Sex, Drugs and Skincare
Comedian and esthetician, Nicky Davis, along with side kick/boyfriend/assistant Sandro Iocolano, interviews comedians, actors and other practitioners as we learn about the latest, as well as the oldest techniques for staying young. We get weird but educational.
Sex, Drugs and Skincare
Ep. 93 FIVE BASICS FOR YOUTH/Guest Comedian CHRISTINE LITTLE
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Are you even doing it right? Are you doing enough or too much for your skin? These are the five absolute essential things to keep you supple.
In this episode, we share insightful tips on skincare essentials that everyone should include in their routine, emphasizing the importance of cleansing,moisturizing, and sun protection and things you didn’t know with hilarious guest Comedian Christine Little—who’s special is out on Amazon called MIXED AND CONFUSED.
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You are listening to, watching, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling sex, drugs and skincare. Like and subscribe. Hey, welcome back to sex, drugs and skincare. Hey, hey, I'm Nikki Davis Jr, licensed comedian, stand-up esthetician. I got it right, that was pretty good.
Speaker 2Yeah, you got your credentials correct. Who are you? I'm Sandro, and that's it. Who are you? I'm Sandro, and that's it, I'm here. I'm having fun. I'm a comedian but I'm not licensed. I let my license lapse. That's part of my backstory. I'm one of those comics that doesn't like the paperwork that goes along with being a comedian.
Speaker 1Some comedians love comedy but I don't like the bureaucracy that goes along with comedy. I'm sorry, what was the word you just used, bureaucracy? Yeah, hold on, I'm I lost my screen. Take your phone off of low powder mode, siri. Put my phone on low, not on low power mode that's how you do it let's see, flip it off.
Speaker 2Okay, got it all right, it's low powder mode was actually that was in the 80s when they would go, hey, can you, can you put your phone on low powder mode? And they would go, no, fuck that. And they would take their cell phones out, their Primeco phones, and they would sniff cocaine off of them.
Speaker 1Do you remember that?
Speaker 2I just no, welcome back everybody, we were just talking about therapists off camera before we started. It's important for us to talk through things. I think.
Speaker 1Well, I wanted to get to this sooner in the in the podcast because I've been watching other people's shows. So today we're going to talk about today, hold on hold on don't say yeah, okay, uh, go ahead okay so today we're going to talk about essential skincare items that you should not do without you need them you need them, I think there's five. Wow, that's good, that's a lot they usually come in fives though, like that's how people get the. The attention seems to get in fives like a list of five.
Speaker 2Lists of five, yeah interesting used to be like a top 10 list and then it was like the list of three people who die and that's like you know right people die in in threes, which is weird because there's a lot of people on earth, that's true, so probably more than threes. But then when a celebrity dies, that's what I forgot we were talking about.
Speaker 1You match the couch like your shoes, everything.
Speaker 2I even had my toothpick.
Speaker 1Oh, your toothpick is even matching. Look at this.
Speaker 2I could look at that. You can't see on camera, but I could walk into any restaurant with many of these toothpicks on my body and they would never know. And then they'd be offering me a toothpick after my meal. And I go no, I brought my own. And then it'd say you can't have outside toothpicks.
Speaker 1But it matches my outfit but it matches my outfit. You know I want to sit in your lap. Is that weird? I mean it's not weird.
Speaker 2I mean, is it weird to say I don't think it would be a good interview. No, that's true, especially because this is where the guest sits. So why don't I just sit on your lap? Okay, that's not ever like a really like. When a guy's like, I just want to sit on your lap, could you imagine like the guy just sitting on your lap?
Speaker 1No, but your pants look very like. I'm the only one that didn't wear pajamas today. Normally it's slumber party vibes, but I was leaving and I couldn't figure out what to put on the top, so I just anyways.
Speaker 2I think you're fine. I've seen you nap in that outfit many times.
Speaker 1That's true so you have slept. Yeah, you're fine.
Speaker 2But let's get to the topic here, because you cut All right.
Speaker 1I think everybody knows everything they need to know about you.
Speaker 2Anyway, I've never, ever had anything interesting happen to me.
Speaker 1Um so, um, we're seeing, we welcome the audience. Um, have you ever been stuck somewhere and you don't know what you're going to use on your face? And this is a quick anecdote I'm trying to throw in there Right and then, like a quick anecdote, and trying to throw in there right and then, like I love it. This has happened to me before where, like, I went to my dad's place this wasn't skincare, but it was hair care and and I got in the shower it's still care, I care.
Speaker 1I got in the shower I had had really this is fake ponytail. I had hair that was about this long at that point and I got in the shower, washed my hair and realized he didn't have any conditioner and I have super fine hair and it was just like a freaking rat's nest. So I had to, with my ratted hair, I I don't. I must have gone to the store, or something?
Speaker 2did you have like some more oil, your dad?
Speaker 1there was nothing and then I had to go get some conditioner for my hair while your hair was, while my hair was still like that so then you went, did you?
Speaker 2and then you went back in the shower, then you re-wet your hair then you conditioned it. Yep, your dad was just not a good father.
Speaker 1He just that was not a great trip.
Speaker 2No, condition no conditioners.
Speaker 1He didn't feed me that trip either. I think I lost like 10 pounds. He took me to. He took me to. Where did he take me? Is that the time he took me to? Golden Corral? No different, different one. Such a dad place, yeah, I know, right, it is, my dad can find the cheapest places at in. He lived in oahu. Right, how do you find a crappy restaurant in oahu? My dad will find it for you. Uh, and then also in arkansas, the nicest restaurant there was the golden corral the white flower in what's that?
Speaker 2it's just arkansas, just a white flour in?
Speaker 1Yes, exactly, do you have any Coca-Cola with white flour?
Speaker 2Yes, we do, we have how did you make? That? How is?
Speaker 1that possible? It's disgusting.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I get so anorexic when I would go there. Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, you know your dad tried the best he could. I'm just saying, you know, no conditioner, he, no, he didn't. No, he was just like he was a bar soap dad.
Speaker 1Dude speaking of bar soap sorry to say dude, so much we got to talk about half an edible dude. His roommate was a psychiatrist, right, okay, yeah. So my dad moved out from here. He was a building inspector. He moved in with a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist would be in the bathroom for a good two hours and I'd be like what the heck is he doing in there? And I would go in afterwards and there'd be all of this hair because he would just scrub and scrub, and scrub and scrub and he would use a whole entire bar of soap on himself.
Speaker 1Oh, and then just stack up these little pieces of soap on top of each other.
Speaker 2He was a psychiatrist, he was the psychiatrist.
Speaker 1That's very. I think that's more common than not yeah, yeah, totally yeah.
Speaker 2You want to help other people because you have things or maybe like or you want to understand yourself. You want to understand yourself, or maybe hearing other people's things kind of takes the thought off of you, or maybe you're like, oh wait, yeah, I can relate to this.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And while I'm doing it, I make a shitload of money. Exactly.
Speaker 1Yeah, but then you'd have to live with jerry davis.
Speaker 2Oh man, well, that was a funny anecdote, right okay, cool, so let's see what's next.
Speaker 1Ai all right transition, so let's break it down from the most essential needs. Okay, so these are the nice to haves okay, yeah, so let's how about this? I don't know, I think this is an essential let's. We're gonna get the guest over here.
