Lowest Common Denominator: Allure, August

33,683: Number of free items Allure is giving away in August, according to the cover

10: Pounds lighter, years younger, and times happier editor-in-chief Linda Wells claimed to appear after a bra fitting

$39.95: Price of faux-leather strapless dress from H&M that’s named as a “must” in “Fashion Cravings”

0: Probability, estimated, that any major magazine’s fashion editor has ever actually worn faux leather from H&M

Far, far too much: According to swimwear designer Malia Mills, the amount of maintenance a suit needs to avoid fading and stretching. Daily rinsing and a secondary suit just for wear in hot tubs? Like it isn’t hard enough to find one!

95: Page on which an advertisement for Latisse appears, asking “Not enough lashes?”

Boundless: The joy I’m apparently missing by not sleeping with my hairstylist, according to “Dirty Blondes.” The article claims stylist-client affairs are a “female pasha fantasy”

Heaps: Amount I loved “Time Warp” on page 141, wherein a fashion historian and a history professor discuss the realism of period-movie hair and makeup. More like this, please!

6: In “The New Cocoon,” number of items made of fur, including oh-so-practical shearling gauntlets

None: Amount of the diet advice in “The Fashion Insiders’ Diet” that’s novel to anyone who’s read a women’s magazine before. Really? Eat a piece of fruit before going out to dinner?

Tons: Disbelief inspired by this sentence in the diet’s introduction: “Models aren’t the only ones who feel pressure to be thin, and fitting into a sample size can sometimes feel like a job requirement—if not exactly a virtue—when you work in fashion.” Because, you know, that's just the way it is.

1989: Year from which Allure must have stolen the fluorescent-themed fashion spread “Plugged In”

Comments

[Samantha]

Dear Glossed Over,

I am bored with my usual magazines and you seem to talk about Allure a lot. Is it really worth my time?

[MrsBug]

Latisse. Has it really come to that? I mean, cancer and AIDS are still uncured and yet, we've got the cure for scanty eyelashes.

Doesn't it amaze you sometimes?

[fuzzykitten]

Latisse is actually a glaucoma drug called Lumigan. In clinical trials they discovered that application of Lumigan resulted in longer, thicker lashes so they rushed a trial for Latisse through the FDA to capitalize on the side effect - http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/2009/03/drug-promises-fuller-lashes-but-at-what-cost.html

It wasn't born from intensive lash research, but legitimate clinical trials for a glaucoma treatment. I would think that preventing blindess is a fairly noble cause.

[出会い]

よろしくおねがいします。good good nice

[競馬予想]

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