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161. Deinfluencing or Splurge...coming from a *HONEST* influencer · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Hockrell Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is
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Speaker 1: your weekly reminder that I'd say, new day, a new week,
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Speaker 1: a new mindset, and another day for you to become
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Speaker 1: the hot Grel energy you want to attract. Hello you guys,
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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, Welcome back to another episode. Today's episode is
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Speaker 1: going to be about obsessions, things that I'm currently obsessed
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Speaker 1: with for the spring season, either things that I've been
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Speaker 1: loving or things that I've been hating, because I feel
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Speaker 1: like I haven't done a podcast episode like this in
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Speaker 1: a very long time. I think I did an episode
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Speaker 1: like this maybe a year and a half ago, something similar,
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Speaker 1: where I kind of deinfluence you of things that I
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Speaker 1: may have tried, whether it's beauty products or wellness trends
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Speaker 1: that I've tried that some people might really hype up,
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Speaker 1: but in my opinion it didn't work for me or
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Speaker 1: I don't like it. So I thought I would be
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Speaker 1: like really honest here and give my honest feedback on
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Speaker 1: things that I've tried that I don't think is worth
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Speaker 1: your money or things that I've personally tried that I love.
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Speaker 1: In a door that I would buy again, or just
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Speaker 1: things again that I'm currently obsessed with that I've recently
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Speaker 1: either added into my routine or just things that I've
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Speaker 1: been doing for a long time that, like I swear by,
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Speaker 1: I really want to talk about, like this aphoor A
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Speaker 1: sale going on. So I feel like I have a
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Speaker 1: lot of like beauty faves and like makeup and skincare
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Speaker 1: faves that I want to share with you guys, along
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Speaker 1: with things that I've like recently tried throughout these past
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Speaker 1: few months. Because obviously I get sent a lot of
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Speaker 1: PR and I think some influencers are not always like
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Speaker 1: truthfully honest when it comes to like things being sent
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Speaker 1: in and like, don't get me wrong, I always appreciate
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Speaker 1: when I get PR and I love to try new things,
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Speaker 1: but I would rather tell you guys, like this is
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Speaker 1: not worth your money, don't go spend it, and not
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Speaker 1: like try and sell it on you guys, because it's
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Speaker 1: not worth the splurge in my opinion. So yeah, just
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Speaker 1: kind of like new things that I've gotten recently that
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Speaker 1: I've tried out that may have not worked for me,
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Speaker 1: it might work for you. So just be mindful that,
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Speaker 1: like if I say something that didn't work for me.
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Speaker 1: Don't comment saying like, oh my god, like, what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about? That's the best thing ever? Like that
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Speaker 1: is your own personal opinion, Like this is just my own,
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Speaker 1: raw and real, honest experiences of products that I've tried
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Speaker 1: or things that I've done in the wellness industry that
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Speaker 1: personally have worked for me or has not worked for me.
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Speaker 1: Before we get into today's episode, I do want to
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Speaker 1: just quickly talk about Coachella for a second. Even though
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Speaker 1: I was not at Coachella this year, I decided to
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Speaker 1: choose my mental health this year. And if you guys
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Speaker 1: actually follow me on YouTube, I did actually talk about
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Speaker 1: this in a YouTube blog I think in the Fall.
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Speaker 1: I think it was a Fall video and I think
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Speaker 1: it was when the Coachella lineup got released and I
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Speaker 1: was like super super disappointed because obviously Justin Bieber was going,
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Speaker 1: and I knew mentally before the Coachella lineup was going
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Speaker 1: to be released, I was like, Nope, I'm not going.
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Speaker 1: And then I saw Bieber as one of the headliners
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my goodness, do I change mind?
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Speaker 1: Do I spend the money? And for those who don't know,
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Speaker 1: like Coachella is very expensive. The flights are not cheap,
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Speaker 1: the accommodations are not cheap. The festival passes are obviously
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Speaker 1: not cheap. When you're there, obviously you're spending money on
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Speaker 1: food and drinks. When you add it all up, it's
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Speaker 1: almost five thousand dollars. Like it's actually ridiculous, and so
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Speaker 1: I have paid in the past, We'll be honest about that,
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Speaker 1: but I really was not wanting to spend five thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars this year. I'm like, I do not see the point,
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Speaker 1: like unless a brand for work as a work opportunity,
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Speaker 1: because obviously my job involves like promoting brands and all that. Like,
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Speaker 1: if I was given the opportunity of a brand to
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Speaker 1: send me, I would consider it. And I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be truthfully honest here. I've been to Gochella twice. Did
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Speaker 1: I have a fun time. Absolutely? I think it was
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Speaker 1: such a cool time, But it was perfect for like
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Speaker 1: my time in my life, which would have been like
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Speaker 1: what two years ago, having fun whatever. I feel like
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Speaker 1: these past two years, I've changed a lot and I'm
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Speaker 1: just like not a festival person. I've realized that I
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Speaker 1: don't like to be in like big crowds. I get
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Speaker 1: a little anxious when it gets into that type of environment,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know, I didn't want to stay up
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Speaker 1: till like three am every single night. The thing about
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Speaker 1: Coachella is that there's after parties and whatever, like there's
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Speaker 1: just like a bunch of stuff going on, like events
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Speaker 1: that you could attend and all that, and I just
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be in bed by four, wake up
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Speaker 1: by eleven, and oh do it all again and get
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Speaker 1: ready do content like it just sounded mentally exhausting. And again,
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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, if you've never gone to Coachella,
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Speaker 1: I highly recommend, like it's a fun experience. I just
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Speaker 1: don't know if I would ever do it again. Even
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Speaker 1: with Bieber being there my favorite artists of all time,
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Speaker 1: like literally grew up with that man. I'm sure most
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Speaker 1: of you could agree with that, but like he was
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Speaker 1: my favorite artist. I thought I was gonna marry him,
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Speaker 1: like literally diehard fan, and I still chose not to go.
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Speaker 1: I did actually get invited by a brand, which again
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Speaker 1: I kind of said to myself in the fall that
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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, well, maybe if a brand invites me,
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Speaker 1: I would consider going. I straight up chose my mental
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Speaker 1: health overgoing to Bieberchella, which is wild because, like low
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Speaker 1: key in the moment, I was like, I kind of
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Speaker 1: regret missing bieber Chella, obviously because everyone's been talking about it.
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Speaker 1: His performance looked amazing. Obviously I love him, and so
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Speaker 1: it was so nice to see him back on stage
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Speaker 1: and just like see him so happy. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I really just didn't want to go to Coachella this year.
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Speaker 1: I'm just really not craving that festival vibe. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what it is. I just like am not gravitating
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Speaker 1: towards it. So I decided to not go, And I'm
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Speaker 1: honestly really happy with my decision, even though I really
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Speaker 1: only wanted to see biber. Like I feel like if
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Speaker 1: I went, I would go for literally one night and
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Speaker 1: that's it, and then I would have flew home on
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Speaker 1: the Sunday. But obviously, like that's not worth my time.
