<![CDATA[Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup]]>

false <![CDATA[Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173453845m/290410.jpg 1218097 2 Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you think you hate them, you actually know plenty about them and, in fact, have several of them that you love. You have major opinions that lie barely beneath the surface. Women whomodestly/moralistically claim to “never use all that beauty stuff” are big Clinique ladies, usually with a healthy helping of Neutrogena. —Free Gift with Purchase From the beloved beauty editor of Lucky magazine comes a dishy, charming, and insightful memoir of an unlikely career. 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 glamour, fashion, and celebrity. Godfrey-June’s funny, smart, outsider perspective on beauty has set her apart since she first started writing her popular “Godfrey’s Guide” column for Elle magazine. In Free Gift with Purchase, she invites us into the absurd excess of the offices, closets, and medicine cabinets of beauty editors. 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. From the Hardcover edition. 281751 2006 Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup total:77|5:2|4:28|3:31|2:16|1:0| 77 247 120 17 4 0 false false Thu Oct 04 10:22:49 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 07:38:20 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 08:38:19 -0700 2007
"#2 - The person thinks of you every time he or she uses them, which in many cases turns out to be quite often. (I've alwas been a big proponent of giv...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 23:27:35 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 07:42:14 -0700 2009
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Her writing style gets old, fast but her honest opinion of the beauty business and her part in it kept me from throwing it down in disgust. The beauty tips on nearly every page were a ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 27 13:08:14 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 13:09:49 -0800 2007 4 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jan 30 07:52:22 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 07:53:50 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 09:11:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 09:13:51 -0700 2008 4 0 true false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Oct 14 18:21:42 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 08:41:45 -0700 2008 5 0 true false Tue Apr 15 20:53:07 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 15 15:03:37 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 15:05:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 21:50:34 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 21:52:07 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 23 11:10:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 11:11:15 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 02 21:17:51 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 11 05:34:50 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Fri Dec 21 18:40:08 -0800 2007 Sat Oct 20 19:48:20 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 19:48:33 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Nov 22 06:39:02 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 06:44:13 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 10:53:20 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 10:54:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 09:52:12 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 09:52:18 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=290410