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July 2, 2025

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Hi, and welcome back to Line Sheet. Rachel “Rachel@puck.news” Strugatz is here with the downright inspiring story of Sephora’s bestselling product for nearly two straight years.

Up top, I address your Dior pricing queries (is it too expensive, or just right?) and share additional nominations for the U.S. Vogue head-of-content gig. Plus, Sarah Shapiro joins us to talk bandage dresses: Are they really back? Sarah has actual data to support her theory, but let me just say, it might be time to break out your circa 2009 Band of Outsiders skirt.

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YouTube makeup O.G. Patrick Starrr’s setting spray, On ’Til Dawn, has made him a top seller at Sephora. But with subcategory domination comes the inevitable question: What’s next?

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A few years ago at Coachella, the O.G. YouTube beauty influencer and makeup artist Patrick Starrr dared to take a light swim in a full face of makeup. He dunked his head in the pool, popped back up, dabbed his face dry with a towel—and his makeup remained fully intact, the towel spotless. Naturally, someone was on hand to capture the moment on TikTok, and 25 million views later, a...

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