Speaker 1: We asked you what you wanted to know, and here
Speaker 1: are the top questions. They were a bunch and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do my best getting through them. So the
Speaker 1: first question is why did you choose being a makeup
Speaker 1: artist as a career. Well, I give my mom the
Speaker 1: entire credit for why I am a makeup artist, because
Speaker 1: when I finished one year of college and wanted to
Speaker 1: drop out, my mother said, you can't. You have to
Speaker 1: go to college. And I said, but mom, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what I want to do. And my mother
Speaker 1: said to me, forget what you want to do for
Speaker 1: a career. Pretend today's your birthday. You could do anything
Speaker 1: you would want. What would it be? I really wasn't sure.
Speaker 1: And I thought, and I thought, and I said, I'd
Speaker 1: like to go to marshall Fields department store and play
Speaker 1: with makeup. She said, well that's easy. Why don't you
Speaker 1: be a makeup artist? And I said, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go to beauty school. She said, no, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's a college somewhere that could help you study makeup.
Speaker 1: Well there wasn't, but I found Emerson College that allowed
Speaker 1: me to create my own major based on the creative arts.
Speaker 1: So I studied theatrical makeup from Emerson College, fell madly
Speaker 1: in love with makeup, and I have not turned back
Speaker 1: since I did it. I am still doing it, how
Speaker 1: many years later. The next question is what did you
Speaker 1: dream of being when you were a little girl? Was
Speaker 1: it always beauty oriented? Honestly, when I was young, I
Speaker 1: only wanted two things. I wanted to either be a
Speaker 1: teacher or a mom. So I am very fortunate that
Speaker 1: I get to do both. Next question, what is my
Speaker 1: favorite sunscreen for my face? You know, truthfully, I have
Speaker 1: a couple of different ones. I have been wearing the
Speaker 1: clean sunscreens, but I'm having a lot of trouble because
Speaker 1: they're very, very white, and I don't like to lighten
Speaker 1: the color of my skin and look pasty. So I'm
Speaker 1: still experimenting. I've been using a bunch of sunscreens from
Speaker 1: the lab and then I'm working on It's not there yet,
Speaker 1: but I also have some go twos by my by
Speaker 1: my you know back door, where I put my sunscreen
Speaker 1: on Supergroup. I love their products. I have one from
Speaker 1: um Tinted and I have one from my friend Tina
Speaker 1: Craig of You Beauty. Another question, what is my favorite
Speaker 1: dinner and dessert. Well, my favorite dinner. Some of my
Speaker 1: favorite things are. I love caviare, so that's usually a
Speaker 1: birthday or an anniversary, hopefully someone buys me caviare, which
Speaker 1: I like to eat on cucumbers and not on potato
Speaker 1: chips because I feel better on the with the cucumbers.
Speaker 1: But I really do love cavia. I also love steak tartar,
Speaker 1: I love oysters, and I like really good friend bread
Speaker 1: and dessert. Honestly, I'm not a big dessert person because
Speaker 1: I used to be a major sugar addict and I
Speaker 1: realized that sugar wasn't making me feel great, so I
Speaker 1: pretty much just slowly stopped eating it and just replacing it,
Speaker 1: you know, replacing the bad sugar with good sugar. So fruit,
Speaker 1: I do a lot of blueberries. Sometimes I put some
Speaker 1: homemade whipped cream which doesn't have sugar. Sometimes I will
Speaker 1: have a coconut ice cream where I'll do a little
Speaker 1: bit of that. So I have learned not to have
Speaker 1: dessert with cocktails. Those things do not work well for
Speaker 1: me at all. And my what is my food guilty pleasure? Well,
Speaker 1: guilty would mean I know I'm not going to feel
Speaker 1: great after it, and it would definitely be pizza. I
Speaker 1: just I love really good pizza and I'm not someone
Speaker 1: that can have one piece. It's usually three pieces, and
Speaker 1: that's my guilty pleasure and I love it. And I
Speaker 1: once had as we had, someone had given me caviar
Speaker 1: as a gift and it was a big one and
Speaker 1: it was left there was left over, and I did
Speaker 1: put caviar on my pizza. It was quite decadent, and
Speaker 1: once was enough. I won't do that again. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a tough one to answer. What is the best
Speaker 1: advice someone has ever given you? Well, I will quote
Speaker 1: a few people. I will quote Um, you know my
Speaker 1: my mother that always taught me, no matter what, be
Speaker 1: nice to everyone because you never know when you're going
Speaker 1: to meet them again. Um. I've also heard someone say
Speaker 1: be nice to everyone, you never know what they're going through.
