Should you use a skin cream made with your own blood? Episode 165

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You're listening to The Beauty Brains Show, where real scientists answer your beauty questions. And now, here's Randy and Perry.

Randy Schuller (0:20)

Welcome to episode 165 I'm Randy Schuller, and I'm here snuggled up on the couch next to my co-host, Perry Romowski.

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Perry!

Perry Romowski (0:32)

It's been a little while.

Randy Schuller (0:33)

It has been a little while, but we are back in the saddle, at least for the moment.

Perry Romowski (0:37)

Welcome to 2018

Randy Schuller (0:39)

That's right, yeah. Happy New Year. Hey, let me tell you what we're going to talk about on today's show. This is the tease portion of the program, in case you've forgotten how this works.

But on today's show, Graham, you're going to learn our surefire way to avoid buying expired products online. You'll find out if natural mascara formulas have gotten better, and whether or not you should use a skin cream made from your own blood. That's right.

Perry Romowski (1:07)

That sounds tough.

Randy Schuller (1:08)

Your own blood. Plus, you'll hear some very important news about The Beauty Brains that you do not want to miss.

Perry Romowski (1:15)

Yes, you do not want to miss that news.

Randy Schuller (1:17)

But, before we get to all that, what's going on? Have you been any place interesting? What have you been up to?

Perry Romowski (1:23)

Oh, you know, I was traveling New York, and Dallas, and California. I ran a marathon. I read 50 books. I've been busy, man.

Randy Schuller (1:31)

I kind of meant in the context of beauty science, not so much. Just your personal goals for the year.

Perry Romowski (1:37)

Hey, you know what I'm doing this year? I am going to go to Australia.

Randy Schuller (1:43)

Oh?

Perry Romowski (1:44)

Yeah, I've been invited for the Australian Society of Cosmetic Chemists to speak at their meeting out in May.

Randy Schuller (1:51)

That's a long way to fly just for an hour dinner meeting.

Perry Romowski (1:56)

You know, I know.

Randy Schuller (1:57)

But if any Beauty Brains fans out there want to meet up with me out in Australia, seriously, we actually have gotten quite a few reviews in the last couple of months from Australia, so maybe some of the fans down there will take up on that.

Perry Romowski (2:10)

Yeah, we are big in Australia. So, you know, that's the life of a Cosmetic Amputeeist. I'm also going to Toronto in February, speaking up in Toronto, and I'm going to Orlando in February.

Randy Schuller (2:23)

Okay, it's the Perry Romanosky Roadshow, ladies and gentlemen.

Perry Romowski (2:28)

Where in the world is Perry Romanosky? Well, the truth is, I've been searching for Carmen Sandiego, so... That's a little dated reference, isn't it? I got one of those Amazon Echo things.

I didn't even know I wanted one, but damn, I have like a relationship now with this Echo. And every morning I say, hey, Alexa, can you play Good Morning Starshine? You know that song from Perry? Wakes me up every day. It's fabulous.

Just go to amazon.com and slash the beauty brains.

Randy Schuller (3:10)

Hey, Alexa, can we get back to podcasting about beauty science? What do you think about that?

Perry Romowski (3:15)

I think that's a great idea. Why don't we start with some beauty science news?

Randy Schuller (3:24)

Excellent. Hey, did you see this story about, there's quite a bit of controversy around this app.

It's called Make App, and it's this makeup eraser app. Did you see this?

Perry Romowski (3:35)

Yeah, I think I saw that.

Randy Schuller (3:37)

It was, actually, I heard about it first on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and then I saw it in HuffPo and Refinery29. But it's an app that has the ability to remove makeup in your pictures or your videos.

So if you've got whatever, lipstick, eyeshadow, blush, eyeliner, mascara, whatever, this has some algorithm in it that basically strips out all those additional components, so you can see what you would look like sans makeup.

Perry Romowski (4:07)

So it's kind of the inverse airbrushing.

Randy Schuller (4:09)

Yeah, right. Yeah, I guess so. So the reason it's controversial is it's, I guess, it's perceived as being sexist, because supposedly guys are using this to see what women would look like without makeup, I guess.

Perry Romowski (4:25)

So a really good-looking celebrity, you pull off their makeup and they don't look as good-looking.

Randy Schuller (4:30)

Right. Or, I don't know, I guess somebody... What's that dating site you use? Tinder? I mean, maybe you can see what somebody looks like. I don't even know they have pictures on there. I don't know how that works.