Tabla de contenidos para July 2017 en Glamour

Everything we’re binge-talking about this month a s a kid, few things gave me more joy than getting a multicolor hair wrap woven into my ponytail. This summer the so-called friendship braid returns, but with an anything-goes ethos: “Play around and enjoy,” says Eugene Souleiman, who created rainbow-hued plaits for Maison Margiela by securing silk yarn at the hairline. “Mistakes may lead you to something new and fabulous.” But while some versions are low-fuss, like the model’s bungee-cord braid at far left, others, like the rope-andvelvet extensions above, from the Honee fall 2017 presentation, may require an extra pair of hands. (We’re breaking down all three at glamour.com.) “This style is something you’d do with a friend,” Souleiman says. “Hence the name.” —J.H. The 6 Juiciest Summer Reads Everybody knows that…

Louis Vuitton’s new collab with Jeff Koons, the pop artist famous for his giant balloon-dog sculptures, is so ogle-worthy it went viral on Instagram—with 1.5 million likes—within days of being announced. Our favorite, for anyone out there with a richly deserved bonus burning a hole in her pocket: Mona Lisa (iconic women all the way!). While it will set you back $4,000, you’d own a bag with art by Koons and Da Vinci. So it’s kind of a deal, right?…

Direct Dye This is basically tinted conditioner (shockingly user-friendly), like Manic Panic or the L’Oréal at bottom left. It’s used to create most of today’s Crayola-color hair. Dusty Color A color that’s got gray undertones. “One trick that I do on bleached hair is tone it slightly gray before adding color,” Wood says. “When you layer pink or a plum on top, you then get a more subdued, sober kind of color.” Blorange A Creamsicle-y, blondorange hybrid first popularized by Georgia May Jagger. Use one part orange direct dye mixed with four parts clear (see the next page). Plavender Platinum hair with a lavender stain. Mix one part each of blue and violet direct dyes with four parts clear, and apply to platinum hair. Greige Like the nail color! A…

We all want to have great sex. To follow our desires. To figure out what feels good, and how to ask for it. To be present. Connected. At peak firework emoji. The search for all that, though, can be complicated, and most of us have questions: WTF do I like? Why do I know more about what gets a guy off than what gets me off ? Is everyone doing that thing I saw in a porno on my phone? In this special section, we’re going after answers—starting with 12 queries on all our minds now. Read, respond—and shake off any shame you feel about going after whatever it is you want. Fun times await.…

SOUND FAMILIAR? 1 in 4 contributors to Koenig’s project used words like slow, soft, or gentle to describe what they like in bed. I am not a sex expert. I’m not even a professional pussy whisperer (although how cool would that business card be?). But recently one of the focuses of my life has been trying to understand the modern female orgasm. A while back, after an uncomfortable sexual experience left me thinking a lot about intimacy, I started asking women for anonymous entries to a Tumblr I called How to Make Me Come (howtomakemecome.tumblr.com). I asked them: Imagine you could give this essay to a past or future sexual partner, free of judgment or repercussion. What would you say? The result became something of an orgasm ipedia of the…

In the new Netflix docuseries Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, coproducer Rashida Jones explores how technology is transforming sex. (The series drew controversy after some subjects said they hadn’t given filmmakers consent to feature them, which Jones disputes: “We take consent very seriously, and I understand that these are deeply personal issues,” she says. “That said, all footage on the series was obtained legally.”) Here, her thoughts on a world with porn- and Tinder-equipped phones: Q One episode features a man who ghosts on the women he met on Tinder. “This is a superficial app, so therefore my behavior is incredibly superficial,” he says, but “it does not represent me as a person.” What is that disconnect? Technology has made it OK to not be accountable. We don’t have to…

i’m running late,” I text Ashley Graham. “I ripped my jeans in the car and had to run upstairs to find something to tie around my waist.” If I’m being honest, the “rip” was more of a full-on, cheek-baring split. And in that moment, bare- assed in the back of an Uber, I could not have been more relieved to be on my way to this interview. Graham is a friend from my former life as a model—and I’ll neither confirm nor deny that she’s seen my goods before. “No wayyyyyyy,” she texts back. “I’m cool, come whenever.” Eleven minutes later I arrive at Ludlow House in Manhattan and bend over to prove my embarrassing claim, and she says, “Girl, that’s nothing!” I assure you it was not nothing. But…

