Anyone who tells you she can permanently shrink your pores is a big fat liar. I know because plastic surgeon Norman Leaf and registered nurse Rand Rusher told me so, and they’ve carved up enough celebrity faces to have a clue what they’re talking about.
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When I said I was hungry the effervescent Kate brought me a sleek ceramic platter covered with little finger foods, garnished with a fresh-picked orchid. Yes, they were schmoozing me. But somehow it felt classy–nice and unnecessarily generous, lacking the whiff of desperation that comes off a lot of start-ups.
Leaf and Rusher recently started selling a beauty tool called the DermaRoller, a sort of Garden Weasel for your face. At the end of a plastic wand there’s a little spool speckled with hair-thin stainless-steel prongs. When you roll it over your face, the prongs perforate your skin, supposedly making any product (preferably Leaf and Rusher’s special serum) more potent because more of it gets to sink in, and deeper. DIY skin perforation is pretty creepy if you think about it too hard, but Leaf and Rusher gave me one and I’m using it and I look radiant, so who am I to judge?
Later, the Nars rep made me up with their new eye shadow duo, a combination of shimmery brick red and lilac, smudged some black on top of that, and capped it all off with a glittery olive brown shadow called Nightlife. “Gorgeous,” she said. I looked like a zombie.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Andrea Bauer.
