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Welcome to the Wellness Whisperer Podcast.

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We are here doing our second segment.

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We had one on clean skincare.

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Today we're talking about clean cosmetics

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and I am delighted and very privileged to

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have Brianna Salarno. Did I say that correct?

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Did I say Salarno?

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And she is a clean beauty expert and has

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deep dived into the subject matter ever

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since she was 15. And you can find her on Instagram.

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Her handle is blessed holistic life.

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So Brianna, tell us briefly, I mean, you

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had your health issues and you made a

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pivot. You had some gut issues.

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You realized that your skin wasn't

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healthy.

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Tell us what happened and about your

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pivot.

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yeah. Cosmetics. Yeah, so way back then when I was 15 I was

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obsessed with makeup.

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I just loved cosmetics.

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I loved all of that. What I didn't know was all the hidden

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toxins in it.

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So about four plus years ago during the

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whole COVID thing.

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I was living in Las Vegas, I was playing

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poker, and I lived a very unhealthy

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lifestyle. And I'd always just honestly been pretty

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unhealthy my whole life, up and down, I

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would say. Never, I'd be like, oh, I'm working out,

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I'm eating healthy, and then right back to

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whatever I was doing. So when the shutdown happened, everyone

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was kind of like, oh, we're gonna start

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baking, like COVID-15, all this stuff, and

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I was like, you know what?

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I'm gonna do the opposite. I'm gonna get healthy, I'm gonna like

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learn about my health like once and for

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all. Like I feel like crap, let me figure out

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why.

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And it's crazy to say that my journey

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started with this, but I did a parasite

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cleanse and it changed my life.

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I had like 15, right? I had like 15 out of the 30 symptoms and I

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was just like, hold on, I did a cleanse

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and not the best one. I just grabbed whatever one.

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Mm-hmm. In like two weeks, I was like, I saw

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something and I was like, that's it.

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I'm this I'm done because all my symptoms,

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I was like, this isn't normal.

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Like I shouldn't be having this my whole

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life.

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And so did a deep dive on that.

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Went down the rabbit hole and then I

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learned about ingredients and our food.

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And then I went down the rabbit hole and

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learned about cosmetics and all the toxins

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and that, and I was like, okay, enough's

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enough.

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So I completely changed my lifestyle,

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which opened up Blessed Holistic Life.

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And yeah, I've been learning about it ever

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since.

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It's been crazy. Ha ha. Well, I applaud you, number one.

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The pandemic was the worst thing we've

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ever went through probably as a society.

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And it was a big downer, mental

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health-wise, and just everything.

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And you used it as a catalyst to transform

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your life.

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So what a wonderful way to use that excess

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time we had for the good.

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And now you're using that to teach other

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people how to be healthier, too.

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So I applaud you for that. Thank you so much.

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So we're going to talk about, now we know

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that you had your tummy issues, you did a

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parasite cleanse, you cleaned up your

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entire beauty regimen, and yeah, it's a

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very dirty field.

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I mean cosmetic and beauty is what, like a

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$20 billion industry, and they're the

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largest purchasers of petrochemicals that

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go into the beauty products.

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And I learned all this too, because I went

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to the ER in 2016.

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over to you. I'm going to turn it over to you.

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Oh. that I put on my neck that had

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phenoxylethanol in it, the preservative

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that has respiratory, it's cited for

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respiratory danger.

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And it was very scary. So I started cleaning my makeup regimen

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too, but it's such a process.

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There's just so much out there to

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research.

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Awesome. I don't know. I don And for someone like me, don't do what I

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did.

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I did like a whole overnight switch and

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I'm like a very all or nothing person.

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And I really went down the rabbit hole.

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So I would recommend starting with a

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product that like you're running out of.

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So if you're running out of your

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hairspray, that's the next product you

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find a non-toxic replacement for.

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But I'm so sorry to hear that you had that

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kind of scare.

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Yeah, it was a wake-up call.

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And at the time, I was single, living at

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home, and I didn't even have time to call

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an ambulance or a taxi because I'm like, I

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can't breathe.

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I have to get to the hospital now.

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So yeah, this is an important topic that

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we shouldn't take for granted.

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It was funny, my husband was saying, oh,

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you're getting so over the top with this

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holistic health stuff. My mother never looked at her cosmetic,

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what was inside, and she lived in 97.

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Well, that's not an indicator.

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the body was well. She also had some cancers and some issues

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and I know that breast cancer is something

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that can derive from all the hormonal

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disruptions happening if you're using the

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wrong chemicals that are in the makeups

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and products.

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So it's an important topic.

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So tell us your favorite products that you

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use perhaps on a daily, your go-to's for

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your eyes, your foundation, your lips,

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just go through the whole face.

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Yeah, totally. I will say, like even back then with our

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parents generation, like things were way

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less toxic back then. Like, we had a whole different lifestyle

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as people.

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We didn't have social media. We went out, we ate real whole foods.

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Our cosmetics and some things weren't as

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bad as they are now.

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Like, today it's like they just keep on

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adding more and you look around and you're

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like, well yeah, of course everyone's

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sick.

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Like, look at what we're eating. Look at what...

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we're putting on our body, look at what

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we're ingesting.

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It's just, it's crazy.

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So, and yeah, and still, you still get

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these little like cancers or hormonal

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problems. There's always something nowadays when

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back then, it really wasn't like that.

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That's a good point, Brianna, because I

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remember looking, walking into my

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grandma's kitchen, and she didn't have

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Fritos and Doritos and cheese dip in a

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bottle. It was what was coming straight in from,

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you know, bringing a chicken choppets set

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up, put it in the pan. It was a different world.

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And we were always getting fresh air. We weren't on social media.

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We were out chasing the cats and the dogs

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and playing.

