November 7, 2025 • 48 mins
Mary Payne talks with Megan O'Brien about her business, Ring My Belle, an in-home beauty service. We talk about the history of glam on our Housewives shows and all her housewives investors (Meredith, Guerdy, Luann, Cynthia, etc!). We chat about her time spent in Charleston, SC and the misogynistic law she worked to change on behalf of makeup artists and hair stylists in SC. Megan's company will have a "lash bar" at Bravocon! And, if you book a future appointment with RingMyBelle.com - you can come and get a special selfie with one of the housewives at her booth. Details are on her instagram @ringmybelle.co
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, everybody, welcome to Pink Shade. This is a bonus episode, guys,
and this is exciting. So I have today Meghan O'Brien.
She is the founder of a Ring My Bell.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I met Meghan through our mutual friend k Casey. You
guys know Kate. Meghan is the founder of a beauty company.
So it involves a makeup artists and hairstylists and spray
tanners and stuff that will come to your door. It's incredible.
I'm gonna be using them myself for Bravo con. Okay, Megan,
first of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Gry Paine, Okay, tell me about Ringing My Bell because
like this model of makeup artists and things coming to you,
I think kind of got popular for the uneral public
as an idea for watching Housewives because we're like, wait,
I can have.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Somebody come and do my makeup too.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
So I thought that was just a natural progression, was
to work with the housewives. And so I work with Meredith, Cynthia, Luiyanne,
Gretchen and Gerty.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And incredible, what an incredible group.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, because you know you might not be able to
and I mean, let's be honest, can they really afford
the air Mes bag either?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It depends what you read, right, so maybe you can't
have their bag or you can't have you know, a butler,
but you can get a blowout. You can get a blowout.
So I felt like to kind of make democratize if
you will, having a beauty squad come to your house.
We all need it. And when people would say, well,
(01:51):
who is your client, I'd say, a woman with.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
A head is my client?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
We all have had you know, maybe you're not going
to go to a premiere, but you do have your daughter.
Your daughter might have a prom, or you have a
wedding or a hot date or you know xyz, or
maybe it's Tuesday and you just want to blow out
to last year for the week. You know. But everybody
should have the same access. It shouldn't be something that
you have to live in a special zip code to have.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, so your company, you do have lots of
housewives that are investors. And we're talking about this because
this is coming out on Thursdays, which is when I
do my Bravo episodes. And I was like, well, this
is a perfect tie in to talk about it because
you do have these housewives that are investors, and tell
everybody what you're doing at Bravo Con. Okay, you guys know,
I'm going to Bravo Con and I went the last
(02:42):
couple of years as well, and it is they have
all the panels and stuff guys at Bravo cons in
the rooms you can go into and meet, and the photo.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Ops and all that, But they also have all these.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Booths and I'd say ninety percent of them are selling
housewives somehow related products. So you're going to have a
boot the Bravo Con for your makeup artist, But tell
tell every about exactly what we're doing with the selfies
and all that, because I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, I have never been to Bravocon before, but the
complaint that I would hear from everyone is waiting in line,
like yes, I have to meet this one, I have
to do this one. So this is really a very
VIP perk. We only have it for the first two
hundred people to do it because I don't want to
overwhelm my housewife investors and I don't want it to
(03:33):
be like so quick that you don't get your selfie
and I don't want to line. So this is a
very VIP perk. If you go to ring my Bell
and bell has an E at the end of it
for Southern Bell or Beautiful Bell. You go to ring
Mybell dot com, get a hair and makeup, and at
checkout where the promo code is put in the name
(03:54):
Meredith or Gretchen or Loui Anne or Gerty or saying god,
this is going to be me.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Gertie Beard, is Luyn Cynthia Yeah, oh my.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
God, how Cynthia Bailey?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh my gosh, she's the og puts and we will.
So you put that in your checkout. You book your
hair and makeup. You need hair and makeup anyway. You
don't have to get it for Bravo con. You can
get this hair and makeup for your wedding next year
or your daughter's prom or and you can get it whatever.
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I could be for a future time.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Totally, you can have this for a future time. We
are national. We are not in Alaska, so sorry Anchorage,
but everywhere else we are. Okay, So just book your
hair and makeup. Put the housewife who is my investor
that you want to meet in the checkout. Then someone
from our team is going to get back to you
(04:47):
and tell you what time they are going to be
at our lash bar where we're launching Viva lash Vegas.
But we're not telling the public. Like we're not telling
we don't want a big, huge cluster. So I am
not gonna say, hey, world, come and meet Cynthia at
two o'clock at Saturday. It's not gonna work, right. You
(05:08):
have to have you have to be on the list
to be told, because I don't want to stampede. I
don't want This is a VIP perk, so this is
like and here's the deal. You're gonna have your hair
and makeup done right, so you're gonna look really good
for yourselfie. So there you go, and that there's your
Christmas card for next year.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's interesting talking about the Stampedes. It is interesting because
two years ago when we were there, and the year
before when we were in New York, and it would
just be like, there's this certain door and you knew
when it opened, one of the housewives is coming out.
Like I'll give it an example, like Shannon, the door
came out when she was doing that lemon tincture product,
(05:46):
and so you're standing near her booth. You know, eventually
she's coming and you would see this door like really
far away in the convention hall open and these all
these people around, and Shannon would be coming, you know,
with people all around her, people are like screaming, screaming
and trying to rat trying to like take pictures like
over the the you know security that was walking her
to her booth, and then she just goes and stands
(06:07):
in her booth and holds the product and people just
walk by and take pictures. So it can be a stampede.
So like if people knew that, you know, Meredith is
going to be there Friday at this time, then yeah,
you're right, it would be like hundreds of people.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So you kind of have to have the appointment.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, you have to have the appointment because I have
to have it. Also, I need it in by November eleventh, guys,
because I have to work with their team and all
these women's teams. So we have to because Bravo works
some like workhorses, like they.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Are running from them to another, So.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I have to make sure you know that this is
a good time for them and then don't worry, we'll
get We will literally let you know what time they're
going to be there. But this is a perk, like
it's not going to be on my website or this
is like an insider deal.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and you posted it on your Instagram on ring
my Bell and I posted it on mind too, just
so you can see what it's about. And again, you guys,
just you can book a hair and makeup. It could
be for next year, but as long as you've got
it booked, then you can get this perk of this
fun selfie.
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of who I've met in person. I met Cynthia once,
I met Meredith once, had an actual conversation. And I
have had like a full dinner with lu Anne. She
(09:18):
probably doesn't remember. It was in twenty nineteen. Had a
full dinner at the Soho House in LA with my
friend Elsa Rosen. You know Lisa Rosen. She's a podcast
producer and she's friends with Kate. So I thought, but
she knew lu Anne and we were in town, so
(09:39):
we went to dinner with her.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh and yeah, and so all of.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
These women, I can't say any of them that I've
met in person in these situations where they're being paid
to be there to be nice. I've never run across
one housewife that was like rude or like hurry or
this is annoying. They're always so generous with their time
and so nice, and they always know the best angles
(10:04):
for the selfie so that you look good too, you know,
because this.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Is their job, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I think it's a great tell me about the lash
bar because my lash is always detail.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Okay, So Mary Payne really loves working with Bravo, and
I hope they send you so many streamers and things.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Because we're just the best.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Good luck.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I actually have had kind of a hard time with
NBC and Bravo because, yeah, to try to figure out
what I was going to have in my bar, and
you know, I am a woman business owner and this
isn't a huge business like this is me and I
have like assistance, but like you know, this isn't We're
not talking about like some huge company here. I have
(10:48):
Unilever when Johnson and Johnson does not own me, right,
I can't compete with you know, millions and millions of
dollars of budgets, and I know it's just not going
to happen. So I had to come up with something
and that I could I could do at our Bravo
con bar because I was told hair that was not
(11:11):
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Again, these are huge, huge, massive companies, and we were
saying a little bit of gossip. Bravo con makes almost
as much money for NBC as the Super Bowl. So
these are like kind of the budgets you're competing with.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, I could tell you from just even trying to
get like a high noon that costs sixteen dollars. I mean,
you know, everything is so expensive.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It's expensive, and it's very expensive to be there. So
they were saying, you know, well, what are you going
to sell in your booth or what are you going
to do in your booth? And I had to come
up with something, and I said, really on the spot,
I said, well, well that's where we're going to have
a lash bar and that's where we're launching Viva lash Vegas.
(11:55):
I'm like, I didn't have any lashes. So though I
didn't have any lashes, so I said Viva lash Vegas.
And then I thought, well, for people that don't want
to have these like really glamor Vegas eyes, I need
to come up with something else. So what I have
on right now is I have on the C suite
s E E S W E E T. And the
(12:17):
C suite is like for the day for zooms. You know,
if you don't necessarily need want to look like a
show girl, you know, the office nine to five, but
you want to look a little more awake, then that's
the c suite. So we have a night lash and
we have a day lash, and then we have our
very talented makeup artists, a lot of them. A lot
(12:39):
of our makeup artists, by the way, especially the girls
in our booth. One hundred percent of the girls in
our booth, I can tell you have worked on almost
all of the Housewives. So they're ones doing the smoky
eyes with our director, Rivyan Summers, who is amazing. So
that is that's what That's kind of the the backdrop,
you know, for our booth, and it's going to be
(13:00):
fun and.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So that is you can just come to that booth
and do that. And that has nothing to do with
the selfiesse that's like a special thing that you.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Have to know about. Actually, yes, you have to know
about that. To the hair makeup.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Are all of our stylists are they're interviewed, their audition
in their background checked. I've been working on this company
and staffing this company for two years. We really are
in every major city. If by some weird champs we're
not in your I would say we are within ten
miles of every major city. If we're not for some
reason in your city, I will find you somebody like
(13:36):
I personally will find you a great talented I like.
