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Confidence is unstoppable. #1 Foundation in the U.S.* Cashmere matte. Breathable. Whisper soft. August 2022 64 HAIR-RAISERS Clockwise from left: Hairstylist Chris Appleton, set assistant Mark Smith, and makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic take our cover shoot to new heights. On Kim Kardashian: Schiaparelli Haute Couture dress encircled with gilded brass hoops for a trompe l’oeil-cage effect. Schiaparelli shoes. B E A U T Y R E P O R T E R 13 Heavy-metal makeup 14 Editors’ Favorites 16 Two ways to accessorize your eyes 43 Background 18 Cortisol meets Beauty. Field of Dreams. A tale of its match urbanization, 20 Simple skin care restoration, and by ScarJo • A new cultivation told reason to love an through fragrance award-winning 48 Social Creatures. exfoliator Change of Seen. Dr. 24 Janice Joy Buolamwini is Mascarenhas taking a stand makes art with against algorithmic braids injustice. 26 The future of 52 A Closer Look. injectables Hot Spots. Everything there is to know about freckles N E W S & T R E N D S 60 Modern TT VI Wellness. Power E L 33 Talking Beauty. Surge. How an LE L Actor Joey King “energy therapy” NIE plays favorites with session ended in A D her makeup. happy tears 2 ALLURE AUGUST 2022 in it for life The most eff ective sunscreen is the kind you’ll use every day. Our sunscreens are formulated with Zinc Oxide to provide broad-spectrum protection and designed to be blendable and feel weightless on skin. Trusted by Dermatologists. Loved by skin. Because we’re in it for life. Suitable for medium to deep skin tones. Also available in untinted. F E A T U R E S 64 Formula K. Kim Kardashian’s recipe for success is ever expanding. Come along as she tries out a new career—facial consultant—on our R E G U L A R S 76 writer. By Danielle Pergament 6 Letter From the 72 Is Aluminum the Editor GETTING CHEEKY Makeup artist Stevie Huynh Answer? Unpacking 8 Inspiration. O N T H E C O V E R demonstrates five fresh ways to the pros and cons of wear blush this season (rhinestones the plastic alternative. By Jessica Cruel Skims bodysuit. To create a similar makeup optional but encouraged). By Katie Becker look: Pure Color Envy Luxe Eyeshadow Quad 50 Ask the Beauty in Desert Dunes, Pure Color Envy Sculpting 76 Blush With Expert. What makes Blush in Mauve Mystique, and Pure Color Whipped Matte Lip Color in Air Kiss by Estée Greatness. Five scent so subjective? Lauder. Photographed by Danielle Levitt. beautiful new ways to Fashion stylist: Kyle Luu. Hair: Chris Appleton. wear blush. By Paige 56 The Face Chart. Makeup: Mario Dedivanovic. Manicure: Kim Stables Nina Park on the Truong and Diem Truong. Set design: Cooper transformative power Vasquez. Production: Isaac Feria. 82 The Science of of strategically placed Natural Beauty. When highlighter botanical ingredients get the mad-scientist 58 Me, My Shelf, & I. CALLING ALL BEAUTY ENTHUSIASTS! treatment, magic Tour an astronaut’s happens. By Jennifer beauty space Subscribe to the Allure Beauty Box and get editor-loved makeup, skin G. Sullivan care, hair care, and fragrance delivered right to your door. Each month, 90 A Look We Love. you’ll receive six or more products valued at $100+, at least three full-size The case for putting products, access to our member store with up to 80 percent off retail prices, lipstick on your lids and always free shipping. Plus, you’ll get a free gift with your first box. ALLURE IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF ADVANCE MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS INC. COPYRIGHT © 2022 CONDÉ NAST. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME 32, NO. 6. August 2022 issue. ALLURE (ISSN 1054-7711) is published monthly (except for combined issues in December/January and June/July by Condé Nast, which is a division of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: Condé Nast, One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. 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R O T I D E E H T M O R F R E T T E L commit to refilling the product 50 to 100 times). On the cyber- tech front, we explore the role artificial intelligence has to play in social justice. Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, PhD, is making sure that cameras and apps can actually recognize all skin tones equally and that our societal bias doesn’t bleed into the interwebs. Our cover star, Kim Kardashian, has just launched a new beauty experiment—SKKN by Kim, a line focused on a nine-step skin-care routine that reflects her own and benefits from her years mastering the science of celebrity beauty. Although, is it really experimental when the results are so predictable? Every Kardashian launch has been a success. And if I can encourage you to try your own experiment this month, please step away from the computer, the phone, or the new Kardashian series on Hulu and get outside. The most beautiful thing nature has to offer is serenity. Spending some time immersed in Green. Clean. Natural. Science- We also investigate how the glory of greenery will remind based. Most people in the Allure recycling strategies are ever shifting. you why it’s imperative that we fight world understand those terms are In “Is Aluminum the Answer?” we to protect our planet—and that mutable at best. (Green means get a deeper understanding of why includes using every scientific tool nothing more than a pretty color every brand seems to be launching at our disposal. when you see it on a label.) metal tubes these days as part Sometimes, people equate living a of a sustainability initiative. With cleaner life with foregoing lab- that in mind, we recently added to manipulated ingredients and the Allure Sustainability Pledge, “chemicals” (a word that applies to our promise to you that we will cut water, for the record). But science through the marketing BS when can give nature an automatic boost it comes to words like “recyclable” in efficacy and help preserve the (only about 9 percent of plastic potency of products on shelves. In has actually ever been recycled), D this issue, we explore the important “compostable” (not a reality for Jessica Cruel, Editor in Chief R O interplay between nature and most Americans), and “refillable” F @jcruel D science, especially in skin care. (impactful—but likely only if you N A S A D E K A M 6 A LLURE AUGUST 2022 garden N O I T A R I P S N I L’ORÉAL PARIS MIU MIU INFALLIBLE SOFT HEADBAND MATTE BRONZER BY JESSICA CRUEL PATOU BUCKET GLOW RECIPE E. WATERMELON GLOW L BAG A tisket, a E SUNSCREEN SPF 50 HI tasket—no picnic is C S complete without E a chic and handy N HI basket. P CORKCICLE E S CANTEEN No cork, O J no opener, no ice. S: E This is chilled wine G A on tap, wherever M you travel. G I N NI AI M E R D. N A R B F O Y S E T TOUCHLAND HAND R U SANITIZER O C D: N A B D A E H 1. 2 0 2 MILK MAKEUP PORE E, R ECLIPSE MATTIFYING U L L A R, but this oil-absorbing E T OLAPLEX NO.9 S cream primer keeps you on “Bronzer is all the makeup I need O NOURISHING F the right side of the E HAIR SERUM glisten-to-greasy spectrum. for a day in the park. I like a NI A L E matte formula. The sun can L L: E D add the sparkle.” O M 8 A LLURE AUGUST 2022