Are Brick Red Lipstick, Bare Midriffs, and Bantu Knots Back? The Best ’90s Beauty Signatures, Then and Now

With today’s launch of Vogue Runway, the nineties have taken a strong hold on Vogue.com—but this summer, a mere look at our favorite street style stars is enough to confirm that the decade’s wave-making beauty trends are enjoying a major resurgence. Just last night Ciara set the MTV Video Music Awards abuzz by lobbing off nearly a foot of her long black hair. The style may have been new for the singer, but its architectural lines appeared on the red carpet almost 20 years earlier, when a young Reese Witherspoon found blunt-cut perfection in a nearly identical sleek long bob. And that’s not the only era-signature that’s making a comeback: Brick red lipstick—a makeup go-to for major nineties icons like Drew Barrymore—has also worked its way back into heavy rotation, acting as a tough but feminine update to the jeans and T-shirt equation or a modern counterpoint to bright cocktail dress (see: Joan Smalls).

 

 

Further evidence of the decade’s influence can be found in the crop top renaissance. The abbreviated style, beloved by supermodels from Stephanie Seymour to Naomi Campbell, is making sculpted abs a necessity for It girls like Gigi Hadid. And even the most extreme nineties risk takers are receiving a nod from today’s beauty chameleons. Gwen Stefani donned the multiple bun trend in the ’90s, a look now regularly sported by FKA twigs with her signature braided knots. And Linda Evangelista, who famously quadrupled her rate by cutting her hair, has found a fan in Rihanna, who seemed to reference the supermodel’s fiery, intentionally superficial red crop when conceiving her own shocking lineup of shape-shifting looks earlier this season. After all, in the words of Evangelista, “Any reaction is a good reaction as long as they notice.” From romantic, face-framing tendrils to the lip color that defined a decade, six reasons why everything old is new again.

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The 15 Best Lipstick Moments in Nineties Movie History: From Pretty Woman to Pulp Fiction

Today’s launch of Vogue Runway celebrates the nineties in all its grunge and glory, from the decade’s most important collections to the faces that defined an era. For true beauty purists, however, a study of its aesthetic influences doesn’t stop there: Because what better benchmark is there of the decade’s single defining makeup signature than a quick rewind through its best pop culture films?

From sleek, post-eighties Basic Instinct to Tarantino-inflected Pulp Fiction, lipstick was the unchallenged mainstay of the day. And judging from a look at our favorite nineties leading ladies, any scene-stealing moment came down to the pitch-perfect shade.

First up, Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless. The cult-film celebrated its 20th anniversary last month and yet, Cher’s super-pigmented pale pink lip-gloss looks as irrepressibly feminine now as it did then. Whether doing good deeds or driving in platforms, it’s a shade that has a place in any mini backpack today.

Of course, before there was Cher and Dion, there was Thelma and Louise. While the up-to-no-good Texan twosome, played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, is perhaps best remembered for driving a convertible over the edge of a cliff, their coordinating, peachy-coral lips remain the universal beauty reference for road trip selfies—no matter where you fall on the Mason Dixie Line.

 

 

As Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts’s velvety crimson lip was as transformative as her matching red opera dress for a date with Richard Gere. (Note to reader: Passing up that particular nineties lipstick look would be a big mistake. Huge.) Just four years later, Reality Bites flipped the romantic comedy on its head, offering a new vision of the romantic heroine in the form of Winona Ryder as the quintessentially Gen-X Lelaina Pierce; she wore her thrifted floral dresses and cropped muscle tanks with a brick red, almost rust shade of lipstick and a Big Gulp.

Still darker, sheerer stains ranging from blackberry to raisin dominated in films from Pulp Fiction to Dazed and Confused. But by the middle of the decade, another offbeat lip hue reigned supreme: It could be argued that Drew Barrymore’s chocolate brown lips were as campily memorable as her opening cameo in Scream.

Above, fifteen of our favorites in nineties movie lipstick history—and the modern-day equivalents you’ll want to wear well past the credits roll.

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Kendall and Gigi’s Bicoastal Beauty Equation: Why SoCal Nudes Were Made for Head-to-Toe Black

Since blazing their way from fresh-faced teens to fashion’s favorite hair twins, Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner have developed a Manhattanite’s penchant for all-black dressing—but their signature makeup still points firmly to their SoCal roots. Spotted looking her model-off-duty best in Soho yesterday, Jenner paired a menswear-inspired blazer and slim track pants with a soft middle part, shaded cheekbones, and a swipe of cool beige lipstick. It’s a sunny brand of minimalism with plenty of after-dark appeal. Over in Los Angeles, Hadid found the perfect date-ready look—and a neat counterpart to her slinky black dress—in a generous swirl of bronzer and tousled, air-dried waves. Nude makeup fans, take note: Beach season may be coming to an end, but monochromatic makeup is just getting warmed up.

 

Watch what happens when we give Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid a selfie stick:

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Why Dakota Johnson’s Rose-Stained Lips and Tousled Bob Are a Breath of Fresh Air

While Karlie, Cara, and Gigi were busy taking their late-summer glow for one last amped-up red carpet spin at the VMAs yesterday, Dakota Johnson embraced a laid-back palette of fresh, daytime shades that were made for her fairer, diligently SPF’d complexion. Spotted on a stroll through Manhattan, the actress turned a weekend uniform of denim and a white tee into a street style moment with the help of a few well-placed pops of color: cheekbones sculpted with a generous swath of bronzer and rose-stained lips that struck a pretty balance between off-duty and put-together, much like her slightly disheveled bob. The finishing touch: round frames that didn’t obscure her eyebrows—because if there’s one beauty statement worth making this fall, it’s a full set of arches.

For Dakota Johnson, a minute is never “just a minute”:

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Girl Gang Hair at the VMA Awards: Are You on Team Sleek or Team Wavy?

As Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” posse took to the multicolored carpet at the 2015 VMAs, we noticed that her girl gang of friends had taken sides—with hair that was either ironed to slick straight perfection, or left to fall in softly cascading natural waves. Swift, who pulled her darkened blonde mane into a low, tight ponytail, was joined by equally sleek pals Hailee Steinfeld, Gigi Hadid, and Serayah McNeill; nearby, an opposing camp of beauties including Lily Aldridge, Karlie Kloss, Cara Delevingne, and Martha Hunt opted for laid-back, tousled lengths with a hint of soft bend.

And the phenomenon didn’t stop there. As the night went on, the red carpet’s biggest names fell into equally diverging aesthetic camps, with Nicki Minaj, Rita Ora, and Ciara standing in glassy, poker-straight contrast to bohemian-minded beauties like Emily Ratajkowski. Here, the VMA attendees who made a case for the straight vs. wavy debate.

 

Sleek and Straight:

 

Easy Does It:

 

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Does Taylor Swift Look Better As a Brunette? Her “Wildest Dreams” Beauty Transformation

Ciara Cuts Her Hair! The Singer Debuts a Bold New Crop at the MTV VMA Awards

The Greatest VMA Beauty Moments of All Time: From Kurt Cobain’s Blonde to Britney’s Abs

Amid a sea of red carpets that revolve around the glamour of a pitch-perfect blowout and a well-executed cat eye floats the MTV Video Music Awards, a beacon of quirk and nonconformity, offering celebrities an occasion to let their hair down—or tie it up, as the case may be—in a youthful celebration of music and pop culture. Who could forget Madonna’s revolutionary 1984 performance of “Like a Virgin” at the network’s inaugural event, inspiring a generation of bedheads, brushed-up brows, gleaming décolleté, and irreverence? Ever since, the looks have ranged from familial grunge—Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love attended the 1993 ceremony with daughter Frances Bean in tow, each embracing their own shade of shoulder-grazing platinum and a pop of red—to romantic. The mid-nineties found alternative songstresses Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette embracing Botticelli-worthy waves, Apple’s tied back in a half-up style that pulled focus to her ironically angelic features—ones that she employed later to not so sweetly call out the absurdity of pop idolatry while accepting her moon man. Meanwhile, Morissette’s middle part, slightly weighted lengths, and lightly lined eyes were the very picture of the decade’s rocker insouciance.

