November 23, 2025 • 33 mins
Is gifting a beauty voucher too impersonal? We settle the debate on Christmas presents in a cost-of-living crisis. Does using body contouring makeup during intimacy count as lying? We offer transfer-proof tan recommendations (and a few bedroom tips). And why is your housemate tracking their expensive foundation use with a sticker? We deal with beauty boundaries and foundation theft.
Welcome to The Fix - where your beauty agony aunts Kelly & Amy tackle the awkward, practical, and essential dilemmas that come with real-life beauty struggles.
Plus, we break down the latest beauty headlines: Black Friday is already here with huge deals including 30% off GHD, the unexpected 2026 Met Gala theme, and Go-To is making a big splash with their new colour makeup line.
Products Mentioned:
I'm a beauty editor and this is exactly what I would (and wouldn't) buy in the Black Friday sales
ghd Chronos Professional Hair Straightener $325
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation $96
L'Oréal Paris True Match Liquid Foundation 30ml $16.99
Maybelline Superstay Lumi Matte Foundation 98 $17.49
Revolution Skin Silk Serum Foundation F12 23mL $24
Revlon Illuminance Skin Caring Foundation Creamy Natural $21.99
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD Skin Foundation $55.50
OXX Cosmetics Luminous Glow Foundation $7
Gradual Tanning Lotion $39.95
Clear 1 Hour Express Self Tan $23.76
b.tan glow your own way $21.99
BUBBLE 3-Step Hydration Routine 3 Piece Set $54
Go-To Skintroduction Discovery Set $40
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
You're listening to I'm Mom with mea podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Makeup is my therapy.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm obsessed and I don't even feel guilty about it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Hello, and welcome to you, beauty. I'm Kelly McCarran and
this is The Fix.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I'm Amy Clark. Today consider us your agony aunts.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We are answering all your beauty dilemmas, the kinds.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Of questions that you're too embarrassed to ask someone else,
You're gonna ask us.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
So unlike a traditional Monday episode, The Fix is, as
Amy said, like an agony Aunt episode. And sometimes we're
gonna drop some brutal truth bombs. So later on the episode,
we've got really entitled twelve year olds to deal with
and roommate beauty boundaries. But first, to kick things off,
(01:00):
what's happening in the land in beauty? Here are our
beauty headlines. Welcome back to the Beauty Edit.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
I'm Taylor cass. Let us not waste any more time.
Tell me what is happening in the world of beauty news.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So it's Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well it's actually not Black Friday, but if you look
online you'd think it would be Black Friday's actually November
twenty eight and then Cyber Monday December one.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I love that Black.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Friday has become the month of Black Fridays, but really
it's just stick the word sale on basically any online
retailer and enjoy a discount up till Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Now totally and so Australians are expected to spend a
heck ton of money around six point eight billion dollars
this Black Cyber Friday Monday weekend and that's coording to
some research that we've seen from the Retails Association, but
that's around eight hundred dollars each And for the beauty
lovers out there, it's no surprise that beauty, skincare and
makeup are really top scenarios here in people's shopping agendas.
(01:53):
Thirty five percent of people would rank it high on
their list. So Taylor, I wanted to go through a
few sales to watch out for for the ubs.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Okay, so someone like those big ticket items that people
last after but are waiting till a good sale comes.
This is the time to pounce. So we know things
like hot tools for your hair, they're some of the
most lauded after products GHD. They're doing a thirty percent
off sale everything like the hair straighteners, but also the
other hot tools as were like the round brushes, the
hair dryers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
For me, I think if you are super into your
base in your foundation, I'd be looking at Sephora and
specifically house Labs and Sofa are hosting up to fifty
percent off. So watch us space. Look, we have a
whole article on the website. We can put that in
the show notes of all the beauty deals.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Okay, cas from Black Friday making yourself a nice little
sale and deal to something that's happening more on a
global stage. The Met Gala theme for twenty twenty six
has been unveiled, so in case you missed it, the
Met Gala is like the one sole fundraiser that happens
every single year. It's where they raise money for the
Costume Institute, and it's also where the exhibition of like
(02:57):
this year's theme comes to life. The theme for the
Met Gala this year, as in the exhibition is costume art,
which feels like really broad because every year I would
make the case like the theme is somewhat costumer.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yes, and it's also we usually see like a subscript,
so have had like Heavenly Bodies fashion and Catholic imagination
or Carl Lagerfeld. A line of beauty just costumer on
its own is very broad and probably not that specific
for people who are, you know, unawares of what they're
trying to get.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
At with this.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yeah, so I think it's important to differentiate. This is
a theme for the exhibition, This is not the theme
necessarily what people that you see on that red carpet
on that first Monday in May. It doesn't necessarily mean
that's what they will be wearing, Okay, So that theme
is like very much open to interpretation.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's really interesting because, as you were saying, the theme
for the exhibition is not always the theme for the
dress code, but they often do kind of reflect each other.
So last year's was super fine tailoring black style that exhibition,
and the dress code was tailored for you. So I
think in this case, what they're kind of explaining is
that costume art is about bringing together art and fashion
(04:05):
and kind of getting out of the staeo type that
fashion isn't worthy of the term art, and this kind
of like disembodied idea of fashion that it's only art
when it's like on a clothes horse in a museum
and not when it's on a body. So this costume
art exhibition will be a celebration of the body, classical
and nude, overlooked bodies to like pregnant bodies, and even
(04:26):
like anatomical elements. So you might see that come through
in some of the dressing. And I hope that we
see some really outrageous and exaggerated silhouettes and maybe even
some references to some old style fashion in terms of
like corsetting and crinoline cage skirts and sort of things
we used to see in eighteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I love that.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I also love, like specifically for the Ubis, the holistic
approach to these themes, because we know, like when a
celebrity ends up on the car, but they go all out,
so that extends to like the hair, the makeup, and
how you do that interpretation on your face as much
as you do with what you've got on your body.
It's been turned on its head because it's actually being
bankrolled this year by Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez,
which is like hotly contested, right.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yes, there's a little bit of drama about that look.
I'm keen to see if that has an impact on
the guest list, but if I know and a wind tour,
she's going to still be pretty involved in this situation.
In case you missed it, go To, which has always
been a skin care commodity, is making a huge Forrain
to makeup. Now. It's not their very very first because
they have done primers before, the very Glowy primer and
(05:25):
the very madifying primer, but this is a big frame
to makeup because we're talking about colored products, so specifically
blushes and highlighters. So we have a matte pop blush
that's like a whipped texture. It's a matte texture. It's
in a pot, and it's around twenty six dollars, so
is the other blush, so quite well priced I think
in the market. Comes in three colors, and then you
(05:45):
also have a serum like blush, which is like a
liquid blush.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So that's something that's a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Little bit more glowy, going to give you a little
bit more bizaz. But where the packaging gets really interesting
is the ring Light highlighter, which is the third product
that's kind of all about luminosity and it's a highlighter
of no glitter, which I think UB's will be excited about.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I cannot tell you the amount of times that I
want to invest in highlighter, both my money and in
but then every time I swatch one. It's the same
with bronzes when they have flecks of glittering and that's great,
that's not for me. I'm trying to go to my
office job.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
One hundred percent. We want something natural and we're hoping
this is going to deliver on that.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
It's so interesting that you would launch three products as
your first like makeup offering, and they're all completely different concepts,
completely different components. They all sort of borrow from elements
of K beauty though, like that whipped sort of smushy
blush texture is like very popular and viral this year.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And I also think these are spiked with so many
great skincare elements, so they really still are playing on
their go to USP, which is great skincare squalet and
heroinic acid collagen. You're all gonna find that in here.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It's so nice to see go to like offering up
even more to what the people want, to give the
people what they want. This follows on from like already
this year they've had a huge twenty twenty five, they
had all the fragrances as well.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, exactly, and I think it's nice to see them
branch out. It's an Aussie brand. We all love it.