That is my promise to you. Please don't hear this
podcast and then book it in one hour if you
live four hours outside of somewhere in North Dakota, because
that's gonna be hard. But you know what I'm saying,
we can work with you here. And I had the idea.
(13:56):
So I was telling Mary Payne that I have spent
some time in the South because my idea when I
was launching this this website. So it's a website Ring
my Bell and Bell is like Southern Bell with the
E at the end. Ring my Bell dot com and
we have an act on the app store rober So
it's like Uber but instead of a car, you know,
(14:18):
you get your stylist, your makeup art nice or your
spray tanner. And my genius idea was, I am going
to go and I'm going to really test this in
a small market. I'm going to go and test it
in Charleston, South Carolina. I had been living in LA
for twenty six years. The crime was not getting better
here and I needed a break. So I went down
(14:41):
to Charleston and I said, you know what, this is
like the number one or number two spot for people
to get married in America, many bachelorette parties. And I
was Sash, I'm going to do my beta testing here.
I'm going to live here. I'm going to make a killing.
It's going to be amazing. I've made friends with like
(15:01):
everybody that's on Southern Charm, so I love them too,
and they're all clients, so that's great. So here I
am with this new business and I launched my business
only to find out my business is illegal in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
In Charleston.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, so I was like, wait, what year is it?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So the law was.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And I was able to change it for makeup artists,
I wasn't able to change it for hairdressers. So we
operate illegal. I'm like my or landscape. I have an
illegal business in Charleston. But I've put so much like
pressure on them. We were in People magazine and national
news and everything that they kind of have laid off
a little bit. But I was shocked to find out
that if you're a cosmatologist, I a woman, and you
(15:47):
work outside of brick and mortar salon in South Carolina,
you can lose your license. However, if you are a barber,
I e a man. You can work wherever you want
and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay. So like Madison on Southern Charm.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Is a hairstylist. But so she goes to Patricia's house
sometimes and does her hair. You're saying she could lose
her license over that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
She Yeah, that's illegal. So I don't think Patricia's I
don't know that Patricia's paying her. And also I was
trying to kind of shame South Carolina with my People
magazine article. So People Magazine did a big article that
said beauty app founder goes to change sexist South Carolina law.
And I thought these men and men would go, oh god,
(16:33):
that's horrible and change, and instead they doubled down and
they were really mad that I called them sexist, and
it was a whole thing. So we Madison is fabulous.
And Madison told me that she gets offers all the
time for brides that are literally like I will pay
you fifteen thousand dollars to do my hair and makeup,
(16:56):
Like my dream is for Madison to do my wedding,
and she turns them down because it's like she can't
because of who she is.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wow, that's fascinating. That's fascinating. So Madison can go to
Patricia's house and do her hair as long as she's
not getting paid, correct, But if Patricia came to her salon,
then it would be fine. Like that's wild, that's a
crazy but I mean, hey.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, So so I'm back in LA now. I was
in Charleston for two years. I did my best fight
in it, but I couldn't win. So I'm back in LA.
But do we do They don't bother me. I have
to say, like, nobody is going to be arrested, and
we do do hair and makeup all the time in Charleston.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So okay, hight here first, guys, she's a law breaker.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I'm a lawbry. I am a lawbreaker. They know that
about me though, because I told them when I was testifying,
I said, I just want you to all know that
before I sat here, I broke the law.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And they said, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And I said, I had hair and makeup come to
my hotel and they just kind of laughed. But because
it's so ridiculous, but you know what.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't know. You can't.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I couldn't change it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
So it is so ridiculous that it's so like, why
are we going to double down on this like this
as well so important?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Do we have bigger problems in the world?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, okay, so you've met all these housewives and you've
been them all through your business. Have you ever been
on a housewives show? Like in the background, No, I.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Have not, my my so, Sutton, you So, I've been
in LA for twenty six years before I went to Charleston,
and I you know, I'm very close to Beverly Hills
and one point lived in Beverly Hills, and so I
know all of them, you know what I mean, Like
I see them at dinner or it's Beverly Hills is
a small place, right, so like but you know, I
(18:46):
see Lisa and I see Kai. I you know, it's
kind of you kind of run in the same I
don't run in the in the Bravo circle. But like
we you know, it's you can all go to the
same restaurants. You all go, yeah, right, same charities, the
same party. It's not that big of a deal. And
you know they're all lovely. I haven't I haven't had
(19:07):
any kind of issue with any of them. I have
never been on the show. My company has been on
the show. Funny enough, not from an investor, but Sutton
reached out and she was doing a fashion show on
the season finale for her brand, and my Belle we
did all of the hair and makeup for Sutton's fashion
(19:27):
show for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for her her
clothing line. Her Sutton Clothing line did get.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
A little promo from that. Did they show like Your Love?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
They sure did. Yeah, they showed the girls and sudden
you know, she took pictures with all of them and
she she loved.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I mean, we did a great job.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
My girls are very, very talented, and we have so
many One of the things that happened where especially LA
and New York. Not that they're not super talented everywhere,
but especially in LA and New York. People find this
hard to believe, but it's true. We have a lot
of a list a list celebrity artists that work for us.
(20:07):
And how that happened was we had a Hollywood strike.
I don't know if you remember the Hollywood strike when anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
The business they had.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
A whole Hollywood strike and it was the industry hasn't
totally come back yet, but I would get, you know,
resumes and stuff from Kelly Clarkson's personal makeup artists or
like one of Nicole Kidman's or crazy crazy things. Yeah,
I would say looking at these resumes like you guys
have Emmys, like you really want to work it and
(20:39):
then go listen, I'm driving for Uber or I'm doing
posts or whatever, and much rather do make up for you.
I have a mortgage and the industry's so people are
really shocked at the level of talent that comes to
their house like the before and afters, we don't doctor them.
That's really how great our girls are. Our girls are excellent,
(21:00):
and the real hostwives use our girls all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So yeah, top to your talent really great.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, you do see on the Housewives show a lot.
You know that they are wherever they are, they're getting
their their hair and their makeup done, and you know
the Erica Girardi sort of Eric Jane started the whole
trend on Housewives of traveling with glam, Like wherever she went,
her glam.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Would go with her. She'd get them seats on the plane,
them rooms at the hotel.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And I think she might be regretting that financial decision, right,
now just.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Saying right right, I'm just saying like you could like
go to your go to a town as long as
it's you know, it's served by you guys, and like, okay,
well let me just call up somebody. If I know
they're going to be respectful or I mean respected rather
in the industry, then they'll come and they'll do just
as great as a job, as long as you can
like vocalize what you want.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You know, we're not much more than the blow dry bars,
and you know we say listen, we actually I think
you come out ahead because you're not paying for travel,
you're not paying for a babysitter, you're not paying for parking,
you're not get like just time and money. All you
have to do is answer the door with damp hair
and a towel for a blowout, well clean face. We
(22:15):
do your makeup updo just have your hair dry and
spray tand you know, just answer the door in the
robe and go nude or a bathing suit or whatever.
It's fine. This is a woman on woman business. And
the whole time that I've had this business, I can
tell you Craig from Southern Charm is a good client
(22:35):
of ours. But we don't have a lot of men.
So you know, we have some gay men that like spraytnds. Yeah,
we've had a couple bodybuilders that wanted spray hands in Vegas.
But ninety nine point ninety ninety nine, our client teller women.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Does Craig get spray Day's or is he getting his
hair done?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Hair? He does a lot of Craig is a lot
of promo for his store, So I feel like that
they're they're there just like powder up his nose and
like straighten his hair out a little bit for photo
shoots and things like that. Yeah, yeah, he's great. Our
girls love him. He is so polite and his team
is so wonderful and he's I mean, And of course
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she says can I take a selfie? Can we put
it on an Instagram? And he's not an investor, and
he still says yes.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You know, yeah, I met him one time too. I
went to one of his like pillow events, Like I
just went and was like, Hi, can I get a picture?
And he was totally nice. He was I was like,
let's do We're gonna do like just hold the pillow.
He goes, do you want to do a boomerang. We
could jump up and down like he was coming up
with suggestions.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I was like, Okay, yeah, it's cool. He's really cool.
So yeah, we have we have, really I have. Like
you know, if you wanted to talk about bad people
I've dealt with in.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hollywood, yes I do.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I do go a whole episode on that.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
But but I have to say, as far as like
the the people that I've worked with with Bravo, I've
been very lucky. We've had We've had great, great people,
and and you know, I'm trying to think they really
do all use us.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
They really do.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So have you ever had a regular person hire one
of your artists and be like, I would like the
Teresa Judais.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
At her wedding hair. I would like my hair to
be twelve feet high.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
We know we don't even have the capability to do that.
