Lovely & Amazing

Cassandra Bankson is having a Cinderella moment. The 19-year-old with cystic acne achieved Internet fame for her skin-perfecting makeup tutorials. After schoolmates ruthlessly teased her because of her bad skin, she left high school for home tutoring. But resilient Bankson became a pro at hiding her blemishes. Her subsequent how-to videos went viral and, 40 million hits later, Bankson was recruited by a modeling agency in her hometown of San Francisco. Here she is, at left, strutting down the catwalk at the Boy Meets Girl show in New York.