Clare Chien

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as of May 19, 2012

Clare S. Chien is a sales executive for a Silicon Valley engineering firm. Growing up as an adventurous tomboy in the lush, tree-filled hills of Fremont, California, just in the backyard woods of the gorgeous San Francisco Bay Area, she enjoyed bike riding and playing sports with her school friends, as well as reading and youth-related church activities. Immediately graduating from San José State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, she decided to travel the world with nothing more than her passport and a small suitcase filled mostly with gypsy-like bracelets, a handful of shorts/tank tops, an old camera given to her by a family friend when she was just a scrawny child and a few literary penchants to pass the time during those long, arduous plane and train rides (books mostly by the work of her favorite writers—Marguerite Duras, and Haruki Murakami).

Some 5 months later, she returned home and immediately started work as an applications sales engineer. Incidentally, this year will mark the fifteenth anniversary of her leadership role as a hi-tech businesswoman, and, although very proud of this job position, let’s not forget that Clare is very much a woman who’s always loved both fashion and beauty. In her spare time, she enjoys reading beauty magazines while soaking in her (specially designed) slipper-shaped bathtub, prancing around the SF limelight in her signature style of short and flirty dresses, wearing stilettos and shopping/dining with her close girlfriends. She is also interested in skincare of the high-tech variety (new healthy vitamins of both oral and topical types that are seasonally introduced, advanced moisturizers without the fancy glass packaging, and all-natural next-generation facials that don’t inject unknown substances into the surface of the skin). Her own mother, a woman in her seventies, is someone Clare sees as a good example of ageless, natural beauty, someone who’s never had Botox or any type of face lift. It’s her mother’s words that have been dinned into Clare’s head since the latter was a young girl that has made her more aware of being more confident in her own skin. “Be proud of how God made you. Everything natural is always the most beautiful.”