Get the look: Beauty smarts for bookworms

Are you reading this bare-faced while wearing tracksuit bottoms?

Then you’re just like Jennifer L. Scott before a year in Paris changed her life. While studying abroad, the ladies of her host families taught her to “curate” her wardrobe, to look flawless at 5.30am and to perfect the elusive “no makeup” look. The Francophile returned to the States a new woman and shares those tips and more in this handbag-size text. She really impresses upon you that good presentation can be your signature, not a transient state.

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