The New York Times: Style - Skin Deep
Perks, Graft, Junkets? It's Not Congress, It's Beauty
April 13, 2006
By Natasha Singer

Industry veterans including Karen R. Young, chief executive of The Young Group, a cosmetics consulting firm, said it was unusual for a prominent beauty editor publicly to question the extravagant claims of products, something rarely done in magazines, which seek not to offend an advertiser. The book baldly states that "nothing from the cosmetics counter is going to erase your wrinkles" or dispose of cellulite.

"The beauty industry is going to have a field day with this one," Ms. Young said.

She also predicted the book would prove eye-opening on the subject of freebies. "Susie Shopper may be surprised to know the extent to which this goes on," she said. "Last month a cosmetics company put editors in limos and sent them to La Perla with $1,000 gift certificates."