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It's not the same. being present and we were being

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stress-free.

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It wasn't constant over-stimulation

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I would go back any time of the day.

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too. I'm right there with you. I'm like, I remember when holidays felt

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like holidays and everything wasn't so

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curated and we were just like present and

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loving like now every day everyone's on

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their phone and I'm just like, like I love

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it and I hate it.

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So it's like, it's, it's so tough.

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Um, when it comes to clean beauty, for me,

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what I realized when I was looking at

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There's not a lot of people that look like

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me and that have my skin type or like love

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a full glam, like everyday look, like

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putting on makeup to go play volleyball,

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guilty, but you know. So when I kind of create blessed holistic

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life, I was like, let me just do all this

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research, let me review all these products

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and then help others find that.

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Because in our kind of non-toxic

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community, a lot of people are like, this

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is non-toxic, this is non-toxic, and then

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all of a sudden you buy 20 products.

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and you're like, okay, maybe one works for

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me.

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And I don't know, like, your skin tone's

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different or your skin type's different.

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So it's a lot of like trial and error and

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I feel like I'm very grateful that I

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tested a lot. So feel grateful to have done all the work

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before sharing it.

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But yeah, I'd love to go over some of my

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favorite products.

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Which one do you wanna start with? What would you, you go, you knock through

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it because you're, you're the expert and

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you do look great. And it's wonderful to look at you and know

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that you haven't, you know, jeopardize

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your health by looking beautiful and

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amping up your beauty.

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So yeah, just. Oh my gosh, thank you.

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Oh my god, thank you so much, it's so sweet. It's like, yeah, I just, I don't know, I

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feel like there's a big stigma around

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non-toxic beauty too. Like a lot of people are like, oh,

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non-toxic, natural, or whatever, it's just

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not as good. We're nowadays, back then, yes, maybe, but

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now we're shifting and our stuff is high

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quality and just as better as the

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conventional stuff.

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So it's been super exciting to find things

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that like actually work and that you can

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do full glam. a cat eye, bold mascara, bold lips, so

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really fun stuff.

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So I think I will start with my favorite

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mascara and I'm going to reach into my

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little bag and it's all dirty of course,

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which is super fun.

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But my favorite clean beauty mascara that

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is non-toxic is the Ilia Beauty.

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I love this one because of the brush.

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So I don't know if you can see it, but the

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brush,

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It has a sort of like, they're a little

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spaced more apart and then the top one is

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spaced together and it is a little pricey,

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it's $28.

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But I would buy this till they run out of

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it.

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It just gives your lashes such length and

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volume and I'm just obsessed.

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So this is my go-to number one mascara

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that I recommend, hands down.

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The brush looks like a caterpillar. It looks like the little prickly, all

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natural caterpillar brush.

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Oh my gosh, I love that. An all natural calipiter brush, that's

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great.

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It's so good. And then they also have another one, a

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more volumizing one.

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And the brush is a little chunkier.

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Yeah, I love a really good, I'll be

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honest, I just love a lot of volume when

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it comes to my mascara, so I'm just, I

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can't get on.

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I love it. So, Ilia Beauty, my two recommendations

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for mascara.

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Another one. um that I fell in love with too which is a

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more affordable option is Exa Beauty.

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and the brush kind of looks like this. So still big, a little clumpy, but not

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clumpy, but it does add volume and length

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at the same time. And how much would that brand be per tube?

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Approximately. Approximately, I'm blanking.

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I want to say I just added it to my

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website on my shop.

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So I'm totally blanking on it, but I want

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to say anywhere from, I want to say it's

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like maybe 24.

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Don't quote me. I'll let you know.

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Yeah, the important thing about picking

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the correct mascara is you don't want it

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to have tar petroleum in it, which I

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learned from Aveda when I had a makeover

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there that, you know, CoverGirl and all

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the name brands that you get at any

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walk-in pharmacy are pretty much petroleum

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based products.

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know, it's insane and it's like you're

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putting that directly like right by your

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eye and god forbid you like slip up.

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It's going in there. I've seen videos and I've done it myself

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when I put on eyeliner back then, like my

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toxic L'Oreal eyeliner and it's going

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right in my eye.

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It stains my whole eye and I'm just like

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I'm putting toxins literally in my

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bloodstream. craziness that's craziness to me and it's

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immediate it's

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Now, while we're talking about eyelashes

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and you have beautiful eyelashes, I used

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to have beautiful eyelashes and as you age

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they shrink.

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So now I'm using castor oil trying to, you

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know, pump those babies up.

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I know a lot of women these days are, my

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sister-in-law went and got the artificial

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eyelashes glued on and every month she has

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to go back and have them updated.

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replenish but that's glue and that's

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probably formaldehyde.

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Do you have a stance on artificial lashes?

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I know it's your choice, anyone's personal

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choice.

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it is and I do feel like in this

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non-toxic, clean beauty wellness space, we

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do need a little bit of balance.

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I still get my roots done.

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I'm look, I will say I am looking for a

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non-toxic option, but I think if you go in

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stages, there is a.

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There is a, I haven't tried it, but there

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is a clean non-formaldehyde, I think,

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eyelash glue. It's called True Beauty Glue, True Beauty

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Lashes.

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And I wanna say they have a glue in

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lashes.

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But I think when it comes to, yeah, I

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think when it comes to that, it's what are

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you putting on your body every day?

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Like, is it small doses or are all your

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products fragrance, phenoxyethanol, like.

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car like petroleum so i think maybe once

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in a while you can do a couple of that of

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like my lashes for your big reunion or your

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wedding or your special.

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It's not a big deal for me. Lipsticks are a big deal.

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I live for lipstick. So I have to really put my job out because

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of the lead and that.

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it, essentially. Like, if I'm gonna grab my coffee, I'm

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eating my lip liner.