Speaker 2Let's get the guest on here so we can get the essentials of what we're doing yeah, yeah. And what's the difference between essential and essential oils?
Speaker 1Let's get to that too, All right, we'll talk about it once we switch you over. All right, hold on. Do you want to tell me the name of the thing it's called?
Speaker 3Mixed and Confused. It's on pre-sale now.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, this comedian, she's coming up. I hope I can remember this.
Speaker 3I'm right here. I'll remember it, you remember it. I know, thank God, somebody Like think Dazed and Thank you.
Speaker 1Yes, right On Prime, but mixed, but mixed. I love that Okay. I'm going to say it enough that everyone will remember it. Okay, you're a three-timer. This is my third time oh my God, how much we love you and we wanted. She's so fucking funny.
Speaker 3I invited myself on this episode. You did it.
Speaker 1I think you did last time too no, I didn't no, oh no, you invited your guest. She usually brings her own guest. Yeah, usually brings her own guest, she brings her own entourage.
Speaker 2Yes, she does the life that she wants, and she already has it. That's how, that's how you, that's how, and make it happen.
Speaker 1She's living it.
Speaker 2She's a three-timer. She's a super funny, funny comedian. She's a very talented actor. We've she's done. We just did a sketch 12 years ago that never came out. That is so funny that one of these days we're going to get the camera. The tape is stuck in the camera still. I'll get it from my friend eventually, but but it was one of the funniest lines I've ever heard. She comes in and she says I know what you're gonna say tell me she goes, do you guys, uh, not have cats?
Speaker 1I'm allergic to not cats.
Speaker 2It was one of the funniest things in the world.
Speaker 1Do you guys not have cats?
Speaker 3yeah, that's amazing, I was a cat lady she's a cat lady.
Speaker 1Oh, that's so funny.
Speaker 2Though that's so funny um, and she has a new special that's out right now available for pre-sale on prime, or it's out for a little presale. It's called Mixed and Confused. They're very talented, they're very funny.
Speaker 1Christine Little yay.
Speaker 3Thank you, thank you so much, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1Are you accepting an award right now?
Speaker 3Yes, oh, wait, hold on. I wanted to try this.
Speaker 1Okay, I was gonna try to give you something to accept here.
Speaker 3Oh my gosh, can I kill it can?
Speaker 1I, that's what I do to my plants.
Speaker 3Thank you, you know what? I'm just gonna set this right here.
Speaker 1I think that's a great idea or we can put it back, or we could put it back it's true, where was it?
Speaker 3I'll get it later. Okay, back, I will get it later oh yes, you will.
Speaker 1It will be mine speaking of your what oh, you know what I?
Speaker 3I named one of my plants and then plantson. I love that plant, son plants and plants, and plants, and the third, yeah I was thinking of ted plantson.
Speaker 1Yeah, but plantson is just, yeah, like that's like a spy that like they put into your room, that it doesn't you, they don't, you don't know it's a spy, he's a plantson, it's a plantson nice yeah it's a plant son yeah, he's a plant son, yeah, yeah yeah, he's
Speaker 2a he's a he's a shill a shill yeah, isn't that they mean? Like something that's put in there to be something sounds good?
Speaker 1yeah all right trojan horse.
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Speaker 3Yes, I just wanted to talk, yeah I just wanted to talk.
Speaker 1Well, you came to the right place you did it you came to the right place.
Speaker 2I just wanted to talk why do you think I do this he?
Speaker 1makes me so silly. Who's sandra? Yeah, yeah, he both of you he brings it out.
Speaker 2We have to be happy to be alive, or else what I mean? What are we doing here? Yeah, you know. Can I ask you a personal question?
Speaker 3this is so off topic your hat it says the comedy store on it and I know you're a regular there did they just give you the hat?
Speaker 1that's really personal, or did you?
Speaker 3buy it?
Speaker 2I'm just curious I refuse to buy anything that's owed to me. So I went there and I looked through the thing and then they were like, oh, this one's whatever, but yeah, they'll just. You know, if you're cool, they'll allow you to buy it.
Speaker 1Wink okay, yeah, well, we'll try and we'll, yeah, buy one for you too I'll send you the.
Speaker 2I'll send you the uh, the link to the merch page yeah, perfect yeah, right, yeah, there's a little dovetail there.
Speaker 3I know we're talking about skincare, but no, no, it's fine. The hat goes over the skin. That's true. That's true, yeah, and if you, yeah, perfect Sounds great. Yeah, right, there's a little dovetail there.
Speaker 2I know we're talking about skincare, but no, no, it's fine.
Speaker 1The hat goes over the skin. That's true. That's true, yeah.
Speaker 2And if you don't have the right logo on it the thing you want. It's going to make you angry and your skin's going to suffer for your furosity.
Speaker 3You're going to freak furrows and things. Have you heard about how you can write stuff on water bottles and it changes the molecular?
Speaker 1structure of the water bottle, like if you say I love you. I love you, I love you, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that I hate you.
Speaker 3I hate you. So maybe it's the same with the clothes that we wear and the things that we put on. Why wouldn't it be? Honestly, we are 80% water.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think that's a lot yeah, you like I'm still 80 though two percent water.
Speaker 2Two percent water, I'm two percent milk and uh 98 uh bullshit, but yeah, it's. I think you know everything is living in a sense, so I have no idea how any of this stuff works. I know my cats know way more and they feel way more than like you know, than I understand, or people do they know?
Speaker 1they know when, when we're fighting or if one of us is sad or something. I can look into their face and they're just like what's happening.
Speaker 2They are so smart, they lick their fur off. They have diarrhea.
Speaker 3They grow up, they're like college girls.
Speaker 2That's exactly right. Yeah, they're college girls.
Speaker 1They just cry that one left my shoe. They just cry that's my shoe. Oh my God.
Speaker 3My favorite thing to watch on TikTok now is the animal communicators. Where they talk, they can like psychically communicate with your pets. I need to see this. You guys have to do the things that the cats say about their owners or just in general.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 3Do you think she's fat? You're not feeding her as much and like she says something about her tooth hurts or whatever, and they're like oh my God, it's so fun.
Speaker 1Send that to me please.
Speaker 3I need more reasons to not be on TikTok.
Speaker 1Are you on TikTok? Yes, I am Okay good.
Speaker 2I'll send my fiance. Did you guys know I got engaged, since I was? Congratulations fiance and you dropped a comedy album. I dropped it. I was special. You dropped the.
Speaker 3I dropped the engagement I've been dropping so much dope. I gotta get that checked out you released your fiance.
Speaker 1What no, say it again, released my fiance.
Speaker 3He is no longer in a cage. Yeah, I released him. Good. Ironically, you got engaged though. Yes, engaged.
Speaker 2Engaged.
Speaker 1Oh, wow.
Speaker 2Interesting.
Speaker 3Oh, an engagement.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, slam poetry.
Speaker 3Engaged, engaged, enraged.
Speaker 2Enraged.
Speaker 1Ensaged. You look like you could be somebody like in a coffee shop. I bet I could. Yeah, it's my hair. It's the hair she's got the coolest hair and the most pretty beautiful curly hair.
Speaker 2Yeah, If you're just listening and not watching. Nikki said a compliment, I did yeah.
