October 28, 2024 • 52 mins
Meet Adele Uddo — the hands, neck, and feet you’ve seen in iconic ads for Apple, luxury fragrances, and Louboutin. As one of the industry’s top body parts models, she’s been a fixture in our lives without us even realizing it.
Now, Adele reveals her journey, her passion for wellness, and her latest creation: an all-over moisturizer designed to bring out the best in every inch of you!
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Audio Only - All Partic (00:00):
Welcome back to LifeGloss.
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We have the most special guestwith us today.
I want everyone to welcome AdeleUddo and we will be talking a
little bit about her producttoday, Essentiel by Adele.
I want to tell you a little bitabout how Adele and I met.
It was very special.
We met on a photo shoot becauseAdele is a body parts model.
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You heard that right.
Talk about being objectified asa woman.
You get hired for your hands oryour neck or your decollete or
your face and she has to keepall of those things looking
good, feeling good, But alsokeeping her soul and her spirit
feeling good.
Because as we all know, themodeling world can be really
tough and it's particularly hardon a body parts model.
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So without further ado, welcometo life gloss.
Thank you so much, Hillary.
It's such a pleasure and anhonor really to be here.
So thank you so much forinviting me.
We're thrilled to have you.
I think, I don't know if you'vebeen listening to our podcast or
heard us just, we've raved aboutyour product for a while.
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Ever since Hillary put this inmy hands and I put it on my
hands, this has been the numberone product.
for my body parts.
So no one's hiring me for mybody parts these days.
However, I have to tell you theylook better than ever.
So we're going to get into someof this in a minute.
Coming from both of you.
Truly.
That means so much to me becausewhen it comes from like beauty
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insiders and experts, it's, itreally touches my heart.
So thank you very much.
Oh, you're so welcome.
We love it.
I'm so glad that Hillary turnedme onto it.
And should I tell my funnystory?
It's not really funny, but it'sit's not funny.
It's cute.
So my, I have two children andmy daughter is both my kids are
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highly sensory sensitive humans.
And she really is hypersensitive to smells, light,
sound.
all those things.
It's part of her divergency.
And so I put this on andoftentimes she'll walk into the
room and she'll say, mom, toomuch or this or that.
And I think you'll agree.
And I think all three of us canagree.
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We're trying so many differentthings and different types of
perfumes and lotions and potionsand whatnot.
So I do get feedback from theteenagers.
So when I received this, fromHillary and I was so excited
because I put it on and Ismelled it instantly.
I was just personally captivatedby the scent because the first
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time I smelled it, I was like, Ihope it works as good as it
smells because I think we've allbeen bummed out.
We've tried things you smell,and they are terrible or
terrible for you, but theysmell, really good or they smell
bad, but they work great.
The fact this was a win.
So I walked out of the bathroom,I had it on and I walked by my
daughter and she turned aroundand she said, what is that?
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And I paused to hear the, get itoff.
It's terrible bubble, and shesaid, mom, that is so good.
You smell like a heaven spa,like a heavenly spa.
And I said, Oh my gosh.
I said, Solange, I'm so glad youlike it.
She's can I try?
And never has that happened.
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And I'm really being honest.
I'm not just saying this.
It was the first time I've everused a body product, especially
body lotion where she actually,wanted it and then said, I told
her we were going to have you onthe podcast.
And then she said, can she makeit into a perfume?
I said, I'll ask her.
I have been asked that.
First of all that again is, itjust means so much to me.
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I also consider myself a highlysensitive person.
And I'm very sensitive to scentsand particularly artificial
fragrances, which I, which, Iwanted absolutely no part of in
this product.
And I spent a tremendous amountof time with the formulator
trying to get the perfect,subtle, but, natural, fresh,
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clean, heavenly spa like scent,like you're describing.
And the scent comes strictlyfrom the essential oils,
frankincense, heliacrism,geranium, and lavender.
So not only does it smell, quitelovely and gender neutral and
really divine.
It's really good for your skin.
It's, and your nervous system,it has, it calms the nervous
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system with the essential oils.
Yeah, it reduces inflammationand regenerates healthy cells.
So it's a win.
Yeah.
And we're going to get into allthe ingredients because we have
to pick your brain about theingredients.
Cause it doesn't just smellamazing, but the ingredients are
incredible.
We'll get into all of that, butyes, I have to tell you it is so
grounding and I agree with you.
It is so gender neutral.
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It really is.
And, we toss that term around somuch now in the industry, but
This is something that everyhuman would definitely want to
wear and it's not overpowering.
It's just, and you're right,it's calming, like it's
grounding.
A lot of people actually use itbefore they go to sleep.
It helps them sleep.
Yeah, and I love it when the menget hooked too.
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They they, some use it as ashave lotion and yeah.
So it's very multi use, multipurpose.
I put it in my hair, my to tamemy ways.
My mother swears that it hasrevolutionized her legs.
My mom.
Still like to wear her above theknee skirts and she's so fit and
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flirty and fun and she called mebecause I gave subscriptions to
my family members a few yearsago.
And there's a lot of eczema, alot of psoriasis in, on my mom's
side of the family and everyonethat I gave it to, I've been the
hero.
So thank you.
They all unanimously love it andthey have all talked about.
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healing properties.
So even on a delicate skin andthe frankincense is all of a
sudden everywhere this season.
Everyone's talking aboutfrankincense again, but it's
been in your formula forever.
And it is Yeah, it's again, I'mthe, I was the hero.
So anybody that's listening,that's looking for a really
unique, interesting thing togive for the holidays, get your
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friends and family bysubscription.
And while we're talking aboutit, I just have to tell people,
she also does a mini.
So I highly recommend this andAdele, I have to tell you how
much I appreciate that youdidn't skimp on the mini that
this tip twists on and off.
So it will lock in your purse.
And you're flying and travelingand it's easy to refill from
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this guy.
I just really appreciate this somuch.
So thank you.
I so appreciate you spreadingthe lotion love, as I say, that
is I just, yeah, deeplyappreciate that because so many
of the biggest fans have comethrough gift giving.
It is one of those gifts thateverybody feels special, and you
can, and it, applies to allparts, all people.
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Yeah I don't know if we want tomention right now, but I have a
I created a code for you all,the Life Gloss.
code for 25 percent off.
I only do this once a year.
So yeah, because you all are sospecial to me and I'm just,
honored to be here again, butyes, any of your listeners can
can use the code life gloss for25 percent off and it really
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does make a really beautifulgift.
We'll put that, we'll put thatin our show notes too.
And I'll post that on ourInstagram for our followers.
That's super generous of you.
I think it'll give everyone achance to really try this
exceptional product and itreally is exceptional.
So take us from the beginning.
How, we know that you're a partsmodel and we're and I do want
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you to talk about that for asecond, how you got into that
and tell us a little bit aboutthat, but how did you transition
from that into.
Wanting to do something for thebody because there's so much out
there.
Let's face it.
We're inundated with bodyproducts.
Totally.
Yeah.
I, I didn't really plan to be abody parts model.
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Certainly, didn't go to schoolfor that or anything.
But I had been told particularlyby my grandmother on my mother's
side, all my life that I hadthese beautiful hands and didn't
think much of it.
Was doing some modeling at thetime and was called by my agent
and said, we have this, bigcasting for OPI nails.
Do you have, do you have nicenails and hands?
And I thought gee, mygrandmother thinks so.
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So I went and I remember reallylike immediately feeling like
this different energy at thecasting.
Like they, were, Like all thesudden got excited and calling,
people in and passing my handsaround the boardroom.
And, it was exciting.
So I booked the job that daycalled my grandmother on the way
home and made a card from thereand just started working.
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And my career really took offwhen I started working in New
York.
And for several years, I wasjust.
By coastal, just the mainindustry is in New York.
The beauty and fashion.
So that's when I really startedworking for like big brands like
Dior and Revlon and, Apple andsome really incredible
companies.
Yeah that's how I got into.
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And early on, I realized, my, myparts, particularly my hands
were being photographed in macrocloseup, like literally down to
the cuticle.
So when that happens, therereally is no faking when you're,
in high definition.
So I really needed to up myskincare and, have exceptional
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skincare.
So I started testing differentmoisturizers and and getting
more educated.
I'd come from a pretty naturalbackground with growing up on a
California commune sort of farmenvironment, very organic.
We drank from a well.
So I was familiar with naturalskincare.
Since I was, quite young, but asI was testing these
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moisturizers, I was reading, thelabels of many of them that were
really popular.
And I was surprised that some ofthem were really expensive yet.
Ironically filled with thesevery cheap kind of questionable
filler ingredients and didn'treally make too much of a
difference on my skin, didn'tsmell so great, as we're talking
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about artificial fragrances.
So I started just testingdifferent, more natural products
started making my own in mykitchen.
And really with my favoriteingredients and, my friends,
I've been testing them out on myfriends.
My friends started asking formore.
And then I took it to a topformulator here in LA and he
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really took the formula to thenext level.
And we worked together and thelotion love child was born from
there.
And what year did you launch?
When did you launch?
2020, 2018.
Wow.
Okay.
Hard to believe.
Yeah.
It flies, doesn't it?
The time flies.
And anybody that's beenfollowing us for a period of
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time, they know that we willtalk about products here and
there, the good, the bad, theugly, but there's nothing that
we have been so emphatic aboutand actually had someone on to
talk about.
So yeah, just so our audienceknows we are, we're so grateful
for the code.
Thank you for being so generous,but this is 100%.
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A labor of love this episode iscoming not from any sort of you
know sponsored post or anythinglike that So anybody out there
just know that this isabsolutely just because we've
loved it and our families loveit And we rely on it and I was
having a period of time when Myimmune system was going a little
haywire, and I'm still trying tofigure out what's going on
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there.
But I was getting, funny,rashes, and I'm never a rashy
person.
And this was one of the onlythings that would really heal.
They were giving me all theprescriptions and all the
different creams and salves toput on which I'm like, hey, if
you need it.
I'll do it But this was reallysoothing and I have even used
it.
I've used it I use it on my neckall the time.
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I've used it on my face and itgoes right into the skin There's
nothing greasy And the longeryou use it the more my skin
feels Retains hydration.
If I go a few weeks and I'm notusing it, if I'm out or I didn't
take it with me, if I was goingsomewhere I noticed that my skin
doesn't feel as supple.
So even it retains the moistureand you can tell it's making the
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skin healthier.
Gosh, I love hearing thatHillary.
And again, especially from you,it just I'm so respect
everything that you're aboutyour products as well, your
knowledge of qualityingredients.
So that just really means a lotto me.
