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Beauty and aesthetic health, some mainstream but mostly otherwise.
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Page Report #13 (opens the original)
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I took a little break from trying things this month after becoming enamored with the face serum and balm I wrote about last week. I can’t stop using them. I only cover products I care about and sometimes nothing moves me. Without new products to try, I stare at wall/move on to other pursuits.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0eXx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages
Permanent Vacation (opens the original)
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After a last-minute, end of summer trip to Jamaica, I’m back in the East Village. September is a perfect month in New York but I want to look and feel like I’m still on vacation. Naturally, I have a system for that. And (for once) it doesn’t include self tanner.<source type="i
The Most Important Fragrance You’ve Never Heard Of (opens the original)
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I met Nick Axelrod-Welk in 2013, when Emily Weiss was courting me to help her build what turned out to be Glossier. I wasn’t sure I wanted the job and I think she knew it, so she sent me to meet Nick, her co-founder. Nick sold me on taking that job. Not by discussing the role or my credentials or even what we wanted the brand to be, but by very simply being a person I immediately understood and wanted to be around. The rest is history?Nick went on to co-found and build other legendary brands - N
LA Beauty Dispatch (opens the original)
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The first time I came to Los Angeles was in 2003, while I was still in college and working at Agent Provocateur on Mercer Street. My friend and coworker there had just moved back and convinced me to come visit. I stayed with her at her parents house in Calabasas and immediately got a parking ticket while using her car. I loved LA.Southern California has a lot of cosmetics labs and manufacturers, so I’ve spent a ton of time here for work ever since. I fake lived here from 2017-2019 when I thought
Page Report #12 (opens the original)
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I waited all summer to do anything and now I’m cramming four trips into the entirety of August. Shout out to Alison Lou who, when I ran into her on Shelter Island last weekend, told me “Your Substack. It’s like a religion.”<s
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