Concurrently, there grew an unofficial exposed midriff dress code, spurring everyone from TLC to Jennifer Lopez, the Spice Girls, Shakira, Miley Cyrus, and Gwen Stefani to expose their famously sculpted abs—Stefani pairing hers with an equally engaging look above the neck. She knotted up her cotton candy blue bob and decked out her brow in light-catching bindis. It was a tactic repeated in 1999, when the red carpet saw a lot of Lil’ Kim, who supplemented her lack of clothing with an impressive wig of shiny lilac and an era-appropriate plum lip. In 2001 Britney Spears found all the balance necessary for her well-oiled legs and six-pack in a handful of glitter tattoos and one albino python.

In fact, the red carpet and onstage rebellions have been so iconoclastic that attendees continue to pay homage to the trailblazers that came before, Miley Cyrus re-creating Stefani’s aforementioned top knots, Katy Perry honoring Britney and Justin’s all-denim moment—Perry’s dress made modern by a cat eye and full-faced bangs—and One Direction expanding on ‘NSYNC’s many uses for hair gel.

Beyoncé used the iconic platform to announce her pregnancy, unbuttoning her sparkly jacket and jovially embracing her baby belly while her honey-coated, sideswept mane blew behind her. And though we all remember Kanye’s infamous onstage interruption, we should have been paying attention to his intricate buzz cut—after all, Taylor Swift is no worse for the wear. The singer took to the red carpet last year in a Mary Katrantzou romper that marked the beginning of an endless array of leggy displays. Before stars set out to shock and delight at tonight’s awards show, here, a look back at the best VMA beauty moments of all time.

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The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Emily Ratajkowski, Kendall Jenner, and More

Summer may be winding down, but you wouldn’t know it from the heat wave that’s sweeping the globe—or, for that matter, the steady stream of fresh-faced  poolside selfies and postcards from the cerulean surf taking over our Instagram feeds.

Caroline Trentini struck a prayer prose overlooking the Atlantic in the Brazilian archipelago Fernando de Noronha, while Cameron Russell stoked our wanderlust with a hike through Arches National Park, Utah. Somewhere sunny and steamy, fellow model Catherine McNeil channeled Bo Derek with a headful of beaded flaxen braids.

But while much of the fashion set was taking advantage of the late-August lull, some were redirecting their gaze toward the season ahead. For blogger Alexandra Spencer, that meant stepping up her skin care game with a clay mask, while Alexa Chung offered living proof that her tousled chop was made for fall’s menswear-inspired dressing. Which puts our money for a dramatic seasonal reinvention on Kendall Jenner, who set off a wave of did-she-or-didn’t-she chatter with the help of a blonde wig—all the while tempted, no doubt, to take the real-life peroxide plunge.

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Why Panama Hats Were Made for Weekend Waves: Victoria Beckham, Jessica Alba, and More

It’s not just their skin-saving benefits: Wide-brimmed hats deliver the kind of continental cool you might miss once it’s time for fall’s more functionally chic beanies. Which explains why the Panama hat, that summertime topper that merges the bohemian edge of a fedora with the sunny appeal of a straw style, is having one last end-of-season moment—with breezy, laid-back hair to match. Spotted at Disneyland recently, Victoria Beckham took the look incognito with dark shades, only to be given away by her trademark brunette waves that were slung over one shoulder. Jessica Alba paired it with a slept-in bob tucked behind her ears. Ever the Southern belle, Reese Witherspoon put a ladylike stamp on the look with soft waves and a pop of red lipstick, while Naomi Watts channeled Manhattan minimalist with her platinum chop falling into textured pieces. Just in time for a lazy weekend, here’s how to upgrade your bedhead in an instant.

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Model Sister Baylee and Kelsey Soles’s Twinning Honey Hair Care Secret

Fashion’s favorite twins Baylee and Kelsey Soles may look identical (they’re technically “dizygotic”), but there’s one very noticeable differentiating factor: their hair. Before the South Carolina–born duo scored a choppy fringe thanks to editorial hair whiz Didier Malige backstage at the 2014 Spring Saint Laurent show, they had dyed their matching natural “brond” hue to new contrasting colors. “We loved shooting as twinning twins,” they quip, “but it gets old really quickly!” Now, Baylee has an inky glaze on her tousled locks (“I was going for Brooke Shields!” she exclaims) in juxtaposition to Kelsey’s bleach blonde wash.

The requisite upkeep for the Soles’s newfound individuality is simpler than you might expect. Their key to healthy hair is to avoid washing it every day. “I massage my scalp with my fingertips but refrain from using any product until after a couple of days,” says Kelsey, who conditions her platinum daily and maintains volume with a spritz of Batiste dry shampoo.

The twins stave off parched strands with equal parts coconut oil and honey. The oil is massaged into ends to prevent breakage, and honey is used as their signature moisture mask. “You dip your ends in honey and let it sit for at least 30 minutes. It feels so wrong, like you’re covering your head in tar or something, but it works magically!” says Baylee. “When you wash it out, as soon as the honey touches the water it becomes super liquid and comes out really smoothly.” In addition to acting as their favorite hydrator and frizz fighter, Baylee says, “It gives our hair better wavy texture.” Isn’t that sweet? Times two.

 

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How to Prolong Your Summer Glow: An Expert’s Guide

The final days of summer are upon us: Cutoffs are replaced by culottes, sun hats swapped for beanies, and lightweight serums are moved to the back of our medicine cabinets to make way for fall’s heavier formulas. But the impending shorter days don’t mean we have to abandon our just-back-from-vacation skin. So, in light of one of our last beachside weekends, we asked James Read, the London-based faux-tanning expert, for advice on keeping that sun-kissed glow a little longer.

“I love the [James Read Tan] Accelerator to prolong my tan,” says Read, who recommends applying the melanin-stimulating cream immediately following sun exposure or a spray tan to help enhance and preserve the color. If your desired glow starts fading faster than expected, he says replicating it is as simple as applying a wash-off self-tanner (like St. Tropez Tanning Essentials One Night Only): “Leave on for 30 minutes to set the base [color] and wash off,” to prevent getting too dark. An even simpler daily ritual will insure your color doesn’t budge for months. “Mix a teaspoon of gradual self-tanner with your regular moisturizer” (he recommends Sisley’s Confort Extreme) and apply to skin with a mitt for a flawless finish.

Read’s ultimate tip for an endless summer? “Less is more.”

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Steve Aoki Makes the Ultimate Beyoncé Workout Playlist

Cancel on Your Colorist: Suki Waterhouse and the Instant Cool of Dark Roots

Introducing the High-Shine Brow of Your Future—And the Products You Need to Get It

 

It’s no secret that minimalist makeup is having a fashion moment—and with few pops of color to distract from the face this fall, a major brow has never been more key. Fortunately, an unexpected trick that’s taken hold around the Vogue offices is making it easier than ever to achieve standout statement arches.

It all started when a little bottle of Bbrowbar Nourishing Brow Oil turned up one afternoon in the beauty department, which—in addition to promising to stimulate growth and condition each little hair—imparted the prettiest, healthiest hint of shine to our arches.

An emergency phone call to New York City makeup artist James Boehmer for verification immediately followed suit. “[Shine] helps to bounce light away, which adds a subtle lift and more open look to the eye,” he confirmed of the trick, which he used backstage at Tome to flatter models’ raw yet refined faces during the recent Fall runway collections.

While Boehmer dabs everything from Lucas’s Papaw Ointment to Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream to lip gloss on models’ arches for shoots and shows, he recommends that beginners use a clear brow gel that doesn’t dry matte. (His pick: NARS Brow Gel in Oural.)

And there are other, more practical reasons to consider a clear topcoat. For those using pencils and powders to bulk up brows first, a final layer of gloss or wax on top creates a more believable look. “In general, [it appears] more natural than very matte brows,” says Boehmer, although he suggests only combing shine through the fuller parts of the brow (since a glossy shine acts like a spotlight on any bare patches or scrawny ends).

