—Jean Godfrey-June
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Because of HBO's new show True Blood, I've become obsessed with VAMPIRES, googling them in my cubicle while my colleagues do actual work.
I've accrued extraordinarily useful information—I know now about the Chubacabra, the spiny-backed bloodsucker of South American livestock—I'll never want for a cocktail party icebreaker again! My new favorite website is the Vampire Name Generator: You plug in your name and it spits out a new befanged identity for you. I, Cat Marnell, become Anne Keat, Mother of Gypsies—of good humor, but dangerous. Mere mortal Britney Spears becomes Iolanthe Beau Pre, terror of Eastern Europe. The shifty Cindy McCain becomes Sultana of Scandinavia, or the Mother of the Crows—wise and shrewd. (True, true, and TRUE, I say!)
Anne Keat has put herself on the waiting list for Piha Black Color Fever Lip Gloss, the latest edition to Lanc??me's Omigod-I-must-get-on-the-waiting list-NOW Collection.* You layer it over the included red lipstick to deepen the color (though I feel a TRUE creature of the night would wear it solo).
—Cat Marnell, beauty assistant
*Call 212-705-2886 to get on Bloomingdale's list (only the flagship New York location); otherwise, watch lancome-usa.com like a hawk come November.