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
Does the Moon Really Impact Your Skin?
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The moon governs not only the tides but potentially your skin as well. Our entertaining deep-dive with comedian Lahna Turner explores the mysterious connections between lunar cycles and your complexion. If you've noticed strange reactions during a full moon, this conversation might explain why.
Your body consists of approximately 60% water, making it susceptible to the same gravitational forces that pull ocean tides. We break down specific skincare approaches for each lunar phase: detoxifying during the new moon when skin feels dull, rebuilding during the waxing phase with collagen-supporting treatments, managing increased reactivity during the full moon, and gently exfoliating during the waning phase as the body naturally releases toxins.
Beyond physical effects, we discuss how the moon influences sleep cycles, hormone fluctuations, and emotional states – all directly impacting skin health. Lana shares her experiences as a performing comedian during full moons when audiences notably behave differently, while we debate whether science supports these claims or if it's mostly wishful thinking.
Welcome to Sex, Drugs, and Skincare
Speaker 1You are listening to, watching, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling sex, drugs and skin care. Like and subscribe. Hey, welcome back to Sex, drugs and Skin Care. I am Nikki Davis Jr. I'm a stand-up esthetician and a licensed comedian.
Speaker 2Nice.
Speaker 1Good Esthetician of 25 years. I'm trying to get it all out up front. If you like what we're about to do, subscribe. Do it before the podcast, just in case you don't like it.
Speaker 2Yeah, in case you hate it and you want to shut it off, at least you did something good for somebody today.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's good vibes.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is good vibes, it's nice. People are always like Patricia Payson trophies are so stupid, it's like, yeah, but I still want one, you know? Yeah, if you're gonna have something, I want it. I'm a communist, I don't care so that is coming?
Speaker 1I think, I think so it works.
Speaker 2I think communism is about.
Speaker 1Everybody should get a trophy yes, just not, you know just not food yeah, well, I mean, I don't know yeah I don't know it's propaganda or not. Let's talk about propaganda and communism right now and with me, as usual, is sandra yocolano, my uh boyfriend sherpa I like to bring the political.
Speaker 2Uh, we don't talk enough politics on this podcast, so we're gonna do it we're gonna do it today.
Speaker 1That's good, because I haven't watched the news in like 10 years. Neither have I.
Speaker 2Yeah, I look at the headlines and then I tell people I'm like, oh my God, have you seen what happened?
Speaker 1And then they'll follow up. Yeah, and then they'll follow up.
Speaker 2And they go oh my God, what else I'm like. You got to check it out for yourself and then hopefully they'll tell me.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's usually what happens.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm, yeah, um, I kind of just get like people's vibes, like when that, when I see them walking on the street, I'm like, oh, what happened? And I find that more and more. When you don't watch the news and you don't pay attention, that kind of stuff, people who are driving, you know, excessively terrible one day, or maybe they're just, you know, everybody has a certain vibe. It's like, oh, who did what? What's going on, you know?
Speaker 1oh, you could tell that like yeah, there's something, there's something off every day in LA, yeah yeah there's a reason why the helicopter never stops laying around your apartment.
Speaker 2No, no, every window. I love the. I mean it's a beautiful view outside when you get past the bars on the windows, but yeah you know, it's, yeah, it's, it's nice, it's a good feeling.
Speaker 1I feel secure. I feel so secure, yes, well.
Speaker 2Oh, that's a good segue. Oh what, yeah, oh, you like that. Oh well, that's my favorite. That's another good improv. Well, that's a good one.
Speaker 1Yeah, we're doing bad improvs, and so if you come up with any, that's another good one.
Speaker 3Oh, and I totally improv'd it.
Speaker 1Yeah, you did.
Speaker 3I was waiting to do it.
Speaker 1It comes off the cuff, which makes it so improvised. Yeah, yeah, she had it written down on her hand. And then well, yep, and well, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2It just, it flows naturally because the majority of conversations people when improv shows, they think that people really do speak that way and that everything goes full circle and everything wraps up nicely. No, some improv doesn't go well and you just you know you have most doesn't go well. From what I've experienced, you know, yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1Anywho, all right, that's a good one too. Anywho, oh yeah, that's a good one, yeah, moving on, yeah, moving on, yeah, moving on, yeah exactly next. Yeah, uh, okay, so today is episode 104. By the way, I just wanted to congratulate us.
Speaker 2Not bad.
Speaker 1That's 52. That's two years. That's a big deal Once a week yeah we've been doing it for two years once a week Wow.
Speaker 2We've known each other for two years, man. That's a long time. We've known each other.
Speaker 1For what? 13 years? Probably yeah Something like that I just want to impress everybody.
Speaker 2no one's impressed at all well, I mean, not everybody's a licensed comedian that's true, you impress people by you know any relationship in comedy that lasts that's see, that's.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's kind of what I was pretty amazing yeah yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3I can just like I'll just stare at you guys. Yeah, take it in, take it in.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, absorb it. We have.
Speaker 2We have four therapists between us yeah we do have four therapists between us, so we have four.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I guess we do.
Speaker 2And then we have the same and then we have one, yeah, so like that you go together to couples couples counseling, then we have our own individual, then we have the same psych oh, that's right that you go to again to again. We just see like for monthly for like visitation for, like you know, checking in on our medications and seeing. You know we're psycho.
Speaker 3That's why it works, you share pills yes, yeah yeah, actually we can.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's a really nice way to put that, yeah we share pills.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's what made it happen. That's what that's 13 years. Go by quick when you're like stoned. Yeah.
Speaker 2That's so funny.
Speaker 3I'm being so rude, no you're not.
Speaker 2No, not at all. Oh, my God, you're doing your job over there no 13 years. Everyone knows that's it's pills. So 25 is silver, oh right, and we've gotten to that point where we're like no, let's just.
Speaker 1Let's just do it for each other every day. Yeah, but do you go like?