Offering the two-in-one impact of multitasking, Smashbox’s Brow Tech Gloss Stick takes care of defining and delivering the desired satiny finish in one quick step, while DiorShow Brow Styler Gel imparts a gleam of lustrous color (and note to blondes, comes in the perfect shade of ash). A colorless wax, like the one available in Tom Ford Beauty’s new all-in-one kits, on the other hand, sets hairs firmly in place. As with most things, restraint is required. Just remember: A little shine goes a long way.

 

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Why Charlotte Rampling’s 1976 Fitness Guide in Vogue Was Years Ahead of Its Time

Reese Witherspoon’s Easy Hat and Swipe of Lipstick Are Your Weekend Beauty Strategy

Sometimes incognito can be accessible. Reese Witherspoon debuted a feminine take on the well-loved glasses-and-hat celebrity uniform while exiting LAX yesterday, pairing her burlap baseball cap with a set of large, tinted shades and a smile brushed with a poppy pink tint. The actress finished the on-the-go look by tucking her sleek blonde lengths easily behind her ears, revealing not only a pair of dainty gold hoop earrings, but also a genius strategy for extending the life of your blowout. Whether heading to Sunday brunch or returning from vacation with sun-kissed skin à la Witherspoon, the trick to instant easy polish lies in a trusted cap and swipe of flattering lipstick. Consider your weekend beauty regimen solved.

 

73 things you didn’t know about Reese Witherspoon (aka Little Spoon):

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How Emma Watson Does Ladylike Beauty—With a Laid-Back Edge

The Fall Mascara Edit: 9 Supercharged Formulas Worth Investing In This Season

If you were stranded on a desert island and could have only one beauty item, what would it be? A quick poll around the Vogue office this week revealed that the overwhelming answer was (no surprise!) mascara. We just can’t leave home without it. Fortunately, there’s a new crop of formulas that promises to supersize our fringe—and no lash will be left behind.

CoverGirl’s new high-tech wand deposits black pigment right at the roots, making eyeliner somewhat optional. Dior’s cult classic tube has been reformulated with microfibers that cling between lashes for an amplified, three-dimensional, fattened-up shape. If smudges or flakes are your problem, on the other hand, Clinique’s Chubby Lash mascara is long lasting and lightweight, so it provides all the volume without any of the clump. But it’s safe to say that François Nars may have given particular consideration to the stranded-without-mascara scenario: The legendary makeup artist, who owns an idyllic private isle in French Polynesia, just launched his Audacious formula—equipped with more than 200 brush bristles, a tapered tip for reaching bottom lashes, and a blacker-than-black shade that lives up to its name. With that kind of drama, you won’t be alone on the island for long.

 

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Reasons to Channel Your Dark Side: 6 Subversively Chic Perfumes for Right Now

Blame it on Tom Ford’s glamorous obsidian fringe dresses—or, perhaps, Marchesa’s decadently beaded sartorial ode to F. Scott Fitzgerald on the recent runways—that perfume bottles and their blissfully heady scents appear to have taken on a similarly decadent mood for fall. Indeed, everyone from Van Cleef & Arpels to Maison Francis Kurkdjian has channeled the black glass vials of the twenties—now topped off with elegant gilt or argent stoppers and restructured into something decidedly modern (you won’t find any vintage atomizers here). And because when it comes to fragrance, it’s what’s on the inside that counts, let’s not forget the scents themselves: It’s time to shelve those summery perfumes (rosewater! orange blossom! grapefruit!) and spritz yourself with lush, substantial olfactory notes that conjure a seductive, Eastern aura; Van Cleef & Arpel’s spicy Ambre Impérial, for instance, or Jo Malone’s hypnotically woody Incense & Cedrat. In short, it’s perfume that would make a modern temptress proud.

 

 

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Who’s Your Fall Beauty Muse? 13 Vogue Editors Name Their Favorites, From Ali MacGraw to Kurt Cobain

While beginning our back-to-school shopping, it occurred to us there are just as many ways to wear a sweater as there are sweaters to be worn. But for fashion icons like Charlotte Rampling and Ali MacGraw, making a basic woolen knit their own had just as much to do with how they styled themselves above the neck. Rampling’s windblown waves and kohl-lined eyes were British It girls’ response to MacGraw’s Americana collegiate blowout, bare skin, and emboldened brows. Furthermore, a fail-safe black dress might provide a curly bob with an entirely different mood depending on your shade of lipstick and placement of a few bobby pins (see Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown). The classic button-down gets a dose of she’s-with-the-band ease courtesy of Shalom Harlow’s laissez-faire crown of curls and just-pinched cheeks—or becomes demurely glamorous with Audrey Hepburn’s half-updo and cat-eye flick. With that in mind, we asked Vogue editors to share the fall beauty muses they’ll be channeling when they slip on their seasonal staples.

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Reasons to Skip Your Next Trim: Amber Heard, Ciara, and Olivia Wilde’s ’70s Style

Shoulder-grazing chops may be the new bob, but the season has seen its fair share of extreme lengths, from buzz cuts to the kind of impossibly long, lanky hair that wears its slightly frayed ends like a badge of bohemian honor. Take Amber Heard, who seamlessly shifts from vintage Hollywood starlet to an earthier archetype of California-girl beauty with the help of her finger-raked, sun-streaked waves—while Ciara’s smooth jet black extensions call to mind a young Cher. Also picking up on the seventies influence, Olivia Wilde has been growing out her brunette layers and letting them fall into thick windblown pieces. Above, three reasons to skip your next trim—and embrace the easy symmetry of a middle part.

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Fall’s New Power-Brow Brigade: Ruby Rose, Joan Smalls, and More Elevate Fuller Arches

As far as sudden shifts in the beautyscape go, Cara Delevingne’s arrival on the scene in 2011 caused a seismic rumble, ushering in the return to a bushy-browed aesthetic not seen since the early nineties and tanking tweezer sales along the way. But with fall’s back-to-school polish in the air, untamed arches are giving way to a meticulously groomed, but still luxuriously full shape. We’re talking artfully sculpted swooshes with trimmed errant hairs that are filled in stroke by careful pencil stroke and finished with powder. It’s the kind of hyper-natural shape that plays to Ruby Rose’s rockabilly-inflected androgyny and underscores Joan Smalls’s and Hilary Rhoda’s chiseled features. And it’s not just for the dark-haired: Jessica Stam’s full flaxen set provides a clean frame for her piercing blue eyes. Above, a few good reasons to consider the power brow, 2.0.

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Today Is the Luckiest Day of the Year! Susan Miller Weighs in on How to Spend the Next 24 Hours

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Why Ana Ivanovic Is Unafraid of Muscle, Loves SPF, and Isn’t Dropping Her Tennis Racket Anytime Soon

Ana Ivanovic, the graceful six foot Serbian who has been called the “future of tennis” for her fifteen singles titles, millions of dollars in prize money, and devoted fan base of 540,000-plus on Instagram, is back in New York for next week’s US Open and the chance to continue her rise to the top of the ranks. And while she is focused on her game, of course, she has more than the courts to look forward to. We caught up with the player recently via telephone from England to chat about her new role as the face of Shiseido’s WetForce sun protection, and not a moment too soon:  “It’s sunny in London, actually!” said Ivanovic. “For once!”

The professional athlete, whose “office” tends to be an open-air clay court, admits that repping the line of high-performance SPF holds special appeal. “I used to hate wearing any sort of cream on my body when I played because it would feel so greasy and melt off, but with [Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protection], it absorbs into the skin and it lasts. So I can be in Australia playing three sets and I don’t have to worry.” And considering her career relies on her ability to maintain a good grip, the product’s newest innovation—an ionic mineral sensor imbued in the WetForce technology, which claims to change the way water and perspiration interact with sunscreen so that the formula becomes more effective when wet, not less—has become a major selling point. It won’t ever drip into her eyes, and “the racket isn’t going anywhere,” Ivanovic says with a laugh.

