So the reason I was more excited about the Cher Garnier commercial Q&A a few weeks ago, more so than for the actual Garnier Diamond Sleek commercial, was because I was in the middle of compiling decades of Cher beauty advice for a new Beauty section on Cher Scholar.

I love the cult around skin care, hair care and cosmetics (a distant third because I have no understanding of color theory, highlighting, shadowing or art sense).

I love those things for the same reason I love feeling my bare feet on the earth, the sound of my shoes crunching on the dirt, the sounds and sensations of ceramic classes, the whole tactile event of getting a facial, the lotions and the potions, the breathing in of the steam, the ASMR of the mortal and pestle (for estheticians who still do that…everything is so “non-invasive treatment” these days).

I just LOVE IT. And combine those things with Cher and I’m just losing my mind.

The last few years of expanding Cher Scholar has been so much fun: documenting all the variety shows and specials, cataloguing over 400 TV appearances and counting, getting my head around the Cher doll outfits and collections and all of last year’s food experiments.

To be honest, I was a better cook last year than when I tried to make the Cooking For Cher recipes decades ago. But I’m still not using the big chopping knife because that’s still scary: “Chrissy! Bring me the big knife!”

Anyway, compiling this Beauty Book was just super, super fun.

As a tween, I loved the 1980s celebrity beauty guru books and read as many as I could find. At the end of last year I paused after revisiting a few recipes in Cher’s book Forever Fit to re-read and review these old gems on Substack:

  1. Christie Brinkley’s books
  2. Raquel Welch
  3. Victoria Principal’s books
  4. Cheryl Tiegs
  5. Miss Piggy
  6. Michelle Obama

So here it is, The Cher Beauty Book, with online chapters covering all the same things found in those Christie Brinkley and Victoria Principal books, but as told by Cher and her entourage of experts.

I hope you find it fun, too.