Speaker 3to therapy every week or once a month, or like every couple months.
Speaker 1We started off once a week, now we're every two weeks. Yeah together, yeah together, and then individually I go every week.
Speaker 2I go every week as well.
Speaker 3Yeah, I just started therapy again isn't it?
Speaker 2I'm like, oh, I have a lot to say.
Speaker 3Yeah, just like otherwise, we download it all on a podcast, exactly.
Speaker 2Now I don't have anything to talk about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1Speaking of things to talk about Nikki what's today's episode about? Today is about. This is a weird one.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Are you ready? It's care by the moon. Does the lunar energy affect your skin? Okay when you're at episode 104. You got to come up with a lot of different topics, so I'm really like, uh, well, I mean reaching out.
Speaker 2I don't know if it's really reaching out, because the moon itself affects the tides right, like the actual gravity, or wherever the moon is close to the earth, I think, the polarity of it, or, yeah, the I don't know apogee, I think words that I don't know about apogee, because I don't know what that word means, but uh, yeah so basically, it's like you know, like where it is.
Speaker 2So if it can affect the tides and it has to have some pull on us, or maybe we change a bit, we just can't you know quantify there's times a day, I feel taller than others. You know interesting you know, I feel like you know, maybe I'll look. You know slack tide where I'm in the middle, you know, at my shortest and tallest.
Speaker 1So all right. Well, we're going to get into some of that. It does cover it, so spoiler alert. Now we do talk about that a little bit about.
Speaker 2What about? About the moon?
Speaker 1you just said lunar well, I mean, yeah, but about how like you're we're, what are we? 80 water or something like that oh yeah, well, I'm 75 75. Yeah, you're dehydrated I got measured last year.
Speaker 2They yeah, they put a sponge against my skin and they can tell how moist my skin is.
Speaker 3They can tell you how much water is in it?
Speaker 2Not at all.
Speaker 3no, oh it's like 5% of something else mystery. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah, it is weird and maybe it's a little less, because you're missing a piece of your soul.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3That piece of your soul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how I feel water. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, the moon has to affect. It, affects her. You know, like if you're doing a show and it's a full moon, the audience is different, like you feel it right and there's more fights.
Speaker 2There is. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot brighter at night sometimes sometimes a full moon, a super moon, can ruin a crop of people's marijuana. I've heard that before. What? Yep, well, I know animals are out hunting yeah, like you, don't let your cat out because there's more coyotes and stuff on full moon no, especially in this.
Speaker 1All right, let's get into this, because I want to, yeah, I want to switch and I want to actually talk to the person. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2I'm not as interesting as the guest is so, that's why I want to move? Because I can see it. You're like. I talk to you every day so but yeah please um introduce the guest, because I know that, um, I know of her and I'm a fan, but you know her and you get the name drop that you know her I forgot to ask you like, if you there's a specific credit that you wanted me to say.
Speaker 1I just know you just from being in shows with you and everything we know each other that's my credit. Yeah, she's hilarious yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a credit we just met you know each other from shows she's super funny you gave me a tag on a joke I don't even think you realized about an abortion joke oh cool yeah probably like after one, like hey, did it work yeah, oh yeah, yay, okay, good, yeah, it was like an act out even so.
Speaker 3Oh really, my first one of my first like here's the abortion.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that. You told me that story when you came home that night. That was so funny, yeah so anyway.
Speaker 1So, uh, she's amazing, she's, I'm I'm gonna say you're a talented musician as well. Thank you, yeah, and she's beautiful and hilarious and we're just so glad to have her here. Start clapping right now. Coming to the couch lana turner yay, hi, thanks for being over on that side.
Speaker 3Oh, thank you for inviting me to the side.
Speaker 2There's some guests that they show up, but we never bring them over.
Speaker 1Yeah, we promise it, but we never bring them over.
Speaker 2Yeah, we don't have a good vibe from them, we just keep them in the corner.
Speaker 3Well, I feel so honored that I got to swap couches with you.
Speaker 1Absolutely. It's prettier over there too. We made it like we spruced it up for you over there a little bit. Very nice. Well, how are you?
Speaker 3I'm groovy. Yeah, pretty good. Yeah, yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 1We were talking about your dog. You have a new dog, I've got a new doggie.
Speaker 3Yeah, toy, australian Shepherd he's so cute.
Speaker 1What color is a dog like that?
Speaker 3He's like kind of so you know how people look like their dogs. I'm starting to look more like him because my hair is getting lighter and lighter as I try and figure out how to deal with the gray coming in so he's got white patches which I'm getting and then, like I used to be all just dark yeah, I remember and so like he's like brown and white with like blue eyes. So I guess I'm going to try to look more like my more like my dogger eyes. So I guess.
Speaker 1I'm gonna try to look more like my, more like my dogger. I thought it was the other way around. I thought the people I mean the dogs start. Yeah, I guess that doesn't make sense. Your dog does this. Yeah, our producer mark does look like noodle his dog same color hair.
Speaker 3I love seeing people that look like their dogs when they're walking their dog and you look up and you're like that, they match it it almost always is, though. It's so hilarious. Yeah yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1Like bodybuilders walking around.
Speaker 3With like pit bulls, with a pit bull, yeah yeah, or a bulldog or something.
Speaker 1Same like stout yeah.
Speaker 2Same stance, same walk. Yeah, it's a cartoony, it's very cartoony, yeah, but it's nice, because then you with your dog it's maybe what people like you know those dogs love their owners it's just like how we I'm starting to look like my dog yep, we start to look alike together we don't even really look alike though, do we? No, I don't think we look alike at all, you guys are you saying he's your dog?
Speaker 3yeah oh, you know oh see that.
Speaker 1No, he's, that's no, but like a loyal yeah exactly.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I'll be your dog, that's like I get that for sure, yeah, yeah I guess people do like when they are together for a long time they do merge and like start to yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1You probably make the same facial expressions I'm imagining over and over again.
