Allure articles from June 2004

Allure archives from June 2004

Mail.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... Mail Sizing Things Up I have been reading Allure for a number of years and have never been so dumbfounded as I was by the April cover line "Jessica Simpson -- Temptress in a D Cup." What in heaven's name could the size of her breasts have...

Cover Look.(Kelly Ripa)
June 1, 2004... Cover Look A Real Live Wire Who? Kelly Ripa. What? The June cover of Allure, photographed by Michael Thompson. Where? At Lux Studio in Chelsea. When? March 8, two days after shooting the season finale of her ABC sitcom, Hope & Faith....

Editor's Letter.
June 1, 2004... Judging Beauty When I got the offer to be a judge on America's Next Top Model, I considered doing it. For about a minute. Then my head filled up with reasons why I shouldn't. The idea of being on a tribunal with Tyra Banks and the...

Beauty Reporter.(Tom Pecheux makeup trends)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Beauty Reporter Sensitive Skin Help * Sexy, Wavy Hair * An Instant Eye Brightener Can a new moisturizer designed to be used in the shower replace a regular body lotion? Get the details on page 62. 49% of women describe their hair...

Beauty Reporter.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Beauty Reporter Editor's Favorites Conditioning hair spray, a grown-up bubble bath, and eye frosting. Beauty Reporter Editor's Favorites Erno Laszlo pHormula Essie Nail Wipes. Presoaked cloths remove polish in just a few...

Beauty Reporter.(Emmy Rossum performance and grooming)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Allure's Face Weather Girl Most Hollywood starlets hit a little rough weather on their way up. Emmy Rossum endured tornadoes and tidal waves. After some small TV parts and a brief but powerful role in Mystic River last year, she plays...

Beauty Reporter.
June 1, 2004... skin solutions Super Sensitive Nails on a chalkboard, a dripping faucet, William Hung screeching "She Bangs" -- certain things irritate everyone. Others only provoke a reaction in some of us. "Those with sensitive skin are affected by...

Beauty Reporter.
June 1, 2004... Best-SELLERS Sunscreen It looks like the message is sinking in: Women nationwide are choosing sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30. Philadelphians go for an oil-free formula; Los Angeles residents wisely choose a higher SPF. ...

Beauty Reporter.(cream blushes replaced with water base)(Calvin Klein fragrance)
June 1, 2004... makeup trend summer flush It seemed like only minutes ago that makeup artists were praising cream blush for its transparency. Although they're still smitten with sheer, they're now exalting the next generation of light creams and gels...

Beauty Reporter.(DermaNew hand and foot rejuvenation systems)(Mark cosmetics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Power Tool Magic Wand DermaNew's Hand & Foot Rejuvenation System looks like an electric toothbrush, but it shares a number of features with another vibrating gizmo -- detachable attachments, cream, and variable speed settings....

Beauty Reporter.(Hourglass Cosmetics makeup palette case)(white pencil eyeliner)(new nail polish from Nailtini)
June 1, 2004... PALETTE OF THE MONTH Bright of Passage "Hourglass Cosmetics is doing for makeup what Manolo Blahnik did for shoes," brags the company's press release. Those are big stilettos to fill, but we have to admit that our first glimpse of the...

Beauty Reporter: Beauty 101.
June 1, 2004... Face-Tanner Get glowing -- no streaks, lines, spots, or orange tint required Self-tanner is a little like red wine -- once you realize you've overdone it, it's too late. And no one is immune: Just look at Charlize Theron, who accepted...

Fashion Bulletin.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Fashion Bulletin Peekaboo Bags * White Watches * Riviera Style Strip Tease Streamers swinging from a pinata, flapping behind a parade float, or blowing from an oscillating fan are the airy inspiration for a big fashion trend....

Insider Guide.
June 1, 2004... Insider's Guide How to make a bikini wax less painful, get good service from a waitress, and more. How to humidity-proof your hair By Garren Garren, of the Garren New York salon, has worked with Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and Sarah...

Insider Guide.
June 1, 2004... Insider's Guide entertainment How to dance (when you can't) By Jo Ann Jansen Dancer Jansen choreographed the sequences in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (based on her life) and the upcoming Shall We Dance? It's hard for modern women to...

Insider Guide.(tips to avoid waxing pain)(reducing diets)
June 1, 2004... Insider's Guide beauty secrets HOW TO GET A PAIN-LESS BIKINI WAX By Lidia Tivichi Tivichi waxes at Manhattan's Kimara Ahnert salon. Her clients include a number of beauty editors. To most women, the agony of a bikini wax is second only...

Insider Guide.(going to parties)
June 1, 2004... Insider's Guide etiquette HOW TO INVITE your-self TO a PARTy By Elizabeth Harrison and Lara Shriftman Harrison and Shriftman are partners in a publicity firm, and authors of the upcoming Fete Accompli! The Ultimate Guide to Creative...

