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1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Sophia Panych

   An Oral History of Allure’s Best of Beauty Awards (opens the original)

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   It was October 1996. The Yankees were about to win the World Series, Bill Clinton was on his way to a decisive reelection victory, and, more consequently at Allure, Chanel’s Vamp was a newcomer on the nail polish scene. It was also the month that we published the very first Allure Best of Beauty awards. The notion of testing beauty products in order to select winners in each category—and explain why each one was the best—was a radical idea. Most “women’s magazines” didn’t dare decl

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2. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Sophia Panych

   Bringing "The Odyssey" to Life Through Hair and Makeup Was Its Own Epic Journey (opens the original)

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   “It is a time of apparent magic….” This is how Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey begins. A single line of text against a black screen, reminding viewers of (or introducing them to) Homer’s mythological tale of gods and goddesses, spells and potions, monsters and mystical disguises. Nolan’s film has all of that: the giant Cyclops and the six-headed dog; lotus flowers that, when eaten, erase your memory; Circe, the sorceress, who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs with her bare hands, in one of the

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