The Edit · First Looks
Luxury looks. Honest prices.
Our very first Edit opens at the beauty bar — with Mented Cosmetics, the Black-owned house that built its name on a simple promise: every hue belongs. Eight essentials, one complete routine, shades that run as deep as we do. This is how the boutique begins: beautifully, and on purpose.
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The Base · One
$25
The light base — your skin, rested.
For the days that call for polish without the full production. This tinted moisturizer melts in like a cream and blurs like a filter — squalane and hyaluronic acid doing the quiet work underneath. In Mented's own consumer testing, 98% of women said their skin felt more hydrated after applying it. Ten shades, from Fair to Rich — no one is an afterthought here.
Fair 110 · Light 110 · Light 123 · Tan 110 · Tan 120 · Medium 110 · Medium 120 · Deep 115 · Deep 123 · Rich 113
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The Base · Two
$30
The full base — the one the boutique was waiting to introduce.
The foundation stick that started it all for Mented: ultra-hydrating, lightweight, and buildable, so you decide how much coverage the day gets. It works as foundation, concealer, or contour — one stick, three jobs. Sixteen shades deep, and if your shade isn't right, Mented exchanges it free. That's the kind of house we bring to our table.
16 shades, L10 (Fair) through D40 (Deep)
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The Color
$28
Neutrals that know melanin.
An everyday palette designed with melanin in mind — warm, wearable neutrals that actually show up on our skin and stay put through the day. Slim enough for the bag you already carry; complete enough for boardroom-to-dinner without a second thought.
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The Frame
$15
Brows that behave.
Waterproof, precision-tipped, and made to last ten hours or more — because a brow should never be the thing you're worried about by noon. Four browns, from light to black-brown, so the frame matches the face.
Brow You Know · Brow Or Later · Brow Down · Take A Brow
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The Lip · One
$16.50
The perfect nude exists. Several of them, actually.
Mented blended browns and pinks until the nude shades they couldn't find existed. The result: deeply moisturizing semi-mattes that honor multi-hued lips instead of washing them out. Not sure where to start? Mented's 60-second quiz finds your nude — Brand Nude is the one we'd hand you first.
Brand Nude · Nude LaLa · Dope Taupe · Peach Please · Pretty in Pink · Foxy Brown · Mented #5 · Dark Night
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The Lip · Two
$15
Gloss for grown women.
Shine without the stickiness, color without the costume. This is the collection Oprah put on her Favorite Things list — and Send Nudes, a true nude made for brown beauties of every hue, is the shade that will live in your bag from the first week.
Send Nudes · Mauve Over · Berry Me · Baby Brown · Pink About Me · #1 Cran
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The Lip · Three
$15
Care dressed as color.
A lip oil with the shine of a gloss and the heart of a treatment — jojoba, avocado, and sunflower seed oils under a wash of color named for the drinks we love. In Mented's testing, 94% of women said their lips felt instantly hydrated, and 98% said it never felt sticky. Apple Cider is the everyday one; Iced Tea is the evening one.
Pink Lemonade · Fruit Punch · Apple Cider · Iced Tea
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Take It Home
$25 · a $27 value
The duo that does the whole lip for you.
Send Nudes gloss paired with the Lush lip liner — the deep, neutral brown liner that makes any lip color behave — bundled the way Mented meant them to be worn. Line it, gloss it, go. It is the easiest yes in this whole Edit.
Send Nudes Gloss + Lush Lip Liner
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Every pick in this Edit was checked the way we check everything — on the brand's own page, shade range and price verified, before it earned a place here. First Looks is the beginning. The Wardrobe opens as our fashion partners complete their reviews — and when it does, it opens the same way: every body, every age, no exceptions.
