Allure articles from September 2006

Allure archives from September 2006

Mail.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... Mail Kiss Me Kate Kate Beckinsale looked absolutely radiant on your July cover, and the article [OKateOs ExpectationsO] was refreshing. She was frank, had a great sense of humor, and was very down-to-earth. Beckinsale is an...

letter from the editor: September '06.(TV program: Ugly Betty)(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... Ugly Pretty Things 6[currency]6Ugly [+ or -] is one of the few four-letter words that still has the power to devastate. Perhaps for that reason, it [macron]s rarely deployed, and when it is, it [macron]s defanged so it can pass with a...

Beauty Reporter.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter Shiny Hair, Bottled [yen] Skin-Friendly Makeup [yen] Better Cleansing Cloths look now center parts In the O60s, women wore simple center parts in rebellion against their mothersO stiff updoOs. This fall, the...

Beauty Reporter.(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter allureOs face Padma Lakshmi The actress was already a successful model and cookbook author when she met Salman Rushdie in 1999. Since then, her collection of television and film credits has grown, including...

Beauty Reporter.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter Word of Mouth Full of Hot Air Full of Hot Air WeOve used our blow-dryer to set nail polish and fix a spray tan. But when someone suggested we aim it at our mascaraed lashes for a better curl, we decided to...

Beauty Reporter.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter Makeup 911 Powder, Plus Powders, plus Face powder is light, fluffy, and good at covering things up *kind of like Ryan Seacrest. But new ones are showing a more serious side, aiming to firm, hydrate, and...

Beauty Reporter.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter Best Sellers Nail Polish Though polish comes in a spectrum of shades, most women are on the same wavelength when choosing their favorites. On the West Coast, they wear light pink; Floridians prefer to go nude; and...

Beauty Reporter.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter The Scoop Intensive Care Intensive Care WHAT IT IS: EstAe Lauder Advanced Night Repair Concentrate. WHAT IT DOES: After 21 days, the serum calms irritation and repairs sun damage. Applied before professional...

Beauty Reporter.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter Free Stuff Pure Thing Pure Thing u6[currency]6in high school, we called the kid with all the answers a brownnoser. In beauty, we call that person a freakin [macron] genius. Take dermatologist Dennis Gross:...

Beauty Reporter.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Reporter Color of the Moment Brightening Powders 6[currency]6Now that we [macron]ve outgrown hopscotch, achieving a fresh-faced glow takes more than just soap and water0...2. Fortunately, new multihued face palettes...

Beauty 101.
September 1, 2006... Beauty 101 Eyebrows Perfect arches in three steps. By Brooke Le Poer Trench History teaches us many things: The Greeks beefed up their eyebrows with ox hair. Eighteenth- century English beauties stuck mouse hide on their...

Beauty 101.
September 1, 2006... Beauty 101 Cheat Sheet 1 With a clean spooley brush, sweep brows upward and outward, in the direction of the temples. 2 Stand close to the mirror and inspect brows for bald spots or areas of sparse growth. 3 Fill in bare...

Fashion Bulletin.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Fashion Bulletin Chunky Knits [yen] Leopard Bags [yen] New Mary Janes Cape Town By Michael Carl Superheroes arenOt just triumphing at the box office, theyOre also sweeping through the fashion world. Designers paraded miles of capes...

Fashion Bulletin.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Fashion Stakeout Natalie Portman SEven before she headed to Harvard, Natalie PortmanOs image was all intelligence and poise. However, her clothes often reveal her more playful side. While few grown women could pull off a dress with a...

Fashion Scoop.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Fashion Scoop Personal Shopper Sweet Temptations Sweet Temptations WHO: Adam Lippes, founder and designer of adam+eve. MISSION: He began by [degrees]creating perfect undergarments and working my way up, [+ or -] he says....

Insider Guide.(perfumes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide Tips for maximizing airline miles, cutting caffeine, ordering sushi like a pro, and more. HOw to smell discreetly rich. An Interview With Frdric Malle Malle is a perfumer and founder of Editions de Parfums...

Insider Guide.(perfume)(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide Tips for maximizing airline miles, cutting caffeine, ordering sushi like a pro, and more. HOw to smell discreetly rich. An Interview With FrAdAric Malle Malle is a perfumer and founder of Editions de...

Insider Guide.
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide Tips for maximizing airline miles, cutting caffeine, ordering sushi like a pro, and more. HOw to Cut Back on Caffeine An Interview With Laura Juliano Juliano is an assistant professor of psychology at American...

Insider Guide.(How to Store Off-season Clothes)
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide Tips for maximizing airline miles, cutting caffeine, ordering sushi like a pro, and more. HOw to Store Off-season Clothes An Interview With Linda Rothschild Rothschild is the founder of Cross It Off Your...

Insider Guide.
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide Tips for maximizing airline miles, cutting caffeine, ordering sushi like a pro, and more. HOw to Order Sushi like a master An Interview With Nobu Matsuhisa Nobu is the chef and owner of the Nobu and...

Insider Guide.
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide The Makeup Guy Second Skin by Dick Page 6[currency]6A few words of caution about foundation: A lot of people use it to erase their face and paint it back on *not the best approach. Foundation isn [macron]t...