We don't. I actually want to be honest, I was
afraid to have any Okay, so I don't watch any
of the shows, which I have to say is like
amazing because people would say to me, oh my goodness, like,
what's it like dealing with Meredith, the most lovely, easiest
(24:45):
person to deal with? I'd I literally have no idea
what you're referencing, like like they all have to, I
think act a certain way to keep their jobs on
the shows. And I don't watch the shows because I
can tell you I don't deal.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
We don't have any drama.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I wish I could give you juicy stuff, but I
don't have any drama with any of them. They're all lovely,
they're professional, they are on time, they they're just like
they're you know, at the end of the day, the
people that stick around on Bravo and are like good
Bravo TV, would you say or however you they're business
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people and Bravo is a business, and staying on that
show is a business. So you know, the people that
I've dealt with have been around for long enough that
they get the game and they're kind of they're winning it,
you know. They they know how to play the game
because they're smart. So they're just smart business people and
they know I'm just trying to make them money. I'm
(25:43):
trying to grow this business. They're very supportive, you know.
They they get they get a fortune to make appearances
and things like that, and they want to come and
say hi to the fans that support my business. Because
they're involved in my business and they know it's a
small business, and they know, you know, I don't have
fifty thousand dollars to pay them to show up and
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cut a ribbon, you.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Know, yeah, right right right.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
So just the fact that they're they're willing to be
part of this like VIP insider perk type thing is
that speaks volumes because they can go to a they
can use that hour and make tens and tens of
thousands of dollars, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, they could just answer their cameos or whatever and
make so much money, you know. All right, let me
ask you about some hair and makeup question for ladies
of a certain age. Spraytnds. Okay, I've gotten spray TNS.
I like a spray tank because I am milky white,
and so sometimes you just do a little color. Now,
(26:45):
sometimes I'm just like a Jurgen's lotion mixed with my.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Lession and I'm good.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, the spreetand for me is great, but because I
have like sun spots on my legs from all the
damage that you do to yourself, you know when you're younger,
and we laid out baby old because we didn't know
sun damage but what I found with the spraytn is
if I have like sunspots on my legs, when you
do a spray tann, it enhances, it makes it look worse,
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and now it look like I have like leprosy.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
No, no, oh, Harry, I don't know. I wish I
could tell you.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
There are a way to avoid that.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I was going to ask you, I mean, could we
I feel like I'm on Can we phone a friend?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Read? Is there like a phone a friend I can
use for this?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I don't. I actually do not do this perform the services.
You know, my beauty director goes with me, and how
we do it is well, you know, Cynthia will put
up on her Instagram like, hey Atlanta, ridden my bell
is in your city, and if you're in, if you're
a talented makeup artist or spray tanner or you know, hairstylist,
(27:53):
please email them and they'll get back to you. And
then I rent an airbnb for week and I bring
my my beauty director with me and we have like
four days where they come and they either they bring
a model or that they do the you know, we
do the whole thing and they do it all there
and my I know what I like and it looks good.
(28:14):
But I mean, I'm not a professional, so my beauty
director will be there and that's how we do it.
So I don't I really don't know. I'm just I'm
just enore meus.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, okay, let me ask you this. Do you have
an opinion on ladies of a certain age of which
I'm just trying to like I am, you know over
fifty five?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What is our great?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
You look very good?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well, you know I told you beforehand I had to
put a little filter on here because.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Every same we all no, no, you look wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What do you think is like the biggest beauty mistake?
I mean I see a lot of beauty mistakes intelligence,
especially on my TLC shows with like the giant lashes, yeah,
or the makeup is so like cakey and we're all
like striving to look our best so that we don't
look like that. But I do think some of these
ladies housewives, especially on camera, have to wear more makeup
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than they would in a normal day because you're on camera,
So how could like what is what do you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Think is a beauty mistake?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Ladies of a certain age make besides the giant olashes
that look insane.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You know, I think that as we get older, it's unfortunately.
I mean, I'm due for my facelift. I'm going to
go get my face done in January because I can't anymore.
I thought it.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I think, I know.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I told I don't know what this is rated, but
I said, I put eyeshadow on now, and I feel
like it's putting it on like a man's ball sack
and it's still good. So we can't. I need to
lift everything up. This is just like so I feel
like less, less is more and foundation. See, I feel
(29:55):
like foundation really can aid you with more mature skin,
because yeah, into the creeks, in the in the cracks.
But I am a big I am the worst as
far as like natural. I wrote beauty for a long time,
you know. I wrote for Harper's Bizarre and I I've
been in the but I have been in the beauty
industry for like twenty six years. I have there's a
(30:17):
product of that we work with that I love a
lot called Mimosa Laine. It is a sun so like
you were saying, this makes me think, so the woman
that created Mimosa Laane. It's really cool she was an
esthetician for a long time and she put self tanner
in the face serum. So you know how sprays hands
(30:41):
can dry you out. Yes, yes, so this has like
vitamin D and vitamin C and all these anti aging
things in it. But also it gives.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
You a really nice glow.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
So sometimes we have our makeup artists use out on
people before and it only it only.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Takes a minute to dry, So sometimes.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
We have our makeup artists use that on people as
a primer because then when they wash their face at
the end of you know, the evening, their event and
make up up, they're left with like a nice, healthy glow.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, all right, I would I really like.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
That mimosalaine serum with the self tanner in it. I
think it's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You sent me.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You sent me a huge bag of stuff, so I
wonder if that's in there.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I'll have to go yeah, yeah, I hope it is,
because it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
When I get my makeup done, I'm going to bring
the lashes that you sent me.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Are you going to bring Viva lash Vegas the night
ones or the day ones?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Day ones?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I gotta wear day lashes even in the night time
because I have little, tiny, beady, little possum eyes, so
I have to wear small lashes.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
It won't look We're like so mean about ourselves your eyes.
I know we're awful. Stop that, Mary Payne, like, don't
talk about yourself like that.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I know I have to.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
How did you get into this? Now?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Were you? What is your favorite Bravo show?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Well, I would say right now Real House Has of
Salt Lake City is my favorite. But in the past
it was always Vanderpump Rules, which now has moved into
the Valley. But I love all the housewives. I watch
all of them. I've watched every single one, every single episode,
every single season. But right now it's Salt Lake City.
(32:21):
And I met Meredith and Brooks at Bravo Con two
years ago and they were they were very nice, very nice.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
So beautiful is and she's she's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That's the thing to these women.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
They they really look great in person as well, Like.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, you don't see in person, they don't look like
they have on that cakey makeup, I mean a little.
Sometimes you see them and then you look in the
pictures and it doesn't look like that. That's why I
like when i'm getting my makeup done. I'm always like,
oh my god, now I look like a full drag queen.
Like no, I promise in the pictures you won't well right,
and then you and you don't, And I think, I
guess that's the trick of a good makeup artist to
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make you like where you look so great in the pictures.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah, you are always camera makeup is always heavier.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
The camera's rough.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I mean with makeup, it's more flattering, and it always
puts ten pounds on you.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Mm hm oh.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, you're always like gotta. You're like gotta left the
house feeling pretty good, but dang.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And you stand next to these people and they're they're
like I I hate it because we do photoships and
they show up. I'm like, oh god, I was having
like a good day and they're all they're all skinny.
They're all really skinny and tall.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Everybody's tall. There are a few that aren't very tall.
Angie K from Salt Lake City, she's very short. I
met her last two years ago as well, But most
of them were like like Cynthia Bailey's like glamazon.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Like tall and the model yeah a model.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Say Lun a model Okay, so that was okay, what
about treatments and like at home devices? What's your thought
on that? I mean if you used to write about
the beauty industry, Yeah, is Guinea Pig. So I love
that I had, so so I would do treatments. Okay,
(34:02):
So I mean I was before Instagram, right. So I
did a.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Story called I'm a Size zero and I had lightp
bo section and I ended up talking about it on
Good Morning America because the article so I wrote about
it for Harper's Bizarre A size zero and I had
light bo section, and it went like my stomach was
a bigger story than isis like everybody my stomach was
(34:28):
everywhere because the article was about that. I you know,
I was. This article was more than ten years ago.
But I was really a small person everywhere except my stomach.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
So I would go to the dry.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Cleaners or the nail salon or you know wherever, and
people would always congratulate me on my baby I know,
which was fine, but I wasn't pregnant.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Right right, right, Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I would actually have people ar with me where I go, oh,
you know, I just put weight there, and they go, oh, no, girl,
you're pregnant, like you're pregnant. And I was like, this
is ridiculous. So then I did all of this. I
worked out, I did, I did the whole thing, only protein,
I stayed away from alcohol. I did everything, and then
everything else got really tighter, and then my stomach looked
(35:20):
even bigger. So like this is this is horrible. So
I went and they and so good morning America. Actually
they brought on a doctor that said I wasn't crazy
that some people put fat on. Okay, so some people
put fat where it SIPs on the muscle kind of
like how I'm really lucky with this like double chin
(35:41):
thing here too, like that, that's why I want to
get everything picked up. Is like you can exercise all
day long. Yeah, you're not getting rid of your double
like this when we get old. I'm sorry, a lot
of us get this turkey thing and you can think
thank your parents for that. Apparently, same thing with some
people that put weight on and there's like above the muscle.
Like I could have sat there and done like you know,
(36:04):
sit ups all day and there was nothing that they
could do except if I want to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Sorry, they just sucked it up.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
So that is what I wrote the story about, because
it was just like you know, so of course that
went viral because I sounded like a total lunatic because
what kind of size zero person gets liposelections?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So that's right.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
But I mean I've done, you know, I've done all
sorts of things, and I don't. You know, everybody's going
to get mad at me because I don't think they work.