And when I do hear that it helpspeople heal skin conditions.
I hear all the time about eczemapsoriasis.
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And that is so wonderful becauseI really that was so important
to me to make it more of asoothing healing product.
The calendula and the aloe andthe shea butter and just,
ingredients that would reallycalm the skin, and I said, like
I said, the nervous system, weall need a little.
A little emotional support too,in this day and age.
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Yeah.
And this is a product that, youare a professional body parts
model.
This is a product that you'reusing.
And that speaks volumes because,you are the best advertisement
for the product.
If people are hiring you becauseyour skin looks amazing, your
hands look amazing, and we'renot gonna do any close ups of
mine today, but if you're usingthis product and you're still
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working and, that to me, youcan't get a better testament
than that.
Yeah, I really made it formyself, primarily a few people
over the years asked me, do youuse your own product?
And I'm like that's why Icreated it.
Many people don't.
Day and night and several timesa day, with the hands.
But as Hillary said too, you canuse it on your face, hands, and
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body.
It's multi use.
It's even formulated forsensitive skin, so you can use
under your eyes.
It's non comiogenic.
It's really it's just I like tothink of it as like just good
nutrition for the food, for theskin.
It's like good food, skin food.
So let's talk about that.
I'm, I want to dive right in.
I'm so excited by this product.
And I want to know what you feelsome of the hero ingredients are
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in the product that you feel setEssentielle aside that make it
different than the competition.
I would say certainly startingwith the essential oils.
Like I said, frankincense,heliacrism, geranium and
lavender, all of those.
I not only love the scent whichagain is subtle and not going to
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compete with your primaryperfume if you use one.
But yeah, also calm the skinagain and regenerate healthy
cells and calm inflammation.
Help fade dark spots reduceredness.
The, I think probably there's somany but MSM, I absolutely love
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that ingredient.
And I'm surprised it's not usedin more skincare.
It's it's a sulfur compound andsulfur is the third most.
plentiful mineral in our body.
The ancient Romans used to soakin sulfuric baths.
It was the original fountain ofyouth.
It's essential for the body toproduce collagen.
So I absolutely love MSM.
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The raspberry leaf extract is atightening astringent which, we
all love that.
I remember when we tested thatWhen the formulator suggested
and put that in there I did.
I like immediately feltsomething.
And I remember my next doorneighbor, who was also testing
with me.
She was like, and there'ssomething that's tightening.
My skin feels tighter.
Yeah that's the raspberry leafextract.
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I would say the coffee berry Ialso love as well, one of the
most potent naturalantioxidants.
Yeah, there's, I could go on.
There's men that I really love.
And I know that you all know somuch about ingredients.
So chime in if you, if there'sany that you feel, are worth
mentioning hyaluronic acidthat's a favorite that everyone
of course loves that plumps theskin and retains a lot of,
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moisture in the skin.
Reading the ingredient deck it'slike reading a love song to your
skin.
It's so beautiful.
And the fact that, aloe is rightat the top of the deck followed
by, grapes, grape and oliveoils, the shea butters.
And it's nice because you can,you feel the healing power of a
shea butter.
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But it doesn't sit on top of theskin.
So the way this was formulated,because I've been in product,
been involved in productdevelopment, as Susan has as
well, sometimes when people cutcorners, they just dump in
whatever shea butter, and it'snot blended properly in the
right stages, it can sit on top,it can be greasy, it can be
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occlusive, but this It gives youthe suppleness of a shea butter
without the greasy.
There's no payoff.
It just goes right in.
It's a tough customer.
So I was really excited when shecontacted me and she was like,
What is this?
Yeah, because it's true.
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I am a, like Hillary, we bothlove ingredients and we've been
around long enough to know mostingredients.
We don't know everything, but wedo know a lot.
So many of the, whenever I hearshea butter, I often think it's
going to be occlusive.
It's going to be heavy and it'sgoing to be tacky because a lot
of people don't know how to workwith that product.
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And, there is the oldexpression, just because it's
natural doesn't mean it'sluxury, and I have to tell you,
as someone who workedpredominantly in luxury, this
absolutely has a luxury feel.
This feels like it is a luxuryproduct.
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lotion which is prettyincredible.
Your ingredients are also, Iwill say this, you have some
very expensive ingredients inhere too.
These are not inexpensiveingredients that you have in
here.
Yeah, my dad's philosophy, hewill, he was a restaurateur in
New Orleans and his wholephilosophy was, to give people
quality at an affordable price.
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So I didn't, jack the prices up.
I really wanted to keep it, at aat a reasonable price point and
offer, the high quality.
So thank you so much fornoticing that.
And for noticing the finish,because that was intentional as
well, being a primarily handmodel, I couldn't be, handling
products and leaving, greasyfingerprints all over what I was
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holding.
So I said, I want something withalmost like a matte finish.
But that would still be deeplyhydrating, give you that dewy,
beautiful, hydrated look, but,not greasy or shiny or, sitting
on top of the skin like manymoisturizers.
I would actually categorize theadjectives I would use for this
product for our listeners thatmaybe aren't watching us as
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we're doing this.
This is definitely a velvetfinish and I would say that it
gives you a glow.
There's no shimmer, noiridescence, no mica, there's
not a shine, there's not an oil,it's not a gloss, it is a glow.
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So you've got this sort ofvelvety glow.
It almost feels like cashmeregloves, if I could even say
that.
It just has that really soft,warm, cozy feeling.
And at the same time, I couldsee, I'm on the east coast.
This is winter, but also I feelit's going to be rich enough for
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the winter months here, whichare terrible, as but also in the
summer I was using this andnever once felt like, get it off
my skin.
It's too much.
It's too heavy.
So somehow you captured thelightness.
Of a body lotion with theefficacy of a cream.
Oh my gosh.
I love that.
I might have to quote that Ilove really and coming from you.
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I want that.
I want that quote.
That's beautiful and that isexactly what I wanted and that's
exactly what I you know What Iworked to with the formulator to
create and you just Put it intowords because I was also, like I
said, working bi coastally.
I needed something that, that,would hold up in a New York
climate and also a Los Angeles Ilive by the beach, Malibu, all
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the yeah, I wanted it to belight, but also deeply
hydrating.
Yeah.
And that's not easy to do, whichis why most companies have
cream.
And then they have lotion.
Then they have an oil if they'remore of a luxury brand, but yet
you nailed it in one product,which is someone needs to hire
you to consult and find outexactly, how you did that,
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because that's pretty, prettyincredible.
Most items are either lotion orheavy cream and yeah, you nailed
it.
so much.
Again, that, that really means alot to me.
I worked really hard at it.
I, my mom at some point wentwith me to, she was in town.
She went with me to to meet theformulator and she's I
apologize.
I know she's a perfectionist.
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I was like, okay, I'll hit her.
It shows.
Because people can go, Hillaryand I talk about this all the
time.
You can go, for most bodyproducts, people can just pick
them up at a drugstore, or ifthey're feeling fancy and
special, they'll run into aluxury department store or
specialty door, and then youhave people that will just
purchase at a spa when they'reon holiday, But I think being
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able to seek out somethingwithout it being right at your
corner store, right on your wayto, go pick up an outfit or
something when you have to goout of your way to pick up a
product, especially a beautyproduct, it has to be really
good, because it's not as It'snot that quick.
Impulse purchase.
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This is something you actuallyhave to order.
You have to take the time toseek it out and find it.
So I think when it's somethingthat's that good, you're willing
to do it.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's, and people haveasked a lot like when are you
going to be in, more stores,whatever, primarily in spas.
And some really lovely high endspas.
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The Post Ranch Inn and Big Sur.
I'm not, I don't know if you'refamiliar with that place, but
that is like my favorite, my alltime favorites, Bob.
All, it's just, I'm so honoredthat it's there.
But yeah, some really lovelyspas, but I just, I have chosen
again, intentionally just tokeep it direct to consumer, from
my website, people cansubscribe.
So it's really easy.
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Once you subscribe, it's just,every one, two or three months
and you get it at a discountit's hassle free.
So yeah, what is your websitejust for our listeners?
We'll post it.
We just say it for peoplelistening.
Of course.
It's essential by Adeleessential with an EL by Adele.
By Adele.
Okay, so they can direct andalso for our audience.
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There's something reallyinteresting that's happening in
the beauty industry.
I've go to all of the tradeshows.
I've been in product developmentfor so long.
And right now what you're seeingis we're seeing this big
explosion of AI and brand.
So you can basically I said whenthe last time I was at a show,
there are several companies now.
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It started a few years ago, butnow it's really big where you
can go in there and say, Hi, I'mSusie Q.
I want to create my own brand,and this is who it's for, this
is what I want it to do, blah,blah, blah.
And they just enter it into theAI, they'll come up with your
logo, your branding, yourmessaging, and the formula, and
it just Jetson style spits itout.
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Those you could give them aningredient list like this, but
you're not going to get thehuman being going back to the
lab, trying the samples, testingit on their people.
So we're at the age of where fora very long time, we've had an
industry where things wereprivate labeled.
You could go into, into a, tollmanufacturer and there's a huge
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library Thousands of differentbases like, here are 50 100
moisturizers, 100 eye creams,100 body lotions.
You can add one to threeingredients.
You can try one to threeformulas and then it costs you
more to test others.
Slap your label on it and it'sdone and it's technically yours
and they do have They haveadvanced over time.
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So they do have some very goodstock bases and stock products,
they can be okay.
But it's not something that'sborn from a purposeful,
intentional place andhandcrafted.
This is really handcrafted.
It's like what I did with mybrand that I created where we
met.
I went in and I led with, thisis what I want the consumer's
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experience to be.
And these are the things I thinkwe need in there to get them
there.
Let's go.
Whereas other people will walkin and say, we want to sell it
for this.
We want a margin of this.
What can we put on the label formarketing?
What can we put in it to give itthat feel?
We'll tell them that's whatthey're feeling, even if that's
not what they're feeling.
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And that's a different, it's atotally different evolution and
DNA of a brand.
So having something like this onthe market is really special at
a time like this.
I love that.
That's, it's I really do.
I feel like I put my heart andI've said my Sicilian soul into
the product.
And thank you for recognizingthat.
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And I so recognize that withyour products and, as soon as I
met you, we met on set.
I was, doing some hands forHillary and her beautiful
products.
And I was just so impressed withyour, Not only knowledge of
ingredients, but just theexoticness, some of the
ingredients, I, and I've beenaround the block and I, had
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tested and, thought of and allkinds of ingredients, but some
of them were so beautiful andexotic.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
It's always a labor of love.
