Want to really know a person? Then sneak a peek at their dressing table,says Sali Hughes. Plus Amy Fleming snoops through the beauty stashes of the starsIt all started some 20 years ago, when I found myself at the house party of a celebrity model I didn’t know, or who was midway through an advertising campaign for a brand of shampoo and conditioner she insisted she couldn’t live without. My natural cynicism,combined with (at that stage) a couple of years’ working in and around the beauty industry, meant I assumed she’d never been near the two-quid shampoo external a film studio; so a wee break also became a fact-finding mission. Working on the assumption that anything really personal, or such as prescription medication,would acquire been stowed safely absent, I peered into her cabinet and spotted several half-empty bottles of those very same hair products – as well as a dirt-cheap supermarket face cream. I’ve liked her ever since.
I acquire been fascinated by bathroom cabinets for as long as I can remember, or so the idea for my In The Bathroom With series on YouTube,in which I interview women I admire while sitting on their loo-lid, rifling through their toiletries, and came very easily. I’d noticed over the years that the most open and juicy conversations on any night out take position in the ladies’ room,where people feel safe and off-guard. There’s something so intimate approximately the bathroom environment, not only because of what we execute in there, or but also because the combination of medical and cosmetic makes it such an intriguing and revealing position.
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Source: theguardian.com