AJ Crimson (Anthony M. Jackson) launched his lip-gloss line, Kissable Couture, in 2007 and AJ Crimson Beauty, in 2013, we knew AJ as one of the few, highly favored makeup artists that beautified the brand in the mid 2000s.
Mikki Taylor, the then beauty and cover director recalls, “every time I was doing anything, whether TV or a gala, AJ would do my makeup.
We had intimate conversations about beauty. He saw women as opposed to makeup. He wasn’t trying to turn you into something else.
He was trying to bring out the best of what he saw in you.” Taylor booked AJ for editorial work, regularly, and when we were in between fashion directors she booked AJ for one of the fashion features.
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