While female players’ bodies have recently garnered the type of media attention and commentary more typically awarded to line calls (with special attention paid to those who choose to “bulk up,” or not), Ivanovic tries not to sweat the small stuff. “Everything in moderation. I keep a healthy body, a healthy look. It’s important not to be obsessive about anything—fitness, training, eating—because then you end up focusing on only that. And you can’t obsess about anything when you’re on the road.” Her workouts, she notes, are specific to her sport. “I lift weights. I’ll do a lot of running, a lot of cardio and strengthening. I use my body weight, a TRX sometimes. A lot of it is endurance.”

Similarly, Ivanovic’s beauty routine hews to the simple and straightforward: Nights out might require a rosy lip and a MAC or Shiseido shimmer-cream-accented eye for a bit of “glitter and glow,” but when it’s game time, forget about it. “A lipstick [on the courts] would be nice, but I don’t want things drying or smudging, obviously,” she says. The player favors Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream as something of a do-everything fix, from soothing parched lips to dry patches of skin. “I’ll use it sometimes for elbows, or when I travel on a plane because you get so dehydrated,” she says—although the weather, combined with her thick, swingy hair, provides its own challenges.

“I have a lot of hair, and it’s quite heavy: Sometimes I’ll braid it for a match so it’s all together,” Ivanovic says of her Moroccanoil-maintained mane. Humidity has been known to throw a wrench into the proceedings. “In cities like Miami, my hair can get so frizzy, it looks crazy. I use TRESemmé Extra Hold hairspray. I use a lot of it.” As is so often the case in an active profession, fragrance has become the one place where she can really play: “I love Creed’s Love in White. It’s a fresh smell, and in the summer it’s great,” Ivanovic says, although she switches it up occasionally, too. “I like Tom Ford’s line, and Narciso Rodriguez’s fragrance—it’s a little bit heavier, so I’ll wear that at night.” Here’s hoping that she’ll have reason to hit the town and celebrate soon.

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The Best Beauty Looks: Week of August 24, 2015

With the thrill of the new season in the air, it’s no surprise that the week’s best beauty looks made the case for going the extra proverbial mile: Chanel Iman channeled Diana Ross with brushed curls and a stroke of kohl, while Joan Smalls took a luxe pairing of high-gloss waves and rich burgundy lips for a red-carpet stroll and Chrissy Teigen polished up her bohemian texture with a few flicks of a curling iron. The street style set also embraced a heightened sense of elegance, with FKA twigs setting the cool-girl bar, thanks to her shiny Grecian plaits and bright crimson lipstick—one that Gigi Hadid cleared with a thick topknot and a healthy swirl of blush. Still, it was Elisabeth Moss’s freshly tinted ginger locks and Cameron Diaz’s artfully blended shade of honey-bronde that had us pining for a warmer hair color even before temperatures take a dip.

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Shop Fall’s Graphic Eyeliner Trend: Go Bold or Go Home!

Cashmere turtlenecks, suede boots, and fresh gloves are a back-to-school rite of passage—but for true beauty obsessives, there’s nothing quite like the excitement of unwrapping a fresh new eyeliner, full of promise for the season ahead. That little kohl pencil will be especially important this year, as the Fall 2015 runways were overflowing with every imaginable variation of dramatically rimmed eyes. Whether it was a smudged and slept-in lashline at Lanvin or an exaggerated outside-the-lines swoosh at Saint Laurent, the graphic eye conveyed showstopping impact. And the options go far beyond basic black: There is no better way to express your individual style, after all, than freehanding a color-blocked blue lid or sketching on a feathery stroke of bright white à la Kenzo. So this season, stock up on eye crayons (one in every shade) and release your inner Picasso.

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Amal Clooney and the High-Impact Glamour of a Bouncy Blowout and Glossy Red Lip

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Zendaya Masters the On-Duty Knot: 4 Sleek Day-to-Night Buns

Textured college buns may be having a well-timed moment, but leave it to Zendaya to make the case for the structured elegance of a sleek twist. The actress was spotted on Instagram yesterday with her blowout bound at the nape of her neck and finished with a blast of shine spray. The style offered a clean counterpoint to her cropped sweatshirt and shredded jeans, the way her half-up knot and smooth waves gave casual denim a polished edge in line with her sculpted eyebrows earlier this summer. And proving the day-to-night appeal of a fluffy topknot, the eighteen-year-old recently took the look for a meeting in Manhattan—and onto the red carpet. Just in time for the new workweek, here are four perfectly executed on-duty buns.

 

André Leon Talley talks to Zendaya and Fausto Puglisi on the Met Gala red carpet:

 

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Kendall Jenner Is a Modern Muse: Watch Her Go from Supermodel to Superhuman

With more than 35 million Instagram followers, her own shade of lipstick, and more runway shows on her résumé than she can count, Kendall Jenner is an unstoppable force. But for the charismatic It girl—and face of Estée Lauder’s new Modern Muse Le Rouge perfume—it doesn’t stop there. Each day this week, she’ll put her strength, wit, and charm to the test in a new Vogue.com vignette—throwing boulders, controlling time, and moving objects with the snap of her manicured fingertips or the blink of a kohl-rimmed eye. A supermodel with super powers? Watch what happens next.

 

Kendall Conjures Her Wardrobe Out of Thin Air!

 

A modern muse doesn’t need to worry about catching a chill. With the slightest breeze she can summon a coat and scarf as bold as her patent red lipstick.

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The Chameleons of Summer: How a Dramatic Hair Transformation Became the Season’s Secret Weapon

As summer prepares to make its slow, sunset-like descent into autumn, a quick look back at our favorite metamorphic beauty moments confirms that it was the season of the fearless hair change. Dramatic chops and color adjustments inspired us—while constantly keeping us guessing—and promised to provide a template for our own adventurous shifts going into September.

Case in point: Georgia May Jagger bleached her layered lengths before saturating sections in playfully bright pastels, resulting in a physical representation of summertime whimsy that will segue nicely into the washed-out shades of blush, lavender, and tangerine as the temperature dips. Meanwhile, Lupita Nyong’o proved that changing one’s hair can be done easily and often, morphing from short-haired siren into side-braid bohemian and back, this time with a headful of natural curls that we can’t help but mentally pair with a chunky knit sweater.

While many embraced the long, swingy lengths typically associated with beach bombshell season, hairstylist Orlando Pita snipped Amanda Seyfried’s signature wheat-colored mane into a shoulder-grazing, polished bob, and for a good cause—Seyfried donated her shorn lengths to Locks for Love. Also going against the grain: Poppy Delevingne, who lightened her honey-colored hair to an icy, Nordic blonde shade that seems rife for emulation.

But perhaps our favorite dramatic reveals arrived courtesy of Jennifer Hudson—whose ultra-short style only enhances her striking, pronounced features—and Greta Gerwig, who traded her shoulder-sweeping waves for a chin-length crop that she continued to braid, straighten, and slick back to transformative effect. Above, five summertime hair moments to inspire a seasonal reimagining of the mane.

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The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Britney Spears, North West, and More

If the promise of fall’s first crisp nights has many of us packing away our sundresses to make room for a new statement coat, there’s nothing like a quick scan of our Instagram feeds to inspire us to truly savor those last fleeting days of summer. For model Janice Alida, that meant cooling off under a pool waterfall in Whistler, Canada, while ballerina Mary Helen Bowers struck an arabesque in the surf. Of course, what’s the sunny season without the joy of fresh local produce? Florence Welch celebrated a sun-soaked day in Oslo, with a crown crafted out of fresh-picked flowers, and Christy Turlington’s bowl of ripe heirloom tomatoes motivated us to head to the farmers market. But leave it to North West and her cousin Penelope—wearing matching slick topknots—to live in the here and now like only children can: Mesmerized by a fellow mermaid in St. Bart’s, it’s safe to say that school days couldn’t be further from their minds.

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The Best Date Night Perfumes: 5 It Girls Share Their Favorite Fragrances

From a simple drop of bergamot oil to a splash of Chanel No. 5, picking a perfume has always been deeply personal—what works for one nose, after all, might not work for another. Which raises one critical question: What do you wear for a night out with your favorite flame? Some might say go clean and androgynous, others skew more toward the darkly romantic. For a professional opinion, we asked five It girls who somehow manage to hit all the right notes.

