Chemistry Lessons

Cat says fashion girls never wear makeup, and perhaps it's true: I'm perpetually on a hunt for natural (as in, no-makeup) looking beauty products.

I do kind of love the way my face blushes after a couple of glasses of wine or after a good workout. It's that unattainable pinkish hue that can never seem to be captured by a blush of any kind. Powders, creams, the powder cream combo—not for me. I recently tried one from Smashbox called O-Glow. It's pretty much the coolest technology I've come across in a beauty product since the Lancôme eye makeup remover. It's a clear gel that intuitively reacts with your skin's personal chemistry. A goji-berry complex sets off some kind of microcirculatory effect. The result is a shade that your skin naturally blushes! How cool is that? Even cooler: It actually lasts. If only I had thought of this idea for a high school chemistry project!

—Rachel Siegel, fashion assistant