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Champagne Wishes and Caviar Creams

The ingredients are mysterious. The benefits can be elusive. But the newest skin-care products are determined to prove their worth

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In 1991, Bobbi Brown founded one of the most successful cosmetics businesses in history. Now, at age 66, she just might do it again, with her line, Jones Road

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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?

Smells Like Teen Spirit …

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Dry Cleaner

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Total Flake

Lather

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?

Are You Lying Down?

Stretch

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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

That’s Hot!

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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

Take a Trip

Whiff

Strait to the Point

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Beauty Complex

Conventional beauty standards are so last season. Welcome to the Age of Contrarian

Augustinus Bader

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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

About Face

Bare minimalism or gaudy excess, today’s best makeup looks are anything you want them to be

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

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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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