"AJ Was King" — ESSENCE Remembers Celebrity Makeup Artist AJ Crimson
AJ Crimson (Anthony M. Jackson) launched his lip-gloss line, Kissable Couture, in 2007 and AJ Crimson Beauty, in 2013, we knew AJ as one of the few, highly favored makeup artists that beautified the brand in the mid 2000s. Mikki Taylor, the then beauty and cover director recalls, “every time I was doing anything, whether TV or a gala, AJ would do my makeup.