At my first Met Gala after-party, I drank no matter a waiter handed me—and a whole lot of it. When my alarm went off the following morning, I awoke with a raging hangover and a Gordian knot of hysteria due to the 100 unread emails in my inbox.
In New York Metropolis, you’ll be able to divide folks into two teams: The W-2s and the What-Do-You-Dos. In case you are within the former camp like me—somebody with a desk job, a boss, and data of the assorted capabilities of Microsoft Workplace—it’s important to work out how one can stability the enjoyable stuff together with your monetary actuality. Or else you might be one cease away from teetering right into a trainwreck. (In case you are the latter, ignore this and celebration like Uptown Ladies’s Molly Gunn—earlier than the entire embezzlement factor—for me.)
These days, I maintain observe of what number of drinks I’ve in my iPhone Notes app. Maturity, I assume?
Celebrities Are Not Simply Like You
Final 12 months, earlier than the Met Gala, I received a “facial” from a celeb facialist. “Facial” is in quotes right here as a result of no matter they did to my face was, effectively, not a daily facial: I used to be massaged, exfoliated, lasered, moisturized, micro-currented, and a bunch of different issues I don’t actually perceive, though it was defined intimately. Two hours later, she handed me a mirror. The reflection wasn’t me, however someway was.
I didn’t pay for this facial. I couldn’t pay for this facial. Though her costs aren’t listed on her web site, comparable remedies can run as much as $1,800 a session. It was comped—the insider time period for “complimentary”—and I used to be removed from the one comp of the day. A serious vogue home with a desk on the Met Gala had booked her for a number of of their visitors: they too, have been getting poked and prodded to perfection. With out the worth tag.
It’s not simply facials. Nail, hair, make-up—every little thing, actually: the price of these providers is approach past what a “regular” particular person pays for. A high-end make-up artist often prices over $1,000. As does hair. Many others have their devoted glam squads on retainer… or the manufacturers they’ve offers with do. And even should you do have the finances, you’ll be able to’t essentially entry the identical degree of providers they will. The facialist I went to? You’ll be able to’t guide her on-line. As a substitute, she handpicks her purchasers. Final time I checked, she’s not accepting anybody new.