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Speaker 1: Like if I lived in California, it's a two hour drive,
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Speaker 1: it's a totally different situation. I feel like that's way
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Speaker 1: more normal if you live in the California area, But
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Speaker 1: for someone who lives nowhere close to California, it was
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Speaker 1: not worth a six hour flight to go see Biber
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Speaker 1: and then six hour flight back. So I'm just manifesting
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Speaker 1: that Bieber announces a tour at some point. I think
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Speaker 1: we can all agree that it'd be so cool to
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Speaker 1: see him go on tour again, even if it was
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Speaker 1: like a Taylor Swift era tour vibe, like doing all
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Speaker 1: of his different albums, Like I don't know, that would
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Speaker 1: be so freaking cool to see them in the concert again.
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Speaker 1: But you know, beabes, it wasn't worth the stress and
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Speaker 1: anxiety that I wanted to feel. And I do also
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Speaker 1: have like a lot of work stuff going on this
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Speaker 1: month that I just really couldn't manage with Coachella being
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Speaker 1: this past weekend. So I really just decided to choose
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Speaker 1: my mental health and I'm very proud of that decision. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: Besides Coachella, I feel like everyone's talking about Coachella on
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Speaker 1: my Instagram feed TikTok feed. I feel like that's all
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Speaker 1: I've been consuming lately, and I'm like, Okay, we need
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Speaker 1: to stop with this. But I've also been consuming a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff about this before a sale, and like,
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Speaker 1: I thought it'd be cool to kind of do an
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Speaker 1: episode around like things that I love, but things that
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Speaker 1: I also don't love that I've tried from either pr gifting,
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Speaker 1: or things that I've purchased myself that like I just
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Speaker 1: didn't like or it didn't work for me. So I
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Speaker 1: thought we could talk a little bit about beauty fhaves
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Speaker 1: and beauty must haves along with like beauty things that
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Speaker 1: didn't work for me, along with like wellness obsessions that
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Speaker 1: I'm currently into right now, whether it's like active where brains, bands, supplements,
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Speaker 1: wellness trends in general, and things that I don't really
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Speaker 1: love that I've tried in the wellness industry that wasn't
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Speaker 1: worth my money, or just things that I personally just
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Speaker 1: don't really take or support, whatever the case may be. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so let's talk about my beauty must have faves obsessions,
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Speaker 1: specifically within these past few months of products that I've
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Speaker 1: been using daily that I'm literally obsessed with, would rebuy,
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Speaker 1: still reby to this day. If I ever get something
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Speaker 1: for free from a brand, I will use it and
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Speaker 1: then once I'm done with the product, I will literally
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Speaker 1: go to Sephora and just rebuy it. But obviously, like
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Speaker 1: I get sent new stuff from brands when they're trying
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Speaker 1: to promote stuff to influencers. So it's great that I
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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to kind of try new things, but
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Speaker 1: then I can at least tell you, guys if it's
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Speaker 1: really worth it or not. So let's start off with
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite brands. And I truly do think
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Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite brands. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying this because I'm a Beaber fan, but I love Road.
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Speaker 1: I really do think Hailey did such an amazing job
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Speaker 1: with the brand. I have loved anything that I've got
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Speaker 1: from them. I love their blushes, I love their lip liners.
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Speaker 1: I love her skin care line. Like her skincare line
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Speaker 1: is by far one of my favorite things I've ever tried,
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Speaker 1: and I have now been using it, I think for
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Speaker 1: almost two years, and I stand by that glazing milk.
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Speaker 1: That glazing milk is probably the best purchase you will
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Speaker 1: ever make. I think it's like forty eight dollars Canadian,
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Speaker 1: which is very affordable in my opinion for a skincare brand,
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Speaker 1: especially for a skincare brand that's being sold at Sephora.
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Speaker 1: And I use it with my makeup, so I mix
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Speaker 1: it in with my foundation. I use it just as
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Speaker 1: you know. The skincare product before I put my moisturizer on.
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Speaker 1: I have very dry skin, so I personally find the
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Speaker 1: glazing milk is very hydrating for someone who has very dry,
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Speaker 1: dry skin. So it's my rider die. I will make
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Speaker 1: sure to take it everywhere with me. I have a
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Speaker 1: travel size that way when I travel, I can take it.
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Speaker 1: It's by far my favorite skincare product that I literally
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Speaker 1: have in my entire skincare assortment. I also love this
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Speaker 1: is a recent obsession because I think she launched the
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Speaker 1: later last year. It was the Road facial mist. If
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Speaker 1: you want glowing skin, I'm not even over exaggerating that
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Speaker 1: mist is insane, Like I use that mist the first
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Speaker 1: thing into my skincare routine. When I wake up, I
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Speaker 1: spray the mist. I do the glazing milk, I do moisturizer,
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Speaker 1: I do an I cream, and then I do sunscreen.
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Speaker 1: But the facial mist is also really good for a
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Speaker 1: makeup topper. So whenever I'm done my makeup, I spray
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Speaker 1: the mist on my face and it gives me that
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Speaker 1: like glowy natural look I feel like. Sometimes when my
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Speaker 1: makeup looks too matt, I don't like that. But when
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Speaker 1: I spray this mist on. It gives hydration to my
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Speaker 1: skin and it looks like almost like my natural face,
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Speaker 1: like I haven't put in too much makeup on my face.
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Speaker 1: So those are two Road products that I stand by
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Speaker 1: and will repurchase again and again because I think it's
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Speaker 1: so worth the money. I also love her pocket blushes.
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Speaker 1: The shade I think it's tan lines obsessed with that one.
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Speaker 1: It's like the perfect pinky undertone that gives more of
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Speaker 1: a sun kiss look, which I love the sun can
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Speaker 1: look kind of like a post beach tan vibe. I
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Speaker 1: also love Toasted Teddy, which is a bit more of
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Speaker 1: like a burnt red effect of a blush. I also
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Speaker 1: love her lipliners. I use the shade Lean Bend, and
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Speaker 1: I think the other one is twist really really good,
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Speaker 1: like neutral nude, kind of like a brownie pink undertone,
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Speaker 1: which is like my go to lipliner color, and I
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Speaker 1: honestly use it every single day. Put Lipliner or not
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Speaker 1: Lipliner sorry, lip bomb on on top. I will say
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Speaker 1: for a deinfluencing for Road, there is one thing that
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Speaker 1: I actually don't love by them, and I will never
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Speaker 1: honestly buy it in my opinion, and that is the
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Speaker 1: lip glosses or lip bombs. I don't love it. I
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Speaker 1: find it very kind of like bumpy and sticky. Like
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Speaker 1: I don't find it makes my lips hydrate. Every time
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Speaker 1: I use a road lip bomb, it just never stays on.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it feels like I have like little
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Speaker 1: bumps on my lips and it just feels I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's just like every time I like reapply it, it
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Speaker 1: just gets stickier and stickier, and I hate that feeling
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Speaker 1: like that's just like the worst feeling ever. So I
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Speaker 1: don't really love her lip bombs. To be fully transparent,
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Speaker 1: I would never spend my money on it. But what
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Speaker 1: I would spend my money on for lip bombs is
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Speaker 1: I love the Summer Friday lip bombs. You guys have
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Speaker 1: probably heard me rave and talk about Summer Fridays in
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Speaker 1: the past, But Summer Friday's lip bomb is the best
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Speaker 1: lip bomb on the market my opinion, I've never tried
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Speaker 1: anything like it. My favorite flavors would be mint and
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Speaker 1: their Birthday Cake. I think they also just came out
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Speaker 1: with a marsh marshmallow one recently. But oh, I also
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Speaker 1: love the vanilla like those are like my top three.
