How We Tested 9,000 Products for Our Best of Beauty Awards

How We Tested 9,000 Products for Our Best of Beauty Awards

Our team puts a lot of work into finding each year’s most elite beauty products. After considerable prep work, we quickly embark on months of spritzing, swatching, and sniffing. The testing period is then followed by several weeks of debating and, at long last,...
The 8 Best Sensitive Skin Products of 2023

The 8 Best Sensitive Skin Products of 2023

There’s a very good chance (say, 50%) that you believe you have sensitive skin, and a very low chance (say, 5%) that you actually do. That’s because only a sliver of the population actually has a chronic skin condition, like eczema or rosacea — the real...
The 28 Most Worth-It Beauty Splurges of 2023

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...