The (Virtual) Beauty Closet

Beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June wears her hysteria on her sleeve—but keeps her perfume a total secret.

Beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June ups the glamour and tones down the shine.

It has become fashionable to rave about the packaging for Ladurée, the Parisian sweet shop.

Shamed by demi-celebs and doormen, beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June goes into a deep nail-polishing trance.

Tinier and chicer than even an iPod, this throw-it-in-your-bag-and-you're-suddenly-10,000-times-more-fabulous sunscreen is bound to increase "compliance" (as dermatologists like to say) by about six trillion percent.

The Chateau Marmont in Hollywood is a glamorous place.

All-natural, biodynamic, and chock-full of essential oils—yet no trouble for my breakout-prone skin, this chic tube of natural SPF is everything you don't expect a crunchy lotion to be.

Eating a blood orange—or better, to my mind, drinking blood orange juice—makes me feel like an Italian countess and very healthy all at the same time. By healthy I mean a bracing, wide-awake sort of energy.

Mystery and grandeur compel beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June to slather on more, more, more.

In her eternal struggle for decent-looking skin, beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June vacillates between the gentle and the harsh.

In her eternal struggle for decent-looking skin, beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June vacillates between the gentle and the harsh.

I love jasmine, I love solid perfume, and thus I love this gorgeous painted tin of jasmine and almond fragrance.

Mystery and grandeur compel beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June to slather on more, more, more.

Beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June finds a crunchy day cream that does it all and the perfect gift—for anyone, really.

My worship of hairstylist Sally Hershberger is no secret.

You can't get the full effect of this candle until you burn it.

Decades of eye-makeup-remover drama at last resolved, beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June is finally happy.

In her eternal struggle for decent-looking skin, beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June vacillates between the gentle and the harsh.

"We" has replaced the much more judgmental and much more honest "they," and our world is the worse for it.

You know the items you never wear, the ones that hang in the closet and mock you?

Re: Commands of "Relax!" and the related "You look so tired!," the only thing to do is go on the offensive.

I don't want to smell like banana, and yet—I do want to.