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Featuring the lip pencil that'll stay put while you're demolishing a Philly Cheesesteak Read more
On the four-step fragrance layering routine and the one nighttime product for that "filter-finish" Read more
Tom could go on forever Read more
How many fragrance recommendations can fit safely into one Top Shelfie? (The answer is six) Read more
Orange you glad we didn't say retinol? Read more
"I do my makeup French-style—no mirror, in the car, in the restaurant. All my girlfriends do it the same way." Read more
"Honey, time marches on and eventually you realize it is marchin' across your face." —Steel Magnolias Read more
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"I don’t like sheer polishes. But I’ve lately been obsessed with black, which as a pedicure is the chicest thing ever. Everybody has to try it once." Read more
This one's for all of the European beauty lovers out there Read more
"Tonight we’re playing Terminal 5 in New York, which is an epic venue—I want to be shiny. I’ll probably throw on a couple extra dabs of eyeshadow tonight." Read more
The perfect pinky brown for less than $20 that no one will notice—but you'll know it's there Read more
"In all the kitchens I’ve worked in, I’ve always used eyeliner because you don’t really need to reapply it and I feel finished with it on, but not made-up. I can go from work to going out and feeling like I have my look." Read more
Come for the board meeting- and Burning Man-friendly lipstick, stay for the pink marble vanity Read more
On JOMO (the Joy of Missing Out) and the budget liquid eyeliner that slays the competition Read more
On freelancing, finding the perfect blush, and forgetting about her Clarisonic Read more
The model fetes her latest Ferragamo campaign with an anime-inspired makeup look and a set of very convincing fangs Read more
The queen of the "feathered brow" (really—she trademarked it) on her favorite brow gel and the new eye shadow that feels more like eye cream Read more
We don't hate it Read more
A special Top Shelf After Dark with hosting pointers from the woman behind Cooking for Artists and a solid one-pot recipe for Greek lentil soup Read more
With performance tips like the Swan Lake-proof makeup routine and the mega-hold hairspray for ballet buns Read more
"I remember [my first major haircut] was at this Japanese studio in a nondescript building in Chelsea, and he just cut the whole thing dry—this Japanese guy with like a Samurai sword. I was like, ‘Is this life? Like, where is my hair?'" Read more
A love letter to one Mr. Duane Reade Read more
"No one had done a great collection of edited, natural-looking makeup. Lipstick that just looked like lips didn't exist. One day I met a chemist and I asked him to make me a lipstick...I told him, I want to make the best red, the best orange, the best beige. And we did." Read more