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I hope it's non-toxic. Yeah.

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Oh, yes, so I'm currently using, it's

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called Well People.

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I am, I'm not phasing them out of what I

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recommend, but I will say that this is

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probably the only palette that I do

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recommend, and it is affordable.

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You can get it at Target. This is their old packaging, and I have

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gone through so many.

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But another brand that I really love, and

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I think, actually I know you would love

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this brand. So I work with her, her name's Lauren

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Brooke.

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She's in Utah. She's 100% organic makeup and skincare.

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So literally everything you could eat, you

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just don't want to.

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But she makes these amazing eye shadows.

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And so I have some pressed ones coming.

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I do have some of her cream shadows.

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She does everything. So her lipstick and lip liners, you would

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love.

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And I'm getting ahead of myself because

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I'm talking about it, but she is fabulous.

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And I think super affordable, especially

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with the quality of her products.

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You just, you can't get any better. And she makes it all, it's all non-toxic,

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all organic.

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You can't find that nowadays for things

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that actually work.

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So this is one of her cream eyeshadows.

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This is the cream eyeshadow, Seraphina.

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It was beautiful. Oh, I love that.

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I love that. Got to get some.

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Yeah, I wasn't going to go buy anything

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until after this interview because I knew

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I'd be on the list. I'm like, okay, I'm going to pick that up

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and pick that up.

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I got you girl. I got it all in my shop with the discount

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code so you don't worry But for real like

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she makes gorgeous colors without the lake

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dyes, so there's no heavy metals

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I love that. Yeah, so I'm obsessed with her eye

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products as well.

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Her pressed eyeshadows are great.

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I like the shades Tahiti, there's the

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taupe, and then teak.

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So I like very like neutral kind of

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browns.

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Yeah. And then a different brand that I've been

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falling in love with is it's called Beauty

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Care Naturals. She is actually a naturopath.

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who created this, her makeup brand.

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And she was like, I want to make clean

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beauty affordable and clean and

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transparent. And I don't want it to cost an arm and a

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leg.

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And her stuff works. She is like her whole page, her aesthetic,

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she's just amazing.

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I could talk about it all day. But so for her, this is her eyeliner.

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And in our clean beauty world, it is so

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hard to find a felt tip.

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non-toxic eyeliner without phenoxyethanol.

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Look at that. So pigmented.

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Oh, wonderful. the tar, without the petroleum.

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And she just makes the best products and

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I'm such like a cat eye kind of person.

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I always need my eyeliner. And when I found her, I was like, it's

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done.

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Like I cannot go a day without this.

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And she sells out in seconds.

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I have to buy like two or three now

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because everyone's so obsessed.

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That's an endorsement that it's good

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stuff.

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Oh my gosh, it's so good. I've put so many of my followers on

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because we've all been looking for it.

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And I'm like, I just found the holy grail

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in the clean beauty community.

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No one does a felt tip liner. That's actually good and stays on all day.

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So super excited about that.

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I'm like, that's probably my number one

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like thing I've been looking for years

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since I started this account. Go ahead and mention your shopping cart or

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where people would find your list of, if

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you didn't just say it, I'll put it in my

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show notes after this, but go ahead and

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just spit it out now in case it jumps off.

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Thank you. Yeah. So I created a link dolly.

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So in my bio, it's my shop of my personal

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faves and recommendations.

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So if you're I wanted to keep it very

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what's the word I'm looking for?

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Sorry, I have ADHD. So that's always fun.

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I wanted to keep it a small it's like a

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clean catalog with not too many

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recommendations. So yes.

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Thank you. Yeah, something that I've personally tried

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or I'm a fan of the brand, I've heard

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amazing things, it's going in my shop.

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If I haven't tried it and it's non-toxic,

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that's amazing, but I want to know what's

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in my shop. And a lot of people just add all this

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non-toxic stuff like, yeah, buy this,

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check that, and I'm like, I don't want to

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recommend anything if I haven't tried it.

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So, yeah, I don't know if it's good.

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So... It's something that you can get in my link

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in bio. I'll send you the little link It's linked

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Ollie blessed holistic life and you can go

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through it so it has clean candles it has

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clean makeup household products There's

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even like my favorite clean protein bars

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out. It's eight pages. So I already have it here, but I'll

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definitely be sharing it with our

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listeners. I love it. I love that it's not too much.

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But definitely cover the realm of being a

18:59

woman on these eight pages.

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So thank you. so much for that.

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I feel like it's, when you come to this

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non-toxic, clean beauty lifestyle, it can

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be so overwhelming.

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And you're just like, what do I start

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with?

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What do I buy? Someone's saying this mascara, someone's

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saying that mascara, and it's like, I

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don't know. So I try to keep the options limited to

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things that I personally love and just

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kind of make it this clean catalog and

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beginner's guide for someone.

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for essentially myself when I started.

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I needed that and I didn't have that so I

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was like, oh.

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Yeah, and what drew me to you as a person,

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I just clicked with you.

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I felt like I knew you already just

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looking at your Instagram feed, but I like

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that you have the variety that you weren't

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just advocating for one product line.

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There was a lot of people that are beauty

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bloggers out there and all they talk about

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is beauty counter. I mean, it's one item or laurel and it's

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not diversified and you know that there's

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better stuff. So I like that you've really taken the

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time to vet.

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you know, dozens and dozens and dozens of

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product lines to find what are your

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favorites and put it on shopping list.

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So good for you. much for that.

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I agree. You get on social media and this

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influencer life and everyone's like, oh, I

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love crunchy. I love beauty counter. I love this.

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And not everyone has the same skin.

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Not everyone. What works for you may not work for me.

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And I never want to be just a part of

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something.

