I'm aspiring a career in journalism, preferable writing articles in lifestyle/fashion/beauty magazines, but I'm not sure what the actual type of journalism that would be called. I mean, there's different types such as "broadcast journalism" "news journalism" and etc. But what would be the type name of magazine article writing?

Is this legit?

It's just journalism.

There's no real term per se. "Journalism" is basically it. You could call it "magazine writing" or "creative non-fiction writing" if you really want to get fancy, but there's no specific term. You could refer to it as "print journalism", too; when it comes to journalism, there's only two basic kinds: "broadcast journalism" (TV, basically), and "print journalism" (anything that's printed).

Oh, and if you're really interested in becoming a journalism, I'm going to give you two key pieces of advice: write a lot, like every day, for local newspapers, magazines, and a blog -- having a blog can really help; and get an internship, like every summer, and try to get one with high-profile publications. Journalism is a really hard field to break into. Even before the economic troubles, most newspapers and a lot of magazines were scaling back their staff; that's only gotten worse since September. I'm not talking about small newspapers, either; even big names like The Washington Post and The New York Times are scaling back. A lot of newspapers and magazines are going online, and print journalism is a fledgling industry. Also, journalism is very much an "old boys' club", meaning who you know and where you went to school is, unfortunately, a lot more important that what you know and how good you write.

The good news is you can make decent money as a freelance writer now, since most publications don't want to hire new writers, but will gladly buy pieces on an as-needed basis. Freelance writing won't pay the bills (trust me ), but it can help a bit, and it's (kind of) fun.

Anyway, I'm not trying to dissuade you -- just wanted to give you some tips to keep in mind.