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gilding the lily; Diamond-dust exfoliants, liquid-gold body wraps, caviar masks, and a single pearl.(Column)
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck
Any alchemist can tell you that the power lies in what you can't see. When I was a teenager I used to make face masks out of pink toothpaste, Shalimar, and a shot of rubbing alcohol, but it was Gene who first made me bathe in sake. He worked in Korea but lived in Japan, Korea being, apparently, heavy on the soul of a New Yorker. Five years ago I lived in Paris, worked too hard, but could only get to the spa once a year. Gene's girlfriend liked French beauty products, so I gave him Sisley for her, and he gave me plastic packages of bamboo mud that smelled of rotting vegetation. Twenty minutes in slimy brown bathwater and I could do an ...
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