🇫🇷 #DamnGood Special! Are These The Top French Pharmacy Skincare Finds of All Time?
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s #DamnGood episode, we review the top French pharmacy skincare finds of all time, just in time for the Cannes film fest, Paris Olympics – and your next summer sojourn.
Tune in to hear us chat about:
- The viral retinol formula that smooths wrinkles, banishes breakouts and acne scars – and costs just 12 Euro.
- The one aluminum tube that every French family brings on holiday for sunburns and booboos
- The often misunderstood hyaluronic acid product that’s unlike any you’ll find on this side of the pond
- The #1 (and most copied!) sunscreen that’s best shaken, not stirred
- The decadent body butter that legit French women clamour for
- The customizable, apothecary-style brand that TikTok girlies are collecting and gifting
- The one body wash Jill swears by to smell like a French bébé
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | This episode is brought to in part by Macy's. |
| 0:07.0 | Coming in Hot is Memorial Day and I'm pretty sure that means the official start of summer occasion |
| 0:11.6 | dressing. |
| 0:12.6 | For our family, that means grade 8 graduation for our daughter. |
| 0:15.9 | That's going to be a super fun dress up moment for her. |
| 0:19.3 | And I wonder how many of you might have a big summer trip coming up or maybe a summer wedding and the |
| 0:24.6 | great thing is when you go to Macy's.com you can shop by occasion for prom |
| 0:28.9 | vacation wedding they even have it broken down for mother of the bride suggestions |
| 0:35.0 | guest options and more and here's a little secret from me to you. |
| 0:39.8 | Macy's is having their annual Memorial Day sale starting today, May 22nd until May 27th, |
| 0:47.6 | with 15% off handbags, shoes, and more, including my personal favorite section in all of Macy's, their |
| 0:54.7 | Sunglass Hut shop within a shop available online and in stores. This is |
| 0:59.7 | where you can score some serious deals on designer sunglasses. I'm talking |
| 1:03.3 | Prada, mew mew moo goo goochi salarin like I just look today and I'm seeing 50% off |
| 1:10.4 | so I say run don't walk and of course don't forget to drop by the beauty |
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| 1:19.4 | so hard to find in real life to be able to test and try beautiful self-tanners from |
| 1:24.7 | Dulce glow that's a line designed by a celebrity self-tanners or look for a special |
| 1:31.2 | fragrance maybe something by brown Girl Jane, very niche, very unique. |
| 1:36.0 | It's Macy's Memorial Day sale, May 22nd to May 27th in stores and at Macy's.com happy shopping and happy Memorial Day. |
| 1:47.0 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
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