What I’ve Learned in 2015, Part One
Some SHB contributors reflect on the past 12 months in life, and in beauty.
LUCY MANGAN, WRITER & CO-FOUNDER
Big year for me, 2015. Big year. Got Netflix. Got an iPhone. Nearly downloaded an app. Worked out what #OITNB meant and watched all of Orange Is the New Black. On Netflix. You?d have thought I?d have been content to stop there, but no. Flushed with success, I embarked on the greatest journey of all ? colour. On my face. Specifically, red. Specificallyer ? red lipstick.
I simply cannot convey to you with only the paltry resource of the written word at my disposal what a momentous thing this was. I do not do red lipstick, any more than I do running, karaoke or bum sex. The difference is, I have always wanted to do red lipstick. And so, after three Valium and several close consultations with the oracle, who picked a shade to suit me ? Bobbi Brown?s Burnt Red – and promised me I wouldn?t die, I did it.
I wore it down the high street. Nobody laughed, or pointed. I wore it into town and nobody stopped me in the street and said ?That?s not for the likes of you! You’re not hot! Or cool!? before punching me to the ground, which is what ? I realised as I strode down Oxford Street with increasing confidence ? I had always believed in my heart would happen. I didn?t, in short, die.
On I have gone proudly since. Nars Jungle Red. Chanel Rouge Coco Gabrielle. Boots No 7 Stay Perfect Brick Red. Clinique Poppy Pop. Bourjois Velvet in Hot Pepper. You can?t keep me a...
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