Speaker 3Yeah, like expressions and things.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Say things that you were like. Ah, that's what he would say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah. Her and I we fart at Typically like sometimes it happens, Sometimes it happens.
Speaker 3That's a sign of a good relationship. You know that, like when you can sit in another person's stent your body.
Speaker 2Yeah, when you're like oh, this is going into my body.
Speaker 3I'm actually physically. Do you remember the first time you farted in front of her, or vice versa?
Speaker 2Probably.
Speaker 1You do remember yours or mine, I mean, there's been so many.
Speaker 3Oh, yours, yours, I mean, there's been so many, oh, yours, I don't the first time, though, when you go, I don't know she's mine now I think it might have been in the car, uh but probably.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was definitely something we used to make out a lot in the car. Yeah, did you fart while you?
Speaker 2were making out no no, I don't think so. If I did, I did it silently and I and I and I have probably why you wanted to go that subconscious thing where you like, you know how to like cup your butt cheeks, so nothing gets out that's when you know it's a good.
Speaker 3I think probably that's like one of the telling signs you're like I could.
Speaker 2Yeah, they crack me up when she does. I was married before.
Speaker 1Thank you, I was married before and I farted in front of him all the time. So then, at first with Sandro, I didn't for years because I thought, well, maybe that's the magic secret.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, she didn't like you said you don't want to like you know, like uh, get like the mystery, let's keep the mystery mystery now I'm just like I don't care anymore.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're gonna feel good. Where are you going? Yeah, yeah, you got. I know you gotta feel good and they're funny.
Speaker 2So, speaking of, does the moon affect your face? We're talking about farts, the moon.
Speaker 3I like segways that was, that was, that was it that was oh yeah, yeah, speaking of, speaking of perfect we're what?
Speaker 1um, oh, you were saying that you like, you noticed that, like you feel. Do you actually feel something different when the moon comes around, in terms of your appearance, or do you Not appearance? Yeah?
Speaker 3But I will notice that. Well, I notice it mostly if I'm doing a show on a full moon. Okay, if I know it's going to be a full moon, I'll be like, oh, get ready because there's going to be something that happens most likely in the Full moon. You mean like hecklers or?
Speaker 1just like Something yeah.
Speaker 3Or weird crowds or whatever. Yeah, fights sometimes break out Like people get weird.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3But I don't know about my like skin or like health.
Speaker 1Yeah, I haven't felt that. Yeah, I mean I haven't noticed it, I haven't kept track of it.
Speaker 3I'm sure it happens and now I'm going to have to pay attention.
Speaker 1I know, maybe we could do a little journal if you notice something on your skin. Is there studies? Though there must be studies, right? I don't know. I don't think I have studies, I just I like that.
Speaker 2I'm going to give you information and you're going to have to take my word for it.
Speaker 1Well, like you were saying, the notes that I pulled up said that your body is 60% water. I thought it was maybe more, but I'll say 60%.
Speaker 2Well, humans are getting more efficient. We don't need as much water as we used to it's.
Speaker 3California people yeah.
Speaker 2California people now are down to like 60% have you ever seen cremated remains?
Speaker 3Yeah, small.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's absolutely nothing. It's really nothing.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, that's really good to know. So I mean, when you take all, I mean, I guess, when you're not just probably things that don't make it in the box, I don't know, but like cartilage or whatever, I don't know. But the but it's nothing.
Speaker 2It's really not much yeah, yeah, so maybe 60 is low, I don't know. Yeah, I thought it was more than that. Well, it is like, yeah, because everything is basically everything that we have on us is moisture, which is from water. So all of it is basically made of it and you know, like cellulose and whatever else it it's going to affect your lymph Cellulose.
Speaker 1I don't think that's right. Cellulose Cellulite maybe.
Speaker 2It's heavier light, I don't know.
Speaker 1But you know it's going to affect your hydration. If the moon pole is, tides are moving because of the moon and also your lymph. So, like if your lymph is stagnant, you're going to be puffier.
Speaker 3Makes sense.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then it could, I guess, in turn infect your mood, which is why the audience would then be affected, as well their moods are.
Speaker 3I think I might feel like something mood wise when the moon is full, or like different cycles, right?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1Like what would you do if the?
Speaker 3Would you do something that you, like you, normally wouldn't do? I don't know, but you just notice, sometimes you feel different. You just feel like howling.
Speaker 2Really I don't know, yeah, we'd go watch some dueling pianos or something like that. Yeah really just like.
Speaker 3Or start turning into werewolves. I don't know.
Speaker 2I'm not saying when I notice there's a full moon, or I'm aware of it. There's like, oh interesting, because it's just I'm like wow, that's really bright. And then you know, you start noticing more things at night and people seem to be up later.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's going to impact your sleep as well.
Speaker 2See, maybe that's what it is too.
Speaker 1Because, it realize just how bright it is, plus there's more energy that's coming from the moon onto the earth. I mean that's why they say to put your crystals out, like into the moon line, stuff like that do you do, that I have, and I put, like I did, made moon one, moon water the other day, like you speak into your water and then put something you're trying to.
Speaker 3Well, water has energy, right yeah, like I've seen those pictures where they change the, the look of the water gets angry.
Speaker 2When you're're angry, you speak. Mean to it.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's so cool, yeah, so maybe like what you were saying about us being water and the moon affecting tides maybe, yeah, it makes us.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a really, really bizarre.
Speaker 1Ovulation yeah, it affects ovulation, apparently, pms.
Speaker 3PMS is the moon. Yeah, that it's the moon. Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it, that's her. That's next time. Like, just use that, I don't have my period anymore.
Speaker 1But yes, um, but yeah, um. They call the moon cycle, right, isn't?
Speaker 2it called the ladies. When did you give up punctuation, by the way?
Speaker 1okay, good, I'm sorry you might, because my period is no longer there oh, I get it.