I really don't. They say, well, what about the late
microhone needling. I think the micro needling does does do
a lot of stuff for discoloration and age bots and
all that. But I've done the la I've done the lasers,
(36:43):
and I've done it, and I think, unfortunately, you just
gotta I'm sorry. I think we just tell you just
I don't. I wish I could tell you there's a
magic laser out there that's going to take you know,
ten years off you, but I don't think there is,
or I haven't found it yet.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You know, I just did. I just did a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I did a laser and it's called some sort of
IPL and then a cool peel and I mean literally,
it's practically the price of a Bravocon ticket to get it.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Done.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
But it's crazy because then my skin, which is normally
very freckly, there's like no freckles.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
It's like starting fresh it right off, right, like burn
it all off.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yes, yeah, I think that. No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I think those things work for like texture, yeah, thoughts
and things like that, but as far as like it's
not going to lift your skin owls, yeah, that's it's like.
And that's what bothers me is my you know, the
jowls and the neck and all that jazz you know,
so so.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Well, I think it was Nora Evron that wrote a
book I feel bad about my neck, right, And it's
like when she got to a certain age, everybody's sitting
around and their little collars are all trying to hide
their neck, you know, and and you know, you go,
and I mean I go and I get botox and stuff,
and they do it all everywhere. But is like still,
you know, I've still got the stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I've still got the stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And I will take a surgery and a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
In a heartbeat. And that's so and you know what
I have to say, Like I said, I don't watch
the shows, but I do know. I read page six
like it's going out of style, Like yeah, okay, I
hit refresh on page six like constantly, so I know,
like who's being robbed, who's declaring bankruptcy? Right, like, well, page.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Six writes about it. I get it.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
So I do think it is refreshing. Actually, one of
the things about Housewives is, for better or worse, they
have normalized facelifts, and they've normalized you know whatever like
that Shannon, the one that you spoke about how she
was talking. I believe that's someone with the facelift that
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got into like I know, because she was like suing
someone for not paying for you know, some crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Shannon Badoor and John Jansen.
Yes he paid, he paid for her face left and
the new suit her for the money back.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
But they were dating at the time and yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, twenty years ago, no one would even admit that
they had a facelift. And then that's why when I
was doing the stuff for Harper's or anything, really, I
was really honest about it about the light Bob and this,
because it's just I don't think it's fair when especially
women in the public eye, like how you know, j
Low is like, oh, you know, I just woke up
(39:22):
like this, Well here, glat, I mean, come on, So
I just think, like it is it? Should we all
accept ourselves and be happy? And beauty is within? And
they say, yes, beauty comes from within, it comes from
within like powders and packages and you know whatever, But really,
sure should we all have it be beautiful on the
inside and that should be enough? Sure, however, we all know,
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we know, and I think that there is something somewhat
refreshing that they are very honest about the procedures that
they get, so that you're not someone that is so
you know, watches these people and Bravo's given an audience,
you know, for women in their late fifties and sixties,
(40:04):
and I think Patricia is probably what almost eighty, I hope, right.
And you know when NBC and when they used to
talk about shows for old people, they meant shows that
were people were over the age of thirty five on them.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I mean really, yeah, yeah, yeah, you think, yeah, you're right.
And I do love that about our ladies on Bravo
because someone was like, these people are my same age.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Now, granted I don't have access to col Richards type money.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
But you know I can, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Bring my money, you bring? I do?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I do?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Again, that was a good point.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
You may at the beginning like you may not have
the twenty five thousand dollars or may bag, but you
can get your makeup done and look cute for.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
A night, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, and again I get like your point was how
many of them do as well?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Okay, but let's talk about this, okay.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
So Ring my Bell is going to do my makeup
for the braw Con event that I'm having on Saturday,
November fifteen with Ron Dailey. That's what I'm going to
have a makeup done. I'll be sure to tag you
and all that. I'm very excited about it. I've had
my makeup done professionally a couple of times, and I'm
the kind I don't like how they turn you away
from the mirror so you can't look. I don't like that,
(41:18):
but I know they have to do that. So you
don't like me comment the whole time, but I also
like to.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Know you're a commenter. I'll put it in.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I have a commenter, and I don't like a lot
of makeup and whenever they do it I'm always like,
we're gonna have to take it down. We're gonna have
to take it down. Like I don't like a lot
of makeup.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
So how our business works, we can't do this. If
somebody orders, you know, like one day in advance, and
I have to say, even though we.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Are like on demand, and I don't know why I.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Ever did that because it's so much stress. But even
though we are on demand, I would say, most people
order like a week in advance, which is great.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
You know you have something, yes, right, great now.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Because then what happens is my assistant two days before
the appointment, she sends you an email just confirming everything,
and she says, please respond with a picture of what
you look like and what you would like to look like.
And then once we have that, before these stylists gets
(42:17):
to your house, the stylist knows what you look like
and what you like to what you would like to
look like, which is like, it just helps us stylists.
Those bags are heavy, you know what, like, so they
know they don't want to get somewhere and have somebody say,
you know, I was I was really looking for you know, X,
Y and Z. And we want to make sure that
we have everything completely prepared, so like we will reach
(42:41):
out to you Mary Payne and say, what is like
your goal to look like that night and make sure
that we deliver on it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
We don't like some guy.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
And then at the end of every and some people
hate this and I'm sorry, but your stylist gets in
trouble if they don't do it, because.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
It takes two seconds.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
We just have a survey that says like, are you happy, yeah,
and then it goes back to our company and it
just makes us. It keeps us, you know, on our
toes because we you know, every stylist we actually our
reviews are are excellent. Like I said, we have excellent,
excellent reviews, but if something is not excellent, we want
(43:22):
to know because we want to make sure that we
have a really great company and that we provide really
great service. Kate Casey used us for her daughter's prom
and she was thrilled. So that made me happy, you know,
especially we have a pretty we have a pretty exclusive
(43:43):
even though our prices aren't crazy, We're not cheap. We're
we're not bargain basement, okay we're not, but we're not
like so cost prohibitive that you're like, oh my god,
I could never use the service because our blowouts are
one hundred and fifteen dollars and that includes everything, and
I think, you know, I think the blowout bars now
we're all about one hundred. And then again, you don't
(44:03):
need a babysitter, you don't need to page you have
to go.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
You don't go.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
Anywhere you know you're paying for convenience. And by the way,
I don't know if you've been to the grocery store lately,
but that's like a bag to groceres so, right, So
we want to make it so that it is something
that you feel is really worth it. Yeahcause our client
I have to say, our client retention is very high.
(44:28):
We have people that use us, some of them, like
you know, we're in wealthy areas. We're in Greenwich, Connecticut,
We're in Palm Beach, We're in Scottsdale.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And we have some women that do use us once.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
A week, right because they can, right, because they can't.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yeah, But most people like me, I will do it
like once a year for like a big event if
I know there's got to be pictures, or if it's
like a wedding or anything like that. You know that,
And that's interesting asking you about weddings too, because like
at my niece's wedding a few years ago, they had
like four makeup artists there so the bridesmaids could come
in and then like us as like the ants, like
we could go in and at the last minute they
(45:02):
just kind of pop some lashes on us and helped
us so we didn't look so washed out. So it's
it's uh, and those lashes were crazy. I remember thinking, like,
these lashes are too big, and then I look at
the pictures. I'm like, shouldn't it great?
Speaker 4 (45:14):
No, really, I think.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, they were just for me. Just I think they
probably looked great in the pictures. But to me, I
was like, I look like I have butterflies that landed
on my face. So I will let when, uh, will
you guys call me a couple of days before I'll
light you know, like I don't. I'm like a I'm
kind of like a natural looking girl.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
But for a.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
Picture, we're gonna So she's gonna email you and then
you respond with what either a picture of yourself where
you're like I looked amazing in this fear yes, or
if you have like a celebrity or just somebody off
the internet that you say, I like this s glowy look,
or I like this smoky look. Right, So, because everybody's
definition of everything is a little different. So if you
(45:55):
have a picture, it says a thousand words, we know
what we're looking at, we know what you want. There's
not any miscommunication. We can see it right there. And
then also you can like reference it and go, you know,
I screenshoted this and I replied to the email with this,
but actually looking at it, now, do you have anything
that's maybe a little more nude for my lip or
a little I would say our most popular and I
(46:19):
hate to say it because I'm so sick of them,
but it's still the same thing. Like I still get
and I say, Okay, what do you want to look like?
And nine times out of ten it's a picture of
Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
I just have to say, it's got to be a Kardashian.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Y is it is? It always is.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm always like, oh great, here we go like there
And here's the best part too, is they'll say I
just want something supernatural, and I'm like, all right, amazing,
Just send me the picture of what you want to
look like. And then they literally send a picture of
Kim Kardashian briand and hair and makeup for probably eight
hours when they send the picture, and like, all right,
so that's why we need the picture because everybody's definition
(46:57):
of natural apparently is different.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, right right, that's so funny. Yeah, I would like
to look natural like Kim Kardashian. Listen, she's a beautiful girl,
just like j Loo j Loo. Just no drinking in
eight hours of sleep and that's how she looks as good.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
As she does, right, sure, sure she does.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Don't hang up, but everybody make sure you're following Ring
my Bell with an with A with an L, ring
my Bell with an E, ring.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
My Bell Co. On Instagram. And we're going to start
giveaways and things like that too, you know. But like
I said, we will not be posting the time that
the housewives will be at our booth. You have to
order for that because we are.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Not We'll have to have the appointment. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Yeah, we don't want to stampede and we want to
really like VIP experience, and you're not going to get
that if it's a whole you know, cluster.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Yeah, Okay, good, all right, So everybody go to ring
my Bell dot Co with an E on Instagram and
you'll see all the information there about how to sign up.