And so I recognize that.
I know what it's like to go inthere and do it.
And as Susan was saying to herpoint, it's worth going the
extra mile to get thoseproducts.
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And I think we're going to seeconsumers because they're so
inundated with social media andeverything else, there are new
shiny balls every second.
So this is really our effort tobring things to our audience
that we know will work will be,we know will be good for them.
And our Produced intentionallyand really produced with the
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consumer and the client in mind,rather than, of course, we're
all making a living.
We all work for a living.
So we, there is a, we're notrunning a nonprofit skincare
company, but at the same time,we're reasonable and really
doing our best to put love intowhat we bring out of our
skincare kitchens.
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And it shows.
Yeah.
No, Adele you.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
I was just going to say that, Ihave such a strong background in
marketing.
I worked in it for, years andactually decades at this point.
And I was always sort of.
I noticed that sometimes we'd beshooting, a whole afternoon with
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just tons of products that whenyou look at the ingredients
list, it's pretty much the sameformula packaged very
differently.
And, I, and that's all fine, tosome extent, but I really wanted
to just emphasize quality overquantity and to dispel the myth
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that you absolutely need adifferent eye cream, hand cream,
face cream, body cream, footcream.
I feel like skin is made of thesame stuff and, if it's, if
you're feeding it the rightingredients it's nourishing, no
matter if it's nose or toes noseor toes.
And I think we've all been onset.
This is going to be shocking tosome of our listeners, but I
think that the three of us withall of our experience being
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behind the camera and behind thescenes and in front of the
camera in your case, Adele.
We've all been on shoots wherewe know we're shooting a
specific product.
But they're not using thatproduct on the models.
They're using something elseentirely.
That product, the product thatthey're promoting and that
they're shooting for never makesan appearance on the model, on
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the skin.
They're using other things inthe bag, which is crazy.
That was one of.
The things I noticed early on,too, I've done a lot of
celebrity doubling and I wouldalways pick the brains of the,
these fabulous, world classmakeup artists, who were doing
these starlets like, PenelopeCruz and Katy Perry and, Excuse
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me and ask them, Oh whatconcealer do you, or, do you
love or, what's your favoriteand what are you using?
And oftentimes it was yeahsomething quite different than
what was being advertised.
But yeah, I got a lot of goodtips from that.
I bet.
What are some of your favoritetips that you learned from some
of the artists when you're,speaking of concealer, which I
just, you know I've alwaysthought as one of the, the most
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important parts of makeup.
Um, I remember this lovelymakeup artist telling me that
she loves clay depot concealer.
It's expensive, but it'ssomething that really lasts and
looks great on camera.
I have since, again, I don't gonatural all the time and I, but
I try to try as best I can.
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There's a more natural productthat I've also been using
lately.
Gosh, what's it called?
C and I might need to go.
It'll come to you.
Yeah.
It'll come to you.
Yeah.
But yeah, it starts with a canyway.
Yeah, so I, that the rose watermist that I use all the time.
It just gives a nice refresh andI have actually considered
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expanding the line with, maybebecause people have asked, for a
mister or even a candle, peopleare interested in the scent,
they so love the scent.
I'm going through manytransitions right now, but I
might when I land a bit morelook into doing more of that.
We'll see.
Yeah, I was going to ask you,not just for my daughter and
myself, but, for everyone, thescent is so incredible that
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you've created And I was goingto ask where you see this
expanding, other parts of thebody or the home or your
environment.
I don't re I, I don't reallyknow.
I truly have been asked thatsince the launch.
And I guess, I've been a littlestubborn in that it was multi
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use, cause Some people have evenasked how about a, how about an
eye cream?
How about it?
But I was like, but that defeatsthe purpose and the message of
it, like this is what so yeah I,And quite honestly I think I'm
so much of a creative typeperson.
So the formulating the product,the, building the brand and the
packaging and writing the copyand all of that was lovely and
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fabulous, and I really enjoyedthat process actually running
the business.
Part of it has been a little bitof a challenge in that.
It's just not really my skillsetor passion.
I should say.
I've wondered once in a while,like maybe, if I find the right
partner or something, somebodywho wants to, run with that part
of it all.
I would certainly, consider it,but yeah, right now I've just
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got many balls up in the air.
I'm, shooting this documentary.
I'm trying to finish thisproject that I've been working
on for, many years and all kindsof stuff.
We'd love to hear more about thedocumentary either now or when
it's time.
So we'll put that little bug outand you have some beautiful
content on your website and ifpeople sign up for your mailing
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list on the website, I neverencourage people to sign up for
mailing lists, but you send themost heartfelt, incredibly
touching emails out to yoursubscribers.
So it's not.
You don't get just salesy byAdele's body, cream, body
lotion.
You really share your life andeven my mother called me and she
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was all teary one day and Ithought immediately, what's
wrong?
Has somebody heard?
Has something happened?
She said, have you seen Adele's,have you seen Adele's email?
And I was like, is she okay?
What happened?
She said no, she's fine.
But I was just so touched by it.
So it's I'm excited to see whatyou're creating.
I love your mother, please.
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I know I meant that, but really.
Yeah, that's my passion reallyis is writing is storytelling.
Is, yeah just sharing from thesoul, so to speak.
I have been writing for, manyyears on my blog.
Here and there a little lessfrequently lately.
Cause as I said, I'm just goingthrough many transitions and
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somehow it's been, beingdocumented in this.
This documentary that we've beenfilming since 2021.
And it's capturing this, quoteunquote midlife crisis, which
we're trying to reframe asmidlife metamorphosis.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, it's just, many big deepchanges happening right now.
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And Difficult at times, butessential, I think, for for my
own growth and evolution andyeah and I'm hoping that really,
my primary intention, of course,with the film as well, is that,
it's something that isultimately inspiring and
something that is, a healingpresence for me.
In my own life and others.
So yeah, that really means a lotto me when I hear that, the
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stories speak to people.
How exciting, the term midlifecrisis in application to men is
universally accepted and it's ahousehold name, but when it.
comes to women and having ourmidlife changes that are not
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only about menopause.
It's so much more finally nowpeople are starting to recognize
just that little part of itbecause we can prove it
physically now.
Otherwise, the things that we gothrough during these
transitions, whether we havechildren or we don't have
children, it doesn't reallymatter.
I think all human beings, whenyou get to a certain phase in
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life, you recalibrate, you takestock, things do change.
And we're starting to giveourselves grace as women, where
We weren't really doing thatbefore.
There were a lot of negativelabels that were attached to it.
How do you see that changing,not only as you're walking
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through it in your own life, buteven in the media?
Because we are starting to seeolder women, and I say anybody
over 30, over 40, which we allare They're being celebrated,
but in a very narrow way in themedia.
It's like in order to becelebrating your age, your hair
has to be gray or you have to behappy all the time and smiling
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and solving these problemsbecause getting old is horrible.
And it's, I feel like we'restumbling as an industry.
We're not having a smoothtransition into.
We want to talk about it.
I feel that's a little jaded.
I feel like the industry ishappy to take our money because
our buying power right now,we're more educated.
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We want to own it.
We want to.
Have control over the way thatwe mature, but they want to sell
to us.
They don't really want to hearfrom us as much.
I feel that's where we are rightnow.
What are you seeing in theindustry?
Because you're behind thescenes.
You're still actively on setmodeling.
And how have things changed overthe decades?
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What are you observing?
I think it is changing, butslowly, and I think that the
younger generation is, they'rereally pushing a lot of the
change, which is wonderful.
There are more conversationsthat are happening that where,
our vulnerability is beingcelebrated rather than,
repressed or rather than, yeah,we all have this pressure to be
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perfect or to, it is midlife isa time of a lot of quote unquote
death.
It's a lot of endings.
It's a lot of, transition andthat can be rocky and feel raw.
And but it's also a time that isso rich with Just with renewal,
and sometimes that's a painfulpath getting there But you know
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if we're brave and we continueshowing up and we continue Get
having these types ofconversations and support with
one another I think women havejust so been getting me through
this time.
It's truly i'm so deeplygrateful for You know the
sisters, in my life, you knowwho are You Who can relate, and
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who are there, and there tocelebrate, not just our wins,
but, the times that we're like,whoa, things are changing and
this is scary or, yeah I'mletting go of a lot of identity
or, Old roles or relationshipsor whatever.
And yeah so I think it can be atime that's just so empowering.
And it's funny, speaking of thefilm I set out to make this,
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sexy and empowering film aboutaging.
And then, I started aging and itdidn't exactly happen like that.
Like there are many things that,happened unexpectedly.
And, but it's turning out, notin the way that I thought, but
into a sexy empowered film aboutaging.
Okay.
One way or another.
On that same thought, as I'mlistening to you answer that
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question, I think to myself, doyou feel that your particular
path, because of what you'vedone for a living, because of
how you have presented to theworld, because of how you earn
your living, do you feel thatthis journey this journey, as
you just said, we're all agingand it is, we can talk for hours
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about what a privilege it isright to be able to age and to
remain healthy.
And it is such a gift.
But do you think that this hasbeen personally for you a more
difficult journey because youare so body aware and aware of
how you look and how you'representing to the world?
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Has it been?
Harder?
Do you feel it's been a harderjourney for you coming to a
point of acceptance and aging?
Yes I do think so in that, I, Ihave been as objectified as you
say, Hillary for so many, years,down to the toe, yeah I've had
the microscope on myself aswell.
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And so much of my value has beenabout, my outer shell and what I
look like.
So yeah that, that has beenhard.
And I also grew up between,these two very polarized parents
and cultures where, you know,Originally, like I said, I'm
from New Orleans, a sort of oldworld Sicilian family in the
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food and restaurant business.
And then, my mother when I wasseven, my parents split up.
My mother took us to thisCalifornia commune on a bus
called the Mars Hotel with a mannamed Lightning.
I then ended up, living thisvery alternative hippie
lifestyle with, this feministmother and the sort of
chauvinistic father so that themessages were so different, from
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what I was getting as to what Ishould be as a woman and and,
ultimately, I think I the I wentdown the path of more placating,
the patriarch, my father hisideas of what, I should be.
And look, I'm a girl.
I love looking a certain way.
I love skincare, cosmetics,hair.
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There's nothing wrong with thateither, I don't think that we
all need to be natural and growit all out long and, do nothing,
like that's fine if that's whatyou want to do beautiful, but
please don't you know judgeanyone else who wants to be
early and, and enjoy all thethings you know too so it's just
that I think is right there themessage of feminism which really
is we all get to choose you knowwhat we, how we want to express
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in life.
