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Annie Blackman

Contributing commerce writer

Annie Blackman is a contributing commerce writer at Allure where she has been covering the best beauty deals for sales like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon Prime day for the past two years. Previously, Annie was a content update editor at The Spruce and People Magazine. She studied English Literature at Kenyon College in Ohio and then moved to Brooklyn, where she's also a singer-songwriter, profiled in Rolling Stone. Annie feels most at home when buying jeans at vintage stores or furiously typing in the Notes app on her phone.

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