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Rebecca and Claire
Mar 03, 2025
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by Claire

It’s 4pm and I’m looking in the work toilet mirror, wondering where the lovely face I painted on before I left the house has gone. The blush and the base and the lips have disappeared. Subtly darkened brows? Ghost brows. Carefully brightened under eyes? Grey as they came. It won’t do. I’m all for going make up free, but it has to be my idea.

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