Blind item: Which makeup artist made me feel awfully stupid when she said, "Brown mascara doesn't do a thing for anyone-except albinos?"
I ain't tellin'.
But taking her word as truth, I stopped using anything but black and never even considered touching brown mascara again, assuming that they were too wimpy. Well, I'd love to send her a crate-load of the new Paul & Joe Mascara Duo N in-horrors!-brown. The double-sided glossy (for real!) chocolate-colored mascara emphasizes lashes just as well as my basic blacks, but because the color is slightly softer, it has a way of staving off that dreaded Tammy Faye effect that comes from multiple applications of mascara that I love so much. The color simply darkens to the point that lashes are crazy noticeable not crazy-crazy, if you know what I mean.
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