National Lipstick Day is today, and before you go, “Wait, that’s a thing now?” I advise you not to question it too much and just lean in, because Macy’s is having a major sale on lipstick to mark the “holiday.” A sale on some of best brands (and products) in the lip color game? Yeah,…
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Despite my well-documented love of frequent snacking, there was a time when I rarely bit into a croissant with bare lips when I could have done so wearing two coats of duochrome glitter atop a vibrant crimson red. This is a great litmus test for the staying power of any given product, but also, I…
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Call it the Fenty Effect, but diversity is finally no longer just a buzzword, but something brands are starting to take seriously as a philosophy. Maybelline has been raising the bar in the drugstore sphere when it comes to shade range. Last year the brand doubled its beloved Fit Me Complexion line from 16 to…
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A few years ago, I wouldn’t have gotten close to navy lipstick with a ten-foot pole. I was barely comfortable wearing bright red lipstick outside, let alone a blue lipstick color so dark, it gives black a run for its Hot Topic money. The market wasn’t really there, either: it existed in a few all-encompassing…
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When you think of black lipstick, an old Halloween costume might come to mind, or maybe that goth phase you went through in middle school. But when I think of black lipstick, I think of Rihanna. The specific image of RiRi that comes to mind is one that showed up on my Instagram feed uninvited…
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There are influencers and there’s Camila Coelho. The Brazilian makeup artist turned social media star has enough followers on Instagram alone to populate her own small country. (That would be a cool 7.4 million, by the way.) But before she became famous for her jet-setting style and flawlessly painted-on lips, Coelho got her start behind…
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