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What We Aren't (And Are) Buying From the Sephora Sale · Off Topic

• Meagan Smith: Hey everyone, welcome to Off Topic. and this week we're gonna talk about what we are not gonna buy at the Sephora sale, but also what we are gonna buy. We thought we'd start talking a little bit about some of the things we're not. so for example, I will never buy shampoo or conditioner from Sephora ever again because Jenny converted me to the Abbey Young method, and I buy five to ten dollar shampoo from the drugstore now, and it's the best. It's just as good as any professional Sephora brand, I would say, in my opinion. Samantha Potter: And I'm the sucker who's actually buying the shampoo and conditioner at the Sephora sale. But I have a stockpile, so I'm actually not this time. Meagan Smith: But it makes a big difference for you, right? Like you said it does yeah. Samantha Potter: It does. Yeah. the the drugstore shampoo was just not it. My hair wouldn't hold. Just didn't work for me. So now I'm back to actually I do need to go back, but this is not what Meagan Smith: What's your Samantha Potter: I'm not buying. But I really love the Bondi boost. Jenny O'Mahony: really? Meagan Smith: I've never tried Samantha Potter: yeah, both McGregor and I. McGregor's obsessed with it. He's like so sad because I haven't bought it for so long. Cause I was, yeah, because I was like trying. Meagan Smith: McGregor with this much hair. Jenny O'Mahony: I love that this is even like the fact the fact I need to like marinate in that sentence because that's so good. Meagan Smith: I don't, I love it. I love it so Samantha Potter: Like Meagan Smith: much. Samantha Potter: that is his top, very, very top pick from the Sephora sale. The man's wish list. Jenny O'Mahony: So funny. Meagan Smith: So follow it. Samantha Potter: but no, it's like I just find it does a it does a good job and it doesn't leave my hair. My hair is naturally like Megan and I were talking about this before. We're like naturally more oily people and my hair gets very greasy very easily. And I find the Bondi boost actually doesn't that doesn't happen as quickly. Still happens, just not like The second I get out of the shower. Meagan Smith: And was that what was happening with drugstore? You just had to wash your hair immediately? Samantha Potter: Yeah. I I just I had to use a lot more dry shampoo, which I'm not opposed to. and then like my blowouts wouldn't hold. And it's I don't my hair Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: doesn't really hold blowouts to begin with. So like once I found a way for them to hold, I should have just stuck to it. Meagan Smith: You got a good you you're a heatless curler, Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: roller girl and I feel like you nailed it. You figured out how to make that work for you. I have not figured out how to make that work for me. Samantha Potter: I did figure that out and it's a dream. If you need I there I have extras that I don't use. okay. I can just come over and do it for you. Because I feel like your hair is long enough. Like your hair has to be a certain length. Yeah. Yeah. I was talking to my accountant today. Meagan Smith: I have them. I need to just watch your videos. I have them. I have all the supplies. Yeah, I might need you to do that. Yeah. It is long enough to do it. And I sleep in one of those bonnets. So I'm already like halfway there. Samantha Potter: you're I don't. Meagan Smith: I started when my hair was breaking off. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Smart. Do you guys use silk pillows? Meagan Smith: Yeah, so that's I instead of using silk pillows, I bought the hair thing. But you Samantha Potter: You bought the bonnet. I tried. I just I didn't like it. Meagan Smith: Do you always use them, Jenny? Are you a silk pillow? Yeah. Yeah, Jenny O'Mahony: The silk pillow? Yeah, it's just like my pillowcase. Yeah. Meagan Smith: fair. Jenny O'Mahony: To be fair, it's not like real silk because I didn't want to buy a hundred dollar pillowcase and hate it. So I just got Meagan Smith: No. There's a Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a cheap Amazon version and was like, I like this. And so now I just it why would I replace it? Because I like it. I think it's a good Meagan Smith: That's your pillowcase. Yeah. Yeah. I think they're better for like antibacterial or something too, aren't they? Is that true? I just made that up, but I feel like they said that. No? Jenny O'Mahony: you Samantha Potter: I could believe Jenny O'Mahony: should just Samantha Potter: that. Jenny O'Mahony: sure. You just need to wash stuff more frequently that you're in contact Meagan Smith: yeah, don't Jenny O'Mahony: with a lot. Meagan Smith: yeah, don't not wash your pillowcase all the time. Samantha Potter: But now am I gonna get a lot of am I gonna get a lot of wrinkles now 'cause I'm using a l a linen pillowcase instead of the silk pillowcase. Jenny O'Mahony: I feel like the wrinkles are from Meagan Smith: I don't think that's Jenny O'Mahony: if you're sleeping on your you know what I mean? You went up like Samantha Potter: Which I do. Jenny O'Mahony: me too. Meagan Smith: Me too. Jenny O'Mahony: I would love to be able to just sleep on my back. I cannot. I'm a side sleeper or a tummy sleeper. Meagan Smith: I can't. It's one of the worst I'm a tummy sleeper and when I was pregnant, ugh. It's the worst. Samantha Potter: yeah, that would be hard. And after like Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: after I just got sculpture two weeks ago, but like after I like I Meagan Smith: you did? Samantha Potter: sleep like that like this a lot of Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: the time and so my ha I'm like, Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: mm, yep. It's probably not good. Jenny O'Mahony: I feel like it's I feel like get it. I spent it's so so after I had my boobs done two years ago or a year, two years ago, I don't even remember. Was it a year ago? Samantha, when did when was Meagan Smith: I feel like it was two. Jenny O'Mahony: it two? Was it one? It was Samantha Potter: I think I yeah, I feel like it was a year and a half. Jenny O'Mahony: one. No, I think it was in Meagan Smith: wow. Jenny O'Mahony: the summer, la not this like one summer, so a year and a half ago. Samantha Potter: Did you Yeah, so a almost a year and a half. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. And I had to sleep on my back and I had no trouble then sleeping on my back. Meagan Smith: For quite a while, hey? Jenny O'Mahony: And I was like, maybe this will be what makes me sleep on my back forever. Meagan Smith: This is it Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: And then as soon as I was allowed to not sleep on my back, I was like, whoop. Meagan Smith: Yeah, fair. Jenny O'Mahony: So Samantha Potter: Yeah. 'Cause you don't actually sleep, you just constantly wake up worried, Meagan Smith: I know. Samantha Potter: am I sleeping where I should be? And then it's terrible. It's worse than usual. Meagan Smith: But honestly, I don't think a sil or a linen pillowcase is gonna give you wrinkles, Sam. We all we Jenny O'Mahony: That's not the deal breaker. Meagan Smith: all do enough preventative measures and have Jillian as our best friend that we're good. Jenny O'Mahony: That's not gonna be Samantha Potter: Perfect. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. When we show up for our facelifts, the plastic surgeons aren't gonna be like, Let me guess, you sleep on a linen pillow. They'll be like Samantha Potter: Should I used Meagan Smith: You use a linen pillowcase. Samantha Potter: Should I used silk. Jenny O'Mahony: No that's not the gonna be the deal breaker. Meagan Smith: When we do our group facelift so we can all hide away together. Jenny O'Mahony: my God, it's gonna be great. Samantha Potter: I feel like I'm doing the upper bluff first. Jenny O'Mahony: I will too. Samantha Potter: Are we going to Korea for it? Why? I'm going. I feel like Meagan Smith: why not just throw a career trip in there? Jenny O'Mahony: No. I have no problem with going to other countries, just not for surgical procedures. you can do whatever you want. I'm not gonna do that. You Samantha Potter: I know. yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: you do you Meagan Smith: You just need a good recommendation. Jenny O'Mahony: for locally? Meagan Smith: No for Korea. Yeah. Samantha Potter: for Korea. Jenny O'Mahony: I cannot help. I already know who I'll probably do it with locally, but I don't think. Meagan Smith: really good at researching doctors in other countries, as we all know after be going on my EndO research hyperfixation for two weeks, so I can take Korea on next. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I love it. I love it. I feel like you're just good at researching, period, as long as you're interested in said topic. Meagan Smith: As long as I care in the topic. Yep. Jenny O'Mahony: Almost like diagnostically so. Samantha Potter: Hmm. Meagan Smith: It's that it's like that, you know, I'm I have that my brain works that way or something. My god Jenny, that reel you posted yesterday about we should see how we can put it in the show notes about what was it, how God created ADHD. It was so good. I was dying. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, yeah. That was so good. Honestly, Samantha Potter: That was so good. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: when people say things with a dry sense of humor with a British accent, it's like it's so much better than if they had a Canadian or American Samantha Potter: It hits yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: accent. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. And I forget that what was the Samantha Potter: it lands like way better. Jenny O'Mahony: It's so good. Meagan Smith: first thing he said? they're not afraid of skydiving or bungee jumping or something, but they won't pay but Samantha Potter: They can't respond to any email. Meagan Smith: yeah, or they can't pay a parking ticket. Yeah. They can't pay Jenny O'Mahony: Or make a phone call or yeah. Yeah, they can't pay a parking ticket. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: a parking ticket. And was like, that's why I do that. I've jumped out of planes, no problem. I can't call my doctor back who wants me to make an appointment. That's not gonna happen. Jenny O'Mahony: I can't do either, so I don't what type of shitty ADHD did I get? Meagan Smith: Yeah, that's annoying. You probably Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Meagan Smith: but you got some other kind. Where you Jenny O'Mahony: I guess. Meagan Smith: could I don't know. Jenny O'Mahony: I didn't no, I don't really do anything scary. I didn't get the like what's that? Yeah, no, I didn't in my twenties either though. Meagan Smith: I wouldn't anymore. I was in my twenties. I wouldn't do the stuff like shit like that anymore. I did. Samantha Potter: I didn't either. I I wanted to, but then also I think I would have just chickened out. Meagan Smith: I just had no sense I guess of s survival. I don't know. I did some really shady shit. We're d I just didn't really think about it. Jenny O'Mahony: Mortality wasn't really a concern for you. Samantha Potter: N not at the top of my list. Meagan Smith: Like, yeah. I won't bungee jump though. Samantha Potter: Seems safe. Meagan Smith: I've watched my husband and brother in law bungee jump and I like, I'm gonna draw the line there. It looks really scary. Samantha Potter: You didn't do it. Meagan Smith: No. I've skydived. when I lived in Australia, but the they bungee jumped in a whistler, like I'm sure everyone's been to the bungee jump. And it's like you're Samantha Potter: I I yeah yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, yeah. Meagan Smith: jumping towards rocks. Samantha Potter: Yeah, I don't love it. Mm mm. Meagan Smith: And that just I don't love that. Whereas skydiving, Jenny O'Mahony: I think if you're at that Meagan Smith: you're in the sky. I was over the Great Barrier Reef, it was when I lived in Australia. it was very different. Jenny O'Mahony: You thought that if you fell skydiving you would not die, but like if you fell bungee jumping, that feels more dangerous. Meagan Smith: I couldn't see it. Yes. Yes. My brain somehow Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Meagan Smith: compl and still when you say that I'm like a hundred percent skydiving is way safer than fungi jumping in my brain. That's not true. In my brain. It makes no sense. Samantha Potter: I can see, I can see how you got there though, because you can't actually see what you're landing on when you're going skydiving. Meagan Smith: No. And in Australia you can skydive quite high. I forget what it is. It was like fifteen thousand or something. It's higher than you can hear. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: so you really can't see anything. And then someone's Samantha Potter: Perfect. Meagan Smith: attached to you, right? Like there's Jenny O'Mahony: Well yeah. Samantha Potter: And they're in charge, you're not in charge. Meagan Smith: some and they're in charge. And so you don't really have like when you're Jenny O'Mahony: You're like tagging along. Meagan Smith: up there, like you're going. I mean, I'm sure if you said no, they're not gonna push you off, but like before you jump. Jenny O'Mahony: How do you say no if you're in the middle of the before they jump? I'm like, it's like we're fully committed here. I'm Meagan Smith: Yeah. I'm Samantha Potter: Cancel, cancel, you're in the middle of the air. Meagan Smith: out I'm out Stop us Samantha Potter: I'm out, I'm out Jenny O'Mahony: It's like I don't Meagan Smith: You're like halfway down. It's so fun. I would do it again in a heartbeat. But not because I have kids and I'm like I'm not that I don't know. Samantha Potter: You're not that irresponsible now. Meagan Smith: I'm not that irresponsible. Jenny O'Mahony: You have a sense of mortality now. Meagan Smith: I somehow w have a sense of mortality now. Jenny, what are you not buying to get back ten minutes later? Jenny O'Mahony: so I am I am buying one hair product I got or I already bought I did it this morning. I am a rouge, so like done. I got the K K18 like leave in molecular Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: thing. But I personally, and we talked, we've talked about this before, I don't buy the big size, even though per mil it is cheaper. It lasts for so long that that mini one that's like What is it sixty bucks or forty bucks? It's like whatever. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I can't remember. 'Cause the big one's a hundred and seven. I was just looking at it. Yeah. I just looked at it, pulled it up. Jenny O'Mahony: It's a hundred and seven. I know that because I this morning I initially had the big one. And then when my order was over four hundred dollars, I'm like, this is and nothing exciting because it was all stuff that I just order Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: all the time. I was like, no, we need to bring that number down a bit. and I just I have only ever done, and I switched it, the small version of the K eighteen. It lasts so long. And I use it on my hair. I do four to six treatments every time I color my hair. And then I do it every three to four weeks. when you're due. And then Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I do it for my kids once a month too. And that mini lasts at least six months. So I was like, you don't need the big one. Meagan Smith: So do you do it the first four to six I've asked you this before, but do you do it the first four to six washes after you color your hair? Okay. I need to start doing that. Jenny O'Mahony: And it lasts so because you're using like one pump. My hair is like shorter. So Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: one pump per side. So I'm not buying the big size for that. And that is a cost savings. And it lasts a super long time. So if you're only using it for yourself, you could get more than six months out of it. I also like so we've talked before about how I love the instant angel by do. I've used their Meagan Smith: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: Air Angel, which is the lighter version, and I really like it. I am not saying I dislike this product. I am saying that there is a drugstore facial moisturizer by Vanny Cream. It's got a green banner on it. So it says Vanny Cream Daily Facial Moisturizer. And then the green banner says with hyaluronic acid and ceramides, and that's 17 bucks. And I think it's a larger volume. They're totally different. Packaging, so it's hard to say, but I'm pretty Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: sure it's actually a larger volume than the instant or the air angel, which is the blue one. and I feel like I like the air angel, but the vanny cream one I like equally, so I'm gonna save my money and just drugstore that one. and the other thing I'm not buying is hypochlorous acid spray from Sephora. The Tower 18 is their cheapest one, and it is $18 for 30 mils. The element one from Amazon is thirteen dollars for sixty mils. It they're this literally the same thing. They're it's it's like they are hypochlorous acid. Like it is a chemical. Samantha Potter: That's just Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: what you spray on yourself after you work out and needs to run some errands or something. Is that right? Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, it's like i it for when you can't wash your face, but you should. Like you've gone for tennis and you show up for a podcast recording. I'm joking. Samantha Potter: 'Cause your executive functioning skills are non existent these days. Meagan Smith: Cause none of us can manage time. Jenny O'Mahony: For but for acne prone teenage skin, it's so good. Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: We I wish we had this when we were teenagers. So like my daughter has one in her cheer bag and her gym bag. Right? Like it's good. It's great. Anyways, it's so inexpensive on Amazon for the element brand. I would always hands down do that over the tower twenty eight. Meagan Smith: I do that for what's the other one? Glycolica is that how you say it? I'm really bad with my Jenny O'Mahony: Glycolic acid, yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I would never buy an expensive one of that either. It is what it is. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: 'Cause it is what it is, right? it's glycolic acid. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Just paying for the name brand. Meagan Smith: You're paying for the name brand. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Totally. And obviously my teenager would prefer that I pay for the name Brad, but for something that is Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: chemically exactly the same thing. Meagan Smith: You're like I'm not paying double for the exact Jenny O'Mahony: You're not whipping out your hypochlorous acid in front of your friends at a party spraying your face. Samantha Potter: You know what? I actually think okay, there's a new market that I am just untapping here. And if you do buy the expensive ones, you should resell the bottles on Facebook Marketplace and then the empties Jenny O'Mahony: just the empty Meagan Smith: my god. To the teenagers. Samantha Potter: to the teenagers. And then you can fill it up and pretend you have the good stuff. Jenny O'Mahony: Sure. Yeah. You could do that. You could do that. So yeah, I'm not buying things that I I have like a drugstore version that I like just as much, if not better. Meagan Smith: Yeah, fair. That's fair. I know I'm trying to think Jenny O'Mahony: Otherwise my order's so boring. it's just a blush that I've bought probably five times already. Moisturizer K eighteen. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I'm gonna try the instant angel. Do you like the instant Jenny O'Mahony: I like that one. Meagan Smith: angel better than like cyroplast? Whatever that's called? Cicoplast. I can't pronounce anything. Yes, it's very thick. Jenny O'Mahony: Seclast. Seclast is very thick. That's okay. It's super thick, and I have rosacea. Meagan Smith: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: My skin, most skin, I think. I don't want to be too liberal with this statement, but I feel like most people benefit from using the like thinnest product possible that works for them versus like Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: going super heavy because. Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't know, I don't think that you need to go like Yeah, I don't think there's any benefit Meagan Smith: Super heavy if you don't need it. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: to that. I'm sure there's varying opinions. That's been true to me. Meagan Smith: maybe post microneedling or something. That's when you use it. Yeah. But not day to day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Or like post procedure. That's different though. I feel like day-to-day Yeah, I like it. So the instant agile is like a thicker, but it's not, it absorbs quite readily. It doesn't. It's not like whereas the seagoplast is like a you're like you're locked in. Samantha Potter: It's thick. Yeah. Meagan Smith: It's thick, yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: So I like Sika Place. There's a time and a place, but yeah, totally. Meagan Smith: It's good for scars too. If we feel like we've talked about this before. My dermatologist told me to use it on my scars. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, totally. But yeah, I'm not buying I know what I bought. I bought the necessary body retinol. Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: over the Jenny O'Mahony: Hundred bucks for the bottle. Samantha Potter: over the Paula's choice? Meagan Smith: Okay, did they discontinue? Yeah, I was gonna ask that. No, it's not. Jenny O'Mahony: Unavailable. It's not on no, it's not on Amazon. There's there's Samantha Potter: It's on Amazon. Jenny O'Mahony: an Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: it's like a something there's something with the same color purple, but it's a different it's not in stock right now. Samantha Potter: No, I put it on my list for maybe it's Meagan Smith: Yeah, but it's it's not as right now, yeah. Samantha Potter: maybe that's the case. I need to check this. Meagan Smith: I I Jenny O'Mahony: You might have weight Yeah. Nope. The body retinol by Polish Choice is not available right now. It's no bueno. Samantha Potter: Is that would that be Meagan Smith: I Samantha Potter: your number one if it were to be available? Jenny O'Mahony: Well yeah, 'cause it's way cheaper than the necessaire one. No. Samantha Potter: I still feel like it's a hundred bucks too. Meagan Smith: It's like f fifty. Jenny O'Mahony: No, it's cheaper. The Paula's choice one. I will go to my purchase history because I have purchased many times. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I was looking for it the other day. no, there is one. I see what you're talking about, Sam. There is one on Jenny O'Mahony: So this is my order history for the polished choice. Samantha Potter: Yeah, it's here. It's seventy bucks. Meagan Smith: But there is one on yeah, Sephora that's expensive, but that's not it. Jenny O'Mahony: It just says currently unavailable. Samantha Potter: There's one Okay. There I'm looking at one right now. I can't show you 'cause it's on my computer, but Jenny O'Mahony: that's the facial one. I see what you're Samantha Potter: It is? Jenny O'Mahony: talking about. The 1% retinol. That's the facial one, not the body one. And it yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, that's the face. Got it. Jenny O'Mahony: Cause this one was like fifty Meagan Smith: And then there's a BHA there's one that's like a BHA body that's the same color as the retinol. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, the same color, but it's not the same thing. So Samantha Potter: I gotcha. Jenny O'Mahony: I got the necessaire one, but I might there's do you guys follow Mrs. Derm? She's great. You should. she Meagan Smith: Sounds f sounds familiar. Jenny O'Mahony: her husband's a dermatologist, and they have a product called their last name's Coleman, called the Coleman compound, and they have a body serum that targets brown Meagan Smith: Yes, I do. Jenny O'Mahony: as well as like the all the retinol things, but it also targets like brown pigmentation. And it's like a hundred and seven American dollars for their big bottle, and I'm like Meagan Smith: Can you get it here? Jenny O'Mahony: a lot you'd have to pay duty and shipping and all Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: that shit. But yeah. So what you Samantha Potter: So it'd be like eight hundred dollars here. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: would want to do is coordinate the next time Sam's at her mom's Meagan Smith: That's true. Samantha Potter: And have a checked bag, which is actually rare. Like we we went in the summer and right? Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, it's definitely not going in the carry on. Samantha Potter: Yeah, no, it's not. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: But we went in the summer and it was like a whole new world because we all had carry-ons. It was like a big unlock Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: for us. I'm like, we haven't done this for seven years. It's amazing. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. I have no problem Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: bringing enough belongings to fit in a carry-on, but for me it's all the like it's the products. Meagan Smith: The products. Yeah. Samantha Potter: This the yeah. Now I find it really hard. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: When I was traveling for work all the time, I just b had to buy travel size of everything. Or Jenny O'Mahony: Minis, yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: like buy those bot because I was traveling all the time and I was like, I can't Samantha Potter: That's Meagan Smith: do I ha I'm not checking a bag for like four days and then but I'm also Jenny O'Mahony: Especially at the rate they lose them these days. Meagan Smith: I know, but then I'm also not going without all my serums. So like yeah, without anything. No. Samantha Potter: Your products. