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In June 2019, Ciara Imani May was in the process of growing her hair out. She decided to do so with the help of protective styles, choosing to wear braids back to back. That was when she started experiencing extreme scalp irritation. "I was researching and found this article that details the actual materials used to make synthetic hair and […]
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It's not every day that I get to say this, but I recently saw a TikTok that made my jaw drop. A young woman, alone in her bathroom, swept her long, wavy hair into a high ponytail. In one hand, she grasped the end of the pony and held it straight upward — a pair of kitchen scissors sat in […]
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Will our collective obsession with our eyebrows ever go away? Probably never, especially now that we have even more ways to finesse them that are less permanent and expensive than microblading, but more dramatic than using a brow gel, pencil, or pomade. Brow lamination (a slightly misleading name, but more on that later) is a way to wake up with […]
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JuE Wong joined Olaplex as chief executive officer just a few months before the coronavirus pandemic took hold across the U.S. Despite the global change in circumstances, consumer habits and shopping options, she spearheaded a period of rapid growth, leading Olaplex through the salon shutdown era, while accelerating online and retail sales. Olaplex ended 2020 with a 50 percent uptick […]
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All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. My Slack avatar is Donna Summer on the cover of her Once Upon a Time album. You know the one — the famous shot of her posing in a lacy white dress, her shoulder […]
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In 2019, when some Black actors — including Natasha Rothwell, Gabrielle Union, and Tiffany Haddish — first started really speaking up in larger numbers about the frustrating hair and makeup experiences they've had on television and film sets, their stories rekindled some unpleasant memories for me. From 2007 to 2011, I was a beauty editor at Glamour, and often invited […]
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I'm not gonna lie, I think I hold a bit of resentment over my boyfriend's 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner bottle in our shower. I like to glare at it in frustration as I rinse three different hair care products down the drain every night before I spend another five minutes brushing out all the knots and tangles in my long […]
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The best kind of TikTok beauty trend is one that's easy to recreate, and the platform's obsession with bubble ponytails fits the bill. Now, the bubble ponytail has been around for a while, but lately, all the folks on #hairtok seem to have rediscovered the style, flooding our "For You" pages with different versions. If you ask us, the reason […]
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Much like the list of awards she's been winning, Megan Thee Stallion's hair just keeps getting longer and longer. The superstar rapper has been sharing peeks at her natural curls since 2019, when we first got a glimpse at the then-chin-length, layered look she was sporting under the many stunning wigs she wears to perform and attend events; and as […]
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All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Bobby pins are easily one of the most ubiquitous beauty products known to the human race. It seems that truly everyone has a stash of the essential hair-securing trinkets at the ready — unless […]
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