We just really want more from them. The more, the merrier,
I say.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That is your beauty edit for the week.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Let's get back to the dilemmas.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I couldn't help for wonder ask.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Me anything, You ask plenty of questions.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Okay, so let's kick things off with a question from Emma. Hi, Emma,
thanks for submitting your question. I'm doing my Christmas shopping
and I'm teended to give beauty vouchers to a few
people on my list, but I keep second guessing myself.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Our vouchers too impersonal.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I want to be thoughtful, but I also don't want
to get it wrong with specific products.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Can I just say the loll that we just went
on a rant to start off this episode about hell,
these are the juicy questions you'd be toobar at Star
ask and it's like, no, Emma just wants to know
about some vouchers. But you know why we picked this
one because we are approaching Christmas and so this is
very topical. Firstly, I just want to say that we're
(07:55):
in a cost of living crisis. There is no such
thing as a voucher being too impersonal. If anything, I
actually think that a voucher is more thoughtful because rather
than gifting your friend or you know, you loved one
something that you hope and think that they might like,
you're giving them the opportunity to splurge on something they
really really want.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So I think it's really thoughtful.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I agree, especially with beauty.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
And actually when I was working for a brand, we
found like less and less skincare gift sets, hair care
gift sets. Like it's so personal and how do you
know unless you really know them really well.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But in again, I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Know if they need that at the moment totally.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I actually think as a bit of just a general hack.
I actually buy skincare and other beauty Christmas packs for
myself because you're getting like a bit of a discount.
But I would never gift somebody else, say like a
three piece skincare gift set or a haircare because I
agree you just like you don't know what their hair
type is, what they need, what they don't need.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Out they've got an influx of at home already, Like,
it's just that's so thoughtful to give someone a give
voucher to a store that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They love exactly.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
So what are the places that you would gift vouchers for?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Well, I just think somewhere unless you know that they
love a specific brand, say Locks of Time, if it
was someone like me or my mom.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But it's always good.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
To do a store where there's heaps of brands, heaps
of products. So the first three that popped into my
mind Sephora, Mecca, or Maya because they've just got so
many brands.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Even the Iconic, because the Iconic does beauty, and I
mean they do everything.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
They actually do everything, so does Maya though to be
yes and adore beauty.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Even if you know someone loves a specific brand so exactly,
like let's say I know that you love XYZ, I
might get you a voucher for their direct brand's website
because then you can stock up on your gifts, then
you can.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Stock up on the products that you use.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I also was going to suggest Korean beauty retailers as well,
like a neody Glow or something like that, or I
don't know if anyone else has been seeing this, but
I'm getting a lot of text messages at the moment
about gifting for skin clinic massage places like those are
other good voucher gift options as well, if your friend's
getting married, for example, or all of that, like a
(10:15):
voucher for a pack of five LED treatments or a massage,
like who doesn't want a massage?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
So good.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
My girlfriend's actually gifted me a so generous five hundred
dollars the Crown voucher.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh right, Oh, a lot of them, No, a lot
of them chipped in.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Twenty of my closest friends.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Twenty of my closest friends are chipped in.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
But five hundred dollars, I'm gonna be able to have
likeful spa treatment.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, they said, they were, like, you could either go
in for to be for.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It's the Crown, so it's a half day SPA treatment,
not a full day. But I could eat, or I
could have a staycation, or I could use it at
the restaurant. So even something like that, I was like,
that is something a little bit different as well, but
something that I wouldn't purchase.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Myself, exactly. And that's the whole point.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
If you do feel like a voucher is too in
personal which we've established that they're not that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Actually, all of us just secretly want about you.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
There are some great, fail safe, fool proof beauty adjacent
gifts that I would always recommend.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Really a gorgeous candle.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, but what if the person's got ten unlicked candles
at home?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I could never have too many unlicked candles. Any great candle. Also,
bougie hand soap like, it's the kinds of things that
someone wouldn't spend their own money on themselves. I think
a little incense holder. I always want to say, Mason Bullsack,
Maison Balzac, the glass wear sack him, the beautiful kind
(11:44):
of caraffes or the glasswaar or the candle burners, all
of that kind of stuff gorgeous. They can also use
their voucher for that, Yeah, true stunning. Well lucky friends
I know gets me a voucher.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And it's good if you have a bunch of people
putting in for it, because then you get a big voucher.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Thus my birthday stunning.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Or just one friend go of it to me. Our
next dilemma is an anonymous one. I use waterproof body
contouring makeup on my arms and stomach before intimacy for confidence,
but I'm terrified it's going to rub off.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Onto my partner or on the sheets. Is this lying?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And what specific products can I use that a truly
transfer proof?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I thought this was so interesting in like an interesting
question in general, like something that I would never have
thought of.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
The lying part, right, Yeah, the lying part?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Is this lying? I mean no present however, you want
to exit the whole lying thing or am I being mislead?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It's not like you're cat.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Fishing them with a bit of you know, fake ten.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
But I'd love to know if this UBI is in
a like a long term relationship, if she's dating she
says my partner, So I'm curious And obviously I'm not
a therapist and I'm not gonna we're not going to
go down the relationship advice. But also just the fact
that she said my partner and that she feels that
she needs to body contour.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I assume it's a new partner.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, I hope, So hopefully it's the honeymoon phase.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Around someone you've been with for a while that's on
them as well.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Now I'm not a self tanner, body bronzer anything, so
I feel like you're better equipped to recommend products in
this department.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well with like, let's just touch on the question first
about is there anything that they can use that's truly
transfer proof new Absolutely not, especially when sweat and other
bodily fluids, Oh, spluetrin, fake tan quite sticky.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I was gonna say. I was like, don't go there, don't.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Go, don't say don't say Kelly said it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
What I would do, if it is going to help
you feel more confident, is just use a light or
gradual fake tan, because really, if you're using a deep tan,
that is kind of just going to do the same thing,
Like it gets on the sheets, it is going to Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
The same as if you tend and then you wore
a white dress. Lots of people when they've had their wedding,
the wedding transfer prit.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No, it's not. There's no such thing.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Like, especially around all the sweaty areas under the arms.
All of this. Probably also another chip would be, don't
have white sheets, like you know, definitely have some dark
have some you know, really like sophisticated navy or a
forest green.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I don't even know how anyone even if you don't tan,
how do you have white sheets?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
You've got your shit together, You've got your life. You're
also the person who has white sheets is also changing their.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Sheets like once a week or more. Oh, I changed
my shirit? How often you meant to change them? Once
a week?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Oh? Once?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh that's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Actually, I've got.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
A kid in my bed though, and two cats, like
we have to.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
So my recommendations are the Nooser Bronze Gradual ten thirty
nine ninety five. That's one of my favorite gradual tans
of all time. I talk about it all the time.
