Episode 382 - Beauty predictions for 2025 plus questions answered

Perry Romanowski (0:00)

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 Romanowski, and with me today is Valerie George. Hello, Valerie.

Valerie George (0:29)

Hi, Perry.

Perry Romanowski (0:30)

Hey, Valerie, this is our big near-the-year-end show where we talk about trends, but we're also gonna be answering some questions, including what do we think of Oneskin products? Are there any good beauty finds in the EU that you can't find in the US.? 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, some chit chat. Valerie, we're coming to the end of the year. How are you doing with all of your goals that you set out at the beginning of the year?

Valerie George (1:08)

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 a big old stack of physical books with me to this island and read them. And so now I'm reading them at home.

Perry Romanowski (1:54)

Oh, well, that's nice. So it's a read-cation, really.

Valerie George (1:58)

Exactly. Yeah. And we're going through, we have some DVDs that we haven't watched or haven't seen in a long time, and we're going to get rid of them, so we're watching them. So we're just kind of wrapping stuff up, but it's all, it's like when you're cleaning because someone's coming over and you only have 20 minutes to do it. Well, we only have 14 days left in the year to either read or get all these DVDs done. So you could say we're like rage cleaning or rage reading or rage watching. Yeah.

Perry Romanowski (2:24)

Yeah. Well, that sounds like fun. I too fell down on some of my goals this year.

Valerie George (2:30)

Well, you always have a lot of goals, so I think you need to give yourself a break. I mean, you have so many. I'm sure you got some of them done. What did you do?

Perry Romanowski (2:38)

Oh, yeah. No, I got most of them. I mean, I kept my running streak alive despite having a significant hamstring injury for half the year. And while I didn't meet my reading goal of 70 books, I have read like 55 of them.

Valerie George (2:52)

Was one of them as long as Pride and Prejudice? Remember when you were reading that and it was like a million pages? You were reading that for months.

Perry Romanowski (2:59)

Pride and Prejudice was a long book, but not as long as War and Peace, which I also read.

Valerie George (3:06)

It's like four books in one.

Perry Romanowski (3:07)

Yeah, which is a good book, actually. Although, if you're going to go with Tolstoy, though, I prefer Anna Karenina, really.

Valerie George (3:14)

All right, so what else did you get done?

Perry Romanowski (3:16)

Well, you know, I wrote two albums of songs now that I discovered like AI-generated music. So does it really count?

Valerie George (3:26)

No, it doesn't. And Mr. Cosmetic Chemist is in the music industry and could probably give you all the legal reasons why it does not count. Mostly for me, it's because it's with AI.

Perry Romanowski (3:37)

It's kind of like a helper, though.

It's kind of like this. I look at it this way, right? If you were writing a book and you write it out, that's really how you should write it. But if you use a typewriter, well, are you still writing your book? No, you're typing it. Or if you use a computer or a word processor, that's not really writing a book.

Valerie George (3:57)

That is semantics.

Perry Romanowski (4:00)

No, that is just the range of using a use of technology.

Valerie George (4:06)