a reason: They tend to flatter a range of skin tones, have killer formulas, and come in eye-catching shades that make people stop in their tracks to ask, “What color is that?” While it’s true you’ll probably get stellar recommendations from your friends and family (and us, duh), we teamed up with Pinterest to find out what tubes beauty buffs all over the globe can’t stop pinning. Here, the 15 lipsticks, balms, and liners that the Internet loves and that we’re adding to our collection ASAP.

A Look Inside the Coolest New Parisian Boutique
Memo Paris is the city’s newest fragrance boutique—and it may also be its chicest. Founder Clara Molloy shows us around.

The Top 9 Spring 2016 Nail Trends to Try Right Now
The seasons are changing; the weather is warming; you’re sick of the same black manicure: Whatever your reason, break the monotony with one of these spring nail-polish trends.

18 Screenshot-Worthy Braids to Try Right Now
For being as old as Pocahontas, braids are still (and likely forever) having a moment. And because it’s considered, you know, “weird” to ask strangers on the subway for pictures of their intricately braided hair, we compiled our favorite street-style photos of straight-up braid porn that require no stalking, sleuthing, or chasing. So stare and drool as long as you’d like—we won’t judge.

The Best New 5-Free, 7-Free, and 9-Free Nontoxic Nail Polishes
In the world of nontoxic nail polish, three-free polishes (meaning formulas that contain no formaldehyde, toluene, or dibutyl phthalate) used to be the gold standard. But then we started wising up to other potentially harmful ingredients, like formaldehyde resin, camphor, ethyl tosylamide, and xylene. To help clarify what it means to be five-, seven-, eight-, and nine-free, we broke down our favorite new nontoxic nail polishes to tell you exactly what they’re missing (in a good way!)

7 Spring Lipstick Trends You’re About to See Everywhere
An upgraded wardrobe would be great, and a new haircut would be fun, but we’re making a case for switching up something as little as your lipstick this spring. Color trends like bright red, unapologetic fuchsia, and concentrated violet were all over the runways, and now they should be all over your face. Well, not all over, but you know what I mean.

21 Chic Bathing Suits to Pack for Spring Break
Official beach season may be a way off, but that hasn’t stopped retailers from taking every opportunity to remind you it’s almost time to buy a bathing suit. Our advice? Don’t fight it: Even if you’re not one of the lucky ones ditching class or work for a weeklong tropical vacation, you might as well be prepared for one. Ahead, our favorite swimsuits to stock up on ASAP.

See Backstage at Paris Fashion Week in a Totally New Way
Never before have designers embraced such unique, individual hairstyles for their runways. Models walked down the catwalk with bobs, bangs, buzz cuts—you name it. But two things we didn’t see? Extensions and flatirons of seasons past. “Designers like girls who have their own looks, but there are some also asking for more stylized looks,” said Guido. These are the top hair trends from both points of view.

19 Stylish Pieces to Kick-start Your Fitness Plan
The ever-tempting snooze button may be holding you back from squeezing in a morning workout, so we’re here to offer a fresh dose of gym-spiration. Ahead, the most stylish pieces to wear to punch, stretch, cycle, and dance your way to a healthier spring. The best part? You won’t want to change out of ’em the second your workout’s over.

You Won’t Believe These Throwback Photos of Amy Adams
The actress thinks back to the days before stylists, wanting to be a “superfit pregnant actress,” and working with Ryan Gosling.

See Amy Adams’s Allure April 2016 Photo Shoot
The actress’s third Allure cover shoot was all about beachy vibes and bright colors.

5 Beauty Products We’re Obsessed With This Week
Our new go-to orange lipstick, a budget-friendly eye-shadow palette, and a unique take on texturizer.

6 Major Fall 2016 Hair Trends to Try Out Right Now
Never before have designers embraced such unique, individual hairstyles for their runways. Models walked down the catwalk with bobs, bangs, buzz cuts—you name it. But two things we didn’t see? Extensions and flatirons of seasons past. “Designers like girls who have their own looks, but there are some also asking for more stylized looks,” said Guido. These are the top hair trends from both points of view.

The Top Makeup Trends From Fashion Week to Know Right Now
“It was a season of all or nothing,” said makeup artist Pat McGrath of fall 2016, which meant we saw beauty looks as extreme as diamond-encrusted cat eyes and as subtle as a touch of concealer. We rounded up the best trends on either side of the spectrum.

16 Spring Jackets to Replace Your Winter Puffer
For the winter-weary ready to shed your (many) layers, we have good news: Life does exist beyond the down jacket. Days are getting longer and brighter, and frigid temps are starting to rise, which means the hunt for the perfect suede zip-up, tailored blazer, and other spring-ready silhouettes is officially on. Shop our favorites ahead.

What It’s Really Like to Be a Makeup Artist During Fashion Week
Allure has gone backstage at Paris fashion week for decades. We were the first to show the world what the moments leading up to a runway show are like, giving readers a glimpse at the hairstylists and makeup artists working tirelessly behind the scenes. This season, we asked makeup artist Vincent Oquendo to show us what it’s like working beyond the catwalk, getting his A-list clients ready to sit front row, pose for street-style photographers, and let loose at the week’s neverending dinners, parties, and afterparties.

