As a beauty editor I’ve experimented with this breed endlessly over the years, my needs -and those of my skin – evolving as I’ve matured from a 23 year old beauty intern, to a party-loving singleton, mother of one, then two, then – gulp – nearly 40 year old woman. Over this period, ever-gripped by discovering everyone else’s beauty secrets, successes and failures, I’ve quizzed endless makeup artists, models, actresses and beauty editor friends to find their favorites, then tried those too.