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Speaker 1: She does have tinted ones. I think there's a beige vanilla,
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Speaker 1: which I also like, especially for like going out, if
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Speaker 1: you want something with more of a tint. I do
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Speaker 1: love that one. But I just love the consistency of
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Speaker 1: the Summer Friday lip Bombs, Like it's always never sticky.
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Speaker 1: I could reapply it like throughout the day multiple times
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Speaker 1: and never have an issue with it, and I find
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Speaker 1: it very hydrating. My lips, I feel like are never
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Speaker 1: chopped because I constantly use it, And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: they're like not too expensive, but they're just worth it
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Speaker 1: in my opinion. Like me and my girlfriends, we did
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Speaker 1: like a favorites Christmas exchange and I ended up getting
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Speaker 1: the mini travel size and a little package of four
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Speaker 1: I think, and I gave all my girlfriends like one
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Speaker 1: or two lip bombs and that was like my favorite
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Speaker 1: item because I was like, this stuff I'm truly obsessed
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Speaker 1: with and it's like my favorite stuff ever, more of
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Speaker 1: a self care fave. I love the brand Laaccu Tinte.
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Speaker 1: I think that's how you pronounce it. I could be
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Speaker 1: totally butchering the name. I'm not French, so it is
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Speaker 1: a French word and brand, but I love their shower oil,
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Speaker 1: literally the most amazing hydrating body shower oil I've ever tried.
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Speaker 1: It is a bit more on the priceier side, but
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Speaker 1: obviously with the sale coming, I think the sale is
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Speaker 1: like a good opportunity to kind of splurge your money
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Speaker 1: on things that are worth it. I also love their
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Speaker 1: body oil. So I have the shower oil which I
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Speaker 1: use in the shower as my body wash, and it
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Speaker 1: kind of has like this Almon vanilla sent and then
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Speaker 1: when I get out of the shower, I'll use their
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Speaker 1: body oil. And again coming from someone who has really
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Speaker 1: dry skin, this stuff really does hydrate me. And it
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Speaker 1: feels really really soothing on the skin. Never react to it.
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Speaker 1: Never gotten breakouts. I've tried body products before, like body
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Speaker 1: washes and all that, and I have actually gotten breakouts
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Speaker 1: on my body, which like never happens to me. So
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Speaker 1: when something like that happens, I completely avoid the product
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Speaker 1: and just like stick to what works for my skin.
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Speaker 1: Another product that I would deinfluence you on that I've
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Speaker 1: seen a lot of people rave about, and I hate
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Speaker 1: that it doesn't work for me personally, because I do
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Speaker 1: think the brand is incredible and I love the sense
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Speaker 1: of things and all that, but the brand Salt and Stone.
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Speaker 1: I have only tried certain products from Salt and Stone,
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Speaker 1: so I haven't tried everything. So I'm not like completely
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Speaker 1: bashing the brand at all. I've only tried their body
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Speaker 1: wash and the body wash actually broke out my body.
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Speaker 1: Never had that happen to me before, Like I had
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Speaker 1: like back at me and I was like, what is
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Speaker 1: going on? But this never happens, so I knew it
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Speaker 1: was the body wash that I tried. So then I
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Speaker 1: went to the La Occupane shower oil, did not break out,
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Speaker 1: did not have an issue, So that is just something
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Speaker 1: that like I had an experience where like it kind
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Speaker 1: of broke me out, so I don't use it. But
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Speaker 1: you know it's funny is that I use the body
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Speaker 1: wash actually in my bathrooms as my hand soap, Like
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Speaker 1: I'll just use it as like a cause I think
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Speaker 1: it's hand and body wash. I think it's what it is.
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Speaker 1: And obviously, like I don't have any brickouts on my hand,
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Speaker 1: so I'm like, I wonder why it's causing issues with
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Speaker 1: my whole body, but I don't have an issue with
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Speaker 1: my hands, so obviously, like I got gifted by Salt
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Speaker 1: and stone for that stuff, and so I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: don't want it to go to waste because I do
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Speaker 1: love the scent of things, and I do think the
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Speaker 1: brand is great. It's just it didn't work for my
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Speaker 1: body specifically. So anyways, that's just like an honest take
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Speaker 1: of like what happened to me and my own personal experience.
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Speaker 1: I have heard other people use it and have no
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Speaker 1: issues and are obsessed with it because I think it
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Speaker 1: is a pretty affordable brand as well from Sephora. So
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Speaker 1: it just didn't work for like a everyday body wash
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Speaker 1: for me. I'm more of a occupante shower oil and
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Speaker 1: like body oil kind of goal. A new brand that
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Speaker 1: I actually recently discovered that I really really love and
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Speaker 1: I've been really using it consistently is lux Unfiltered. They
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Speaker 1: are a I think a tanning company, so they do
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Speaker 1: a lot of self tanner's, you know, facial drops. She
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Speaker 1: also has like under eye patches. I recently got on
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Speaker 1: her PR list. I think the owner is I want
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Speaker 1: to say, what's her name? I need to search her
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Speaker 1: because I actually love her stuff, see Vaughn love her
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, her house, aesthetic, her platform in general.
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Speaker 1: I just really really adore. I love following her on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: She's a mom of two. I think she's in her
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Speaker 1: forties and she's just so cool, Like I really really
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Speaker 1: like her aesthetic. And she has this brand called lux Unfiltered,
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Speaker 1: and she sent me over her self. Tanner and eye patches.
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Speaker 1: I've been wearing the eye patches like almost in every
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Speaker 1: single morning blog that I've been posting recently because they're
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Speaker 1: so good. They're actually very similar to the road eye patches,
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Speaker 1: which I also love, really love the Road eye patches.
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Speaker 1: I like them better than most eye patches because they
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Speaker 1: both have the same sticky applicators, so I just finally
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Speaker 1: stay on my eyes better, you know, like the ones
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Speaker 1: where it's just kind of like slippery and like it
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Speaker 1: slides down constantly you constantly have to like move it up.
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Speaker 1: These are almost like stickers that will actually stay on
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Speaker 1: your eyes. You could keep them on up to like
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Speaker 1: an hour if you really wanted to, and not have
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Speaker 1: an issue with it coming off your face like it
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Speaker 1: is secure. Sometimes. I also like to put them in
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Speaker 1: the fridge that way. It kind of has like that
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Speaker 1: cooling aspect, which is really really nice. So I have
16:32
Speaker 1: been loving the eye patches, and then I did actually
16:35
Speaker 1: try the self tanner before I went to Toronto with
16:37
Speaker 1: Zach because I needed a self tanner just on my
16:41
Speaker 1: body because obviously, currently still in the winter trenches don't
16:45
Speaker 1: have a lot of sunshine here, so I'm currently going
16:47
Speaker 1: through my pale era. So I needed to give myself
16:50
Speaker 1: a bit of a boost of confidence and put on
16:53
Speaker 1: some self tanner. And their self tanner is very good.
