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Speaker 1: On the skin's just ultra glowy, and it's like you've

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Speaker 1: just come back from like Bali or something. Makeup is

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Speaker 1: my therapy. I'm a love, I'm obsess and I don't

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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to you Beauty the daily podcast for

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Speaker 2: your Face. I'm Lucy Neville and this is in Her

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Speaker 2: Bag where I sit down with one of the biggest

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Speaker 2: if you are a loyal Mama mea podcast listener, you

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Speaker 2: will absolutely recognize today's guests. She hosted our wellness podcast

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Speaker 2: fill My Cup, the podcast meant to make You feel Better.

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Speaker 2: She's a spiritual guide, intuitive author, podcaster, and online coach.

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Speaker 2: Our guest today is a Leira Potter.

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Speaker 3: Learn to listen to yourself, go with your gut, your intuition.

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Speaker 3: Rest is just as important as work, so don't wear

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Speaker 3: your burnout as a badge of honor. No one has

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Speaker 3: their shit together. It's fine. Just go at your own

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Speaker 2: Alira is an incredible content creator and you just need

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Speaker 2: a little glance at her page to see the amazing

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Speaker 2: work she's doing and the impact she's having from inspiring

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Speaker 2: you to get out of a rut, teaching you how

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Speaker 2: to put up boundaries and actually stick to them, walking

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Speaker 2: us through her skincare journey. She's like our cool, non

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Speaker 2: judgmental big sister online and today we're talking about all

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Speaker 2: things beauty. I had to find the liner in my bag.

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Speaker 1: What's in the back?

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Speaker 2: Alira? Tell me about the beauty trends that you're excited

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Speaker 2: the moment.

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Speaker 1: I'm learning, I guess that trend of just minimal makeup

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Speaker 1: and just using things like concealer, a little bit of bronze,

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Speaker 1: a mascara just on the top lashes because I believe

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Speaker 1: us millennials shouldn't be doing the bottom lashes. So I'm

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Speaker 1: learning just to strip it right. And I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's a trend in itself, like less is more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Okay. So if that's what you're loving, what

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Speaker 2: are some trends that you're happy to say the back

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Speaker 2: of you're not going to jump on board?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't understand, And look I feel like a

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Speaker 1: lot of beauty bloggers are going to come at me

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Speaker 1: right now. But I just don't understand baking thing, the

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Speaker 1: for me because I have such glowy skin, I don't

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Speaker 1: always like, girls look so much prettier when they just

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Speaker 1: have less. But that's just my personal opinion. I'm just

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Speaker 1: less make up the better you're.

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Speaker 2: Or lessers more. Yeah, Now, tell us about the people

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Speaker 2: who you think how UBI should follow people who inspire you.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny because I feel like I always go

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Speaker 1: to your account for like just basic things that I need.

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Speaker 1: So I know we're being connected on socials for quite

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Speaker 1: of black creators as well too, I mean, for like

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Speaker 1: fast trends. I'm always looking at like Rihanna. I'm always like,

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Speaker 2: That anyone's ever said that about me before. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much. Oh I love it. I love that, Thank

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Speaker 2: Tell me about your first product. You said you don't

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Speaker 2: wear foundation, So what does your makeup routine start with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, my makeup routine starts with a really good primer.

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Speaker 1: And my go to primer for years has been that

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Speaker 2: And where are you putting it at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Beautiful. Has your partner done your makeup for you?

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Speaker 1: I'm actually really scared for her to do my makeup

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Speaker 1: Pinks at the moment? Like the Coraly sort of colors?

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Speaker 1: Okay, the eyebrows. It's so funny because a lot of

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Speaker 2: Now, talk to about eyes? What do you do for eyes?

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Speaker 1: I have like a little Charlotte Tilbury the four little

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Speaker 1: it's the Mabeling Sky High Masca that I'm absolutely loving

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Speaker 1: nice again, Mecha with the link tints and the lip oils.

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Speaker 2: Full Sleigh Mega Max has an amazing own brand, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Unreal And for people like me that don't know

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Speaker 1: Coming into my twenties, entering my thirties, I really started

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Speaker 2: What is your ritual around skincare?

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Speaker 1: It's all my shelf. He would die because I'm so

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Speaker 1: like hardcore with looking after my skin. But daily cleanser,

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Speaker 1: it's a little brand called Botanicals by Luxe. It's like

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Speaker 1: I don't use a torta or anything, but I follow

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Speaker 1: it with Emma Luishan the face Elixa and then the moisturizer.

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Speaker 1: the day. That's like my barning routine. Then at nighttime,

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Speaker 1: put like maybe some extra things on. I might do

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Speaker 1: with a retinole every now and then Paula's choice. I

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Speaker 1: like that basic routine just packed in and my skin

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Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, Okay, now talk to about how

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Speaker 2: skincare sits underneath makeup, Like, was that a bit of

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Speaker 2: a learning experience or do you find it that moisturizer

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Speaker 2: serum combo if you put makeup on topics, it's well, yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is the thing that I really had to learn

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Speaker 1: to figure out what moisturizers to use. Do I need

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Speaker 1: to use a particular serum? Am I using the right primer?

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Speaker 1: So I definitely think when I know I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be wearing makeup, I have to use the right skincare

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Speaker 1: as a base so it sticks, because I'll go like

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Speaker 1: hours and I'm like, oh, why is my skin like

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Speaker 1: all cakey sort of broken up? Yeah, having the perfect

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Speaker 2: You work as a creator as well as so many

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent? I think there is. I do still

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Speaker 2: Who are your favorite creators that we should follow?

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Speaker 1: My God, if people aren't following you, they need to

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Speaker 1: because I love your content. I'm always like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like the people that I follow

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Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, she's one of my favorite creators

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Speaker 3: You makeup hacks?

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Speaker 2: Talk to me about a beauty hack.

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Speaker 1: When I was learning how to do makeup, I was

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Speaker 1: always at the end of my makeup. I was setting

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Speaker 1: like it was fully set for me. The hack that

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Speaker 1: I have been learning and using is spraying the setting

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Speaker 1: I'm going, I spray the setting spray onto my beauty

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Speaker 1: blender and then I'm just dabbing my face and setting

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Speaker 1: the base. I feel like that's a hack for me,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like my makeup lasts so much longer.

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Speaker 2: That's an amazing hack.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's the best hack.

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Speaker 2: Alira, thank you so much for letting me rummage through

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Speaker 2: your makeup bag. What a treat. You have the best

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Speaker 2: energy ever, and I know that our UV's will love

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Speaker 2: listening to this.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me UVS.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of

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Speaker 2: In Her Bag. Remember. If you're after more beauty hacks,

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Speaker 2: tips and tricks, join the you Beauty Facebook group. The

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Speaker 2: producer of You Beauty is Cassie Merritt, with audio production

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Speaker 2: by Lou Hill. I'll be back in your ears next

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Speaker 2: Wednesday for another beauty besties Bye