The Beauty Standard

Keyaira Boone has spent more than a decade covering beauty and culture for Byrdie, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and more. She does not describe the job as covering beauty. She describes it as keeping the record. Journalists, she says, are historians. Inside her lens, her standard, the four-year pitch she refused to give up on, and exactly what she wishes founders understood before the email goes out. Plus what lives in her bag, and the legacy she is building on her own ter