It's just easy, like it's really hard to stuff up,
and it is a really really nice color given it's
a gradual as well. Then there's a brand new product
on the mark, so I haven't tried it, but I've
got really good reviews so far.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The Bali Body Clear Express.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Tan so that one's thirty three ninety five, so that
one does go on clear, so it's more likely to
not transfer everywhere because it doesn't have that guide color
because even when you wash it off, it's sometimes to still,
you know. And then the b ten Clear tanning job,
which I imagine the Bali Body is similar to because
I have tried this one. I've got at home, huge
(15:33):
big pump pack for twenty one ninety nine, really nice
natural color.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Doesn't smell. That was about it.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Say what's the scent like on these? Because that's my
other thing, And maybe this is just one of the
reasons that I don't use self tan it. But I
can't stand the sense. To me, it smells like urine
or someone says biscuits. I remember once someone said, oh, yeah,
it smells like biscuits. I was like, no, it smells
like cat piss.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Okay, do you know the cats? It doesn't smell.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
No, but to me, there's like nothing unsexier than the scent.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Of I do agree it's not sexy.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I don't mind it though.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah. So the sense on these ones are.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Not as strong as the like if you used to
tan tan. Yeah, but they're still there. Anyone that says that, oh,
it's fragrance, read no, it's not. The fragrance comes from
the tanning agent actually, like oxidizing or not oxidizing, but
developing on the skins. So that's what the smell comes from.
So if you're going to ten, it's impossible not.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
To get that plan.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
True and after a bit of romp, and there's been
a lot of oxidizing going on. I did just want
to present a few other options for our friend here.
What about the spontaneity I know, like her, who's even
having spontaneous sex. That's a whole nother question for another day,
but I feel like I'm just going.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
To go having sex. I was on a table at.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
An event a few weeks ago, and literally every single
person on the table is like, ah, like boys and girls,
no one is having really great regular for our.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Dear ub who if they're like, oh crap, let me
just run into the bathroom conto my abs on.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Don't have time.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I got to control my abs.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Just a few I wanted to suggest a few other
things other than a tanner that might also just help
you feel more confident and a little bit sexy. I
know we talked a bit last time in the Fix.
We did a question about a new mum that wanted
to feel sexy again, like using a shower oil moisturizing
kind of beforehand, a regular moisturizing, because it's like, you know,
it's all about how the skin.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Feels, smells of beautifulismells, washing your hair, oh.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Clean hair makes you feel.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
So it's just love and also just like a little
bit of a mindset shift. It's like, don't forget someone's
lucky to be having sex with you, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And they're not.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Most of the time people aren't thinking about the things
that we're thinking about.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Absolutely so thinking how hot? Yes, and I cannot believe
that I'm doing this with this person right.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Now, totally so again, not a sex therapist here. Have fun,
have fun, and stay humping and stay safe.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Wrap it up and happy humping.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Next, Oh my god, we are the agony arts.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Okay, this one number three has irked Amy more than.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Hownber four erks.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Okay, so I'll just read out the question and then
I have a question for you as a side note.
So our next submission comes from a listener in Newcastle. Hey, nuie,
My roommate has this expensive foundation, the Georgio Money luminous silk,
and I secretly use it. I just noticed that she
put a sticker on the cap to track the usage.
(18:50):
Should I replace the entire foundation or can I buy
an affordable, highly rated dupe and slowly fill her bottle
back up with that instead?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Have you ever had housemates I have, but.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I've only ever lived with boys.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But when they would have a girls stay over time,
Oh my goodness. One time one of their girlfriends used
half a tub of my beautiful body scrub and I
will never forget it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I left it in the shower, half a tub and
it was like a sixty dollar body scrub.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I just think, Yeah, immediate jail for this housemate. You're
going to the tribunal. This is not appropriate behavior. I
just want to ask, when did we decide that it's
okay to use people's things without asking in general?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Like maybe I think there's some missing information.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Is this It's not like she.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Just grabbed the spray canola oil to use kashin no,
or like.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I've had your yogurt and I'm going to replace it.
I took a cotton tip out of your thing, Like.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
This is she's making a conscious effort to use her product.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I want to know, like, are you friends? Are you
friend roommates where it's a bit more of a casual
kind of cistily relationship, or are you literally like people
that are just co habitating and I like, do it
once a month housemate dinner because I just yeah, I
just can't even believe that you would go into someone's room,
and so number one, please stop doing that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Why would it be in her room. It's probably in
the bathroom that they're sharing. That's what I imagine.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I've lived with housemates for five years, all different types
of groups of girls, like people that I didn't know, okay,
And oftentimes you would leave that kind of stuff in
your room, like your towel and your shower stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But your makeup.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
I would leave it in my room, and I'd either
do my makeup in my room or I'd do it
in the bathroom and i'd take my stuff in there
because you know, it's a small space.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But also so the people I touch my shit, you're
getting really worked up about this.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I am assuming that they're not that close, because if
they were, the other housemate wouldn't put a sticker.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, she would say, babe, stop using my shit. DIF friends.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
It's classic passive aggressive. I love it housemate behaves. I
love it though she's well within her life, absolutely, and
I just it took me right back to I had
one housemate who and also it was so obvious when
she'd used my stuff because she had platinum blonde hair,
her hair in my hair brush, like her.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Why was she using? That's weird, Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
It's why didn't she use your hairbru I just like
what was some common decency guys, But that she'd I'd
always go in and this is why I would keep
myself in my room. And you know where if you
put the lids back on things and.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Then you go later in the day and you're.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Like the lids.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I never leave the lid off my moisturizer. The lid's off,
like I know that you used it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's extra weird behavior if someone's going into your room.
I thought I read it and just assumed that it
was like in the bathroom cabinet.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But of all the things, not the George of money.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
No, like come on, but please, please, please please do
not buy a cheaper alternative.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Don't don't even buy the luminous silk and then start
refilling it.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
But you never talk about this. This is gonna be
one of those things that just goes unsaid. You've got
the memo, you get the sticky memo. Now you never
talk it about it again, never bring it up, and
just don't do it again, and then everyone can go
on living their lives. That's how it works with housemates.
Stock Okay, what about a white lie? What?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Oh I slipped and no, my fid Oh my goodness.
So i'd been using your foundation. I noticed that you
put a sticker on it. Anyway, I was like, oh,
that's weird.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I googled it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Oh my god, I am so sorry. I did not
realize it was so expensive. I'm mortified. Are the loser? Like,
just make fun of yourself. I totally tell a white
lie I would just never.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Or if you're in a bit of a fight with
this housemate, because sometimes it's tit for tat, it's like, well,
you left the raw chicken container on the thing, so
now I'm not going to empty the bin and you
use my things?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Now how I'm using your things?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You think amy is a little bit triggered by housemate?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You could take if you want to really petty, you
could take the sticker off and like put it like
on the mirror or anyways. That's just like a bit god,
I know what the go is here, But in general,
don't use the foundation. And do you have some recommendations
for other more affordable versions of giorgiomany so that this
person can just buy their own foundation.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yes, because clearly, dear listener to the foundation, thief loves.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
This found It is unlocked. So obviously there's some things
that have worked through.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
This is why should have just aways lived with boys.
