I've Used Clinique For 16 Years—These Are the 12 Products I Swear By

I came to love Clinique, the nearly 60-year-old skincare and cosmetics company, about 16 years ago. I was 21 years old and had just been crowned Miss Albany State University, the queen of my HBCU. My usual makeup routine, which consisted of mascara and lipgloss, would no longer cut it for all the photo ops and appearances over the next year. A total makeup novice with no idea where to start, my second attendant recommended Clinique. She had glam down pat way before YouTube's GRWM era, so I trusted her. I went to the mall and left with the Even Better Foundation and Sheer Pressed Powder. For the rest of my reign, and quite a few years after, Clinique would be the only complexion makeup I used on my face. In grad school, a year later, I also started using their three-step skincare system. I didn't introduce new makeup or skincare into my beauty routine until 2015, and that's only because it was my job to test and write about new products that had hit the market. My relationship with Clin...