Inside a plastic crate, deep in the recesses of the closet that we use for storage, are my old makeup brushes. Unbeknownst to colleagues and friends here in New York, while working as a beauty editor 10 or so years ago, I had a viable side career as a makeup artist.
Makeup Brushes, Beauty. Flashback: A Not-So-Secret Career
Beauty, Career, Inspiration, Lifestyle, New York MinutesJaguar, Newcastle, American Greetings & HBO: Spotlight on Award-Winning Ad Campaigns
Career, Lifestyle, New York MinutesIn the category of I-need-to-write-this-down-now-while-it’s-fresh (and also afraid that if I don’t, I’ll get busy and this post will simply be backburnered, like the one I had written from the Town & Country Philanthropy Summit, yet to be posted, sigh), here are my notes from Thursday’s ANA Advertising & Marketing Conference @Citi that featured award-winning ad campaigns from brands ranging from consumer…
[Back to Be True, Be Kind, Part 3] (Fourth in a series of four posts.) 15. Be comfortable with what you don’t know Two things. 1) This is where you hire people who are supremely talented in areas that you have yet to fully master. (Learning is a two-way street.) Also, the less you do the things that you dislike (or…
[Back to Be True, Be Kind, Part 2] (Third in a series of four posts.) 8. Be nice to interns. Or even better, EMPOWER them. When Seventeen Magazine launched its first international edition in the Philippines, I was lucky to have been one of the first interns to work there. I’d just spent the summer at my mother’s in Colorado and…
It’s now been almost a year since I’d written Be True, Be Kind, Be You, one of the most-read career posts on the blog to date. As the months passed, I began to compile a few more things to add to the original five and that list has now grown threefold, so I’m uploading it in three parts…
I was recently over at Bliss Spa and saw a bunch of their holiday kits. Then, just this week—likely from a Sephora email or at Bloomingdales, or perhaps reading another beauty blog—there was Smashbox “On The Rocks” series with the same blingy action in packaging! (More after the jump!)
2014, In Closing
Beauty, Career, Celebrities, Fashion, Food, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Makeup, New York Minutes, NYC Eats, Yoga & WellnessThe last few months of 2014 were a busy blur, which unfortunately resulted in my blogging activities falling to the wayside…when it should be the opposite, right? I should be blogging more when A LOT is going on. Oh well. 
The biggest shift and time-consuming—albeit well-loved—in my schedule has been teaching two yoga classes a week at Zen &…