You never had any problems.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You didn't want to use their three in one No,
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
My biggest problem was that the shower. It was perpetually disgusting.
But so some really good, more affordable alternatives. The Laureal
True Match, which is twenty dollars and thirty nine cents,
is highly regarded in all of the Internet communities as
the best alternative to the Giorgio Armani luminous silk in
(23:49):
the way that it wears, in the finish, in some
of the ingredients, even the colors. It's a really, really,
really good alternative. The Mabeling Loomy Matte Foundation. That one
is seventeen forty nine. That one has got a really
similar finish and slightly different ingredients but just tends to
(24:10):
look quite similar on the skin. And the Revolution Silk
Serum twenty four dollars. That one is also touted as
being quite similar. I've only tried the Lorel True Match
out of those three and I actually would say that
I rather it to the Georgio on Money because Georgio
our money is a little bit drying on me, agreed.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Loreal True Match is beautiful.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I also trialed the o XX I read that one.
I personally found both of them drying because I'm very
dry skin. But it was like, I mean, if you
really I think the whole thing with dups and blah
blah blah, like use the product that you can afford
that gets you as close to the result that you want,
(24:54):
and that's like twelve dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm not sure. I did read that it was very
similar in terms of it's finish.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It's pretty similar, like it's got a strong scent. It's
like the shade range is not there, so it's not
like a true true if we're talking about what a
true quote unquote jube is. But it's like a great
twelve dollars foundation. And I did also want to bring
the Revlon Illuminant skin Carring foundation.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yes, that one is good.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
And it's funny in the tube. No, you're thinking of
the skin teint. It's in like a normal pump doobie.
And then another one that's a bit more mid range
is the Makeup Forever HD skin foundation.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's kind of similar as well.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It's that glowy but skin like finish.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
But yeah, long story shot, what what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Don't use your housemates things?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, all right, this is the one that irked me
the most, So Maria dmd us, Well, Maria, I got
some got a lot to tell you. My twelve year
old daughter is obsessed with TikTok and is demanding one
hundred dollars plus anti aging skincare that we can't afford.
(26:03):
She throws a fit, saying, my drug store dupes are toxic.
What affordable, science backed products can I use to prove
that expensive anti aging actives are unsafe for her young skin?
Lord help me the sass from a twelve year old.
That's just like living off you, leeching off you, demanding,
(26:27):
Oh she's demanding.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Tell her to get off her ass and get a job.
That's what my parent.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No one wants to work these days.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
No one wants to get up their ass and work.
Obviously she can't. She's twelve.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
She can't get an actual job. But get if she
wants money to spend on things, she needs to work
around the house like I used to do my mum's bathrooms,
or cleaning the car or helping, and like it all
added up, it wasn't that much. But I used to
save my money for me. It was bill Obong T shirts.
Oh yeah, okay. Mum would obviously buy meat T shirts
(27:00):
if I needed them, but she wouldn't spend the fifty
dollars on a Billabong T shirt, so I had to
save my pennies to get that stupid Bilbong T shirt
if I wanted specific brands. I just think, listen, Maria,
I am so sorry that your twelve year.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Old is giving a film really hard.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's so hard for Maria, and it's like it's the
behavioral thing too, because I can picture same what this
twelve year old would be like screaming, you know, just
so entire abusing you like to get this product, and
I also know that you would feel guilty about it.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Maybe it's to be bullied exactly, and it's just so
many caveats, but I think that teenagers are just going
to grow up so entitled if they are then being
given these things. A lot of adults don't have one
hundred dollars plus skincare like, that's just so ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Yeah, it's hard because it's actually probably even less about
the actual product itself, and it's more about the fact
that other girls have it, or that she's seen someone
on the internet with it. It's funny that you say
Billabong t shirts because I was the kid at school
and I look back and I think, yeah, Mum, I'm
glad you didn't spend the money on the REXI whatever.
(28:14):
My advice to Maria is, don't buy the under ten
dollars dupe version of whatever this product is, because as
someone who would go into go low, I get to
have the quicksand backpack instead of the quick silver.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know, I had hot Tuna.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, and you know it just doesn't really same.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, but I don't care.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Looking back, I would be bullied time and time again.
And grew up with a good work ethic.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And knowing that things and brands you need to work
for them if you want them. Then growing up entitled.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yes, essentially, don't go and buy the dupe thing that's it,
and don't buy the one hundred dollars here other than
the fact that you know a twelve year old doesn't
need that kind of skincare, which Maria knows this as well,
but I actually voice messaged our head of lifestyle, Moles,
who has a nine year old daughter, because I was like, Okay,
(29:07):
I'm not a parent, and I just can imagine how
fucking hard this would be as a parent. This is
the kind of stuff that you're navigating now.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And I was like, what would you do?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
And she said that she would first of all, explain
for a product to be one hundred dollars too, and
not saying that products that are affordable don't do things,
but generally speaking, we're talking about one hundred dollars serum,
we're talking about cosmeceutical active skin care. We're talking about
ingredients that are you know, having a physical change in
(29:37):
the skin for this specific purpose for pigmentation. Blah blah
blah blah blah. You don't have that, like she said,
she would lay it out like you actually don't have that.
You don't need this for this reason. Rather than trying
to say it's about the money, it's more about the
you don't need this, And if it's one hundred dollars
(30:00):
serum and it doesn't do something in the skin, then
that's like that's a waste of money, and that's actually.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
And if you want it, you can save up your
money and purchase at yourself. There.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, then they have a more understanding of how much
one hundred dollars actually is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, that's right, that's right, Kelly, that's right, Kelly.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
I do want to just touch on with the cosmeceutical
if she's twelve. The only caveat would be if she
does have a skin issue. So I would have been
around eleven or twelve when my acne started, but my
mum took me to a skin like the doctor.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Like, so totally, it's still not don't just run to Mecca,
Like if she apologizes for being entitled and you want
to treat her to a like things that are really
cute and really nice packaging that the young the youth
think is really cool, but it's gentle enough for her skin.
I would have a look at the Bubble brand at Priceline.
(30:54):
They've got a three step routine for fifty four dollars.
Bubble is really cool, Like bright color is very kill. Yeah,
the go to good Habits is fifty dollars. That said,
I would just remove the clarifying time, just keep it
for yourself because she's twelve. She doesn't need a clarifying toner.
