This Is The Exact Lipstick Color That Rachel Green Wore In Friends
As brick brown red as the walls of Central Perk.
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by The Candidly Team
We love a good nude and natural lip color. We talked about our absolute favorite your-lips-but-better shade HERE, our favorite gloss HERE, and even Jen An’s own preferred, pinkish nude HERE.
But some days, we want a bit more depth and drama - some just bitten color to give a little pluck to our pout. And if we had to describe what we’re looking for in two words they would be this: Rachel Green.
We’ve written about Rachel’s clothes and we’ve written about Jennifer Aniston’s lip color. But Rachel herself wore a rich and stunning, supremely 90s but also timeless shade we’ve never been able to get out of our minds. Cue 376 photos of her (and her lips) looking amazing:
It’s a lot. We know. We obsess.
We recently found out exactly what this lip color was/is. It’s still available. Still a classic. And still sells out incessantly. And here it is.
It’s called M·A·Cximal Sleek Satin Lipstick in the shade Paramount*. It costs $25.
Here are a couple places you can buy it:
It’s creamy and bricky and red without being too red … or too brown … or too purple. Here is what it looks like in action:
According to Friends head makeup artist Robin Siegel, it was almost always paired with Mac’s famous lip liner in shade Spice*, which looks like this:
You can apply them together or the lipstick alone, and the result is a color you can wear just as comfortably with jeans to a coffee house, to work at Ralph Lauren, or to one of Ross’s weddings … perhaps even your own.
It’s that long lost, late-90s color that we forget looked soooooo good. And we finally know what it’s called.
And that my friends, is closure. Had to do it.
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