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Posted by Dain, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:46 AM (Eastern)
This is from a time when Katie Holmes was Joey Potter, the of-the-moment America's sweetheart, seriously 1999. Tom Cruise was still married to Nicole Kidman, the superior actress in looks and talent (better actor than Cruise himself, IMO, but currently sporting way too much plastic surgery), but perhaps less tractable than the current Mrs. Cruise. You can tell it's 1999. For one, a mini backpack. For another, the unerring self-confidence of the fleetingly successful starlet, unlike the hounded expression she tends to habituate nowadays.
I don't read Seventeen any more (I read one once a year ago at the dentist's, it was appallingly bad; I'd like to say I've grown, but I don't think it was really that bad), but I've kept this article all these years. Why? I like minimalism!
One of the things that really peeves me is slavishness regarding cosmetics (i.e. every single print magazine currently being published), and by this I mean, "this product is awesome!", and "this product is a slightly different awesome!", and "omigod! this product is awesome!", and "this is the newest awesome product!"*. I may be a snob, but greed is no substitute for taste, and stupidity is offensive.
Oh wait, was that unAmerican of me?
Hold up, let me rephrase: stupidity is an unalienable right, and people with educated opinions are elitists. Let's all be awesome with awesome products riding the tide of awesomeness together! Because that is exactly how the world is.
Which is why I kept this, to remind me always what it is like to own only what you require and the stray product for a frolic, and not, for god's sake, everything that expense spares. Man, it's a hobby, not a lifestyle.
Here are the products listed:
1. Dr. Hauschka Facial Toner
2. Maybelline Great Lash Waterproof Mascara
3. Kiehl's Creme with Silk Groom
4. Kiehl's Lip Balm #1
5. Bulgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert
6. Bumble & Bumble Simply, Shampoo (discontinued)
7. Dr. Hauschka Cleansing Cream
8. Bobbi Brown Bronzing Stick
9. Stila Twilight Eye Shadow
10. Bumble & Bumble Deeep Conditioner
11. MAC W15 Pressed Powder
Industry staples, for the most part. This was somewhat before the [usually makeup artist] brand explosion became mainstream.
*Let us suppose, for example, that one were saying such things about a person. What nicknames would result? Flatterer, sycophant, toady, parasite, minion, leech, brown-noser, bootlicker, HACK, tool, flunky... Why in heaven's name would you get like that about an inanimate object? Ok, that's it. I shut it up now.
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