As much as many of us can appreciate a classic red lipstick, you can never go wrong with nude lipstick. However, the nude lipstick options for women of color are limited.

In recent years, many brands have made tremendous strides in expanding their range of nude lip colors, but there is still a long road ahead. With that very issue hitting home, two Harvard Business School graduates recognized a need for change and set out to do something about it.

After months of testing out lipstick shades on friends, family members, and beauty influencers, Kristen Jones Miller and Amanda E. Johnson birthed a new line of lipsticks under their co-owned brand called Mented Cosmetics (short for “pigmented”).

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