A brown lip deserves a spot in everyone's beauty arsenal. But, actually nailing the exact shade is, well... less foolproof. The wrong colour can wash you out, smudge into a chocolatey mess, or end up looking like 90s cosplay (though we're low-key here for that one).
Thanks to Simone Ashley and Ms Robyn Rihanna Fenty, our hunt may be over.
Simone wore the richest chocolate lip to the Time 100 Next ceremony in New York City last night (25 October), after featuring on the list. And thanks to the creator of the look, makeup artist Hung Vanngo, we know the product in question was Fenty Beauty's Stunna Lip Paint in the shade 'unveil'.
The sultry nude strays neither too cool nor too warm, finding that perfect balance, and though it may suit all, we're pretty sure it was made for Simone.
Forgive us for letting the highly lauded universal red 'uncensored' distract us from this hidden gem in the line up. But it's time to give the shade the attention it deserves.
Not only is it the perfect autumnal shade, but living up to the long-wear name, it should withstand all of your pumpkin spice sipping, gale force wind commuting, bonfire night snogging fall activities.
We also spotted that Hung used a full face of Fenty Beauty for the look, which had the Cosmo beauty team speculating whether it could indicate a possible Fenty Beauty ambassador role in the works for the actor. A move we're 100% manifesting.
Now if only we could bottle Simone's stunning bouncy XL curl look by @naivashaintl, and buy that for £22. A girl can dream.
Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
