Why Statement Black Eyeliner Is a Reigning Makeup Move This Spring

“Before we had a hit record, we had to make an impression with our style,” Ronnie Spector recounts in Be My Baby (Henry Holt), her time capsule memoir with a new edition out next month. (She signed off on revisions shortly before her death, in January, at 78.) As newcomers in 1962, the Ronettes were seen as much as heard, with their beehives and makeup. “When we got on stage, the kids went wild, and the louder they applauded, the more eyeliner we’d put on the next time.” That trademark makeup gesture—classicism edging, millimeter by millimeter, toward transgression—is itself a… Read Full Article