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"Sorry&amp;amp;#8212;couldn&amp;#x27;t help myself. (Re-read the title to the tune of Jay-Z&amp;#x27;s Public Service Announcement. It&amp;#x27;ll make sense then, I promise.) Hi Glamouristas! I&amp;#x27;m India-Jewel Jackson (just call me IJJ) and I&amp;#x27;m soooooo excited to be the newest Girl in the Beauty Department! (The girl that can&amp;#x27;t lay off the pink lipstick, is 100% obsessed with oils, has never met a serum she didn&amp;#x27;t love, and thinks that girls with curls run the world...) I may be the rookie on this all-star team, but I&amp;#x27;m a veteran in the beauty editorial world. Over the past eight years, I&amp;#x27;ve honed my skills at magazines like Shape, In Style, and CosmoGirl, and online at Seventeen, Ladies Home Journal, More, and Glam. Currently a freelance beauty blogger/writer by day and DJ by night (hence the hip-hop intro), I spend an inordinate amount of time testing soon-to-market primping products and searching for the best foundation and concealer, a BB Cream and translucent powder that works on my complex complexion, a universal natural-looking blush, an honest-to-goodness quick dry top coat, the perfect deep conditioner, a rich-but-not-too-rich face cream, the top eyelash extension-ist, and my signature scent (of the week, of course. I shudder at the thought of ever committing to just one.) In my spare time I circle the globe crossing items off of my Beauty Bucket List. (Do you have a Beauty Bucket List? Start one.) My most memorable treatments? Blinged all-the-way-out Calgel nails in Tokyo (cost $350 and took an entire month to remove), a volcano mud bath in Colombia (equally icky and amazing), an underwater sulfur and salt scrub in Iceland (all types of glorious), a fresh coffee grounds body buffing session in Costa Rica (smelled like a strong cup of joe for a full week), a red wine shower in Provence (smelled like a certifiable wino for three days straight), and heating up in a hammam in Dubai (I burned my bum&amp;amp;#8212;literally). On deck for 2012? Thalassotherapy in Croatia and steaming my strands in Thailand. In the meantime and in between time, I&amp;#x27;ll be right here dishing all about the latest and greatest in beauty, what&amp;#x27;ll be on shelves later this year, what&amp;#x27;s hot across the pond and down under, top tips and tricks I&amp;#x27;ve learned from the experts over the years, and celebrity GTLs and WTFs. Speaking of, I&amp;#x27;m just as obsessed with celebrities as the next gal, but I tend to derive beauty inspiration from It girls of yesteryear. Diana Ross&amp;#x27; frizzy curls are fabulous, Tammy Faye Baker&amp;#x27;s clunky spider lashes ROCKED, Marilyn Monroe&amp;#x27;s glamour puss poses were sublime, Peggy Bundy&amp;#x27;s bouffant was as beautiful as it was ridiculous, Scarlett O&amp;#x27;Hara&amp;#x27;s feisty temperament made devious determination an attractive attribute, Mae West&amp;#x27;s chola eyebrows were A-OK with me, Boy George wore frosty pastel eyeshadow with pride, Brigitte Bardot&amp;#x27;s eyeliner was the best EVER, Princess Diana&amp;#x27;s oversize feathered backcombed bangs actually worked (for her), Michael Jackson&amp;#x27;s obsession with his skin was questionable but unparalleled, and Elizabeth Taylor&amp;#x27;s makeup was immaculate in public to the very end. Quite the random bunch, yes, but no judgments here... right? Now that I&amp;#x27;ve &amp;#x27;fessed up about my eccentric beauty icons, please take a moment to tell me all about yours&amp;amp;#8212;real or fictional, whose get-gorgeous gumption do you secretly admire? The more random, the better! (Bonus points for each and every Blanche Devereaux and Prince reference.)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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