And I will see you at Bravo kN as well.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
Ring my bell dot com book your appointments and our
instagram is at ring my Bell Co. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
You'll see all the housewives there and all the gorgeous
pictures and stuff.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah, yeah, thank you so much. It was lovely to meet.
Thank you so much, and I can't wait to see
you soon.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I know I'll see you next week
Hey, everybody, welcome to Pink Shade. This is a bonus episode, guys,
and this is exciting. So I have today Meghan O'Brien.
She is the founder of a Ring My Bell.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I met Meghan through our mutual friend k Casey. You
guys know Kate. Meghan is the founder of a beauty company.
So it involves a makeup artists and hairstylists and spray
tanners and stuff that will come to your door. It's incredible.
I'm gonna be using them myself for Bravo con. Okay, Megan,
first of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Gry Paine, Okay, tell me about Ringing My Bell because
like this model of makeup artists and things coming to you,
I think kind of got popular for the uneral public
as an idea for watching Housewives because we're like, wait,
I can have.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Somebody come and do my makeup too.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
So I thought that was just a natural progression, was
to work with the housewives. And so I work with Meredith, Cynthia, Luiyanne,
Gretchen and Gerty.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And incredible, what an incredible group.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, because you know you might not be able to
and I mean, let's be honest, can they really afford
the air Mes bag either?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It depends what you read, right, so maybe you can't
have their bag or you can't have you know, a butler,
but you can get a blowout. You can get a blowout.
So I felt like to kind of make democratize if
you will, having a beauty squad come to your house.
We all need it. And when people would say, well,
(01:51):
who is your client, I'd say, a woman with.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
A head is my client?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
We all have had you know, maybe you're not going
to go to a premiere, but you do have your daughter.
Your daughter might have a prom, or you have a
wedding or a hot date or you know xyz, or
maybe it's Tuesday and you just want to blow out
to last year for the week. You know. But everybody
should have the same access. It shouldn't be something that
you have to live in a special zip code to have.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, so your company, you do have lots of
housewives that are investors. And we're talking about this because
this is coming out on Thursdays, which is when I
do my Bravo episodes. And I was like, well, this
is a perfect tie in to talk about it because
you do have these housewives that are investors, and tell
everybody what you're doing at Bravo Con. Okay, you guys know,
I'm going to Bravo Con and I went the last
(02:42):
couple of years as well, and it is they have
all the panels and stuff guys at Bravo cons in
the rooms you can go into and meet, and the photo.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Ops and all that, But they also have all these.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Booths and I'd say ninety percent of them are selling
housewives somehow related products. So you're going to have a
boot the Bravo Con for your makeup artist, But tell
tell every about exactly what we're doing with the selfies
and all that, because I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, I have never been to Bravocon before, but the
complaint that I would hear from everyone is waiting in line,
like yes, I have to meet this one, I have
to do this one. So this is really a very
VIP perk. We only have it for the first two
hundred people to do it because I don't want to
overwhelm my housewife investors and I don't want it to
(03:33):
be like so quick that you don't get your selfie
and I don't want to line. So this is a
very VIP perk. If you go to ring my Bell
and bell has an E at the end of it
for Southern Bell or Beautiful Bell. You go to ring
Mybell dot com, get a hair and makeup, and at
checkout where the promo code is put in the name
(03:54):
Meredith or Gretchen or Loui Anne or Gerty or saying god,
this is going to be me.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Gertie Beard, is Luyn Cynthia Yeah, oh my.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
God, how Cynthia Bailey?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh my gosh, she's the og puts and we will.
So you put that in your checkout. You book your
hair and makeup. You need hair and makeup anyway. You
don't have to get it for Bravo con. You can
get this hair and makeup for your wedding next year
or your daughter's prom or and you can get it whatever.
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I could be for a future time.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Totally, you can have this for a future time. We
are national. We are not in Alaska, so sorry Anchorage,
but everywhere else we are. Okay, So just book your
hair and makeup. Put the housewife who is my investor
that you want to meet in the checkout. Then someone
from our team is going to get back to you
(04:47):
and tell you what time they are going to be
at our lash bar where we're launching Viva lash Vegas.
But we're not telling the public. Like we're not telling
we don't want a big, huge cluster. So I am
not gonna say, hey, world, come and meet Cynthia at
two o'clock at Saturday. It's not gonna work, right. You
(05:08):
have to have you have to be on the list
to be told, because I don't want to stampede. I
don't want This is a VIP perk, so this is
like and here's the deal. You're gonna have your hair
and makeup done right, so you're gonna look really good
for yourselfie. So there you go, and that there's your
Christmas card for next year.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's interesting talking about the Stampedes. It is interesting because
two years ago when we were there, and the year
before when we were in New York, and it would
just be like, there's this certain door and you knew
when it opened, one of the housewives is coming out.
Like I'll give it an example, like Shannon, the door
came out when she was doing that lemon tincture product,
(05:46):
and so you're standing near her booth. You know, eventually
she's coming and you would see this door like really
far away in the convention hall open and these all
these people around, and Shannon would be coming, you know,
with people all around her, people are like screaming, screaming
and trying to rat trying to like take pictures like
over the the you know security that was walking her
to her booth, and then she just goes and stands
(06:07):
in her booth and holds the product and people just
walk by and take pictures. So it can be a stampede.
So like if people knew that, you know, Meredith is
going to be there Friday at this time, then yeah,
you're right, it would be like hundreds of people.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So you kind of have to have the appointment.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, you have to have the appointment because I have
to have it. Also, I need it in by November eleventh, guys,
because I have to work with their team and all
these women's teams. So we have to because Bravo works
some like workhorses, like they.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Are running from them to another, So.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I have to make sure you know that this is
a good time for them and then don't worry, we'll
get We will literally let you know what time they're
going to be there. But this is a perk, like
it's not going to be on my website or this
is like an insider deal.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and you posted it on your Instagram on ring
my Bell and I posted it on mind too, just
so you can see what it's about. And again, you guys,
just you can book a hair and makeup. It could
be for next year, but as long as you've got
it booked, then you can get this perk of this
fun selfie.
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of who I've met in person. I met Cynthia once,
I met Meredith once, had an actual conversation. And I
have had like a full dinner with lu Anne. She
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probably doesn't remember. It was in twenty nineteen. Had a
full dinner at the Soho House in LA with my
friend Elsa Rosen. You know Lisa Rosen. She's a podcast
producer and she's friends with Kate. So I thought, but
she knew lu Anne and we were in town, so
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we went to dinner with her.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh and yeah, and so all of.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
These women, I can't say any of them that I've
met in person in these situations where they're being paid
to be there to be nice. I've never run across
one housewife that was like rude or like hurry or
this is annoying. They're always so generous with their time
and so nice, and they always know the best angles
(10:04):
for the selfie so that you look good too, you know,
because this.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Is their job, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I think it's a great tell me about the lash
bar because my lash is always detail.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Okay, So Mary Payne really loves working with Bravo, and
I hope they send you so many streamers and things.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Because we're just the best.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Good luck.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I actually have had kind of a hard time with
NBC and Bravo because, yeah, to try to figure out
what I was going to have in my bar, and
you know, I am a woman business owner and this
isn't a huge business like this is me and I
have like assistance, but like you know, this isn't We're
not talking about like some huge company here. I have
(10:48):
Unilever when Johnson and Johnson does not own me, right,
I can't compete with you know, millions and millions of
dollars of budgets, and I know it's just not going
to happen. So I had to come up with something
and that I could I could do at our Bravo
con bar because I was told hair that was not
(11:11):
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Again, these are huge, huge, massive companies, and we were
saying a little bit of gossip. Bravo con makes almost
as much money for NBC as the Super Bowl. So
these are like kind of the budgets you're competing with.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, I could tell you from just even trying to
get like a high noon that costs sixteen dollars. I mean,
you know, everything is so expensive.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It's expensive, and it's very expensive to be there. So
they were saying, you know, well, what are you going
to sell in your booth or what are you going
to do in your booth? And I had to come
up with something, and I said, really on the spot,
I said, well, well that's where we're going to have
a lash bar and that's where we're launching Viva lash Vegas.
(11:55):
I'm like, I didn't have any lashes. So though I
didn't have any lashes, so I said Viva lash Vegas.
And then I thought, well, for people that don't want
to have these like really glamor Vegas eyes, I need
to come up with something else. So what I have
on right now is I have on the C suite
s E E S W E E T. And the
(12:17):
C suite is like for the day for zooms. You know,
if you don't necessarily need want to look like a
show girl, you know, the office nine to five, but
you want to look a little more awake, then that's
the c suite. So we have a night lash and
we have a day lash, and then we have our
very talented makeup artists, a lot of them. A lot
(12:39):
of our makeup artists, by the way, especially the girls
in our booth. One hundred percent of the girls in
our booth, I can tell you have worked on almost
all of the Housewives. So they're ones doing the smoky
eyes with our director, Rivyan Summers, who is amazing. So
that is that's what That's kind of the the backdrop,
you know, for our booth, and it's going to be
(13:00):
fun and.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So that is you can just come to that booth
and do that. And that has nothing to do with
the selfiesse that's like a special thing that you.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Have to know about. Actually, yes, you have to know
about that. To the hair makeup.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Are all of our stylists are they're interviewed, their audition
in their background checked. I've been working on this company
and staffing this company for two years. We really are
in every major city. If by some weird champs we're
not in your I would say we are within ten
miles of every major city. If we're not for some
reason in your city, I will find you somebody like
(13:36):
I personally will find you a great talented I like.