Speaker 1She asked me earlier if my ponytail was real, and then I immediately apologized. No, I've talked about it many times. This is actually one that needs to be groomed first, because it's way too long for someone my age. Honestly, it looks ridiculous and it's too thick, but that's why I kind of like, try to like. I like it. I wish I could.
Speaker 3I would like to do something like that.
Speaker 1I'll send you one.
Speaker 3Like to have some like thing, yeah, but then I get weirded out because they're on me, you know, like it just feels I'm like this isn't real. I'm afraid I'll like what is this?
Speaker 1Pull it off, pull your hair, yeah it just puts it's in your pony, it's in my ponytail, it's wrapped in, all right. It's like a pull and then you wrap it. Does that work with curly hair? I mean, if you put your hair in a ponytail, yeah, all right. Yeah, does that help? It does help, absolutely.
Speaker 2Yeah that you were present for that part.
Speaker 1Yeah, so this topic that you, um, we brought up today. Christine actually asked me. I said, christine, what do you want to talk about? And what did you say? I said who is this? No, no I.
Speaker 3I said basic skincare routine, like if you don't do anything else, what is something that you should do, just to have like a basic level of skin care. Yeah, that's what I want. I know what I do and I I wanted to get graded on that yeah also like here, like what? What's the benefits of doing it?
Speaker 1what should we talk about first? What, what, what we think is the essential, or what and what you're doing?
Speaker 2or the or the other way around what would somebody who just got engaged, yeah, and just just dropped a standup special that's not available on presale, called mixed and confused, would want to talk about first.
Speaker 3With skincare. Yeah, I love that, by the way, it was great. Well, it sounds like they're confused, so maybe just going through.
Speaker 1I love that her mouth is just going. She's like just mouth, just make something say it just say something.
Speaker 2It'll make sense.
Speaker 3If you sound confident enough, you can say anything. It's very true. Even if it makes no sense, and I learned that from TV. See, no, I learned that from television.
Speaker 1Yeah, see, that felt like. I learned it from there Absolutely, which is a very general statement. It felt very authoritative, can I tell?
Speaker 3you what I do with my skincare routine. Yes, you may, and then we can talk about what's up with that Mm-hmm. All right, this is what.
Speaker 2I you mean that sketch from Saturday?
Speaker 3Night Live. What's up with that sketch? From saturday night live let's not do that the first one was great, anyways good I, I use a cleanser and then I do um.
Speaker 1I have this what kind of cleanser, by the way? Gel cream um it looks cream.
Speaker 3My mom got it for me and this little pack. I think it's korean, so you know it's good. They're supposed to be like really good they do know about their skincare, so there's a sample size thing and it comes with, like a makeup remover, like oil, which is weird. You just rub it on and get a little water on. It's kind of weird oil cleanser. Yeah, oil cleanser is really cool, we had a thing on it well, I don't know if it's a cleanser or what.
Speaker 1It breaks down. Oil breaks down oil. So if you're putting oil, it's removing some of the oil that's on your skin that you want to remove.
Speaker 3Oh, I don't always use that.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3But if I have makeup on, I'll use it to try to get my makeup off. Okay, right, and then I'll do the cleanser.
Speaker 1I guess I would call it toner. I mean, it's not in English so I don't really know what it is, but I'm like I bet this is what you do.
Speaker 2You're listening and not watching she's slapping her own face with both hands After reading the label on something that is not written in a language you can understand. I bet this is what it is. This is probably what they meant.
Speaker 3They just put it on and then obviously you got to do the moisturizer, and obviously you got to do the moisturizer If I don't do anything else. Face wash and moisturizer, those are the two things that I would say. Those are three things.
Speaker 1Right, I said more than three things, but yes, If there was just two, I would be those two. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you, you're welcome, desert Island. Those would be the two things that you would bring.
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Speaker 3Well, no, I mean Desert island. I'd bring like water and like a gun.
Speaker 1I guess I don't know. Water and a gun. Why would you Two things? Who else is on the island that you need a gun? Animals?
Speaker 2What you could eat, the animals. Hello, it's true.
Speaker 3So you gotta bring matches, practice, aiming and stuff. Water and a gun, here you go, help build a fire, you just shoot at it.
Speaker 2Eventually it'll catch on fire.
Speaker 1Boom, boom boom.
Speaker 2Fire.
Speaker 1Learn that in the Girl Scouts.
Speaker 2I'd watch that TV show.
Speaker 1Yeah, me too. I'm starting a fire this week on. How can I start a fire? Yeah, all right, so let's okay. So one of the top ones, as I mentioned, is skincare, because obviously it's going to take away the pollution, the dirt take away dirt and oil.
Speaker 2The oil cleanser yeah.
Speaker 1Well, any kind. So there's different kinds of cleanser. Like I was saying, there's gel cleansers for more acne, I guess prone skin. I like a gel cleanser.
Speaker 3I like a gel too. Actually I prone skin.
Speaker 1I like a gel cleanser. I like a gel too.
Speaker 3Actually, I feel like it gets the stuff off, especially if it has a little bit of a suds to it, yeah, or like there's some exfoliating in there that's nice too.
Speaker 1That's a little addition, but I think that might be one of the five things in and of itself. Oh, then, there's a cream or milk cleanser which is for really sensitive. Don't even. What are you thinking?
Speaker 2Nothing.
Speaker 1Okay, creamer milk skin cleanser, right Creamer milk.
Speaker 2Talking about coffee, I get it yeah, I know. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1Cream Coffee.
Speaker 2Cash rules everything around me. Yeah, dollar, dollar bills, y'all.
Speaker 1That's for dry and sensitive skin. And then there's oil and balm cleansers, which is great.
Speaker 2Oil and balm and balm cleansers, which is great. Oil and balm.
Speaker 1And balm cleansers Like embalming.
Speaker 2No balm.
Speaker 3B-A-L-M. Balm Balm, you know for dead people. Right, yeah, they have to have clean skin, absolutely.
Speaker 2Those are must not do withouts. It's way more important when you're dead to have clean skin.
Speaker 1And you were saying it's for makeup, like with the oil, right, so that makes sense. And then what you don't want to do, though, is over strip your skin by using. Do you cleanse twice a day or once a day?
Speaker 3Wow, that's a great question. Thank you, I will cleanse. Okay, so I shower today, so I wash my face in the shower and then tonight, since I have makeup on, I will wash it. That's a good answer.
Speaker 1Yeah, face in the shower and then tonight, since I have makeup on, I will, I will wash it. That's a good answer. Yeah, if I, if I wash my face at night and I don't go anywhere the next day, I don't wash it the next day, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's good and I that's something I picked up, I think, in college, like I would drink. And then I'd wake up and I'm like man, I'm in my pajamas, I wash my face, like my homework's done weirdest most responsible drunken alter ego. That's amazing yeah, but yeah it just sticks, because it's kind of gross when you think about like laying on your pillow and being like with like all the oils and stuff and makeup on your face yeah, with the makeup and stuff, yeah, totally.
Speaker 2I've never washed my pillowcase. Once I know it's true, it's the same pillowcase I've had since I was a kid.
Speaker 1When is when was the last time you washed your face?
Speaker 3with like soap with anything just water with a pillowcase, with the pillowcase no, I've tried that they should.
Speaker 2They should call that when you suffocate someone with a pillow.
