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February 8, 2016

Plenty of Rouge: The Lipstick Effect

“It all started with a lipstick” – Bobbi Brown

When I was a freelance makeup artist in the late ’80s, most lipsticks on the market looked artificial, smelled bad, and had a texture was either greasy or dry. To create lipsticks that were more flattering, I adapted the colors that were available. Ultra-bright fuchsia, acid oranges, pasty and frosted pinks were the “it” colors at the time, but I thought they were unflattering. Instead, I would mix them with a little matte beige color to create prettier, more wearable shades that looked great on everyone.

To create my own perfect nude shade, I would take a taupe eye pencil and combine it with a pinky, peachy, cream blush and a little bit of lip balm. However, I met a chemist who said he could turn my creation into an actual lipstick. He created my first lip color — Brown. It was perfect. It stayed on, but it wasn’t dry or greasy. It didn’t smell. Best of all, it looked natural, like my lips, but better. I was thrilled.

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February 5, 2016

Mrs Sawyers

A beautifying emulsion of water in oil, often rose water in rose and bee’s wax, it attracts and removes makeup and surface debris while strengthening and clarifying skin. The sister product to vanishing cream, oil in water, it’s less practical as a base for makeup where vanishing cream created a luminous crease free base for, […]

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February 3, 2016

Making Coach Bearable: First Class Beauty

The easiest answer to making coach class is, of course, sleep, but sadly we’re not all blessed with an on-and-off button. So, we have the ultimate low-down on luxury beauty for those who desire discreet in-flight entertainment. But, having totted up the bill, you might as well fly first.

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January 9, 2016

Cold Cream & The American Drugstore

A clarifying cleanser with Old Hollywood association, the cold cream, native to the American Drugstore, carries romantic soda fountain ideology of small town America, as referenced in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Truman Capote’s Children On Their Birthdays.

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