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Selena Polgady is a permanent makeup artist in Nashville and Los Angeles, but for many cancer warriors and survivors, she’s an angel. 

Through her “Giving their Glam Back” non-profit organization, she’s teaching women how to draw on eyebrows, add a fake lash and deal with skin issues as a result of chemo treatments. Her goal is to support “thrivers” that cannot afford services that would make them feel better on the inside, just as much on the outside. While this episode talks about cancer survivors, she extends her services to those with other health-related issues or obstacles, such as alopecia, burns, accident-related abnormalities, thyroid problems, self-harm scars, and melanoma. We talk to this beauty advocate about:

• The client that inspired her non-profit
• Microblading and ombre-brow treatments and what they entail 
• New technology and techniques in microblading
• Skincare tips and advice for anyone with sensitive skin
• Her clean beauty line “Glam by Selena”

Check out her inspirational transformations here.

Selenas Product Recommendations:

IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC Cream SPF 50

Almond Oil

Cetaphil Cleanser

Castor oil for hair growth

GLAM by Selena Stencil, liner and lashes

This podcast is not sponsored. All opinions are always 100% honest and my own. Links are affiliate links. If you click a link and buy something, I may receive a commission for the sale. It doesn't cost you anything extra and you are free to use the link or not as you choose. If you do use my links, I appreciate your support.

Do you want to achieve the perfect smile? Dr. Stephanie Dumanian is sharing the solution so that you can get the smile you've always wanted.

"I do think more and more people are looking to get that movie star smile…and veneers are a non-surgical cosmetic procedure that can change certain appearances of a person's face.”

Dr. Stephanie Dumanian is a cosmetic dentist and owner of Park Lex 60 Dental. She is a specialist in veneers and has been featured in numerous publications for her work in the field. We talk to Dr. Dumanian to find out everything you need to know about veneers to achieve your perfect smile.

Here's a breakdown of what is covered:

• What are veneers?
• Porcelain vs. Composite - which is better?
• Process of getting veneers
• Removing teeth for veneers
• Importance of getting consultations
• Braces vs veneers
• How veneers can affect your lips
• Fixing veneers from other people

Restore radiance from the inside out!

A majority of women are currently living with hormonal imbalance, leading to major issues like chronic depression, lack of libido, insomnia, poor digestive health, skin issues and more – but we can reset the balance in our lives without medicine.

We’ll talk to Dr. Trevor Cates, founder of The Spa Dr, about:

• The four crucial aspects of this reset: Food, Movement, Mindset and Skincare, with a seasonal approach.
• 7-Day program to achieve glowing ageless skin.
• Natural Medicine: How it differs from traditional medicine and looks at health in a holistic approach. 
• Hormones, Health and Harmony Docuseries: a free resource you can watch today!

Click here to learn more and purchase Dr. Cates’ latest book, Natural Beauty Reset. 

About Dr. Trevor Cates:

Dr. Trevor Cates is a licensed Naturopathic Practitioner specializing in hormone balance and a holistic approach to skincare. She received her medical degree from the National College of Natural Medicine and is the first female licensed as a naturopathic doctor in California state history. After years of struggling with skin imperfections and imbalanced hormones in her teen years, Dr. Cates decided to pursue a career in natural medicine to educate the masses on the intersection between hormones and healthy skin. This led her to Utah where she worked in the Spas of renowned hotels like Waldorf Astoria and St. Regis, which is where she discovered the necessity to create a cleaner and simpler skincare line and write her book, Clean Skin from Within, which went on to become a USA Today national best-seller. Since then, Dr. Cates has helped patients, around the world improve their skin and hormones through a more natural approach. 

It’s a sad fact: diet and exercise cannot do anything to tighten loose skin on your stomach. 

Traditionally the only option to remove loose skin was to go under the knife, but new technologies for skin resurfacing and deep dermal remodeling can help restore some of the laxity caused by pregnancy, weight loss, or general aging. 

Secret™ PRO takes on a non-conventional approach to skin revitalization by uniquely combining two clinically proven technologies in a single device. Utilizing fractional CO2 for skin resurfacing and radio frequency microneedling for deep dermal remodeling effectively treats the full thickness of the skin from the epidermis to the deeper dermal layers independently or together.

