Otherwise titled as “A Post That Really Has No Point, But Just ‘Cause…” 

When I started working at Lucky, fresh out of college, I was a lowly beauty assistant with little input, terrified of everybody around me.  My job initially consisted of opening packages, arranging products in the beauty closet, organizing the in-demand director’s schedule (well, okay, that would be attempting to organize the in-demand director’s schedule, since I was universally acknowledged to be a terrible–but oh-so-eager!–assistant), and answering phones.  Hardly tasks necessitating an Ivy League diploma—yet I was hooked.  The place was drenched in glamour, each editor was more fabulous than the next, and as time progressed, I was passed micro-pieces to work on, eventually graduating to the Secret Ingredient page and occasional Q&A’s for the burgeoning website (oh, 2003, how long ago you seem!)  Those Q&A’s became the inspiration for the Beauty Questions I now answer (but which y’all have been lazy about recently, so send ‘em in!), and, of course, led to the creation of beauty blog 1.0 formerly called Jolie in NYC.

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Do you recognize this woman?  (Looks a bit like Nicolette Sheridan or Uma Thurman, no?)  She’s a composite of Angelina Jolie (straight, narrow nose and full lips), Madonna (almond, wide-set eyes and plumped cheeks), Michelle Pfeiffer (smooth brow and high forehead) and Demi Moore (angular jawline), and she is emblematic of The New Face, as identified by New York Magazine.  In an article titled “How Plastic Surgery Can Give An Older Woman the Face of a Baby,” the old adage that, after a certain age, it’s either your butt or your face, is turned on its ear: guess what?  You can be scary skinny and unhealthily obsessed with keeping your body slim through punishing workouts and increase facial volume to avoid the Skeletor face: plumpers are the name of the game! 

Photo from NYMag.com

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