Speaker 3It's an exclamation point.
Speaker 1Yeah, nice, like yes, I don't have it anymore, um, so yeah, so apparently that affects your moods. All right, so let's just go. Let's go for each moon phase skincare, okay, what you might want to do on a new moon. Maybe your skin might feel a little dull or tired, um, so now it's time to detox, so that's a great time to, like, do some a little bit of exfoliation clay masks, things that are purging, um, and like I was saying, like an intense intention setting ritual or something. This mine was nothing to do with skin care, but this one, uh, you could be like, my skin and spirit begin fresh, or something like that. But you know, whatever your affirmation is right, do you? Are you into affirmations?
Speaker 3well, I should be I really should be um, sometimes I'll be like this is going to happen and I say it to the world out loud, or say it out loud, and then I do believe that happens like that helps yeah but kind like self-kindness could do better.
New Moon Skincare Rituals
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah because it's usually the opposite. Even now, you're just criticizing yourself.
Speaker 3Yeah, probably yeah thank you, um, yeah, no, I think, uh, I think that's really good, like you're supposed to like breathe and I try like look into the mirror, into your own eyes, and tell yourself you love each, do you love you?
Speaker 1tell each other you love yourself.
Speaker 3I love both of me, all of my personalities. I mean, yeah, I could be better at that, I.
Speaker 1I think it's really important but I have a sexy body affirmation that I do when I put on after my uh, after my shower. It's like eight minutes and it's this lady with a. She has kind of like an accent from, just like she's from like some Spanish country. She's like. I have a sexy buddy yeah, yes, yes, look at my sexy body, yeah, and it makes me feel like that. I mean, you have a sexy body, do you?
Speaker 3think it comes from being like.
Speaker 1I have a sexy body. Well, maybe I might hold myself differently because I feel more confident.
Speaker 3All right, I'm going to have a sexy body. That's a good thing to do because, like even for my daughter like self-esteem is everything. So putting those messages in your brain, like Absolutely. Yeah, it means everything, because the way you think changes the whole. I mean it's all your perspective, right, right. So yeah, I have a sexy body.
Speaker 1I can't even say it. Yeah, I have a sexy body. Yeah, people give me lots of compliments. That's one of them. Does she have like, is she super hot? She's like oh, you don't see her, it's just her voice. But I picture her as being um, uh, what's her name? From, uh family?
Speaker 3yeah, I know. Immediately I thought of her yeah, sofia, yeah, yeah, because she has a sexy, yeah, and she seems like she would carry herself, oh yeah, yeah. And you know what, even if it herself like that, oh yeah, yeah. And you know what, even if it's like, if you just carry it, if you just believe it, other people will believe it too. It's true, because I see women that like, oh my God, like they're not, you're not an ideal, but you're confident and therefore you are, and I'm so like so I need that affirmation.
Speaker 3But you're so hot. Thank you, yeah, that's very nice, but I. I don't, but it's all about how you project yourself and how you totally feel and believe.
Speaker 1I'm going to send you that affirmation.
Speaker 2Yes yeah, I think it's good to have affirmation.
Speaker 1We're so quick to negatively talk ourselves with the subconscious doesn't know the difference between what's true and what's false.
Speaker 3Anyways, and what's false becomes true. Well, false becomes true like think about how attracted you are to like somebody who is so confident. It really yeah, absolutely yeah there's a lot to it.
Speaker 2There's like also that part where you have that kind of self-talk and then it changes how you feel about yourself. But then having the negative stuff just kind of it's so easy to do it, but when you have this like positive, you're like this is this feels weird yeah, why am I?
Speaker 3I should already know this yeah, why couldn't my mom say it?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that would have been like did you have a mom like mine? That never said you were pretty, my mom's sweet but like I just saw her, like last week, Okay.
Speaker 3I'd love to hear from work like you're doing great.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3That would be nice. That's a good one. That would be a good one.
Speaker 1I think you are doing great. I am doing great, so while I'm sitting here, I'm going to tell you that you are.
Speaker 3Thank you when I was visiting with them. This is way too personal.
Speaker 2We're in therapy but I realized that and that they haven't that they like.
Speaker 3Don't watch anything that I do my family doesn't watch anything, I do yeah which is wild, because I was like I just came online with it this week. I was like wait, you've never seen my special. How can you not see my? Like it's free, like it's not even like even if you're too cheap to pay for it, like you can go watch it.
Speaker 1I think they just don't. I think family members secretly don't want to see you doing something that's breaking away from what's normal in life. I don't want to see me tell dick jokes honestly oh may. Okay, that could be too. Yeah, you do have a fair amount of those. I do.
Speaker 3Yeah, not as much lately, but yeah they are good though. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, how like you can appreciate, like, even if you're not proud, appreciate a good dick joke. I know they would appreciate it out of someone else, but anyways, I totally went off on a tangent but yeah, positive affirmation.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1I'm going to send you that one, Okay, Okay. So the waxing moon. What is a waxing moon? It's disappearing.
Speaker 3I believe that's coming.
Speaker 1I, we just did this a couple years ago in elementary school, and I still can't recall it waxing waning like yeah, because I all the pictures. I forget.
Speaker 3I think waxing is, is it?
Speaker 1going away, or yeah, it's one.
Speaker 3It's either. It's either going away or coming. I can tell you that, because waning doesn't that mean to?
Speaker 2pull back I believe waning means to pull back. Yeah, okay, so I'm going to read uh.
Speaker 1So the waxing moon, you would want to do things like nourish and rebuild your skin. Uh, because you're in growth mode, you're, um, do things to support your collagen, um, and you know, like, strengthen the barrier of your skin. What do you do to support collagen? What it's like? I mean, there's lots of things you could do, like gua sha massage.
