As a former staffer at Kiss magazine, I can tell you that writing the flowcharts was the best bit.
Working for a teen magazine (aka every '00s girl's dream) was every bit as awesome as you'd imagine.
In a time before smartphones, teen mags provided accurate, unbiased, non-cringeworthy information about sex, periods, and what was *normal* about the teenage body. And they were packed full of amazing celeb goss too.
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There was a fashion closet, but we didn't get to keep the clothes after they were shot.
We spent hours looking through them and dreaming, though.
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But we were allowed to raid the beauty cupboard.
We did get to keep the make-up, perfume, skin-care products, hair appliances, shower gel, body oil, and fake tan.
Destroying a gorgeous Chanel palette in order to swatch it was genuinely heartbreaking.
Teen mags needed lots of artful swooshes of broken-up products to jazz up the beauty pages. And destroying the make-up was devastating.
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