Yeah, I think you bring up agreat point, and Hillary and I
have talked about this so muchoff camera and on camera,
everyone's talking about aging,everyone's talking about
menopause, everyone's talkingabout women getting older, but I
feel sometimes we're getting sodamn judgy about it, like people
putting down, Oh, Pam Anderson.
She's now not wearing anymakeup.
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Look at how terrible she looks.
Yet when she wore all themakeup, people were like, Oh,
she looks terrible.
She looks so cheap.
And it's almost like you can'twin.
It's I don't have gray hair andI don't plan on ever going gray.
I think that some women look.
Absolutely incredible with nomakeup and gray hair and to your
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point, letting it all just be.
Yes, but you know what?
If I decide to go down inflames, that's my option.
That's my choice.
So it's the judging of theaging.
post menopausal woman that needsto be discussed more and that
drives me absolutely insane.
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Yeah.
Great, Susan.
Yeah.
And I just have no tolerance forit.
And I actually kind of, again,I've been in this sort of a
little more of a isolatedreclusive stage lately, for the
past year or so.
And I just have not really beenon social media or whatever, but
I just don't, I don't have arespect for it or tolerance.
And I just, it's like aboundary.
I just, take your opinions andjust, do what you will live and
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let live as my motto, stay inyour own lane and great if you
if something works for you,beautiful, celebrate that.
But don't tell me how I'msupposed to live my life and not
at a certain age.
If you want to do that as, youngkids, great, but I've earned
the, the right at a certain ageto like.
Make my own choices.
Thank you very much.
And I do think it's funny thatsometimes so much of this
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criticism comes from otherwomen, not necessarily the men,
most men are like, Oh, she wantsto age gracefully.
Great.
She wants to look great.
You don't really hear, or atleast I don't, a lot of men
saying, Oh, having opinions whenthey're older, I guess I'm
talking about older men, or menour own age.
They don't seem to have as manyopinions about the look thing
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and all that as they get older,it's the younger ones, let's
face it.
But women I found can be thehardest on each other,
critiquing each other so muchinstead of supporting each
other's aging journey and agingprocess.
Which is really, too bad.
I think underneath it all, Ithink that women, we carry a lot
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more, just insecurity, and I'llown it myself.
Just it's hard to navigate, thisculture and what we're supposed
to have, and so it's easy tojudge ourselves very harshly.
And then if you're not consciousenough, you're judging, you're
projecting that judgment ontoeveryone else as well, which is
not very fair.
Yeah, it really, like I said,I've received so much support
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from women.
In this particular phase thatI'm going through that has been
just I'm just deeply andeternally grateful for it
because when women cometogether, we are an incredible
force and just an incrediblecommunity and and a real light
for the planet, too, not tosound too woo, but that, that
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feminine energy, we all needmore I think, right now, more
than ever.
I agree.
Enlightened feminine energy, notthe critical bitchy, talking
about.
Yeah, we do.
We have an, we have, I feel anintrinsic ability to have
empathy and to want to heal eachother when we're feeling like,
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We're safe.
And so much of that is maybelearning how to make yourself
feel safe, not relying onanything or anyone outside of
that, but if that's through yourown meditations, your own
prayers, your own, whatever itis for you, when we.
Kind of find a way to sit in ourown sense of self.
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We'd be start to become kinderand we can be more open to, I
want to say, I guess ourhumanity or just our intrinsic
sense of, the female does tendto be, the nurture, the healing,
the calming, and the more we doit, the better.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
I feel like I'm raisingteenagers through I get to see
what she's doing.
That's clearly flippant and ajoke.
I'm not there in the first thingin the morning and at night,
but, Oh, but you're there,Hillary.
You're there.
I respect more and more theolder I get.
I deeply, I have so much respectfor mothers.
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I do too.
I do too.
And you were saying about how.
For yourself.
It's, letting go of old rolesand old identities and, for
those of us that don't havechildren, sometimes society is,
a little hard on us.
For those of us that do havechildren, society's a little
hard on us.
It's like you can't, you bumparound either which, and you
can't win.
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You can't win.
But it's, it, that's been one ofthe things that is the most
liberating is I've gone through,a season where.
I did.
I had all of these identitieswrapped up in things and I
didn't even realizing it andlosing them or letting them go.
It can be a very painful,awkward process.
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And it makes me think of themothers whose kids first go to
kindergarten or, and thenthey're going to college and
they're changing.
And I just think it's such aninteresting transition that we
do go through.
Changing of roles and sometimeswe don't even realize that we've
been defining ourselves byrelationships by jobs by how the
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world sees us by how we seeourselves through the world's
eyes.
And as we get older, we, Ithink, become more aware that
might just be me because it'sjust me.
I'm walking through all of thatpath right now and I sit here
and our listeners probably feellike, wow, she says one thing
one day, one podcast and thenext podcast, another one on
one.
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I'm defiant about I'm aginggracefully and I'm letting this
go and I'm doing this.
And then the next day I comehome from the doctor who tells
me I have a barnacle and I'mhaving a meltdown about
something that seems like it'shorrible.
falling apart or I see areflection in a car door and I'm
like, Oh my gosh, things arefalling apart.
So I think we just have to begraceful.
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And, our audience is very kindto me as I'm, going through all
of this myself, but it's ajourney and we have to move
together.
As we go, Susan's super patientwith me.
She knows what she's going tosee when she turns on the
camera.
Adele, in case you werewondering how we came up with
the name life gloss, this isliterally what life gloss
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podcast is, you think you'recoming on to talk about, body
products and ingredients and theworld, of modeling.
And then we somehow end thewhole.
Podcast talking about women'sissues and feminism and aging
and because it is it's life andit's glossy and it all is
(47:08):
relatable to beauty inside andout.
So this is a perfect example ofwhy we're called Life Gloss.
I love that that that's my wholethe working title for the film
is called Skin and Deep.
Okay, it's, yeah, I'm so withyou.
I love discussing it all theinner and the outer shell, yeah,
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it's all important.
All of our parts.
We're women.
We have a lot to talk about.
We really do.
And Hillary was saying to it,This time of life, especially,
they call it the change.
We are changing.
On so many levels, physicallyand otherwise, and that should
be celebrated.
It is It's often I think scaryand we, change for anyone.
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But it can be so liberating andit can be so empowering and it's
needed.
If you don't change, you don'tgrow, you don't evolve.
Yeah, it's really beautiful to,to, and I love your whole,
metamorphosis.
I think that is such a positiveway to take what is for you
personally going through adifficult time, to turn that
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into something positive is just,it's so wonderful.
And, I think you I think you'resomeone who leads with love and
you can see that in you as aperson and you can see that.
Poured into your product, itreally, you come from such a
really positive place for, youreally are a role model for a
lot of women.
You might not know it, but Ithink everyone has seen you and
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they just don't know.
They've seen you, everyone hasseen your hands.
Everyone has seen every part ofyou.
They may not know it, but if 20odd years, we've all seen you
Adele.
But getting to know you And theperson behind the curtain is,
has just been wonderful.
This has been wonderful.
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Oh, that just, I, again thatjust means so much to me.
Yeah I like to say that, I, someparts of me like to be seen,
some parts hidden.
This whole profession has reallybeen convenient in the sense
that I can be on a billboard,but still have my own, I love
that.
I love that.
So before we wrap up, speakingof this stuff, we have to ask
for our listeners that have nowgotten to know you in this past
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hour tell us, can you tell us,you don't have to name names if
you don't want to, but was therea certain job or can you tell us
Something In your vast career,of all the shoots you've done,
all the work you've done, isthere one that really stands out
the most or one that is yourfavorite story or you're the
(49:36):
most proud of, or it just waschaos or, I don't know, give us
something juicy.
Question.
There's a few that come to mindbut today what comes to mind is
Christian Louboutin, who, we alllove.
He I shot with him, severaltimes, but at one point he was
at the actual shoot.
And we did a whole editorialpiece on him.
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And at some point he put me upon his shoulders.
As I'm wearing his fabulousheels.
And we just started, shootingwith my legs, wrapped around
him, balancing.
And that was a lot of fun.
That's so cool.
That's so fun.
Yes.
We'll have to see if we canfind, did those images ever get
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published?
Yes.
Yes.
You can send them to me.
We'll put them in socials.
And then also before we let yougo, I would love to humbly
request that when you are readyto talk a little bit more about
the film, about what you've beencreating, we would love to have
you back.
(50:38):
We would love to have you sharewith us.
Dr.
Perricone's been coming with usand he's been teasing and
revealing his book that's comingout in January.
And We just love to be able tohelp build the anticipation and
support your launch.
And I know I personally can'twait to hear more about it.
I would absolutely love to.
(51:00):
So consider it confirmed.
I can't wait.
Yes.
Thank you so much for the lovelyinvitation.
I would absolutely love that.
Wonderful.
Thank you.
And what we'll do is we're goingto put all of the links and all
the information so people knowhow to find you in social media.
They'll know how to find youyour shop online.
They'll know where to get you.
I think maybe we just might haveto go up to Big Sur and have
(51:23):
some treatments so we can buythem in person.
Oh, I know that would be yes,but don't forget about the Code
Life Gloss for 25% off.
'cause the holidays are rightaround the corner.
And like I said, I only do this25% off around Black Friday once
a year.
Enjoy and stock.
Thank you.
Listeners, we're so touched,listeners, go on Asencia by
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Adele on her website.
Put a whole bunch in the cart,and under promo code, Life
Gloss, 25 percent off.
Exactly.
I'm going to spell that.
I'm going to spell that forpeople that are driving or not
driving, people that are justlistening to us that aren't
watching us on YouTube that arejust listening on Spotify.
(52:07):
It's E S E N T I E L B Y A D E LE.
com.
So it's E S E N T I E L B Y A DE L E.
com.
And until then, thank you somuch.
And as always stay glossy, stayglowy.
(52:29):
Thank you.
Perfect.
I'm just going to stop recordingand.
Welcome back to LifeGloss.
(00:01):
We have the most special guestwith us today.
I want everyone to welcome AdeleUddo and we will be talking a
little bit about her producttoday, Essentiel by Adele.
I want to tell you a little bitabout how Adele and I met.
It was very special.
We met on a photo shoot becauseAdele is a body parts model.
(00:26):
You heard that right.
Talk about being objectified asa woman.
You get hired for your hands oryour neck or your decollete or
your face and she has to keepall of those things looking
good, feeling good, But alsokeeping her soul and her spirit
feeling good.
Because as we all know, themodeling world can be really
tough and it's particularly hardon a body parts model.