Does She Contradict Herself? Very Well Then In some ways Margaret Qualley, a classically trained ballerina and the youngest daughter of Andie MacDowell and model Paul Qualley, was destined for Novitiate, the Sundancewinning drama about a young nun struggling to stay pure in a strict 1950s convent. More than halfway through the film, the internal conf lict manifests itself physically: Qualley, dressed in a nightgown, looks on in fear as her spider like fingers twitch with desire for another sister. “I think there is a common thread between ballet and [devout] Catholicism,” she says, “this sense of wanting to be perfect.” Born on a ranch in Montana and raised as a debutante in North Carolina, Qualley, now 22, was a model before making her career playing conf licted women (see…

Alexa Chung is known as fashion’s cool Brit, so when I heard the news that she was starting her own clothing line, I immediately thought two things: One, how does she not have her own collection already? After all, at just 33 years old, the former model has interviewed countless major designers as a TV host and created splashy, sold-out collabs with brands like Madewell and AG Jeans. My second thought: I’m so down with that! Which is unusual for me. As an entertainment editor, I work with musicians, celebrities, and influencers, and I’m skeptical when it comes to all the shoes-by or smells-by or shades-by lines from famous people who I’ve seen firsthand don’t know or care a ton about making fashion. But to me Alexa Chung has always…

“I actually feel sexiest wearing pants—track suits are my signature— because I’m most comfortable embracing masculine and feminine qualities. Sexiness isn’t about femininity—that’s a dangerous notion.” —Gabrielle Richardson, @fridacashf low, model and student, 22 “I’ve always worn T-shirts as dresses—and I’ve always had comments on my cellulite. But I stopped giving a f-ck what people think, and wearing them now makes me feel like there are no more fashion ‘rules’ for curvy women.” —Nadia Aboulhosn, @nadiaaboulhosn, blogger and designer, 28 “I’m the queen of f loral dresses! Being trans means I had to change everything I had been taught about gender just to be who I know I am. Now I live in extreme femininity.” —Shay Neary, @shadeyshay, model, 29 “Things like crop tops that show skin. People have told…

1971 The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective gives an early clitoris how-to. Our Bodies, Ourselves demystifies the clit: “Feel your outer genitals until you hit upon the most sensitive spot,” it reads. And if you don’t orgasm during intercourse? “You should not feel inadequate or ashamed.” 1973 Erica Jong coins the phrase zipless fuck. Her book Fear of Flying immortalizes a rip-offyour- clothes kind of sex, pioneering the idea of liberation for women. “Zipless because when you came together…underwear blew off in one breath like dandelion fluff,” she wrote. 1976 Joani Blank hails sex toys. A year before opening her sex-toy shop, which became a trusted resource for women, Blank wrote Good Vibrations, a guide to orgasming with a vibrator—or, in seventies-speak, “buzzing off.” She suggested the Hitachi Magic Wand,…

After a Tinder date last fall, I was watching a video on the “twin flame” theory on YouTube—was my date mine?—when it eventually autoplayed into an explainer about the yoni egg practice: Slip this polished crystal inside your vagina and get better, stronger orgasms. Wha?! It seemed freaky—good freaky. I’m able to orgasm with partners, but it takes a long time (and often one specific position). Anyway, I ordered one. Before the egg ($60) arrived, I brought it up with my gyno. She told me to look up Layla Martin, a yoni egg advocate, to learn the basics. Here goes: A yoni egg supposedly activates and strengthens your vaginal muscles. Some people wear one during the day; others, at night. There are plenty of cons to the idea (some of…

I came out as bisexual when I was 15 and have slept with both men and women. But at 28 I still don’t understand why everyone is like, “Oh my God, sex is so great.” I can masturbate and orgasm, but I’ve never wanted sex with someone else. It’s not for lack of foreplay—I’ve had plenty!—or because my partners are clueless (I know my body well enough to help, thank you). Nor is it about “finding the right person.” I’ve been so in love I was practically hyphenating my partner’s name with mine, wondering how many kids we’d adopt. And still, during sex I lay there, looking for patterns on the ceiling. It’s like, Is it really going to take you this long? Nothing is happening for me. Two and…

