STYLECASTER
Almost all of my social engagements are purely of the last-minute variety. It’s a sort of oppositional defiance, or at least a paradox?the further ahead I’ve planned to do something, the less likely I am to want to do it when the occasion rolls around. I prefer to go where the wind takes me, so to speak, and sometimes the wind takes me when I am not prepared.
Like, say, on a Friday afternoon where I’d planned to go straight home from work and take my jeans off and turn on a meditative podcast and then inevitably get bored and watch the first season of “Peep Show” for the tenth time (the best) and fall asleep at 8 pm. This is generally the type of situation where something comes up that I feel like doing, and then I’m caught unawares and have to make some transformative effort to show that I tried. In layman’s terms, I could really use a fucking EOD makeover. I have been alive long enough to know that this is not unique to me; in fact, there’s a whole phenomenon based on “looks” that seamlessly transition from day to night. This, I imagine, is why the eminent celebrity makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury, beloved by everyone from Kim Kardashian to Kate Moss, created her new Instant Look In a Palette ($75), which is alarmingly accurate in its guarantee of being “an all-in-one beauty palette that EVERY WOMAN NEEDS in her beauty kit for DAY TO EVENING makeup!” (Emphasis Charlotte’s, or whichev...