Human Parts
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Human Parts

The No-Makeup Experiment

What quitting makeup taught me about femininity, people pleasing, and beauty

InIn my seventh-grade school photo, I’m wearing lipstick that’s almost brown, a la ’90s-era Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Lopez, and Kate Moss. My friend Arielle, a grade above me, had shared it with me the morning before our photos were taken.

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