Speaker 3You could do um enzyme peels, anything that stimulates collagen and elastin growth always like more of that well, that's what I do for a living I do like facial massage to listen tones and yeah and it gets the circulation seriously, I see kids and I'm like, oh, if I could vampire that shit out. I know I really wouldn't, that sounds like some weird like adrenal chrome thing, but I would. I. I do see and I'm like, I'm so jealous of your collagen.
Speaker 1Yeah, their skin is just like so juicy.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's not fair.
Speaker 2So waxing is right before it goes to a new moon, which is the darkest.
Speaker 1Okay, so, yeah, so waxing oh wait, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Yeah, the other way. Waxing is starting to get the biggest. I went the other way around.
Speaker 1We should have tried to look this up before it's one or the other. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2Here's the thing. We don't claim to know anything.
Speaker 1That's true, I'm not a doctor, just in case you're wondering out there and wherever.
Speaker 2No, you tell me.
Speaker 3So you do the massages that stimulate the? Yeah, they're like lasers, do you?
Speaker 1I believe in them. I just don't. I don't have a license to do any of that kind of stuff. That's more like a medispa, yeah you know you have to have a doctor like those are intense yeah yes, have you had anything like that?
Speaker 3a little bit. Yeah, but I bought a package for myself. Like last Christmas I did something nice for myself. I was like I'm gonna get some skincare and I've done like two of them and now and then I'm gonna. I have like a couple more, but these, the first ones, were just the IPL okay, um, which I think that works yeah, but like it's intense. And then the other one is like, uh, more for what? Is it? Clear and brilliant, I think.
Speaker 1I don't know. Oh right, right right, I've been hearing more about that one.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's more intense, though right, I think so I haven't. I was gonna do it yesterday and I was gonna come in here. I was like, oh, it's gonna make me look Honestly that would have been kind of cool if you had done that. And then come in and then have it all. Yeah.
Speaker 1Sarah Lawrence did that. She had just had that. What's the peel that?
Speaker 2she had I think it was turtle wax.
Speaker 1It was something that takes off multiple layers of your skin, so much so that you have to be monitored.
Speaker 3You can monitored um, like you can have a heart attack. I've heard about that, yeah, does it work, though it must?
Speaker 1it worked for her in the sense of like um for her, like you know, lines and things like that. She was trying to get rid of deep acne scars and so she's not super thrilled about the that that they didn't do that and it's expensive, I'm sure and painful and painful I did one like a peel once and I I don't think I'd ever do it again.
Speaker 3Like your skin, like it literally peels on like flakes I was, so it was gross that was a strong peel.
Speaker 1That's a chemical peel. Yeah, I did it once I'm.
Speaker 3I was like I don't think I'd ever do that. I don't know that that's good for the long term of your skin.
Speaker 1No, I don't know.
Speaker 3Shock and awe yeah like it gets this like fresh layer of skin. But what did you do to yourself in? I don't know? I just wouldn't, I don't think I would do that again.
Speaker 1Enzyme peels are good, though they're more like they just eat away the dead layer. Clean it up, clean it up, yeah.
Speaker 2Can you see them, Like if you get microscopic level? Can you see the little animals biting away the stuff on your face?
Speaker 1No, that'd be cool Nice.
Speaker 2Good improv End scene.
Speaker 1Thank you. So this is a good time for doing like serums that are like going to protect your skin and hydrate your skin and, like I mentioned, like the Gua Sha lymphatic drainage massage. It's the planting time, so this is the time we're doing waxing right now.
Speaker 2So waxing is actually growing larger.
Speaker 1Okay, so, yeah, so that's when you put the seeds out and then later, I guess, you feed it the good stuff and then, I don't know, maybe waning is, I don't know, let's go to full moon. We were talking about full moon, yay, so glow and release. Your skin might be oilier during a full moon because I feel like our cells just feel kind of more active, they're more reactive.
Speaker 2We'll react to the light and the sun, so anything that mimics it, just like light you know looking in your eyes the blue light or anything Even just like regular fluorescent light. That's why a lot of people have a hard time going to sleep, because you know, when there was just cavemen and fire and no one had to have consent, then you could, because everybody just used you could um because everybody just used it, you know, just beating people over the head, it wasn't fun, but yeah, they just you know.
Speaker 1They would, you know, have better sleep schedules, I'm sure, because it was just you know they'd go to sleep when it was dark and wake up when it was light, even if it was a moon you might have like a, like a wild moon party oh yeah, totally yeah, full moon party like in like everyone just orgies or something yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you see the white lotus? No, okay to see it. There's a full moon party in that. Oh yeah, you definitely should watch that show. Okay, yeah, yeah, or pour it back.
Speaker 3I need to find time to sit and watch something I know you do. It's so hard to find time to just like I'm going to watch this thing. I make time, Isn't that awful?
Speaker 2No stuff all the time.
Speaker 3I don't know, I don't know, I just it's hard to sit still too really good, I have to be really into it to want to sit and watch something and then, yeah, my attention is hard to keep for things.
Speaker 1But I'll watch. I'll try and catch the white Lotus. I've heard it's really good. It is really good. Yeah, yeah, and this particular one, they did it. They did a full moon party and things got a little crazy, yeah nice.
Speaker 2I like to watch shows where I watch people that are entertaining doing things where I go. Ooh, thank God it's not my life. Yes, you know it feels good.
Speaker 1Even though they're super rich, their lives suck.
Speaker 2Right, because it's the story that's being told of them.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I get it. All right, so any kind of glow up rituals like, like moisture masks, the facial massage like we were talking about. The other thing, though, is that emotional stress like you're saying with the audiences can peak, so you're going to watch out for things like breakouts.
Speaker 2So like if the audience all of a sudden starts getting a bunch of pimples. Like like if people in the audience start like heckling and they're all like, yeah, I got my skin and they have to leave.
Speaker 3It's a full moon. Yeah, it explains everything, everything, yeah.
Speaker 2You guys get home, take care of your skin. You shouldn't be out tonight.
