Color Me Glam

Recently I was lucky enough to attend a fiesta in honor of makeup artist extraordinaire Scott Barnes and his new book About Face, a study of makeup and its power of transformation. Cool, yes, but what just about did me in was seeing Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez at the NYC bash. Let me tell you, there are no words to describe...

I have a friend who can’t eat cheese; whenever she does, her face gets red and breaks-out in these tiny little bumps. I feel for her, especially since my idea of heaven is a long hammock between two palm trees with a plate full of cheesy quesadillas and pina coladas. But for those of you with sensitive skin—skin that becomes excessively reddened, inflamed, irritated, or...

People, I tell you this story with a warning: Do what I say, not what I did. Over the weekend I found myself in my brand new bathroom staring into the mirror at my skin. It looked dry and riddled with clogged pores. So I did what we’re all tempted to do, but shouldn’t: I began the process of extraction on my own skin. But instead of wrapping clean fingertips in...