Cosmopolitan_SriLanka_December_2016

92 ^ Cosmopolitan ^ DECEMBER 2016

beauty

can

make-up

make

You

Better

at

Work?

It sounds wrong,

but it may be right:

A good lipstick

can help you get ahead.

by kayleen schaeFer

for the first time in my

10-plus-year career, I’m the

boss. When any of the 13

people at the fashion web-

site I run wants to write a

story or spend some com-

pany cash, they ask me. I have

more responsibility than ever

before.

It’s also the first time I’m

wearing make-up—real,

grown-up make-up—to work.

Each morning, I use tinted

moisturizer, brow pencil,

brown eyeliner and mascara.

I finish with powder and

coral red lipstick. This prep

is as essential as checking my

inbox before my commute.

the logic

behind lipstick

For most of my working life, I

had a haphazard relationship

with make-up. If I had a big

meeting, I tried to at least fill

in my eyebrows, but I focused

more on the actual work. It’s

not that I didn’t care about

how I looked, but the idea of

earning a promotion (or even

respect) based in part on a

f lawless mani seemed unfair

and slightly depressing. Any-

one who spends that much

time on what they look like

can’t possibly be working that

hard, I thought. And—possi-

bly naively—I just didn’t feel