Back in 2017, we discovered the go-to lipstick used on Jennifer Aniston through 10 seasons of playing beauty and style icon, Rachel Green in Friends. It was a simple piece of beauty intel that caused a frenzy of delight, flames of delight only fanned by the fact we could still get our sticky little paws on it now.
The shade we speak of is of course MAC 's Paramount. Described by Jen as a "browny brick", the shade is oh-so-nineties, but hasn't dated one bit. We know now that it was actually Jen's go-to before it was Rachel's, and the star herself brought the shade to her character's makeup bag.
Presented with a photo of herself back in 1993 at the premiere of Leprechaun – AKA her first lead movie role – Jen identified the shade she was wearing as none other than Paramount.
The snap was pre-Friends and "before the sun kissed my hair with natural highlights," as Jen puts it, but here is little baby brunette 23-year-old Jen, already rocking her signature shade of warm brown with a satin finish.
Other parts of the look she didn't feel had lasted so well. She revealed she'd cut her hair herself for the occasion, saying; "Oh dear, first of all that's awful. This is from the premiere of Leprechaun. I'm sorry, and I did this all myself."
TBF it looks infinitely better than any DIY haircut I've ever attempted (oh the flashbacks).
I'll be passing on the DIY hair cuts, but long live Paramount lipstick. I need a new tube actually. * adds to basket *
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.