As a kid I watched a lot of television and movies intended for adult audiences. And I mean a lot. Though my parents drove a hard line on things like making my bed or eating only two Oreos in one sitting, there was little regulation on the amount and type of entertainment my older brother and I consumed. Dan and I were the second wave of offspring for both of our parents, and any preciousness in their child-rearing methods had been long eroded. A move to Los Angeles after my mom’s older kids went off to college in 1991 left me, Dan, and the cable box to our own devices. Mom and Dad worked late. By seven I was hooked on Beverly Hills, 90210. Though references to suicide and drug…

“People should be less scared of sex.” —Karley Sciortino, 31, @karleyslutever Ten years ago, feeling that an honest conversation about female sexuality was missing online, Karley Sciortino founded slutever.com.“ Pre-Instagram,depiction soffemale bodies were air brushed pictures and idea listic sex in Hollywood movies,” she remembers. “ Now women are saying, ‘ Thisis the way Iactuallyam.’ I admire women who are being overtly sexual on Instagram because there’san amazing reverence in posting slutty photos of your selfina way that’s self- aware. You can’tbeslut-shamed if you don’t care. My feed plays with provocative imagery, and the image of meinanimal print reminds me of something that Samantha Jones[ onSex and the City]would wear— to this day she’smy sex power icon.” — Alanna Lauren Greco What really makes a sex-positive Instagrammer tick? Lena Dunham sat down…

Cover Victoria Beckham dress, $2,470, sizes 1–3, victoria beckham.com. La Blanca bikini top, $75, sizes 34D–38DD, everything butwater.com. Lana Jewelry hoops, $430, lanajewelry.com. Table of Contents Page 5: L*Space onepiece, $169, sizes 4–12, lspace.com. Glamour Fashion Page 21: From left: Alexa- Chung T-shirt, $115, jeans, $295, neimanmarcus.com. Superga sneakers (on both), $65, superga-usa.com. AlexaChung dress, $685, neimanmarcus.com. Page 22: From left: AlexaChung shirt, $460, jeans, $320, platforms, $550, bergdorfgoodman.com. AlexaChung skirt, $260, openingceremony.com; shirt, $260, jacket (on hanger), $875, net-a-porter.com. The Accessory Edit Page 34: Louis Vuitton bag, $4,000, louisvuitton.com. Julianna Rae top, $192, juliannarae.com. Gap jeans, $80, gap.com. Queen of Everything Page 77: Malia Mills bikini top, $240, sizes 32D– 38DD, bottom, $170, sizes 2–16, maliamills.com. Page 78: InHouseAtelier top, $650, inhouseatelier.com. Balmain skirt, $2,080, French sizes 34–42, balmain.com.…

In April, Glamour’s College Women of the Year Awards celebrated its 60th anniversary. Our guests were serving up some seriously good advice. “Change will always be good. When you’re through changing, you’re through.” —keynote speaker Martha Stewart (a Glamour honoree in 1961, back when she was a sophomore at Barnard College) “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Reputation is what you think you are; character is what you truly are.” —Robin Roberts, left, coanchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, with 2017 winner Kia Nurse, right, and 1968 winner Katiti Kironde “We say, ‘Each one, teach one.’ We live off our mentors, and it’s good to pass that on.” —Maxwell Osborne, far left, cofounder of the fashion brand Public School, with cofounder Dao-Yi Chow, far right and 2017…

Monday This outfit is as comfortable as my workout gear but still looks sharp—which means I can take my dog, Blue, for a walk and then hit the office. For really important things, I throw a blazer on top. Hilfiger Collection pants ($230, select Tommy Hilfiger stores, 212-223-1824). All other items, Canales’ own. Tuesday This dress is a perfect example of what I love to wear when strolling around New York City. But plain white can be a bit boring, so I added a bag with emoji eyes to make it more fun. Dolce Vita dress ($150, dolcevita.com) Wednesday I like that this look feels like a work uniform but is still light and easy to wear. Plus, the hem length is office-appropriate, and the sandals are more tailored than…

remember when pink hair was considered extreme? We barely can either; it’s become that mainstream. The thing that’s different now: “People want faded, in-between colors instead brights,” says London-based colorist Josh Wood, the go-to guy for models like Edie Campbell and Suki Waterhouse. “Someone may have had bright blue, and as it washes out, they get that kind of gray, sky blue. It’s like a patina. Now we’re out to create those shades from the start.” Here, Wood maps out the before, during, and after of your new pastel hair…. FOR SUBTLE STREAKS L’Oréal Paris Colorista Semi- Permanent Hair Color in, from top, Aqua, Blue, Burgundy, and Peach ($11 each, at drugstores) Step 1: Prep You’ll probably need to bleach your hair. Let’s be clear: True pastel hair isn’t the…

