Beauty by numbers

I wear less and less lipstick by the day. This is alarming, because over a three-year span (from the age of 22 to 25), I managed to amass a collection of over 70 tubes of obnoxiously colored lipstick in every shade of red, violet, and orange imaginable. I’ve even got a black one and a dark blue one in there somewhere. Bold lipstick was My Thing. People would always tell me that they first swiped on a vivid red because I did it all the time.

And now I don’t. Maybe I’m toning it down because I don’t need the power of red to make me feel as grown up as my age says I should be (hello, baby face), maybe I just need a change. Or could it be…am I growing up? Gasp!

Your makeup really should grow up with you, though. I know that your 30s are the new 20s, and your 40s are the new 30s, whatever, but there really should be some point in your life at which you stop wearing glitter on your face. Ideally well before you hit the big 3-0. Here’s your beauty timeline.