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Nostalgia for the ’90s is creeping into every crevice of beauty and fashion today. There’s denim maxi skirts, low-rise women’s jeans, slinky slip dresses, and a certain sheer raisin lip color — Clinique’s Black Honey Almost Lipstick. After selling out at Ulta, Sephora, and Amazon multiple times in the past year, we decided it was time to write an honest testing review of the celebrity-loved Clinique Black Honey Almost Lipstick.
Our current craving for all things aughts has earned #CliniqueBlackHoney over 304 million views on TikTok, with girls and guys raving about the lipstick’s ability to flatter any skin tone, leaving your lips looking wine-stained and subtly shiny. Celebrities are on the bandwagon, too, with Emilia Clarke (an ambassador for the brand) calling it “yummy,” and explaining that “every coat adds a lil more drama” in an Instagram post. Zooey Deschanel reportedly wore Black Honey while filming “New Girl.”
But before Clinique Black Honey gained popularity on TikTok, it was the Y2K ‘It’ lip color seen on stars like Drew Barrymore and Courteney Cox during the ’90s. The shade had many an on-screen moment, notably when Molly Ringwald slipped it into her cleavage for a party-trick approach to applying the lipstick in “The Breakfast Club.” Liv Tyler wore it in “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” and Julia Roberts can be seen passing the tube to her step daughter in the film “Step Mom.”
Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald, wearing Clinique Black Honey, in a scene from the film ‘The Breakfast Club’, 1985.
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