By Nadine Haobsh, Nadine Jolie
From Nadine Haobsh, aka Jolie in NYC ("The poster baby for the blogger generation...you can not help yet love her."—New York Post), comes a tasty novel that just a real good looks insider can have written! Bella Hunter will be down yet she's now not out yet—and she's able to tackle the area of beauty...one undesirable makeover at a time. Pity the negative twenty-eight-year-old good looks professional and columnist for ultra-chic Enchant? journal, knocked correct out of her Jimmy Choos—and out of a job—when her off-the-cuff remark to a reporter is blown approach out of share. as soon as the authority on type, Bella's lowered to taking a place at Womanly international, a publishing dinosaur of no curiosity whatever to any lady lower than fifty. all of sudden she's acquired to take orders from a dreary and dowdy good looks director—and is quickly at struggle along with her male writer, who may really be attractive if he wasn't so completely frosty. Bella's stick insect boyfriend, a native land marriage ceremony, and a Paris junket are superb distractions, to be certain. yet how can she face her acquaintances and ex-coworkers now that she's caught in an place of work the place khaki—not Cavalli—is the lifestyle? And if beauty's no longer what it is all about...then what's?
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Facade of the flashy chrome, glass, and neon Bonneau-Martray tower in Times Square. I sign in at reception and head up to the fifteenth floor, checking in with the receptionist and then settling on a couch to calm my nerves. I wonder what Rania is like. She won’t be mean to me, will she? She agreed to this interview, so surely she wants to meet with me. But what if she doesn’t? What if it’s all a horrible mistake and she’s sitting at her desk right now preparing to tell me off for daring to sully her office with my horrible, magazine-exposing ways?
Yeah, it’s going to be all about wavy hair this fall,” I fib. ” Julie looks panicked. ” “Well, I’m projecting. ” She nods eagerly and I feel guilty. I’d bet money that she’ll come in tomorrow with wavy air-dried hair, too. I look around, surveying the surreal scene that’s become a normal part of my life. Every inch of the enormous cubeshaped studio is blindingly white, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Hudson River, Chelsea Piers, and downtown Manhattan, and countless racks of not-yet-released designer duds.
Tania’s last name is Valenskya, but nobody ever refers to her by both of her names: she’s just Tania. ) According to US Weekly she’s secretly seeing Leonardo DiCaprio, so I’m curious to see if he calls her or shows up at this shoot. “Come here,” Javier commands. She walks over wordlessly, ignoring the rest of us. Even though I’ve met her on at least three different occasions, I decide to let it go. I’m obviously not important enough to acknowledge. Tania sips her coffee while Javier runs his fingers through her hair, flipping her part this way and that, pulling it up in back, holding it to one side with his left hand as he strokes her strands with his right.