Speaker 1They could say washing washing your face with a pillowcase maybe that's what all those guys in the South are doing. They're just trying to wash their face with their pillowcases. Oh, the Klan members. Yes.
Speaker 2That's what I heard.
Speaker 3I heard that the Klan started originally as skin care and then they just went nuts and then it became skin head and then it was like a whole Exactly, oh right.
Speaker 2That makes perfect sense. And it was like a whole Exactly oh right. And it's like no skin care for your head and they're like we don't like the care, we don't care, and then they went skinhead.
Speaker 3Yeah, they're like we just like the skin part.
Speaker 2Let's lean into that more yeah.
Speaker 1As long as it's the proper color, we're good Right.
Speaker 2They're all about surface.
Speaker 3Right and confused, and confused, because why hate me? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3I remember when I was a little girl I would like I saw, I'd see some movies where there was like the KKK on there and I thought they were super active.
Speaker 1Still which they are now Like they exercise a lot. Yeah, they're like oh, look at us, we work out and we hate.
Speaker 3But I remember I wanted to be funny. I wanted to be like oh, let me charm them so they won't kill me.
Speaker 1I love that you wanted to charm somebody in the club.
Speaker 3I wanted them to like me enough not to kill me.
Speaker 1That's just something that only a comedian would do. They want to be, liked that much and now I do comedy, yeah, and so what happened?
Speaker 3Well, I am a ghost, they got me.
Speaker 1No, no, I am a ghost.
Speaker 3They got me. No, no, I don't know. I just wanted to have this defense mechanism of being funny so that if it ever came around, maybe they wouldn't kill me. Yeah.
Speaker 1You had some jokes like loaded in the barrel or whatever you're calling it.
Speaker 3No, just freestyle stuff, you know.
Speaker 2I've heard that.
Speaker 3Physical comedy. Physical comedy.
Speaker 2Physical comedy the number one thing with white nationalists.
Speaker 3I've heard is improv, they love improv. They say that if you're ever attacked, by one that you should stop and just yes and Stop.
Speaker 1And do some space work.
Speaker 3A little zip zap, drop, stop they're like oh, I mean, it's a hard game to resist.
Speaker 1It is actually. You can't let it pass you.
Speaker 2Stop, yes, drop and yes and.
Speaker 3Stop drop and yes and. All the people we would have killed watching this advice.
Speaker 1But then you gotta wash your face. Then you got to wash your face, then you got to wash your face. All right, let's get to the next one.
Speaker 3What's your favorite one? You like gel.
Speaker 1I prefer the gel. I think, yeah, yeah, I feel cleaner with the gel, me too, and I don't always do a double cleanse. Sometimes I'll do a double cleanse and you do get more of the oil off, especially if I'm going to do um an exfoliant, then, and that means I'm really trying to get down and dirty.
Speaker 2What?
Speaker 1if I did a foliant instead of an exfoliant?
Speaker 2it's always about the exfoliant.
Speaker 3Everybody's so negative that would probably just be the gel right, it's just the foliant right, that's the foliant.
Speaker 1Now the, the like, the sudsing or whatever is that like the like, like the hydrogen peroxide when it bubbles and it kind of gives you that extra feeling of like, oh yes, it gives you the feeling of yeah, yeah, but yeah, I don't know if it's actually making it do more, but I like it.
Speaker 3I don't like to use the face wash. This is me using face. I don't like to use the face wash when it doesn't sud, because it's like are you even working?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Which is kind of why I don't like, like the oil-based I guess it's just the makeup remover Because I'm like what are you doing?
Speaker 1What are we doing here? Or the cream one too, yeah, what are we doing here?
Speaker 3What are we doing here? Why are we here if?
Speaker 1you're not going to suds up.
Speaker 3Right, you're a cleanser. Yeah, they got to do their job, but there is like non-sudding shampoo.
Speaker 1That's true. No shampoo, so that's true. No poo, the no poo, so the face stuff probably wanted to get in on that. Did you ever try that stuff like yeah or like the um, I went to, no boo, the wins he went.
Speaker 2Oh wow, fancy I heard they shut down because there was poo there yeah, no, yeah they changed it to no poo yeah, they got a rebranding yeah rebranding just christopher robin, now by himself.
Speaker 3Actually they used to call it no boo, because when people would come up who weren't members, they'd be like no boo, no boo. Yeah, that's good. I don't think you have to be a member of that. I was thinking of soho house, oh oh, over both of our heads.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's oh, yeah, yeah, oh yeah oh but do you think people at nobu wash their face with moisturizer stuff? I'm sorry, I'm not good at uh segue stuff, hi, if, how do you? How do you wash your moisturizer like?
Speaker 1if I have a bottle of moisturizer, how do I clean it? Um, do you want to take that?
Speaker 3one I I actually you're joking about cleaning with moisturizer, but sometimes, if I don't have a good makeup remover, I'll stick my Q-tip in some moisturizer and use it to get rid of some of the makeup.
Speaker 1I do it too. You can actually even use it as a cleanser. You can take the mascara and the eyeliner. Is that kind of what the oil cleanse would be.
Speaker 2Wait, are moisturizers oil-based?
Speaker 1cream-based, cream-based. Yeah, okay, some have more oil in them than others what is cream-based? Cream. That's a good question. It's just, it's the texture, obviously okay, so it's texture-based I have some in my purse. I think, yeah, but there's not oil.
Speaker 2That makes sense. That like when you rub it in, it actually like like an oily one is an oil. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I got you cream is you know.
Speaker 1And then there's a lotion you could use.
Speaker 3Lotion, yeah, it's basically like a lotion for your face yeah, it's more water, but, yeah, okay, yeah but like I don't like the idea of putting body lotion on my face. I don't know if it's because, like, marketing got me so good that I'm like this is wrong. This is not for my face, this is body wash. This is for my body, but my fiance he'll he'll do that. He'll put whatever lotion on his face or whatever, because he's a guy. I don't care about my skin, that's a guy thing.
Speaker 1So he cares enough to put something on it because it's dry, because he shaves. Oh yeah, do you get dry from shaving?
Speaker 2uh, yeah, I don't use shaving cream though. I just use like water really, and maybe sometimes like coconut oil. I'll put a little bit, but I really don't. I try not to shave, I just use the machine yeah, yeah, I gave up the trimmer the trimmer, yeah, yeah, oh, interesting all right?
Skincare and Moisturizer Discussion
Speaker 1well, let's move on to number two. Let's move on. Moisturizer keeps your skin hydrated. It's going to strengthen the barrier, uh, between your skin and the atmosphere so that, like you know you're, you're locking in the moisture, um, and it's going to prevent, in some ways, it'll prevent premature aging, um. The reason why I pause is because sometimes, well, let's see what type of moisturizers. Yeah, there's a like gel based, like we were saying, but a lot of times. I don't feel like they do that much.
Speaker 3It's hard to tell it's really. That's the thing about skincare. It's like I can't tell when something's working, if I'm just perceiving that it's working, or like I start it and it's like works in three to four weeks, I not gonna notice because I forgot what I did yesterday, let alone three to four weeks ago. So what is a good way to know if your skin is actually like consuming the stuff that you're putting on?
Speaker 1it. I guess, if it feels good, if you're not getting like, if you're not getting milia because it's too heavy, you know, like the little white things, um, if it feels more plumped up, I have something right here that gets hot.