And then the BioMA that's a Sephora brand. It's really
(31:15):
like once again, bright colors really looks great in their
shelfies and those death I don't know why they want
everything to look with the teenagers. I get it that
one's thirty two dollars. And another thing would be, if
you are going to splurge on a cool product with
like really nice branding and packaging and that sort of thing,
go for sbfs or makeup or blushes or makeup or
(31:38):
things that are yeah, lip products.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh really, I don't think she should get a expensive makeup.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I think we can all agree that we don't think
she should get anything extensive. But if it was going
to be something Christmas, not skincare, like not expensive skincare
because that can really do damage.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Exactly, but like a nice one of those cool brand
sbfs that have the cute little things.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, or water bottle.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I don't know nothing else, but it just goes to
show no matter what decade where in there's always going
to be an expensive, cool thing that all the kids
will want. And it's character building when you don't get
to have it. And all I have to say is Maria, like,
just hang in there.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Hang in there, like and I promise you Sh'll be
just fine. Just look at me. I'm fine And I
only ever had the hot tuner. Yeah unless I say
it put the bill anyway. That is all the time
and the questions that we have for this episode of
The Fix.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It's been quite a time, Amy, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It was got a bit hated.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
But if you have a question, if you need some advice,
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We would love to answer your questions.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
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Speaker 4 (32:47):
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Speaker 1 (32:52):
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Speaker 4 (00:24):
Hello, and welcome to you, beauty. I'm Kelly McCarran and
this is The Fix.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I'm Amy Clark. Today consider us your agony aunts.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We are answering all your beauty dilemmas, the kinds.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Of questions that you're too embarrassed to ask someone else,
You're gonna ask us.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
So unlike a traditional Monday episode, The Fix is, as
Amy said, like an agony Aunt episode. And sometimes we're
gonna drop some brutal truth bombs. So later on the episode,
we've got really entitled twelve year olds to deal with
and roommate beauty boundaries. But first, to kick things off,
(01:00):
what's happening in the land in beauty? Here are our
beauty headlines. Welcome back to the Beauty Edit.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
I'm Taylor cass. Let us not waste any more time.
Tell me what is happening in the world of beauty news.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So it's Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well it's actually not Black Friday, but if you look
online you'd think it would be Black Friday's actually November
twenty eight and then Cyber Monday December one.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I love that Black.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Friday has become the month of Black Fridays, but really
it's just stick the word sale on basically any online
retailer and enjoy a discount up till Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Now totally and so Australians are expected to spend a
heck ton of money around six point eight billion dollars
this Black Cyber Friday Monday weekend and that's coording to
some research that we've seen from the Retails Association, but
that's around eight hundred dollars each And for the beauty
lovers out there, it's no surprise that beauty, skincare and
makeup are really top scenarios here in people's shopping agendas.
(01:53):
Thirty five percent of people would rank it high on
their list. So Taylor, I wanted to go through a
few sales to watch out for for the ubs.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Okay, so someone like those big ticket items that people
last after but are waiting till a good sale comes.
This is the time to pounce. So we know things
like hot tools for your hair, they're some of the
most lauded after products GHD. They're doing a thirty percent
off sale everything like the hair straighteners, but also the
other hot tools as were like the round brushes, the
hair dryers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
For me, I think if you are super into your
base in your foundation, I'd be looking at Sephora and
specifically house Labs and Sofa are hosting up to fifty
percent off. So watch us space. Look, we have a
whole article on the website. We can put that in
the show notes of all the beauty deals.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Okay, cas from Black Friday making yourself a nice little
sale and deal to something that's happening more on a
global stage. The Met Gala theme for twenty twenty six
has been unveiled, so in case you missed it, the
Met Gala is like the one sole fundraiser that happens
every single year. It's where they raise money for the
Costume Institute, and it's also where the exhibition of like
(02:57):
this year's theme comes to life. The theme for the
Met Gala this year, as in the exhibition is costume art,
which feels like really broad because every year I would
make the case like the theme is somewhat costumer.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yes, and it's also we usually see like a subscript,
so have had like Heavenly Bodies fashion and Catholic imagination
or Carl Lagerfeld. A line of beauty just costumer on
its own is very broad and probably not that specific
for people who are, you know, unawares of what they're
trying to get.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
At with this.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yeah, so I think it's important to differentiate. This is
a theme for the exhibition, This is not the theme
necessarily what people that you see on that red carpet
on that first Monday in May. It doesn't necessarily mean
that's what they will be wearing, Okay, So that theme
is like very much open to interpretation.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's really interesting because, as you were saying, the theme
for the exhibition is not always the theme for the
dress code, but they often do kind of reflect each other.
So last year's was super fine tailoring black style that exhibition,
and the dress code was tailored for you. So I
think in this case, what they're kind of explaining is
that costume art is about bringing together art and fashion
(04:05):
and kind of getting out of the staeo type that
fashion isn't worthy of the term art, and this kind
of like disembodied idea of fashion that it's only art
when it's like on a clothes horse in a museum
and not when it's on a body. So this costume
art exhibition will be a celebration of the body, classical
and nude, overlooked bodies to like pregnant bodies, and even
(04:26):
like anatomical elements. So you might see that come through
in some of the dressing. And I hope that we
see some really outrageous and exaggerated silhouettes and maybe even
some references to some old style fashion in terms of
like corsetting and crinoline cage skirts and sort of things
we used to see in eighteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I love that.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I also love, like specifically for the Ubis, the holistic
approach to these themes, because we know, like when a
celebrity ends up on the car, but they go all out,
so that extends to like the hair, the makeup, and
how you do that interpretation on your face as much
as you do with what you've got on your body.
It's been turned on its head because it's actually being
bankrolled this year by Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez,
which is like hotly contested, right.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yes, there's a little bit of drama about that look.
I'm keen to see if that has an impact on
the guest list, but if I know and a wind tour,
she's going to still be pretty involved in this situation.
In case you missed it, go To, which has always
been a skin care commodity, is making a huge Forrain
to makeup. Now. It's not their very very first because
they have done primers before, the very Glowy primer and
(05:25):
the very madifying primer, but this is a big frame
to makeup because we're talking about colored products, so specifically
blushes and highlighters. So we have a matte pop blush
that's like a whipped texture. It's a matte texture. It's
in a pot, and it's around twenty six dollars, so
is the other blush, so quite well priced I think
in the market. Comes in three colors, and then you
(05:45):
also have a serum like blush, which is like a
liquid blush.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So that's something that's a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Little bit more glowy, going to give you a little
bit more bizaz. But where the packaging gets really interesting
is the ring Light highlighter, which is the third product
that's kind of all about luminosity and it's a highlighter
of no glitter, which I think UB's will be excited about.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I cannot tell you the amount of times that I
want to invest in highlighter, both my money and in
but then every time I swatch one. It's the same
with bronzes when they have flecks of glittering and that's great,
that's not for me. I'm trying to go to my
office job.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
One hundred percent. We want something natural and we're hoping
this is going to deliver on that.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
It's so interesting that you would launch three products as
your first like makeup offering, and they're all completely different concepts,
completely different components. They all sort of borrow from elements
of K beauty though, like that whipped sort of smushy
blush texture is like very popular and viral this year.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And I also think these are spiked with so many
great skincare elements, so they really still are playing on
their go to USP, which is great skincare squalet and
heroinic acid collagen. You're all gonna find that in here.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It's so nice to see go to like offering up
even more to what the people want, to give the
people what they want. This follows on from like already
this year they've had a huge twenty twenty five, they
had all the fragrances as well.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, exactly, and I think it's nice to see them
branch out. It's an Aussie brand. We all love it.
