Hi, guys. Welcome back to Skincare Anarchy. This is your host, Ekta. And I'm so excited today because I have the beauty director for Pure Wow with me. Jenny, Jen. Welcome to the show. Jenny. I'm so excited. You're here.

Hi. Thanks so much for having me.

Thank you so much for making the time. It's truly an honor to host you. I really want to get to know everything about your career and how you got into beauty and if you can share that with us.

So I got into beauty in my mid 20s, actually, which now looking back seems like, oh, you were so young, but at the time, I really felt like I was starting the game late.

Because a lot of my peers, you know, they were journalism majors in college. And so a lot of their internships started off in the editorial world, you know, at different magazines.

And whereas I kind of did the reverse, I started off in journalism for not even a full semester. And I quickly switched to communication because I thought, oh, I'll make myself more marketable this way.

Yeah, even then was a quote unquote dying field as a shrinking field certainly. And so I guess that's like the responsible part of me felt like, you know what, I'm going to widen my job opportunities.

Yeah, I know that's smart. I like that.

Yeah, so I switched into communication. I graduated in 2009, which is, if you remember, not a great time to graduate with the recession going on.

Yeah, it was definitely rough time. Yeah, it was a tough time to get a job. And so I did land a job. And my first job was in the nonprofit world. I was working for a waste association outside of DC, doing a lot of their marketing.

I had a copy for them, essentially, and I eventually transitioned into an event planning role for them because it was a small company as truly one of those wears lots of hats kind of job.

Yeah.

And it was really fun, though, because I was in my early 20s and I had a lot of colleagues who were around my same age and we would travel and plan events together.

And yeah, it was a great first job, despite it having nothing to do with beauty, I was just happy to be employed and have insurance truthfully.

Yeah, yeah, that's so cool. I like that, though, you know, it's like you gain so many perspectives along the way. So when you eventually settle down into your real career, it's like, it's nice to have that. So I'm actually glad you did that.

Yeah, you know, it's one of those things in hindsight, you appreciate that stuff so much more. I think at the time I felt incredibly scattershot almost, you know, it's kind of like, what am I doing really?

And so from there, I knew I always wanted to have a chapter in New York, you know, it's just one of those things. I just really wanted to have that New York lifestyle.

Yeah.

So I did make them move to New York and I did so by taking a job this time in finance.

And it was a event planning position for an investor relations firm in Midtown and wow, just completely different. I knew from the get go that this was a stepping stone to get myself to New York. So I can support my my lifestyle and my expensive lifestyle in New York.

Right. Right.

But I quickly knew that that was going to be a temporary, you know, solution to get myself there. And then I had to figure out what I really, really want to do.

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