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honestly kind of manipulate people. I feel like that's been a big thing in our

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industry lately is just like, oh my gosh,

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this is amazing. You need this or fear tactics and all this

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stuff.

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And it's like, no, like there's a many,

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like there's so many amazing products and

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so many amazing small businesses and

20:51

companies, but one size doesn't fit all.

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And sometimes you have to cherry pick. Like I love certain brands, but not all

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their products are clean.

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But there's a couple that are, that meet

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our standards and.

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That's going on the website and I've tried

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it and it's fabulous.

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I never want to promote something I don't

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personally love and use.

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And I've made that very like I've said

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that on my page.

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Like I just I won't. I've turned down a lot.

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Yeah, you're very clear on your web page

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that you're absolutely transparent and

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you're doing this for the good of the

21:24

world and you have a Christian belief and

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it's very rare to find someone with all

21:30

those attributes at once.

21:33

But I have a question. I love that you have a shopping list that

21:34

people can go to your Instagram page and

21:38

print it off just like I did and kind of

21:38

go through and try things and check

21:42

pricing. But what's confusing to me is if you clean

21:43

up your diet,

21:47

You can go to Sprouts, Whole Foods, Whole

21:47

Grocers, and you know that all those

21:53

products in those stores are wholesome and

21:53

vetted.

21:57

That's really not possible in the beauty

21:57

world.

21:59

You can't necessarily walk into an Ulta or

21:59

Sephora or a Dillard's or anywhere and

22:07

know that you're buying safe makeup

22:07

products.

22:12

Is that correct? I feel like it's so hard.

22:16

hard because even in Whole Foods Sephora

22:16

Altitude, they'll put like, oh, this is so

22:20

clean. Here's a label. And then you turn it around and you're

22:22

like, okay, well, there's undisclosed

22:26

fragrance in here, phenoxyethanol.

22:28

What else are you hiding with just like

22:28

this label?

22:31

And I really feel like stores have really

22:31

upped their marketing game by saying like,

22:38

this is green, this is clean, this is

22:38

non-toxic.

22:41

And for people who don't know, they're

22:41

like, oh my gosh, yes, let me grab it.

22:46

And then people like us, we turn around

22:46

and we're like, oh, nope, like it's not

22:51

cutting it, so. Yeah, I remember back in 2016 when I first

22:53

started really going and looking at

22:58

things. And I'd have to bring a magnifying glass

22:59

into the store because the type on the

23:03

back of this. like four point, five point, what we call

23:04

in the market world, mice type.

23:08

And you couldn't read it. They don't want you to read it.

23:11

And now we have apps like the Skin Deep

23:11

and the Yucca and all the different apps.

23:19

This man was looking at me at Target the

23:19

other day because I was scanning

23:23

everything. I was like beep and then I was taking

23:23

notes in my purse.

23:27

I think he thought I was a spy from

23:27

Russia.

23:29

But I really just wanted to know it was

23:29

clean and I left with nothing.

23:34

I'm sorry. Pretty sad.

23:36

I'm like, okay, I'll just wait to talk to

23:36

Brianna and get this figured out tomorrow.

23:41

Yeah, right. I have an app recommendation for you that

23:42

I think is so amazing.

23:46

So she was a huge person that helped me on

23:46

my Clean Beauty journey.

23:52

Her name is Andrea. She's Switch Natural.

23:55

So she has an app called Switch Natural

23:55

approved.

23:58

I'll send you her link. I am one of her affiliates.

24:00

So I will say I will be transparent of

24:00

that.

24:03

But I stand behind this app like no other.

24:08

I do the same thing you do. I Constantly pull out my phone.

24:12

I scan it. I upload it I screenshot and it'll flag it

24:13

and then it tells you why and that's what

24:19

I love because it'll flag Phenoxyethanol

24:19

add all the data and all that and you're

24:24

like, oh Okay Perfect.

24:28

Now I know why and so it's been a game

24:28

changer.

24:31

I went to Cosmoprof a couple years back

24:31

and last year

24:37

I felt terrible, but I took that app and

24:37

I'm scanning everything and people would

24:41

be like, oh, have this. And before I'd say yes, I'd scan it.

24:43

And then I'd be like, I'm okay.

24:46

I'm like, thank you. I can't.

24:49

And for someone like me with my brain, I

24:49

will say I'm very ADD, ADHD, and I just,

24:56

sometimes I will truly forget. And I'll mix up my words and I'm like, I

24:58

don't know what I'm doing.

25:02

And then I scan it and I'm like, oh, okay,

25:02

cool.

25:05

I'm good. And so it's been so, so helpful and so

25:06

easy.

25:11

And it's nice to have that because you

25:11

don't want to be fooled by the marketing

25:15

or the packaging or the sales rep or the

25:15

distributor that's really going to get a

25:21

commission. You want to know for sure.

25:24

So that's, I look forward to that to try

25:24

that one out too.

25:27

I do want to say too, I'm doing research

25:27

for this segment.

25:33

I was wondering if there was the good

25:33

housekeeping seal for makeup, and the

25:37

closest thing to the good housekeeping

25:37

seal is the Made Safe Seal, which means

25:42

that the product, the cosmetic, has went

25:42

through a certification process to ensure

25:48

that the ingredients inside will not harm

25:48

you.

25:52

So if you're... like Breonna and myself and on this

25:54

wellness holistic journey, look for the

25:58

Made Safe Seal. And it's pretty new, so not a lot of

26:00

companies are going to have it yet, but

26:05

I'm glad that someone's looking out for

26:05

us.

26:08

Right? I feel like we've really come a long way

26:09

in the past five years.

26:15

I feel like there are so many stories and

26:15

so many whys of why people are switching

26:20

over and they're just getting fed up. They're like, enough's enough.

26:22

And I mean, look at Europe. They ban everything and anything and the

26:24

US is like, that's fine.

