Patti Pietschmann has watched the billion dollar industry grow and improve during the past decade while covering the beauty beat for magazines, newspapers and on line. She samples every product, place or service she writes about and loves testing new products on herself and her husband (who is grateful since whenever he gets a facial, the aesthetician remarks how good his skin looks). An LA-based freelance writer, Patti's pieces have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide and on the Internet; she is also the LA Travel Diva Examiner and Last Minute Deals Examiner as well as author of www.pattisprattles.wordpress.com.