I am Perry and you're listening to The Beauty Brains.

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 384, our first one for the new year. I'm your host Perry Romanowski,

and with me today is Valerie George. Hello, Valerie. Hi, Perry. Valerie, we've already got a ton of

questions and those are going, and we're going to cover them on today's show including

is it okay to use self-tanner under your eyes and on your lips are pfas is the ingredient that

causes products to self-foam how can silicone protect hair to temperatures up to 450 degrees

are certain types of products worth getting the more expensive

version and what is the chemistry of nanoplasty but first chit-chat Valerie it's a whole new year

did you ring in the new year very crazily i did it was uh called sleeping i didn't even make it until midnight. I said, I'm so tired. The New Year's

going to happen with or without me. And so I went to bed probably around 9.30. Wow. And it turned

out the New Year did happen, huh? It, you know, it did. It's pretty crazy. And I got a great

night of sleep. What about you? How was your party?

Well, well, first of all, did you get the pizza rolls, the totinos? I did. And I told Mr.

Cosmetic Chemists about our conversation. And as he was preparing them for me, he said,

you know what, they have changed. And unfortunately, he bought a hundred pack, which is, it's just

way too many pizza rolls. So like, I've had my pizza roll fill for the year, and I probably

won't have any until next New Year's. I guess you could save the ones you've got until next year.

Freeze them, right? They're well preserved. Exactly. Well, we had a little

gathering at my place, and we had a, you know, a good number of people that came over, but most

importantly, we had the scissors paper rock tournament. Okay, or known as rock paper scissors

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