Points From The Beauty Editor

Imagine a job where you get to leave the office at noon for a beauty and spa treatment, it’s FREE and YOUR BOSS wishes you good luck. Sounds ultra right? Meet the Beauty Editor of top fashion and glamour magazines. After some time in the business they harbor great knowledge, and honest behind the scene information on the beauty industry and they can tell you in 10 seconds, what type of shampoo is best for your hair.

 

Beauty editors have rules and are more firm about some things than other.  You don’t have to live your life according to anyone’s rules (do obey laws) and there are exceptions to every rule but consider these loose guidelines. Here we get a heads up on the beauty rules from past Beauty Editor Nadine Haobsh.

 

The Beauty Editor Commandments

1)      Never wash your hair two days in a row

 

2)      Always wear SPF 30 sunscreen, come rain or shine.

 

3)      Wash your face every night before bed, even when drunk or dead tired

 

4)      French manicures are not an option – do it.

 

5)      Everybody looks better with a hint of color on their face

 

6)      Avoid frowning—just like your mom said, your face will stick that way

 

7)      Don’t smoke—it causes wrinkles, sallow, uneven skin and yellow teeth. (Oh and that whole cancer thing, too)

 

8)      Introduce acids into your daily routine—glycolic, salicylic, retinoids, whatever. Your skin will thank you

 

9)      Antioxidants are your best friend. Eat them, drink them, wear them, learn to love them.

 

10)    Smile. When you carry yourself beautiful, you are beautiful

 

Personally I latch on to number 10 and try to schmooze my way through on that – pearly whites *ding!*

Note these are for the real ‘beauty people.’ They live and breathe beauty and their only concern is to get their client sparkling with perfection. There are old rules of long ago (if they weren’t we just made them history) like never wear red nail polish. While this likely still applies if you work in a bank, this is totally breakable (unlike the law.) Become as beauty informed as you can, and take everything you read (even this) with a grain of salt. Everyone is unique and reacts to different products and tips in different ways - we aren’t all completely the same, thank goodness.

 

I’ve always been a champion for the cause of easy, natural, accessible beauty but without being judgmental about anyone’s preference – my stance made from the angle of near-shallow pockets and oversleeping that has me dashing for the car, late, dabbing on lip-gloss at red lights – no way to live I assure you.  You see someone with black lipstick and say “Well, I would never do that” while I go “Wow, brave gal. Nice!”

 

Sure, beauty is serious in that, like it or not, we live in an image-conscious society.  At the end of the day though (at nightfall when you ought to be washing your face) it is only makeup.  In the quest to become as stereotypically pretty as possible, don’t completely erase you.