26:28

We're okay. Like it's not going to hurt you, but look

26:29

around the US and you're like,

26:34

everything's literally killing us. I know, it's crazy.

26:38

Yeah, when I started this channel, The

26:38

Wellness Whisperer, I'm like, I'll have an

26:42

endless number of people to talk to

26:42

because there's just so many topics that

26:45

we need to turn around to feel better and

26:45

to get better and to live quality lives,

26:51

not just long lives, but actually feel

26:51

good.

26:54

So I'm sorry, I've interrupted. So we've talked about.

26:57

no, I could talk about this all day.

27:00

foundation because I need some new

27:00

foundation.

27:03

I've been using Laura Geller's mineral

27:03

powder.

27:08

I think it has some bad stuff in it.

27:10

Okay, well that's funny that you said that. So I'm actually wearing a mineral powder

27:12

right now.

27:16

So it's called the Good Mineral.

27:19

I met her online a long time ago.

27:21

And it's kind of like a bare minerals, but

27:21

it's all mineral and it's acne safe.

27:27

So yeah, so whenever I have a huge

27:27

breakout like I do right now, my skin is

27:33

not cooperating. I put this on and I feel good knowing that

27:35

my skin's not so heavy and just trapped

27:41

and all gross, but it still gives me the

27:41

coverage.

27:44

She has a foundation, she has bronzers,

27:44

highlighters, blushes, all clean, all

27:51

non-toxic, all acne safe and mineral.

27:56

It's super pigmented. And then on top of that, she has the best

27:57

brushes in the world.

28:04

Like look how pretty and cute those are! They're so fluffy and ready to and clean.

28:09

I just washed my hands today. Yes.

28:11

I have to wash my brushes, they're gross.

28:14

They're so bad. But they're just so soft and it just all

28:15

goes together.

28:19

So it's like you just throw it on and you

28:19

just take the mineral foundation, you take

28:25

the flat top brush, dip it in, tap, and

28:25

you're good to go.

28:31

And it stays on all day.

28:34

I mean, I literally can play volleyball in

28:34

it, work up a sweat.

28:38

be all nasty and I'm like oh I'm super

28:38

glowy I'm so good so

28:42

teammates have to hate you. They're like, why do you wear makeup?

28:47

I'm like, why do you not wear makeup? No, I just, I love it.

28:50

I love full glam, I love makeup.

28:54

Other foundations that I love, so clover

28:54

by clove, skin is in serum foundation.

29:00

This is another acne safe foundation.

29:04

This one's super affordable. I wanna say this one is $18.

29:09

It is, yeah, right?

29:12

It's buildable. It gives great coverage.

29:16

I do like probably one dot. You can blend it in, you can pack it in,

29:18

you can go over it.

29:21

It's just very... I do...

29:24

I don't have my organic fake tan on so

29:24

we're a little pale.

29:28

So, you know, but it just blends really

29:28

nice.

29:30

It's like a second skin. So the skin is in.

29:33

She's really good at that and the owner is

29:33

fantastic as well.

29:37

And then my other recommendation is the

29:37

Iliya Super Skin Tint.

29:42

Have you tried this one? happened. Okay, so this one is, it's an SPF 40.

29:48

It's more of like, I wouldn't call it like

29:48

super foundation.

29:52

I'd say it's like light to medium, but I

29:52

feel like you can build it and I do feel

29:56

like it covers well. Only thing is it is $48, but it is worth

29:57

it in my opinion.

30:03

It's very glowy, so I would note that.

30:08

But it is nice, yeah.

30:11

Yeah. bit of a long ways. I'm into places more.

30:15

I'm not into the building anymore. I'm like, just get an even tone going and

30:16

hit the street.

30:19

Yeah, you're like, I'm good. Yeah, so probably, yeah, this would be

30:21

probably well, all of them were pretty

30:25

good. You can, and that's what I like about this

30:25

one too, because you can just add, or you

30:29

can just one dot all over.

30:31

You're good. Yeah.

30:34

Yeah. All those, the one that has the sunscreen

30:34

on it is the clove.

30:38

Do all of them? Mm-hmm. so the Ilya is a $48 one.

30:41

This is on the website too, and it's the

30:41

SPF 40.

30:44

So it does have sunscreen in it. I think you would like this one.

30:46

It's a very dewy, glowy one.

30:48

The Clover does not have sunscreen in it.

30:52

Yeah, setting powder.

30:55

I've tried a lot of setting powder, and I

30:55

was a huge fan.

30:58

I don't know if you're familiar with Vapor

30:58

Beauty.

31:01

They were an amazing, clean beauty

31:01

company.

31:04

Everything was clean. Unfortunately, they closed down,

31:07

No. Crashed it.

31:10

Oh yeah. it was crushing to the beauty world.

31:12

There was so many good brands that just

31:12

closed down.

31:15

I was just like, oh! They had an amazing foundation, an amazing

31:16

setting powder, amazing loose power, so we

31:23

love you and we miss you, Vapor Beauty. It was just so sad, so.

31:26

a competitive industry. I mean, there's so many choices.

31:29

So I can understand someone not making it.

31:31

Yeah, and as small businesses, you don't

31:31

have that budget like these big companies

31:36

that are owned by Johnson & Johnson and

31:36

this and that.

31:39

And it's like, they have all that

31:39

marketing money.

31:42

They can lose whatever they want and they

31:42

don't care.

31:45

And these... I'm a marketer and I watched a program

31:46

today on Google how Aveda during the

31:51

pandemic launched this huge top of funnel

31:51

advertising campaign on YouTube and how

31:58

they just like doubled their sales.

32:00

But not everyone has the money to do that,

32:00

right?

32:02

I mean that had to cost a half a million

32:02

dollars to put that program together.

