Bobbi Brown talks about beauty, business and being ‘normal’ in her new memoir

Makeup artist Bobbi Brown works on a model at a fashion show in New York, March 26, 1996, early in her time at Estee Lauder. Photo: The New York Times

The word “normal” recurs like a mantra in Still Bobbi, the new memoir by the beauty mogul Bobbi Brown.

“Normal is beautiful,” she writes. And the word pops up in a chapter title: “Be Normal.”