The No-Makeup Experiment
What quitting makeup taught me about femininity, people pleasing, and beauty
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13 min readAug 7, 2019
In 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.
