GET TO KNOW ALLISON
After living in New York City for many years as a student and ad exec, I moved back to a quiet town near the ocean north of Boston.
For 20 years, I have traveled around the US moderating focus groups for a variety of domestic and international clients, including some of the world’s best known brands. I use the knowledge gained in my research on the beauty industry, as well as my own experience, in my beauty blog – neversaydiebeauty.com – to share beauty tips and insights about cosmetics with women who love makeup, want to look their best and who want info about which products to buy and which to avoid.
Some of my blogging credentials include being one of Preen.Me’s “50 Beauty Blogs You Should Be Reading”, a Beauty Contributor to Fabulous After 40, a Guru for FabOverFifty, a Visionary as well as a featured blogger for BlogHer.
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Happy New Year to you!!!!
<3 Wow, Gabrielle, your photo is stunning 🤩 Tell me about your creation, please!
That’s not me! That’s Anita Berber, legendary Weimar libertine. Don’t I wish I were that extraordinary!
The photo is small so it looked like you! But how is it that I didn’t know about her?
That might be one of the nicest compliments I’ve received! Admittedly, thanks to the fact that she was mostly a stage performer and she died quite young, she’s not as well known as other figures from that era, to be fair. In fact, when I attended the Weimar Panel at DragonCon, I was surprised to find that the moderators didn’t know about her either. (They also thought Hedy Lamarr was a German silent star, however, so their Weimar bona fides are suspect.)
I meant it! But thank you for filling me in. Funny, that the moderators didn’t know Hedy Lamarr’s story since she is so well known 🙂
Don’t get me started on that Weimar panel. The list of important historical figures from their supposed area of expertise of whom they were either completely or mostly unaware was staggering.
Very distressing. I guess they are enthusiasts rather than scholars?
I wouldn’t even give them THAT much credit. I hardly consider myself a scholar, but at least I know Hedy Lamarr never made a silent film!