Annie Walton Doyle

Annie Walton Doyle

Bio

Annie Walton Doyle is a 22-year-old writer based in and around the UK. She typically writes about beauty and other "personal aesthetics," with a healthy dose of both social commentary and stupidity. When not touching makeup, she enjoys pubs, knitting, nature, and mysteries. Find more of her work at www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-walton-doyle and www.xovain.com/author/annie-walton-doyle.

Annie Walton Doyle Articles

Blurred lips are perfectly imperfect. Here's how to copy this trend. (Image Credit: Instagram/mirrortwin)

Beauty How To: Blurred Lip Lines

Blurred lip lines make your mouth look plumper in a natural, non-Juvadermed way (pretty), plus makes it look like you’ve just been making out (further proof you are pretty — as if you needed it).

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Shine on, you metallic glow girl, you!

Your Best Budget Metallic Highlighter

On the difficult and important topic of highlighter, I’m torn.

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Drugstore Buys For The Perfect Bushy Brow

It’s surely well known by now that the age of the heavily drawn on, perfectly angled eyebrow is coming to an end.

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L’Oreal, however, was not on Bergdorf's side, and fired her from a campaign that was supposed to celebrate diversity. (Image Credit: Instagram/munroebergdorf)

L'Oreal, Munroe Bergdorf & The Problematic Relationship Between The Beauty Industry & 'Diversity'

Companies — like, say, L'Oreal — wouldn’t just use the broad, vague, abstract concept of diversity (by hiring Munroe Bergdorf) to lure in customers... would they? But you have to remember — companies are about money-making first and foremost. Sometimes, they’re not really about much else.

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To go metallic or glossy? That is the highlighter dilemma. (Image Credit: Instagram/toriieebeaar)

Glossy Vs. Metallic Highlight

If there’s one thing that makes me deeply proud of my generation (apart from our general anti-Brexit sentiment) it’s the newfound omnipresence high

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How to give brows a natural full look, without getting globbed down in clumpy gel. (Image Credit: Annie Walton Doyle)

Backcombing Is The Ingenious Way To Add Volume To Lackluster Eyebrows

My struggles with eyebrows have been well documented over the years.

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EOY roundup of beauty "realizations." (Image Credit: Kylie Jenner via YouTube)

Beauty Stuff I Realized, In The Year Of Realizing Things

Remember at the start of the year, when we all watched a teenager with a mouth full of Juvaderm bizarrely reclining in front of a fire that looks l

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Let your lips do the talking, no words required.

Get Your Bitch Lips On

In life, there’s not much I love more than a good bitch. I’d take a mean, hilarious person over a “nice” bland-y any day of the week.

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Can you partake in the beauty industry and still feel good about your self-worth?

Can You Enjoy The Beauty Industry Without Hating Yourself?​

Can you partake in the beauty industry — makeup, tutorials, magazines, and the oppressive standards they impose — and still feel good about your self-worth?

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Remember how fun it was when makeup was just shine and glitter?

In Praise Of Teenager Makeup

Remember your first foray into the makeup world? Everything was more fun then. Colors were chosen in a magpie-like fashion.

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