RAYMOND MEIER, MARCH 1994

FOR SOMETHING so subjective, beauty has always come with a lot of rules.

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Don't do a bold eye with a bold lip. Fingernails and toenails should match. (Or shouldn't they?) Keep your brows groomed but still full, your blending seamless, your choices—above all—correct. Even color itself has historically been policed: which shades belong together, which combinations signal taste, which don't. That tension was at the heart of a story in Harper's Bazaar's March 1994 issue on the then-rising popularity of a spring color combo long considered a tad off-piste in the high-beauty world: red and brown. It was a pairing that had begun to emerge in that moment—at makeup counters, on runways—as a softer, warmer al