"The Olsen Concealer"
Beauty edit from Alexis Page
A few weeks ago, I was preparing for an interview about my gift guide. I force my clients to thoroughly prepare for interviews, but anytime I have to do something I casually ask my clients to do, I realize how hard it is to remember what I’ve done and what’s been done to me.
I encourage everyone to make a list before shopping this year: What gifts have I received? What gifts have I given? It’s good to rate your gift giving. Mine rates poorly: I asked my husband what I’ve given him in the past 2 1/2 years. The conversation faltered. He forget the customized Montblanc pen I inscribed with an Elizabeth Holmes text to Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. (I will admit the Holmes case wasn’t a personal joke between us, I just thought the court documents were hilarious.) Still, how do you forget that! It was the thickest pen I’ve ever seen!
A brief moment for this Paul Schrader recommendation:
Shopping update:
I blogged about Ellen Pong’s ceramics sale last week (taking place via dm). I bought two vases. I think they were about ~$300 each?
Alexis Page
Anyone who has read the gift guide before knows that every year I beg Alexis Page—“the most important person in beauty you’ve never heard of—to give a few recommendations. (Alexis is one of the few characters that comes away unscathed in the Glossier tell-all by Marisa Meltzer. We met because she was on a podcast and I thought she was so smart I wrote her a fan letter.)
Alexis is perhaps most famous on the blog for recommending what is now known as “the Olsen concealer,” a miracle concealer from an anon and ugly beauty brand that an Olsen twin once recommended to her. You can purchase it here. It’s a fucking thick spot treatment. It could cover a pimple at your wedding. We also share the same hairstylist: The infamous Ashley Javier.
I’ll let her take it from here!