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"I left my makeup bag on the plane to Paris last week, where I was going for fashion shows\u2014not the ideal time or place to be without makeup. So I headed to the Champs-Elys\u00E9es to buy some. After editing *Allure* for a thousand years, I should be able to shop for makeup with my eyes closed.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe saleswoman smeared foundation on the back of my hand, which I let her do even though my hand isn't the same color as my face. When I told her the foundation looked too pale, she rubbed so hard it almost evaporated. Then she said (in French), really, madame, the shade isn't important, it's the texture that matters. Really?\\n\\n\\n\\nHere's the crazy part: I bought it. Here's the crazier part: It cost 42 euros. I just didn't feel like arguing (in French). And now I have a bottle of foundation that makes me look like an extra in *Twilight*.\\n\\n\\n\\nThat's why I cooked up *Allure*'s Best of Beauty issue, on newsstands now: so no one would get stuck buying the wrong product. If I'd had a copy of it when I went shopping, I would have opened it to page 202, and pointed to the winning foundation: [Chanel Pro Lumi\u00E8re](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/makeup/2010/chanel-pro-lumiere-makeup), which, by the way, is French.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n[#image: /photos/5771773c8d432b9e20f8c17f]||||||\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n__Linda Wells, Editor in Chief__"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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