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August 21, 2025 12 mins

Bethenny Skin Care Brand? Yay or nay? PLUS: How do you handle lost items?

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I've moved a lot of product, like a lot, okay,
and with major multi billion dollar companies that have told
me that they had discontented what I mean, fucking I
could tell you the discontent. There was a product that
wasn't being paid attention to at all. It was they
discontinued production on the Lorel Midnight Cream. I just found
it in the back of a Santa Barbara CVS. Like
it was like a lone wolf just sitting there. I'd

(00:33):
never seen it. I didn't understand what it was. It
was discontinued, not paid attention to. And I know this
because someone from Loreal told this to someone from iHeart
years ago, and iHeart was like, wait, this product that
they stopped making and like they had to start production
because of you.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm like what.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
And then I was in France talking to someone and
said what's your biggest category and they were like skincare
And I'm like, what were your big wins this year?
And they were like, it's a fifty billion dollar company.
They were like, well, the Lorel Midnight Cream because of you.
I was like, what the fuck are you talking? So
like we I moved the needle by just picking up
some archaic product, and if you ever saw the video,
you'd know why. If I thought I was gonna go
viral and make millions of dollars for Loreal, I wouldn't

(01:09):
have worn a japan A Ma TJ Max sweatshirt, had
black panda circles on my eyes, hadn't brushed my teeth,
had and washed my face.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Looked like I had hit.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
By a train twice because they didn't finish the job
off good enough. Anyway, went totally viral. Now they have
a real supermodel using my video, like a real supermodel
that you know of who cares.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was a great product. I loved it.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It was based on authenticity. I found the product at
a drugstore, was not anything or anybody yet and just
did a video about it like I was like, wait,
this feels like a five hundre all cream, Like I'm
not kidding, and it does. It's the richest of bitchest
of creams. And I just said it's a rich bitch cream.
If I thought I was doing a deal with Lorel,
I would not say rich bitch because they're like buy
the book advertisers. They don't fuck around with like rich

(01:52):
bitch language. Okay, So I just said whatever I wanted, okay,
and it broke the beauty Internet.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
The point is it was an authentic video. It holds
holds up today. It holds up today. There are videos
from three years ago that I did or yeah that
holds up today because like it was true. It wasn't
like some like I'm paid for the day. So I'm
just gonna say this thing about the shitty product because
every other influencer is talking about it this week, then

(02:20):
next week you never hear about it again. And some
brands went to like billion dollar brands because of it.
I will I will say there are exceptions like Road
Skincare by Hailey Beaber was a social media brand, so
is Selena Gomez. Those are the few cases that, like
Rihanna's brand that like social media really did help. Okay,

(02:40):
but it's a new world now and it has to
be true and it has to hold up because everyone
doesn't trust an influencer that's talking about thirty five beauty
products in one day, like you have two eyeballs.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I have made more.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Money off of beauty than any other category, and I
never talk about it because I can't just lie.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's not because it's some moral bulk. Yes, it is moral.
I'm not capable of it. I'm not capable of like
faking that something is good or it's bad. Now I'll
try a product and do a deal with the brand
because it's a very good product. Let's say it's a
more affordable vitamin sea cream, a more affordable vitamin C serrum. Now,

(03:22):
I believe you should be using vitamin C every day.
My favorite facialist years ago told me that I guess
free radicals, antioxidants, son, whatever it is. She trained me
to just do vitamin C cerrum every day. So there
are expensive ones that are one hundred and thirty dollars,
and there are complete dupe ones that they sell at
Target and on Amazon, and then there are like just

(03:43):
normal drug store ones. So I have tried multiple that
I like, and I believe that many of them do
the same thing. Do I know for a fact that
the one that's one hundred and thirty dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Is a lot better.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I have a feeling that two of them are a
lot better that are one hundred thirty dollars or just
high court quality because they have the vitamin C.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
But the way they feel in my face but.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I literally I don't know. I know that I take
care of my skin. I listen to what people tell me,
and I do the best I can. But I'm not
an expert. I don't use only one thing, so I
can't be a thousand percent positive. Where I can is
like an exfoliating wipe or an exfoliating pad, or like

(04:25):
a peel or something, or a hydrating cream or and yeah,
I guess I can with the serums because I feel
and smell like it has actual, intense, real not bullshit
scent to vitamin C, and I feel the way it
feels on my skin and how products perform over it.
But the point is there's not only one vitamin C serum.
So I might do business with a couple of different
brands over the course of time because I like different ones.

(04:47):
I also might find a new or different one and
get excited about that. But you only have two eyeballs,
one nose, one mouth, like you don't need. You couldn't
possibly be obsessed with eight products in one day to
the tune of all these like gasping influencers over this thing.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
So I don't do that much about it.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, I could be making hand over fist so
much money by doing it all day. But I just
it's unethical. It's why I haven't done my own beauty brand.
I've been asked by so many brands, and yes, I
know that there are people like Kylie and Hailey and
Selena that have become billionaires, and no one is more
credible in the skincare and beauty space, and no one
could like nail it better than I could. I just

(05:30):
don't want to. Is that weird? Like I like finding
different things. I like the creativity. I don't want to
be shackled to my own brand. Even if I could
be a billionaire, it makes me the most stupid person
in the world.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I just don't want to. I can't be honest about it.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
There are several cream serums, toners, lip products that I love.
I have some favorites, don't get me wrong, and I've
told you about them, same like foods.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
But like, I don't want to. As I'm sitting aroun, I'm.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Like, shit, I'm so stupid. I'd be on a yacht
right now instead of sitting here. But I love being
here and I love talking to you, and I love
going to my bathroom. In the Discoveries imagine if it
was like I was going to be a billionaire from
a skincare brand, but I was only allowed to talk
about my own products.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
What a fucking fraud. I couldn't do it, and I
wouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
That I'm only allowed because I have it would be
on my own brand. It's just like, why would you
believe me if I'm like, this is the best? No,
this is the best, there's a lot of good. I'd
have to come up with something that was so innovative
and different that I had to be able to I
could be able to tell you guys, like, listen, I
waited ten years, I finally did this thing because this
is the thing. But I don't know. Maybe one day