Speaker 1: So I like a combination of both. And my father
Speaker 1: gave me incredible financial advice when I was a young
Speaker 1: just out of college and UM was having a lot
Speaker 1: of trouble paying my rent and trying to budget. I
Speaker 1: called him up one day and I said, Dad, I
Speaker 1: can't budget. I'm having such trouble. Could you show me how?
Speaker 1: He said, no, I'm not going to show you how
Speaker 1: to budget, but it's your job. And I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to say to learn how to do it.
Speaker 1: He said, it's your job to figure out how you're
Speaker 1: going to make more money. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: really great advice. And at the time I put an
Speaker 1: ad in a local paper and for doing makeovers and
Speaker 1: I made some more money, so that was pretty good advice.
Speaker 1: The next question is do I recommend shaving your face
Speaker 1: so makeup goes on smoother. I would say I do not.
Speaker 1: I do not. I know a lot of people do
Speaker 1: shave their face, and if you are someone that's getting laser,
Speaker 1: you have to shave it. But I think in general,
Speaker 1: you know, there's some natural fuzziness that grows on people's faces,
Speaker 1: and once you shave it off, it just grows back.
Speaker 1: So I'm not someone that recommends shaving people's face. Another question,
Speaker 1: what is my favorite over the counter beauty product that
Speaker 1: you could find at a drug store? Well, um, snail polish.
Speaker 1: Everyone always asked me what read I wear. I would
Speaker 1: wear geranium. I definitely buy that at the drug store.
Speaker 1: I also buy a lot of Dr Bonner's Peppermint soap,
Speaker 1: which I have in every bathroom and shower in my house.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite um. I've also bought some
Speaker 1: myceler water um because that really, especially for shoots, helps
Speaker 1: get all the eye makeup off. But I really have
Speaker 1: trouble buying makeup drug stores because you can't try them,
Speaker 1: so you end up thinking you like something. When you
Speaker 1: get home and put it on, you realize it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it did in the package. Another question, I
Speaker 1: love this one. How many days a week do I
Speaker 1: wear makeup? Well, um, in the summertime, when it's hot
Speaker 1: and I have a little color on my skin. I
Speaker 1: would say I probably put makeup on three to four
Speaker 1: days a week, and it depends if I'm working or not.
Speaker 1: And there's days where I, like today, I haven't put
Speaker 1: anything on. I just actually like, that's not true. I
Speaker 1: just put it. Before I started this. I just put
Speaker 1: a touch of shimmering oil on my cheek because I
Speaker 1: had nothing on it all. But luckily I wear glasses,
Speaker 1: so I can kind of get away with things that
Speaker 1: other people can't. What is my beauty routine in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's not always the same, because there's days where I
Speaker 1: go see my trainer at the gym. I take a
Speaker 1: shower at the gym, which luckily for me, is across
Speaker 1: the street from my office, and I wash my hair
Speaker 1: and I come over and then there's a hairdresser there
Speaker 1: because I have some kind of a shoot, which most
Speaker 1: days I happen to be on camera, even if it's
Speaker 1: just for TikTok. So those days, while my hair is
Speaker 1: getting done, I will pull out my makeup bag, which
Speaker 1: really is not a very full bags. Got a lot
Speaker 1: of samples and a lot of things that I have
Speaker 1: taken out that I need um. But I basically put
Speaker 1: on a moisturizer. I put pels under my eyes, I
Speaker 1: use the pencil around my nose. Then I throw on
Speaker 1: what the foundation, and then I'll take a pencil to
Speaker 1: fill it in. And then depending on what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: I add definition to my eyes and my brows, throw
Speaker 1: on a Messcara, put some blush on, put a lip on,
Speaker 1: and then put a little bit of the miracle Bomb.