Speaker 1Take care of your skin. Thank you, good night. Yeah, so things you can do for yourself would be add things like supplements, like L-theanine is very calming for your body. I just started taking that and magnesium before I go to sleep, and then facial tapping is a good one too. It's just kind of like relaxing. I need to do it right now. Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 2It does feel nice.
Speaker 1Yeah, it can put you kind of in a little bit of like a hypnotic state in a way. Tapping is really. Have you seen those? It stimulates the blood. Yeah, it stimulates the blood flow, for sure. And then you're hitting acupressure points on the face. It's like, right, yeah, now we're just gonna see her for the rest of the time.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, all right. Next one. Now we're waning, mm-hmm, that's, it's going, it's slowing, that's getting smaller okay, yeah, so we're shed, shedding our skin and clearing it away.
Speaker 1So it's time to let go of things, like I did with that moon thing, that moon ritual although it wasn't a full moon, I don't remember whatever it was. I was supposed to put a piece of paper underneath there, something I wanted to get rid of in my life. Let go, and then you write it on a piece of paper. Wrote on a piece of paper, put it under a bottle, spoke it into the water.
Speaker 3I mean this is just getting weird but can I ask what you wanted to get rid of?
Speaker 1um, it was something that was yeah yeah it was something, uh, that was making me feel angry.
Speaker 3Like an emotional thing. I want to get rid of this emotion. Yeah, it was an emotional thing.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, yeah. So it was something I needed to let go of, because we hold on to things for whatever reason, and it's not healthy.
Speaker 2Did you also put like are you supposed to put a lean cuisine under there too, for the moon, I think, why Just you know?
Speaker 1like a little lasagna, like an offering, oh, like for Santee, like an offering For Santee, santa For Santee, yeah.
Speaker 2For Santee Claus.
Speaker 3Why lean cuisine? Yeah Well.
Speaker 2Does the moon like lean cuisine? I think the moon is probably, or actually it's probably a computer dinner now right Swanson's.
Speaker 1Swanson's that's a good, that's a good riff, yeah, good improv, okay, and thank you and good job, actually it's funny, there's a computer.
Speaker 3Like you'd have to know what a TV dinner was to know what a computer dinner is that's right, that's right yeah, that's like a newspaper yeah, what's that exactly?
Speaker 1a newspaper? It's so weird. You like want to open, like, can you?
Speaker 3yeah I do that with magazines I know, I know, sometimes I'm like wait, you can't make the image bigger?
Speaker 2yeah, because I can't see it anymore yeah, they should just come with magnifying glasses.
Speaker 1Yeah, unbelievable all right, so we're letting things go. Just like the moon is shrinking away, so can the buildup of your skin on your face. So it's a good time for peels enzyme peels, like we said, decluttering products out of your bathroom, maybe that you're not even really using.
Skincare by Moon Phase Quiz
Speaker 2Soap, towels, water, toilet brush, water, toilet brush, water, toilet brush, toilet brush. Well yeah, well, no, I'll keep it. I gotta brush my teeth yeah, but um, yeah, just get rid of stuff.
Speaker 1I get it and rest yeah, get rid of the rest yeah, um yeah, it says get rid of rest because your moon is like small in the sky.
Speaker 3Now it's time to like get catch up on your.
Speaker 1Yes, exactly. Yeah, see it's starting to make sense, yeah.
Speaker 3Absolutely.
Speaker 1And your skin might feel a little more sensitive. So just don't push it too hard. So let's see Full moon, okay, so that's pretty much. That's like the full moon, right, all the moon.
Speaker 2It's pronounced the full moon-ty, because you got the entire monty in there. You're supposed to say good riff.
Speaker 1Oh, good riff, babe, great improv, yes, great improv. That's a good one too, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2Yeah, and thank you very much.
Speaker 1That's a good one All right, so let's do a little quiz. We're going to do a quiz here. Let's wrap it up. So let's see we're going to do Okay. So the phases were first of all waxing, waning, full moon, and what? New moon, okay so those four and we talked about maybe writing it down. So we're going to play a game called yes or Total BS. Oh, All right, the full moon. Number one the full moon can make your skin more sensitive or reactive. I think we established yes, yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 2By the way, I left the answer in my notes. I like how you write the answer in the question.
Speaker 1I know I got to erase it next time.
Speaker 3But you said there actually isn't a study on it. It's more of an intuitive feeling, right? So it could be a no, that could be a no.
Speaker 1Exactly, it could be a definitive no, I'll put both. So it could be both. Yeah, I'm gonna put both.
Speaker 3But I mean, I would imagine it just makes sense.
Speaker 1Yeah, and since I read it on a computer, it makes sense. Yeah, it's because you're hormonally, your sleep disruptions and all this stuff, and that can increase inflammation.
Speaker 2Well, I mean if you stay up at night and those are your wake hours and you're sleeping during the day, you don't sleep as well during the day, especially since it's not your normal rhythms.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So it definitely would have an effect on you. Mm-hmm, totally, you say because you're sleeping at different times of day. Yeah well, if you're sleeping at different times of day like if you're up when it's night, it's going to affect your body differently than if you're up when it's daylight out. So I'm just saying like so it's totally plausible that the moon could have an effect on you. Also, I wanted to waste some more time. I think 30 seconds went by. We're good.
Speaker 1Great, thank you. Okay. So next question, number two you should never exfoliate during the full moon, I'm sorry, during the new moon.
Speaker 3I don't think so Never.
Speaker 2I've exfoliated my full moon before I've mooned somebody and. I've exfoliated, you should never.
Speaker 3If you do, it could be really bad.
Speaker 1Let's see what happens. Total BS, okay, so, haha, so you can't exfoliate and you can moon and exploit your moon.
Speaker 3Yes, okay, so you can do that yeah, do it a little gentle exfoliation. Well, that's a full he walks past you and is mooning you. Does that affect your skin?
Speaker 2Oh, wow, that's a very good question, I think it does.
