Blue Lipstick, Céline Dreams: A Week with Lucky's Megan O'Neill

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Welcome to Beauty Diary: Seven days of getting glam with an industry insider. From publicists to professional makeup artists, this is a week in the life of someone who lives and breathes beauty.

Life just happens to look a little bit prettier when you're a beauty expert for a top glossy magazine—just ask Megan O'Neill, senior associate beauty editor at Lucky. "Every day is exciting," she says. "Between the appointments and the events and the salon visits and interviews—back at the office at my desk, I write, and collaborate with my team to figure out the coolest, edgiest things we've seen."

Join Megan as she frolics through leaves upstate, gets her hair done by Ken Paves (of Jessica Simpson fame), tiptoes down the obstacle-ridden path of technicolor lipstick, and gets all the feels for one incredibly majestic Céline coat.

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