Tonight's feature
Matte, satin, cream, gloss, stain. Here is how to figure out which lipstick formula actually works for your lips instead of guessing at the drugstore counter.
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The Programme
Eight places to start, depending on what you came here for.
From the dressing room
"Thin or sparse brows usually get filled in the wrong way first, with a single solid block of color that covers the gap but looks nothing like actual hair."
The Encore
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AB
So, why another makeup site?
Because I could not find one that talked to me like a friend would. Every tutorial I opened assumed I already knew what a transition shade was, or it tried to sell me an eleventh brush before I owned a decent first one.
I started wearing makeup properly in my thirties, well after everyone else seemed to have figured it out. Everything here is what I wish somebody had told me then, written the way I would say it out loud on the phone.
Adriana Bellamy, editor