That is my promise to you. Please don't hear this
podcast and then book it in one hour if you
live four hours outside of somewhere in North Dakota, because
that's gonna be hard. But you know what I'm saying,
we can work with you here. And I had the idea.
(13:56):
So I was telling Mary Payne that I have spent
some time in the South because my idea when I
was launching this this website. So it's a website Ring
my Bell and Bell is like Southern Bell with the
E at the end. Ring my Bell dot com and
we have an act on the app store rober So
it's like Uber but instead of a car, you know,
(14:18):
you get your stylist, your makeup art nice or your
spray tanner. And my genius idea was, I am going
to go and I'm going to really test this in
a small market. I'm going to go and test it
in Charleston, South Carolina. I had been living in LA
for twenty six years. The crime was not getting better
here and I needed a break. So I went down
(14:41):
to Charleston and I said, you know what, this is
like the number one or number two spot for people
to get married in America, many bachelorette parties. And I
was Sash, I'm going to do my beta testing here.
I'm going to live here. I'm going to make a killing.
It's going to be amazing. I've made friends with like
(15:01):
everybody that's on Southern Charm, so I love them too,
and they're all clients, so that's great. So here I
am with this new business and I launched my business
only to find out my business is illegal in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
In Charleston.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, so I was like, wait, what year is it?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So the law was.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And I was able to change it for makeup artists,
I wasn't able to change it for hairdressers. So we
operate illegal. I'm like my or landscape. I have an
illegal business in Charleston. But I've put so much like
pressure on them. We were in People magazine and national
news and everything that they kind of have laid off
a little bit. But I was shocked to find out
that if you're a cosmatologist, I a woman, and you
(15:47):
work outside of brick and mortar salon in South Carolina,
you can lose your license. However, if you are a barber,
I e a man. You can work wherever you want
and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay. So like Madison on Southern Charm.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Is a hairstylist. But so she goes to Patricia's house
sometimes and does her hair. You're saying she could lose
her license over that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
She Yeah, that's illegal. So I don't think Patricia's I
don't know that Patricia's paying her. And also I was
trying to kind of shame South Carolina with my People
magazine article. So People Magazine did a big article that
said beauty app founder goes to change sexist South Carolina law.
And I thought these men and men would go, oh god,
(16:33):
that's horrible and change, and instead they doubled down and
they were really mad that I called them sexist, and
it was a whole thing. So we Madison is fabulous.
And Madison told me that she gets offers all the
time for brides that are literally like I will pay
you fifteen thousand dollars to do my hair and makeup,
(16:56):
Like my dream is for Madison to do my wedding,
and she turns them down because it's like she can't
because of who she is.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wow, that's fascinating. That's fascinating. So Madison can go to
Patricia's house and do her hair as long as she's
not getting paid, correct, But if Patricia came to her salon,
then it would be fine. Like that's wild, that's a
crazy but I mean, hey.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, So so I'm back in LA now. I was
in Charleston for two years. I did my best fight
in it, but I couldn't win. So I'm back in LA.
But do we do They don't bother me. I have
to say, like, nobody is going to be arrested, and
we do do hair and makeup all the time in Charleston.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So okay, hight here first, guys, she's a law breaker.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I'm a lawbry. I am a lawbreaker. They know that
about me though, because I told them when I was testifying,
I said, I just want you to all know that
before I sat here, I broke the law.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And they said, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And I said, I had hair and makeup come to
my hotel and they just kind of laughed. But because
it's so ridiculous, but you know what.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't know. You can't.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I couldn't change it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
So it is so ridiculous that it's so like, why
are we going to double down on this like this
as well so important?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Do we have bigger problems in the world?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, okay, so you've met all these housewives and you've
been them all through your business. Have you ever been
on a housewives show? Like in the background, No, I.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Have not, my my so, Sutton, you So, I've been
in LA for twenty six years before I went to Charleston,
and I you know, I'm very close to Beverly Hills
and one point lived in Beverly Hills, and so I
know all of them, you know what I mean, Like
I see them at dinner or it's Beverly Hills is
a small place, right, so like but you know, I
(18:46):
see Lisa and I see Kai. I you know, it's
kind of you kind of run in the same I
don't run in the in the Bravo circle. But like
we you know, it's you can all go to the
same restaurants. You all go, yeah, right, same charities, the
same party. It's not that big of a deal. And
you know they're all lovely. I haven't I haven't had
(19:07):
any kind of issue with any of them. I have
never been on the show. My company has been on
the show. Funny enough, not from an investor, but Sutton
reached out and she was doing a fashion show on
the season finale for her brand, and my Belle we
did all of the hair and makeup for Sutton's fashion
(19:27):
show for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for her her
clothing line. Her Sutton Clothing line did get.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
A little promo from that. Did they show like Your Love?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
They sure did. Yeah, they showed the girls and sudden
you know, she took pictures with all of them and
she she loved.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I mean, we did a great job.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
My girls are very, very talented, and we have so
many One of the things that happened where especially LA
and New York. Not that they're not super talented everywhere,
but especially in LA and New York. People find this
hard to believe, but it's true. We have a lot
of a list a list celebrity artists that work for us.
(20:07):
And how that happened was we had a Hollywood strike.
I don't know if you remember the Hollywood strike when anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
The business they had.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
A whole Hollywood strike and it was the industry hasn't
totally come back yet, but I would get, you know,
resumes and stuff from Kelly Clarkson's personal makeup artists or
like one of Nicole Kidman's or crazy crazy things. Yeah,
I would say looking at these resumes like you guys
have Emmys, like you really want to work it and
(20:39):
then go listen, I'm driving for Uber or I'm doing
posts or whatever, and much rather do make up for you.
I have a mortgage and the industry's so people are
really shocked at the level of talent that comes to
their house like the before and afters, we don't doctor them.
That's really how great our girls are. Our girls are excellent,
(21:00):
and the real hostwives use our girls all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So yeah, top to your talent really great.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, you do see on the Housewives show a lot.
You know that they are wherever they are, they're getting
their their hair and their makeup done, and you know
the Erica Girardi sort of Eric Jane started the whole
trend on Housewives of traveling with glam, Like wherever she went,
her glam.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Would go with her. She'd get them seats on the plane,
them rooms at the hotel.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And I think she might be regretting that financial decision, right,
now just.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Saying right right, I'm just saying like you could like
go to your go to a town as long as
it's you know, it's served by you guys, and like, okay,
well let me just call up somebody. If I know
they're going to be respectful or I mean respected rather
in the industry, then they'll come and they'll do just
as great as a job, as long as you can
like vocalize what you want.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You know, we're not much more than the blow dry bars,
and you know we say listen, we actually I think
you come out ahead because you're not paying for travel,
you're not paying for a babysitter, you're not paying for parking,
you're not get like just time and money. All you
have to do is answer the door with damp hair
and a towel for a blowout, well clean face. We
(22:15):
do your makeup updo just have your hair dry and
spray tand you know, just answer the door in the
robe and go nude or a bathing suit or whatever.
It's fine. This is a woman on woman business. And
the whole time that I've had this business, I can
tell you Craig from Southern Charm is a good client
(22:35):
of ours. But we don't have a lot of men.
So you know, we have some gay men that like spraytnds. Yeah,
we've had a couple bodybuilders that wanted spray hands in Vegas.
But ninety nine point ninety ninety nine, our client teller women.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Does Craig get spray Day's or is he getting his
hair done?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Hair? He does a lot of Craig is a lot
of promo for his store, So I feel like that
they're they're there just like powder up his nose and
like straighten his hair out a little bit for photo
shoots and things like that. Yeah, yeah, he's great. Our
girls love him. He is so polite and his team
is so wonderful and he's I mean, And of course
(23:20):
she says can I take a selfie? Can we put
it on an Instagram? And he's not an investor, and
he still says yes.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You know, yeah, I met him one time too. I
went to one of his like pillow events, Like I
just went and was like, Hi, can I get a picture?
And he was totally nice. He was I was like,
let's do We're gonna do like just hold the pillow.
He goes, do you want to do a boomerang. We
could jump up and down like he was coming up
with suggestions.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I was like, Okay, yeah, it's cool. He's really cool.
So yeah, we have we have, really I have. Like
you know, if you wanted to talk about bad people
I've dealt with in.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hollywood, yes I do.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I do go a whole episode on that.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
But but I have to say, as far as like
the the people that I've worked with with Bravo, I've
been very lucky. We've had We've had great, great people,
and and you know, I'm trying to think they really
do all use us.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
They really do.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So have you ever had a regular person hire one
of your artists and be like, I would like the
Teresa Judais.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
At her wedding hair. I would like my hair to
be twelve feet high.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
We know we don't even have the capability to do that.
We don't. I actually want to be honest, I was
afraid to have any Okay, so I don't watch any
of the shows, which I have to say is like
amazing because people would say to me, oh my goodness, like,
what's it like dealing with Meredith, the most lovely, easiest
(24:45):
person to deal with? I'd I literally have no idea
what you're referencing, like like they all have to, I
think act a certain way to keep their jobs on
the shows. And I don't watch the shows because I
can tell you I don't deal.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
We don't have any drama.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I wish I could give you juicy stuff, but I
don't have any drama with any of them. They're all lovely,
they're professional, they are on time, they they're just like
they're you know, at the end of the day, the
people that stick around on Bravo and are like good
Bravo TV, would you say or however you they're business
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people and Bravo is a business, and staying on that
show is a business. So you know, the people that
I've dealt with have been around for long enough that
they get the game and they're kind of they're winning it,
you know. They they know how to play the game
because they're smart. So they're just smart business people and
they know I'm just trying to make them money. I'm
(25:43):
trying to grow this business. They're very supportive, you know.