(00:50):
So without further ado, welcometo life gloss.
Thank you so much, Hillary.
It's such a pleasure and anhonor really to be here.
So thank you so much forinviting me.
We're thrilled to have you.
I think, I don't know if you'vebeen listening to our podcast or
heard us just, we've raved aboutyour product for a while.
(01:11):
Ever since Hillary put this inmy hands and I put it on my
hands, this has been the numberone product.
for my body parts.
So no one's hiring me for mybody parts these days.
However, I have to tell you theylook better than ever.
So we're going to get into someof this in a minute.
Coming from both of you.
Truly.
That means so much to me becausewhen it comes from like beauty
(01:34):
insiders and experts, it's, itreally touches my heart.
So thank you very much.
Oh, you're so welcome.
We love it.
I'm so glad that Hillary turnedme onto it.
And should I tell my funnystory?
It's not really funny, but it'sit's not funny.
It's cute.
So my, I have two children andmy daughter is both my kids are
(01:55):
highly sensory sensitive humans.
And she really is hypersensitive to smells, light,
sound.
all those things.
It's part of her divergency.
And so I put this on andoftentimes she'll walk into the
room and she'll say, mom, toomuch or this or that.
And I think you'll agree.
And I think all three of us canagree.
(02:16):
We're trying so many differentthings and different types of
perfumes and lotions and potionsand whatnot.
So I do get feedback from theteenagers.
So when I received this, fromHillary and I was so excited
because I put it on and Ismelled it instantly.
I was just personally captivatedby the scent because the first
(02:38):
time I smelled it, I was like, Ihope it works as good as it
smells because I think we've allbeen bummed out.
We've tried things you smell,and they are terrible or
terrible for you, but theysmell, really good or they smell
bad, but they work great.
The fact this was a win.
So I walked out of the bathroom,I had it on and I walked by my
daughter and she turned aroundand she said, what is that?
(03:01):
And I paused to hear the, get itoff.
It's terrible bubble, and shesaid, mom, that is so good.
You smell like a heaven spa,like a heavenly spa.
And I said, Oh my gosh.
I said, Solange, I'm so glad youlike it.
She's can I try?
And never has that happened.
(03:23):
And I'm really being honest.
I'm not just saying this.
It was the first time I've everused a body product, especially
body lotion where she actually,wanted it and then said, I told
her we were going to have you onthe podcast.
And then she said, can she makeit into a perfume?
I said, I'll ask her.
I have been asked that.
First of all that again is, itjust means so much to me.
(03:48):
I also consider myself a highlysensitive person.
And I'm very sensitive to scentsand particularly artificial
fragrances, which I, which, Iwanted absolutely no part of in
this product.
And I spent a tremendous amountof time with the formulator
trying to get the perfect,subtle, but, natural, fresh,
(04:09):
clean, heavenly spa like scent,like you're describing.
And the scent comes strictlyfrom the essential oils,
frankincense, heliacrism,geranium, and lavender.
So not only does it smell, quitelovely and gender neutral and
really divine.
It's really good for your skin.
It's, and your nervous system,it has, it calms the nervous
(04:32):
system with the essential oils.
Yeah, it reduces inflammationand regenerates healthy cells.
So it's a win.
Yeah.
And we're going to get into allthe ingredients because we have
to pick your brain about theingredients.
Cause it doesn't just smellamazing, but the ingredients are
incredible.
We'll get into all of that, butyes, I have to tell you it is so
grounding and I agree with you.
It is so gender neutral.
(04:54):
It really is.
And, we toss that term around somuch now in the industry, but
This is something that everyhuman would definitely want to
wear and it's not overpowering.
It's just, and you're right,it's calming, like it's
grounding.
A lot of people actually use itbefore they go to sleep.
It helps them sleep.
Yeah, and I love it when the menget hooked too.
(05:15):
They they, some use it as ashave lotion and yeah.
So it's very multi use, multipurpose.
I put it in my hair, my to tamemy ways.
My mother swears that it hasrevolutionized her legs.
My mom.
Still like to wear her above theknee skirts and she's so fit and
(05:37):
flirty and fun and she called mebecause I gave subscriptions to
my family members a few yearsago.
And there's a lot of eczema, alot of psoriasis in, on my mom's
side of the family and everyonethat I gave it to, I've been the
hero.
So thank you.
They all unanimously love it andthey have all talked about.
(05:59):
healing properties.
So even on a delicate skin andthe frankincense is all of a
sudden everywhere this season.
Everyone's talking aboutfrankincense again, but it's
been in your formula forever.
And it is Yeah, it's again, I'mthe, I was the hero.
So anybody that's listening,that's looking for a really
unique, interesting thing togive for the holidays, get your
(06:22):
friends and family bysubscription.
And while we're talking aboutit, I just have to tell people,
she also does a mini.
So I highly recommend this andAdele, I have to tell you how
much I appreciate that youdidn't skimp on the mini that
this tip twists on and off.
So it will lock in your purse.
And you're flying and travelingand it's easy to refill from
(06:45):
this guy.
I just really appreciate this somuch.
So thank you.
I so appreciate you spreadingthe lotion love, as I say, that
is I just, yeah, deeplyappreciate that because so many
of the biggest fans have comethrough gift giving.
It is one of those gifts thateverybody feels special, and you
can, and it, applies to allparts, all people.
(07:06):
Yeah I don't know if we want tomention right now, but I have a
I created a code for you all,the Life Gloss.
code for 25 percent off.
I only do this once a year.
So yeah, because you all are sospecial to me and I'm just,
honored to be here again, butyes, any of your listeners can
can use the code life gloss for25 percent off and it really
(07:29):
does make a really beautifulgift.
We'll put that, we'll put thatin our show notes too.
And I'll post that on ourInstagram for our followers.
That's super generous of you.
I think it'll give everyone achance to really try this
exceptional product and itreally is exceptional.
So take us from the beginning.
How, we know that you're a partsmodel and we're and I do want
(07:50):
you to talk about that for asecond, how you got into that
and tell us a little bit aboutthat, but how did you transition
from that into.
Wanting to do something for thebody because there's so much out
there.
Let's face it.
We're inundated with bodyproducts.
Totally.
Yeah.
I, I didn't really plan to be abody parts model.
(08:10):
Certainly, didn't go to schoolfor that or anything.
But I had been told particularlyby my grandmother on my mother's
side, all my life that I hadthese beautiful hands and didn't
think much of it.
Was doing some modeling at thetime and was called by my agent
and said, we have this, bigcasting for OPI nails.
Do you have, do you have nicenails and hands?
And I thought gee, mygrandmother thinks so.
(08:30):
So I went and I remember reallylike immediately feeling like
this different energy at thecasting.
Like they, were, Like all thesudden got excited and calling,
people in and passing my handsaround the boardroom.
And, it was exciting.
So I booked the job that daycalled my grandmother on the way
home and made a card from thereand just started working.
(08:55):
And my career really took offwhen I started working in New
York.
And for several years, I wasjust.
By coastal, just the mainindustry is in New York.
The beauty and fashion.
So that's when I really startedworking for like big brands like
Dior and Revlon and, Apple andsome really incredible
companies.
Yeah that's how I got into.
(09:17):
And early on, I realized, my, myparts, particularly my hands
were being photographed in macrocloseup, like literally down to
the cuticle.
So when that happens, therereally is no faking when you're,
in high definition.
So I really needed to up myskincare and, have exceptional
(09:38):
skincare.
So I started testing differentmoisturizers and and getting
more educated.
I'd come from a pretty naturalbackground with growing up on a
California commune sort of farmenvironment, very organic.
We drank from a well.
So I was familiar with naturalskincare.
Since I was, quite young, but asI was testing these
(10:00):
moisturizers, I was reading, thelabels of many of them that were
really popular.
And I was surprised that some ofthem were really expensive yet.
Ironically filled with thesevery cheap kind of questionable
filler ingredients and didn'treally make too much of a
difference on my skin, didn'tsmell so great, as we're talking
(10:21):
about artificial fragrances.
So I started just testingdifferent, more natural products
started making my own in mykitchen.
And really with my favoriteingredients and, my friends,
I've been testing them out on myfriends.
My friends started asking formore.
And then I took it to a topformulator here in LA and he
(10:41):
really took the formula to thenext level.
And we worked together and thelotion love child was born from
there.
And what year did you launch?
When did you launch?
2020, 2018.
Wow.
Okay.
Hard to believe.
Yeah.
It flies, doesn't it?
The time flies.
And anybody that's beenfollowing us for a period of
(11:02):
time, they know that we willtalk about products here and
there, the good, the bad, theugly, but there's nothing that
we have been so emphatic aboutand actually had someone on to
talk about.
So yeah, just so our audienceknows we are, we're so grateful
for the code.
Thank you for being so generous,but this is 100%.
(11:23):
A labor of love this episode iscoming not from any sort of you
know sponsored post or anythinglike that So anybody out there
just know that this isabsolutely just because we've
loved it and our families loveit And we rely on it and I was
having a period of time when Myimmune system was going a little
haywire, and I'm still trying tofigure out what's going on
(11:44):
there.
But I was getting, funny,rashes, and I'm never a rashy
person.
And this was one of the onlythings that would really heal.
They were giving me all theprescriptions and all the
different creams and salves toput on which I'm like, hey, if
you need it.
I'll do it But this was reallysoothing and I have even used
it.
I've used it I use it on my neckall the time.
(12:04):
I've used it on my face and itgoes right into the skin There's
nothing greasy And the longeryou use it the more my skin
feels Retains hydration.
If I go a few weeks and I'm notusing it, if I'm out or I didn't
take it with me, if I was goingsomewhere I noticed that my skin
doesn't feel as supple.
So even it retains the moistureand you can tell it's making the
(12:27):
skin healthier.
Gosh, I love hearing thatHillary.
And again, especially from you,it just I'm so respect
everything that you're aboutyour products as well, your
knowledge of qualityingredients.
So that just really means a lotto me.
And when I do hear that it helpspeople heal skin conditions.
I hear all the time about eczemapsoriasis.
(12:49):
And that is so wonderful becauseI really that was so important
to me to make it more of asoothing healing product.
The calendula and the aloe andthe shea butter and just,
ingredients that would reallycalm the skin, and I said, like
I said, the nervous system, weall need a little.
A little emotional support too,in this day and age.
(13:11):
Yeah.
And this is a product that, youare a professional body parts
model.
This is a product that you'reusing.
And that speaks volumes because,you are the best advertisement
for the product.
