It's not every day that you run into an S.F.-based makeup artist who has apprenticed for the likes of Dick Page and Pat McGrath, shot with Patrick Demarchelier and Ellen von Unwerth, and who jets to New York Fashion Week twice a year to work high-profile shows (playing right-hand woman to the famed Gucci Westman). But that's precisely the résumé behind local beauty vet Racine Christensen, who's been painting faces (and doing hair) for close to two decades.
So, who better, than this accomplished gal to dish her top get-pretty products for fall? From a new luxe lipstick shade (apparently, "orange is the new red") to a cheapie drugstore must-have mascara, these brilliant recs should fully prep you for a major makeup-pouch upgrade.