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 387. I'm your host Perry Romanoowski and with me today is

Valerie George. Hello Valerie. Hi Perry. Valerie, your mascara under your eye is a lot lighter

today. Yeah, the black eye is healing.

We'll also be healing some questions that people have, and they include today,

what are our thoughts on eyelash glues, what polymers are used in tubing mascara,

what is inflamaging, and is it going to be a big trend this year? Does estriole cream live up to

its claims? And finally, how do you restore your hair's natural texture and manageability after you

washed it? But first, some chit-chat. Valerie, so your eye is healing up nicely. Congratulations.

It is. It is. I still get a lot of stairs. It is not as bad as it

used to be, but obviously I still have a giant bruise under my eye. And I actually, this is a funny

story. It has to do with the last episode that we put out where I was telling the story, how I got

the black eye. I actually was invited to a breakfast with the president of my university.

I'm very involved on the foundation board at Kent State University.

And we walk in.

It's eight in the morning.

And, you know, it's in Ohio.

So he flew down to Texas and whatnot.

And he says, well, the first thing he says to me is, well, I know how you got your black eye

because I listened to your last episode of the Beauty Brains podcast. And I was like, whoa, he

listened to the last episode. So that was really cool. And, you know, then we got to talking about

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