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Still, many a Catholic high school girl has lived by a strict no-makeup edict—including, if you can believe it, Kim Kardashian. It’s hard to imagine a teenage KKW and her perfectly contoured visage trooping off each day to the all-girls Catholic Marymount High School in Los Angeles with a completely bare face. “I was pretty simple,” Kardashian says of what she calls her “typical preppy schoolgirl” look of the time. Though not herself a member of the faith, “I stuck to the rules,” she says, “except for my really short skirt—I was always getting into trouble for that. I was, like, full-on Clueless.”
A school portrait from that time captures her au naturel, with foundation-free skin, long-lashed doe-y eyes, and plucked eyebrows (it was the nineties, after all)—and this was before photo retouching and filters, mind you. Weekends, though, were a different story. “I was obsessed,” Kardashian says.
“When I was fourteen, I was into black eyeliner, and my lip was, like, chocolate brown with a burgundy tone.” A girlfriend’s father had founded a makeup company, and she piled on the brand’s eye shadows in turquoise, bright green, and electric blue—and then topped it all off with a headband that matched whatever shade she had on her eyelids.
Her father, Robert, noticed, and for Christmas one year gifted Kim lessons at the Joe Blasco makeup school in Hollywood. “He said, ‘If you girls are going to wear makeup, I don’t want you to look crazy,’ ” Kardashian says. Experimenting with makeup, though, wasn’t an act of adolescent rebellion—against either her parents or her school. “I just genuinely loved it,” she says. “I had an amazing Catholic school experience. It’s very strict, very punctual, and I like that—it’s how I’ve lived my life.” There’s also, she says, a spiritual side to her famous family that isn’t often seen.
“We don’t share it much, but we’re really religious. We start our day with a group chat with a Bible verse from my mom, and everyone chimes in on the meaning of it. We are very Christian—and our work ethic and our discipline comes from so many years at Catholic school.”
Twenty-three years later, she still wears Joe Blasco foundation, though her devotion to makeup has turned from hobby to business: Her KKW Beauty line launched a year ago, and its products—including a concealer in sixteen shades—regularly sell out. That doesn’t mean, though, that she’s beyond the occasional misstep. Take her look for 2016’s Met ball: “I went in Balmain, and I was like, OK, I’m going to do my brows lighter. But I still hadn’t lost all the baby weight [after giving birth to Saint, her son with former husband Kanye West], and I just shouldn’t have been experimenting. It would’ve looked beautiful if my brows were just normal!”
Original Source: Vogue