MOB WIFE No More
Town & Country US|May 2024
There's nothing tacky about it. All hail the return of the oldest trick in the book.
ROXANNE ADAMIYATT
MOB WIFE No More

Renaissance art scholars will tell you that mastery of light and shadow-as perfected by Leonardo da Vinci and his compatriots-ushered in a new era of realism and emphasis on the human form. I was an art history major, but I had learned this truth long before I was exposed to the canon, by watching my mom apply her lip liner in our car when I was a child.

By the time I was old enough to wear makeup, the '90s nude-and accompanying near-flesh-tone liner-was out of vogue, replaced in the early aughts by glossy pouts and Lancôme Juicy Tubes. For a while it seemed that lip pencils might be consigned to the dustbin of makeup history...until social media came along. Now #lipliner clocks in at 3.4 billion views on TikTok. After years of plumping our pouts with filler, our infatuation with full kissers remains-but now the OG pencil is back to do the trick.

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