16:56
Speaker 1: She has multiple different types of self tanner, so there's
16:59
Speaker 1: a gradual one that's a lotion, and then there's also
17:02
Speaker 1: the self tanning moose. I've tried both. I think the
17:04
Speaker 1: self tanning Moose is actually new, very very good. I
17:07
Speaker 1: like the color because it looks like a very natural,
17:10
Speaker 1: deep bronze. It doesn't look like a different shade of
17:14
Speaker 1: you know, when you look like orange or you look
17:16
Speaker 1: kind of green. Does not give that at all, which
17:18
Speaker 1: I think is kind of a common issue with some
17:22
Speaker 1: self tanner. Is like one self tanner that I don't
17:24
Speaker 1: love on me personally that I've had, like an undertone
17:27
Speaker 1: of green is I think it's called Saint Tropez. I
17:31
Speaker 1: used to use it throughout high school and I'm like, girl,
17:33
Speaker 1: why didn't I use that stuff. It literally made me
17:35
Speaker 1: look green. So yeah, finding a good self tanner, I know,
17:39
Speaker 1: is like difficult, but I do really think the lux
17:41
Speaker 1: Unfiltered is worth it, and I know you can get
17:43
Speaker 1: it at Sephora. The last obsession that I've recently discovered
17:48
Speaker 1: through like something you can buy through Sephora that's kind
17:50
Speaker 1: of like a beauty fave is the brand Merit. I
17:53
Speaker 1: really like it because it's non toxic, and I try
17:56
Speaker 1: my best to like switch out products where I can
17:59
Speaker 1: when it comes to cleaning products, makeup product, skincare products
18:03
Speaker 1: that are like clean beauty, and Merit is considered a
18:06
Speaker 1: clean beauty brand, and I recently came across their concealer
18:09
Speaker 1: stick really really good to hide blemishes. So if you're
18:13
Speaker 1: having any type of acme or zits and you want
18:16
Speaker 1: something that has like really really good coverage that you
18:18
Speaker 1: can just kind of apply on the spot and then
18:20
Speaker 1: be able to wear your foundation everywhere else, the Merit
18:23
Speaker 1: Concealer stick is actually really good. Also using it under
18:26
Speaker 1: your eyes if you have like really heavy bags one day,
18:28
Speaker 1: or just like dark circles and you really just like
18:30
Speaker 1: want to cover it up for more of like a
18:32
Speaker 1: heavy coverage and you know me, I'm very much like
18:35
Speaker 1: a light makeup kind of gal. I don't ever like
18:37
Speaker 1: to wear like heavy, heavy makeup. But this is one
18:41
Speaker 1: product that I think works really really well and you
18:43
Speaker 1: can really apply more if you want more coverage or
18:47
Speaker 1: less if you want less coverage. So it's very buildable,
18:50
Speaker 1: which I love. So yeah, so Merit is actually a
18:53
Speaker 1: brand that I haven't fully tried everything of definitely want
18:57
Speaker 1: to explore more products by them. I think I've only
19:01
Speaker 1: tried one other product that didn't work for me. It
19:03
Speaker 1: was like there, I want to say, like their glow serum.
19:07
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a serum that you would
19:09
Speaker 1: apply before makeup. It broke me out. It did not
19:12
Speaker 1: work for me personally. But I know there's like a
19:15
Speaker 1: lot of other products that they have, like a blush.
19:17
Speaker 1: I think they have a Bronzer stick. Those are things
19:19
Speaker 1: that I've never tried that I'd be willing to try.
19:22
Speaker 1: But I've tried their consular stick and their glow serum,
19:26
Speaker 1: and I personally love the Concealer stick. Random things that
19:30
Speaker 1: are not worth your money in my opinion, that are
19:33
Speaker 1: in the beauty space. I actually recently got pr from
19:36
Speaker 1: this brand, and I'm so mad because I really wanted
19:39
Speaker 1: to love this brand. I really really did. I actually
19:41
Speaker 1: tried two things by them, and unfortunately it's a no
19:44
Speaker 1: for me. My skin did not like it at all,
19:47
Speaker 1: which sucks because I know some people really rave about
19:50
Speaker 1: this product and say it's the best, but for my skin,
19:52
Speaker 1: it just did not work. Supergop Sunscreen it's literally one
19:56
Speaker 1: of the top skincare brands. I think at Sephora, everybody
19:59
Speaker 1: raves a bit. I use the sunscreen for the first
20:01
Speaker 1: time last week. I have zits all over my chin
20:04
Speaker 1: right now. Literally I never break out, and I'm like,
20:06
Speaker 1: what is going on? So, yeah, the sunscreen is not
20:11
Speaker 1: for me. I've also tried their sunscreen drops, which is
20:14
Speaker 1: which is almost like a tinted sunscreen. I guess in
20:17
Speaker 1: a way, No, it also just broke me out, so
20:20
Speaker 1: clearly there's something in the product that does not react
20:23
Speaker 1: well to my skin. So obviously trying two different products,
20:27
Speaker 1: I feel like it definitely steers me away from the
20:29
Speaker 1: brand completely. I think if I try like two to
20:32
Speaker 1: three things from a brand, if it doesn't work, it's
20:34
Speaker 1: just not for me. If there's two to three things
20:36
Speaker 1: that I love from a brand, I'm most likely and
20:38
Speaker 1: more inclined to buy more from them, right, So unfortunately
20:41
Speaker 1: it's a no for me, which is so sad. I
20:44
Speaker 1: definitely appreciated the gifting, but it's just not going to
20:48
Speaker 1: work for me. Another thing that I don't really think
20:50
Speaker 1: is worth it when it comes to like buying something
20:51
Speaker 1: from Sephora is expensive muscara. Like I don't ever ever
20:57
Speaker 1: spend my money on any type of brand at Sephora.
21:00
Speaker 1: For mescara, I will always be a Laurel mascara girl.
21:03
Speaker 1: I go to Shoppers. I just go to a local
21:04
Speaker 1: drug store and I'll pick up a Loreal mascara for
21:08
Speaker 1: I think, like what thirteen to fifteen dollars. I have
21:10
Speaker 1: no idea how much it is, but I mean it
21:12
Speaker 1: lasts me for such a long time. I use the one.
21:15
Speaker 1: I think it's a Loreal Paradise one. Love it. I
21:17
Speaker 1: have no eyelashes. I feel like it always makes my
21:20
Speaker 1: lashes look super long. Every Sephora mascara I tried, like
21:24
Speaker 1: I swear to it, it never makes my lashes look good.