Speaker 1: But that's a full on makeup for me. When I'm
Speaker 1: meeting friends for dinner, which is my favorite way to
Speaker 1: get ready, my hair is usually in a ponytail and
Speaker 1: I throw on Miracle Bomb, throw on some Escara. Probably
Speaker 1: I need a pencil under my eyes because the older
Speaker 1: I get, the darker it's getting. And then I might
Speaker 1: throw a bomb on my cheeks and lips and be done.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of Bobby being me. Now. The next
Speaker 1: question is about becoming a grandmother. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to answer this because the word grandmother just seems
Speaker 1: so crazy to me that I'm at the age where
Speaker 1: I could be a grandmother, And honestly, I'm at the
Speaker 1: age where I could have had, you know, a fifteen
Speaker 1: or a twenty year old grandkid, if you know, like
Speaker 1: my mom did and my grandmother did when I was born.
Speaker 1: But what I'm most excited about, Number One, I love babies.
Speaker 1: I just love newborn babies. I love the whole of
Speaker 1: the soothing them when they're crying. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what it's going to feel like being a grandmother because
Speaker 1: it's my kid's baby, so I can't say that, But
Speaker 1: I mean, just the idea that I get to buy
Speaker 1: little girl clothes is pretty exciting to me. So we'll
Speaker 1: have to We'll have to touch back on this one
Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, next question, are there any natural oil
Speaker 1: products we might have in the kitchen and make a
Speaker 1: great at home product for your skin. I actually have
Speaker 1: a lot of tips of things that you can do
Speaker 1: in a pinch. And you know, oil on dry skin
Speaker 1: is the secret. So whether you pull out of your
Speaker 1: cabinet and olive oil, which smells more like cooking than
Speaker 1: on your face, you can absolutely put it on your
Speaker 1: on your face. Olive oil is great for your cuticles
Speaker 1: in the winter time. This is a trick I got
Speaker 1: from my dad. Is take olive oil and just gently
Speaker 1: warm it up in the microwave and put it on
Speaker 1: your feet and on your hands. It feels really good.
Speaker 1: It's really emollient. You can also now this is great
Speaker 1: if you're not shaving your legs, but really coarse sea salt,
Speaker 1: you could use um when you're in the shower, mix
Speaker 1: it with you know, I max it with oil sometimes,
Speaker 1: but then you have to be careful not to slip
Speaker 1: in the shower. But if you're you know, make sure
Speaker 1: you wash it after that. You could make your own scrub,
Speaker 1: So that's really good. I've never been one to go
Speaker 1: into my refrigerator and put you know, either eggs or
Speaker 1: milk or yogurt on my skin, but I know people
Speaker 1: do that, but I think honestly oil is the best thing.
Speaker 1: What product has a misconception of being really but actually
Speaker 1: isn't Huh. I don't really know how to answer this one.
Speaker 1: I would say there's so many claims on products out there,
Speaker 1: whether it's going to you know, you're gonna lose ten
Speaker 1: pounds if you buy this one product. We we've all
Speaker 1: seen those ads. That doesn't work. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if it's something that's going to cause sudden weight loss,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be good for you. So there's
Speaker 1: those kind of claims which I don't like. There's there's
Speaker 1: if you buy this product, it will fix your got
Speaker 1: in two weeks. I don't like those claims, and I
Speaker 1: certainly don't like marketing claims that say that a skincare
Speaker 1: product is going to get rid of wrinkles, because it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know, the best thing you can hope for a
Speaker 1: skincare product is that it hydrates and and smooths your skin.