We just really want more from them. The more, the merrier,
I say.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That is your beauty edit for the week.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Let's get back to the dilemmas.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I couldn't help for wonder ask.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Me anything, You ask plenty of questions.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Okay, so let's kick things off with a question from Emma. Hi, Emma,
thanks for submitting your question. I'm doing my Christmas shopping
and I'm teended to give beauty vouchers to a few
people on my list, but I keep second guessing myself.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Our vouchers too impersonal.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I want to be thoughtful, but I also don't want
to get it wrong with specific products.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Can I just say the loll that we just went
on a rant to start off this episode about hell,
these are the juicy questions you'd be toobar at Star
ask and it's like, no, Emma just wants to know
about some vouchers. But you know why we picked this
one because we are approaching Christmas and so this is
very topical. Firstly, I just want to say that we're
(07:55):
in a cost of living crisis. There is no such
thing as a voucher being too impersonal. If anything, I
actually think that a voucher is more thoughtful because rather
than gifting your friend or you know, you loved one
something that you hope and think that they might like,
you're giving them the opportunity to splurge on something they
really really want.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So I think it's really thoughtful.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I agree, especially with beauty.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
And actually when I was working for a brand, we
found like less and less skincare gift sets, hair care
gift sets. Like it's so personal and how do you
know unless you really know them really well.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But in again, I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Know if they need that at the moment totally.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I actually think as a bit of just a general hack.
I actually buy skincare and other beauty Christmas packs for
myself because you're getting like a bit of a discount.
But I would never gift somebody else, say like a
three piece skincare gift set or a haircare because I
agree you just like you don't know what their hair
type is, what they need, what they don't need.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Out they've got an influx of at home already, Like,
it's just that's so thoughtful to give someone a give
voucher to a store that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They love exactly.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
So what are the places that you would gift vouchers for?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Well, I just think somewhere unless you know that they
love a specific brand, say Locks of Time, if it
was someone like me or my mom.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But it's always good.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
To do a store where there's heaps of brands, heaps
of products. So the first three that popped into my
mind Sephora, Mecca, or Maya because they've just got so
many brands.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Even the Iconic, because the Iconic does beauty, and I
mean they do everything.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
They actually do everything, so does Maya though to be
yes and adore beauty.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Even if you know someone loves a specific brand so exactly,
like let's say I know that you love XYZ, I
might get you a voucher for their direct brand's website
because then you can stock up on your gifts, then
you can.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Stock up on the products that you use.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I also was going to suggest Korean beauty retailers as well,
like a neody Glow or something like that, or I
don't know if anyone else has been seeing this, but
I'm getting a lot of text messages at the moment
about gifting for skin clinic massage places like those are
other good voucher gift options as well, if your friend's
getting married, for example, or all of that, like a
(10:15):
voucher for a pack of five LED treatments or a massage,
like who doesn't want a massage?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
So good.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
My girlfriend's actually gifted me a so generous five hundred
dollars the Crown voucher.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh right, Oh, a lot of them, No, a lot
of them chipped in.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Twenty of my closest friends.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Twenty of my closest friends are chipped in.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
But five hundred dollars, I'm gonna be able to have
likeful spa treatment.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, they said, they were, like, you could either go
in for to be for.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It's the Crown, so it's a half day SPA treatment,
not a full day. But I could eat, or I
could have a staycation, or I could use it at
the restaurant. So even something like that, I was like,
that is something a little bit different as well, but
something that I wouldn't purchase.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Myself, exactly. And that's the whole point.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
If you do feel like a voucher is too in
personal which we've established that they're not that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Actually, all of us just secretly want about you.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
There are some great, fail safe, fool proof beauty adjacent
gifts that I would always recommend.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Really a gorgeous candle.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, but what if the person's got ten unlicked candles
at home?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I could never have too many unlicked candles. Any great candle. Also,
bougie hand soap like, it's the kinds of things that
someone wouldn't spend their own money on themselves. I think
a little incense holder. I always want to say, Mason Bullsack,
Maison Balzac, the glass wear sack him, the beautiful kind
(11:44):
of caraffes or the glasswaar or the candle burners, all
of that kind of stuff gorgeous. They can also use
their voucher for that, Yeah, true stunning. Well lucky friends
I know gets me a voucher.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And it's good if you have a bunch of people
putting in for it, because then you get a big voucher.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Thus my birthday stunning.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Or just one friend go of it to me. Our
next dilemma is an anonymous one. I use waterproof body
contouring makeup on my arms and stomach before intimacy for confidence,
but I'm terrified it's going to rub off.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Onto my partner or on the sheets. Is this lying?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And what specific products can I use that a truly
transfer proof?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I thought this was so interesting in like an interesting
question in general, like something that I would never have
thought of.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
The lying part, right, Yeah, the lying part?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Is this lying? I mean no present however, you want
to exit the whole lying thing or am I being mislead?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It's not like you're cat.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Fishing them with a bit of you know, fake ten.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
But I'd love to know if this UBI is in
a like a long term relationship, if she's dating she
says my partner, So I'm curious And obviously I'm not
a therapist and I'm not gonna we're not going to
go down the relationship advice. But also just the fact
that she said my partner and that she feels that
she needs to body contour.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I assume it's a new partner.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, I hope, So hopefully it's the honeymoon phase.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Around someone you've been with for a while that's on
them as well.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Now I'm not a self tanner, body bronzer anything, so
I feel like you're better equipped to recommend products in
this department.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well with like, let's just touch on the question first
about is there anything that they can use that's truly
transfer proof new Absolutely not, especially when sweat and other
bodily fluids, Oh, spluetrin, fake tan quite sticky.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I was gonna say. I was like, don't go there, don't.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Go, don't say don't say Kelly said it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
What I would do, if it is going to help
you feel more confident, is just use a light or
gradual fake tan, because really, if you're using a deep tan,
that is kind of just going to do the same thing,
Like it gets on the sheets, it is going to Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
The same as if you tend and then you wore
a white dress. Lots of people when they've had their wedding,
the wedding transfer prit.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No, it's not. There's no such thing.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Like, especially around all the sweaty areas under the arms.
All of this. Probably also another chip would be, don't
have white sheets, like you know, definitely have some dark
have some you know, really like sophisticated navy or a
forest green.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I don't even know how anyone even if you don't tan,
how do you have white sheets?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
You've got your shit together, You've got your life. You're
also the person who has white sheets is also changing their.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Sheets like once a week or more. Oh, I changed
my shirit? How often you meant to change them? Once
a week?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Oh? Once?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh that's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Actually, I've got.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
A kid in my bed though, and two cats, like
we have to.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
So my recommendations are the Nooser Bronze Gradual ten thirty
nine ninety five. That's one of my favorite gradual tans
of all time. I talk about it all the time.