Insider Guide.(How to get good waitress service)
June 1, 2004... Insider's Guide service How to get good waitress service By Debra Ginsberg Ginsberg, author of Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress (Perennial) and About My Sisters (HarperCollins), worked in restaurants for 20 years. When you...

Insiders' Guide: The Hair Guy.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Two Faced When I do a fashion show, I usually have to create one look for all the models. But for Helmut Lang, I tried a new approach. I designed two versions of smoky eyes: light gold on blonde models and dark copper on brunettes. We're...

Beautiful People.(trainers Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp)(Interview)
June 1, 2004... Dynamic Duo Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp: Fitness Gurus While most couples pack on the pounds after the wedding, Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp never had that problem. "I love pasta," says Halfpapp, who eats two waffles every...

Total Makeover.
June 1, 2004... Scissor Kick After five months of squatting, lunging, and calorie-counting their way to a total loss of 47 pounds and 16.5 inches, Sasha Charnin Morrison and Abigail Einstein were due for a little reward. And because no makeover would be...

Total Makeover.
June 1, 2004... FITNESS UPDATE Morrison: "It's still hard to find the time to work out, but I manage to go three times a week, and it's always on my mind now. When I was at the fashion shows in Milan, I would do triceps dips in the hotel room. I'd do them...

Lights, Camera, Blow-dry.(hairstylist Jonathan Antin)(Interview)
June 1, 2004... Lights, Camera, Blow-dry He has cut all of Hollywood's hair, from Madonna to J.Lo. Now Jonathan Antin could become a star himself, on the reality TV show Blow Out. By Judy Bachrach It is rare to see such extravagant hair. We are at a...

Getting physical.(intimate relationships with personal trainers)
June 1, 2004... Getting physical Sweaty bodies. Tight clothes. Close contact. It's no surprise that some women are taking their trainers from the gym to the bedroom. By Sarah Bernard arly one dark and dreary January morning, Jane, a 35-year-old...

Health: Body News.
June 1, 2004... Implant Interference Breast implants can make detection of breast cancer difficult. To determine just how often they impede diagnosis, a nationwide study compared the medical records of 137 breast-cancer patients with implants and 685...

Health: Mood News.
June 1, 2004... Searching for Beauty Everyone -- male and female -- notices a beautiful woman. In a study led by Florida State University psychologist Jon K. Maner, head shots of 15 men and 15 women were flashed on a screen. Each group included five faces...

Health: Food News.
June 1, 2004... Heavy Drinkers Drinking a lot on occasion causes more fat to accumulate around the midsection than drinking a little every day -- and one's choice of alcohol can influence the waistline as well. In a study of more than 2,300 men and women,...

Health: Fitness News.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Volume Control Fitness classes are good for the muscles, but they may not be so good for the ears. A recent study measured sound levels in exercise classes over three years. In many, music reached 120 decibels, the equivalent of a...

Directory.(spas)(Directory)
June 1, 2004... Body Shops The best wraps, rubs, and scrubs from Long Island to Los Angeles. new york D.Esse Spa 529 W. 42nd St. 212-206-1655 The day after our best friend's boozy bachelorette party, we desperately needed to detox but were skeptical...

Directory.(spas)(Directory)
June 1, 2004... Bare and Bronzed Get ready for summer, in the best spas from SoHo to San Francisco. followed, capped off by a "hot stone teaser," designed to melt away tension along our spine. Our therapist slipped a plush robe over us and teased us...

Directory.(spas)(Directory)
June 1, 2004... Bare and Bronzed Get ready for summer, in the best spas from SoHo to San Francisco. spice. "Heebishcush," we softly mumbled. After a 30-minute rubdown, we stumbled out onto the private patio for an al fresco shower, before returning...

Directory.(spas)(Directory)
June 1, 2004... Bare and Bronzed Get ready for summer, in the best spas from SoHo to San Francisco. you will increase blood flow, aid the nervous system, and let your pores breathe." We'd heard those dubious claims before, so we weren't about to hold...

Summer Skin SOS.
June 1, 2004... Summer Skin SOS Along with longer days and lighter clothes come breakouts, burns, and bumps. Quick fixes allow you to accentuate the positive. By Theresa O'Rourke "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare famously...

Temptation Island.(cosmetics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Temptation Island Tropical makeup shades -- ocean blue, palm-frond green, sunset pink -- are now as sheer as a warm breeze. By Lindsy Van Gelder Some women may be tempted to wear sunglasses and SPF 30 to the cosmetics counter this...

Temptation Island.(makeup trends)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Temptation Island Fuchsia Lips Fuchsia lips can look like an Italian ice gone wrong, but when it's sheer enough, the color works on almost everyone, says makeup artist Romy Soleimani. Its biggest pitfall is "that it can make you look...