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BFF Beauty at Its Finest: Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner’s Best Twinning Hair Moments

Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss’s uncanny resemblance may have rendered them natural candidates for a shared look, but tracing Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner’s best(ie) hair moments of the summer, it seems that the twinning phenomenon is more a matter of friendship than similar features. Whether they’re shopping in Beverly Hills or taking a post-Cannes jaunt to the Monaco Grand Prix, fashion’s favorite model duo aren’t just joined at the hip, but likely to sport the same off-duty hairstyle—crafting their respective blonde bombshell waves and silky obsidian layers into thick topknots or swingy high ponytails, or simply letting them fall into billowing pieces. Just in time for brunch with the girls, here’s to the beauty equivalent of raiding each other’s closets.

 

Watch what happens when we give Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid a selfie stick:

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5 Beauties Who Answer to Afropunk’s Rebellious Call

Tomorrow, Fort Greene’s Commodore Barry Park will host the eleventh annual Afropunk festival, a weekend-long celebration of alternative music, art, and the nonconformists who make it. Case in point, the iconoclastic lineup of performers who are as recognized for their sonic contributions as they are for their distinctive beauty choices, capturing the insurgent spirit of punk with an asymmetrical undercut, smattering of face paint, or unexpected dye job.

In the way of danceable beats and towering curls, there is Lion Babe’s Jillian Hervey, whose exaggerated golden mane is known to spill out glitter for emphasis as she twirls onstage. Contrary to her signature breathy songs, SZA, too, finds her voice in volume, with her fluffed-up texture arriving in an idiosyncratic shade of rust.

Surely, there will be no shortage of unexpected makeup preferences, care of Oshun’s Thandiwe, who along with bandmate Niambi Sala often daubs bright geometric patterns along her forehead, cheekbones, or eyes in shades of primary whites and yellows. Adia Victoria will likely balance the androgynous charm of her micro bangs and obsidian pixie with darkened eyebrows and a chromatic swipe of lipstick. And the bewitching allure of Kelela’s waist-grazing locks is rivaled only by her kohl-rimmed eyes. This weekend, take a cue from these five Afropunk beauties and cultivate a look that’s all your own.

 

 

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No Hair, Don’t Care: Fashion’s Freshest Faces Are Embracing the Buzz Cut

Shockwaves went through the fashion industry in the early nineties when Eve Salvail first appeared on the runway with a shaved head, her head bare save for a curled dragon tattooed on her scalp. Her hair, or lack thereof, stood in direct contrast with the lengthy, ultrafeminine locks of the era’s supermodels—think Christy, Cindy, Naomi, Stephanie, and long, swingy sheets of hair. Two decades later and long hair is still the default for new models, whose agents praise its versatility: With fashion shows and editorials requiring models to be quick-change artists, longer hair can more easily lend itself to the required transformations. As a result, agencies have historically preferred that models play it safe. But the current fixation on models with “personality” has given rise to a set of beauties who follow in the footsteps of trailblazers like Salvail. African models like Grace Bol, Herieth Paul, and Ajak Deng have been wearing their hair super short for years, but only recently have their peers followed suit. Rising stars Tamy Glauser, Ruth Bell, and Kris Gottschalk have all embraced the buzz cut—and seen their careers skyrocket as a result.

Close-cropped hair has long been a signifier of punk rebellion and offbeat cool, so it’s fitting that designers who understand the importance of carefully curated edge have sought the models who dare to shear: Glauser is a regular at Rick Owens and on Nicolas Ghesquière’s runway for Louis Vuitton, while Gottschalk was tapped to model alongside the boys at Public School’s show at men’s New York Fashion Week, and Bell cut her chest-length strawberry blonde hair to front the latest campaign for Alexander McQueen. As it turns out, having a shaved head has become something of a savvy career move: It not only attracts cooler clients, it also serves to set a model apart from the hundreds of other girls on the scene. “There are hardly any other models with a shaved head,” says Gottschalk. “It’s interesting because other girls don’t really see me as competition—I don’t get those sideways glances at castings.”

Bell’s newly shorn hair also helps to differentiate her from her twin and fellow model, May. Born and raised in Kent, England, the sisters began their fashion careers together often photographed as a pair—they even share an Instagram account. Since her pixieish Paul Hanlon buzz cut, Bell has been carving out a niche for herself, working with the likes of David Sims and Lachlan Bailey and, yes, forming her own social media account—one filled with shots of her as a moody, punkish gamine, rather than the more traditional, whimsical images that fill the account she and her sister share.

Glauser, likely one of the originators of the current buzzed-off trend, got her fade from a friend. “I had been talking about wanting to cut my hair forever, but I was too scared,” admits Glauser. “One day my friend just picked up scissors and cut my hair right down the middle—there was no going back.” Over time the look became Glauser’s signature: Occasionally the color will change—earlier this month she debuted a platinum hue—but the length rarely varies. Though she’s benefited from her now-trademark daring do, Glauser cautions those attempting to emulate it. “[Shaving your head] is a risk, you never really know how it will look until that moment of truth.” Still, the model has no plans to revert to her old style. “It just feels too amazing short—I might let it grow a centimeter, then it’s time to shave again!”

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The Cult of Cute: How Korean Beauty Is Changing the Face of Your Vanity Table

Inside a glossy, perfectly round tomato sits the smooth, creamy surface of a complexion-brightening face mask. A sullen panda bear holds the contents of a cooling-on-contact eye gel. A miffed bunny rabbit contains a pitch-perfect apricot lip tint. Welcome to the Korean beauty shopping experience. “They’re actually really good products,” says Charlotte Cho, cofounder of Soko Glam, one of three K-beauty import websites profiled in the September issue of Vogue that are curating the best of what the country has to offer. Dressed in crisp summer whites with a slim gold chain around her neck, the 30-year-old entrepreneur is combing the aisles of Manhattan’s Tony Moly—which, at first glance has more in common with Toys “R” Us than Sephora. “I have this,” she says, picking up a bright pink Velcro bow designed to hold hair out of your face while you wash off your makeup. Everything in the store, from the mustache-shaped wrinkle-reducing patches to the scrub resembling Pop Art–worthy lips is knee-weakeningly adorable. And if the history of Korean beauty trends has proven anything, your vanity table is about to get a lot cuter, too.

For all of the forward-thinking makeup and skin care advancements on American and European soil, from stem cell facials to lengthening organic mascara, South Korea’s wave-making influence has become impossible to ignore. Famous for popularizing BB cream, sheet masks, and facial essences, the country has cemented its international audience: This summer alone, Lancôme openly credited the inspiration for one of its biggest launches to date, the Miracle Cushion Liquid Compact, to the nation’s foundation technology, and Estée Lauder recently tapped K-beauty blogger Irene Kim to act as a global beauty contributor. And if South Koreans take the subject seriously (this is, after all, the birthplace of the ten-step skin care routine and home to the world’s highest rate of plastic surgery per capita), their packaging is judged by an entirely different rubric.

Turning over a banana-shaped sleeping pack in her hands, Cho explains, “Korean shoppers are super savvy [about beauty products], and they’re not loyal to a single brand, so companies have to make something that really grabs your attention to stand out.” She should know. To keep her three-year-old site up-to-the-minute relevant, it’s her business to not only test the contents of every jar, packet, and pig, but to determine what will sell. Her forthcoming book, The Little Book of Skincare: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin (due out in November), even chronicles the cultural obsession in a section titled “Cute Is Not Overrated.” “If you’re going to have to look at something several times a day,” she writes, “it might as well make you smile.”

Of course, innovation is the true father of the doll-house-as-hand-cream phenomenon. With heavy investment in research and development, South Korean companies like Etude House, Skinfood, and PeriPera require as little as six months to take a product from conception to consumer. “They’re focusing on what’s next,” says Cho, which enables brands to look past creating an heirloom-worthy jewel box compact in favor of the kind of limited-edition packaging that incites sneakerhead levels of hysteria among its collectors. Even Cho has woebegone tales of missing out on a set of blotting papers stored within a sleepy kitten.