If people are hiring you becauseyour skin looks amazing, your
hands look amazing, and we'renot gonna do any close ups of
mine today, but if you're usingthis product and you're still
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working and, that to me, youcan't get a better testament
than that.
Yeah, I really made it formyself, primarily a few people
over the years asked me, do youuse your own product?
And I'm like that's why Icreated it.
Many people don't.
Day and night and several timesa day, with the hands.
But as Hillary said too, you canuse it on your face, hands, and
(13:58):
body.
It's multi use.
It's even formulated forsensitive skin, so you can use
under your eyes.
It's non comiogenic.
It's really it's just I like tothink of it as like just good
nutrition for the food, for theskin.
It's like good food, skin food.
So let's talk about that.
I'm, I want to dive right in.
I'm so excited by this product.
And I want to know what you feelsome of the hero ingredients are
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in the product that you feel setEssentielle aside that make it
different than the competition.
I would say certainly startingwith the essential oils.
Like I said, frankincense,heliacrism, geranium and
lavender, all of those.
I not only love the scent whichagain is subtle and not going to
(14:40):
compete with your primaryperfume if you use one.
But yeah, also calm the skinagain and regenerate healthy
cells and calm inflammation.
Help fade dark spots reduceredness.
The, I think probably there's somany but MSM, I absolutely love
(15:01):
that ingredient.
And I'm surprised it's not usedin more skincare.
It's it's a sulfur compound andsulfur is the third most.
plentiful mineral in our body.
The ancient Romans used to soakin sulfuric baths.
It was the original fountain ofyouth.
It's essential for the body toproduce collagen.
So I absolutely love MSM.
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The raspberry leaf extract is atightening astringent which, we
all love that.
I remember when we tested thatWhen the formulator suggested
and put that in there I did.
I like immediately feltsomething.
And I remember my next doorneighbor, who was also testing
with me.
She was like, and there'ssomething that's tightening.
My skin feels tighter.
Yeah that's the raspberry leafextract.
(15:43):
I would say the coffee berry Ialso love as well, one of the
most potent naturalantioxidants.
Yeah, there's, I could go on.
There's men that I really love.
And I know that you all know somuch about ingredients.
So chime in if you, if there'sany that you feel, are worth
mentioning hyaluronic acidthat's a favorite that everyone
of course loves that plumps theskin and retains a lot of,
(16:05):
moisture in the skin.
Reading the ingredient deck it'slike reading a love song to your
skin.
It's so beautiful.
And the fact that, aloe is rightat the top of the deck followed
by, grapes, grape and oliveoils, the shea butters.
And it's nice because you can,you feel the healing power of a
shea butter.
(16:26):
But it doesn't sit on top of theskin.
So the way this was formulated,because I've been in product,
been involved in productdevelopment, as Susan has as
well, sometimes when people cutcorners, they just dump in
whatever shea butter, and it'snot blended properly in the
right stages, it can sit on top,it can be greasy, it can be
(16:47):
occlusive, but this It gives youthe suppleness of a shea butter
without the greasy.
There's no payoff.
It just goes right in.
It's a tough customer.
So I was really excited when shecontacted me and she was like,
What is this?
Yeah, because it's true.
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I am a, like Hillary, we bothlove ingredients and we've been
around long enough to know mostingredients.
We don't know everything, but wedo know a lot.
So many of the, whenever I hearshea butter, I often think it's
going to be occlusive.
It's going to be heavy and it'sgoing to be tacky because a lot
of people don't know how to workwith that product.
(17:28):
And, there is the oldexpression, just because it's
natural doesn't mean it'sluxury, and I have to tell you,
as someone who workedpredominantly in luxury, this
absolutely has a luxury feel.
This feels like it is a luxuryproduct.
(17:48):
lotion which is prettyincredible.
Your ingredients are also, Iwill say this, you have some
very expensive ingredients inhere too.
These are not inexpensiveingredients that you have in
here.
Yeah, my dad's philosophy, hewill, he was a restaurateur in
New Orleans and his wholephilosophy was, to give people
quality at an affordable price.
(18:09):
So I didn't, jack the prices up.
I really wanted to keep it, at aat a reasonable price point and
offer, the high quality.
So thank you so much fornoticing that.
And for noticing the finish,because that was intentional as
well, being a primarily handmodel, I couldn't be, handling
products and leaving, greasyfingerprints all over what I was
(18:32):
holding.
So I said, I want something withalmost like a matte finish.
But that would still be deeplyhydrating, give you that dewy,
beautiful, hydrated look, but,not greasy or shiny or, sitting
on top of the skin like manymoisturizers.
I would actually categorize theadjectives I would use for this
product for our listeners thatmaybe aren't watching us as
(18:54):
we're doing this.
This is definitely a velvetfinish and I would say that it
gives you a glow.
There's no shimmer, noiridescence, no mica, there's
not a shine, there's not an oil,it's not a gloss, it is a glow.
(19:14):
So you've got this sort ofvelvety glow.
It almost feels like cashmeregloves, if I could even say
that.
It just has that really soft,warm, cozy feeling.
And at the same time, I couldsee, I'm on the east coast.
This is winter, but also I feelit's going to be rich enough for
(19:36):
the winter months here, whichare terrible, as but also in the
summer I was using this andnever once felt like, get it off
my skin.
It's too much.
It's too heavy.
So somehow you captured thelightness.
Of a body lotion with theefficacy of a cream.
Oh my gosh.
I love that.
I might have to quote that Ilove really and coming from you.
(19:59):
I want that.
I want that quote.
That's beautiful and that isexactly what I wanted and that's
exactly what I you know What Iworked to with the formulator to
create and you just Put it intowords because I was also, like I
said, working bi coastally.
I needed something that, that,would hold up in a New York
climate and also a Los Angeles Ilive by the beach, Malibu, all
(20:20):
the yeah, I wanted it to belight, but also deeply
hydrating.
Yeah.
And that's not easy to do, whichis why most companies have
cream.
And then they have lotion.
Then they have an oil if they'remore of a luxury brand, but yet
you nailed it in one product,which is someone needs to hire
you to consult and find outexactly, how you did that,
(20:42):
because that's pretty, prettyincredible.
Most items are either lotion orheavy cream and yeah, you nailed
it.
so much.
Again, that, that really means alot to me.
I worked really hard at it.
I, my mom at some point wentwith me to, she was in town.
She went with me to to meet theformulator and she's I
apologize.
I know she's a perfectionist.
(21:03):
I was like, okay, I'll hit her.
It shows.
Because people can go, Hillaryand I talk about this all the
time.
You can go, for most bodyproducts, people can just pick
them up at a drugstore, or ifthey're feeling fancy and
special, they'll run into aluxury department store or
specialty door, and then youhave people that will just
purchase at a spa when they'reon holiday, But I think being
(21:23):
able to seek out somethingwithout it being right at your
corner store, right on your wayto, go pick up an outfit or
something when you have to goout of your way to pick up a
product, especially a beautyproduct, it has to be really
good, because it's not as It'snot that quick.
Impulse purchase.
(21:44):
This is something you actuallyhave to order.
You have to take the time toseek it out and find it.
So I think when it's somethingthat's that good, you're willing
to do it.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's, and people haveasked a lot like when are you
going to be in, more stores,whatever, primarily in spas.
And some really lovely high endspas.
(22:05):
The Post Ranch Inn and Big Sur.
I'm not, I don't know if you'refamiliar with that place, but
that is like my favorite, my alltime favorites, Bob.
All, it's just, I'm so honoredthat it's there.
But yeah, some really lovelyspas, but I just, I have chosen
again, intentionally just tokeep it direct to consumer, from
my website, people cansubscribe.
So it's really easy.
(22:25):
Once you subscribe, it's just,every one, two or three months
and you get it at a discountit's hassle free.
So yeah, what is your websitejust for our listeners?
We'll post it.
We just say it for peoplelistening.
Of course.
It's essential by Adeleessential with an EL by Adele.
By Adele.
Okay, so they can direct andalso for our audience.
(22:47):
There's something reallyinteresting that's happening in
the beauty industry.
I've go to all of the tradeshows.
I've been in product developmentfor so long.
And right now what you're seeingis we're seeing this big
explosion of AI and brand.
So you can basically I said whenthe last time I was at a show,
there are several companies now.
(23:08):
It started a few years ago, butnow it's really big where you
can go in there and say, Hi, I'mSusie Q.
I want to create my own brand,and this is who it's for, this
is what I want it to do, blah,blah, blah.
And they just enter it into theAI, they'll come up with your
logo, your branding, yourmessaging, and the formula, and
it just Jetson style spits itout.
(23:29):
Those you could give them aningredient list like this, but
you're not going to get thehuman being going back to the
lab, trying the samples, testingit on their people.
So we're at the age of where fora very long time, we've had an
industry where things wereprivate labeled.
You could go into, into a, tollmanufacturer and there's a huge
(23:51):
library Thousands of differentbases like, here are 50 100
moisturizers, 100 eye creams,100 body lotions.
You can add one to threeingredients.
You can try one to threeformulas and then it costs you
more to test others.
Slap your label on it and it'sdone and it's technically yours
and they do have They haveadvanced over time.
(24:15):
So they do have some very goodstock bases and stock products,
they can be okay.
But it's not something that'sborn from a purposeful,
intentional place andhandcrafted.
This is really handcrafted.
It's like what I did with mybrand that I created where we
met.
I went in and I led with, thisis what I want the consumer's
(24:38):
experience to be.
And these are the things I thinkwe need in there to get them
there.
Let's go.
Whereas other people will walkin and say, we want to sell it
for this.
We want a margin of this.
What can we put on the label formarketing?
What can we put in it to give itthat feel?
We'll tell them that's whatthey're feeling, even if that's
not what they're feeling.
(24:59):
And that's a different, it's atotally different evolution and
DNA of a brand.
So having something like this onthe market is really special at
a time like this.
I love that.
That's, it's I really do.
I feel like I put my heart andI've said my Sicilian soul into
the product.
And thank you for recognizingthat.
(25:20):
And I so recognize that withyour products and, as soon as I
met you, we met on set.
I was, doing some hands forHillary and her beautiful
products.
And I was just so impressed withyour, Not only knowledge of
ingredients, but just theexoticness, some of the
ingredients, I, and I've beenaround the block and I, had
(25:41):
tested and, thought of and allkinds of ingredients, but some
of them were so beautiful andexotic.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
It's always a labor of love.
And so I recognize that.
I know what it's like to go inthere and do it.
And as Susan was saying to herpoint, it's worth going the
extra mile to get thoseproducts.
(26:01):
And I think we're going to seeconsumers because they're so
inundated with social media andeverything else, there are new
shiny balls every second.
