Hi, I'm Perry and you're listening to The Beauty Brains.

Hello and welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider's look at the cosmetic industry. This is episode 382. I'm your host, Perry Romanozky, and with me today is

Valerie George. Hello, Valerie. Hi, Perry. Hey, Valerie, this is our big near the year-end show

where we talk about trends, but we're also going to be answering some questions,

including what do we think of one-skin products?

Are there any good beauty finds in the EU that you can't find in the U.S.?

Will hair water damage your hair over time?

Do you have to wash the sweat out of your hair every time you exercise?

And can a cream really

firm or lift the neck? But first, uh, some chit-chat. Valerie, we're coming to the end of the year.

Uh, how are you doing with all of your goals that you set out at the beginning of the year?

I have to be brutally honest. I do not remember the goals that I set

last year. And I'm sure I wrote them down somewhere, but I got carried away with getting

our lab set up, with all the projects that I had, with an incredible amount of travel for work

or not travel, as in the case when Frank ate my passport.

But nonetheless, I've had a busy year and I assure you none of my goals got completed.

However, I am getting caught up. I had some vacation time scheduled. I was supposed to be on a remote

Pacific island and for reasons I cannot discuss. I'm not there. But I said, you know what? I was going to bring on a remote Pacific island, and for reasons I cannot discuss, I'm not there.

But I said, you know what? I was going to bring a big old stack of physical books with me

to this island and read them. And so now I'm reading them at home.

Oh, well, that's nice. So it's a readcation, really.

Exactly. Yeah. And we're going through. We have some DVDs that we haven't watched or haven't seen it a long time and we're

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