Ilise Carter
As seen in:
The New York Times,
Yahoo Life,
Business Insider,
HuffPost,
Post Outlook,
The Washington Post,
TIME,
New York Post,
The Atlantic,
The Wall Street Journal
and
Covers:
Beauty, fashion, skincare, makeup, lipstick, drag, camp, cult beauty, offbeat, pop culture, circus, sideshow, American history.
Doesn't Cover:
politics, finance, sports, guns
Sweetheart of the Sideshow
Author of The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History
Same on the ot apps.
lipstickbook.com
She/Her
Interview
How is social media changing news?
For one you have to talk about social media's impact on the news and the news' impact on social media.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Hildy Johnson, she has great outfits.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
MSword
Why did you become a journalist?
I had ambitions of becoming a screenwriter, I became a copywriter instead; writing editorial work seemed like the next logical step.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Nope. Not sure my high school had one.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Morning
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Waxing for Mother's Day
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The New Yorker
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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