Linda Wells
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Hotels are so rich with scent memories that, sometimes, a spritz is enough to really take you places. Isn’t it about time you tried puttin’ on the Ritz, too?
Total Flake
Lather
Are You Lying Down?
Stretch
The Secret Lives of Tanorexics
One drop of rain and they’re off to the sun. What drives these bronze obsessives? And why won’t they ever learn?
Dry Cleaner
Rub
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Baby got back? There’s yet another area of the body that requires your attention, and professional intervention. Meet the entrepreneurs and surgeons who are focusing exclusively on improving your posterior
Do You Believe in Miracles?
There’s a new skin-care technology in town, and it may change how we treat wounds, heart attacks, and even cancer
That’s Hot!
Apply
Strait to the Point
Style
Take a Trip
Whiff
Play Ball
Shop
Beauty Complex
Conventional beauty standards are so last season. Welcome to the Age of Contrarian
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Want to explore the canals of Venice and the olive groves of Greece? This all-expense-paid trip also includes the world’s most exclusive Birkin. Christine Nagel explains how she got the job
Augustinus Bader
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Now Look Here …
Beauty is a game of control, and nowhere is that more evident than on the 250 hairs that make up each eyebrow. Welcome to the latest obsession
About Face
Bare minimalism or gaudy excess, today’s best makeup looks are anything you want them to be
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The founders of SoulCycle revolutionized the group workout. Now they’re taking on group therapy. Our brave beauty-and-wellness columnist dares to open up in front of an audience
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Getting gorgeous is not always pretty. But, please, apply the smelly masks, fishy creams, and messy waxes in private. Your sex life will thank you!
Vanity Case
It’s the Big Idea in beauty and wellness: invest in “tweakments” now; avoid heavy lifting later. But will this herculean effort really stave off an existential crisis? In the first issue of AIR MAIL LOOK, our editor dives beneath the surface
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What happens when the key ingredient of a blockbuster fragrance becomes scarce? For Thierry Wasser, the head perfumer of Guerlain, reworking recipes is a primary job responsibility. Along with reading Proust and traipsing through fields, naturally
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What do the contents of your stomach have to do with the appearance of your skin? Plenty, it turns out. When it comes to the fascinating eco-system of the gut microbiome, our science-loving beauty columnist can’t help but talk dirty
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Aging: It’s all relative, right? For those who are trudging into 2023 feeling like the past few years have weighed heavily on their faces, help is here, without a single trip to the plastic surgeon. It will, however, require a bus ride …
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It’s no longer enough to simply smell good. For the .01 percent, only a completely custom fragrance will do. And if it costs tens of thousands of dollars, so be it! Our sensible beauty columnist sniffs out the truth of this trend
