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Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Jessica DeFino to share a taste of her taste on Perfectly Imperfect.
Jessica DeFinois a New Jersey-based writer and award-winning journalist. She’s the former editor of the official Kardashian-Jenner apps, an experience she wrote about for Vice Magazine, and has words in publications such as The New York Times and Vanity Fair. These days, she runs a wildly popular reader-funded beauty Substack called The Review of Beauty (formerly known as The Unpublishable) that has a similar mission to Perfectly Imperfect— real, pure, recommendations made with the sole purpose of sharing with others. She’s been heralded as “The woman the beauty industry fears” by The Sunday Herald and Emily Sundberg says that Jessica is “really good at her job.” If you want more, you can also check out Jessica’s advice in her column for The Guardian, Ask Ugly. Lucky for us, Jessica’s here to tell us what she’s been into.
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Dead skin cells have been unfairly demonized by Big Beauty!! We need dead skin cells. They’re the only cells that can absorb Natural Moisturizing Factors, they’re part of the skin’s immune system, they’re involved in sun protection, they’re prebiotic — there are microbes on the skin that eat dead skin cells — and once they shed naturally, they also “clean up” indoor air pollution. If your skin is dehydrated, inflamed, broken out, blotchy, or sensitive there’s a good chance it’s partly because you’re acid-burning all this good stuff into oblivion. I haven’t exfoliated in probably six years.
🦢 Natural Waterscapes Waterfowl Feed
I live next to a lagoon and take care of the ducks and swans that live here too. A mama mallard made her nest in my backyard last year — I watched her ducklings hatch and suddenly knew the meaning of life/the meaninglessness of my own. Since bread is bad for waterfowl and the aquatic environment I make sure I always have a bag of Natural Waterscapes Waterfowl Feed ready for swim-up visits.
🥀 Cooking with Rose Petals
Near the end of her memoirLove, Pamela (very good by the way) Pamela Anderson reveals she puts rose petals in her pasta sauce and now I put rose petals in my pasta sauce. I do a super simple burst cherry tomato sauce with garlic, olive oil, and crushed red pepper and stir in fresh petals from my garden a couple minutes before it’s done. Or I sprinkle these dried rose petals over berries and granola for breakfast
📰New York Review of Books Personal Ads
Every time a new issue of NYRB arrives my boyfriend and I flip to the personal ads at the back and read them out loud over breakfast. If I were single and 60+ years old, this is where I’d look for love.
🍇Flea Market Art
Almost all the art in my house is from flea markets. That moment when a piece catches your eye, and it’s partially hidden behind a jumble of junk, and you pull it out and it’s better than you even imagined… and then it’s like $10? There’s nothing better.
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