Temptation Island.(cosmetics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Temptation Island Coral Cheeks The surfer-girl coral necklace against bronze skin is the essence of beach beauty -- and translating those colors to makeup is like wearing summer on your face. Coral lips and cheeks are "less sweet...

Temptation Island.(blue shades in makeup)
June 1, 2004... Temptation Island Azure Eyes Blue makeup, as in aquamarine shadow and electric eyeliner, gets a bad rap -- often deservedly. But shaking off those stereotypes is possible if the blues are as clear as the Caribbean. Soleimani blended a...

Temptation Island.(cosmetics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Temptation Island LIPS The simplest way to conjure up the islands (aside from pina coladas and floral bikinis) is with sheer lip color in Capri Sun shades. Temptation Island CHEEKS Dewy skin is a natural backdrop for...

Temptation Island.(cosmetics)
June 1, 2004... Temptation Island Sunrise, Sunset "If you keep it sheer, you can definitely wear colors like ocean blue or tangerine to the office," says makeup artist Robin Siegel. The lip glosses work for virtually any time or place, but most...

Lipo in a Jar.(cellulite cream)
June 1, 2004... Lipo in a Jar Cellulite is like the common cold -- benign and unpleasant, unavoidable yet incurable. Do the latest creams finally offer the solution? By Cara Birnbaum A year and a half ago, 32-year-old Marta Ramos read an article...

Lipo in a Jar.(cellulite cream)
June 1, 2004... Lipo in a Jar CAFFEINE BUZZ Anyone willing to settle for fleeting results can grab virtually any tube of cellulite cream. Caffeine has been in most formulas for good reason: It has been proven to work by draining excess fluid from fat...

Lipo in a Jar.(cellulite cream)
June 1, 2004... Lipo in a Jar Thigh Times Women care far less about what goes into a cellulite cream than what they can get out of it. We asked eight testers to smooth the latest products on their puckered skin and share their highly subjective...

Trick Ponies.(hairstyles)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Trick Ponies Reach for an elastic -- the perfect simple hairstyle is now sexy, too. By Danielle Pergament Women have long had ambivalent feelings about the ponytail: We love that it's fast; we hate that it's boring. And when a...

Trick Ponies.(hairstyles)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Trick Ponies With a Twist This sophisticated half-twist, half-ponytail works on anyone with below-shoulder-length hair. "It's a lot easier than it looks," says O'Rourke. "It's wilder with curly or wavy hair, but no less interesting....

Trick Ponies.(hairstyles)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Trick Ponies Good Sport "This is a little like a cheerleader ponytail, but the front section has height so the ponytail isn't too, you know, athletic," says O'Rourke of his creation. He pulled the hair into a high, tight ponytail,...

Drugstore Cowgirls.(makeup trends)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Drugstore Cowgirls OK, so they have a car and driver waiting for them outside. Wealthy women are discovering the lure of the drugstore beauty aisles -- and now, they reveal what's in their baskets. By Christine Muhlke If we had a dime...

Drugstore Cowgirls.(makeup trends)
June 1, 2004... Drugstore Cowgirls hair Sure, they get $400 haircuts at Frederic Fekkai, but rich women also know the power of Pantene and company. *No-Fly Zone Amanda Brooks says her hairstylist introduced her to Tresemme Shampoo and Conditioner,...

Drugstore Cowgirls.(makeup trends)
June 1, 2004... Drugstore Cowgirls makeup There's an inverse relationship between price and daring. "At the drugstore, I buy anything that looks cool but I don't want to spend too much money on," Gleicher says. "You can try the new blue eye shadow...

Head Over Heels.(shoe trends)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Head Over Heels When you're poised on the edge of an all-out big time, nothing beats a dangerous dress spiked with dizzyingly high heels. Chiffon Gown Satin-and-silk-georgette dress by Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche....

Head Over Heels.(shoe trends)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Head Over Heels When you want to sweep into a party, not just arrive, cascading ruffles or sheer tulle make the entrance a little grander. The shoes, which is almost too pedestrian a term for these rarefied objects, are tasseled, jeweled,...

The Minx Next Door.(Kelly Ripa)(Interview)
June 1, 2004... The Minx Next Door It's good to be Kelly Ripa. Men want to meet her, women want to be her, and no one seems to hate her because she's beautiful. By Alexandra Jacobs Many women who like Kelly Ripa of Live With Regis and Kelly are women...

Private Eye.(How will you look tomorrow morning?)
June 1, 2004... Private Eye How will you look tomorrow morning? By Jeffrey Slonim If anything takes the sting out of watching impossibly luminous stars parade down the red carpet, it's imagining their smeared mascara and matted hair the next morning....