The Unmistakable Allure of Marilyn Minter

Even if the only cosmetic you use is ChapStick and you think Sephora might be a laundry detergent, we advise you to pick up a copy of the June issue of Allure. After you’ve pondered the news that Jessica Alba was reading Philip Roth’s The Human Stain during the cover shoot, a tidbit reported just before a page devoted to the trend of “stained lips” (coincidence?), turn to page 170, where artist and photographer Marilyn Minter has photographed freckled, shimmery-faced Brazilian model Cintia Dicker for writer Rebecca Mead’s piece on the world’s ambivalence toward ephelides (that’s the scientific term for freckles, we learned in the fourth paragraph).