32:06

So yeah, I feel sorry for your company

32:06

that went belly up.

32:13

It is. It's so, it's just, it's a reminder to

32:13

definitely shop small and to support these

32:19

businesses that stay true to their clean,

32:19

non-toxic ingredients and that don't get

32:24

bought out and that don't change their

32:24

stuff.

32:27

There's so many companies now that they

32:27

were clean and non-toxic and then they

32:32

sold out and then these little switches

32:32

are coming and it's hard because you've

32:36

used it forever and then you turn it

32:36

around again and you're like, wait, when

32:39

did they add that? Yeah.

32:42

All right. Can we talk lips? Yes, let's do it.

32:46

Let's talk lip. So lipstick.

32:49

Since you're a lipstick girlie, I am,

32:49

believe it or not, a, I'm a lip liner

32:54

girlie. So I wear lip liner as a lipstick because

32:54

I feel like it stays on longer.

32:59

It's something I've always done and I love

32:59

it.

33:01

But lipstick wise, definitely Lauren

33:01

Brooke, 100% organic.

33:06

You could eat it. You'd be fine.

33:09

And her colors are incredible. Her lip liners.

33:12

are absolutely gorgeous and affordable.

33:16

Her lip glazes, oh her lip glazes, they're

33:16

like this pigmented, it's almost like a

33:25

mix between a gloss and a very, that's why

33:25

they call it glaze, it's like a very

33:31

pigmented gloss. and they're gorgeous.

33:37

And so I just, over my lip liner, I just

33:37

add a little bit, adds a little color,

33:43

adds a little pop. I love that it has color because I did buy

33:44

some lip tint from Honest and it just

33:49

didn't have any color. I mean, I put it on, I'm like, I look,

33:50

yeah, I can't see it.

33:54

I want to see it. Exactly and I think you should be able to

33:55

see it.

33:58

Especially if you're spending the money. You should be happy with your purchase and

33:59

see it. And she does do samples which is nice too.

34:04

Yeah, she's fabulous. And then lipsticks, I would definitely say

34:06

100% pure.

34:10

She has fabulous colors. They're very, very pigmented.

34:16

So I would, like if you love your

34:16

lipsticks and you love a full on lipstick,

34:21

100% pure. They have some sort.

34:24

Sometimes they have some restocking

34:24

issues, but you gotta get it when they

34:27

have it because they have such a good

34:27

turnout.

34:30

Like they're red, very pigmented, and they

34:30

use fruit pigments.

34:35

Yeah. I wanted to get your opinions as we kind

34:37

of went through the makeup and people can

34:41

go and get your curated list off of your

34:41

site.

34:48

You turned me on to that documentary that

34:48

HBO Max did, Not So Pretty, the four

34:55

series documentary. It's on your website.

34:57

You talk about it. I have not seen it but I went to watch the

34:59

trailer on YouTube.

35:03

Did you get a lot out of that series? Because they covered what's not

35:05

transparent with makeup, shampoos, nails,

35:11

and I forget the fourth bucket. Yeah, that was, I won't lie to you, that

35:13

was a very long time ago and I have very

35:18

severe memory loss. I am like, I think I got, yeah, it was

35:20

like a big thing in our world that like,

35:25

it was finally like someone's talking

35:25

about it, someone's doing the research and

35:30

a little overwhelming because it was, it

35:30

was like nails, beauty, this, that and

35:34

you're just like, okay wait, everything

35:34

I've been using is.

35:39

completely toxic. So definitely if you have the chance to

35:40

see it, see it, but also remember to not

35:47

stress. That is really big.

35:50

Like for me, like I've in the past couple

35:50

years, I want to say I have been really

35:56

focusing on this is so off topic, I

35:56

apologize.

36:01

I just have been really focusing on

36:01

balance and joy with education.

36:08

I feel like our clean beauty wellness space has taken

36:09

a really big turn for honestly a lot of

36:15

stress. And you get online and everything's toxic

36:16

nowadays and you can't use this and you

36:21

gotta use that and you gotta do this and I

36:21

really feel like more people need to talk

36:24

about slowly transitioning and please do

36:24

the opposite of what I did.

36:29

I'm all or nothing overnight person so

36:29

it's like I'm like oh my gosh no but in

36:35

the past couple years I've seen the toll

36:35

it's taken on me.

36:38

my followers and I've been really talking

36:38

to a lot of people and it's like education

36:44

is amazing but you also need to look at

36:44

and I'm not saying this about the

36:49

documentary I'm just getting off topic but

36:49

also follow people that you can trust and

36:55

follow people that aren't trying to like

36:55

sell you every little bit of like

37:00

everything like oh my gosh this is toxic

37:00

this is killing you but hey buy this.

37:04

use this and they're like solely a brand

37:04

ambassador for that.

37:07

So and I think we've touched base on that

37:07

but I would definitely with watching

37:12

documentaries like that make sure you're

37:12

in a right place and if you feel like you

37:18

are self researching and learning slowly

37:18

by yourself and slowly just taking your

37:26

toxic burden down do it like that.

37:29

Sometimes documentaries like that can be

37:29

stressful.

37:32

I know myself like I am a huge researcher rabbit hole and

37:33

I'll get in there and I'm like, oh my

37:38

gosh, this is amazing. And then I'm like paranoid.

37:42

Now, I'm so glad that you said that, and

37:42

that's another light that you bring to the

37:46

space that I was attracted to, that you're

37:46

just so honest and that the fact that

37:50

you're seeking joy in education and kind

37:50

of pushing back on all the negativity,

37:56

because we don't need that either.

37:58

We're trying to be healthy and live a

37:58

long, wonderful, joyous life.

38:03

But I will say about the documentary, I

38:03

went and watched another beauty person's

38:09

take on it. Okay. Thank you. Muffin Beauty Science.

