The Makeup Museum
Everything from makeup history, design and packaging to musings on contemporary beauty culture and museums.
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Curator's Corner, 2025
As you might have guessed, 2025 was a busy one on the personal front, so not much museum activity. I hope to remedy that in 2026, but I already have several side projects lined up during the first few months. Anyway, here are the things tha...
MM Mailbag: A Novel Mascara, Lions and More
There have been well over 150 inquiries since the last time I shared what’s in the ole Makeup Museum mailbag so I’m just highlighting a handful of the more interesting ones, along with some not-so-nice interactions.
Keep reading at the Mak...
New exhibition: Blusher
So pleased to announce the opening of “Blusher: Art, Makeup, Materiality” at Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University! Expertly curated by scholar and artist (and CHMSN member) Cathy Lomax, the exhibition explores how contemporary artist...
Trending: What's Pink and Blue and Cloudy All Over?
While visiting my parents in Pennsylvania last spring, I stumbled across a blue raspberry soda in a local supermarket. I bought it on a whim, and the flavor quickly morphed into a full-blown obsession. Around the same time I discovered Skyl...
A Life in Secret: Mona Manet Cosmetics
I wish I was sharing something uplifting instead of tragic, but I wanted to discuss a very talented writer who contributed much to the beauty industry during her short life. Mona Manet debuted her eponymous line of cosmetics in 1941 in her...
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Dedicated to the preservation, research and exhibition of cosmetics from antiquity through the 21st century, the Makeup Museum® is a progressive, unique space that explores makeup design and packaging, culture and history from all eras.
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