They they get they get a fortune to make appearances
and things like that, and they want to come and
say hi to the fans that support my business. Because
they're involved in my business and they know it's a
small business, and they know, you know, I don't have
fifty thousand dollars to pay them to show up and
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cut a ribbon, you.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Know, yeah, right right right.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
So just the fact that they're they're willing to be
part of this like VIP insider perk type thing is
that speaks volumes because they can go to a they
can use that hour and make tens and tens of
thousands of dollars, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, they could just answer their cameos or whatever and
make so much money, you know. All right, let me
ask you about some hair and makeup question for ladies
of a certain age. Spraytnds. Okay, I've gotten spray TNS.
I like a spray tank because I am milky white,
and so sometimes you just do a little color. Now,
(26:45):
sometimes I'm just like a Jurgen's lotion mixed with my.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Lession and I'm good.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, the spreetand for me is great, but because I
have like sun spots on my legs from all the
damage that you do to yourself, you know when you're younger,
and we laid out baby old because we didn't know
sun damage but what I found with the spraytn is
if I have like sunspots on my legs, when you
do a spray tann, it enhances, it makes it look worse,
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and now it look like I have like leprosy.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
No, no, oh, Harry, I don't know. I wish I
could tell you.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
There are a way to avoid that.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I was going to ask you, I mean, could we
I feel like I'm on Can we phone a friend?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Read? Is there like a phone a friend I can
use for this?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I don't. I actually do not do this perform the services.
You know, my beauty director goes with me, and how
we do it is well, you know, Cynthia will put
up on her Instagram like, hey Atlanta, ridden my bell
is in your city, and if you're in, if you're
a talented makeup artist or spray tanner or you know, hairstylist,
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please email them and they'll get back to you. And
then I rent an airbnb for week and I bring
my my beauty director with me and we have like
four days where they come and they either they bring
a model or that they do the you know, we
do the whole thing and they do it all there
and my I know what I like and it looks good.
(28:14):
But I mean, I'm not a professional, so my beauty
director will be there and that's how we do it.
So I don't I really don't know. I'm just I'm
just enore meus.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, okay, let me ask you this. Do you have
an opinion on ladies of a certain age of which
I'm just trying to like I am, you know over
fifty five?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What is our great?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
You look very good?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well, you know I told you beforehand I had to
put a little filter on here because.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Every same we all no, no, you look wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What do you think is like the biggest beauty mistake?
I mean I see a lot of beauty mistakes intelligence,
especially on my TLC shows with like the giant lashes, yeah,
or the makeup is so like cakey and we're all
like striving to look our best so that we don't
look like that. But I do think some of these
ladies housewives, especially on camera, have to wear more makeup
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than they would in a normal day because you're on camera,
So how could like what is what do you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Think is a beauty mistake?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Ladies of a certain age make besides the giant olashes
that look insane.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You know, I think that as we get older, it's unfortunately.
I mean, I'm due for my facelift. I'm going to
go get my face done in January because I can't anymore.
I thought it.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I think, I know.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I told I don't know what this is rated, but
I said, I put eyeshadow on now, and I feel
like it's putting it on like a man's ball sack
and it's still good. So we can't. I need to
lift everything up. This is just like so I feel
like less, less is more and foundation. See, I feel
(29:55):
like foundation really can aid you with more mature skin,
because yeah, into the creeks, in the in the cracks.
But I am a big I am the worst as
far as like natural. I wrote beauty for a long time,
you know. I wrote for Harper's Bizarre and I I've
been in the but I have been in the beauty
industry for like twenty six years. I have there's a
(30:17):
product of that we work with that I love a
lot called Mimosa Laine. It is a sun so like
you were saying, this makes me think, so the woman
that created Mimosa Laane. It's really cool she was an
esthetician for a long time and she put self tanner
in the face serum. So you know how sprays hands
(30:41):
can dry you out. Yes, yes, so this has like
vitamin D and vitamin C and all these anti aging
things in it. But also it gives.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
You a really nice glow.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
So sometimes we have our makeup artists use out on
people before and it only it only.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Takes a minute to dry, So sometimes.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
We have our makeup artists use that on people as
a primer because then when they wash their face at
the end of you know, the evening, their event and
make up up, they're left with like a nice, healthy glow.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, all right, I would I really like.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
That mimosalaine serum with the self tanner in it. I
think it's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You sent me.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You sent me a huge bag of stuff, so I
wonder if that's in there.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I'll have to go yeah, yeah, I hope it is,
because it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
When I get my makeup done, I'm going to bring
the lashes that you sent me.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Are you going to bring Viva lash Vegas the night
ones or the day ones?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Day ones?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I gotta wear day lashes even in the night time
because I have little, tiny, beady, little possum eyes, so
I have to wear small lashes.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
It won't look We're like so mean about ourselves your eyes.
I know we're awful. Stop that, Mary Payne, like, don't
talk about yourself like that.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I know I have to.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
How did you get into this? Now?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Were you? What is your favorite Bravo show?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Well, I would say right now Real House Has of
Salt Lake City is my favorite. But in the past
it was always Vanderpump Rules, which now has moved into
the Valley. But I love all the housewives. I watch
all of them. I've watched every single one, every single episode,
every single season. But right now it's Salt Lake City.
(32:21):
And I met Meredith and Brooks at Bravo Con two
years ago and they were they were very nice, very nice.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
So beautiful is and she's she's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That's the thing to these women.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
They they really look great in person as well, Like.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, you don't see in person, they don't look like
they have on that cakey makeup, I mean a little.
Sometimes you see them and then you look in the
pictures and it doesn't look like that. That's why I
like when i'm getting my makeup done. I'm always like,
oh my god, now I look like a full drag queen.
Like no, I promise in the pictures you won't well right,
and then you and you don't, And I think, I
guess that's the trick of a good makeup artist to
(32:57):
make you like where you look so great in the pictures.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah, you are always camera makeup is always heavier.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
The camera's rough.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I mean with makeup, it's more flattering, and it always
puts ten pounds on you.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Mm hm oh.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, you're always like gotta. You're like gotta left the
house feeling pretty good, but dang.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And you stand next to these people and they're they're
like I I hate it because we do photoships and
they show up. I'm like, oh god, I was having
like a good day and they're all they're all skinny.
They're all really skinny and tall.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Everybody's tall. There are a few that aren't very tall.
Angie K from Salt Lake City, she's very short. I
met her last two years ago as well, But most
of them were like like Cynthia Bailey's like glamazon.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Like tall and the model yeah a model.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Say Lun a model Okay, so that was okay, what
about treatments and like at home devices? What's your thought
on that? I mean if you used to write about
the beauty industry, Yeah, is Guinea Pig. So I love
that I had, so so I would do treatments. Okay,
(34:02):
So I mean I was before Instagram, right. So I
did a.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Story called I'm a Size zero and I had lightp
bo section and I ended up talking about it on
Good Morning America because the article so I wrote about
it for Harper's Bizarre A size zero and I had
light bo section, and it went like my stomach was
a bigger story than isis like everybody my stomach was
(34:28):
everywhere because the article was about that. I you know,
I was. This article was more than ten years ago.
But I was really a small person everywhere except my stomach.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
So I would go to the dry.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Cleaners or the nail salon or you know wherever, and
people would always congratulate me on my baby I know,
which was fine, but I wasn't pregnant.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Right right, right, Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I would actually have people ar with me where I go, oh,
you know, I just put weight there, and they go, oh, no, girl,
you're pregnant, like you're pregnant. And I was like, this
is ridiculous. So then I did all of this. I
worked out, I did, I did the whole thing, only protein,
I stayed away from alcohol. I did everything, and then
everything else got really tighter, and then my stomach looked
(35:20):
even bigger. So like this is this is horrible. So
I went and they and so good morning America. Actually
they brought on a doctor that said I wasn't crazy
that some people put fat on. Okay, so some people
put fat where it SIPs on the muscle kind of
like how I'm really lucky with this like double chin
(35:41):
thing here too, like that, that's why I want to
get everything picked up. Is like you can exercise all
day long. Yeah, you're not getting rid of your double
like this when we get old. I'm sorry, a lot
of us get this turkey thing and you can think
thank your parents for that. Apparently, same thing with some
people that put weight on and there's like above the muscle.
Like I could have sat there and done like you know,
(36:04):
sit ups all day and there was nothing that they
could do except if I want to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Sorry, they just sucked it up.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
So that is what I wrote the story about, because
it was just like you know, so of course that
went viral because I sounded like a total lunatic because
what kind of size zero person gets liposelections?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So that's right.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
But I mean I've done, you know, I've done all
sorts of things, and I don't. You know, everybody's going
to get mad at me because I don't think they work.
I really don't. They say, well, what about the late
microhone needling. I think the micro needling does does do
a lot of stuff for discoloration and age bots and
all that. But I've done the la I've done the lasers,
(36:43):
and I've done it, and I think, unfortunately, you just
gotta I'm sorry. I think we just tell you just
I don't. I wish I could tell you there's a
magic laser out there that's going to take you know,
ten years off you, but I don't think there is,
or I haven't found it yet.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You know, I just did. I just did a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I did a laser and it's called some sort of
IPL and then a cool peel and I mean literally,
it's practically the price of a Bravocon ticket to get it.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Done.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
But it's crazy because then my skin, which is normally
very freckly, there's like no freckles.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
It's like starting fresh it right off, right, like burn
it all off.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yes, yeah, I think that. No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I think those things work for like texture, yeah, thoughts
and things like that, but as far as like it's
not going to lift your skin owls, yeah, that's it's like.