21:28
Speaker 1: Like I'll spend so much money thinking oh my god,
21:30
Speaker 1: this is it It's gonna be. You know, it's so expensive,
21:33
Speaker 1: Like I remember in high school, I would save my
21:34
Speaker 1: money to spend my money on certain beauty products. That's
21:37
Speaker 1: Aphora and the brand two Face. I felt like it
21:39
Speaker 1: was like really popular when I was in high school.
21:41
Speaker 1: Was something that just recently launched, and it was called
21:44
Speaker 1: the better than sex mescarra. I remember, I thought it
21:47
Speaker 1: was gonna be the best mescara. I was gonna be
21:49
Speaker 1: my go to ride or die. It was so clumpy,
21:52
Speaker 1: it made my lashes look like shit. Did not like
21:54
Speaker 1: it whatsoever. But it's like I spent all this money
21:57
Speaker 1: thinking that, oh, well, the more expensive one's gonna be
21:59
Speaker 1: so much better than when I buy from shoppers. Right, Well, no,
22:02
Speaker 1: that's not the case. There is some drugstore makeup that
22:04
Speaker 1: is truly better than most products that you would get
22:07
Speaker 1: from Sephora. So yeah, I don't ever waste my money
22:11
Speaker 1: on expensive mascaras anymore. I stick to the OG's Loreel mascara.
22:17
Speaker 1: It's truly my favorite in my opinion, and it's affordable,
22:19
Speaker 1: which is great. I do not really love the Tart Concealer.
22:23
Speaker 1: I know everyone raves about that concealer. I find it
22:26
Speaker 1: way too thick for me personally. I find it literally
22:29
Speaker 1: makes me look like I have like heavier bags on
22:32
Speaker 1: my eyes. I would rather wear no concealer at all
22:34
Speaker 1: than put that concealer under my eyes, just because I
22:36
Speaker 1: really find it's way too heavy. I think it would
22:39
Speaker 1: be great for blemishes, but it's just not for me.
22:43
Speaker 1: It's not for me. I prefer a lighter concealer. I
22:46
Speaker 1: really love the Kosis concealer. That one's really good. That
22:49
Speaker 1: one's a really good option that's more light coverage but
22:52
Speaker 1: also gives enough coverage where it's buildable and it looks
22:55
Speaker 1: really really good. Also, Tower twenty eight concealer is good
22:59
Speaker 1: and Hourglass. Those would be like my top three concealers
23:02
Speaker 1: that I've tried that I stand by, that I love,
23:05
Speaker 1: that I constantly repurchase. But no, the tart is not
23:09
Speaker 1: for me. I know people raved about that for a
23:11
Speaker 1: really long time, but it's just uh, not something that
23:13
Speaker 1: works for me. Do you guys know the brand Milk Makeup.
23:16
Speaker 1: Milk Makeup came out with these like jelly blushes this
23:21
Speaker 1: time last year, and I remember everybody posting it on TikTok,
23:24
Speaker 1: like raving about these jelly blushes, and I was so
23:27
Speaker 1: excited that I got like a pr from them, and
23:29
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, this is so exciting.
23:30
Speaker 1: I'm getting the blushes that everyone's talking about it. Whatever,
23:32
Speaker 1: I got it. I tried it immediately. It made no difference.
23:36
Speaker 1: I literally did not see anything on my face. I
23:38
Speaker 1: was like, these blushes are not even pigmented, Like they're
23:41
Speaker 1: not even giving the pigmentation that we need on our face.
23:44
Speaker 1: And I'm a blush girl, Like I love my blush,
23:47
Speaker 1: and I don't know, it just looked like candy that
23:50
Speaker 1: you could eat. Honestly, Like the concept was cool, but
23:53
Speaker 1: I just don't think the product executed the best way
23:57
Speaker 1: it should have in my opinion. I think it was
23:59
Speaker 1: like over really hyped up for sure on social media,
24:02
Speaker 1: but it's a no for me. It did not work.
24:05
Speaker 1: The last thing that I would say that I've spent
24:07
Speaker 1: my money on or that I've received from PR that
24:10
Speaker 1: just really didn't work for me personally was I tried
24:13
Speaker 1: the brand Way, which I do love a lot of
24:15
Speaker 1: hair products by Way. They are a really good brand.
24:18
Speaker 1: I love their dry shampoo, I love their leaving conditioner,
24:21
Speaker 1: I love their moose, I love their curl cream. Like
24:24
Speaker 1: there is a lot of stuff that I love by
24:25
Speaker 1: the brand, but one thing that I could not love
24:30
Speaker 1: was their shampoo and conditioner. I've tried so many different
24:32
Speaker 1: types of shampoo and conditioners by them, and they always
24:35
Speaker 1: just made my hair look dirty. Nothing ever looked good,
24:38
Speaker 1: and I felt like I would try it multiple times
24:40
Speaker 1: right Like some people are like, oh, your hair just
24:41
Speaker 1: needs to get used to it. I'm like, Okay, let
24:43
Speaker 1: me try it for like four washes throughout the next
24:45
Speaker 1: two weeks. Try it for four washes constantly just made
24:48
Speaker 1: my hair look greasy underneath. You know when like you
24:51
Speaker 1: blow dry your hair and then you like put your
24:53
Speaker 1: hair half up to like blow dry it. It was
24:56
Speaker 1: literally looking wet and it was fully dry, And I
24:59
Speaker 1: hate when that happens. It's like the worst feeling ever.
25:03
Speaker 1: It's like I just spent the past forty five minutes
25:06
Speaker 1: doing in everything shower and you're telling me that my
25:08
Speaker 1: hair is still greasy. No, that's just a no for me.
25:11
Speaker 1: So I don't ever change my shampoo and conditioner now.
25:14
Speaker 1: I just stick to Redkin. That's what my hairstylist recommended
25:18
Speaker 1: to me, and I love it. I think it's so
25:20
Speaker 1: so good. It doesn't ever leave my hair with that
25:22
Speaker 1: like greasy, wet feeling. So that's a note for me.
25:26
Speaker 1: I honestly haven't really found a good shampoo conditioner from Sephora.
25:31
Speaker 1: So I just buy what my hair dresser tells me
25:33
Speaker 1: to buy, and I just stick to that. Okay, let's
25:35
Speaker 1: talk about some wellness obsessions or wellness trends that I
25:39
Speaker 1: either love or something that just didn't really work for
25:42
Speaker 1: me personally. Right now, I feel like I've been wanting
25:46
Speaker 1: to buy a lot more active wear. I feel like
25:48
Speaker 1: now that we're heading into late spring early summer, I've
25:52
Speaker 1: been craving a new workoutside, just like on fun Colors
25:56
Speaker 1: obviously with the summer season coming up, and I I
26:00
Speaker 1: have tried a lot of active weear. Okay, I've literally
26:03
Speaker 1: probably tried it all. To be honest, I've gotten a
26:05
Speaker 1: lot of gifting from brands, and there is definitely one
26:08
Speaker 1: brand that I consistently wear that you guys probably see
26:12
Speaker 1: me post on Instagram a lot of the time on
26:15
Speaker 1: my Instagram stories, and I'm going to be fully transparent.
