Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307237486 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Certain readers will be enthralled by a clued-in woman demystifying what is for many an impervious world: this is what really works, and this is what's bunkum. . From Publishers Weekly The beauty editor of Lucky magazine, Godfrey-June endears herself to readers with her admission that even she—a woman who receives "between fifty and two hundred products a day"—has the occasional bad hair day, the kind that "takes over and infects your entire being, moving quickly from your hair to yo
From shelves upon shelves of face lotion, conditioner, lipstick, eye cream, wrinkle reducers, and perfume to thoroughly disturbing “acne breakfasts” and “cellulite lunches”; from the lows (a makeover from hell, getting pedicure tips from porn stars) to the highs (the glamour of the fashion shows in Paris, lounging in bed with Tom Ford, a flight on Donald Trump’s private jet, and landing her dream job at Lucky magazine), we see it all. Like a friend sharing the details of her incredibly cool job, Jean lets us in on the lessons she’s learned along the way, about the eternal search for the right haircut and the perfect lip gloss, of course—but more important, about what her job has meant to her and why she loves what she does, blemishes and all.. Combining the personal stories of a quirky tomboy who found herself in the inner circle of the beauty world with priceless makeup tips (Is there really a perfect red lipstick out there for everyone? Which miracle skin potion actually works?), Jean Godfrey-June takes us behind the scenes to a world of gl
Down to earth, informative, funny A reader Most people would expect an editor of a fashion magazine to be snooty and delusional. To the contrary, Godfrey-June comes across as delightfully grounded and approachable. She also has a sense of humor and readily owns up to her quirks - hoarding products and tanning. She describes the former fixation in detail, using it as a stepping stone to ponder on the strange alure of beauty products even to those who are swamped by the goodies.At the start of her book, Godfrey-June describes growing up with no-frills intellectual parents (hence the "improbable" . "Enjoyable and well written" according to E. Griffin. I really enjoyed Free Gift with Purchase. Athough it might be hard to tell from looking at my wardrobe or make-up, I am a big fan of beauty and fashion magazines, and read almost all of them each month, plus some from Europe. Godfrey-June provides an inside perspective of working for two famous beauty magazines, and of the products and companies that they feature. As you would expect from a established writer, the book is very well written, and although there is some insider gossip, none of it is uber-mean.Godfrey-Jean intersperses some personal anecdo. Not great literature but certainly great fun! How nice to find a beauty editor who's managed to retain her sense of humor. There is a very droll wit at work here, and it's perfect for the subject matter. Godfrey-June is intelligent and speaks in a voice all her own--readers of her Lucky column will recognize it immediately. She really is like no other. The amazing thing is that there really is something for everyone even remotely interested in beauty/fashion in here and, unlike Allure's new "Confessions of a Beauty Editor," which takes recycling to a whole new level, this is an original voice with