I keep on having Arrest Development moment with this story. “Beads.” “BEES?” Gwyneth Paltrow has been talking so much recently because she’s shilling her latest cookbook, It’s All Easy. So Gwyneth gave yet another interview to the New York Times – by my memory, this is her third in a month – and this one is surprisingly not about food or books, but about the crazy sh-t Gwyneth does in the name of beauty. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights, including BEADS and BEES.

She loves oils: “In general, I love serums and face oils and body oils. I’m a real oil kind of girl. There’s a myth that oil is not good for your skin. I don’t believe in that at all. So lately I’ve been using my Instant Facial — it has some gentle fruit acids in it, and you feel it go active because there’s a little tingle — and seeing great results. There are also some beads in it (obviously not the plastic microbeads), and it leaves me glow-y. I think you’re supposed to use it only three times a week, but I’ve been using it more. Then I’ll use the day or night cream, or our oil, and the eye cream.

Makeup & Apple’s interests: “I often go out with just mascara and a little cheek. I don’t use bronzer. You need technique to use bronzer, highlighter and BB cream, all these things my daughter tells me about. She watches YouTube. She’s very vocal about what she likes and doesn’t like. I sort of let her do her own thing at home. She loves experimenting. I obviously don’t let her out of the house with a full face. But I think she’s going to be way more into beauty than I am.”

She doesn’t do perfume anymore: “I collect some fragrances, but recently my head of beauty said you have to stop wearing fragrance because it’s unregulated and all that. We’re having a fight about it. The problem is, I think essential oils haven’t mastered the art of being subtle and layered. So I’m on the fence about fragrance right now.”

BEES: “I’m always the guinea pig to try everything. I’ve got to try them all. I love acupuncture. Also, I just heard of a service called a sound bath, which might be too hippie-ish even for the likes of me. It’s some new healing modality. I might not be able to handle it. But generally, I’m open to anything. I’ve been stung by bees. It’s a thousands of years old treatment called apitherapy. People use it to get rid of inflammation and scarring. It’s actually pretty incredible if you research it. But, man, it’s painful. I haven’t done cryotherapy yet, but I do want to try that.

[From The New York Times]

You know when you’ve gone too far in the name of beauty? When you’re letting bees sting you. Seriously. I’ve heard of bee venom facials and all of that, but to actually try a beauty treatment where bees sting you? That’s PEAK GOOP right there. I enjoy the fact that she’s not really endorsing it or suggesting that the peasants walk into a beehive for beauty, but I suspect that she’s not really recommending it because she hasn’t found a way to Goopify it.

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