Speaker 3It gets hot when the sun is on it. Oh, okay, oh, what no?
Speaker 1no, no, no, no, no. I thought you meant something different. Is it a pigmentation or is it? I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3Is it raised? Yeah, it's raised. Oh okay, I don't know what it is. Is it raised? Yeah, it's raised. It's like this little spot here, but it's like a freckle that did too much.
Speaker 1It's a keratosis is probably what it is. What's that? It's just skin cells piling up on top of each other. It happens. How do I get rid of it? You probably have to. I mean, if that's what it is, they usually will freeze it or burn it off. Sometimes they'll scrape it. I've had them on my legs. I still have scars from a lot of them. This one, this, is still a red spot right here from where they did it. Oh wow.
Speaker 1Yeah, and the older you get and the more you've been in the sun when you were young, the more you're going to. You know what I found out? This is sort of anyways non sequitur, but not you can tell when somebody's wearing fake tanner, especially past a certain ageanner, especially past a certain age, because past a certain age people get those spots, like on their legs, on their stomachs, of those keratosis, but you don't see them until you put the self-tanner on and then suddenly you're like, wow, that person has a lot of moles oh okay, have you ever noticed that when I use the self-tanner you get all those little spots on me yes, oh, because it accentuates the
Speaker 3it just it sucks in the self-tanner but when I I tan in the sun, all the little moles on me get darker too. They do too.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh okay, so there's pigment in there. Yeah, but those are actual moles though.
Speaker 3Yeah, those aren't like these are different. There's one here too that's kind of raised. It feels like it's a scab here. Touch it yeah.
Speaker 1Where, oh, oh, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 3Doesn't it feel like I?
Speaker 1should just be able to scratch that off. It does. You probably could sand it off with an emery board Like a belt sander.
Speaker 3I've tried exfoliant. That's it Really.
Speaker 1Get like a nail file and just see if you can Nah.
Speaker 3I'll just ignore it. I don't want to make it worse. No, it's true.
Speaker 1Make it bleed. Yeah right, Don't do that to your face, please.
Speaker 2You got a cheese grater.
Speaker 3Yes, I just cut it off with some scissors.
Speaker 1I did that, making my system.
Speaker 2I had a tiny little skin tag when, I was younger. I was just like I don't know why nature would have it hooked up directly to an artery I wouldn't think so either.
Speaker 1I wouldn't think there would be any veins or yeah, but it's just like yeah.
Speaker 3for some reason it's like your kill switch Like someone they're like oh, this is his. Oh yeah, yeah, what's it called Achilles heel.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Achilles switch Achilles.
Speaker 3What did you call him the?
Speaker 1Achilles, oh, actually keloid is another thing that's kind keratosis, keratosis.
Speaker 2I got keratosis he opens for keratops yeah this is well it's his brother, ironically yeah, they have different last names.
Speaker 3Yeah that'd be really unique to have a family. It's like we all have the same fur, but the last name is different.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, It'd be like yeah, it'd be like Caratop, because he's the top right. And then it'd be Caratosis, caratobro, caratodad, carabottom, carabottom, yeah right, carabottom, oh my God, caradalthia. Yeah.
Speaker 1Caradalthia. Yeah, caravaggio I don't know, it don't make sense. Yeah, wait, we've started with Cara.
Speaker 2Caratosis.
Speaker 1Oh, we're all doing the same first name, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yes and.
Speaker 2If you're not listening or watching. Nikki didn't know what we were talking about.
Speaker 3I forgot in the middle part of it. I blame myself. No, don't do, that't do that don't punish yourself I think more people should blame themselves. You do, yeah, because it's a form of taking carrots, sorry, see oh my god I did there. Yes, I got distracted because I saw the carrots and that's part of it.
Speaker 2But that's good improv we take blame.
Speaker 3It's like you're taking responsibility. If you're just pawning it off on someone all the time, there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1You're just sitting there like I don't have control, so yeah I blame myself. And now you can make better choices in the future, and now I have a comedy album out, called Mixed and Confused, available on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2Responsibility available on Amazon Prime for pre-sale.
Speaker 3Yeah, it did take responsibility. No one else cared enough about my career I think everyone's doing that right. Yeah, I think it's great, I'm gonna do it eventually yeah, it's fun to have something to like look forward to doing and like having a project to work on and have more goals, because with stand-up it's like would I just accumulate a ton of material, then what?
Speaker 1I know, and it also will stimulate you to drop some of the old stuff. Yeah, make new stuff. We could do it here in petty cash studios. It'd be a fun place to do a little specialty.
Speaker 2Special, oh, yeah, they have a lot of really cool rooms here.
Speaker 3The blue room is fantastic for shooting specials in oh, I wish I'd known that before.
Speaker 2Well, you know it now and it doesn't make any difference now it doesn't feel special anymore, does it? Yeah, you could have done it here, you could have no idea, all right.
Speaker 1So we got thicker creams for dry skin. Um, things with ceramides, I guess, are repairing the barrier. I think, once you've lost that, that love and feeling, when that you know, when your skin just dries out and you feel like it's never gonna accept moisture again, does that happen to you?
Speaker 3um, I guess in the colder months it can be a little drier so I guess the ceramides are the things maybe that lock it in.
Speaker 1I guess I don't know.
Speaker 3I don't know a lot of ceramides. Are they going to be in the ingredients of a product, or will it say, now with ceramides?
Speaker 1I think it'll say on the label Now with ceramides.
Speaker 2Introduce me to ceramides and then in five years it'll be like no ceramides added and you're like, oh, thank God.
Speaker 3Because they'll prove that ceramides are bad for you.
Speaker 2I mean, it kind of sounds like cyanide, but oh my, and maybe there was a time when cyanide was good for you. Yeah, put a little cyanide on your skin. Actually they did.
Speaker 3No, they drank arsenic.
Speaker 1They did something to make their skin pale, oh really oh, I want to look into that. All right. So common myth, uh, is that oily skin doesn't need moisturizer. It does, though it does. Skipping moisturizer can actually make your skin produce more oil, because when it gets dry, if it feels like it's dry, it's going to make you produce more oil. So if you're getting super greasy, let's see. That didn't even make sense. Let's see If your skin perceives that it's dry. Usually people get it like the oil right here.
Speaker 1Yeah, the t-zone right but if it's super dried out over, here you're, maybe your skin's just pumping out more oil in those places to compensate for the dryness? Yeah, but it usually comes out of that t-zone too. Yeah, that's what the the most active of your pores? I think I like that.
Speaker 2I wanted to, um, bring it back for one second. Uh, ceramides, uh, just for educational purposes for myself, ceramides are a family of waxy lipid molecules, fat composed of uh, sphingosine and fatty acid, joined by an amide, an amide bond, so that's a ceramide. The cell membranes of eucrotic cells. And then there's a bunch of other words I'm not gonna. I can say them all necrotic cells?
Speaker 1no, like dead cells.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I was thinking eukaryotic oh, I went to school with him, oh okay, yeah, yeah, that's why they eukaryotic, yeah, eukaryotic yeah, freaking euka, freaking Yuka tech bros yeah, he started this startup that they had to shut down because it didn't it's a ukulele store.