26:17
Speaker 1: It is the best active where brand in my opinion,
26:19
Speaker 1: and one brand that I will literally forever purchase from,
26:23
Speaker 1: and that is Cropshop Boutique. It's called CSB. They're based
26:26
Speaker 1: in Australia. They always slay. Like literally every single workouts
26:31
Speaker 1: that I've ever gotten from them, I'm obsessed with. Like
26:33
Speaker 1: I have gotten a few brands send me things and
26:37
Speaker 1: you know what, just like a sports broad doesn't fit right,
26:39
Speaker 1: or the leggings are way too high, like really high wasted,
26:43
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. Like every single pant, bra,
26:48
Speaker 1: tank top, sweater, long sleep I've ever ever ever received
26:52
Speaker 1: from them, I've been obsessed with. I just adore the
26:54
Speaker 1: brand so much. I think they put so much thought
26:57
Speaker 1: into their bra styles, the fashion, and it's very much
27:01
Speaker 1: a pilates core aesthetic in my opinion when it comes
27:04
Speaker 1: to workout sets. So if you really want a good
27:08
Speaker 1: workout set, I personally think the Crop Shout Boutique is
27:11
Speaker 1: worth every single penny. My sister also agrees, Like I've
27:15
Speaker 1: gifted her things that I've gotten extra pr from and
27:18
Speaker 1: she's like, no, this stuff is insane, Like she's actually
27:20
Speaker 1: spent her money on other sets by them because she's
27:24
Speaker 1: gotten to try it out and she really just loved
27:26
Speaker 1: the workout sets. So truthfully, I think it's worth every
27:29
Speaker 1: single penny more of an affordable brand that does sell
27:34
Speaker 1: really good workout sets. In my opinion that I've never,
27:36
Speaker 1: ever again have had an issue with Aritzia. Aritzia has
27:40
Speaker 1: the best active wear like that is another brand that
27:43
Speaker 1: I've purchased multiple workout sets from, have had for years
27:46
Speaker 1: upon years. I'm talking like when I first started TikTok,
27:49
Speaker 1: like I would buy a Ritzya workoutsets because they were
27:52
Speaker 1: affordable and they had such two colors and I still
27:54
Speaker 1: have them to this day. And that was five years ago.
27:57
Speaker 1: So Aritzia freaking killed it with their active wear line.
28:01
Speaker 1: And I think that was recently released five years ago.
28:04
Speaker 1: Like when I bought it, I think it was like
28:05
Speaker 1: a new thing that they were launching, and they killed
28:08
Speaker 1: it from the beginning to now. They have this new
28:11
Speaker 1: beautiful butter yellow color that just came out. Oh my god, guys,
28:14
Speaker 1: I do not mean to tell you that, but you
28:16
Speaker 1: need to go buy it. It is so nice. It
28:18
Speaker 1: is so nice. I'm obsessed with it. Anything yellow right now.
28:21
Speaker 1: I'm actually obsessed with yellow or blue. It's my two
28:24
Speaker 1: obsessions right now. Anyways, that's something I would definitely influence
28:27
Speaker 1: you on, just because I think Aritzia is amazing and
28:30
Speaker 1: you want to know, it's funny if you're American, you
28:33
Speaker 1: will never understand the hype that Aritzia had for us
28:36
Speaker 1: girls in Canada. If you are a Canadian girl, then
28:39
Speaker 1: you will understand that Aritzia was our go to spot
28:42
Speaker 1: for shopping through our entire high school years. We had
28:45
Speaker 1: this like one Aritzia TNA zip up that was kind
28:49
Speaker 1: of like a mockneck, was a high high sweater. I
28:51
Speaker 1: think they still sell it or they recently brought it back.
28:54
Speaker 1: And then the TNA dome bags they brought it back
28:57
Speaker 1: this year. That was our backpacks. Like we were a
29:00
Speaker 1: Ritzia girls before any of the Americans or Europeans knew
29:05
Speaker 1: about Aritzia, like the Canadian girlies now that Aritzia was
29:08
Speaker 1: like our diehard thing and if you guys didn't know
29:10
Speaker 1: what Ritzia is Canadian. So I think it's just so
29:12
Speaker 1: funny to see how much Aritzia has expanded. I think
29:15
Speaker 1: it's truly incredible. But I just can't believe the brand
29:18
Speaker 1: has stayed so true to a customer since day one.
29:22
Speaker 1: I've been shopping at a Ritzia since I was literally
29:24
Speaker 1: fourteen years old. Fourteen years old, that's wild, and here
29:27
Speaker 1: I am at thirty, still buying from them to this day.
29:30
Speaker 1: And still obsessed with the quality the brand everything. So
29:34
Speaker 1: Aritzia is truly probably one of the best brands ever
29:37
Speaker 1: in my opinion, probably Lululemon as well, for like just
29:40
Speaker 1: staying by the customer and being consistently good with quality
29:44
Speaker 1: and just things that I always like never get rid of,
29:47
Speaker 1: Like I feel like I'm constantly keeping things years upon
29:50
Speaker 1: years when I purchased from them one hundred percent worth
29:52
Speaker 1: every single penny for their workout sets. I recently became
29:55
Speaker 1: obsessed with this brand early last year. But the brand
29:58
Speaker 1: is called pro Mix. They do a few of types
30:00
Speaker 1: of supplements. I have tried multiple different supplements from this brand,
30:03
Speaker 1: and I adore them so so much. I've tried their magnesium,
30:07
Speaker 1: I've tried their electrolytes. I have this prebiotic probiotic drink
30:11
Speaker 1: every single morning, and I swear that supplement that I
30:15
Speaker 1: take every single morning has helped me so much without
30:17
Speaker 1: getting sick, without having any gut issues. I just think
30:21
Speaker 1: it's truly been Like the best supplement that I've taken
30:24
Speaker 1: every single morning is their prebiotic probiotic drink. They advertise
30:29
Speaker 1: it as a de bloat drink. I don't ever use
30:31
Speaker 1: it for that purpose. I wasn't ever looking for like
30:33
Speaker 1: a de bloat drink. I was more so just looking
30:35
Speaker 1: for a prebiotic probiotic supplement to take every single morning.
30:39
Speaker 1: And I love that it's a drink and not a pill.
30:41
Speaker 1: I suck at swallowing pills. Okay, not a pill, girly,
30:44
Speaker 1: I freaking hate them. Obviously. I'm taking a prenatal right
30:47
Speaker 1: now from Ritual and it's good, but like I feel
30:50
Speaker 1: like I'm always just having issues swallowing it and I
30:53
Speaker 1: hate it. But it's fine. We're fine. I'm just like
30:55
Speaker 1: not a vitamin girl. But we're gonna talk about vitamins
30:57
Speaker 1: and supplements in a second, and the things that I
30:59
Speaker 1: don't is worth your money. But anyways, the electrolytes by
31:03
Speaker 1: Promix is actually really good. I don't have an electrolyte
31:06
Speaker 1: every single day. I used to, and then I started
31:09
Speaker 1: to do research around like how you need to be
31:11
Speaker 1: like working out pretty hard or sweating pretty hard to
31:14
Speaker 1: be absorbing and drinking electrolytes or else it's like really
31:18
Speaker 1: high in sodium and probably not the best for you,
31:20
Speaker 1: so do your own research on that. But I try
31:22
Speaker 1: and not have one every single day. I try to
31:24
Speaker 1: just do it on the days where I feel like
31:25
Speaker 1: I've been like super active and could use some hydration,
31:29
Speaker 1: or if I've been like in the heat for a
31:30
Speaker 1: long period of time and just like have been in
31:32
Speaker 1: a hot space like kind of like the summertime in
31:35
Speaker 1: need of an electrolyte. I'll just have it when I
31:38
Speaker 1: feel like I need the hydration. Red light therapy mass.
