While many of us might want to liken Sephora and Ulta Beauty to makeup museums in their own right, there’s never been an actual multi-brand museum wholly dedicated to beauty and cosmetics. That’ll ...

Marilyn Monroe is widely credited with saying, “A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear” — but a smile was the only makeup most women in America wore through the early 1900s in the United States.

Makeup is often seen as modern glamour, but its story is ancient — a language of identity, power, protection, and ritual that predates written history. Long before cosmetics became industry, they were ...