Tag: best of beauty 2023
39 Best Beauty Products of 2023: Recommended by Allure Editors, Loved By Readers
You may be surprised to hear that the proverbial Allure group chat (a.k.a. Slack) is just as a-buzz with new product launches as it is with editor love letters to classic beauty products. It turns out, our readers are just like us. We took a look at the most popular beauty products of 2023 among our audience and compiled our findings into one fascinating end-of-year roundup.
While many of the products aren’t fresh off the 2023 press release, our readers
Best of Beauty Awards 2023: The 38 Best Tools for Hair, Makeup, and Skin
There are two types of people in the world: those who watch a beauty tutorial and nail the look on the first try, and those who watch a beauty tutorial and call up the salon for an appointment. Like the general population, each Allure editor falls squarely into one of the two camps. Some of us can produce a Zendaya-level polished bob or brows to rival Lily Collins’s and some of us…can’t. In testing for the Tools category of our
The 46 Best Body Care Products of 2023
The beauty team at Allure considered many, many factors when picking the Body Care winners of our 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards. Our desire for perfect skin doesn’t end at the collarbone. And yet, so many of the products we slather on our bodies seem perfectly content to do the bare minimum. They smooth and hydrate, but that’s basically the extent of it. We can almost hear our daily body lotion saying, “You’re going to be wearing black
Best Base Makeup of 2023: See the 25 Allure Best of Beauty Award Winners
If you really think about it (and we’ve really thought about it), foundations, concealers, and face-contouring products have the most thankless job in the beauty world. As our editors tested products for our Base Makeup category in the 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards, we couldn’t help but notice our high expectations. We look to these products to disguise every flaw and enhance every angle — while remaining totally invisible. Their job basically involves hiding in the wings so
The 33 Best Drugstore Beauty Products and Steals of 2023
At Allure, we pride ourself on our longstanding tradition of recommending only the products that we have truly tested, loved, and deemed worthy of your hard-earned cash — something we kept in mind throughout the entire 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards process. We know the economy has been bananas lately (seriously, have you seen the price of bananas?) which is why it feels more urgent than ever to sift through the thousands of products flooding store shelves and
The 48 Hair-Care Winners of Allure’s 2023 Best of Beauty Awards
Biologically speaking, hair has evolved to protect us, to keep us warm. But over a few thousand years, it has become so much more. Hair is power. It’s identity; it’s confidence. It’s deeply personal, and it connects us to a larger world — to our family, our community, our culture. And at Allure, it connects us to you. That’s why the Hair Care category of our 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards involved testing (and retesting) hundreds of shampoos, conditioners,
The Best Eye Makeup of 2023, According to the 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards
They light up with joy, tear up with emotion, widen in disbelief, and let everyone know when you’ve prioritized Gossip Girl reruns over a good night’s sleep (again). Our eyes have a unique ability to communicate our private thoughts and experiences, which is part of their special power. But it’s nice to exert a little influence over those subliminal messages, too, courtesy of the Eye Makeup winners of the 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards.
The mascaras, shadows, liners,
Meet the 2023 Skin-Care Winners of Allure’s Best of Beauty Awards
Lava lamps. Jelly sandals. Charcuterie boards. In a world full of fleeting fads and passing trends, it’s a comfort to know that soft, supple, glowing skin will always be in style. But trying to achieve it has never been a straightforward proposition. Too often we’re distracted by buzzy ingredients and internet-famous products that amount to little more than a flash in the pan. Like a scene from Great Expectations, our medicine cabinet is filled with half-empty jars and abandoned bottles
Meet the 2023 Skin-Care Winners of Allure’s Best of Beauty Awards
Lava lamps. Jelly sandals. Charcuterie boards. In a world full of fleeting fads and passing trends, it’s a comfort to know that soft, supple, glowing skin will always be in style. But trying to achieve it has never been a straightforward proposition. Too often we’re distracted by buzzy ingredients and internet-famous products that amount to little more than a flash in the pan. Like a scene from Great Expectations, our medicine cabinet is filled with half-empty jars and abandoned bottles
The 28 Most Worth-It Beauty Splurges of 2023
A “splurge” is a highly relative concept. After we spritzed, swiped, and swatched luxury beauty products for the Splurges category of our 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards, we discussed this relativism at length. For most of us on planet Earth, this distinction includes a $270 eye cream or $600 hair tool (both featured here). For those of us with egos the size of planet Earth, it’s a private rocket making occasional pit stops to outer space (not featured