Description
Told over nine charged days, Sheer is the gripping tale of a controversial beauty moguls insatiable ambition and the slippery ground between empowerment and abuse of power.
Its 2015 and Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, has just been suspended by her own Board for a scandalous transgression. Housebound in her New York City apartment, where she awaits the verdict on her future, Max recounts her version of the events that have brought her to this moment.
From her start as a precocious suburban child in the eighties to her decades as a workaholic visionary, Max proselytizes a sheer, dewy lookcosmetics through a female gazeall while battling sexist investors, the whiplash of cultural change, and the mounting pressure to keep her sexuality a secret. But when Maxs story catches up to her present, she must contend with the cost of true transparency. Who has she become in her relentless pursuit of success? And what will happen if she loses it all?
Author: Vanessa Lawrence
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780593854860
Language: English
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