So this is really our effort tobring things to our audience
that we know will work will be,we know will be good for them.
And our Produced intentionallyand really produced with the
(26:24):
consumer and the client in mind,rather than, of course, we're
all making a living.
We all work for a living.
So we, there is a, we're notrunning a nonprofit skincare
company, but at the same time,we're reasonable and really
doing our best to put love intowhat we bring out of our
skincare kitchens.
(26:45):
And it shows.
Yeah.
No, Adele you.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
I was just going to say that, Ihave such a strong background in
marketing.
I worked in it for, years andactually decades at this point.
And I was always sort of.
I noticed that sometimes we'd beshooting, a whole afternoon with
(27:05):
just tons of products that whenyou look at the ingredients
list, it's pretty much the sameformula packaged very
differently.
And, I, and that's all fine, tosome extent, but I really wanted
to just emphasize quality overquantity and to dispel the myth
(27:26):
that you absolutely need adifferent eye cream, hand cream,
face cream, body cream, footcream.
I feel like skin is made of thesame stuff and, if it's, if
you're feeding it the rightingredients it's nourishing, no
matter if it's nose or toes noseor toes.
And I think we've all been onset.
This is going to be shocking tosome of our listeners, but I
think that the three of us withall of our experience being
(27:49):
behind the camera and behind thescenes and in front of the
camera in your case, Adele.
We've all been on shoots wherewe know we're shooting a
specific product.
But they're not using thatproduct on the models.
They're using something elseentirely.
That product, the product thatthey're promoting and that
they're shooting for never makesan appearance on the model, on
(28:11):
the skin.
They're using other things inthe bag, which is crazy.
That was one of.
The things I noticed early on,too, I've done a lot of
celebrity doubling and I wouldalways pick the brains of the,
these fabulous, world classmakeup artists, who were doing
these starlets like, PenelopeCruz and Katy Perry and, Excuse
(28:33):
me and ask them, Oh whatconcealer do you, or, do you
love or, what's your favoriteand what are you using?
And oftentimes it was yeahsomething quite different than
what was being advertised.
But yeah, I got a lot of goodtips from that.
I bet.
What are some of your favoritetips that you learned from some
of the artists when you're,speaking of concealer, which I
just, you know I've alwaysthought as one of the, the most
(28:54):
important parts of makeup.
Um, I remember this lovelymakeup artist telling me that
she loves clay depot concealer.
It's expensive, but it'ssomething that really lasts and
looks great on camera.
I have since, again, I don't gonatural all the time and I, but
I try to try as best I can.
(29:18):
There's a more natural productthat I've also been using
lately.
Gosh, what's it called?
C and I might need to go.
It'll come to you.
Yeah.
It'll come to you.
Yeah.
But yeah, it starts with a canyway.
Yeah, so I, that the rose watermist that I use all the time.
It just gives a nice refresh andI have actually considered
(29:44):
expanding the line with, maybebecause people have asked, for a
mister or even a candle, peopleare interested in the scent,
they so love the scent.
I'm going through manytransitions right now, but I
might when I land a bit morelook into doing more of that.
We'll see.
Yeah, I was going to ask you,not just for my daughter and
myself, but, for everyone, thescent is so incredible that
(30:06):
you've created And I was goingto ask where you see this
expanding, other parts of thebody or the home or your
environment.
I don't re I, I don't reallyknow.
I truly have been asked thatsince the launch.
And I guess, I've been a littlestubborn in that it was multi
(30:26):
use, cause Some people have evenasked how about a, how about an
eye cream?
How about it?
But I was like, but that defeatsthe purpose and the message of
it, like this is what so yeah I,And quite honestly I think I'm
so much of a creative typeperson.
So the formulating the product,the, building the brand and the
packaging and writing the copyand all of that was lovely and
(30:47):
fabulous, and I really enjoyedthat process actually running
the business.
Part of it has been a little bitof a challenge in that.
It's just not really my skillsetor passion.
I should say.
I've wondered once in a while,like maybe, if I find the right
partner or something, somebodywho wants to, run with that part
of it all.
I would certainly, consider it,but yeah, right now I've just
(31:09):
got many balls up in the air.
I'm, shooting this documentary.
I'm trying to finish thisproject that I've been working
on for, many years and all kindsof stuff.
We'd love to hear more about thedocumentary either now or when
it's time.
So we'll put that little bug outand you have some beautiful
content on your website and ifpeople sign up for your mailing
(31:30):
list on the website, I neverencourage people to sign up for
mailing lists, but you send themost heartfelt, incredibly
touching emails out to yoursubscribers.
So it's not.
You don't get just salesy byAdele's body, cream, body
lotion.
You really share your life andeven my mother called me and she
(31:54):
was all teary one day and Ithought immediately, what's
wrong?
Has somebody heard?
Has something happened?
She said, have you seen Adele's,have you seen Adele's email?
And I was like, is she okay?
What happened?
She said no, she's fine.
But I was just so touched by it.
So it's I'm excited to see whatyou're creating.
I love your mother, please.
(32:15):
I know I meant that, but really.
Yeah, that's my passion reallyis is writing is storytelling.
Is, yeah just sharing from thesoul, so to speak.
I have been writing for, manyyears on my blog.
Here and there a little lessfrequently lately.
Cause as I said, I'm just goingthrough many transitions and
(32:38):
somehow it's been, beingdocumented in this.
This documentary that we've beenfilming since 2021.
And it's capturing this, quoteunquote midlife crisis, which
we're trying to reframe asmidlife metamorphosis.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, it's just, many big deepchanges happening right now.
(32:58):
And Difficult at times, butessential, I think, for for my
own growth and evolution andyeah and I'm hoping that really,
my primary intention, of course,with the film as well, is that,
it's something that isultimately inspiring and
something that is, a healingpresence for me.
In my own life and others.
So yeah, that really means a lotto me when I hear that, the
(33:20):
stories speak to people.
How exciting, the term midlifecrisis in application to men is
universally accepted and it's ahousehold name, but when it.
comes to women and having ourmidlife changes that are not
(33:40):
only about menopause.
It's so much more finally nowpeople are starting to recognize
just that little part of itbecause we can prove it
physically now.
Otherwise, the things that we gothrough during these
transitions, whether we havechildren or we don't have
children, it doesn't reallymatter.
I think all human beings, whenyou get to a certain phase in
(34:02):
life, you recalibrate, you takestock, things do change.
And we're starting to giveourselves grace as women, where
We weren't really doing thatbefore.
There were a lot of negativelabels that were attached to it.
How do you see that changing,not only as you're walking
(34:23):
through it in your own life, buteven in the media?
Because we are starting to seeolder women, and I say anybody
over 30, over 40, which we allare They're being celebrated,
but in a very narrow way in themedia.
It's like in order to becelebrating your age, your hair
has to be gray or you have to behappy all the time and smiling
(34:48):
and solving these problemsbecause getting old is horrible.
And it's, I feel like we'restumbling as an industry.
We're not having a smoothtransition into.
We want to talk about it.
I feel that's a little jaded.
I feel like the industry ishappy to take our money because
our buying power right now,we're more educated.
(35:09):
We want to own it.
We want to.
Have control over the way thatwe mature, but they want to sell
to us.
They don't really want to hearfrom us as much.
I feel that's where we are rightnow.
What are you seeing in theindustry?
Because you're behind thescenes.
You're still actively on setmodeling.
And how have things changed overthe decades?
(35:30):
What are you observing?
I think it is changing, butslowly, and I think that the
younger generation is, they'rereally pushing a lot of the
change, which is wonderful.
There are more conversationsthat are happening that where,
our vulnerability is beingcelebrated rather than,
repressed or rather than, yeah,we all have this pressure to be
(35:52):
perfect or to, it is midlife isa time of a lot of quote unquote
death.
It's a lot of endings.
It's a lot of, transition andthat can be rocky and feel raw.
And but it's also a time that isso rich with Just with renewal,
and sometimes that's a painfulpath getting there But you know
(36:15):
if we're brave and we continueshowing up and we continue Get
having these types ofconversations and support with
one another I think women havejust so been getting me through
this time.
It's truly i'm so deeplygrateful for You know the
sisters, in my life, you knowwho are You Who can relate, and
(36:37):
who are there, and there tocelebrate, not just our wins,
but, the times that we're like,whoa, things are changing and
this is scary or, yeah I'mletting go of a lot of identity
or, Old roles or relationshipsor whatever.
And yeah so I think it can be atime that's just so empowering.
And it's funny, speaking of thefilm I set out to make this,
(36:59):
sexy and empowering film aboutaging.
And then, I started aging and itdidn't exactly happen like that.
Like there are many things that,happened unexpectedly.
And, but it's turning out, notin the way that I thought, but
into a sexy empowered film aboutaging.
Okay.
One way or another.
On that same thought, as I'mlistening to you answer that
(37:23):
question, I think to myself, doyou feel that your particular
path, because of what you'vedone for a living, because of
how you have presented to theworld, because of how you earn
your living, do you feel thatthis journey this journey, as
you just said, we're all agingand it is, we can talk for hours
(37:43):
about what a privilege it isright to be able to age and to
remain healthy.
And it is such a gift.
But do you think that this hasbeen personally for you a more
difficult journey because youare so body aware and aware of
how you look and how you'representing to the world?
(38:05):
Has it been?
Harder?
Do you feel it's been a harderjourney for you coming to a
point of acceptance and aging?
Yes I do think so in that, I, Ihave been as objectified as you
say, Hillary for so many, years,down to the toe, yeah I've had
the microscope on myself aswell.
(38:27):
And so much of my value has beenabout, my outer shell and what I
look like.
So yeah that, that has beenhard.
And I also grew up between,these two very polarized parents
and cultures where, you know,Originally, like I said, I'm
from New Orleans, a sort of oldworld Sicilian family in the
(38:47):
food and restaurant business.
And then, my mother when I wasseven, my parents split up.
My mother took us to thisCalifornia commune on a bus
called the Mars Hotel with a mannamed Lightning.
I then ended up, living thisvery alternative hippie
lifestyle with, this feministmother and the sort of
chauvinistic father so that themessages were so different, from
(39:10):
what I was getting as to what Ishould be as a woman and and,
ultimately, I think I the I wentdown the path of more placating,
the patriarch, my father hisideas of what, I should be.
And look, I'm a girl.
I love looking a certain way.
I love skincare, cosmetics,hair.