It's just easy, like it's really hard to stuff up,
and it is a really really nice color given it's
a gradual as well. Then there's a brand new product
on the mark, so I haven't tried it, but I've
got really good reviews so far.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The Bali Body Clear Express.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Tan so that one's thirty three ninety five, so that
one does go on clear, so it's more likely to
not transfer everywhere because it doesn't have that guide color
because even when you wash it off, it's sometimes to still,
you know. And then the b ten Clear tanning job,
which I imagine the Bali Body is similar to because
I have tried this one. I've got at home, huge
(15:33):
big pump pack for twenty one ninety nine, really nice
natural color.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Doesn't smell. That was about it.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Say what's the scent like on these? Because that's my
other thing, And maybe this is just one of the
reasons that I don't use self tan it. But I
can't stand the sense. To me, it smells like urine
or someone says biscuits. I remember once someone said, oh, yeah,
it smells like biscuits. I was like, no, it smells
like cat piss.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Okay, do you know the cats? It doesn't smell.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
No, but to me, there's like nothing unsexier than the scent.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Of I do agree it's not sexy.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I don't mind it though.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah. So the sense on these ones are.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Not as strong as the like if you used to
tan tan. Yeah, but they're still there. Anyone that says that, oh,
it's fragrance, read no, it's not. The fragrance comes from
the tanning agent actually, like oxidizing or not oxidizing, but
developing on the skins. So that's what the smell comes from.
So if you're going to ten, it's impossible not.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
To get that plan.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
True and after a bit of romp, and there's been
a lot of oxidizing going on. I did just want
to present a few other options for our friend here.
What about the spontaneity I know, like her, who's even
having spontaneous sex. That's a whole nother question for another day,
but I feel like I'm just going.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
To go having sex. I was on a table at.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
An event a few weeks ago, and literally every single
person on the table is like, ah, like boys and girls,
no one is having really great regular for our.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Dear ub who if they're like, oh crap, let me
just run into the bathroom conto my abs on.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Don't have time.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I got to control my abs.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Just a few I wanted to suggest a few other
things other than a tanner that might also just help
you feel more confident and a little bit sexy. I
know we talked a bit last time in the Fix.
We did a question about a new mum that wanted
to feel sexy again, like using a shower oil moisturizing
kind of beforehand, a regular moisturizing, because it's like, you know,
it's all about how the skin.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Feels, smells of beautifulismells, washing your hair, oh.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Clean hair makes you feel.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
So it's just love and also just like a little
bit of a mindset shift. It's like, don't forget someone's
lucky to be having sex with you, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And they're not.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Most of the time people aren't thinking about the things
that we're thinking about.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Absolutely so thinking how hot? Yes, and I cannot believe
that I'm doing this with this person right.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Now, totally so again, not a sex therapist here. Have fun,
have fun, and stay humping and stay safe.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Wrap it up and happy humping.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Next, Oh my god, we are the agony arts.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Okay, this one number three has irked Amy more than.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Hownber four erks.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Okay, so I'll just read out the question and then
I have a question for you as a side note.
So our next submission comes from a listener in Newcastle. Hey, nuie,
My roommate has this expensive foundation, the Georgio Money luminous silk,
and I secretly use it. I just noticed that she
put a sticker on the cap to track the usage.
(18:50):
Should I replace the entire foundation or can I buy
an affordable, highly rated dupe and slowly fill her bottle
back up with that instead?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Have you ever had housemates I have, but.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I've only ever lived with boys.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But when they would have a girls stay over time,
Oh my goodness. One time one of their girlfriends used
half a tub of my beautiful body scrub and I
will never forget it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I left it in the shower, half a tub and
it was like a sixty dollar body scrub.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I just think, Yeah, immediate jail for this housemate. You're
going to the tribunal. This is not appropriate behavior. I
just want to ask, when did we decide that it's
okay to use people's things without asking in general?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Like maybe I think there's some missing information.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Is this It's not like she.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Just grabbed the spray canola oil to use kashin no,
or like.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I've had your yogurt and I'm going to replace it.
I took a cotton tip out of your thing, Like.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
This is she's making a conscious effort to use her product.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I want to know, like, are you friends? Are you
friend roommates where it's a bit more of a casual
kind of cistily relationship, or are you literally like people
that are just co habitating and I like, do it
once a month housemate dinner because I just yeah, I
just can't even believe that you would go into someone's room,
and so number one, please stop doing that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Why would it be in her room. It's probably in
the bathroom that they're sharing. That's what I imagine.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I've lived with housemates for five years, all different types
of groups of girls, like people that I didn't know, okay,
And oftentimes you would leave that kind of stuff in
your room, like your towel and your shower stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But your makeup.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
I would leave it in my room, and I'd either
do my makeup in my room or I'd do it
in the bathroom and i'd take my stuff in there
because you know, it's a small space.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But also so the people I touch my shit, you're
getting really worked up about this.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I am assuming that they're not that close, because if
they were, the other housemate wouldn't put a sticker.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, she would say, babe, stop using my shit. DIF friends.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
It's classic passive aggressive. I love it housemate behaves. I
love it though she's well within her life, absolutely, and
I just it took me right back to I had
one housemate who and also it was so obvious when
she'd used my stuff because she had platinum blonde hair,
her hair in my hair brush, like her.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Why was she using? That's weird, Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
It's why didn't she use your hairbru I just like
what was some common decency guys, But that she'd I'd
always go in and this is why I would keep
myself in my room. And you know where if you
put the lids back on things and.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Then you go later in the day and you're.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Like the lids.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I never leave the lid off my moisturizer. The lid's off,
like I know that you used it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's extra weird behavior if someone's going into your room.
I thought I read it and just assumed that it
was like in the bathroom cabinet.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But of all the things, not the George of money.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
No, like come on, but please, please, please please do
not buy a cheaper alternative.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Don't don't even buy the luminous silk and then start
refilling it.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
But you never talk about this. This is gonna be
one of those things that just goes unsaid. You've got
the memo, you get the sticky memo. Now you never
talk it about it again, never bring it up, and
just don't do it again, and then everyone can go
on living their lives. That's how it works with housemates.
Stock Okay, what about a white lie? What?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Oh I slipped and no, my fid Oh my goodness.
So i'd been using your foundation. I noticed that you
put a sticker on it. Anyway, I was like, oh,
that's weird.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I googled it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Oh my god, I am so sorry. I did not
realize it was so expensive. I'm mortified. Are the loser? Like,
just make fun of yourself. I totally tell a white
lie I would just never.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Or if you're in a bit of a fight with
this housemate, because sometimes it's tit for tat, it's like, well,
you left the raw chicken container on the thing, so
now I'm not going to empty the bin and you
use my things?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Now how I'm using your things?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You think amy is a little bit triggered by housemate?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You could take if you want to really petty, you
could take the sticker off and like put it like
on the mirror or anyways. That's just like a bit god,
I know what the go is here, But in general,
don't use the foundation. And do you have some recommendations
for other more affordable versions of giorgiomany so that this
person can just buy their own foundation.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yes, because clearly, dear listener to the foundation, thief loves.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
This found It is unlocked. So obviously there's some things
that have worked through.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
This is why should have just aways lived with boys.
You never had any problems.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You didn't want to use their three in one No,
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
My biggest problem was that the shower. It was perpetually disgusting.
But so some really good, more affordable alternatives. The Laureal
True Match, which is twenty dollars and thirty nine cents,
is highly regarded in all of the Internet communities as
the best alternative to the Giorgio Armani luminous silk in
(23:49):
the way that it wears, in the finish, in some
of the ingredients, even the colors. It's a really, really,
really good alternative. The Mabeling Loomy Matte Foundation. That one
is seventeen forty nine. That one has got a really
similar finish and slightly different ingredients but just tends to
(24:10):
look quite similar on the skin. And the Revolution Silk
Serum twenty four dollars. That one is also touted as
being quite similar. I've only tried the Lorel True Match
out of those three and I actually would say that
I rather it to the Georgio on Money because Georgio
our money is a little bit drying on me, agreed.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Loreal True Match is beautiful.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I also trialed the o XX I read that one.
