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love to use. Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. This is such a special episode for me because our guest

today, I'm a big fan of hers, and she has been such a monumental voice in the beauty industry

and has changed so much and has been really up in the front when it comes to, you know, diversity

and really bringing out the best of this industry. So without me ranting too much, I want to introduce you guys to Michelle Lee. Welcome, Michelle. I'm so honored to be hosting you. Hi there. So excited to be here. I'm thrilled and so excited always to talk about beauty. Yeah, no, I can't wait to chat with you because, I mean, I look at your career and you've just already, you've accomplished so much and you've shifted the way this industry works and, you know, things, really, like, on a fundamental level, I mean, your work at Allure is just monumental, how, you know, all the wonderful things you accomplished there. And I'd love to get started in that way. If you could kind of walk us down memory lane and tell us about what got you into beauty in the first place.

Like what made you want to come into it? Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I've been talking a lot with people about this and just, you know, in general, my career. And when I look back, I actually consider myself to be very much a generalist. When I was in college, I was like that kid who I had no idea what I wanted to do.

At some point, I had to choose a major.

And I had no idea what I wanted to do. At some point, I had to choose a major.

And, you know, I had always really loved storytelling, writing.

And so I chose journalism, very specifically magazine journalism.

And so once I picked that route, I actually really wanted to go into fashion initially.

So I moved up to New York City.

My first job was at Glamour

magazine, and I had a great internship where I got to spend two weeks in every department. So my

first department was in the fashion closet. After, I think maybe it was like day two, I was like,

this is not the path for me. At some point, my next two weeks was spent in the articles department.

I loved it because it kind of got me back to writing, editing, et cetera.

And so really my path was less about the subject matter and more about I loved storytelling.

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