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: anything. Yeah. You're like, I will not suffer in any way, shape, or form. Samantha Potter: Hundred percent. Meagan Smith: Especially when you're just going to all these weird not weird, but different climates and stuff and you're like, I just don't know I need my things to know that my skin's not gonna lose it. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. So I have a question for you, Sam, 'cause you Meagan Smith: But yeah. But you ha you have to travel a lot to do that. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: get a ton of PR. So you get to try a ton of products. Samantha Potter: Yes, I do. Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: Like more so than I would say the average person, because most of us don't just buy expensive things from Sephora to try. Just for fun. Samantha Potter: Just for frensies, no? Meagan Smith: Yeah. Although Sephora does have a good return policy, I think. Samantha Potter: They do actually. Their return policy is the best next to Costco. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: They do it's phenomenal, but you also Meagan Smith: you can try it. Jenny O'Mahony: have to go there. And that is a barrier for some of us. Meagan Smith: But you have to have to do it. Yes. I agree it is a barrier. I have a lot of weird not weird products I do not like in my closet because I did not return them. Samantha Potter: 'Cause you just didn't go. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, that become like body moisturizer because you don't like it on your face or whatever. It's like, yeah, so wasteful. Meagan Smith: Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: so under the caveat that everybody is different. And so what I mean, there are brands that we have both used that I love and you hate purely because of our skin. Like it has nothing to do with Samantha Potter: Yep. Does I yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: the product being good Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: or bad. It just like is not in alignment with our skin. So, like, what are you not buying product wise? And you're not trashing the products, you're just saying they did not work for you. Samantha Potter: No, no. For my skin, Meagan Smith: It doesn't work for you. Yeah. Samantha Potter: for my I'm just oily. So for my oily skin, the say products, most of them just didn't work that well. I liked how they went on and they looked so good. And then my face just was like, let's get real oily now. So mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Did it slip off essentially or did it just Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. So and I can't rem I'm so bad at remembering actual names of things, but Most of the say products, unless they were powder, did not work for me. I will also say I get given a ton of drugstore brand like lip products. And honestly, I truly think you Jenny O'Mahony: Hm. Interesting. Lip products. Samantha Potter: can get away with like, I love there's two that I love that I've tried and I I actually really want to try one more, but NYX has a lip liner that's like it's a stain. But it's not one of the peel off ones. It's like a stained lip liner. Love it. Probably. that one's so great. It's so cheap. Meagan Smith: yeah yeah. I have one. I wonder if it's the same one. It's cheap. Yeah. Samantha Potter: and then same for just like a standard lip liner. Maybelline. Is it Maybelline? Yeah, I think it is. The lift lifter, I think it's called like lifter liner or something that. Also excellent. Like very good. And I probably wouldn't spend money on an expensive lip liner. Honestly, I find Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, I agree. Samantha Potter: I haven't Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: found one that actually stays on for like as long as you'd want it to. So I'd rather just not spend that much money on that. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: The elf stuff's pretty good too, a lot of their stuff. Meagan Smith: I was just gonna say that I there's some elf stuff I really like. Yeah. Samantha Potter: yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have I have some elf stuff in my in my drawer as well that I actually I haven't I haven't opened. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I don't know if I've ever used their face stuff, but I've used eyebrow Jenny O'Mahony: Me neither. Meagan Smith: pencils and lip Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: gloss or lip stain and I like all that stuff. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. I always get really nervous when I'm like, should I try this like new face product that I was given or not? Jenny O'Mahony: In the same Samantha Potter: But I will say Meagan Smith: I know. And then if it doesn't work. Samantha Potter: then it doesn't work or your face like breaks out and absolutely hates it. yeah, Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. people can't Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. More that you would like have a huge reaction, totally. Samantha Potter: yeah. I did I did try some of the neutrogena products, which I actually really like. and Jenny O'Mahony: That's nostalgic in a way. Do you know what I mean? I feel yeah. Samantha Potter: Right. I I used them when I was Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: a little baby, basically. And but their makeup wipes I think are really good. I had a lot of people in my Jenny O'Mahony: okay. Samantha Potter: I shared them and I had a lot of people in my DMs being like, well, what about like the Mac ones? I'm like, if I can spend ten dollars on makeup removing wipes versus like however much the Mac ones are, Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: I'm gonna do it. Like I quite love them. Yeah. Right. Jenny O'Mahony: Especially 'cause I don't use them every day. for me I'd be getting Meagan Smith: Yeah, especially something like that. Jenny O'Mahony: a package and I'd use them for when my kids did ballet and they they're not gonna Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: wash their face well for travel. Totally, right? Yeah. Meagan Smith: Or travel. That was a big travel thing. Really good for travel. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. I use it for travel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes I use them for if I have a full face of makeup on, I'll use that before I go in with my cleanser and stuff. And so yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah, if you've been at I don't know, an event or something. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. But it did remind me, I'm like, this is what I used in my teens. We're just coming full circle Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: now. Jenny O'Mahony: That's fun though. I like that. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Kinda love it. Yeah. Those are my those are probably my like avoids. And then I would I'd I'm gonna get I just tried from my stash the Dr. Jart barrier mo skin barrier moisturizer. I love it. I have gotten Jenny O'Mahony: It'll look it up to see what the bottles. Samantha Potter: so Meagan Smith: I know. Samantha Potter: it's it's yellow, it's bright yellow. I've gotten so many compliments on my skin recently and I did just a week ago I had a hydrofacial and a laser treatment, but then also started using this new cream. And so one or the other or a combination thereof has been doing wonders for me. I love it. Tube. I think the tub is the eye, Meagan Smith: Is it in a tub or a tube? Okay. Samantha Potter: the eye stuff. Jenny O'Mahony: And it looks like there's different sizes. Meagan Smith: yeah, it is. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I will say that's the one thing I really appreciate about Sephora is they have often multiple size options. So you can get a smaller size to try something. and I I appreciate that, especially for face stuff, where like you said, you're like, well, I don't want to spend, you know, $70 Samantha Potter: Bragg it. Jenny O'Mahony: for a cream that might become like my daughter's arm moisturizer because I don't like it. Samantha Potter: Yeah. totally. Totally. Meagan Smith: Yeah. this one they have they have a point five, a one point seven and a two point five three. So there you go. You can try Samantha Potter: Yeah, I think I'm gonna get I'm gonna I'm gonna re-up because I do quite like it. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, that's good. Meagan Smith: Yeah, fair. Samantha Potter: yeah. The other thing that I do like to get, I don't need refills of them that often, but during the sale I like to get like a good quality of some kind of makeup. And I'm not Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: that great at doing makeup and I find the Armani it's like the Armani Jenny O'Mahony: Woo, bougie. Samantha Potter: eye eye Meagan Smith: Let's see. Samantha Potter: it's eyeshadow. You literally swipe it on, and then you can just you can do it with your finger, you can do it with a brush, and your eyes look so good. Anytime I wear it, I get so many compliments on it. Jenny O'Mahony: that's good to know. Samantha Potter: Same with the Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: fluid shear, which is like a blush bronzer highlighter, like all in one. It's so pretty on your cheeks, like gorgeous. So those are my like two. splurgy makeup Meagan Smith: Splurch. Samantha Potter: items that if I was I'm not running out of them because I don't wear them very often, but if I was, that's what I would also get. Jenny O'Mahony: Have you ever tried the makeup by Mario stuff? Because Samantha Potter: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: I I like Meagan Smith: yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: their those products Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: I found really good. And also Bobby Brown, which to me feels like an old person brand because I remember it is, but like I I have their they have like a Samantha Potter: That's also nostalgic. Yeah. Yeah. Same. Meagan Smith: Yeah, that is a nostalgic. My mom used to use Bobby Brown. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: eye shadow pencil, like it's like a crayon. And Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: it's waterproof and budge proof. And Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I really like it. Cause same thing, you can just kind of like, You don't need to be precise and you don't get the Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: the eyeshadow falling down and like right. Meagan Smith: that's the worst. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: So I really Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: like that. So like those are brands that I like to. I don't I really have a hard time with hype brands that people I think this is like my ADHD like resistance to things. Like I won't watch a show that's being hyped because it will disappoint me. Because I will take your hype and be like, I am now expecting the best thing I've ever watched ever and it w won't be. Samantha Potter: So you're telling Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: me that you haven't watched Love is Blind because it's the biggest train wreck ever? Jenny O'Mahony: I have not watched Love This B I have not even watched Game of Thrones. Meagan Smith: I started watching it after you c I haven't watched Game of Thrones either. I kept I kept trying to and I kept Jenny O'Mahony: I think I need to, but I d I've avoided it. Meagan Smith: falling asleep. Jenny O'Mahony: Well, because people just talked it up too much. Samantha Potter: And it's either you like that s but you either you like that style of show or you don't. I that's like that is so niche. Like either Jenny O'Mahony: That's fair. That's fair. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: either you're into it or you're not. Jenny O'Mahony: But same for things Love is Blind. Meagan Smith: I couldn't. Jenny O'Mahony: you either like that type of show or you don't. Samantha Potter: Fair enough, also will argue that it's like a train wreck that you can't take your eyes away from, even if you don't like it. Meagan Smith: I haven't watched it in seasons and Sam when we Jenny O'Mahony: I respect that. Meagan Smith: when we went Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: for a walk the other day, I think Jenny was right before you got there, Sam was like selling me hard on it and I started watching Jenny O'Mahony: That's so funny. Meagan Smith: it today and it's I think I've watched two or three episodes and it's insane. It's absolutely insane already. They haven't I don't think they vet these Jenny O'Mahony: See yeah, no I can't. The the more people hype things, the more I'm like mm. Mm-mm. Samantha Potter: They literally they didn't vet anybody or they did and found the absolutely most insane group of people that they could have found. That's that's what they did. It's like Meagan Smith: Yeah, it's pretty funny. It's a good background show. I had it on as I was doing other things. It's a good background show. 'Cause you don't really have to pay attention. Yeah. Yeah. That's when you put on these shitty shows is when you're don't really have to pay attention. Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: Fair. Fair. Cause I usually watch something I've seen before if I'm trying, if I'm not gonna, do you know what mean? But I don't do hype. Yeah, I don't do hype brands. So I took forever to try Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Hundred percent. Jenny O'Mahony: Rode because I was like, Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: the hype. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: And I do like their bronzer. I do like their glazing milk. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: and their peptide, their newer peptide lip what is it? It's so good. I love it. Peptide the glazing milk's good too. I like. Jenny O'Mahony: I've heard that's really good. I haven't tried that one yet, but I've heard that's good. have you tried? Meagan Smith: I haven't tried that either. I like their glazing milk, which I tried because of you guys. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I like that one, yeah. Samantha Potter: Peptide lip boost plumping lip mask. That's not a mouthful or anything, but it's amazing. Meagan Smith: That's that's a lot of words. Jenny O'Mahony: But I've heard good. And then have you tried any of the rare beauty stuff? Because I love their eyebrow gel. Samantha Potter: Mm. Yes, I do have their eyebrow gel as well. I do really like their eyebrow gel. Yeah. It doesn't get the white flakes. Jenny O'Mahony: It's really good. And it's Meagan Smith: What have I tried of theirs? Jenny O'Mahony: it doesn't have the white flakes. It's not tinted, which is Meagan Smith: Ooh. Jenny O'Mahony: fine with me. now you can? okay. Samantha Potter: You can also get tinted, I think now. They started without and I think now you can. Jenny O'Mahony: it lasts a while, so I feel like I got one maybe three or four months ago. I haven't needed Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: to replace it, but they have a waterproof eyeliner, like gel eyeliner pencil, and you can put it in your waterline and it doesn't end up like smearing down. Samantha Potter: really? Okay, I'm Jenny O'Mahony: It's very good. Samantha Potter: gonna need that link for that one. Jenny O'Mahony: And I resisted Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: because it's like a s it's a celebrity brand. And I was like, ugh, because Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: typically celebrity brands are crap, right? it's all there's so much emphasis on the advertising and the branding versus the actual products. And I was looking up like what is the best eyeliner for the waterline? Because I like the look, but it would always come down Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Same. Jenny O'Mahony: for me. And then I'd have raccoon eyes. And this one kept coming Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: up and in their brilliant SEO. It's actually in their product description that it Samantha Potter: that's so funny. Jenny O'Mahony: will stay in place, even Meagan Smith: that's smart. Jenny O'Mahony: in the water line. I was like, fine. And it's so good. My only issue Samantha Potter: worth Jenny O'Mahony: with it is it it sharpens by twisting, like you get more product up. And then when it's done, you have no way of knowing. It just won't twist anymore. And you're like, Samantha Potter: Knowing that it's actually done. Meagan Smith: it's just done. I hate that. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. So that's my only quibble with it. Samantha Potter: That is like the Anastasia brow pencil. I love Meagan Smith: I was gonna say I had some brow Jenny O'Mahony: Yep, same. Meagan Smith: pencil that was like that and it must have been that one. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I love that one and they have an it's newer, but it has an angled tip now. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: So it's like you can kind of it's like you're fluffing out some our eyebrow hairs in there. It's great. Meagan Smith: Yeah. But yeah, then all of a sudden you're done Jenny O'Mahony: I've heard good things about that one. Meagan Smith: and you're done. Samantha Potter: Yeah. And you Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: just don't know. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. And you don't know. And that honestly the K eight teens kinda like that where you think it's empty, Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: so you go buy another one and then like a month and a half later it's actually empty. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Actually I should check if I have another one. 'Cause that sometimes happens to me, right? You it's like two months and I forget. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: But you'll never know. Yeah, but it's I mean you can get a twenty percent off, so just now would be the time. You may as well just stop. Meagan Smith: Yeah, that's true. May as well just stock Samantha Potter: Might as well just stock it. Okay. Meagan Smith: up. Samantha Potter: I'm interested to know, do guys think that splurge makeup brushes are worth it? Jenny O'Mahony: I'm a midpoint for that. I feel like Samantha Potter: Okay. Jenny O'Mahony: cheap makeup brushes are cheap. they don't. But I think Meagan Smith: It depends. They like shed. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: you I don't think you need to personally, I don't think you need to go super high end for makeup brushes. I have the set. my god, it's from Sephora. It how do you say it? Is it morph or morphe? I would say morph, but there's an E at the end. Morph? Okay. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah, I know exactly. They have it on Amazon Meagan Smith: I wonder if Samantha Potter: too. I have that as well. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: they do? So they have a set. And I Meagan Smith: I have a set too and I don't remember what it is. Jenny O'Mahony: and I feel like it was maybe fifty, sixty bucks for all the brushes, and it came in a little carry bag. Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: And those brushes are great. So I personally Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: feel like midpoint, but I don't wear foundation. Very, very rarely do I wear foundation. And so maybe it's Samantha Potter: If you had to put foundation on, maybe. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Maybe. But if I do wear foundation, I'm wearing Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a very light coverage foundation. So I do have a foundation brush, but I don't have a ton of pr I just I'm not a big my whole I kind of feel like I put all this effort into my skin to not then put foundation on. So like that's my personal goal. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Makes sense. Meagan Smith: Totally. Yeah. Like a skin like a skin tint is my Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: goal. I s yeah. Nice. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't even do that. I just do under eye concealer. So yeah. But I don't personally think it's worth it. Have you ever had a super splurge brush that you were like, this was worth it? Meagan Smith: I don't think I've ever had a really yeah. Samantha Potter: The Patrick Ta, was it Patrick Ta? Let me look. I think it's the Patrick Ta. There's there's one that's so good for just stamping yet is the Patrick Ta. It's got like a really angled brush. So if you're doing the contouring, it's really good for just taking that by Mario like contour and just stamping Meagan Smith: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: it on. And it's like perfect like. you have it perfect. So if you're not a very good makeup person, I I love that one. I also have yep, that's what it is. Yeah. It's sixty five dollars for the one brush. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Is it the dual ended contour brush? Is that what it is? Yeah. Sixty five dollars. Jenny O'Mahony: How much is it? For the one brush. Yeah. Samantha Potter: That's my most splurgy one. Like I have a couple of hourglass ones, which are good, but also I have the Morphe ones too. And so I'm like, it's not like Jenny O'Mahony: I feel like the Morphe ones are are Morph. Morphe. How do we decide we say it? Morphe? Whatever. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I think those are the ones I have too. I bought Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: some set a couple of years ago. Samantha Potter: They're not like that much more the sorry, the hourglass ones are not that much better than the Morphe ones to make it worthwhile. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Make it worth, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. And I feel like I don't Samantha Potter: But Jenny O'Mahony: need to replace my brushes that often. I've Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: No. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't know. Samantha Potter: I need to clean my brush up, but Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: no, no, I didn't say I take them. I just said I don't replace them very often. Meagan Smith: Yes. Yes. Samantha Potter: No. Yeah, me neither. I think do you gu what do you guys do? Just Meagan Smith: It's annoying to clean them. Samantha Potter: like use some dish soap? Like a little dab of dish soap? Okay. Jenny O'Mahony: I have an actual makeup brush cleaner. Yeah. Meagan Smith: to you? you put them in the thing? Like a machine? Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. You just put it you put them upside down with a bit of brush cleaner and then you Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: run it and it spins and like cleans the brushes. Samantha Potter: Hm. Jenny O'Mahony: It's so easy to use. And yet I forget to the pro the barrier is that I forget to wash them, not that I don't know how. Samantha Potter: Hmm. Mine is half that I like I've done it before and then I can't remember what I looked up and how to do it. Part of me feels like it was like a little drop of dish soap and like one of the brush mats and just, you know, brushing it out, but I don't recall and I'm too lazy to look it up. And I should. And what do you like what do you use? Meagan Smith: I just do it on my hand. I just like Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I was like, how? But yeah, that makes sense. Meagan Smith: Like shampoo. Whatever's in the bathroom. Yeah. Not not hand soap, but yeah, Samantha Potter: Anything. Anything on hand. All right. Meagan Smith: I'm pretty sure I just I've used dish soap if but the thing is my dish soap Jenny O'Mahony: I think that's fine. Meagan Smith: is not in my bathroom. Samantha Potter: I know. That's Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: another yeah. Meagan Smith: So if I am going to do it, I pretty much just use shampoo. I've heard the dish soap thing, but I'm like, then I have to go downstairs and get the dish soap and I'm not. I'm gonna do a thousand things on the way. Yeah, I'm Jenny O'Mahony: You're like, we made this multi step. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: gonna forget. I'm gonna go downstairs and do something else. So when Jenny O'Mahony: Hundred percent. Meagan Smith: I remember, I just use and honestly, probably the cheapest shampoo I have in my bathroom. Big in my i in my five dollar sash, it's the five dollar one, not the seven ninety nine one. Jenny O'Mahony: Which is cheap because it's all yeah. Samantha Potter: In your five dollar stash. Jenny O'Mahony: my god, that's so funny. Meagan Smith: Yeah. But I don't do it enough. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Okay, so everyone go go clean your brushes and shop go shop first and then clean your brushes. Or or just s Meagan Smith: And then clean your brushes so when your new makeup comes, they're nice and clean. Samantha Potter: Sorry. Jenny O'Mahony: What's that? Samantha Potter: No, it sure wasn't. that was Alexa just, chit-chatting away to me. Like, I don't say that. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I love that when you're like, this is so creepy. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I did not just talk to you. Samantha Potter: She literally said, That did not sound like it was for me. I'm like, well, it it wasn't. So excuse me, ma'am. Jenny O'Mahony: You're like, it's because it wasn't Yeah. Shut up, Alexa. my gosh, that's so Meagan Smith: So why are you interrupting me, Alexa? Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: funny. Okay, so Rouge Meagan Smith: So funny. Jenny O'Mahony: is available now and then the next level for sale. So twenty percent off for Rouge people now. And then November third is the next tier and it it's fifteen percent, isn't it? Samantha Potter: both tiers are on the third. Yeah, Meagan Smith: There's a fifteen and a ten, right? Samantha Potter: fifteen and ten, both tiers. The V I B and the Insider are both on the third. And Jenny O'Mahony: Right. Meagan Smith: And then till the ninth, you said, right? Samantha Potter: until the ninth. And the code is all on sale. So don't forget to add your code in. