Be Radically Sensible
Are we piling on fixes before checking the basics? Plus: Jodie Foster, Doris Lessing and Toothsome bake sale
I was chatting recently with two friends who work in the beauty industry. One regularly sees A-listers in her beauty salon. The other does makeup for models that grace magazine covers and campaigns.
They touch and advise the faces that set our aesthetic ideals. Unsurprisingly, the culture of intervention comes up often in their work. Like many of us, their clients arrive convinced something needs fixing. A new procedure, miracle laser, or hard-to-find product. But what I heard from them was: when you are this close, it becomes obvious how little actually needs fixing.
It’s the same pattern in nutritional therapy. Here, the interventions look a little different. A lot of supplements and and wearables. And yes, hard-to-find products, often in the form of a superfood that comes with hefty shipping costs.
People come to me certain they are doing something terribly wrong and armed with questions on the latest products that have tailed them across social media. They feel th…