A MIDDAY MEDITATION WITH FACE OIL Monk Oil Dawn City Skin Potion ($52, monkoil.com) “I drop oil into my hands, swing my chair away from my computer, and inhale deeply.” —Simone Kitchens A SOUND BATH Tierra Santa Sound Bowl Set ($55, 786-655-5570) “Circling the bowl with the wand creates a hypnotic, relaxing hum.” —Ying Chu A ZEN SHOWER WITH CRYSTAL SOAP Wild Medicine Soap ($22, wildmedicine.us) “This crystal soap infused with essential oils turns the morning into a spa moment.” —Katheryn Erickson…

a vocado has been a star lately, and with good reason: The fruit (yes, fruit) can reduce your risk for heart disease and DNA damage. Yet up until now it’s been an ingredient, not the vessel. Enter food blogger Colette Dike (@fooddeco), who has introduced a new way of enjoying avocados: in edible-bowl form, holding everything from hummus to crab salad. (Whatever you fill them with, she advises, “decorate the bowls with unexpected ingredients like sesame and poppy seeds or chili f lakes, to make them look even more beautiful.”) Here, Dike shows just how versatile the avo bowl is. Spiced Egg Salad Avocado Bowl 2 avocados Seasoned rice vinegar 3 hard-boiled eggs (peeled, yolks and whites separated) ½ lime, juiced Salt and pepper to taste Chili flakes to taste…

Why did you start the site? “One day, after getting a good dick pic, I realized I’d never been happy to receive one before. I joked that there should be a public service telling men what they’re doing wrong and made the site that afternoon. It blew up.” What have you learned overall about men through their submissions? “Men go through a lot of the body insecurities we do— around weight or hairiness— in addition to concern about dick size. Often men send their exact measurements, like ‘4.55 inches in girth.’ They really overthink it!” What do you think women want to see in a dick pic? “We’re looking for more than one body part—a clean setting, a narrative. It doesn’t have to be complex, but it should be more…

te•le•dil•don•ics /noun/: The use of sex toys, connected via the Internet, to stimulate another person remotely My husband, Kale, and I pride ourselves on our willingness to try pretty much anything in bed at least once. Now, thanks to some pretty futuristic sex toys, we can even say we’ve had sex without touching each other. The tech is called teledildonics, and it has the potential to let people truly engage in virtual-reality sex when they’re apart. At its most basic level, teledildonics connects corresponding toys via the Web; each toy uses haptic feedback (similar to your smartphone’s touch screen) to respond to touch, so your partner feels what you’re doing and vice versa. But can the technology mimic real intimacy? Or does it feel more like sleeping with a sex…

for years intersex activism didn’t have a face. In 2013, when my novel Golden Boy, about a sweet teenager, Max, who is struggling to hide his intersexuality from his friends and love interest, came out, public knowledge of the condition was embryonic, even though it affects up to 1.7 percent of the population. (That means it’s as common as being a redhead.) Intersex readers wrote to me saying how much it meant to see a protagonist who was like them. I emailed back and forth with these kids; most had been suicidal. But they felt less alone just knowing there was a fictional character out there who understood what they were going through. Still, it was fiction: Intersex remained largely invisible on the real-world stage. Young people were scared of…

Why that intense sex dream starring your dry cleaner happened. Why selling sex toys is banned in Alabama. (But guns? A-OK.) Why anyone would have sex with a blow-up doll, ever. Who decided everybody has to have anal??? Why you can get seriously hot watching some porn thing that would require Cirque du Soleil training in real life. How rare (yet perfect!) laughing during sex is. Why sex can feel like a thrill ride with one person and jury duty with another. Why dudes are born with penis pride, but pussy pride is still a work in progress. Who discovered oral sex? And how can we possibly thank them? How you can conceive a baby without fireworks— or at least warning f lares—going off. What to say when the sex.…