Catch Free Gift With Purchase: My Improbable Career In Magazines And Makeup Fabricated By Jean Godfrey-June Textbook

fun and funny read, I think she ran out of material a bit at the end and I wish she didn't call herself ugly so much, but I liked the insider view into fashion magazines and her sense of humor.
A photo insert would have been nice, So far, so good I love the part on page, where the author talks about, "Why Beauty Products are the Best Presents".


"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 giving a man you have a crush on either shampoo or shaving cream not only will he be reminded of you every day, but it'll be at a time when he's a little dreamy, potentially more impressionable, and, perhaps most critically, naked.
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Love it Love it Love it,

It is slow at times, but your learning not just about the business of Free Gifts with a Purchase, you're also learning about how she got there and it wasn't because the author has been a makeup diva from age.


Typo on page, Second to last paragraph. Instead of saying, "A month or two, . . " it states, "A month of two, . . " i found this book at the library, at a time when i've been getting reinterested in / slightly obsessed with beauty and make up products.
. . the idea of reading about the dazzling stacks of samples of a beauty editor sounded like just the thing.
and the first half of this book was delightful! jean godfreyjune is clearly an excellent writer she had some thoughtful analyses of the beauty industry.
sometimes, her anecdotes and writing made me laugh out loud this is really rare for me!,

but thennnnn we get to the second half of the book, . . and i really wish i'd simply stopped reading at some point, because the second half of the book reveals the writer to be.
. . a little. . embarrassing certainly "notPC", and a product of her time/identity, oblivious, self indulgent, entitled, no longer skeptical but fully drank the koolaid in the beauty world she used to mock.
also, just all these grating, unnecessary scenes: the moment when she brags about getting a four day workweek, while having a baby, and still making lots of money why aren't there enough stories of mom who manage to have everything it's reallly quite simple!, the casual mentions of token black friends /her friend who decided to give a dark skinned doll a racist name/persona.
. . , a whole chapter on how she thinks of herself as a good boss, . . complaining about an employee who quit on the day her grandmother died, a whole chapter that

sounded like a press release for Lucky magazine, . . her judgement towards certain aesthetics or procedures she's anti sex workers and boob jobs, but happy with tasteful botox and vampy pedicures.
and not to mention just the complete lack of narrative coherence and any hint of a point ruined the book for me.
i am mad about it! it had so, so much potential but i guess jean isn't really interested in thinking about things deeply.
she always was just a vehicle for product marketing and these days, fittingly, she's the beauty director of goop.
. . i enjoyed parts of this book, but i think her current job really tells you all you need to know.
The girl is a beauty editor, Talks about the importance of wearing makeup and all this stuff about people pushing makeup on people.

and she doesnt wear any and constantly tells you,
its just annoying.
kinda a little deglamourization of my dreams, so thanks jean. . Jean GodfreyJune is the reason I subscribed to Lucky magazine foryears, Her insane runon sentences are over the top but aweinspiring, One time her entire article was justenormous sentences, Her page buried more than halfway through the magazine was always my favorite part, which is strange since I'm not into makeup or beauty products.
I finally figured out I don't care what she is writing about, but I cared about her writing and I still needed to read her writing every month.
She writes the way I think, I feel we are kindred spirits: anyone who can reference the depressing smell of Bandaids in the same way I do and in possibly the same sentence transport you to a tomato planter in a rooftop garden in Manhattan has matched my brainwaves.


Month after month the magazine shrunk until they actually combined months together into even thinner magazines! I knew things were going downhill but I had hope that Lucky would pull through.
When I figured out that Lucky would be no more, I felt I needed to own a permanent copy of the genius woman's writing.
Now I feel bad that I've thrown away old copies of Lucky, . . I hope I find her writing again soon!

Oh, and about the book very Devil wears Prada/tooth and nail fashion survival/swanky NY cocktail parties and all those free beauty product samples.
Fun and sad to read an insider's perspective of an endangered/soon to be extinct industry, I think the fact that I read this only a month or two ago and don't remember much about it speaks volumes.
It had some nice beauty tips, and Jean GodfreyJune is a little snarky/funny, which I enjoyed.
I expected something different and the story was somewhat sporadic, It went from talking about meeting her husband to one of her friends, which had really connection.
I did like the humor in the book though and the side notes along the way, However, not really what I was looking for in the end, Funny and smart, Jean definitely calls it like she sees it when it comes to the beauty industry.
This book is a must read for any beauty addict, beauty industry employee or anyone remotely interested in a career in beauty.
A frank and funny memoir of life as a beauty editor, The author is the daughter of scientists and has a healthy skepticism about most beauty product claims.
She includes some good information on what works and what doesn't, This book, while almost pointless and meaningless, is also a lot of fun, Its kind of like dvd extras, only the dvds ares and earlys fashion magazines, I downloaded this one, after reading Cat Marnell's excellent How to Murder Your Life,

This is nothing like the author's former intern's book, This might be the first nontextbook I read that had no story, structure, or point, I could excuse that, if I was reading a published version of someone's diary, This is not the case,

I think the main purpose of this, well I can't tall it a memoir, . . or advice book or a narrative, since there are hardly any scenes, Whatever. I don't care enough to come up with a category, This was clearly written to give a peek behind the scenes of what it's like to work at a magazine.
I assume to aid future girls who want to work in such an industry, just like Marnell.
I don't even think it did that well,

I learned a lot about how magazines are dumped with beauty products, I learned about all the different parties beauty editors are invited to, I learned about how desperate beauty companies are to woo editors, which include lavish lunches and parties.
That's all fine to write about, but it felt like Jean was rubbing it my face, sometimes.
I know this wasn't intentional, I felt this way, because she didn't write about much else,

The chapters on how someone as unconventional as her got such a job were sparring.
She didn't even really say much on how to write about beauty products, It was all just her opinions and facts about beauty products themselves, which is what I thought we were supposed to read the magazine for.


It was just a very weak read, with not enough legs to support a good story.
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