It’s a template that strikes a chord with just as many Americans. Around the Vogue offices more editors are likely to stop dead in their tracks over a $5 set of hair rollers fashioned as foam strawberries than they are for a $400 serum. And companies from Urban Outfitters to Ulta are paying attention, stocking cartoonish face creams and blushes adorned in dinosaur drawings next to cult-classic American and European stalwarts. This month, we’ve taken the liberty of combing some of our favorite K-beauty retailers stateside for the most charming products that will turn your powder room into a playroom—because above all, shouldn’t beauty be fun?

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Olivia Wilde Takes the Travel-Friendly Braid in an Easy New Direction

It’s All a Blur: Why Light-Diffusing Makeup Is Perfect for the Slow Fade of Summer

It feels almost rude to start strategizing for fall while summer is still showering us with rays of sun—but believe it or not, it’s time to consider a new wardrobe of makeup basics that will carry you into the cooler months. Now, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves—as long as temperatures hover over 72 degrees, your face should mirror your clothing—and anything more than the sheerest of layers can feel suffocating. Which is exactly why the new generation of blur products may offer up the answer to transitional makeup: More daring than their predecessors—which took the form of invisible skin primers infused with light-diffusing pigments—the latest concealers, bronzers, and even blushes are harnessing the flattering, soft focus effect of trompe l’oeil color technology.

From bright poppy lipsticks to futuristic foundations, the best among them project a foolproof, lit-from-within quality that’s nearly impossible to mess up. And no, they won’t work Photoshop miracles (we’ve tried it over summer breakouts, and this just in—they still exist), but they will give your makeup a subtly fuzzy finish that rivals your favorite Instagram filters (hello, Earlybird, Valencia, and Amaro).

To find out more, we called up the makeup artist Suzy Gerstein, who has mastered the cool-girl aesthetic on clients like Erin Wasson, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Christy Turlington Burns, for her take on the fuzzy finish trend. “The good thing about these products is you don’t have to do a full face,” she explains. “The formulas are forgiving enough that you can just put them in key places and boom, you’re kind of done.”

Gerstein favors YSL’s new Les Sahariennes sun-kissed blur perfector for fair maidens who shy away from bronzer. “I use a big duo fibre brush from MAC and really buff it on smoothly so it just creates a tint and brightens up the face.” Gerstein loves blur technology for its ability to soften edges. “The most telling blunder is when you wear a too-dark foundation or a bronzer that’s not right for your skin. These help you avoid that telltale line of demarcation.” A complexion perfector like Givenchy’s Blurring Foundation Balm delivers a veil of coverage that still feels nearly bare. “Going into fall you may have some sun damage; skin might be a little dry and flaky. If you go to a completely matte foundation, you’ll enhance and exaggerate that. This is more flattering.”

For punchy lips that feel effortlessly stained without looking sloppy, Gerstein suggests covering any flaws around the mouth with a light concealer, and lining lips with Nudestix Blur Pencil. Next, she fills things in with Maybelline Color Blur matte pencil, which technically doesn’t contain actual blur pigments, but still draws on the concept with a built-in silicon smudger (similar to the kind you’d find on an eyeliner) to create the look of a lived-in stain. To finish the face, she suggests taking a blotting paper “to clean up any shine around the skin,” then adding a coat of mascara for a polished, pre-fall no-makeup makeup look.

Below, our favorite products for mastering the slow fade of summer.

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The Back-to-School Charm of a Messy Knot: From Rooney Mara’s Off-Kilter Twist to Katie Holmes’s College Bun

Right when we’re feeling the gravitational pull of fall’s richer color palettes and made-the-effort hair, Katie Holmes incites a flashback to our undergrad years, when back-to-school polish meant overstuffed backpacks, easy tees—and a messy bun that pointed to late-night, caffeine-fueled study sessions. It’s a relaxed solution for untamed waves that Rooney Mara took for a post-gym spin in Los Angeles with her freshly tinted copper layers twisted into a slapdash topknot in Los Angeles yesterday, while Charlize Theron raked her bedhead into a textured low bun. But leave it to the barely college-aged Elle Fanning to put an elegant stamp on the look with a slick middle part—and offer hope for those of us suddenly wishing we could duck into a lecture—that a quick flick of a comb is all it takes to pull together the look for the new season.

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10 Beauty Trends that Ruled the Summer: From Statement Curls to Supernatural Nails

Even as stores are filling up with fall’s first wardrobe staples—midi-boots! Flared denim! Floor-duster coats!—it’s hard to not feel a twinge of sadness as summer winds down, especially when it comes to the season’s effortless beauty routine. But before we say goodbye to half-day Fridays, dinners alfresco, and the luminous outdoor bronze that’s at the heart of the sunny season, let’s take one last look at the above-the-neck trends that shaped those glorious carefree months—and seem destined to carry over into the first days of September.

 

 

 

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Here’s How to Press Reset on Your Skin This Weekend: 7 Clay Masks for a Full Body Detox

When model and Victoria’s Secret girl Sara Sampaio posted an Instagram of herself floating on the surface of the Dead Sea earlier this week—her sun-kissed complexion and long limbs slathered in its restorative black mud—we instantly felt the need for a good beauty detox ourselves. After all, whether you’re looking to get a dull complexion back on track or resolve an excess of late-summer shine, the benefits of a skin-purging face mask are abundant—and today’s best multitasking, mineral-rich clay formulas deliver supercharged results.

Since launching last spring, Charlotte Tilbury’s Goddess Skin Mask has become a cult-favorite among major makeup artists and supermodels alike: Packed with nutrient-rich Spanish clay and hydrating sweet almond oil, it tightens pores without leaving skin feeling like it’s been shrink-wrapped. Erno Laszlo’s Anti Blemish Beta Purifying Mask—infused with kaolin clay, refreshing peppermint, and eucalyptus—keeps breakouts under control, while Boscia’s innovative bamboo charcoal hydrogel masks draws out blackheads and toxins in less than 20 minutes.

For those who prefer beauty with a botanical bent, there’s also the Australian organic power player Grown Alchemist, whose Deep Cleansing Masque harnesses wheatgerm, ginkgo biloba, and cranberry to improve firmness and texture. The Colorado-based Fig + Yarrow’s range of six clay mask formulas—from a soothing green paste to a balancing rose blend—has got the full color spectrum covered. But if farflung beauty treasures are your fancy, Guy Morgan’s Rhassoul-rich Midnight Black Clay Mask and pale pink Himalayan Salt blend are practically worth a trip across the pond: The British company’s forthcoming U.S. e-commerce site goes live later this fall, but until then, models and editors headed to London Fashion Week next month will be stocking up in bulk.

Of course, if Sampaio’s Instagram is any indication, why stop a restorative ritual at the neck? When a full-body detox is in order,  Pursoma’s Earth Bound Body Mask contains eco-certified clay from the ancient volcanic peaks of France’s Haute-Loire region that softens flaky elbows and dry knees while calming eczema flare-ups and body breakouts. Sounds like the perfect recipe to carry us into fall.

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The Kajal Eyeliner Obsession: Why the Smoky Eye Is About to Get That Much Better

Silent-film’s sultriest star, Theda Bara, used kajal as her calling card: With movies like The Devil’s Daughter, The Vixen, and The She-Devil, she helped invent the modern-day vamp, named for the dark-lidded female vampires she portrayed. The Ohio-born actress went on to play Russian villainesses, Carmen, and Cleopatra, despite doll-like features that included bow lips, a dimpled chin, and apple cheeks. It seems that lining her eyes with a swirl of black set her apart: Magazines called her “The Wickedest Woman in the World.”

Kajal is the term used in parts of India—that’s the name in Hindi—but it’s roughly the same stuff that’s called surma, kehal, khôl, or kohl in other parts of the world, and it existed for thousands of years before Bara. Ancient recipes call for the grinding of various pigments to be stored in a bottle then applied with a wand or by hand. Fortunately, today’s formulas are sleeker and simpler: Guerlain recently helped bring kajal back into the makeup lexicon with its Terracotta Loose Powder Kohl Liner, sold in a golden-rimmed vial. Now, the distinctive black eyeliner form is finding even more widespread appeal, with everyone from By Terry to Maybelline and L’Oréal launching cultish new iterations for fall.

