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Makeup judged the way we judge skincare.

Makeup · Curated

Ten luxury makeup products arranged on a shelf

Edit 073 · HIGH MAINTENANCE High Maintenance: Luxury Makeup Worth the Extra Money Ridiculous price. Annoyingly good.

Ten primers and finishing powders arranged on a shelf

Edit 072 · SOFT FOCUS Soft Focus: Blurring Makeup for a Filtered Finish Blur the evidence. Keep the skin.

Ten bronzers and contour products arranged on a shelf

Edit 071 · GOOD BONES Good Bones: Bronzers and Contours for Cheekbones You Were Not Born With Cheekbones are negotiable.

Edit 070 · UNDER COVER Under Cover: Concealers That Disappear Into Skin If we can see the concealer, it failed.

Edit 069 · FACE VALUE Face Value: Foundations Worth What They Cost We judged the formula, not the bottle.

Ten makeup products for an undone look arranged on a shelf

Edit 068 · THE MORNING AFTER The Morning After: Makeup for the Perfectly Undone Face None of this is supposed to look new by lunch. Liners we like smudged, shadows we like creased and lips we like half gone.

Edit 067 · LASH LAB Lash Lab: Mascaras With Tubing, Peptides and Too Much Science Peptides, serums, tubing polymers and the increasingly complicated business of a very good eyelash.

Nine skin tints and sheer foundations arranged on a shelf

Edit 066 · BARELY THERE Barely There: Skin Tints for People Who Want Better Skin, Not More Makeup Complexion products between forty and a hundred and twenty five dollars, and none of them look like makeup.

Ten makeup and skincare hybrid products arranged on a shelf

Edit 047 · CATEGORY ERROR Category Error: Makeup That Behaves Like Skincare Ten products that refuse to pick a side, from twenty four to seventy two dollars.

Eight makeup products with no dupe, arranged on a shelf

Edit 043 · NO DUPE No Dupe: Makeup Nobody Has Managed to Copy Eight products with no copy at any price, and the cheapest one is under twenty five dollars.

Edit 035 · PRICE TAG Price Tag: What Expensive Makeup Actually Buys, and Where It Does Not Nine makeup products between forty and ninety nine dollars, what the extra money buys in each, and the one we think is overpriced.

Edit 034 · FULL FACE Full Face: A Product for Every Step Nine objects, one for every step, and not one of them doing a job another already does.

Edit 033 · SLEPT WELL Slept Well: Makeup for Looking Like You Did Nine products, seven of them fragrance free. The test is whether anyone can name what you used.

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