Browsing: Beauty & Self-Care

Everybody seems to be talking about perimenopause and menopause, and that’s in many ways a good thing. Increased awareness about this often-stigmatized life phase, and the sometimes debilitating symptoms that can come with it, has made many women feel less alone in these mid-life trenches, where temperatures often spike suddenly and sleep can be hard…

Scroll through Instagram on any given Tuesday, and you are bound to hit the “Glow Up” algorithm. With the dramatic “before-and-after” transitions, an influencer gushing over their new “glass skin” chemical peels, and local clinics promising a “100% guaranteed acne cure,” cosmetic medicine has officially crossed over into pop culture.It feels less like an invasive…

Living with psoriasis doesn’t necessarily mean you have to overhaul your skin- or scalp-care routine. Psoriasis is caused by immune system dysfunction, not external irritants, so you can use many topical products safely as long as they don’t cause skin damage. However, anything with the potential to cause trauma to the skin—like a potent acid…

Beauty giant L’Oreal says the rise of weight loss drugs has affected beauty and skincare sales, as it designs products to specifically target some side-effects of rapid weight loss.

For Sonakshi Sinha, skincare and haircare are less about elaborate routines and more about sticking to the basics. The actor has spoken about embracing natural ingredients, moisturising regularly and keeping her beauty regimen simple. The actress has spoken about how she began taking skincare more seriously after turning 30. Recalling her earlier routine, she had…

From: Department of Health and Social Care and Karin Smyth MP Published: 21 October 2026

A small terracotta pot holds a deep red pigment. A blue powder is mixed into a face mask. In a traditional Moroccan hammam, olive-based soap and a textured glove turn bathing into a carefully observed routine.

Mid-October in New York City is often filled with gloomy gray days, and the Financial District—the Big Apple’s steely home for big business, bougie briefcases, and skyscrapers—tends to be a pretty colorless place. But at 11 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2026, in a sleek, subterranean space a stone’s throw from where Succession filmed its exterior shots,…

What’s better than one 30th birthday celebration? Two, duh. After a day filled with masterclasses, mingling, injectable appointments, and top-tier goodie bags at Allure’s Best of Beauty Live, the team did it all again for a nighttime session at Halo Twenty Eight in Manhattan’s Financial District.

Megan Thee Stallion has been spending plenty of time in platinum territory lately—including at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show—but for her new “Thin Ice” music video, she’s taken the color to an appropriately frigid extreme with not one but two icy platinum-blonde hairstyles.