The $26 Concealer That's the Secret Weapon in This Beauty Mogul's Routine

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The Lineup is a monthly series where we're giving you an inside peek at the beauty lineups of cool fashion people, editors, makeup artists, hairstylists, and estheticians—all the people we trust the most. Get ready for a behind-the-scenes look at all the can't-live-without products that make their worlds go 'round.

For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by founders and how they got their start. How did they come up with their ideas? Did they want to be founders from a young age? Did they happen to stumble upon a line of work that interested them? Well, for Annie Lawless, becoming a founder kind of happened naturally. As a kid, she suffered from severe eczema all over her face and body until she reached her teenage years and was finally diagnosed with celiac disease. "This was life-changing for me," she tells me. "When I cut gluten out of my diet, my eczema completely went away. It was mind-blowing because I never considered that there was a correlation between my diet and my skin condition."

Clearly, Lawless's interest in health and wellness stemmed from her personal experience dealing with skin and gut issues, and she started focusing on the idea that what you put in and on your body can affect how you look and feel. This led her to learn more about nutrition and co-found the mega-popular organic cold-pressed juice company, Suja Juice. "A couple of years later, I felt a disconnect between the way that I cared about ingredients in the foods I was eating and the skincare products I was using, but I didn't really pay attention to my makeup. I purchased a lot of 'clean' makeup products to test and see if I could replace some of my conventional favorites, but everything was geared toward a no-makeup makeup aesthetic with very sheer coverage, lots of cream products, and minimal staying power," she explains. Lawless is a full-face-of-makeup kind of girl most days, so when she realized that clean makeup with full coverage just didn't exist at that time, she knew she wanted to create it.

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Fast-forward to 2017, and Lawless Beauty was born. The collection is full of clean, toxin-free makeup with amazing ingredients that actually work. Not only are the formulas clean, but they actually perform and last. (I'm a true sucker for the Forget the Filler Lip Plumper Line Smoothing Gloss, $25.) Plus, they come in chic packaging. What's Lawless's favorite product? The Conseal the Deal Full Coverage Concealer ($26). "It's such a unique formula because it's so serum-like and lightweight, but it's full coverage. It also has a really pretty self-setting, soft-focus finish that just perfects my skin wherever I use it," she shares.

Well, that seals the deal for me (pun very much intended). And if you're curious about the rest of Lawless's can't-live-without beauty products, keep scrolling to see her 15 top picks.

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Group Executive Director, Branded Content and Beauty

Caitie Schlisserman is an L.A.-based executive director with over a decade of branded content and editorial experience. She joined Who What Wear in 2014 as the first branded content editor and has worked her way up to overseeing a team of talented branded content editors and the beauty department of the media revenue team. Before Who What Wear, Caitie helped launch FabFitFun's first subscription box and worked at a beauty startup where she assisted in successfully launching the editorial department.