Lightbulb moments — ever elusive but so satisfying when they strike. While it might be foolish to chase such flashes of insight, young folk are on the hunt. A first love, a decision to leave a city, a career U-turn — these thudding a-ha moments hit hard and often when you least expect. But none may be quite as random as a BBC report on American YouTuber’s “Lipstick Gate” that sparked the interests of Sydney-based twentysomethings Jordyn Christensen and Lauren Meisner, and set the wheels in motion for a total career transformation.
It was mid-2019, COVID wasn’t in our lexicon, was a fresh hit, and social media entrepreneur Jaclyn Hill found herself in a PR firestorm when her makeup line faced accusations of being unfit for use. Jordyn and