Speaker 1Yeah, they had to stop the startup okay, so, so, yeah, so don't skip the moisturizer. Okay, I also believe in serums. I don't know if I put serums as one of the five things, but I don't think so. I think serums as one of the five things, but I don't think so. I think serums for me work better, but then, when the dry months come, I'll put a serum on something with hyaluronic acid in it, and then you have to lock in that, because the hyaluronic acid I'm talking really fast will actually make your skin feel drier if you put it on without anything on top. So don't ever buy just a straight hyaluronic acid serum.
Speaker 3So you have to wonder that too, like the order that you put it in. So obviously I have a toner type situation which I'm using like an oily toner. I don't really understand what it is. Maybe it's a serum okay and then putting a moisturizer on top of that sounds like a serum yeah, but when I had the turkey baster the yeah, yeah uh, chicken ice cream no, no, you were just talking hyaluronic acid.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah I knew it was something like that. You know, I thought I didn't know.
Speaker 3I thought it was most advantageous to just put it right on the part of your skin that you think needs the most help it is.
Speaker 1But you got to lock it in. Oh, because it will actually pull the moisture out of your skin, because hyaluronic acid attracts moisture to it up to like I forget how many times its own weight. But if you don't lock it in, it's going to pull the moisture out from the skin. You have it on and it's not going to.
Speaker 2It's just going to evaporate on your skin.
Speaker 1Basically just makes your skin feel drier.
Speaker 2Oh, wow, so you have to cover it with something.
Speaker 3So you have to put it on and then moisturizer. So what happens if you put moisturizer on and then the hyaluronic?
Speaker 1acid. You're kind of locking it out.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know, it's so sad, it is sad.
Speaker 3It is.
Speaker 2So then would you put water and then the hyaluronic acid and then, like that?
Speaker 1Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2Okay, so then you would like lock and then you put the moisture and then put that, then lock that in.
Speaker 1I always do that. When I get take avocado oil, I put it on while I'm doing my body.
Speaker 2Positive affirmations yeah for a good 10 minutes. Yeah, my bpas 10 minutes.
Speaker 1Well, it's a 10 minute video, so I have to do the whole thing until I have to lock it in with three slow breaths wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3How long have you been doing that? Um, for about a month, I guess. Do you notice any difference? Yes, actually I do. What is it?
Speaker 1I just don't feel as disgusting. Wow, it's, that's nice.
Speaker 2Less disgusting right, I'm exaggerating.
Speaker 1But no, I feel it, I can feel, yeah, I don't know, there's more of a confidence, I guess. Would you recommend it? Yes, absolutely, I think I'll try it. Anything you say to yourself over and over again you're eventually going to believe it.
Speaker 3Yeah, I saw a video about that with with money yesterday, and so I'm like oh, you have to be careful about the things especially the things you say aloud when it comes to money, or the first thing that comes up, Like when you think of money, like the first thing like mine was I need more of it. Like then that's your energy around money.
Speaker 1That means you're always going to need it.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean you're just projecting that out. I need money, Right. Yeah yeah, I don't want to be like that.
Speaker 1No, well, when you're chasing something, it often repels it yeah, yeah. So if you say, I have money, I am money.
Speaker 3I'm money.
Speaker 1Money comes to me freely and easily, easily yeah.
Speaker 3Money comes to me freely. Or they say if you can't get to a positive place with it, just like go neutral okay, right, you don't want to like, not believe what you're saying yeah yeah, it works it works I remember like feeling like just I am money, I am money.
Speaker 2And then I was working the other day and I found 20 in this lady's purse and I was like how did this just come to me?
Speaker 3it just came to me like I gotta take this woman's purse. You're like the next thing. I know I was holding a gun up to this lady and she gave me all of her money.
Speaker 1It works and I used to be allergic to guns. That's why they call it the secret. Don't tell anybody about this put your hands up don't tell anybody about this. That's the secret armed robbery.
Speaker 2just don't tell anybody about this. Don't tell anybody about this. That's the secret Armed robbery. Don't tell anybody about it afterwards.
Speaker 1That's the big thing. That was funny. Yeah, that's funny, you guys.
Speaker 2Oh man, that was cool.
Speaker 1All right. So another one sunscreen. I like sunscreen. I prefer the mineral ones over the chemical ones. We talked about this. We talked about that last time. Yeah, and I prefer the mineral ones over the chemical ones. We talked about that last time and I asked you. I said I'm going to ask you a personal question and I said do you use sunscreen? And you go. You know what that is really personal.
Speaker 3I can't. I'm working on being more serious today, aren't I better?
Speaker 2You're a person?
Speaker 3Absolutely, thank you. Yeah, I use the moisturizer that has the sunscreen in it. Do I use the moisturizer that has the sunscreen in it? Do you know if it's a chemical or a mineral? I mean, I assume that it's chemical because it's like L'Oreal or like some kind of over-the-counter, something or other?
Speaker 1Yeah, it's probably like yeah, I forget there's like Avobenzone and like I forget there's a bunch of them that I can't remember.
Speaker 2Who's? Aj Benza? That's the guy from E right.
Speaker 1Okay, there's a bunch of them that I can't remember. Who's AJ Benza? That's the guy from E, right? Okay, aj Benza. A was the guy from E B B. He's one of those guys that, like, if you were somebody that, like our president maybe had an affair with and the person was about to out you on it, aj Benza would go to that person and buy the story for the star or whatever it was. I've watched this on TV, so it's got to be true.
Speaker 3I want to, yeah, I'm interested, and then it's exclusive right.
Speaker 1She sold her story thinking it's going to go onto this, you know, whatever publication, and now she can't talk about it. Harvey Weinstein, I think, is actually the one who did it.
Speaker 3So do they have someone intercept the information? Like they're like, okay, go buy this story from her. They buy it and they're like, actually we're not putting it in a magazine, we're just pocketing it.
Skin Care and Sun Protection
Speaker 2Wow how creative that's messed up it's very common actually, according to the television show that I watch. If you just Google AJ Benza. He does not look like a person that would ever do you wrong or lie to you or anything like that. I want to see a picture of him. You have to see he looks like he's wearing a leather jacket. He is a leather jacket.
Speaker 1Exactly, he looks like his hair is a leather jacket.
Speaker 2Yeah, but check it out. I remember that's one of those names I remember, like the investigative reporting.
Speaker 3And I was just like that is that's why he knows, because he worked for those magazines that's right and he would probably get a you know, a fair chunk of money so then, and then the person telling the story is getting bought out, they're getting probably 30 grand or something for their story meanwhile um harvey weinstein's not being you know, so it's not a great deal if you want to work the circuit.
Speaker 1No well, it depends on who you're selling it to. Yeah, I guess, if you're going on oprah, you're probably gonna, you're probably gonna get, and then aj benza does what aj ava benzone does, which isn't about face a mineral, flips it around and back to minerals faced back to minerals yeah, that's good, babe, we're all in zinc.
Speaker 2But come on guys, all right. You know what? Am I the only one here who's also daydreaming outside?
Speaker 1Ava. Benzene, by the way, is not a mineral, it's the exact opposite of a mineral sunblock.
Speaker 3It is a superhero.
Speaker 1It's a superhero, ava Benzene. Yeah, that's like her alter ego. I thought it was Hitler's wife. Oh, ava Gardner, oh, ava Gardner, ava Gardner.
Speaker 3Is that her name? That's not, it is it, that's her name?
Speaker 2She was also a really famous actress that everybody loved, but she's a little bit of a Nazi.
