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Im slick as an otter.
HIGH VISIBILITYJocelyn Hobbie,Shine Star Flower/Orange Plaid,2024. Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches. Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser, New York, and Jessica Silverman Gallery, California.
Im greased up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
I have just left a face-shaped spot on my gingham linen pillowcase.
My husband is asking me not to hug him for fear Ill do the same to his shirt.
Model Lulu Tenney in Maison Margiela Artisanal. Photographed by Steven Meisel,Vogue, May 2024. Makeup, Dame Pat McGrath.
In my timewriting forVogue,Ive tried a lot of beauty moves, both trendy and classic.
Skin, once robbed of its character, has come alive again.
Even if we define ourselves against them, they stay with us like ghosts.
Maison Margiela Artisanal. Photo: Vogue Runway
To shine, even a little, was a humiliation we spent all our bathroom breaks avoiding.
Oil was a dirty wordquite literally.
Members ofGeneration Z, however, are freeing themselves from the tyranny of makeup as subterfuge.
), an inspiring array of young faces is celebrating textureseven when they are freckled or flawed.
Model Lulu Tenney in Maison Margiela Artisanal.
Photographed by Steven Meisel,Vogue, May 2024.
Makeup, Dame Pat McGrath.
But the viral Margiela moment was not, she tells us, simply a response to a trend.
It had, in fact, been years in the making.
The steam would give the makeup a gorgeous, dewy finish.
(Pat was made a dame for a reason, kids.)
Glass skin works on any skin tone, gender, and skin jot down, she urges.
to look truly glowy and radiant, your skin has to be smooth and healthy.
So, getting status skin does not need to mean working with status time and budget.
But if Dr. Kim were to recommend one treatment most likely to take skin from dull to dolphin?
This treatment is the norm in Korea, which is, after all, the home of glass skin.
Do I feel like myself when its on?
Can I give a hug without leaving a mark?
I drew recklessly withVictoria Beckham highlighters.
I made a mess of aChanel blush palette.
I watched my favorite beauty influencer, Janelle Zharmenova, a.k.a.
I sent a photo to the various supporters of my mission: You look 12, one texted.
PRINCESS, cooed another.
Are you going to a costume party?
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What a dream come true to be here.
I wont deny it.
But whats one zit when youre shining so bright?