31:41
Speaker 1: I know, I know they're so expensive. Okay, I totally
31:45
Speaker 1: hear you, but I do think it makes a pretty
31:48
Speaker 1: big difference. I actually had a recent experience with my
31:51
Speaker 1: mom who was kind of against red light therapy mass.
31:54
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like sometimes the older generation
31:56
Speaker 1: they don't really get it. And for Christmas, my mom
31:59
Speaker 1: and dad got my stir of the shark face mask, which,
32:03
Speaker 1: if you guys know, the shark face mask is like
32:04
Speaker 1: super super popular. The red light therapy mask is like
32:07
Speaker 1: something that sold out like literally throughout all stores throughout
32:09
Speaker 1: the Christmas season. I feel like it was like one
32:11
Speaker 1: of the top Christmas gifts that people were asking for.
32:13
Speaker 1: And my mom has been taking it from my sister
32:15
Speaker 1: to use like within this past month, and she literally
32:18
Speaker 1: came to me last night and she was like Killy,
32:22
Speaker 1: I am actually noticing a difference in my skin since
32:24
Speaker 1: using the red light therapy mask like four times a week.
32:27
Speaker 1: I'm like, I love to hear that. I love to
32:29
Speaker 1: hear that you're loving it. I don't know. It was
32:30
Speaker 1: really refreshing to hear that from her because I've been
32:33
Speaker 1: using it for such a long time where I feel
32:34
Speaker 1: like I'm not really noticing differences. But I think it's
32:37
Speaker 1: maintaining good skin, if that makes sense. I feel like
32:41
Speaker 1: it is helping with my roseatia, but I'm not really
32:43
Speaker 1: noticing a difference in terms of like, oh my god,
32:44
Speaker 1: my wrinkles are gone or whatever, like that's not really
32:46
Speaker 1: working for me personally, But I think it's creating a good,
32:49
Speaker 1: consistent and maintaining, you know, just good skin in general.
32:53
Speaker 1: But my mom, for an example, she obviously like has
32:55
Speaker 1: a bit of insecurities when it comes to wrinkles and
32:57
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and she's like, no, Killy, Like, I
32:58
Speaker 1: really do feel like I know the difference, and I'm like, okay, Mom,
33:01
Speaker 1: I love to hear that. So those just a few
33:03
Speaker 1: things that I think are pretty new to me that
33:05
Speaker 1: I've been obsessed with recently. I feel like other things
33:08
Speaker 1: that I could talk about in the wellness industry. You
33:10
Speaker 1: guys probably have heard me talked about a million times,
33:12
Speaker 1: like reformable ladies. You guys know I'm obsessed with I
33:15
Speaker 1: really want to get back into juicing again. Juicing is
33:17
Speaker 1: something that I'm always like on and off with, but
33:19
Speaker 1: I feel like whenever it's like spring and summer, I'm
33:21
Speaker 1: more inclined to make green juices again. Juicing in general,
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Speaker 1: so I'm definitely inclined to do that again. And just
33:27
Speaker 1: things that I like always kind of go back to. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so now let's talk about wellness. Things that I've tried
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Speaker 1: that I don't think is worth your money or honestly
33:34
Speaker 1: not even worth your money, but just things that are
33:36
Speaker 1: like not necessary, Like I don't think you need to
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Speaker 1: get it. I think you can still be a healthy
33:41
Speaker 1: person or be in the wellness industry and not have
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Speaker 1: to purchase these things in order to be like a
33:46
Speaker 1: wellness person or someone that wants to live a healthier lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: One of them being protein powders. I'm not against protein powders.
33:53
Speaker 1: My husband has a protein shake, you know, the odd
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Speaker 1: day after a workout. Whatever. I used to be like
33:58
Speaker 1: protein powders in my smoothies and my breakfast is all that,
34:02
Speaker 1: Like die Hard would like literally have protein powder almost
34:05
Speaker 1: every single day. When you realize that you can get
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Speaker 1: your protein source other ways, and honestly it's actually better
34:10
Speaker 1: to probably get natural protein versus a powder, it literally
34:14
Speaker 1: completely changes the game for you. Like freak yogurt has
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Speaker 1: such a high protein intake, especially for breakfast in the
34:19
Speaker 1: mornings or for a snack, you know, eating actual protein
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Speaker 1: like chicken, beef, steak, whatever the case may be, for
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Speaker 1: your lunches and dinner. Like, you can get so much
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Speaker 1: protein in every single meal if you do your own research,
34:31
Speaker 1: you do not need to have a protein shake. You know,
34:33
Speaker 1: there's so many process protein shakes out there in protein powders.
34:37
Speaker 1: There's also some clean protein powders that you can invest
34:39
Speaker 1: in that are probably worth the money. And you know,
34:42
Speaker 1: having a protein after a workout is great for recovery.
34:45
Speaker 1: I totally get that, but like you could also just
34:47
Speaker 1: have a really high protein meal or high protein breakfast
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Speaker 1: to get that, you know, benefit of building muscle and
34:55
Speaker 1: all that. So I don't know, I haven't really had
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Speaker 1: a protein shake in like a really long time. If
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Speaker 1: I'm like out with my friends and like we go
35:02
Speaker 1: to a smoothie bar and they want to get a
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Speaker 1: protein smoothie. Like, yeah, I'm all for it. Of course
35:06
Speaker 1: I'm going to get that. But like, I'm not like
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Speaker 1: purposely going out of my way to buy a really
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Speaker 1: expensive protein powder to use it. Zach has one that
35:13
Speaker 1: I use occasionally for my oats. I'll make like protein
35:16
Speaker 1: oats the odd time, which I adore. But again, it's
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Speaker 1: not something that I'm like, I need this supplement, I
35:21
Speaker 1: need to spend the money on it. Like, I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's a need in my opinion. I think it's
35:24
Speaker 1: great if you have it, but I just don't think
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Speaker 1: it's like you need this in order to see results
35:28
Speaker 1: for yourself. So anyways, that's something that I feel like
35:31
Speaker 1: I've definitely grown to learn that and something that I
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Speaker 1: would definitely not say. Probably five years ago, I would
35:36
Speaker 1: probably say get the protein powder. It's the best thing.
