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Beach Reads: Immaculate Complexion by Edie Bloom Jun 29, 2007
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Girlawhirl certainly tries to keep up with all the new lotions and potions the beauty biz has to offer. She loves trying new products right when they hit the stores, and thanks to a Super Pal in the big-market beauty game, sometimes even before. So when a Pal passed her a new novel from a former big-beauty business insider, Girlawhirl just couldn't resist. The Immaculate Complexion is a former beauty-publicist-turned-author's dish on life inside the hallowed halls of a major cosmetics company… Marnie Mann is a vintage-wearing, DIY kind of girl who lands smack in the middle of LeVigne Cosmetics thanks to a temping job. As a PR floater Marnie is subjected to all the grunt work – and insults – her full-time, beauty-obsessed, coworkers and bosses send her way. She soon learns she must be the only temp her agency can keep there, because every time she reaches her breaking point and tries to quit, they convince her there's no other work for her – and the nearly broke Marnie needs to work. As her tenure there continues, Marnie begins to get wrapped up in the beauty culture – not to mention the full-size samples!
She finds herself maneuvering through one PR nightmare and product launch after another, and even has to contend with a near death experience at the hands of some black-market Botox. And when a DNA based skin cream escapade erupts, all fingers point right to Marnie.
But amidst all of the evil uptown beauties, she still finds time to meet a great guy and decides to use her love of DIY remedies to save the public from the cosmetics industry one natural product at a time – if she can pull it off.
Girlawhirl found her copy of The Immaculate Complexion in her online shopping mall at amazon.com.
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