How to Style Curly Bangs Without Looking Like a Flashdance Reject
If the phrase “curly bangs” still calls to mind Saved by the Bell‘s Lisa Turtle, Jennifer Beals of Flashdance fame, or a Jazzercise instructor, rejoice: The new way to style bangs on curly and kinky textures is more modern than retro—if you keep the hairspray to a minimum. Braided, bunned, or air-dried, one thing is for sure: These aren’t the feathered bangs of the ’80s.

25 Fashion Pieces to Refresh Your Spring Wardrobe
So long, winter boots. Hello, spring sandals. With temps slowly climbing, we’re ready to bare our ankles and shrug off our heavy layers. From Spanish ruffles and Victorian frills to boudoir dressing and off-the-shoulder everything, we’ve rounded up the pieces that tap into the season’s best trends. Shop our picks ahead.

4 Easy Hairstyles You Can Do in 5 Minutes
Runway hairstyles of the past were made for exactly that: the runway. But this spring is all about ease. “The clothes have this I-don’t-care-but-I-do feel to them,” says hairstylist Orlando Pita. “I thought, We need to do that to the hair.” So drop the teasing comb. This season’s hair not only looks effortless—it basically is.

7 Editors Share Their Biggest Beauty Insecurities
We post our faces all over Instagram and Snapchat ourselves mid-mask, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t also dealing with beauty hang-ups that get us down. And we don’t just mean sucky nail beds or bad morning breath. Instead of letting insecurities ruin a perfectly confident day, eight editors reveal how they confronted their least favorite bits—and, more importantly, moved on.

6 Mascaras That’ll Give You Next-Level Lashes
We sized up the lash-lifting, elongating, and bulging claims of six new mascaras.

5 Ways Your Workout Is Killing Your Skin
Exercise is great for the mind, body, and soul. Sure, OK, fine—but what about the breakouts? And the chafing? And all the other bad stuff that goes along with sweat dripping down your face? The good news: Dermatologist Joshua Zeichner has solutions, so if you hate working out, you’ll have five fewer excuses to skip your next SoulCycle class.

7 Beauty Products We’re Obsessed With This Week
A detoxifying all-natural exfoliating sponge, the answer to dry-shampoo buildup, and a new approach to tackling frizz. We love these seven products so much, we included them in this month’s Beauty Box.

See How Irene Kim Pulls Off 3 Unexpected Spring Beauty Looks
Irene Kim—social-media star, beauty badass, and the face of Estée Lauder’s new sister line, the Estée Edit—shows us how to have fun, go crazy, and push our beauty limits to bright, colorful extremes.

Your First Look at the New Beauty Products You Need for Spring
These are the new hair stylers, face scrubs, balmy lipsticks, and scented bronzers we can’t stop talking about (and applying, and then reapplying) this spring.

The 11 Best Dry Texture Sprays for Perfect Model-Off-Duty Hair
We’re about to get all DJ Khaled on you, so brace yourself: There’s one crucial #keytosuccess when it comes to getting perfectly piecey, defined, model-off-duty hair. It’s texture spray. (Shocking, we know: Texturizing hair spray texturizes hair!) But not all formulas are the same—some texturize while boosting shine; others are intended for a matte effect. So we rounded up 11 of our favorite sprays.

Here’s Why You Already Know Who Won This Season of The Bachelor
The Bachelor has as much to do with true love as a train wreck has to do with time travel. And naturally, we can’t stop watching.

13 Trends From the Early 2000s That You Totally Wore
Ah, the millennium. A gloriously happy time when Lizzie McGuire and Boy Meets World ruled your social calendar, Britney and Justin were destined to be in love—in matching denim—forever, “Wake Me Up When September Ends” by Green Day was a Shakespearean sonnet that spoke to your broken heart, and every girl in class proudly wore the following questionable trends.

7 Easy Tweaks That Bust Any Manicure Rut
When you’re sick of your long layers, you can trim them into a choppy lob. When you wear the same black winged eyeliner every day, you can swap it for a swipe of electric cobalt. And when you want to reinvent your nail game? That’s easy: You pick one of these seven brilliant (but totally DIYable) ways to upgrade your manicure.

3 Supereasy Hairstyles for When You Don’t Want to Wash Your Hair
Shampooing, conditioning, blow-drying, then styling your hair every day takes a lot of time and effort—so why not just start at the end? No, we’re not advising you to throw your greasy strands into a boring ponytail for the third day in a row: Instead, pick one of these supereasy looks, which will transform your third-day hair into a fresh style full of intention—not just dry shampoo. Best of all: They’re only three steps each.

6 Spring Shoe Trends to Know (and 27 Pairs to Shop Now)
We picked the top shoe trends we’re most excited about—and culled a few options for every budget. Besides, what better time to reevaluate your wardrobe than the spring?