Speaker 3Is that a full moon or just the crack or the? Is it the waning? Is it the waning, the?
Speaker 2waning or the waxing butt crack.
Speaker 1Yeah, just face this way, yeah.
Speaker 3You do look better in the face. When, when, when my butt's out, it brings joy yeah, yeah, and the light bouncing off of it yeah, and it makes you happy.
Speaker 1Anyways, your butt out into the wild, okay. Number three hydration focused skin care is best saved for the full moon I think it's BS.
Speaker 3I think you can do it anytime Okay. Total.
Speaker 1BS. Yes.
Speaker 2Knew it.
Speaker 1The waxing moon is better for building moisture and strength, according to the things that we just went over. So, but yeah, all right. Number four your skin can reflect your emotional and energetic shifts, just like your mood. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3Yeah, because you're feeling bad. You're not going to wait.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, what are you doing?
Speaker 3but if you're like I'm so sexy, yeah, I look so good my body, whatever body, oh yeah, my sexy body, yeah, and of course your skin's gonna glow.
Speaker 1I have the body of my dreams. That's another one, Okay, so yes. The answer was yes, Wait, don't do that. Go back to my notes here. Let's see how do I get out of that.
Speaker 3Oh there we go, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1So the explanation for that is meaning that cortisol, sleep loss and even oh wait, is that the right one?
Speaker 2You missed one. You skipped over there you go Now stop Back down.
Speaker 1Back down.
Speaker 2Down. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, yeah, so the waxing moon is better for building moisture and strength.
Speaker 3We said that.
Speaker 1Okay, oh no, no, we did number four. Your skin can reflect emotional and energetic shifts, just like your mood. Yep, yes, okay, because the cortisol, sleep loss and even your tension in your face is going to show up on your skin.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1It's going to affect your serotonin, that makes sense. Yeah. And then the last one is sorry, I keep doing this in my notes. Well, you already? Oh no, you didn't see the answer yet. Okay, the moon has no real effect on skin. This is all woo-woo with zero science. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3You think it's true? You think it's true? What do you think? Well, without any. I mean, you said there was no research, I, but I imagine maybe somebody has researched it, because you figure, yeah, people researched all sort of everything, yeah you would think there's somebody who's looked into the moon and how it affects everything.
Speaker 2So yeah I don't, I don't know I'm gonna say it's not total BS, it's just BS, just regular BS, just regular BS.
Speaker 1Well, according to the things I looked up, it's total BS, but I like your explanation because I didn't see any studies on any of this stuff. Yeah, so the explanation being, while the energetic part of your is spiritual, you've got sleep, stress. Hydration hormones are scientifically yeah, that's. The thing is the hormones are scientifically tied to lunar cycles for some people, I think for a lot of people.
Speaker 3I would say for everyone. Yeah, I feel like it is for everyone, but maybe some people just aren't as Some people don't believe in the moon and they don't get affected by it.
Speaker 2If they truly don't believe, then it's just like they go on like 24-day cycles or something.
Speaker 1And then how could you have gone to the moon if the moon's not even there?
Speaker 2Right, jfk is still alive.
Speaker 1Wow, that's another one.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3If you actually went to the moon, how would that affect you? Oh, whoa yeah.
Speaker 2And then would the earth affect your skin? That is a great question. Because that becomes yeah, because then, when you're on the moon, the earth is your moon.
Speaker 3I would imagine that, like having good skin, is very challenging in space. Yes, it's good skin in a vacuum yeah oh my god, I mean if you're actually in space, it would just freeze off or whatever, but in the shuttle, when we're all going up to Mars, which hopefully will happen in our lifetime. You go up to Mars. It's going to be really hard. They're going to need estheticians on Mars, oh yeah.
Speaker 1I mean, it's hard for me to go to the desert without freaking out about my skin. Imagine Mars.
Speaker 2Well, in Total Recall they show exactly what happens. What happens? The face explodes.
Speaker 3Yeah, he was like yeah, yeah, he starts going.
Speaker 2He gets like a really weird accent.
Speaker 3His eyes were like Bulging out.
Speaker 2Yeah, so it's very terrible for your skin.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Space Travel and Skin Health
Speaker 2Especially for like your eye, skin, like your eyes, yeah.
Speaker 3But then the oxygen came and everything was good.
Speaker 2And then you'd have to wonder like how you know?
Speaker 3how does the moon then affect you? You're nowhere near it when you're on it.
Speaker 1Yeah, or yeah, that too.
Speaker 2You're on Mars.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1We could ask Oprah and Katy Perry, because they were closer to the moon than we have been in a long time. They just went to space. Yeah, I saw, was Oprah in that group? Oh, no, it was. I'm sorry, it was Gayle King, or whatever her name is Same thing Gayle King, their best friend. I saw it.
Speaker 3You saw it. Well, I didn't like watch it when it happened, but I saw like people posting about it, annoyed by it.
Speaker 1Yeah, everybody seems to be kind of putting their arms about it.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't have the energy. Five women into space was like a nice thing. It's just like super privileged women got to go.
Speaker 2I guess If you can get the privilege to go to space and you want to do it, why not?
Speaker 3I would if somebody called me like Jeff Bates, like hey, lana, you want to go to outer space and look down on the planet? I'd be like super excited. So I guess people I can I mean hopefully everybody will one day have the chance to like I mean think about people, couldn't? Just a hundred years ago my grandmother would be like, oh my god, you can fly in an airplane. Yeah, and now we just we, now we get pissed when we're on an airplane we're like flying, you're like annoyed, because somebody kicked their shoe off.
Speaker 1You're like really, right, you're like flying over, you're in a tube in the sky, yeah, well, we're, we're in space right now, so it's just that's true.
Speaker 3That's true, we're going really fast.
Speaker 2We're going really fast, and that's. We're going really fast and so fast that we can't even tell yeah by the way, there's a lot of men I would like to send into space and maybe they don't come back.
