
Nine times out of ten, when a make-up brand has an *actual* make-up artist at its helm, you can guarantee the products are going to be great. Case in point: Ruby Hammer Beauty Mascara and Brow Duo, which I recently tried for the first time.
The thing about beauty editors is, if we rate a product the people around us—even if they are only vaguely interested in beauty—are probably going to hear about it. So, it was actually Marie Claire’s Executive Beauty Editor, Shannon Lawlor, who put me onto this Ruby Hammer pick. “I feel like it doesn’t get enough air time,” she told me when she instructed me to try the half-mascara, half-brow gel hybrid. And lo, I went on to test it for myself. Here’s what makes it a good one…