Woman & Home

GAME FACE

Amber Bennett is wearing her game face. It’s one she’s learned over the years.

A face with a confident, self-assured expression, comfortable with its carefully applied foundation and red lipstick. It’s a face that lets people know she’s a woman not to be messed with. A woman in control.

It’s not a face she needs much any more. She’s usually happy with her everyday face, the one that gets by on tinted moisturiser and lip salve, not Charlotte Tilbury and Chanel.

That face is a road map of the life she’s lived, even if it shows her mistakes. She doesn’t try to hide them these days.

If she allows the joy in, she’ll also allow

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