Some women’s skis are meant to gently ferry the skier to the bottom without undue stimulation.  Then there’s the Allura, which Völkl might consider rechristening the Avanti, for this baby wants to go forward, and fast.  Völkl values carving capability on hard snow more than motherhood, and the Allura comes alive as soon as it’s tilted and pressured.

But you’d best have the skills to hold on, for the Allura’s voluptuous sidecut is a short-radius trench digger with an insatiable appetite for hooking up at speed.  What it doesn’t include in its diet is deep snow, an understandable limitation in an archetypical Frontside ski.