All This and Health Insurance Too

We really don’t want to keep slagging on Kim France’s monthly missives, but she makes it so easy. From October:

I waited until the very last minute for this month’s photo to be taken, so Jean Godfrey-June, our peerless beauty director, was put on code-blue makeup duty.

Which we’re sure she appreciated, since she has no other duties at the magazine than to do than the editor-in-chief’s makeup.

At first she messed up the brows and said in a panic, "I’m not a makeup artist. I’m a writer by trade!"

Exactly. Writing about makeup doesn’t necessarily qualify one to apply it. France fails to recognize this might be a problem, and Godfrey-June soldiers on. In the end, while the beauty editor is satisfied, France doesn’t even comment on the finished job. Instead, she offers this bit of what is either friendly advice or sheer bitchery:

Quit your day job and you’re dead, Jean.

Ouch.

To top it off, the photo doesn’t even show the finished makeup job, just the beauty director acting as makeup artist on call. We love Lucky (really, we do), but sometimes we think it’s probably not a very nice place to work.