Beauty

Take a walk down Memory Lane with us… There have been so many exciting, revolutionary and innovative beauty product launches and trends emerging over the past 20 years, it’s positively dizzying. From the rise of highlighting and contouring techniques, to the global popularity of multi-step skincare inspired by K-beauty, to the launch of Rihanna’s industry-disrupting

Maya Rudolph was just as stressed as we were in 2020 and, to be quite honest, 2021 isn’t looking great either. Like us, the actress is going back to basics. “Cleaning my house, being with my family, and snuggling with my puppy,” are her top calming practices, she told ELLE.com. She is also taking Natural

“I picked up a random red drugstore lipstick with my mom when I was eight or nine, put it on, and thought, “‘Fuck, this is amazing,’” London-based fashion designer Harris Reed recalls of their first beauty epiphany. “Actually, I was young, so I probably didn’t say the F-word, but I remember being so blown away

This Christmas, my favorite gift was not under the tree, nor was it tucked in my stocking with care. The best gift I received this holiday season was on the homepage of Netflix dot com, and this might sound weird, but it was from someone named Shonda who doesn’t even know me at all! Bridgerton,

After K-pop group Blackpink graced the cover of ELLE‘s October 2020 issue, one thing is very clear: the quartet is boundary breaking. Their cover is the most liked in ELLE‘s 75-year- history with over 353,000 likes on Instagram. And they managed to racked up more than 8.2 million views on Youtube in a game of

Because there’s 100% a flat iron for you Hair comes in all different colours, lengths, textures and frizz levels, which means that—like the locks they style—one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to styling tools. That’s especially true of hair straighteners. Whether you’re trying to smooth über thick hair (lucky, but we understand the

Leave it to Jennifer Lopez to start the year with 2021’s most aspirational hair. ICYMI, the singer performed in Times Square on New Year’s Eve with her signature blonde mane in top shape, thanks to hairstylist Chris Appleton. Appleton, the mastermind behind Lopez’s viral Super Bowl look, was inspired by J.Lo’s head-banging choreography. “We went

What are your makeup aspirations for 2021? What’s on the mood board? For celebrity makeup artist Sir John—you’ve seen his work on both Beyoncé and Barbie—he finds inspiration on Instagram. “I just save them all [his favorite IG posts] to the backend, and that’s kind of the mood board at the moment,” he explains. His

Ariana Grande said it best when she crooned “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it” in her hit 2019 song “7 Rings.” While Grande was talking about her own spending habits (and the fact that, as a millionaire, she can effectively buy whatever the heck she wants without a second

Now that we’ve put the dreadful year 2020 behind us, it’s becoming easier to find little pockets of joy to brighten up our 2021 days. Mine? Watching our collective boyfriend Yahya Abdul-Mateen II beaming with joy as he discovers the amazing benefits of facial steaming. Just ten hours ago, the actor posted a carousel of

Dimitrios KambourisGetty Images Of all the celebrity skincare routines out there, very few are as interesting—and expensive—as Kimberly Kardashian West’s. After all, she is the one who helped popularize the “vampire facial” with a single selfie of her bloodied face in 2013. So it makes sense that the mogul is expanding her KKW Beauty brand

To simplify your quest for the ultimate winter skincare regimen, Beauty Director Chloe Hall explains her essentials for combating the season’s effects on your complexion. With picks from Ulta Beauty and guidance from New York City-based dermatologist Dr. Jeannette Graf, Hall’s got you this season. Step 1: Double Cleanse with a Balm and Water-Based Face

Back when the FLARE team shared an IRL office space (RIP to my abandoned aloe plant…), my mornings looked a little something like this: rush to get up the elevators in time for our 8:30 a.m. daily meeting (for which, I admittedly showed up to at approx. 8:32 most days), hit the button on my

Light Lock Highlight Fluid aboutface.com $32.00 Halsey is joining Rihanna, Selena Gomez, and Millie Bobbie Brown with the curation and launch of her very own beauty brand, about-face. The award-winning artist has been hinting about her latest project for months through mysterious posts on social media. Now, all has finally been revealed. About-face launches with

Plus, our editors pick their favourite sets! You know that superstition about however you spend NYE will set the tone for the year ahead? Well, reader, I regret to inform you that last New Year’s I changed into sweatpants immediately after dinner out with friends and we played board games for the rest of the

In partnership with Nivea The last 10 months have been *insert another word for unprecedented* for everyone, even for five-time Olympic medalist Tessa Virtue. In some ways, they’ve been uniquely challenging for someone like Virtue, a 22-year competitive athlete who was just a few months post-retirement when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. No more weeks on

Because the only piece of clothing people will see this year is your coat Winter is officially here, and you know what that means: you need to get a coat. But not just any coat—a super chic coat. Let’s be honest, with many cities across Canada *still* in lockdown, chances are the only time anyone

Emma McIntyreGetty Images Super Lustrous Lipstick, Super Red 775 REVLON amazon.com $8.49 $4.89 (42% off) Gal Gadot may play the powerful warrior goddess Diana Prince onscreen, but the Wonder Woman 1984 star has her own IRL superpower. “[Red lipstick] is something that runs in my family because my grandmother used to wear red lips,” Gadot

Ask any fashion-obsessed human about their first Kate Spade bag, and they’ll have stories to tell. For dancer Maddie Ziegler, it brings up memories of playing dress-up in her mother’s closet. “[My mom] had a Kate Spade little clutch purse,” she recalls. “I just remember always going into her closet and just wanting to try

When legends link up, magic happens, and that’s precisely what you’ll get with the new Barbie and Sir John collaboration. The celebrity—err, icon—makeup artist (we are talking Beyoncé, Chrissy Teigen, and Kim Kardashian West!) has partnered with Barbie on a beauty editorial that is now live at @BarbieStyle. “Barbie’s an icon,” explains John. “She’s known

ELLE.com Beauty Director Chloe Hall certainly knows her way around a skincare routine, but she recently got some product recommendations from an unlikely source: her mom, Dee. After spending countless weeks slowly stealing each other’s products while living together in California during quarantine, they decided to take their stealth skincare sampling to the next level.

I’m a highly anxious person, whose brain turns every minor issue into a full-blown catastrophe. Over the years, I’ve grown accustomed to friends rolling their eyes at my latest concern-of-the-day. But when my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 58, loved ones treated it like another one of my “silly” problems. Instead of

Confession: Before 2020, I wasn’t a great hugger. With the exception of a few people, I didn’t love hugging either. (Imagine what a hug might look like from someone who has a Larry David-esque skepticism toward social rituals with the body language of Bella Swan, and it’s probably not far off.) …And yet, months into

I know I’m not alone when I say that the current lockdown has been both a blessing and a curse for my skin. What’s great about the lockdown is that I can really work on my acne without fear of air pollution, dirt, and debris from my daily commute, triggering breakouts. Then, there’s the downside.