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DOING IT Let’s Chat About Choking Sexual strangulation is on the rise, but it can quickly get dangerous. Here’s how to stay as safe as possible if you want to try it out. By Varuna Srinivasan September 12, 2025 Getty Images Welcome toDoing It, a column where sex educator Varuna Srinivasan explores the deep connections…

Ready Layer Two Jennifer Lopez’s “Vampy” Custom Nail Color Is So Easy to Recreate You can do this layered look all fall. By Marci Robin September 11, 2025 Photo: Getty Images It’s pretty much fall! That means it’s time to dig out your deepest, darkest nail polish shades to signal to the world that you…

BOLD & BRIGHT Cardi B’s Chunky Yellow Highlights Are Giving Me Myspace Flashbacks She matched her hair color to her new vinyl album. By Kara Nesvig September 11, 2025 Getty Images Remember the chunky highlights era, when any time you got highlights, they were basically guaranteed to be at least an inch wide? It started…

Laid-Back Braid Katie Holmes’s Fishtail Braid Is So Back-to-School Coded Finally, some realistic everyday hair inspo from a celeb. By Marci Robin September 10, 2025 Photo: Getty Images I’m not sure what it is about the combination of a turtleneck, jacket, and braid that sends me back to the excitement I used to feel about…

TRESS TO IMPRESS 9 Best Aveda Products That Bring the Salon to You These formulas work hard and smell even better. By Christa Joanna Lee September 10, 2025 Collage: Gabrielle Langdon; Source images: Courtesy of Aveda When you think of the best Aveda products, chances are their iconic shampoos and conditioners come to mind first.…

Pink Lady Only Emily Blunt Could Make a Hot Pink Manicure Look Demure Even while wearing a sheer, black, lacy halter top. By Marci Robin September 9, 2025 Photo: Getty Images Maybe it’s because I was an ‘80s kid, but there’s just something about hot pink nail polish that, in my mind, exists in an…

GO LONG Selena Gomez Has Hair Down to Her Butt on Allure‘s Best of Beauty Issue It just keeps going and going and going… By Kara Nesvig September 9, 2025 Photo: Getty Images Selena Gomez has been living the bob and lob life for awhile, experimenting with the many facets of the classic cut. She’s…

Orange You Glad Selena Gomez’s Toasted Pumpkin Nail Polish Marks the Unofficial Start of Fall And is that a new Rare Beauty product she’s teasing? By Marci Robin September 8, 2025 Photo: Getty Images If there’s any celebrity we can rely upon to go into the fall-on fall feels in the form of a manicure,…

I’M GONNA FLY AWAY Tate McRae’s VMAs Hair Look Has a Secret Get all the details from her glam team. By Kara Nesvig September 8, 2025 Getty Images If you just quickly glanced at pop star Tate McRae on the 2025 MTV VMAs red carpet, you’d assume she wore her highlighted light brown hair down…

HAND’S BEST FRIEND Sabrina Carpenter’s Confetti French Manicure Brought the Party at the 2025 MTV VMAs Sparkle, Sabrina, sparkle! By Kara Nesvig September 8, 2025 Getty Images The MTV Video Music Awards are always a party, where anything goes on the red carpet and every fashion and beauty risk is worth taking. For Sabrina Carpenter,…