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I’m not too sure when my love-hate relationship with makeup started. Perhaps it was during my senior year of college when I got too swamped with assignments, or maybe it was after all the years of heavy dance team makeup — either way, as a beauty writer, my relationship with makeup (or lack thereof) is one of my biggest insecurities. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy playing with and swatching new launches for work. But in my everyday life, actually putting on makeup and wearing it throughout the day kinda gives me the ick — until recently, anyway.