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Lisa Barlow on the power of lip liner

MAC has named Barlow its newest cover star and is launching two lip bundles built around her favorite products; the dinner reapplying turned out to be marketing.

Photo: Lisa Barlow · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Photo: Lisa Barlow
Photo: Lisa Barlow · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim under review: people grossly underestimate the power of lip liner, according to a woman who has a lip liner line.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich is a bold position, and I stand behind every word of it, because the evidence is on television.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLisa Barlow went viral for reapplying her lip liner, and reapplying it again, on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the New York Post reports.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNow she has a MAC collaboration.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA collaboration inspired by her catchphrase, baby gorgeous. Two lip bundles, and she's the cover star. That's a pilot program, Hank.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Baby Gorgeous Lip bundle pairs the Dervish Lip Pencil with the HoneyLove Silky Matte Lipstick. They sell it on a TikTok Shop livestream.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEvidence for: fans accused the cast of bullying her over the lip liner, according to Reality Blurb.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEvidence against: co-stars questioned whether the reapplying was a way to deflect conflict while everyone argued at dinner.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDeflection is just a soft launch, Hank. Let me finish. She was building a product line while they were building a feud.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRating: Mildly Bonkers. Barlow told Interview Magazine she once walked a long way into the city with twenty dollars for one MAC lipstick.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe dinners were free.

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