This Is The Exact Lip Color Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Wore In The 90s—And It’s Still Perfect Today.
The epitome of 90s classic minimalism.
Image: Getty Images | Tyler Mallory
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by The Candidly Team
If you’re watching Love Story, or even if you’re not and have just always been drawn to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s impeccable, timeless beauty, we have ferreted out the exact brick-red lipstick she wore.
Image: Getty Images | Tyler Mallory
It is Bobbi Brown Crushed Lipstick in the shade Ruby*, and it is perfect.
This shade is so specific and so unique, and if you’re someone who likes color but a true RED red is too much, or you feel it ages you, this could be your color. Here it is with one swipe on the left and built up for more color “payoff,” as they say, on the right:
The formula is so comfortable it just feels like an ultra-nourishing lip balm, and as it wears off through the day it leaves more of a stain on the lips, so you never have to sort of “manage” your lip color, even though it’s bold.
Here it is on one of our fair-skinned readers (also friends):
She’s wearing zero other makeup except for the lightest sweep of powder, and the lip color really enlivens her whole face, no?!
And while we’re at it, we recently discovered CBK’s favorite perfume was an Egyptian musk oil, sold by a NYC street vendor—a skin scent with notes of linen and white floral and subtle musk, but it’s been closely compared to one of our go-to affordable perfume oils we’ve worn for years and always get compliments on, found HERE.
No one will ever be her. But adopting these little signature homages means she lives on. And because her taste was impeccable, we look (and smell) ever more gorgeous doing it.
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