Speaker 3I'm just saying, yeah, nice yeah, do we have to send them to space, though, to make them not come back?
Speaker 2easier way that's true to really like you have to really slingshot somebody really far to get them to leave orbit that's true.
Speaker 1So, yeah, yeah, think about it. We don't want to spend that kind of there's inner space, which is what we call the oceans.
Speaker 2Over 90 of the oceans have not been found bodies yet. The bodies have not been found bodies yet.
Speaker 1The bodies have not been found out there. That's true.
Speaker 2So I'm just saying people think outside the box.
Speaker 3That's good improv too, oh yeah, there you go, moving on.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right. So we did pretty good on that, I think, on our quiz. I like that yeah.
Speaker 3It definitely made me think about tapping my face. More I need to do do it's a lot of work. It's just been taking care of your skin, yeah I was thinking about that when we're coming over here and I'm like, okay, we're gonna be talking about skin, I'm like what do I? I'm like I'm pretty low maintenance. And then I started thinking about all the different little things I try to do, and with inconsistency, but like try to do, it's a lot of stuff yeah, we're sold and marketed a lot of stuff and it's a like, it's a lot of it's work it is.
Speaker 1You can simplify it, though. I mean, I feel like they push so much stuff on us, that like they're convincing us that you need this, this, this and this and this, but I think we can do a lot less than you know yeah, there's probably stuff like.
Speaker 3At times I've even just used stuff out of my kitchen. I'm like ah.
Speaker 1That's better Like coconut oil, that's better Strawberry to exfoliate. Absolutely no. That's a million times better than getting something out of a jar that was produced in a lab.
Speaker 3Yeah, but then sometimes I want to go full on pharmaceutical.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3I just like acu, or what is it Like Retin-A? Like retin-a? Are you using retin-a?
Speaker 1yeah, is that bad no, I mean it's a synthetic form of vitamin a, but if it works for your skin, your skin looks really good.
Speaker 3I've been using it for a long time yeah yeah, but maybe. But I wonder about it because it's probably not good for your organs I don't know if you would ask me if yeah I'm not a doctor but like I, if it were me, I would look for like a retinol.
Speaker 1I think it might be retinol. Is it retinol?
Speaker 3I don't know, is it a prescription?
Speaker 1yeah, okay, so then it's retin-a okay, yeah and also it might not be very strong.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like not the high, high, high percentage, and I've been taking Welbutrin for likeidepressant. Oh, okay, that sounds like an antidepressant. Yeah, wellbutrin.
Speaker 1Yeah Well.
Speaker 2Wellbutrin Butane.
Speaker 1Wellbutrin, that's what I did.
Speaker 2before that I did Wellbutrin.
Speaker 1Yeah, it wasn't working.
Speaker 2No, it's terrible, but I was smoking cigarettes and now I'm not. That's pretty good. With the medication it helped me to get yeah, it was the same stuff that was in. Wellbutrin is the same stuff that's in what do you call it?
Speaker 3Time, I forgot the name of it, cocaine. I'm sorry, snort it yeah.
Speaker 2Basically, it helps to wrap up your craving for cigarettes.
Speaker 3Oh, that's cool. The Wellbutrin.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I was smoking and I started taking Wellbutrin and I forgot to smoke Literally forgot to smoke.
Speaker 3Oh, that's great. Smoking is probably like the worst thing you can do for your skin, right?
Speaker 1I think alcohol is probably before that and then smoking.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's rough on your skin. But I mean that's amazing that you could take something and it turned off the receptors in your brain to desire it, and then do you still take the medication?
Speaker 2I didn't take it for that reason, and then do you still take the medication? I didn't take it for that reason, I just took it for the antidepressant aspect of it. But it's just yeah, and I haven't smoked in like two years.
Speaker 3Thank, God, that's so good and probably, if you ever like, you wouldn't go back to it, because you've gotten that out of your system. Yeah, totally, I would think so.
Speaker 2That's awesome. We should probably wrap it up. Okay, I do want to ask you, where can people find you on social media? Yeah, or anything any place. Transition, that's good improv Smooth.
Simplifying Skincare Routines
Speaker 3Lana Turner. There's a Lana Turner famous old actress but mine's L-A-H-N-A and I always say Lana has an H in it, otherwise backwards it spells anal. I like it so in case you're wondering, can you remember? And then Turner, t-u-r-n-e-r, and that's it. I think I have an extra R in my Instagram, one because somebody else had it or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2We'll put your name up at the bottom and everything. There you go.
Speaker 3You can look at that name and then what else? Oh, and I've got some shows coming out. Well, Flappers, where I usually see you.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, this is going to be out next Wednesday, so tell us if you have anything coming up.
Speaker 3I just had they gave me a headline like a night for my own night there. Oh, that's great. And then they moved it today and I have another date and it's in my phone. I won't remember it offhand, but I want to say it's mid-June, okay.
Speaker 1Well, check it for a headline date. Check it either on Lana's website or your you know social media or you can even check Flappers.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I always post, like I always have shows like around town and do things, but the headline dates are nice and I'm not touring right now very much, but I will be getting back out on the road because I need to and I have a couple projects I'm wrapping up that I'm looking forward to finishing so I can. That'll be really fun.
Speaker 1It's exciting, very cool, since you were on the road.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, I miss that. I have to get on the moon cycle, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly All right, cool.
Speaker 1Well, I just am so happy that you were able to come and hang out with us today, Thank Well. I just am so happy that you were able to come and hang out with us today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3I'm so happy to be here hanging out with you guys. Yeah, I'm sad to end, I know.
Speaker 1I wish that we were just keep it going, but yeah, we'll have to keep it going afterwards. We'll just keep talking, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Actually when nobody's listening, we'll just sit here.
Speaker 1Yeah, it right. So this will be out Wednesday at 3 am and we'll see you guys next week, so bye.