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. And the nice thing is it runs long enough that if you the that the other Black Friday stuff, if there's other places that you buy things, we sh Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: you should start seeing Black Friday sales s next week early, right? Samantha Potter: Yeah, and also Meagan Smith: my gosh, yeah. Samantha Potter: the gift sets. Like don't forget to buy gift sets if you want. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: good one. Meagan Smith: yeah that's a good one. They Jenny O'Mahony: The gift sets are a good one, especially Meagan Smith: get g Jenny O'Mahony: for hostess gifts, teenagers, teacher gifts. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Teacher gifts. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Teach your gifts. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yep. Jenny O'Mahony: That's a good one. Meagan Smith: That is a good Samantha Potter: Yep. Meagan Smith: one. I always forget about that. But yeah, I guess it's November on Sunday. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm ready to decorate for Christmas. I'm sorry if that's offensive Samantha Potter: And I'm I am too. Meagan Smith: Yeah, no. I I'm not ready to decorate Jenny O'Mahony: to anyone. I'm there for Samantha Potter: I just Meagan Smith: for Christmas, but I'm just I love Halloween, but I'm just it's just a lot of work. I'm kinda ready for it to be over. Samantha Potter: I know I'm not looking forward to taking. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't love Halloween. Samantha Potter: I my front porch just seems like a bit of a nightmare to take down. And I actually, for the first time, am ready to decorate for Christmas, but I kind of have to because it's my job. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm gonna it's your job. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm gonna trickle decorate this year and I'm gonna put away I'm Meagan Smith: I like that. Jenny O'Mahony: gonna put away my all my twinkle lights in a separate box, not in the attic. I actually think they are in a separate box, and the person who puts things in the attic, which is not me, did not listen to the instructions about not Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: putting them in the at because I like to pull out all the twinkle lights first. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm, mm. Jenny O'Mahony: But that's not gonna happen this year because I will not go up to the attic to look for them. Meagan Smith: No. And that's where they are. Jenny O'Mahony: And Dave will be like, I'll go up, but I'm getting everything. And I'll be like, no, because then it all needs no. So when I put it away, when Meagan Smith: But I don't want everything. Cause then all the bins are there, yeah. Samantha Potter: I just need one. Jenny O'Mahony: I put the Christmas away this year, I'm gonna put it away in how I would want to put it out again next year. But I'm gonna start, Samantha Potter: That is smart. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm gonna start with making a bunch of paper chains. I'm gonna do them with like just different ribbon. Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: And jewel Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: tones and kinda ease my way in. I'm not getting my tree up. We get a real tree, so I'm not gonna go cut down a tree. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Cute. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. No. Yeah, I we get a real tree too. Samantha Potter: Mm, my trees are going up. Don't worry guys. I know I literally, literally have to. Jenny O'Mahony: We but you have to. We've established that you are being forced. Meagan Smith: But you have to. Yeah. Samantha Potter: But also I I I am not being forced to put two trees up. That is my own free will, but that is absolutely what I'm doing this year. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah. Meagan Smith: But you also have them, right? So why not? Samantha Potter: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Meagan Smith: We used to I think we always Jenny O'Mahony: I trees up in my kids' rooms. Meagan Smith: yeah, I put mini trees in my kids' rooms too, because they get all the ugly decor decorations. Samantha Potter: I d I do that too. This is two in my living room, flanking my sofa. It's going to look Meagan Smith: god, that's amazing. We had two trees growing up. Jenny O'Mahony: I love that. Samantha Potter: amazing. Meagan Smith: So, in your main living room, you put two on each side, one on each side. I love Samantha Potter: Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Yep. Jenny O'Mahony: I love that. But Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Megan, this is when we'll finally get our offices set up, is because we will want to decorate for Christmas. And the only way Meagan Smith: That's true. Jenny O'Mahony: to decorate for any holiday is to first delay decorating by cleaning the entire house top to bottom. That's the only possible way. Meagan Smith: Clean the entire house. Yeah. And that Jenny and I both need to reset up our offices and we just don't want to. I don't have to do that. Jenny O'Mahony: I have to paint mine. I have a more than resetting. I have a lot to do in mine. Meagan Smith: I just have to I pulled all the stuff out of it for the kitten and now he doesn't like my husband needs it to work after two months. Ugh. It's a job that he has to work in. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Yeah. The nerve. all right. Hyperfixations. What you got, Sam? Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: me first. gosh. Okay. you know what? Mine is lamps. Jenny O'Mahony: my God, that's so funny because mine involves lighting too. I love it. And can we just say I love lamp and just let our millennial spirit really shine through? Samantha Potter: really? I love lamp. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Meagan Smith: my god, I love Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yep. No, mine is lamps. I'm like doing a lamp inventory of our house. and I need more. But Jenny O'Mahony: Is there a spreadsheet? Samantha Potter: you know, there should be my friend. My friend Jenny O'Mahony: There should be a spreadsheet. Meagan Smith: There should be a spreadsheet. Samantha Potter: who I like love dearly has a spreadsheet of all of the light bulb like different light, you know how have different size light bulbs and Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: like different styles or whatever. He has a spreadsheet of like what light bulbs are where and like what Jenny O'Mahony: That's very practical. Samantha Potter: so smart. Anyways. Meagan Smith: That is very practical. Samantha Potter: No, I'm switching all of our lamps to smart bulbs. So they're all the Phillips Hue smart bulbs so that I Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: can verbally control it with Alexa, who's like over there. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Listening to you. That is smart. Jenny O'Mahony: Smart. I should switch mine because mine have controls. But they all have separate controls. So I just walk up and tap them. Well, cause not all of them Meagan Smith: Every light bulb has a different yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: have the smart. there's a Meagan Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Samantha Potter: They're not all like are you talking about like the t touch one? Like they're not plugged in, is what you're Meagan Smith: Touch ones. Samantha Potter: saying. Jenny O'Mahony: They're all cordless, yeah. Samantha Potter: they're all okay. Yeah. That's see, I'm waiting for like a smart cordless that just like my my candles outside are on a timer, just like the Christmas lights. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: Like you turn them Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: on and then they're on for eight hours and then they turn off and then they turn on on the same time. That is what they need to come out with for the smart bulbs. Jenny O'Mahony: I think you can I think the IKEA ones you can do that though. Samantha Potter: really? Jenny O'Mahony: I think so. Meagan Smith: can you? Samantha Potter: Ooh, we have a new unlock here. Jenny O'Mahony: Don't quote me. But check, Ikea's pretty good with that stuff. Maybe. