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One fateful day, while getting ready to see the Christmas lights in Manhattan, I uncharacteristically reached for a new shade of pink from Flesh Beauty gloss. As for lip glosses, I couldn’t seem to find ones that stayed on my lips for my daytime adventures and nighttime outings, all while being the right shade - not too pink or ashy, not too dark, and not too sheer. I tried countless lip liners, everything from $1 beauty supply store staples to high-end lip markers that promised long-lasting pigment. The pronounced lip liner and almost-wet gloss look is definitive of trendy Black girl makeup so I knew that picking the best lip liner and gloss combo would be the anchor of my go-to beauty look. I admired the bold and bright trademarks of stars like Lupita Nyong’o and Tracee Ellis Ross, but gravitated toward the neutral soft glam aesthetic perfected by beauty gurus like Jackie Aina and Rihanna.
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While going through the growing pains of nailing down my signature beauty look, I experimented with quite a few lip products. Big lips are a common genetic staple among Black people, so naturally, I felt cheated. At first, I despised the natural brow outline of my pout (that I would eventually grow to love), then a bit later in my adolescence I became envious of women with big doll-like lips, despising my own for not being voluptuous enough. I’ve always had a love hate relationship with my lips that leaned a bit more toward the hate side.