Speaker 1She's married to Hitler, yeah but her work is fantastic, so I was wrong, eva Peron.
Speaker 2No, what are we even talking?
Speaker 1about.
Speaker 3You know what? Forget that lady.
Speaker 2Let's not even give it energy.
Speaker 3You know what?
Speaker 2Let's not talk about Hitler anymore. He's got a big enough head as it is. Let's just he sure does, okay.
Speaker 1So there is a difference between the mineral sunblocks and you want to go at least 30. Spf 30 is about the maximum, even though you may buy something that's got 100. You know spf 100, that just means you can spend more outside out, more time outside in the sun, not burning, right. But those are the b rays. The a rays are the ones that penetrate your skin, no matter how far away are you, you are from them, and then they age you in like 30 years. So you're sitting out in the sun thinking, oh, I have, you know, 100 minutes or whatever it is. You know that I can be. Meanwhile you're just letting the Aries just age you and age you and age you, oh no.
Speaker 1Aging Benzo.
Speaker 2AJ Benzo. Yeah, so then you're just not getting burned, but then later on in life you're getting burned because it ages you later on.
Speaker 3That reminds me of like the substance kind of I haven't seen that yet. I want to see it. Be careful, okay, you will never forget it. People have been warning me. Yeah, my friend, I told her to watch it because I thought it was like really poignant, and she's like I need therapy now, like I wish I hadn't seen it really, but also I'm glad I did so it's about real stuff.
Speaker 2Is that what's happening?
Speaker 3it makes you think about how you're spending your life and how you treat yourself.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I don't want to think about that. I think life is what's more to life than just making to-do lists and checking them off.
Speaker 1That's what it feels like. That's it. Yeah, that is what it feels like.
Speaker 2Happiness is just accomplishing tasks. We were put here to do things.
Speaker 3Let me ask you guys something what do you feel is your purpose? Or do you feel that you have a purpose, or what gives you a feeling of purpose?
Speaker 1I feel like making things lighter. That's the first thing that comes to my mind.
Speaker 3Okay, so we all have the same purpose.
Speaker 2I feel like that when you said that I just pictured what makes me the happiest, or what makes me the happiest or what makes me like, feel like the lightest, like that. And that is, those moments.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2It's like OK, cool, that's like, that's my purpose. I think is like when I feel like the highest.
Speaker 1Because we probably were in family situations where we had to be the light in the mood a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3What was that? I was like in my mind, something dark was happening in front of me and I was just dancing.
Speaker 1She's doing jazz hands, if you're not watching I like to dance yeah I know we gotta. We're gonna have to bring next time you come. Let's figure out a way to bring out the you're gonna let me come again. Of course I'm gonna make you come again. Wait that sounded weird.
Speaker 2You only say fourth time's a requirement all right.
Speaker 1So even when people say I'm inside all day, the uv rays are getting through your window. Why? Just so you know that and usually with cars, unless they're treated. You told me that last time.
Speaker 3Yeah, so don't do that. No, you can repeat it, I just okay, it just hurts, all right it just hurts.
Speaker 1Um, let's see. So you're supposed to reapply it every couple hours, especially if if you're outside, you're sweating and stuff it's coming off Now do black people? Yes, I just skipped right over that one because I just assumed everybody knows that, because nobody cares about it. Well, I have melanin, I don't burn. Is the thing that?
Speaker 3people are saying but no, you're at risk for hyperpigmentation and also hypopigmentation, which is like it will take away the pigment in your skin oh like that, uh, vitiligo, it's different, but yeah, and then I had a friend and I read that it usually happens to olive scholar, olive colored skin people, but she's white, but I noticed it with some of my olive colored whatever skin skin friends, people I know, they have this uh, melasma. Yes, is that anything to do with?
Speaker 3the song are they black or are they white? What, uh? One black, one half persian, one white, one beer one again one beer.
Speaker 2Good, he wasn't that good.
Speaker 1I like.
Speaker 3Judge Not Thorough bad. What was the question? Fair enough, melanin, I'm mixed. I used to think. Growing up I was like my duty is to just get as dark as I can. You shouldn't do that. Well, I can't go back in time.
Speaker 1No, your skin is very light, but it your hand is almost the same as mine. I hate when people say that.
Speaker 3Really I'm sorry oh mine's much older than yours but I have a joke on my album is that it's like people are like dropped they're just oh, I'm, look at me, I'm darker than you are, like well, you know I'm black, so why don't we just drop it, mom?
Speaker 1well, I wasn't trying to say like that I'm dark, I just know I'm black, so why don't we just drop it, mom? Well, I wasn't trying to say like that I'm dark, I just know that I'm extremely.
Speaker 3I wish I could show you pictures of like how dark I get.
Speaker 1You can get really dark.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, very, very dark, and I liked to do that. But during times like this I'm inside a lot and I get so pale. But yeah, my skin could go really dark and I liked Also.
Speaker 1the darker you can get, the longer it takes for your body to produce vitamin D. So it is okay to have your skin in the sun, despite what I did for the last 30 some years of my life.
Speaker 1But I'm allowing myself, you know, like 30 seconds here 30 seconds there, you know, for the vitamin D, just for the just yeah, just yeah, and the exposure, and yeah, or sometimes I would take a walk. I'll let my arms stick out a little bit, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it takes Living on the edge. I know I'm pretty hardcore.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1No, it's pretty cool. It takes very little time for someone who's pale to but because we're going to burn.
Speaker 3So your body makes the vitamin.
Speaker 1D quicker Interesting. All right, let's move on here. I don't like the texture. Who cares? That's right, all right. Exfoliant we mentioned this earlier. It's going to remove your dead skin, right. So it's unclogging your pores, because once you mix the oil with the dead skin, then you get a blackhead. Oh yeah, oil and dead skin mixed together. That's the. The darkness on your black head is just dirt with the oil.
Speaker 3Oh, that's pretty gross it is kind of gross. How come?
Speaker 1how come, like when I look at my chin, I go like this I see a bunch of it's because there's a lot of vellus hairs here, like baby hairs yeah a whole face, every pore is a hair follicle, but especially right here I think there's just naturally like a little mini beard that everybody gets there yeah, so those pores tend to fill up and you really can't you really can't ever get them cleaned up for more than like a second I had never, never, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2But yeah, they have the same thing too, but they're all like. I noticed them when there's like the hairs are super tiny growing out.
Speaker 1So they are all hair follicles, yeah, and it's part of your, like you know this hair.
Speaker 3I just thought they were blackheads and my mom used to have this thing that I started using too. That is like a blackhead remover. It it's like a blackhead remover. It's this like silver thing. Yeah, it's got like holes on either side of it, like a bigger side and a smaller side, and you go like that and rub it but it makes I feel like it irritates, like at first it makes it really smooth and nice, but then it irritates it later, like it makes it more susceptible to dirt or more pimples. Have you used one?
Speaker 1of those you would think that I have, but I don't. I don't use Comodone. I think Comodone extractors are a little harsh on your skin, like you said and a lot of people use them to push down and have the thing come up.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a little hard on your skin, yeah.
Speaker 1And also you really kind of need fingers to sort of twist around it because your pore doesn't go straight up and down. Your pore could be like this and like go off to the right or left uterus, I was gonna say penis oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2The left and right, penis and uterus and yeah, yeah, but um or squiggle squiggle squiggle. I got a squiggle pour the special uh is dropping right now you guys, I can't make this stuff up that's the best one.
