Perhaps it's a beauty editor thing, but growing up, I worshiped celebrity makeup artists, colorists, and hairstylists almost as vehemently as I did actual celebrities. I devoured glossy magazine pages while armed with a red pen and snip-happy fingers, keeping organized lists and looks precisely organized in color-coded binders. I've always been product-obsessed, (I owned sticks of Clé de Peau before a car), and my dream was to one day become a beauty editor—an amazing perk of which is talking to and collaborating with said celebrity experts. I feel extremely lucky that dream panned out, and even two-plus years into the job, I get just as excited to talk to artists who work regularly with members of the A-list and who are artistically responsible for the most double-take worthy hair and makeup looks walking down the red carpet. And, being the beauty-passionate nineties baby that I am, celebrity hairstylist Mark Townsend (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's longtime mane man) was a...