Speaker 1: So I don't really love when people think something is
Speaker 1: going to be like the end all, I guarantee that
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with it. Another question, I have really
Speaker 1: dry skin, and wearing makeup dries it out even more,
Speaker 1: what sort of ingredients do I need to look for
Speaker 1: in my skincare to help with my extremely dry skin? Well,
Speaker 1: I have extremely dry skin, and I just got back
Speaker 1: from Colorado, and I didn't think it was possible to
Speaker 1: be dryer, and I am. And so the first thing
Speaker 1: I do when I feel, you know, that my skin
Speaker 1: is just extra dry, is I make sure that I'm
Speaker 1: drinking enough water, because honestly, hydration on the inside really
Speaker 1: will help your skin on the outside. And also make
Speaker 1: sure that you're eating the right oils, because a lot
Speaker 1: of women who kind of have like die to themselves,
Speaker 1: you know, to these crazy, crazy extreme diets, they have
Speaker 1: such dry skin, and and you need to be eating
Speaker 1: healthy oils. You need avocado, you need olive oil, you
Speaker 1: need egg yellows. You know, for a while the craze
Speaker 1: was no fat in your diet, and it's just that's
Speaker 1: not accurate, especially for health and the way that you
Speaker 1: that you look, and those things are both really important.
Speaker 1: So first of all, check that out and make sure
Speaker 1: that your lifestyle is not getting in the way. Like,
Speaker 1: for example, if you are going out in the sun
Speaker 1: without sunscreen, it's going to draw your skin out. If
Speaker 1: you are parting at night a little too much, that's
Speaker 1: going to draw your skin out. So lifestyle really does
Speaker 1: have a lot to do with it. But if you
Speaker 1: want to have your skin feel amazing, the secret is oil.
Speaker 1: And if you guys want to know the truth, a
Speaker 1: moisturizer is oil and water emulsion. Basically it's oil and water.
Speaker 1: And yes, there's other things you put in it to
Speaker 1: to be more you know, efficacious, or to you know,
Speaker 1: to smell better, to feel better, but basically, um it's
Speaker 1: oil and water. So I like to just use faced oil.
Speaker 1: Um I Jones Road makes a bunch of things that
Speaker 1: are very oil infused, and I'm not afraid of heavy
Speaker 1: bombs because it's not about taking a heavy bomb and
Speaker 1: putting it on heavily. You just you start with the
Speaker 1: least amount possible and you can always add more for
Speaker 1: wherever you're dry. So don't be afraid of oil on
Speaker 1: your skin. And also a lot of my friends with
Speaker 1: oily skin they don't get the oil either. They like
Speaker 1: to put a small amount of light oil on their skin.
Speaker 1: They say it helps regulate the oil. So you know,
Speaker 1: do what works for you. Another question I got is
Speaker 1: what is my workout routine? Well, I have done everything, um,
Speaker 1: I from high impact aerobics to CrossFit to everything, and
Speaker 1: where I've kind of landed is at a very comfortable
Speaker 1: place for me because I move around a lot, and
Speaker 1: I think that really helps. I'm a walker, I walk
Speaker 1: a lot. I I'm not someone that listens to podcasts
Speaker 1: or music. I usually pick up the phone and call someone,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, an editor that I need to
Speaker 1: needs to interview me. I love doing it on the walk,
Speaker 1: whether it's my sister, my mother, my father, or my friends.
Speaker 1: You know. I need to kind of go through the
Speaker 1: lift at ALTA because I don't sit around my house
Speaker 1: talking to people, so I like to walk and do
Speaker 1: the same thing. I try to walk for ten thousand
Speaker 1: steps a day. Um. I usually don't make that, but
Speaker 1: there's days where I do much more like on a weekend,
Speaker 1: I'll easily do twelve. This this weekend, I actually did
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand steps because I walked with a friend and
Speaker 1: then I went to a film festival where you had
Speaker 1: to walk all over So that was that was a
Speaker 1: crazy high one. But my husband actually walks about nineteen
Speaker 1: thousand steps because he walks the dogs and then he
Speaker 1: plays golf and then he never stops moving, so um,
Speaker 1: he could pretty much eat whatever he wants just by walking.
Speaker 1: So I do a lot of walking. I also do
Speaker 1: weight training minimum twice a week. I keep saying I'm
Speaker 1: going to push it to three, but right now I
Speaker 1: do twice a week. I also have a Peloton treadmill
Speaker 1: which is relatively new, which I'm going to start hopping
Speaker 1: on because that's how I love to push my cardio.