Speaker 1I can't I can't make this stuff up. That's the best one. I can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 2That's a good improv, by the way.
Speaker 1You can't make this stuff up, guys, yeah.
Speaker 3Okay, so Not under a court of law. It's illegal if you purge her.
Speaker 1Oh, that's right, Don't be purger, don't be purger.
Speaker 2Don't be purger. Okay, so Purging, I'm half purging. Yeah, there we go, oh there you go.
Speaker 1Yeah, don't be purging. Wow, okay, splurge and purge. So you got chemical exfoliants which are, like you know, beta hydroxy acids, alpha hydroxy acids, those kinds of things, and those help to take away the dead skin. It helps to loosen the glue that's holding your skin on. Then you've got physical exfoliants like scrubs. And you want to keep those scrubs pretty fine particles. You don't want the apricot scrubs with the chunky shells from an apricot.
Speaker 3Oh really, I use those.
Speaker 1I mean, maybe they process it enough. But honestly it can leave little tears in your skin if you're not careful.
Speaker 2I know your little skin is it okay to use those like? Just not on your face, because I never used to use them on my face. I think it's better on your body.
Speaker 1Yeah what about?
Speaker 3African net sponge. Have you heard of one of those? No, it's like this like netty it's like a net. It can be a little.
Speaker 1It sounds like, because the mesh would probably take the distance.
Speaker 2It sounds, nice, it sounds nice yeah, yeah. It sounds exotic and foreign. I love it yeah.
Speaker 1Your voice and you eat it and you eat it.
Speaker 2Use it at Nobu after you're eating.
Speaker 1After you eat, you bring it in.
Speaker 2You do like a little exfol exotic thing. That's what nobu is nobu's very fresh, exotic and then they're very they're known. After you eat your food, you go to the bathroom and it's fully is that what they call it?
Speaker 1what do your earrings say?
Speaker 3oh, I gotta read it. I think it's backwards.
Speaker 1You have it backwards. Yeah, oh, five minutes. Okay, it says fuck the patriarchy.
Speaker 2Oh, that's how like meta she is. She has them backwards.
Speaker 1I know I didn't even realize. So yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 3I think they were cool and I just noticed it.
Speaker 1And so I don't have that filter where it's like bring it up, go, go, go go. You might forget it. By the way, we do have. We have five more minutes, so we're gonna, and I don't want you to hold anything back, but I just want you to be aware of my okay, okay, um how often would you say that you would want to exfoliate? I usually say one to two times this. Uh, some people say two to three times a week.
Speaker 2I was all right. I thought you're gonna say that sorry how many?
Speaker 1times oh my god, you two. Yeah, all three of us ready.
Speaker 2One, two, three, two and a half times a week so two to three times a week, but you say like one to two I said two and a half, you said two and a half.
Speaker 1Okay, oh, that was good or one and a half would be that would be more accurate.
Speaker 3Yeah, but I went the other way, I said it's not accurate it all makes sense makes it a better joke, um, and it says, uh, oh.
Speaker 1And then the other thing you don't want to do is um, don't, if you're using strong acids on your face, don't use retinol on the same day or retin-a, um, because it's just too much, too stripping, and clients who don't tell me they use retinol, the you know the whole week before they come and they want to peel and they don't tell me. And then they're like, oh, my god, my skin. That's only happened to me once and it traumatized me. Um, so yeah, so don't do that. And then the last thing it says um, that I'm looking at that, I looked up in my notes treatment serum. Well, we kind of targeted that and I guess there's more specific treatment serum some for moisture, some for acne, some for maybe for scarring and dark spots.
Speaker 1You were saying like for hyperpigmentation and there's like sort of yeah, I guess it's more of a treatment. So when would you put that on? I would put that on before a moisturizer, and especially if you're getting rid of like a light spot I mean a dark spot you would want to do that at night and not put something that's acidy on your skin at night I mean in the morning and then go right out in the sun.
Speaker 3Yeah, that makes sense because the sun is like intensify yeah, the sun itself magnifies things um, uh.
Speaker 1So hyaluronic acid we talked about vitamin c is really good and it helps to fight free radicals, because the vitamin C we eat really doesn't get to your skin, maybe like a very small percentage. What were you going to say? Nothing, okay? Niacin helps to calm your skin.
Speaker 2She had a free radical riff oh damn it, I missed it.
Speaker 3It was. If I had, should we go back? No, no, okay.
Speaker 1I can pretend like we didn't say it, that's a good improv.
Speaker 2Should we go back?
Speaker 1No, I think that's pretty much it, so yeah, so just use those things. I don't think you could probably get down to what you said, though, like even just cleanser, something to hydrate your skin, and that would be your basic two.
Speaker 3Yeah, Mine's makeup remover. Maybe Sometimes I get those wipes, the makeup wipes. What do you think about those?
Speaker 1It just depends on what's in them. I mean if you're desperate, it's better than not taking your makeup off, but I would just use I just use a wet washcloth.
Speaker 3And usually they're really like cruddy ones from you know target or somewhere where they're kind of rough, yeah, and that is a little extra like exfoliant, yeah. So or I'll use moisturizer if I don't have that, or I'll just I'll just go straight to wash tone moisturizer so that's three.
Speaker 1It was like five.
Speaker 3Wait wash tone moisturizer washed and said the oh, I said I would use moisturizer in the beginning to take off the makeup or a makeup remover or a makeup wipe.
Speaker 1Oh, that's right. Okay, yes, you're double using the moisturizer. Yeah Well, do you feel like that answered your question?
Speaker 3I don't remember what my question was Perfect.
Speaker 1I think she said what are the skincare essentials that you would recommend if you don't do anything else. You would say cleanse and moisturize yes, well, as much as I would love to sit here and talk with you all day long, and we might have to adopt her as well.
Speaker 2I was going to say because we could definitely keep the conversation riffing, moving for sure, do you?
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Speaker 2We were gonna uh adopt uh rick, we have rick rosario, oh he's great if you could what, yeah, I actually legally have.
Speaker 3He has no idea. Oh, he's my adopted son, he said something about, but he goes.
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Speaker 2Oh, thanks guys, yeah, and yeah, I was just talking to the producer, alex, before the show. I was like I've known you since I moved out here. It's been like a long time. And you don't even think about it when you like being around somebody. You're not like god. I've known them for so long. But you're just so funny and you've just gotten funnier and funnier. Check it out Mixed and Confused.
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Speaker 1All right, Well, thanks so much for being thanks for having me. Oh, so exciting and um, yeah, so we will see you. This will be out next week wednesday at 3 am.
Speaker 2Yeah, 3 am, let's all go to new york? What time?
Speaker 3is that in australia.
Speaker 1That's a very good question. All my fans are all down under there's a lot of people listen to this in germany, by the way, I don't talk to you a lot of people who listen to this in Germany.
Speaker 3By the way, I don't talk to you about it. A lot of my fans are German. Really, it's sprechen sie.
Speaker 2Deutsch. I believe it.
Speaker 1I'll believe it. Okay, that's a good improv by the way.
Speaker 2Thank you so much.
Speaker 1So, yeah, so we'll see you next week. See you Wednesday. Bye, I'll see you later?
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