Hi, I'm 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 386. I'm your host, Perry Romanooski, and with me today is Valerie George.

Hello, Valerie. Hi, Perry.

Valerie, I love what you're doing with your makeup right now. Whoa. Well, you know, on today's

show, we are going to cover lots of questions, including

how much should you trust the seals of approvals on product labels?

What do we think of Brooke Shield's new hair care line?

What makes a good lip mask and day cream?

What are our thoughts on the geek and gorgeous brand?

And finally, why would a brand include two hydroquinone-based lightning creams with the same active level and concentration in their line?

But first, a little chit-chat.

Valerie, I mentioned about the makeup.

It's because you have this little dark mark under your right eye.

Well, I wouldn't call it a little dark mark. I have a huge black eye. And what you're seeing

actually looks way better than what it looked like several days ago. Well, Valerie, that's amazing.

So what happened? Geez. That's a first rule of fight club perry you don't talk about

fight club of course that's right well well actually here's what happened so i just kind of put

you know on instagram i made a little post like oh you know guess who sock themselves in the eye this

you know this gal and you, people were asking what happened,

making jokes. And one person wrote, let me guess, you picked up something that either was stuck

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