38:14

She's a scientist. She's the one that's in the labs making

38:15

the products for the companies and she

38:20

said yes documentaries can be very

38:20

fear-based.

38:23

They're movie makers. They have to have that climax and that

38:25

drama in order to sell the production.

38:30

So yeah get the education out of it but

38:30

remember to go look at your own research

38:37

and you're right there's always going

38:41

who's trying to partner with you and make

38:41

your life better.

38:46

And they're out there too, which is why

38:46

you get such a huge following.

38:50

I mean, people see that in you and yeah.

38:53

Yeah. Thank you. That's so sweet.

38:55

Thank you. Oh my gosh. I just think I think I as an influencer

38:57

and stuff, too it's like it's hard to It's

39:06

hard because it's like fear cells and a

39:06

lot of people don't tell you that and so

39:11

these big Influencers who are constantly

39:11

pushing this fear and this fear and fear

39:15

there are people with different brain

39:15

types and different nervous systems and

39:21

different life and lifestyles

39:23

and it can be so overwhelming and

39:23

consuming and detrimental.

39:28

And if you have OCD and you're watching

39:28

this video, it can be like insane.

39:33

And I know myself and I'm like, I watch

39:33

one video and all of a sudden I'm freaking

39:38

out and I'm like, Brianna, like chill out.

39:40

And so I've tried to be as transparent

39:40

about that as possible because it's like,

39:46

no one is perfect. No one can live in a hundred percent

39:47

non-toxic life.

39:51

Like just because I don't wear

39:51

conventional non-perfume doesn't mean the

39:55

person next to me isn't. I'm still inhaling their perfume and I'm

39:56

like, oh, and I have a headache, but I

40:01

think it needs to be talked about more. Like there are cleaner options for

40:03

everyone in just making these small

40:08

changes and these small steps.

40:10

You're reducing your toxin load and that's

40:10

better than nothing.

40:14

We live in a world that is so toxic today

40:14

and you have to do what's best for you.

40:19

Right, especially because the more you

40:19

absorb that, I know with me, I've had

40:24

leaky gut, and then you become even more

40:24

sensitive to what you're putting on your

40:28

body, and you get hives, and you get

40:28

rashes, and it's just a signal to clean it

40:33

up, sister. You need to, you know, do your 30-day

40:35

cleanse and really just back off the

40:39

stuff. But you're right, we live in a very toxic

40:39

world, and we just have to be aware of

40:44

that. And... and make some better choices.

40:47

So I'm glad we had this discussion. I'm glad that my cat parked over here to

40:49

be the perfect little backdrop.

40:52

She's such a diva.

40:54

That's popcorn back there. Ha ha.

40:58

I love that name popcorn is one of my

40:58

favorite foods in the world so I'm like I

41:02

love that. Oh my goodness.

41:04

She wants to be right in the middle of the screen. Is there anything else that we didn't talk

41:06

about?

41:08

I know I'll put everything that I can in

41:08

the show notes and links to you and your

41:13

Instagram and Twitter and TikTok pages and

41:13

whatnot and some of these reports that

41:19

I've held up randomly so people can go and

41:19

read them themselves.

41:23

Anything else you want to end with,

41:23

Brianna?

41:25

Um, I'll end with some lip liners just

41:25

because I am a lip liner girlie.

41:31

Um, and yeah, so Fit Glow Beauty is an

41:31

amazing company.

41:36

Um, they also have these amazing lip

41:36

serums and great pigment, no lip dyes,

41:42

fabulous stuff. This is in their shade nude.

41:46

It's more pinky in my opinion.

41:49

Um, another great brand.

41:51

And I will say the international brands

41:51

are fabulous.

41:58

So many brands over there have the

41:58

strictest guidelines from the EU and they

42:02

just don't have anything. So I'd always say sometimes it's worth it

42:03

to pay the extra shipping because they're

42:07

just that good. I hadn't thought about that.

42:09

That's a great idea. Yeah, Air Perez.

42:12

So this is their Almond Brow Pencil and I

42:12

use it as a contour for my lip liner.

42:20

So it's this kind of cool tone brown and I

42:20

just contour my lips and pretend I have

42:26

huge lips and go in with a lip liner all

42:26

over.

42:29

Yeah and they have really good great lip

42:29

liners.

42:33

They also have these lip crayons.

42:35

Super pigmented, non-toxic, fabulous.

42:40

two other international brands that I

42:40

absolutely love.

42:43

OneFeed, they are a clean perfume, super

42:43

luxury.

42:47

She's an in-house perfume maker, so

42:47

everything's in-house, no synthetics ever,

42:52

almost all natural and organic, and she is

42:52

fabulous.

42:55

I've worked with her for a long time. Liz is an incredible woman.

42:59

She is just an amazing business owner, and

42:59

I just absolutely love her.

43:03

And she does body washes, laundry, clean

43:03

perfume, and she's just absolutely

43:08

fabulous. Then we have MG Naturals.

43:12

She's over in Australia as well and she

43:12

does titanium free dioxide makeup.

43:20

So sometimes titanium dioxide can get a

43:20

bad rep.

43:24

It's more of you want to avoid it in

43:24

powders where you can inhale it so or like

43:31

some sprays but other than that like it's

43:31

you're pretty much fine but she's

43:35

completely td free. and she has great eyeshadows, great

43:37

pigments, she has foundation, she has lip

43:41

glosses, she's everything. So.

43:44

Wonderful. So health-wise, you're in a good space

43:45

now.

43:47

You've got your issues.

43:50

Your parasites are gone. You know that you're using good products

43:51

and you seem perky and healthy.

43:55

So a good place for you.

43:57

Health is well.

44:00

I will say I'm still doing a couple

44:00

cleanses.

