Vanity tour andrea Pomerantz Lustig

Shopping & Style
Vanity tour Andrea
Pomerantz Lustig
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The author of How to Look Expensive lets
us peek inside her meticulously organized
beauty storage. By Cristina Velocci
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Having spent the past 20 years
as a beauty editor at
Cosmopolitan and Glamour, Andrea
Pomerantz Lustig has amassed a
wealth of pampering knowledge—
and the products to back it up. In
her new book, How to Look
Expensive (howtolookexpensive
.com), she spills her hard-earned
secrets for appearing glamorous
without breaking the bank. “Just
like how you shop at H&M and Saks
Fifth Avenue, you can mix it all up
[when it comes to beauty],” she
says. She applies that ethos to her
own routine, as evidenced by the
prestige products and drugstore
finds that fill her Upper East Side
apartment.
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When she wants more
coverage, Pomerantz Lustig
reaches for By Terry’s Light-Expert
foundation with a built-in brush
($62, at bigelowchemists.com),
and has found L’Oreal Paris’s
Visible Lift Smooth Absolute
version ($16, at lorealparisusa
.com) to be a suitable stand-in.
“I think foundation brushes are
the secret to making your skin
look glowing,” she says. “You
need a foundation brush to help
you blend, and if it’s in your
makeup, then you’ll always have
it with you.”
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Colored-glass tumblers from La
Terrine (1024 Lexington Ave at
73rd St, 212-988-3366 • 280
Half of Pomerantz Lustig’s
Columbus Ave at 73rd St, 877-837home office is devoted to
7463 • laterrinedirect.com) neatly
storing all of the new and yet-to-be- store brushes, lip pencils and her
released products that are sent to
favorite Beautyblender makeup
her for review. A shelving unit and 1 sponge (beautyblender.net). “I use
natural-canvas bins from West Elm it to blot in my foundation, to blend
(1870 Broadway at 62nd St, 212eye shadow in the creases, to
247-8077 • 112 W 18th St
remove eyeliner when I mess up—
between Sixth and Seventh Aves,
it just gets into all the nooks and
212-929-4464 • 75 Front St at
crannies,” she enthuses.
Main St, Dumbo, Brooklyn; 718Pomerantz Lustig has two
875-7757 • westelm.com) keep
cosmetic bags: a high-end
everything organized and
version that stays in her makeup
accessible, proving to be a better
drawer and a less expensive
solution than the closet she had
replica she uses on the go.
previously. “That was just a big
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disaster—I couldn’t find anything,” “These products are the
best of the best,” she
she recalls. “This system really
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says, referring to the
works. I wanted to make it part of
the decor, so it doesn’t feel like I’m former kit. “When I
added up how much
walking into a storage room.”
they all cost, it was
“This is the stuff that I use
$500 and I realized
often,” says Pomerantz Lustig, that was a little bit
who keeps tried-and-true products
insane.” By colorin a master-bedroom cabinet just
matching testers at
outside her bathroom. Items are
drugstores, the beauty
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grouped by category, including a
expert was able to find affordable
bin devoted entirely to fake hair.
dead-ringers for all of her pricey
Although many of the faux locks
items. “To be honest, some of the
are prestyled clip-ins, such as a
inexpensive ones have become my
HairDo by Jessica Simpson
new favorites,” she says.
(hairuwear.com/hairdo) long
For those intimidated by
ponytail that she wore to her
wearing red lipstick, Pomerantz
sister’s wedding, one set has
Lustig suggests trying crimsonslightly more custom origins. “My
brother-in-law’s 50th-birthday party tinted lip balms, such as Pixi Tinted
was during Fashion Week and I was Brilliance Balm in Rosy Red ($16, at
pixibeauty.com). “[Makeup artist]
backstage at one of the shows
Romy Soleimani compared this to
Wella (wella.com) was doing,” she
YSL red,” notes Pomerantz Lustig
recounts. “The extensions they
of Nivea’s A Kiss of Cherry salve
had dyed looked exactly like my
($2, at drugstore.com). “It’s more
hair color and they let me take
some, so I wore them straight from wearable and modern-looking
because it’s sheer.”
the runway.”
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Photographs: Mimi Ko
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