With its sloping shape, a kajal-inspired pencil—which loosely resembles a lipstick bullet—is meant to be used sideways, with room for experimentation. Using the tip gets you a thin but pigment-rich line, while the wide edges can be dragged across the whole eyelid. Laura Mercier’s Kajal D’Orient in Noir Supreme has a subtle ashy shimmer and it smears to the touch—ideal for a smoky eye—while Yves Saint Laurent’s formula offers more controlled strokes in even darker jet-black, and comes in a wand-like casing that calls to mind a chic fountain pen (that you can actually rest on your desk).

Kajal may seem best for after-hours, but it was originally used to help cool eyelids in the hot sun. For a daytime alternative, Dior’s twist-up pencil of opaque pigment functions more like a supercharged eye pencil, and Maybelline’s formula comes in softer shades of midnight brown or navy that could work from day to night . . . or night to day. There is, after all, no rest for the wicked.

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Forget Braces! 6 Models Who Embrace the Charm of Perfectly Imperfect Teeth

Toss the disintegrating retainer. Forget the metal headgear. And wash your mind of the dangerous DIY-braces that the kids are trying out these days! Teeth with imperfections have always been devil-may-care cool with a hint of endearment. Just look to models like Kate Moss, with her signature incisors—and Lara Stone—whose gap-toothed grin only adds to her come-hither allure.

And it doesn’t stop with the supers. Dagger-like canines? Model Tilda Lindstam openly embraces her distinctively pointy chompers, often poking fun at their vampy proportions on Instagram. As for gaps? The spacious slivers run the gamut. Beach babe Ashley Smith is synonymous with the quarter-inch divide between her pearly whites, hashtagging photos with #TeamGap, while Georgia May Jagger almost always opts for a full smirk to show off her quirkily off-kilter space, and Saint Laurent-favorite Lili Sumner beams her slat-cast set to the world. Even Victoria’s Secret Angel Jac Jagaciak has a noteworthy rift in her seraph smile.

As for who else is capturing our hearts with charmingly uneven ivories at the moment? Calvin Klein Jeans campaign star and model of the minute Laura Julie has swoon-worthy, chasm-spliced incisors with an envy-inducing dead center gap. Here, six models with imperfect teeth who are inspiring us to skip the dental work and celebrate the beauty of an idiosynchratic smile.

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Is Tea the New Juice? How the Original Beauty Blend Is Making a Major Comeback

Another day, another I’ll-have-what-she’s-having elixir. And yet, in the midst of activated-charcoal tonics, slow-simmered bone broths, and nut milks spiked with turmeric, the most compelling health brew of the moment isn’t exactly new. Tea, naturally rich in antioxidants and low in sugar, is experiencing a major fashion and wellness renaissance—and if a quick look around is any indication, it may be poised to become the next green juice.

In recent seasons, models have declared allegiance to energy-boosting herbal blends backstage, with Kendall Jenner professing her love for Kusmi Tea’s BB Detox, a mix of green tea, maté, and guarana, among other ingredients. Meanwhile, matcha—the powdered bright-green tea that appeals to purists and the whole of Instagram—has given rise to cafés like Chalait, a jewel box in Manhattan’s West Village; you can also find it on the menu at the nearby Equinox (virtuous) and in a new custard pie at Brooklyn’s Four & Twenty Blackbirds (deliciously less so). And among those shaping how we think about beauty today—from Reiki-practicing facialists to herb-focused shopkeepers committed to impeccable sourcing—it’s increasingly top of mind.

“Beauty tea is the next wave,” says Jessica Richards, owner of Brooklyn boutique Shen, known for its curated mix of natural-focused skin care and in-house facials. For a glowing complexion, she says, “It goes back to what you eat”—and drink. Richards regularly brews Egyptian licorice tea, citing its anti-inflammatory properties, and starting this week, she’s stocking the new Sleepy Cow tea from the U.K. brand (and Soho House favorite) Cowshed. The elegantly packaged lemon-chamomile blend, developed with the London-based Joe’s Tea Co., will be on offer post-treatment at Shen this fall for an extra dose of calm.

In the meantime, why not try facialist Negin Niknejad’s Love Potion? Inspired by her cosmically connected client, jewelry designer Pamela Love, the tea—made with heirloom roses, violet, nettle, cardamom, and other poetically charged ingredients—is one of four variations available as part of her JustBe skin-care line. Niknejad, in the midst of a three-year apprenticeship with an herbalist, also creates custom blends to support immune health and aid sleep. According to Niknejad, technique is everything: “I always recommend to steep your teas overnight,” she says of combining boiling water and herbs in a large Mason jar before refrigerating it the next morning. “Once you make an infusion”—as opposed to a quick-brewed cup—“that’s when it’s actually medicinal.”

Ritual is essential to this new wave of tea-drinkers, from Niknejad, who recently hosted a full-moon tea gathering at her New York City studio, to Baelyn Elspeth, a Los Angeles native who leads Taoist-inspired tea ceremonies in dreamy locales (Venice Beach, cedar forests), where flower crowns and drums occasionally make an appearance. At New York’s CAP Beauty, a wellness boutique in the West Village, the sensorial aspects of tea extend to its facials, which often incorporate chamomile and green tea infusions. Later this fall, the company will launch a private-label organic matcha, which entails its own meditative ritual. Expect in-store tastings, along with handsome teacups by local ceramist Romy Northover.

It follows that cleanse diehards have moved on to “teatoxing,” which makes some occasionally questionable weight-loss claims. “I don’t know about teatoxes,” says Frank Lipman, M.D., the New York integrative medicine expert who is no stranger to cleanses (his two-week version is a recurring topic of conversation in the Vogue offices), but he stands behind tea’s numerous benefits. “You get slightly different antioxidants and catechins and polyphenols” in different types, says Lipman, who drinks his way through the spectrum: black and green tea by day; rooibos by night. “In South Africa, we all grew up with rooibos tea,” says the Johannesburg-born doctor. “[It] was, in a way, like a catch-all remedy.” And it’s once again having a major moment, popping up in Aloha’s new Beauty Tea (along with sea buckthorn berry and hibiscus flower), in Sakara’s Detox Tea (with rose petals and stomach-soothing linden flowers), and in the free-radical fighting Cocoa Rooibos blend from L.A. boutique Chay, developed with the medicinal tea atelier Wilwand.

Of course, there may be some logic to tea’s moderating effects on mood and late-afternoon cravings. “You start drinking a tea a day, and maybe you don’t need that second cup of coffee,” says CAP Beauty co-founder Cindy DiPrima. It’s certainly well worth clearing some space on your desk for The Office Blend, from the artisanal herb company Daphnis and Chloe, featuring irresistibly chic packaging by Nathalie Du Pasquier, the Milan-based artist and Memphis Group cofounder. Made with rosehip, Greek mountain tea, thyme flowers, and peppermint, it’s designed to enhance alertness—and weaning off cold brew has never tasted (or looked) so good.

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The Lower Lash Equation: How I Learned to Love the Doe-Eyed Look

From Dries Van Noten to Chloé, the fall 2015 shows saw a fleet of models with waist-grazing hair and gently flared pants coming down the runway, their new silhouettes ushering in a seventies redux. But if designers were inspired by the sparkling, floral-printed sartorial persuasions of Cher, Marisa Berenson, and Diana Ross, this beauty editor was more fixated on the eye makeup of that decade’s icons.

For all of their individuality, the tie that binds those disco-bohemian bombshells seems to be an affinity for a full, lush bottom lash. And the more I considered its eye-opening effects, the more I realized a wiggle of mascara below the iris was just the accent for an end-of-summer tan and a rumpled cascade of long waves. Bringing the look into the present moment seemed to rely on leaving the false lashes and extensions of the past behind. So instead, I reached for my mascara, first attempting an inky embellishment of those tiny, centimeter-long hairs. One coat and I instantly looked younger, more wide-eyed—but almost just as quickly found myself with a wet smear on the skin beneath my lash lines. There had to be an easier way. For this I called makeup artist Jeanine Lobell, who wears mascara on her lower lashes every day—and regularly paints it onto clients like Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett for major events.