Speaker 1: And I don't do um the peloton bike as much
Speaker 1: anymore because I seem to always makes my neck a
Speaker 1: little tight. So I haven't quite mastered exactly where I'm
Speaker 1: going to sit. But I love moving my body because
Speaker 1: it really does help my brain as well as my body. YEA,
Speaker 1: So another question is do I have any tips for
Speaker 1: going into a board full of men? Oh? I I
Speaker 1: could probably do an hour at this, but yes. First
Speaker 1: of all, you have to make sure that you somehow
Speaker 1: take a really deep, big breath before you walk in.
Speaker 1: You have to make sure that you are dressed very
Speaker 1: comfortably what you feel your best and not what you
Speaker 1: think you should wear. And you need to certainly be
Speaker 1: there on time, if not a few minutes early, so
Speaker 1: you can kind of feel the room. And then my
Speaker 1: biggest advice when you're on a board with a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys is let them talk. Be reactive, speak loudly
Speaker 1: and interrupt when you feel you have something important to say,
Speaker 1: but don't sit on the edge of your chair trying
Speaker 1: to get a word in. Just set yourself back, listen,
Speaker 1: and know when you're going to speak. What is the
Speaker 1: advice I wish I knew when I was starting out
Speaker 1: in my career or creating my first business. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I wish I had a crystal ball that said you're
Speaker 1: gonna make it, don't worry, You're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: pay your rent and more. I wish I had that.
Speaker 1: But certainly the advice I would give other people starting out,
Speaker 1: it's just know that it requires an miss amount of work.
Speaker 1: It requires not giving up. It requires being able to
Speaker 1: know when to either take a pause or to shift
Speaker 1: when you need to, and sometimes just taking a pause
Speaker 1: because you don't know what to do until you figure
Speaker 1: out what you are doing, so you know, that's probably
Speaker 1: the best advice. And I also give people advice don't
Speaker 1: think that you need money to do what you're doing.
Speaker 1: There's ways to start out and do things with way
Speaker 1: less money, and it doesn't mean you're going to be
Speaker 1: successful just because you have investments. What is my ideal vacation? UM,
Speaker 1: I am someone that loves the beach. I love the ocean,
Speaker 1: I love the sand. I don't like swimming in the
Speaker 1: ocean in but I certainly like looking at it. My
Speaker 1: favorite vacation in the world is in the Bahamas. It's
Speaker 1: usually um when I have my family together, and probably
Speaker 1: it's during one of the holiday times, so I have
Speaker 1: less work, less obligations to hop on a zoom or
Speaker 1: on a phone call. But I find it really peaceful
Speaker 1: to be sitting on a beach, particularly not when it's hot.
Speaker 1: I don't like being at the beach when it's super hot.
Speaker 1: I like at the end of the day when the
Speaker 1: sun is going down. And whenever I am at the beach,
Speaker 1: I am definitely have a hat on um and there's
Speaker 1: always an umbrella and there's full on sunscreen. But I
Speaker 1: really do love the beach more than anything. Someone says.
Speaker 1: I always asked my guests this at the end of
Speaker 1: the show, But what is my advice that may help
Speaker 1: change someone's life? Really? Just stop, no, you got this
Speaker 1: that you could do this and it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: happen overnight. That you really could just go forward and
Speaker 1: just not be afraid to fail, because there really isn't
Speaker 1: such a thing as failure. It's just a message out
Speaker 1: there telling you to do something else or do it differently.
Speaker 1: But honestly, just keep going. You just got to keep
Speaker 1: going and eventually you get somewhere where you know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's where you should be, in other times it's where
Speaker 1: you didn't know that you should be. So just keep
Speaker 1: going straight and not stopping. Thank you guys so much
Speaker 1: for all these questions. I couldn't get to all of them,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy to answer as many as possible. So
Speaker 1: for any other questions I didn't get to answer, please
Speaker 1: go to our Instagram at the Important Things podcast and
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