Fat Mascara just came to me and it felt right.
We thought of names like Beauty Corner, you know - beauty this, beauty that - none of it was quite right. I wanted to know this stuff more than just some instruction or a tip, because there are so many places to get that info. And I knew if I found out that they loved a certain musical artist or thing to eat, I felt more connected. I wanted to have a broader, more relaxed conversation about beauty. I love that they could have a conversation in a field they were interested in and just ask questions like they’re normal people. Exploring another mediumįour years ago, I got into podcasts - mostly about the arts or film like Marc Maron’s WTF or Bret Easton Ellis’s. You have to be curious, and you have to listen and connect the dots. I like to ask, “What are you loving now? What have you seen?” That can’t happen if you’re not out there. A story for Bazaar’s October issue about the no-makeup makeup look came from chats I had with Daniel Martin, who did Meghan Markle’s wedding makeup, about where the industry seemed to be going. Often the greatest story ideas come from conversations in the industry. In beauty, so much of it is forming relationships with publicists who work with brands, because it is important to know which products are coming out in three months and will inform stories and be relevant. Then I went to YM, where I said I would be the beauty intern, and was the beauty intern at Nylon and Bazaar, too. I figured out my schedule so I could take the train into the city and interned at Jane, where was a general editorial intern but spent most of my time in the beauty department. I went to Rutgers, but I was obsessed with being at a magazine more than in class. And then, I learned a little about the business and science behind skincare and cosmetics, and it was a world that just kept opening up and opening up.
I liked going to Macy’s and the way the women at the beauty counters looked, the whole culture and world of it. At the same time, the glamour was a huge part. Makeup artists like Aucoin would just put zit cream on Naomi Campbell - beauty products looked like toys. Or “House of Style” on MTV, where I learned about the makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin, whose book Making Faces I studied instead of the SAT. I like to ask, “What are you loving now? What have you seen?” You have to be curious, and you have to listen and connect the dots. Basically, I was obsessed with magazines. And then all the fashion magazines: Bazaar, Vogue, W. And then I got into Spin, Rolling Stone, sometimes YM. But my friend’s older sister had Sassy, which opened my eyes to different culture.
BEVY LUXE BEAUTY TV
I grew up in suburban New Jersey, and my mom had subscriptions to People and TV Guide. I would take copy paper and go into the tray and pull out as many as I could and fold and staple and fill in the pages. I say “we,” but it was just me by myself at night. We had articles about fashion, beauty, romance, weight loss, the Oscars. We talked to Matlin about her fascination with teen magazines, the key to staying on top of the latest industry news, and the importance of the right name. She’s currently the beauty director at Harper’s Bazaar, and before that, worked at W and Allure and for the luxe beauty retailer Space NK in London. And she never strayed from those early aspirations. It was so demented,” she says with a big laugh. “If anyone really wanted to dissect it, it’s a psychologist’s dream. She knew she wanted to work in beauty when she was in elementary school and self-published her own beauty magazine at the age of nine.
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