“It makes your eyes look bigger,” she confirms, before admitting that a few studied tricks will save you time, frustration, and double your impact. For a wide-eyed effect that never errs on droopy, Lobell taps a mascara wand onto a small fan brush, which she uses to swipe product in controlled amounts onto her lower lashes. Though she acknowledges that thinner wands are adept at applying with ease, a fan brush will allow you to “really thicken the root [and get] thinner toward the tip,” which mimics a more natural effect. After an initial, full-lash coating to deepen the shade of your own lashes, Lobell recommends going back for a second layer on only the center hairs. “This gives you a nice V that just looks better. You can adjust the shape of your eyes [with mascara].”

When it comes to choosing the best formula, a waterproof, volumizing mascara your safest and most alluring route. “I like something that’s going to beef up my lashes,” says Lobell, who goes for the very darkest shade possible. “[Unless] you’re extremely pale and have almost white lashes, you can achieve more with black—it just looks sexier.” And with that, I’ve revised my technique, which now involves combing on obsidian mascara with a fat mascara wand for fluffy upper lashes, and wiping the excess onto a diminutive makeup brush to create a more delicate yet substantial set of lower lashes. It’s modern glamour, in the blink of an eye.

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The 10 Best Beauty Looks: Week of August 17, 2015

The week’s best beauty looks found themselves caught between summer’s last laissez-faire stretch and fall’s more thoughtful back-to-school polish. Not a bad place to be, considering the easy allure of half-up knots (Elizabeth Olsen) and natural curls (Lupita Nyong’o) juxtaposed with the effortful sophistication of high-glam waves (Camila Alves) and smooth side-sweeps (Emily Ratajkowski). Makeup still tipped the scale toward breezy minimalism, with fresh skin and universally flattering neutrals promising to retain their appeal once temperatures dip—while Rita Ora reminded us that, beach babe or city girl, nothing takes your look to the next level like a signature shade of red lipstick.

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Can You Have Brows Like Cara Delevingne? One Editor’s Ultimate Beauty Quest

If there’s one thing that I have secretly admired about supermodel Cara Delevingne, it’s her eyebrows; their epic Arc de Triomphe–like proportions make the tufty lop-sided lines of hair that frame my face look about as monumental as a bus stop. She isn’t the first woman to have stoked my brow envy: I remember wishing my face would sprout some version of Brooke Shields’s feathered arches as a teenager (instead, Mother Nature blessed me with a snaggletooth) and my attempts to re-create the statement brows of legendary sixties model Donyale Luna in my twenties with Indian kohl only ended in disaster (think Groucho Marx, minus the mustache).

For now, though, it’s Cara’s brows that leave me wanting. And it seems I’m not the only one. “Ninety-nine point nine percent of women come in asking for them,” says Umbreen Sheikh, whose beauty salon, Wink, is one of the few places in New York offering Delevingne-esque eyebrow extensions. Much like lash extensions, the painstaking process involves applying tiny fibers to the area one hair at a time.

“I would set aside at least an hour and a half, but it can take up to two,” says Sheikh taking a quick survey of my face before we get started. First-timers like me will pay $350 initially—a considerable investment—with touch-ups every two or three weeks thereafter, but that hasn’t stopped any of her clients from coming back again and again. “Getting fuller, more youthful-looking brows is a real confidence booster, especially for women who might have experienced hair loss due to chemotherapy or alopecia,” she says. “It’s hard to put a value on that.”

To prep the area for extensions, stray hairs are tweezed away and then a dark tint is applied to the existing eyebrows, “because a darker, more shapely brow will already look fuller,” she says. Once the dye has taken, synthetic fibers are applied to my skin with a nontoxic glue as I lie back. Fifty minutes later, and I’m so relaxed, I’m almost asleep. “Take a look, they’re finished!” says Sheikh as I peek into the mirror. “Just remember not to wet your face in the next 24 hours, avoid oil-based cleansers, and you’re good to go.”

Adjusting my eye to my reflection takes longer than I anticipate; somehow these new and improved brows put a different frame on my face entirely; the waist-length braids I’ve been wearing for the last three months, for example, appear OTT. I rush home to undo my plaits and settle on a tightly pulled-back bun with center part for the evening which make my eyebrows—and my cheekbones!—pop. Worn with giant hoop earrings and deep red lipstick and the look is a good cross between Sade and Madonna, circa 1995. I throw on a ruffled off-the-shoulder top for dramatic effect. “You look great tonight. Did you get a facial?” asks one friend at dinner as I nod affirmatively, smiling to myself so as not to give the game away. A few hours and a couple of glasses of wine later, and I let her in on the secret. “But they look so natural!” she says. “I would have never had guessed.”

Fast-forward two weeks and the synthetic hair fibers have almost all but fallen away. At the suggestion of a beauty editor friend, I book an appointment with makeup artist and brow whisperer Maribeth Madron, who has the kind of dreamy natural-looking brows that I would give my left arm for—not to mention glowing porcelain skin. If anyone can teach me a few do-it-yourself tricks, surely it’s her. “You’re not stuck with what you have. Mine didn’t always look like this,” she says reassuringly. “The goal is to have the best eyebrow possible for you.”

Once Madron helps me figure out the right arch placement for my face shape (not everyone can pull off a thick, straight brow like Cara—my arch should align with the outer corner of my pupils, for example), the next and most crucial step is to fill in the gaps. “Sketch with little brush strokes toward the growth of the hair using a pencil where the hair is at its most sparse first,” she says holding up a mirror to my face. “Then add color and weight with powder in the middle so most of it’s off the brush when you get to the trickier parts, like the end of the brow, which is known as the tail.” After experimenting with a few brow duo sets and putty, I get to work with Maybelline’s Define and Fill brow combo—it comes with a mechanical pencil on one end and powder on the other, which makes for less fuss for a makeup sloth like me. She suggests a few coats of clear eyebrow gel to finish the look “since anytime you brush up your brows, they look thicker,” she explains. “It tames the unruly strands, and gives a 3-D effect.”

Catching a glimpse at my newly made-up eye-catching brows, and I can barely believe that I did them myself (well, almost). After years of over-plucking, I only wish I could undo the brow sins of the past and start over. “Well, there are ways,” says Madron. “But first you have to go cold turkey and stop doing anything to your brows altogether.” Applying a stimulant nightly like RevitaBrow to encourage regrowth helps things along, according to her, and will usually show results in about three weeks. And when you’re finally ready to start shaping again, Madron insists on sticking to these golden rules: 1) “No threading or waxing,” 2) “Never tweeze before bedtime, or when you’re PMS-ing. You’ll hack at them when you’re stressed or tired,” and 3) “Only ever pluck stray hairs when your eyebrows are fully made-up or filled-in. Removing a few strands in the wrong direction will make for a major set back.” In other words, the best place for me to keep my tweezers in the next few weeks is in a glass of water in the freezer.

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Reasons to Leave the House With Damp Hair: The Model Off-Duty Appeal of Ocean-Fresh Waves

Photographed by Mario Testino for this month’s September cover of Vogue, Beyoncé may offer definitive proof that the freshest way to step into the new season involves a tangle of damp, finger-combed waves. But why wait for the first cashmere wraps and knee-high boots of fall? Spotted on Instagram, there’s a certain set of late-summer beach babes that are taking bare skin and damp seaside hair for a sun-soaked hurrah right now. Doutzen Kroes sent a postcard from Ibiza after emerging from the Mediterranean surf, while Daria Strokous posted a starboard selfie from Santorini. Also in Greece, Caroline de Maigret offered a vacation-ready route to her famous Parisian tousle, and Cora Emmanuel’s curls made us long to have salty waves as a 365-days-a-year style staple.

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