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How to Look Fresh as Hell in Brown Lipstick

This is one of the '90s trends we're actually excited is making a comeback. Here's how to wear brown lipstick without looking like a corpse
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Angela Basset's Chocolate Brown Lipstick
Angela Basset slays with her smoky eye/brown lipstick combo (seriously, we're #dead, this looks so good). Try a milk chocolate shade like Bobbi Brown Sheer Lip Color, $27, in Bobbi. (Side note: Bobbi's first lipstick color was brown, so she's definitely an expert.)

Pro tip: Bobbi Brown's resident editorial makeup artist Cassandra Garcia says if you're afraid of brown lipstick, a sheer lip color, as the color payoff won't be as intense. "Brown lip color is the perfect finishing touch that complements, rather than competes with, the rest of your beauty look," she explains. "It's a quick way to look polished and modern."

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Cara Delevingne's Barely-There Brown
Ease your way into the brown lipstick trend by choosing a shade that has pink and honey undertones, like Hourglass Femme Nude Lip Stylo, $30, in Nude No. 6. We love the mauve brown chubby pencil because the formula is incredibly easy to apply and requires minimal touch ups throughout the day (because you know if you're wearing brown lipstick, it better look #flawless).

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Shay Mitchell's Vampy Brown Lipstick
"Brown lips look amazing against matte skin and an eye bathed in warm neutrals," says Stapleton. The evidence: Shay Mitchell. Try M.A.C. Lipstick, $20, in Film Noir to get her vampy, reddish-brown shade.

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Kat Denning's Plum Brown Lipstick
Even superpale girls like myself can get in on the brown lipstick trend. Case in point: Kat Dennings's plummy-brown lipstick paired with matte makeup. Try Wet n' Wild Velvet Matte Lip Color, $3.49, in Looking for Truffle, a cruelty free product with rich, opaque coverage and plummy undertones (available in 2016).

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Khloe Kardashian's Bronze Lipstick
Another great starter brown lipstick (if you will): Nars Lipstick, $27, in Hot Voodoo. It's basically a nude lipstick, but 1,000 times better, thanks to the hints of shimmer and bronze-brown hue.

BY ALLIE FLINN | NOV 12, 2015 | SHARES
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