Beauty Products Guaranteed to Garner Compliments
By Heather Muir, Allure magazine
Fifty-four percent of women say that when someone compliments their looks, it makes them feel happy, according to a recent Kelton Research study. And we've got an easy way to bring in the flattery fast: Certain beauty products go above and beyond personal satisfaction, grabbing others' attention left and right, time and again. These are the ones our editors swear by.
Pop Beauty Smokey Eyes palette. For deputy editor/beauty director Amy Keller Laird, the high-sheen (but no-shimmer) bronze shadow in this palette works like a charm. "I apply it over my lids and then slightly darker in the crease, creating bronze smoky eyes," she says. "Just yesterday, while I was at a salon getting a blowout, the girl who shampooed my hair complimented it. Then I had a TV appearance, and the makeup artist there complimented it. Then when I got to work, several coworkers complimented it. It's like this every time I wear it."
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J.Lo Glow. "When this fragrance first came out, I liked how it smelled clean and fresh yet feminine. So I wore it for a few weeks, and every time I did people asked me for the name of it. Even strangers would ask me what I was wearing!" says beauty editor Angelique Serrano. "Last year, I found an old bottle in my closet and sprayed it into the air; a few minutes later, my then-boyfriend-now husband-walked into the room and asked what it was; he said he liked it."
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Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash Mascara in Blackest Black. "People think I have an odd obsession with it, but I get comments on my lashes every time I wear it," says assistant editor Kayleigh Donahue. "It separates them and has a glossy finish, so they look like my lashes, just better."
Giorgio Armani Rouge D'Armani in 600. "It's a violet lipstick with blue undertones that looks surprising good on my light skin and blue eyes," says editorial assistant Sophia Panych. "People ALWAYS compliment it when I'm out."
What products score you the most compliments? And do you wear them more because of it?
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Photo Credit: Courtesy of Giorgio Armani Beauty