(39:31):
There's nothing wrong with thateither, I don't think that we
all need to be natural and growit all out long and, do nothing,
like that's fine if that's whatyou want to do beautiful, but
please don't you know judgeanyone else who wants to be
early and, and enjoy all thethings you know too so it's just
that I think is right there themessage of feminism which really
is we all get to choose you knowwhat we, how we want to express
(39:55):
in life.
Yeah, I think you bring up agreat point, and Hillary and I
have talked about this so muchoff camera and on camera,
everyone's talking about aging,everyone's talking about
menopause, everyone's talkingabout women getting older, but I
feel sometimes we're getting sodamn judgy about it, like people
putting down, Oh, Pam Anderson.
She's now not wearing anymakeup.
(40:16):
Look at how terrible she looks.
Yet when she wore all themakeup, people were like, Oh,
she looks terrible.
She looks so cheap.
And it's almost like you can'twin.
It's I don't have gray hair andI don't plan on ever going gray.
I think that some women look.
Absolutely incredible with nomakeup and gray hair and to your
(40:39):
point, letting it all just be.
Yes, but you know what?
If I decide to go down inflames, that's my option.
That's my choice.
So it's the judging of theaging.
post menopausal woman that needsto be discussed more and that
drives me absolutely insane.
(41:00):
Yeah.
Great, Susan.
Yeah.
And I just have no tolerance forit.
And I actually kind of, again,I've been in this sort of a
little more of a isolatedreclusive stage lately, for the
past year or so.
And I just have not really beenon social media or whatever, but
I just don't, I don't have arespect for it or tolerance.
And I just, it's like aboundary.
I just, take your opinions andjust, do what you will live and
(41:23):
let live as my motto, stay inyour own lane and great if you
if something works for you,beautiful, celebrate that.
But don't tell me how I'msupposed to live my life and not
at a certain age.
If you want to do that as, youngkids, great, but I've earned
the, the right at a certain ageto like.
Make my own choices.
Thank you very much.
And I do think it's funny thatsometimes so much of this
(41:46):
criticism comes from otherwomen, not necessarily the men,
most men are like, Oh, she wantsto age gracefully.
Great.
She wants to look great.
You don't really hear, or atleast I don't, a lot of men
saying, Oh, having opinions whenthey're older, I guess I'm
talking about older men, or menour own age.
They don't seem to have as manyopinions about the look thing
(42:08):
and all that as they get older,it's the younger ones, let's
face it.
But women I found can be thehardest on each other,
critiquing each other so muchinstead of supporting each
other's aging journey and agingprocess.
Which is really, too bad.
I think underneath it all, Ithink that women, we carry a lot
(42:30):
more, just insecurity, and I'llown it myself.
Just it's hard to navigate, thisculture and what we're supposed
to have, and so it's easy tojudge ourselves very harshly.
And then if you're not consciousenough, you're judging, you're
projecting that judgment ontoeveryone else as well, which is
not very fair.
Yeah, it really, like I said,I've received so much support
(42:53):
from women.
In this particular phase thatI'm going through that has been
just I'm just deeply andeternally grateful for it
because when women cometogether, we are an incredible
force and just an incrediblecommunity and and a real light
for the planet, too, not tosound too woo, but that, that
(43:14):
feminine energy, we all needmore I think, right now, more
than ever.
I agree.
Enlightened feminine energy, notthe critical bitchy, talking
about.
Yeah, we do.
We have an, we have, I feel anintrinsic ability to have
empathy and to want to heal eachother when we're feeling like,
(43:36):
We're safe.
And so much of that is maybelearning how to make yourself
feel safe, not relying onanything or anyone outside of
that, but if that's through yourown meditations, your own
prayers, your own, whatever itis for you, when we.
Kind of find a way to sit in ourown sense of self.
(43:57):
We'd be start to become kinderand we can be more open to, I
want to say, I guess ourhumanity or just our intrinsic
sense of, the female does tendto be, the nurture, the healing,
the calming, and the more we doit, the better.
Yeah.
(44:17):
Yeah.
I feel like I'm raisingteenagers through I get to see
what she's doing.
That's clearly flippant and ajoke.
I'm not there in the first thingin the morning and at night,
but, Oh, but you're there,Hillary.
You're there.
I respect more and more theolder I get.
I deeply, I have so much respectfor mothers.
(44:39):
I do too.
I do too.
And you were saying about how.
For yourself.
It's, letting go of old rolesand old identities and, for
those of us that don't havechildren, sometimes society is,
a little hard on us.
For those of us that do havechildren, society's a little
hard on us.
It's like you can't, you bumparound either which, and you
can't win.
(45:00):
You can't win.
But it's, it, that's been one ofthe things that is the most
liberating is I've gone through,a season where.
I did.
I had all of these identitieswrapped up in things and I
didn't even realizing it andlosing them or letting them go.
It can be a very painful,awkward process.
(45:22):
And it makes me think of themothers whose kids first go to
kindergarten or, and thenthey're going to college and
they're changing.
And I just think it's such aninteresting transition that we
do go through.
Changing of roles and sometimeswe don't even realize that we've
been defining ourselves byrelationships by jobs by how the
(45:44):
world sees us by how we seeourselves through the world's
eyes.
And as we get older, we, Ithink, become more aware that
might just be me because it'sjust me.
I'm walking through all of thatpath right now and I sit here
and our listeners probably feellike, wow, she says one thing
one day, one podcast and thenext podcast, another one on
one.
(46:04):
I'm defiant about I'm aginggracefully and I'm letting this
go and I'm doing this.
And then the next day I comehome from the doctor who tells
me I have a barnacle and I'mhaving a meltdown about
something that seems like it'shorrible.
falling apart or I see areflection in a car door and I'm
like, Oh my gosh, things arefalling apart.
So I think we just have to begraceful.
(46:25):
And, our audience is very kindto me as I'm, going through all
of this myself, but it's ajourney and we have to move
together.
As we go, Susan's super patientwith me.
She knows what she's going tosee when she turns on the
camera.
Adele, in case you werewondering how we came up with
the name life gloss, this isliterally what life gloss
(46:47):
podcast is, you think you'recoming on to talk about, body
products and ingredients and theworld, of modeling.
And then we somehow end thewhole.
Podcast talking about women'sissues and feminism and aging
and because it is it's life andit's glossy and it all is
(47:08):
relatable to beauty inside andout.
So this is a perfect example ofwhy we're called Life Gloss.
I love that that that's my wholethe working title for the film
is called Skin and Deep.
Okay, it's, yeah, I'm so withyou.
I love discussing it all theinner and the outer shell, yeah,
(47:28):
it's all important.
All of our parts.
We're women.
We have a lot to talk about.
We really do.
And Hillary was saying to it,This time of life, especially,
they call it the change.
We are changing.
On so many levels, physicallyand otherwise, and that should
be celebrated.
It is It's often I think scaryand we, change for anyone.
(47:51):
But it can be so liberating andit can be so empowering and it's
needed.
If you don't change, you don'tgrow, you don't evolve.
Yeah, it's really beautiful to,to, and I love your whole,
metamorphosis.
I think that is such a positiveway to take what is for you
personally going through adifficult time, to turn that
(48:12):
into something positive is just,it's so wonderful.
And, I think you I think you'resomeone who leads with love and
you can see that in you as aperson and you can see that.
Poured into your product, itreally, you come from such a
really positive place for, youreally are a role model for a
lot of women.
You might not know it, but Ithink everyone has seen you and
(48:33):
they just don't know.
They've seen you, everyone hasseen your hands.
Everyone has seen every part ofyou.
They may not know it, but if 20odd years, we've all seen you
Adele.
But getting to know you And theperson behind the curtain is,
has just been wonderful.
This has been wonderful.
(48:54):
Oh, that just, I, again thatjust means so much to me.
Yeah I like to say that, I, someparts of me like to be seen,
some parts hidden.
This whole profession has reallybeen convenient in the sense
that I can be on a billboard,but still have my own, I love
that.
I love that.
So before we wrap up, speakingof this stuff, we have to ask
for our listeners that have nowgotten to know you in this past
(49:16):
hour tell us, can you tell us,you don't have to name names if
you don't want to, but was therea certain job or can you tell us
Something In your vast career,of all the shoots you've done,
all the work you've done, isthere one that really stands out
the most or one that is yourfavorite story or you're the
(49:36):
most proud of, or it just waschaos or, I don't know, give us
something juicy.
Question.
There's a few that come to mindbut today what comes to mind is
Christian Louboutin, who, we alllove.
He I shot with him, severaltimes, but at one point he was
at the actual shoot.
And we did a whole editorialpiece on him.
(49:58):
And at some point he put me upon his shoulders.
As I'm wearing his fabulousheels.
And we just started, shootingwith my legs, wrapped around
him, balancing.
And that was a lot of fun.
That's so cool.
That's so fun.
Yes.
We'll have to see if we canfind, did those images ever get
(50:18):
published?
Yes.
Yes.
You can send them to me.
We'll put them in socials.
And then also before we let yougo, I would love to humbly
request that when you are readyto talk a little bit more about
the film, about what you've beencreating, we would love to have
you back.
(50:38):
We would love to have you sharewith us.
Dr.
Perricone's been coming with usand he's been teasing and
revealing his book that's comingout in January.
And We just love to be able tohelp build the anticipation and
support your launch.
And I know I personally can'twait to hear more about it.
I would absolutely love to.
(51:00):
So consider it confirmed.
I can't wait.
Yes.
Thank you so much for the lovelyinvitation.
I would absolutely love that.
Wonderful.
Thank you.
And what we'll do is we're goingto put all of the links and all
the information so people knowhow to find you in social media.
They'll know how to find youyour shop online.
They'll know where to get you.
I think maybe we just might haveto go up to Big Sur and have
(51:23):
some treatments so we can buythem in person.
Oh, I know that would be yes,but don't forget about the Code
Life Gloss for 25% off.
'cause the holidays are rightaround the corner.
And like I said, I only do this25% off around Black Friday once
a year.
Enjoy and stock.
Thank you.
Listeners, we're so touched,listeners, go on Asencia by
(51:47):
Adele on her website.
Put a whole bunch in the cart,and under promo code, Life
Gloss, 25 percent off.
Exactly.
I'm going to spell that.
I'm going to spell that forpeople that are driving or not
driving, people that are justlistening to us that aren't
watching us on YouTube that arejust listening on Spotify.
(52:07):
It's E S E N T I E L B Y A D E LE.
com.
So it's E S E N T I E L B Y A DE L E.
com.
And until then, thank you somuch.
And as always stay glossy, stayglowy.
(52:29):
Thank you.
Perfect.
I'm just going to stop recordingand.
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