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Okay. My lamp though that I want right now, it's like the fabric shade. Like you know I'm sure you guys have seen them. It's literally like a it's like you would take a skirt that has the Jenny O'Mahony: Yes. Samantha Potter: seam wrapped around Meagan Smith: Yes, yeah. Samantha Potter: and then it just and then it just hangs. So I'm looking for that. It's so cute. Jenny O'Mahony: That's so cute. Meagan Smith: Have you found it or you're looking? You're on the hunt? Samantha Potter: I'm a I found it in the US, of course. So I'm still on the hunt in Meagan Smith: Of course. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Canada. But I want Jenny O'Mahony: Feels like an Etsy purchase. Samantha Potter: I know I've I'm that's where my last one was from, so I'm I'm going to Etsy for this. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, that feels like an Etsy thing. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yep. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Anyway, that's mine. Jenny O'Mahony: What about you, Megan? Meagan Smith: I don't know. I'm trying to think. I don't really know if I have anything right now. I feel like I've been so scattered this week. It was Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Meagan Smith: like a week I didn't have a lot going on. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: but I almost feel like that makes it worse. And then I had a bunch of kids home. I had a kid's birthday the other day. My kids didn't really Jenny O'Mahony: You're recalibrating. Meagan Smith: I'm just recalibrating. Samantha Potter: Love is blind. Meagan Smith: I'm starting, I Jenny O'Mahony: Love is blind? Meagan Smith: would say I'm gonna get into that this weekend. Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: I feel like Sunday is gonna be my day post Halloween, like sugar hangover. Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: I'm just gonna catch right up. Jenny O'Mahony: That's Meagan Smith: And Jenny O'Mahony: a great idea. Samantha Potter: Love it. Meagan Smith: yeah. Yeah. I got into Jenny O'Mahony: Super funny. Meagan Smith: the full moon. I don't know. When was that? Was that this week? My daughter? It was a cool full moon. My daughter got into it. It was on Sunday. Sunday? Was it Samantha Potter: yeah. That was a really cool full moon. It's the it was the yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Was it this week? I feel like, yeah, yeah, right. Meagan Smith: Sunday? Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: That's a good thing. Samantha Potter: It was the hunter's moon. It means Meagan Smith: Isla got really into charging. What does that mean? Samantha Potter: that the moon is so close and so bright that hunters could actually see at night. So they could go hunt at night. my witch my witchy thing for the day. Meagan Smith: Cool. I wanna get more into that. Yeah. So Isla charged her crystals under the moon. Samantha Potter: Love Meagan Smith: and so and then asked me if she could go buy more crystals. And I was like, I could use this to do some crystals, so we're gonna go get some crystals this weekend. We're gonna go the we're gonna go the one on sale and just like decide what crystals call to us. Samantha Potter: You're gonna go to the one on Lonstale. Love it. Check at but also check at Home Sense. I was gonna send you guys a picture. I'm still gonna send it to you. They're probably all gone, but they ha keep getting new ones and they're huge and they're beautiful and they are not expensive because they're at Home Sense. Meagan Smith: She would love that. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: So I don't know. Of w I might have a few next week, but I'm just recalibrating. Yeah. feel like Jenny O'Mahony: You'll make up for lost time. well. Samantha Potter: I love it. Meagan Smith: November first. I just Halloween's gonna be over and I'm gonna recalibrate. Yeah. What about you, Jenny? Yours is lighting? Something to do with lighting? Jenny O'Mahony: So I went to IKEA a couple weeks ago and they in their Christmas section they have rechargeable LED candles, like little mini ones, like the tea lights. Samantha Potter: Hmm. I Meagan Smith: Like tea lights? Samantha Potter: saw that because you did you post that? And they're on the little stand, and that's so smart. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I feel like you did. Jenny O'Mahony: They I haven't so they flicker. They have that warm, Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: flickery light. So from a distance, obviously up close, but from a Meagan Smith: Yeah, you can tell. Jenny O'Mahony: not even that far away distance, they completely look like real T lights. They advertise that if you do a full charge for eight hours in the charging dock, that they will last for 36 hours. So I have it's been over a week. Of turning on the same lights every night and then off. as soon as it gets dark, I put all my little warm lighting on. And then again in the morning. And I have not I have recharged every single one of my l cordless lamps and I have not recharged those little candles. So and they're excellent value. It's like, yeah. They're super fun. So I'm really liking those. Meagan Smith: Hmm. Wait, Zakea. Yeah. I need Samantha Potter: Love that. I know. I need those 'cause I just Meagan Smith: those two. Samantha Potter: I I have so many that don't have batteries right now. And I Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: too lazy to go get the screwdriver. Meagan Smith: Those are perfect Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Meagan Smith: Those are perfect for holiday season coming up too. And Halloween, yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. And for Halloween, in the pumpkins too. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, well I'm not packing them away. Yeah, they could go in the pumpkins. I don't know if I want them to get dirty in the pumpkins. I haven't decided yet. Samantha Potter: Mine I feel like you could wipe those ones down. Jenny O'Mahony: Or just put them on actually I could just put them on top of something. Samantha Potter: Yeah. True. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: But yes, they're perfect Meagan Smith: That's very Jenny O'Mahony: for that. Meagan Smith: true. Right, pumpkins. We need to carve our pumpkins. Jenny O'Mahony: We're gonna do that tomorrow. Move past Halloween here. Samantha Potter: Ours have been carved and yeah. Meagan Smith: Our complex is having a pumpkin carving thing tonight, Samantha Potter: Okay. Meagan Smith: so I'm hoping Chris just d yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: That's super cute. So tonight you're so tonight is the night for you. Meagan Smith: Tonight is the night. I'm hoping my husband deals with it. I'm not a big pumpkin carver. Jenny O'Mahony: Me neither, but it's me tomorrow. I convinced Meagan Smith: Yeah. But then they won't rot. I've done it early before and you regret it. Yeah, especially in this yeah, especially where we live. And it's wet, yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, ours are ours are melting. Jenny O'Mahony: They do rot or or the bears eat them because they can smell and enjoy. Yeah. Or the raccoons. I don't know. Some wildlife eats them. We're gonna use a drill, a long drill bit. It's gonna be a lot faster than carving. Hit up Pinterest. I Meagan Smith: I've seen that. Smart. Jenny O'Mahony: convinced my kids, I'm like, let's do it this way. And they're like, no, I wanna make a face. And I was like, sure, but look at what these Pinterest ones are like, ooh. So and it's Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: easier. You just need the long drill bit. So that's what I'm gonna Meagan Smith: It's a good idea. Jenny O'Mahony: do. Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: That's really smart. Meagan Smith: That is really smart. Jenny O'Mahony: Thank you, Pinterest. Meagan Smith: Yeah. My kids always come up with like Chris is quite a good like draw like he can draw really well and like get really intricate. So they always come up with these like at least one or two like elaborate and I just walk away. I'm like if I'm Jenny O'Mahony: But that's fine 'cause he's owning that. Totally. Meagan Smith: not I can barely draw a stick figure, so like this is all on you if you wanna do this. Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Meagan Smith: Like that is you that is your thing. It is not my thing. Jenny O'Mahony: Care. Meagan Smith: I don't care. Samantha Potter: Love that. Jenny O'Mahony: My gosh. Well, happy Halloween for those of you that are listening before Meagan Smith: Happy Halloween. Jenny O'Mahony: Halloween and happy Sephora sale for those who celebrate. Samantha Potter: Wahoo Jenny O'Mahony: And we'll see you next week or hear you. Samantha Potter: Bah? Meagan Smith: Bye guys. Jenny O'Mahony: Well be here next week. Samantha Potter: Bye. Meagan Smith: Bye.