About Face: Beauty is a Weapon

The second instalment of a series on my years in the beauty industry

This column is part of my About Face series on beauty and my time as an editor working in the beauty industry. But if you’re not a beauty buff, don’t worry — this is Peak Notions, so this column also touches on class, gender, academia, aesthetics and Irish national treasure, novelist Marian Keyes. If you like Peak Notions, find yourself regularly intere…