And that's what bothers me is my you know, the
jowls and the neck and all that jazz you know,
so so.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Well, I think it was Nora Evron that wrote a
book I feel bad about my neck, right, And it's
like when she got to a certain age, everybody's sitting
around and their little collars are all trying to hide
their neck, you know, and and you know, you go,
and I mean I go and I get botox and stuff,
and they do it all everywhere. But is like still,
you know, I've still got the stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I've still got the stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And I will take a surgery and a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
In a heartbeat. And that's so and you know what
I have to say, Like I said, I don't watch
the shows, but I do know. I read page six
like it's going out of style, Like yeah, okay, I
hit refresh on page six like constantly, so I know,
like who's being robbed, who's declaring bankruptcy? Right, like, well, page.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Six writes about it. I get it.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
So I do think it is refreshing. Actually, one of
the things about Housewives is, for better or worse, they
have normalized facelifts, and they've normalized you know whatever like
that Shannon, the one that you spoke about how she
was talking. I believe that's someone with the facelift that
(38:49):
got into like I know, because she was like suing
someone for not paying for you know, some crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Shannon Badoor and John Jansen.
Yes he paid, he paid for her face left and
the new suit her for the money back.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
But they were dating at the time and yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, twenty years ago, no one would even admit that
they had a facelift. And then that's why when I
was doing the stuff for Harper's or anything, really, I
was really honest about it about the light Bob and this,
because it's just I don't think it's fair when especially
women in the public eye, like how you know, j
Low is like, oh, you know, I just woke up
(39:22):
like this, Well here, glat, I mean, come on, So
I just think, like it is it? Should we all
accept ourselves and be happy? And beauty is within? And
they say, yes, beauty comes from within, it comes from
within like powders and packages and you know whatever, But really,
sure should we all have it be beautiful on the
inside and that should be enough? Sure, however, we all know,
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we know, and I think that there is something somewhat
refreshing that they are very honest about the procedures that
they get, so that you're not someone that is so
you know, watches these people and Bravo's given an audience,
you know, for women in their late fifties and sixties,
(40:04):
and I think Patricia is probably what almost eighty, I hope, right.
And you know when NBC and when they used to
talk about shows for old people, they meant shows that
were people were over the age of thirty five on them.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I mean really, yeah, yeah, yeah, you think, yeah, you're right.
And I do love that about our ladies on Bravo
because someone was like, these people are my same age.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Now, granted I don't have access to col Richards type money.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
But you know I can, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Bring my money, you bring? I do?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I do?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Again, that was a good point.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
You may at the beginning like you may not have
the twenty five thousand dollars or may bag, but you
can get your makeup done and look cute for.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
A night, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, and again I get like your point was how
many of them do as well?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Okay, but let's talk about this, okay.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
So Ring my Bell is going to do my makeup
for the braw Con event that I'm having on Saturday,
November fifteen with Ron Dailey. That's what I'm going to
have a makeup done. I'll be sure to tag you
and all that. I'm very excited about it. I've had
my makeup done professionally a couple of times, and I'm
the kind I don't like how they turn you away
from the mirror so you can't look. I don't like that,
(41:18):
but I know they have to do that. So you
don't like me comment the whole time, but I also
like to.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Know you're a commenter. I'll put it in.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I have a commenter, and I don't like a lot
of makeup and whenever they do it I'm always like,
we're gonna have to take it down. We're gonna have
to take it down. Like I don't like a lot
of makeup.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
So how our business works, we can't do this. If
somebody orders, you know, like one day in advance, and
I have to say, even though we.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Are like on demand, and I don't know why I.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Ever did that because it's so much stress. But even
though we are on demand, I would say, most people
order like a week in advance, which is great.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
You know you have something, yes, right, great now.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Because then what happens is my assistant two days before
the appointment, she sends you an email just confirming everything,
and she says, please respond with a picture of what
you look like and what you would like to look like.
And then once we have that, before these stylists gets
(42:17):
to your house, the stylist knows what you look like
and what you like to what you would like to
look like, which is like, it just helps us stylists.
Those bags are heavy, you know what, like, so they
know they don't want to get somewhere and have somebody say,
you know, I was I was really looking for you know, X,
Y and Z. And we want to make sure that
we have everything completely prepared, so like we will reach
(42:41):
out to you Mary Payne and say, what is like
your goal to look like that night and make sure
that we deliver on it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
We don't like some guy.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
And then at the end of every and some people
hate this and I'm sorry, but your stylist gets in
trouble if they don't do it, because.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
It takes two seconds.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
We just have a survey that says like, are you happy, yeah,
and then it goes back to our company and it
just makes us. It keeps us, you know, on our
toes because we you know, every stylist we actually our
reviews are are excellent. Like I said, we have excellent,
excellent reviews, but if something is not excellent, we want
(43:22):
to know because we want to make sure that we
have a really great company and that we provide really
great service. Kate Casey used us for her daughter's prom
and she was thrilled. So that made me happy, you know,
especially we have a pretty we have a pretty exclusive
(43:43):
even though our prices aren't crazy, We're not cheap. We're
we're not bargain basement, okay we're not, but we're not
like so cost prohibitive that you're like, oh my god,
I could never use the service because our blowouts are
one hundred and fifteen dollars and that includes everything, and
I think, you know, I think the blowout bars now
we're all about one hundred. And then again, you don't
(44:03):
need a babysitter, you don't need to page you have
to go.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
You don't go.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
Anywhere you know you're paying for convenience. And by the way,
I don't know if you've been to the grocery store lately,
but that's like a bag to groceres so, right, So
we want to make it so that it is something
that you feel is really worth it. Yeahcause our client
I have to say, our client retention is very high.
(44:28):
We have people that use us, some of them, like
you know, we're in wealthy areas. We're in Greenwich, Connecticut,
We're in Palm Beach, We're in Scottsdale.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And we have some women that do use us once.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
A week, right because they can, right, because they can't.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yeah, But most people like me, I will do it
like once a year for like a big event if
I know there's got to be pictures, or if it's
like a wedding or anything like that. You know that,
And that's interesting asking you about weddings too, because like
at my niece's wedding a few years ago, they had
like four makeup artists there so the bridesmaids could come
in and then like us as like the ants, like
we could go in and at the last minute they
(45:02):
just kind of pop some lashes on us and helped
us so we didn't look so washed out. So it's
it's uh, and those lashes were crazy. I remember thinking, like,
these lashes are too big, and then I look at
the pictures. I'm like, shouldn't it great?
Speaker 4 (45:14):
No, really, I think.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, they were just for me. Just I think they
probably looked great in the pictures. But to me, I
was like, I look like I have butterflies that landed
on my face. So I will let when, uh, will
you guys call me a couple of days before I'll
light you know, like I don't. I'm like a I'm
kind of like a natural looking girl.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
But for a.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
Picture, we're gonna So she's gonna email you and then
you respond with what either a picture of yourself where
you're like I looked amazing in this fear yes, or
if you have like a celebrity or just somebody off
the internet that you say, I like this s glowy look,
or I like this smoky look. Right, So, because everybody's
definition of everything is a little different. So if you
(45:55):
have a picture, it says a thousand words, we know
what we're looking at, we know what you want. There's
not any miscommunication. We can see it right there. And
then also you can like reference it and go, you know,
I screenshoted this and I replied to the email with this,
but actually looking at it, now, do you have anything
that's maybe a little more nude for my lip or
a little I would say our most popular and I
(46:19):
hate to say it because I'm so sick of them,
but it's still the same thing. Like I still get
and I say, Okay, what do you want to look like?
And nine times out of ten it's a picture of
Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
I just have to say, it's got to be a Kardashian.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Y is it is? It always is.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm always like, oh great, here we go like there
And here's the best part too, is they'll say I
just want something supernatural, and I'm like, all right, amazing,
Just send me the picture of what you want to
look like. And then they literally send a picture of
Kim Kardashian briand and hair and makeup for probably eight
hours when they send the picture, and like, all right,
so that's why we need the picture because everybody's definition
(46:57):
of natural apparently is different.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, right right, that's so funny. Yeah, I would like
to look natural like Kim Kardashian. Listen, she's a beautiful girl,
just like j Loo j Loo. Just no drinking in
eight hours of sleep and that's how she looks as good.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
As she does, right, sure, sure she does.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Don't hang up, but everybody make sure you're following Ring
my Bell with an with A with an L, ring
my Bell with an E, ring.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
My Bell Co. On Instagram. And we're going to start
giveaways and things like that too, you know. But like
I said, we will not be posting the time that
the housewives will be at our booth. You have to
order for that because we are.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Not We'll have to have the appointment. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Yeah, we don't want to stampede and we want to
really like VIP experience, and you're not going to get
that if it's a whole you know, cluster.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Yeah, Okay, good, all right, So everybody go to ring
my Bell dot Co with an E on Instagram and
you'll see all the information there about how to sign up.
And I will see you at Bravo kN as well.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
Ring my bell dot com book your appointments and our
instagram is at ring my Bell Co. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
You'll see all the housewives there and all the gorgeous
pictures and stuff.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah, yeah, thank you so much. It was lovely to meet.
Thank you so much, and I can't wait to see
you soon.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I know I'll see you next week
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