Allure articles from April 2005

Allure archives from April 2005

Beauty Reporter: Beauty 101 Card.(using self-tanners)
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter: Beauty 101 Card Cheat Sheet 1 Take off jewelry and makeup to prevent streaking. Gather the hair into a ponytail, pinning back the bangs. 2 Shower with a soap-free cleanser, and shave legs. 3 Buff dry, flaky...

Beauty By Numbers.
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter Mathematicians call prime numbers "beautiful numbers" because of their mysterious pattern-the sequence 2, 3, 5, 7, 11...looks random but is anything but. Armed with a lip pencil and a few sheets of blotting paper, we...

letter from the editor: April '05.(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... The Worst Best spent a week at a spa in Mexico that had a strict no-vice policy. Sugar, salt, caffeine, and alcohol were all forbidden, but childish antics were not. To prove it, a group of us rehearsed and performed the moves to Michael...

Beauty Reporter.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter look now One-Color Makeup While the clothes on the spring runways were a riot of multicolored stripes and swirls, many makeup artists stuck to one hue. "Wearing one shade looks polished without being heavy," says...

Beauty Reporter.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter allure's face Radha Mitchell Plenty of us have wished we could live parallel lives. Radha Mitchell actually has. In Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, she plays "comedy and tragedy versions of the same...

Beauty Reporter.
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter skin solutions see Spot fade see Spot fade ost souvenirs, however kitschy, recall something at least vaguely pleasant-but not so the souvenirs of zits. Now Neutrogena and Aveeno are hoping to make them just...

Beauty Reporter.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter Test Run Foundations of Youth Foundations of Youth Wrinkle-fighting foundations now have the kind of high-tech ingredients usually found in anti-aging skin creams. Although they're no substitute-"adding...

Beauty Reporter.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Beauty Reporter POWER TOOL Super Sonic Super Sonic e'll gladly make time for a manicure, but somehow, we're too busy to floss. When Crest and Sonicare discovered that only 13 percent of Americans floss regularly, they...

Fashion Bulletin.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Fashion Bulletin Wedge Shoes * Looking Swank * Travel Style 101 Loving Cups Breaking news: Bra tops are back! Slutty gals like me buy them season after season, but now these sexy, shapely tops are the perfect counterpart to...

Fashion Scoop.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Fashion Scoop personal shopper Windows Shopping Windows Shopping NAME: Natalie Massenet. JOB: Founder of the online boutique net-a-porter.com. MISSION: "To edit designer collections into a must-have list for women...

Style 101.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... style101 Jet Set Traveling light doesn't mean sacrificing style. Frequent flyers share their secrets. By Jenny Bailly Travel was once as glamorous as Grace Kelly on a ship to Monaco. Now, security checkpoints, long delays,...

Style 101 Card.
April 1, 2005... Style 101 Card What to Wear Every frequent flyer knows not to wear linen or silk. Other rules are a little less obvious. 1 Skirts ride up, and shorts look silly (no matter how balmy your destination). Slim-fitting jeans, black...

Insider Guide.
April 1, 2005... How to organize your makeup By Mally Roncal Roncal is a makeup artist based in New York City whose clients include Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez. We'd all love to have a vanity table in the style of Joan Crawford. But the...

Insider Guide.(dancing with confidence)
April 1, 2005... Insider's Guide service How to Dance with confidence By Shane Sparks Sparks, a hip-hop dancer who has worked with B2K and Aaliyah and choreographed the film You Got Served, has a new instructional DVD. Rhythm is like math....