You DON'T make lemonade, you write about lemon-scented beauty products (if you're me). I've been duly chastised for my nonsensical musings of last week, and I will try hard not to stray so far from my subject again.

To answer your jigga-queries: Yes, A.A. = Alcoholics Anonymous. The beauty reference (in my head, and clearly not on the page) to the barber shop was about the fact that as a beauty editor, if you allow all the people who want to cut/color/gloss/perm your hair to have their way with you, you'll be completely bald in less than a month. Further (again, in my head, not the page), it also tied into the monkey-see, monkey-do aspect of beauty and beauty rituals that I find fascinating: Why every gorgeous, perfect friend I have that's ever moved to L.A. quickly comes around to the idea that she must get breast implants. Why the overwhite teeth plague the poor celebrities. Why one person in the Lucky office tries a mascara and suddenly we all have to have the stuff.

Anyway. I appreciate your heroic efforts to decode my impenetrable prose. I promise: No more haiku.

—Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director

My skin—acne-prone, dehydrated, and moderately sensitive—hasn't been looking too hot lately. Or, you know, ever. "Clear and glowy" is a constantly-trudging-uphill battle, and requires lots of effort: dermatologist visits, Differin every night, microdermabrasion, painful facials, and so on.

Right?! Skincare should NOT be this much work. If I slack at all—and I do, because going to the dermatologist is really, really boring—I break out (FYI: The world isn't FAIR.***). Then I sulk about the time I could've spent doing more important things, like watching my bootleg Twilight DVD alone in bed (again), or researching Robert Pattinson's personal life (I SO don't believe that he hooked up with Nikki Reed on the New Moon set, P.S.).

ANYHOW, I need to make some changes—starting with my makeup. Everyone loves mineral these days, and though I know a lot about it, I need motivation to get started (I've been beauty-lazy lately, remember?) and stick with it (I have serious product-commitment issues).

So, mineral makeup fans: is it really that wonderful?! Will really I break out less? And what about the whole germy makeup brush issue? Does anyone actually SLEEP in mineral makeup, as some say it's okay to do? Convince me!

—Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor

***Even as I write this, senior beauty editor Cristina "my skin is always PERFECT" Mueller is writing a "I don't wash my face at night—do you?" blog! (My answer: "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!")

Are bloodsucking worms Demi Moore's secret to interminable hotness?A CBS News needs to know! Watch the fascinatingly gory video here. (Bellasugar)

Spa treatments in Mexican "sweat lodges" inspire feminist glory, moon salutations. (about.com Beauty Blog)

How to get mascara out of clothes, clean up shattered compact mirrors, and other tips for the endearingly beauty-clumsy. (Beauty Blogging Junkie)

A perfumer has created the scent of money, which is sure to attract some really classy people. (1000 Fragrances)

We're extra-thrilled that figure skater/gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi is the new spokesperson for Nicole by OPI (a Lucky favorite, natch)—a great contract with a great company.

There's a new limited-edition CK One bottle, set on a Lucite base with a removable mini-speaker inside. We don't quite get the tech-y part, but it sounds cool— like something a lanky, cooler-than-you person would know how to use. In other words, typical Calvin Klein genius. In 1994, he made CK One one of the most iconically cool fragrances ever, and made everyone involved cool: even allegedly tri-nippled Marky Mark (oh yeah, and that Kate Moss person). With this relaunch, he's doing it again and we want this cool bottle-stereo thing desperately; if you do too, click here.

Gap launched unisex fragrances that year, too: Grass, Earth, Day, and (the most questionably "unisex" ) Heaven. Everyone was obsessed; then all mourned, My So-Called Life cancellation-like, when Gap discontinued all but the latter. The old ones are on eBay, but whatever: Close, Gap's first-ever just-for-women fragrance (besides, one might argue, HEAVEN) is out in April. We're counting on it to smell typical-of-Gap incredible; it also comes in a bottle that looks like Eva from Wall-E, which for some reason really does it for us.