44:04

It's so funny, because I think for me, I

44:04

was so ridden with parasites.

44:08

I've gone through leaky gut. I might have leaky gut now.

44:11

I'm not really sure. And stress is a huge, oh, it's so bad.

44:17

And so I feel like I've done this now for

44:17

four years, and I'll like.

44:22

get on a cleanse, I'll have amazing

44:22

results, Candida's gone, parasites are

44:26

gone. And then before you know it, I have

44:27

another layer coming up and I'm like, oh

44:31

my gosh, but I think for someone like me,

44:31

I'm so susceptible to like bacteria and

44:37

stuff. Like I just know I'm compromised in that

44:37

department.

44:41

So I have to like work a little harder.

44:43

But other than that, my skin has never

44:43

looked better.

44:47

I mean, I look back at pictures from 10

44:47

years ago when I was wearing.

44:53

toxic makeup, like dousing myself in

44:53

Versace Bright Crystal, all this toxic

44:58

perfume, just layering on everything,

44:58

eating gluten, eating whatever I wanted.

45:04

And I look younger now than I did back

45:04

then.

45:08

My skin, yeah, my skin and my body is way

45:08

better and my health is better.

45:13

And so that's why I continue every day to

45:13

show up because I know what it's like to

45:18

feel like crap and I just, I can't.

45:21

I don't want to live like that anymore. I live like that for too long.

45:24

Like, I like this now.

45:26

I like feeling healthy. I like feeling like I'm in control of my

45:27

health and my body, so.

45:31

Yeah, and I'll just say to anyone

45:31

listening, if you're having any sort of

45:35

mystery symptoms or illnesses, find a good

45:35

integrative medicine, functional medicine

45:40

person that can really help you find out

45:40

what's going on and not just give you a

45:45

pill or a potion and push you out the

45:45

door.

45:47

They can do some testing, because they are

45:47

out there, and I'd be happy to give a

45:50

recommendation, because I've worked with

45:50

many all across the US.

45:54

They're out there. Don't stay... ill or feeling poorly.

45:58

It's just not worth it. You can you can get back to yourself.

46:03

Yes, I love that you said that.

46:06

And if I may, I just had a recent kind of,

46:06

I hadn't been to the doctor's in forever.

46:13

I'm not like a doctor's person, but I was

46:13

like, you know what, let me, I'm on

46:16

insurance now, let me go. And I went to the gyno and I was like,

46:17

Hey, like I'm having some

46:20

hormonal problems, I think, like can we

46:20

test my stuff?

46:24

And she was like, no, only thing I'd say

46:24

is like get on hormonal birth control or,

46:31

like immediately. Like she didn't ask me, I know, I'm like,

46:32

she didn't ask me like what are you

46:36

eating, are you drinking water, are you

46:36

doing sleep?

46:39

Nothing. She was just like, your age, like you're

46:40

fine.

46:43

And I was just like so offended because I

46:43

was like wow, I really haven't.

46:48

been in this like for a while and so to

46:48

have someone literally look at my face and

46:52

be like yeah only thing you can do about

46:52

that is like cosmetic or like you can only

46:56

do this and get on birth control. I was like and so I was adamant and I was

46:57

like get me my testing done and it came

47:03

back normal but I know myself and I'm like

47:03

I still don't believe you and so I'm still

47:09

on that journey to find someone who

47:09

actually takes me seriously.

47:12

And Amen and they're out there, but I tell you

47:13

what I I've had the hormonal rollercoaster

47:18

myself and Recently my RN who is a

47:18

functional medicine RN was not going to be

47:25

available to adjust my meds And I was

47:25

freaking out so I was calling all these

47:29

different hormonal places in the same

47:29

thing I'm like do you do testing can you

47:33

read the Dutch Plus test? Can you prescribe and it was like no can

47:35

you get me in six months later?

47:41

luckily my

47:43

who is a functional medicine person just

47:43

did a telemed visit with me and fixed

47:47

everything. But it's very rare to find someone that

47:47

will really listen to you, give you that

47:51

90-minute consult, run the needed tests to

47:51

find out is it adrenals, is it candida, is

47:57

it your hormones, is it your cortisol, is

47:57

it your thyroid.

48:02

Yeah, so keep searching.

48:04

Yeah. And it's like, yeah, it's like don't give up. Like you are your own advocate.

48:08

Like you have to live in your body.

48:10

And these doctors who are telling you, oh,

48:10

I can't do that.

48:13

It's like, no, you're saying that because

48:13

your insurance says that.

48:16

Guess what? Switch doctors.

48:19

I had a doctor look me in the face and

48:19

say, yeah, I don't think so.

48:22

I go, boop, and I just got rid of her.

48:24

I'm like, no. for a million doctors before someone tells

48:26

me what I have to go, that what I'm going

48:31

through every day is not, oh, I'm fine,

48:31

no.

48:34

Yeah, one resource that I will do a shout

48:34

out, the integrative, it's ifm.org,

48:40

ifm.org. It's the Integrated Functional Medicine

48:41

Association.

48:44

And they have a list of providers that

48:44

have been trained to do the right tests.

48:49

So at least start there because you can

48:49

find and search by your state who can help

48:54

you. And that's a good start.

48:56

Yeah. amazing. I didn't know about that. That's so amazing.

48:59

Yeah, so, busy lady, I can't, I suspect

48:59

the next time I look at your Instagram

49:05

feed, you're going to be like the face of

49:05

a new makeup line for safe makeup.

49:10

Someone's going to hire you and say, I

49:10

hope that happens for you because I think

49:15

you rock. So thank you. such a blessing.

49:18

Thank you so much. Thank you for doing this.

49:20

Don't go away. I'm going to thank you for listening.

49:23

Please join us again next week.