Insider Guide.
September 1, 2006... Insider's Guide Beautiful People Master Builder Luigi Murenu: Hairstylis, By Kari Molvart u6[currency]6u6[currency]6Luigi Murenu [macron]s name might not be the one in lights, but his work still ignites flashbulbs. Most notably,...

Total Makeover.
September 1, 2006... Insiders [macron] Guide Total MAkeover MirrorImage 6[currency]6Weight loss isn [macron]t a magical cure for body-image concerns, as Robyn Gombar, Janeene Fears, and Michelle Rodak can attest. As proud as they are of their hard work and...

Total Makeover.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Insiders [macron] Guide Total MAkeover Mirror Image Janeen Fears, Financial Executive 6[currency]6Looking back: [degrees]I was in good shape for most of my life, but a few years ago I started gaining weight. It felt strange, like...

Advances.
September 1, 2006... Beauty Leaps A cellulite-fighting pill, a wrinkle-softening vitamin, lasers that prevent skin cancer *skin-care dreams are becoming a reality. By Laurel Naversen Geraghty 6[currency]6The word [degrees]revolution [+ or -] stirs up...

Essay.(weight-loss pill Xenical)
September 1, 2006... Skinny Pills Americans spend $1.7 billion yearly on weight-loss supplements *most of which do nothing to their waistlines. And that [macron]s the good news. By Hallie Levine 6[currency]6When an FDA advisory board voted last January to...

Essay.(Essay)
September 1, 2006... Shrink to Fit It [macron]s hard to love someone who doesn [macron]t love you back. Sleeping with someone who finds you unattractive may be the lowest depth of despair. By Akhil Sharma i think at least once in a lifetime, everybody has...

Health: Body News.
September 1, 2006... Body News 6[currency]66[currency]6Smoker [macron]s Skin Smoking ages the skin from the inside, but scientists suspect that exhaled smoke does additional damage. When researchers compared female smokers with nonsmokers (all in their 30s...

Health: Mood News.
September 1, 2006... Mood News 6[currency]66[currency]6Music as Medicine Recuperating from a medical procedure may be less painful with music. A review of 14 studies involving patients who had listened to various types of music following surgery found that...

Health: Food News.
September 1, 2006... Food News Wine Diet 6[currency]6People who purchase wine buy and eat healthier foods than beer drinkers do. Danish researchers analyzed 3.5 million purchases from nearly 100 supermarkets over six months, categorizing shoppers as...

Health: Fitness News.
September 1, 2006... Fitness News Weight Loss ThereOs good news for women who prefer pumping iron to running on the treadmill: Strength training can be as good a way to burn calories as moderate cardiovascular workouts. Researchers at the University of...

Bold School.(fall makeup)
September 1, 2006... Bold School Fall [macron]s must-have makeup is deeper, darker, and anything but prissy. It [macron]s time to ditch the pink and cross over to the dark side. By Patricia Tortolani So long, English rose. This season [macron]s muse is...

Hair Master.(Garren)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Hair Master Audrey Hepburn and Madonna were just two women touched by Garren [macron]s shears over the years. Now New York City [macron]s top stylist is opening a new salon *and sharing his greatest hits. By Elizabeth Einstein ...

Easy on the Eyes.
September 1, 2006... Easy on the Eyes Eye creams are (finally) more than just pretty packaging. The latest batch promises real results with proven anti-aging ingredients. By Meirav Devash 6[currency]6in our grandmothers [macron] time, it was believed that...

Winter's Tails.(ponytails)
September 1, 2006... Winter's Tails With a little twist, ponytails become as sexy as they are simple. By Meirav Devash On the Side With its rumpled languor and sexy side part, this updated version of the Valley Girl favorite is neither juvenile nor...

Operation Celebrity.(Celebrity plastic surgery)
September 1, 2006... Operation Celebrity They want to look young and they demand the best doctors, but they don [macron]t want to follow orders or pay their bills. When stars get plastic surgery, they have a list of requests *and some of them could prove...

Fine And Dandy.(Celebrity plastic surgery)
September 1, 2006... Operation Celebrity They want to look young and they demand the best doctors, but they don [macron]t want to follow orders or pay their bills. When stars get plastic surgery, they have a list of requests *and some of them could prove...

Nocturne in Black.(womens clothes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Nocturne in Black Clothes with a stealthy, feline flair *sleek leathers, plush furs, weightless woolens, fitted pants *are the only way to slink through the urban jungle. 6[currency]6Long Tunic Gray stretch flannel tunic and...

Nocturne in Black.(makeup)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Nocturne in Black ThereOs a little Chairman Mao in fallOs plain-front dresses and a trace of WAC in the platform pumps. What sexes up the effect are fitted waists, legging-thin pants, and a couple feet of fur around the neck. ...

What a Woman Wants.(Christina Aguilera)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... What a Woman Want Even when she was just a Mouseketeer, Christina Aguilera knew she was destined for big-time fame and fortune. The singer just didn [macron]t realize how tough it would be once she got to the top. By Judy Bachrach...

Private Eye.
September 1, 2006... Private Eye What do your fans call out to you the most 6[currency]6Celebrity sightings have become something of a sport, and as with athletes on a playing field, spectators don [macron]t just watch the action in silence. At a Vanity...