WHY NICKI AND THE NOSE?

OUR PHILOSOPHY.

Welcome to our blog! We are Nicki and the Nose. You can read our full bios in the ABOUT US section, but here’s how WHO WE ARE applies to WHY WE ARE doing this and what YOU MAY OR MAY NOT get out of it:
Nicki Ledermann is an Emmy Award winning makeup artist, who, over the past 20 years has worked on some of your most favorite faces. 
Think: Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon, Sofia Vergara , Amy Adams,  the entire cast of Sex and the City, Jude Law,  James Franco, Justin Timberlake and even Woody Allen. Nicki has applied to these mugs just about EVERY PRODUCT UNDER THE SUN. We mention these faces not to brag about how GREAT & TALENTED Nicki is, but to emphasize that the people who own those MUGS are very, sometimes very very, serious about their skin and often look to Nicki to tell them what is best.

Nicki’s experience has led her to draw some serious opinions and facts by trial. The bulk of that has been boiled down to 4 SIMPLE statements for your convenience.

THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS TO IMPROVE THE APPEARANCE/CONDITION OF YOUR SKIN:

1. Call a plastic surgeon or dermatologist.  Going UNDER THE KNIFE, injectables, peels, laser treatments, and other such procedures, offer dramatic results - for better or for worse.

2 .Hire your own personal MAKE-UP ARTIST. They really know how to make a person look great, which is what they are paid to do.

3. Put VASELINE  on all of your mirrors and on your iphone - takes years off. If you can’t change yourself change the lens. Which brings us to our favorite and most corny, but most realistic:

4. Change your LENS (and live healthy.) It’s all about your own relationship to how you feel about yourself, isn’t it? (We can recommend 2 great therapists for this, just ask us.)  

Mind you, we are not saying we have achieved this ourselves, but what we ARE saying is… the stuff that comes in a bottle that you buy over the counter doesn’t achieve it either.

AND...once you accept the fact that there is not a product in the world that will make a dramatic difference on your skin’s apprearance* AND  they are pretty much ALL THE SAME (any respectable dermatologist will tell you so.)

YOU ARE FREE to basically ignore claims and choose your skin care with a more pragmatic and fun approach- which is how WE do it and here’s how we do it:

* we are not referring to medical skin conditions or products used for that purpose- we’re talking about you and your regular old/young skin.

OUR APPROACH.

We choose what WE USE based on the following criteria:

1. What’s in it?  We aim to use products with the lowest levels of toxic ingredients)

2. How it makes us feel -  Do we feel softer, prettier, calmer, confident, blah, blah.

3. Last and most - How does it smell?

[INSERT WHY SMELL MATTERS - nicki]

ENTER: THE NOSE:

You may have noticed that this site has a nose - that is, it’s not called simply “NICKI.” That’s because Nicki comes with a partner who is (wherever she has been in the) WORLD RE-NOWNED smeller from a long line of smellers. The power of her sniffer is remarkable, (not to mention Nicki’s own sniffer) and she has been called upon by perfumiers, winos, and homemakers to detect and identify  flavours, odors or recommend eau d’ors for every mood or occasion. Her skills are second only to a bloodhound (whose sniffer trumps us humans by 1000.) For more on her qualifications, see ABOUT US.

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