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Jillian Dempsey
Gold Sculpting
Bar
Elizabeth Arden
Limited Edition
Beautiful Color
Moisturizing
Lipstick in Pink
Punch and
Red Door Red
EXCLUSIVE
GOLDEN
EYES
Makeup artist Gucci
Westman is known for
her glowing, pared-back
work. So I was surprised
to find that her Eye Love
You Mascara lends such
a dense, velvety-black
layer to lashes that
the effect can only be
described as “doe-eyed.”
Plus: It’s (96 percent)
natural. Eye Love You
skips parabens (common-
ly used preservatives)
and fragrance (a known
irritant) in favor of cleaner
alternatives, like sodium
hydroxide. Pared back,
indeed. —COTTON CODINHA
Best beauty tutorial: My makeup art-
ist, Molly R. Stern, taught me how to
put on fake eyelashes. She hates that I
put on a full strip, but I’m from the
South—I love a good ol’-fashioned
drugstore strip lash. I pop it on, put a
little liquid liner over it, and I feel like
my eyes look more open.
The never-again lipstick color:
Brown. Like, dark brown. It looked
terrible, and it was immortalized on
my driver’s license photo when I was
16 years old.
Her vitamin regimen: Prenatals. One
of my girlfriends told me she takes
them even though she’s not preg-
nant, so now I do, too. It makes my
hair look better.
The skin-care step she won’t skip: I
use the Elizabeth Arden retinol cap-
sules (top left) at night. I look more
awake in the morning. They also even
out the redness in my skin so I don’t
have to wear as much foundation.
Why she enjoys aging: I have a point
of view because I’ve been on this
planet for 43 years, and I didn’t feel
that same way when I was 25. I can
[now] speak with a thoughtfulness
about the changes I’d like to see in the
world, and...I don’t know, I just feel like
I earned that gray hair. And my fine
lines. I like ’em.
The last product she finished: Proba-
bly bath salts. I mix the Goop ones with
plain Epsom salts. I’ve been taking a
bath every night for the past four
years; it’s changed the way I sleep and
the way I feel when I wake up—takes
away all aches and pains. I also read so
many books in the bath. They’re the
antidote to self-involvement. Escaping
to a different world and thinking about
other people’s realities is really thera-
peutic for me.
So what to read next? Educated by Tara
Westover. It’s about how you can over-
come impossible things to become
successful. Or become fulfilled, I should
say. Westover’s childhood was just
unreal, and I think so many people
relate to that—having to get out of a
really oppressive situation to find your
own center and your own path.
reesewitherspoon
1 5
MINUTES
WITH...
BIG LITTLE
TRUTHS—ON
AGING, SELF-
INVOLVEMENT,
AND THE
BEAUTY RITUAL
THAT CHANGED
HER LIFE.
BY JENNY BAILLY
Goop Body
G. Tox Detox 5
Salt Bath Soak
Ardell
Lash Wispies
#700
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT:
ZOE GHERTNER
/ART PARTNER;
JOSEPHINE SCHIELE
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