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Alyx Gorman explains it to Emma Joyce

SHOCKING: Maybe its a new tagline maybe its more punctuation maybellines 35 year old slogan has an update | Mind Blowing Facts

Miley Cyrus attends a Maybelline x Miley Launch Party in Los Angeles, California in 2025.
Miley Cyrus attends a Maybelline event in Los Angeles in 2025. The singer is a global brand ambassador for the makeup products, which have a new tagline. Photograph: Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Maybelline New York

Alyx, I hear a certain makeup brand has updated its tagline. Why is this a big deal?

The jingle that has been burned into the minds of women around the world since its Christy Turlington-helmed debut in 1991, “Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline”, has received what has being described as a “modernisation”. In a new campaign with Miley Cyrus, the “she’s” will be replaced with “we’re”, which both changes the observer’s perspective to something a little more self-directed and makes it more inclusive. But it’s a punctuation change that is raising eyebrows.

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