Even though the April edition of Allure I naively picked up at the gym (not realizing it was an age-focused issue) said dark hair ages you, I still dyed my hair black because I want to look haggard and aged as possible, apparently. It's only demi-permanent so it should settle into a dark brown after a week, and then a week later the white roots will start popping up and I'll be at a crossroads again. Whatever. One-week to skunk-hood.
But I also learned so much else from Allure that I will probably also ignore.
Do not part your hair. My hair parts naturally on the left so this is hard to remedy, though when I got my haircut a few weeks ago at a Japanese salon in my neighborhood, the stylist did, indeed, tousle everything so there was no seam. I think this has to do with disguising roots because that’s what was explicitly done when I got my haircut in Singapore a few years ago and had failed to color my hair before vacationing.
No glitter, shimmer, sparkly makeup. If you see a piece of glitter, no matter how small, you're doing it wrong. I’ve worn eyeshadow with silver flecks in it twice since reading this and now I look 50.
No dark lipstick. Fine, deep mattes are ‘90s anyway, all my burgundies have been packed away for years. I just hope no one takes away brights next.
No drinking from water bottles, only those horrible ones you squirt from a distance. We all know (didn’t we?) straws were out of the question, the lip-puckering will cause wrinkles nearly as bad as sucking on a cigarette (or dicks, I guess? but no one ever discusses the blowjob/wrinkles connection and they really should). None of this issue is online, but I found extra valuable advice on Allure.com from a past issue: "Pursing or puckering lips frequently—when sipping, smoking, or talking animatedly—is a major source of fine lines around the mouth." Just talking will make you look elderly.
Thankfully blogging requires no mouth movements.
This site certainly has all of the info I wanted concerning this subject
and didn’t know who to ask.