JANUARY 30, 2016 LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2016, 1:21 AM
BY VIRGINIA ROHAN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
BOOKS
WHO: Grace Helbig.
WHAT: Signing “Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It.”
WHEN: 6 p.m. Tuesday.
WHERE: Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, 201-445-0726, book-ends.com.
HOW MUCH: Must purchase book ($19.99) at Bookends.
Jersey girl and YouTube star Grace Helbig sought a very specific balance in her new “Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It.”
“I wanted to make a book that felt sort of like a hodge-podge vision-board variety show all in a book sort of thing, that kind of ran the spectrum of serious and completely silly,” says Helbig, who now lives in Los Angeles but grew up in South Jersey and got her start in comedy when she was a student at Ramapo College.
“You know, beauty and style and how you see yourself aesthetically, they’re a really personal experience that you have. So I wanted to put in more serious stories so there’s a context that kind of gives permission to make fun of the beauty world in a way, but not in a mean-spirited way. I think it’s always important to understand someone’s perspective and point of view, especially when it comes to comedy, so I really wanted to have a balance there of serious and completely stupid.”
My kids used to make that face as a joke when pretending to smile.