I Wore the Same Red Lip for Two Years Because a Magazine Told Me To
A single line in a magazine convinced me a red lipstick was the answer to looking put together. It took two years and one honest conversation with my mom to…
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Why I write this slowly
I started keeping these notes because I could not find anything that sounded like the way I actually think about my face. Everything I read was certain. I am not certain. Some mornings I like what I see and I could not tell you why, and some mornings the same face in the same light reads completely differently to me.
So this is not a routine to copy. It is closer to a diary that happens to be about beauty. I change my mind here often, and I try to leave the changing in rather than tidy it away.
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I watched her get ready most mornings while I was still deciding what to do with my own face.
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