(06:41):
or maybe I'll just be like, Hi, here's a skincro line.
I think it's great. It's not the best of any
skincarel line. It's affordable, it's excellent, it has all the
things I do every day, and I'm giving it to you.
But trust me, you could buy ten other things from
ten other lines that would work.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know. Maybe i'd say that no idea. It
will come to me if it ever does.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Otherwise I won't be a billionaire I'll just be a
very wealthy woman and we'll still get that fun and
try different products. Or I would come a billionaire by
trying different products and just being honest about it and
doing my podcast and being a supermodel and writing books
and being a mom and saying fuck off to people
I don't like and things I don't want to do.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Or that.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
How do you get when you lose something? Like, tell
me exactly how you get. I want to know how
different people are with different things. My closest friend could
take two years to decide a wallpaper choice, Like she
could talk about a renovation. I could renovate six houses
in the time she could renovate her cosmetic store. Okay,

(08:00):
she when she has to pack for a trip, she
gets extremely stressed out, extremely overwhelmed.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
She's paralyzed. And it's by the choices.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
And my opinion is that it's by the choices because
she has so much stuff in her closet, because she's
a hoarder, a high end hoarder, who thinks one day
she'll want it and she can never get it back.
She doesn't realize that the world wide interwebs everything you
can get back, like ninety percent of the things. The
only thing I've ever had that I'm glad that I
still have that I couldn't get back is that Gucci
vintage dress we've talked about that I wore her very wedding.

(08:28):
But I could get it back. It's somewhere else, like
ten thousand dollars, but it would be hard to get back.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Or I could have it.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Made exactly to the specs. But whatever, most things you
can get back. So she has that weird anxiety about that.
I don't have that with packing. I walk up, I'm decisive,
I know what I'm gonna do. I shop my own closet.
I put it on a rack. I put jewelry with that.
I make it work. I'm excited about it. I was
sitting in my closet like toy story toys just waiting
to be picked. I don't shop for events, don't. I

(08:54):
don't want anything new. I hate stuff. I want nothing new.
I want to live in a padded cell with a
rolling rack for just what I need. Okay, so how
do you handle when you lose things? So I just
did a move and some boxes were sent and one
shoe came. Someone that works with me sent boxes very sloppily.
A first aid kit was smashed like it was very sloppy.
It triggered me. It makes me want to go crazy,

(09:16):
even though this stuff isn't worth anything.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
That broke.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
I once had someone that works with me send me
a box of non wrapped candles and I got a
box of glass and it like took over my entire
night and I wanted to cry. It was just like
the most stupid, thoughtless, disrespectful thing. I was very furious.
It was like unsafe. It just made me angry. And
again it was like worthless candles, but it was like

(09:38):
the symbol of what it meant, Like, is this what
you think of me? You just throw a bunch of
shit in a box, send it, pray for the best,
like So this was like that.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
But there was one shoe that came. I got one shoe.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Shoes are discontinued, ironically, and you can't really get them back.
I could find them if I keep hunting and trying,
but they're not that valuable and I don't value stuff
anymore and I don't care, so who cares? But it
was just like explain, someone fucking explained, where is the
goddamn shoe?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Where's the shoe. So yesterday I'm.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Looking for a purse. I'm like, where the fuck is
that purse? The purse is missing. There's a purse gone,
a small product, cross body purse. I also don't really
care about the purse that much. I don't care about
the purse. You could get it again, I could use
I just don't care.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I liked it. I wasn't dropping dead. It was cute.
Where is it? Then?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
A furkin, a faux blue burkin that a brand set me?
A brand set me? Then this will drive me outs
for two months? Now, this is something we don't need
to be focused on. I really don't, because I have
something wrong with me. But I was it them? Okay,
blue burkin fake, it's nothing, it's missing. So those three

(10:45):
half a shoe, half a pair of shoes, product, cross.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Body, and blue. But I start.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
So now, when you lose something, let's say it's the
dumbest little thing, it's a fucking hair clip. I start
to fix it. I waste energy on something I don't
need to waste energy on. Fixate And I say to myself,
what why you focus on this? Like what is actually happening?
You don't care, you don't care because to me, it's
like aid did someone steal be the one shoe they

(11:12):
didn't still want shoe? See, like one thing is more
telling than the next. You're like, okay, I could get
behind this, but like how did that get lost? That's bigger?
Like the blue faux burken? Like where where is that?
Like it couldn't be hidden in my house like you
go to sleeping like it'll turn up where the hell
is blue? Like I know every inch of this house.
I have nothing here because I've gotten rid of everything
because I vowed to not move here and recreate the

(11:34):
last house, which was like Influencer Central with like coffee
makers falling off of trees. Even though it was organized,
it just things hid. And this house is like no,
nothing's hiding. If I don't love it, I don't like it,
get at the fuck out, give it away. I don't
want it. I'm not overordering, I'm not taking, I'm not accepting,
I don't want it, not addressing this crowd at this time.
But where the fuck is at bt? So then what
it makes me think is like what else is missing?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
This is what I've noticed. This is the one mouse
that I saw. What's up under the floorboards.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
So yesterday, my whole day was like preoccupied with thinking
about this, like absolutely miffed as to where the fuck
these items could be, and like vaguely remember the last
time I saw them and don't.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like it's just weird. So I want to know how
you handle missing items
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