I personally found both of them drying because I'm very
dry skin. But it was like, I mean, if you
really I think the whole thing with dups and blah
blah blah, like use the product that you can afford
that gets you as close to the result that you want,
(24:54):
and that's like twelve dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm not sure. I did read that it was very
similar in terms of it's finish.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It's pretty similar, like it's got a strong scent. It's
like the shade range is not there, so it's not
like a true true if we're talking about what a
true quote unquote jube is. But it's like a great
twelve dollars foundation. And I did also want to bring
the Revlon Illuminant skin Carring foundation.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yes, that one is good.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
And it's funny in the tube. No, you're thinking of
the skin teint. It's in like a normal pump doobie.
And then another one that's a bit more mid range
is the Makeup Forever HD skin foundation.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's kind of similar as well.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It's that glowy but skin like finish.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
But yeah, long story shot, what what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Don't use your housemates things?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, all right, this is the one that irked me
the most, So Maria dmd us, Well, Maria, I got
some got a lot to tell you. My twelve year
old daughter is obsessed with TikTok and is demanding one
hundred dollars plus anti aging skincare that we can't afford.
(26:03):
She throws a fit, saying, my drug store dupes are toxic.
What affordable, science backed products can I use to prove
that expensive anti aging actives are unsafe for her young skin?
Lord help me the sass from a twelve year old.
That's just like living off you, leeching off you, demanding,
(26:27):
Oh she's demanding.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Tell her to get off her ass and get a job.
That's what my parent.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No one wants to work these days.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
No one wants to get up their ass and work.
Obviously she can't. She's twelve.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
She can't get an actual job. But get if she
wants money to spend on things, she needs to work
around the house like I used to do my mum's bathrooms,
or cleaning the car or helping, and like it all
added up, it wasn't that much. But I used to
save my money for me. It was bill Obong T shirts.
Oh yeah, okay. Mum would obviously buy meat T shirts
(27:00):
if I needed them, but she wouldn't spend the fifty
dollars on a Billabong T shirt, so I had to
save my pennies to get that stupid Bilbong T shirt
if I wanted specific brands. I just think, listen, Maria,
I am so sorry that your twelve year.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Old is giving a film really hard.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's so hard for Maria, and it's like it's the
behavioral thing too, because I can picture same what this
twelve year old would be like screaming, you know, just
so entire abusing you like to get this product, and
I also know that you would feel guilty about it.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Maybe it's to be bullied exactly, and it's just so
many caveats, but I think that teenagers are just going
to grow up so entitled if they are then being
given these things. A lot of adults don't have one
hundred dollars plus skincare like, that's just so ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Yeah, it's hard because it's actually probably even less about
the actual product itself, and it's more about the fact
that other girls have it, or that she's seen someone
on the internet with it. It's funny that you say
Billabong t shirts because I was the kid at school
and I look back and I think, yeah, Mum, I'm
glad you didn't spend the money on the REXI whatever.
(28:14):
My advice to Maria is, don't buy the under ten
dollars dupe version of whatever this product is, because as
someone who would go into go low, I get to
have the quicksand backpack instead of the quick silver.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know, I had hot Tuna.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, and you know it just doesn't really same.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, but I don't care.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Looking back, I would be bullied time and time again.
And grew up with a good work ethic.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And knowing that things and brands you need to work
for them if you want them. Then growing up entitled.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yes, essentially, don't go and buy the dupe thing that's it,
and don't buy the one hundred dollars here other than
the fact that you know a twelve year old doesn't
need that kind of skincare, which Maria knows this as well,
but I actually voice messaged our head of lifestyle, Moles,
who has a nine year old daughter, because I was like, Okay,
(29:07):
I'm not a parent, and I just can imagine how
fucking hard this would be as a parent. This is
the kind of stuff that you're navigating now.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And I was like, what would you do?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
And she said that she would first of all, explain
for a product to be one hundred dollars too, and
not saying that products that are affordable don't do things,
but generally speaking, we're talking about one hundred dollars serum,
we're talking about cosmeceutical active skin care. We're talking about
ingredients that are you know, having a physical change in
(29:37):
the skin for this specific purpose for pigmentation. Blah blah
blah blah blah. You don't have that, like she said,
she would lay it out like you actually don't have that.
You don't need this for this reason. Rather than trying
to say it's about the money, it's more about the
you don't need this, And if it's one hundred dollars
(30:00):
serum and it doesn't do something in the skin, then
that's like that's a waste of money, and that's actually.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
And if you want it, you can save up your
money and purchase at yourself. There.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, then they have a more understanding of how much
one hundred dollars actually is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, that's right, that's right, Kelly, that's right, Kelly.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
I do want to just touch on with the cosmeceutical
if she's twelve. The only caveat would be if she
does have a skin issue. So I would have been
around eleven or twelve when my acne started, but my
mum took me to a skin like the doctor.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Like, so totally, it's still not don't just run to Mecca,
Like if she apologizes for being entitled and you want
to treat her to a like things that are really
cute and really nice packaging that the young the youth
think is really cool, but it's gentle enough for her skin.
I would have a look at the Bubble brand at Priceline.
(30:54):
They've got a three step routine for fifty four dollars.
Bubble is really cool, Like bright color is very kill. Yeah,
the go to good Habits is fifty dollars. That said,
I would just remove the clarifying time, just keep it
for yourself because she's twelve. She doesn't need a clarifying toner.
And then the BioMA that's a Sephora brand. It's really
(31:15):
like once again, bright colors really looks great in their
shelfies and those death I don't know why they want
everything to look with the teenagers. I get it that
one's thirty two dollars. And another thing would be, if
you are going to splurge on a cool product with
like really nice branding and packaging and that sort of thing,
go for sbfs or makeup or blushes or makeup or
(31:38):
things that are yeah, lip products.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh really, I don't think she should get a expensive makeup.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I think we can all agree that we don't think
she should get anything extensive. But if it was going
to be something Christmas, not skincare, like not expensive skincare
because that can really do damage.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Exactly, but like a nice one of those cool brand
sbfs that have the cute little things.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, or water bottle.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I don't know nothing else, but it just goes to
show no matter what decade where in there's always going
to be an expensive, cool thing that all the kids
will want. And it's character building when you don't get
to have it. And all I have to say is Maria, like,
just hang in there.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Hang in there, like and I promise you Sh'll be
just fine. Just look at me. I'm fine And I
only ever had the hot tuner. Yeah unless I say
it put the bill anyway. That is all the time
and the questions that we have for this episode of
The Fix.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It's been quite a time, Amy, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It was got a bit hated.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
But if you have a question, if you need some advice,
dm us on the U Beauty Instagram send us an email.
We would love to answer your questions.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
We want to hear it. And the more embarrassing the better.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Please Yeah, well not embarrassing, but the more pervy, pervy, pervy, perpose.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah word and like that.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
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Speaker 1 (33:02):
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