35:38
Speaker 1: Ever now I'm like, just eat protein and you will
35:40
Speaker 1: see the results that you want to see. Another wellness
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Speaker 1: trend that I think people assume is really expensive is
35:46
Speaker 1: eating healthy and just like making complicated meals, you do
35:50
Speaker 1: not need to make a complicated meal in order to
35:52
Speaker 1: be healthy. I've definitely done a lot of research on
35:55
Speaker 1: healthy recipes now that I'm in my TTC journey and
35:58
Speaker 1: kind of prepping for pregnancy, and honestly, the simple meals
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Speaker 1: still work great and they still taste great. You could
36:04
Speaker 1: buy broccoli, beef and sweet potato and that could be
36:07
Speaker 1: your meal. Easy, simple, good, taste great. Wasn't that expensive,
36:12
Speaker 1: so you don't need to make a complicated meal every
36:13
Speaker 1: single night. You can still be healthy and just make
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Speaker 1: a very simple dinner or lunch for the day. Coconut
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Speaker 1: Cult Sea Moss. You know, I've seen a lot of
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Speaker 1: wellness girls within the past year talk a lot about
36:25
Speaker 1: these products, and again, it might work for them, it
36:28
Speaker 1: did not work for me personally. I honestly did not
36:31
Speaker 1: have a good reaction to Coconut Cult at all. My
36:33
Speaker 1: stomach was like, ooh, don't do this to me, not
36:35
Speaker 1: reacting well. So I completely stop buying it because obviously
36:38
Speaker 1: it's very expensive and not something that I think is
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Speaker 1: worth the money for me personally. The Sea Moss jel
36:44
Speaker 1: it wasn't like I had a bad reaction. I just
36:46
Speaker 1: wouldn't say I was really noticing a difference apparently it's
36:51
Speaker 1: like really good for your skin, and I don't know,
36:53
Speaker 1: it just wasn't really working for me. So I just
36:55
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I'm not going to spend all
36:56
Speaker 1: this money on these things if I'm not seeing the
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Speaker 1: benefits out of it. So those are two things that
37:01
Speaker 1: I see a lot of people talk and rave about, which, again,
37:04
Speaker 1: if it works for you, great, it just didn't work
37:06
Speaker 1: for me personally, Okay. The last one, when it comes
37:09
Speaker 1: to like wellness trends and things that I don't think
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Speaker 1: is worth the money, is paying for multiple vitamins or
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Speaker 1: supplements to take throughout the day. There is some girls
37:17
Speaker 1: that I see on TikTok and Instagram who are literally
37:20
Speaker 1: taking like eight different types of vitamins and supplements throughout
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Speaker 1: their day, and I'm like, I almost feel like, am
37:25
Speaker 1: I Like, am I doing something wrong with? Am I
37:28
Speaker 1: not healthy? Because I don't have like eight to seven
37:30
Speaker 1: different types of vitamins in the morning when I wake up.
37:33
Speaker 1: And obviously, like there's probably different reasons why some of
37:35
Speaker 1: these people are taking a lot of supplements or vitamins
37:38
Speaker 1: in the morning. Which this is why you really have
37:41
Speaker 1: to like do your own thing and not just copy
37:43
Speaker 1: other people's routine because obviously everyone has a different reason
37:47
Speaker 1: as to maybe why they're taking these supplements and why
37:49
Speaker 1: they're taking these vitamins. I thought earlier this year, when
37:53
Speaker 1: I was getting my blood work done, I thought, for sure,
37:55
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be low in everything. I
37:58
Speaker 1: take no vitamins at all. I take, you know, that
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Speaker 1: one supplement every single morning, which is my prebiotic, probiotic
38:03
Speaker 1: by pro Mix, and that's really it. And then I
38:05
Speaker 1: was recently starting my prenatal bi ritual as my multi
38:10
Speaker 1: vitamin for this whole prepping for pregnancy situation. So those
38:13
Speaker 1: were the only two things I was taking, along with
38:15
Speaker 1: magnesium the odd night. Right, I wasn't taking magnesium every
38:18
Speaker 1: single night, And so I thought for sure my blood
38:21
Speaker 1: work was gonna come back and I was gonna be
38:22
Speaker 1: like totally off the charts. Like my doctor was gonna
38:25
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you need vitamin B, vitamin C. Whatever.
38:28
Speaker 1: She comes back with my results and she's like, Okay,
38:30
Speaker 1: you look great. You don't need to do anything different.
38:33
Speaker 1: I was like what. I literally looked at her, I'm like,
38:36
Speaker 1: are you sure. I'm like, I thought for sure I
38:37
Speaker 1: was gonna have low iron. I thought for sure I
38:39
Speaker 1: was gonna have low iron. I thought I was gonna
38:41
Speaker 1: need to pick up like vitamin C, vitamin D, like
38:43
Speaker 1: I was ready to spend money on supplements, and she's like, no,
38:46
Speaker 1: you're very healthy. Everything looks great. Everything is honestly stronger
38:50
Speaker 1: than most women. Like she was literally saying that, like
38:52
Speaker 1: my results were stronger than most women that she sees,
38:54
Speaker 1: and I was like wow, Like I was really shocked.
38:56
Speaker 1: And so she told me to not change anything. So
38:58
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm not gonna change any I'm
39:00
Speaker 1: just going to keep doing what I'm doing. I actually
39:02
Speaker 1: brought all of the things that I take so she
39:05
Speaker 1: could make sure that everything was, you know, safe, right.
39:07
Speaker 1: So I brought my pro mix supplement, I brought my magnesium,
39:10
Speaker 1: I brought my prenatal like. I was like, this is
39:12
Speaker 1: what I'm currently taking, Like do you think these are
39:14
Speaker 1: all good? And she's like, yes, these are all great.
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Speaker 1: Keep taking these. So kind of gave me some reassurance
39:20
Speaker 1: of like knowing that the things that I'm doing is
39:22
Speaker 1: working and just keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, that's
39:25
Speaker 1: kind of like something that I wanted to bring up
39:27
Speaker 1: in conversation because I feel like people assume that you
39:29
Speaker 1: need to take all these supplements and vitamins in order
39:31
Speaker 1: to be healthy, but you do not need to take
39:33
Speaker 1: these things every single day. I think it's important to
39:37
Speaker 1: do the blood work if you've never gotten it done,
39:39
Speaker 1: and just kind of see how your body is. And
39:42
Speaker 1: you know, especially if you are in the TTC journey
39:44
Speaker 1: like myself, we're prepping for pregnancy and you like want
39:46
Speaker 1: to know more about your body. It's really really important
39:48
Speaker 1: to do that and just educate yourself on yourself. So, yeah,
39:53
Speaker 1: those are things that I don't think are personally worth
39:55
Speaker 1: your money. These are some obsessions that I've been loving recently,
39:58
Speaker 1: especially in the spring season, and just that I've been
40:01
Speaker 1: obsessed with. And yeah, so that's kind of today's episode
40:04
Speaker 1: just kind of influencing you guys or deinfluence you guys
40:06
Speaker 1: with beauty and wellness trends or products that I've either
40:10
Speaker 1: been loving or not working for me personally. I hope
40:13
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40:15
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40:25
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40:26
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