We took the treatment for a test drive at The Kaga Institute and our guest Dr. Kaga is here with everything you need to know about this treatment!

How a Hollywood special effects artist discovered a smooth skin solution!

During her career as a special effects makeup artist, Camille Calvet would use silicone-based prosthetics in her work. One day, as she removed the prosthetics from an actor, she noticed that the skin exposed to the silicone looked softer and smoother. She found out that medical-grade silicone was being used in the medical industry to treat keloid scarring and began to experiment with silicone as a treatment for wrinkles. 

We’ll talk to Camille Calvet about:

• Her background in special effects and her work with Tom Cruise on Minority Report and Vanilla Sky.
• Silc Skin: How and why she created the company.
• Medical-grade Silicone and how it benefits the skin.

Shop the show:

SilcSkin Decollette Pads for Chest Wrinkles

SilcSkin Eye Pads

SilcSkin Full Face Set

This podcast is not sponsored. All opinions are always 100% honest and my own. Links are affiliate links. If you click a link and buy something, I may receive a commission for the sale. It doesn't cost you anything extra and you are free to use the link or not as you choose. If you do use my links, I appreciate your support.

CBD has made its way into everything from face oil to supplements, to pet food. But the industry is still young and according to Kendra Mark, Director of Products for Tenacious Labs, “it’s still the Wild West,” with little regulation and standardization.

We talk to the formulator and CBD expert about:

• CBD and Cannabinoids: What are they and how do they work in the body?
• Inflammaging: How CBD can help reduce the inflammation that leads to chronic disease and aging.
• The right way to take CBD and guidelines to start incorporating it into your routine.
• Full-spectrum vs. broad-spectrum CBD: What’s the difference and which is better?
• Terpenes: What they are and why they matter.
• Other cannabinoids: CBG, CBM and what we are discovering about these.
• Psilocybin: The state of research and the future of this psychedelic therapy.

To learn more about the work Kendra is doing with Tenacious labs, click here. Kendra has also collaborated with Press Pause to develop their CBD products, which you can hear all about in this episode.

Ambitious women listen up – it’s time to “press pause” and we’ve got the products that can help you do just that (in the office and even in the bedroom!) 

Our guest, Dawn Fable, is the charismatic and visionary founder of Press Pause, A CBD brand that aims to help and support the health and wellbeing of women and moms, through alleviating stress, pain and anxiety and supporting sleep, recovery, relaxation and libido.

We’ll talk to Dawn about:

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Dawn shares her struggle with this debilitating condition.
• Her CBD Journey: Like many women, she had been steadfastly building a demanding career whilst juggling the responsibility of looking after a blossoming family. She’d spent 20 years in advertising sales and digital marketing, generating over $50M in revenue and receiving countless awards. On the inside, however, she was suffering from high levels of anxiety. It was only upon incorporating CBD into her daily life that Dawn saw tangible relief and a realization that CBD could not only help with women’s physical health but mental health too.
• Creating Press Pause: Why she decided to create a line of artisan CBD products targeted at ambitious women and mothers who strive to have it all, but need support along the way.

Shop the show:

DREAM: Full-Spectrum CBD Night Tincture

LOVE: CBD Intimacy Spray

GLOW: Full-Spectrum CBD Care Capsules

SOAK: Indulgent CBD Bath Salts



This podcast is not sponsored. All opinions are always 100% honest and my own. Links are affiliate links. If you click a link and buy something, I may receive a commission for the sale. It doesn't cost you anything extra and you are free to use the link or not as you choose. If you do use my links, I appreciate your support.

We’ll admit it: We’re lash-aholics!  

And when it comes to lash extensions you can do at home, we’ve fallen in love with Lilac St. for their durability, light-weight feel, fluffy and feathery look…and price!

We talk to the founder about:

• The rising popularity of under-the-lash extensions
• The issues with traditional strip lash
• Application techniques for a perfect set of lashes
• Breaking down each type of lash by size, weight and who it’s best for

Shop the show:

Lilac St. Starter Kit

Lilac Street Lashes in styles: Volume, Feather, Hollywood, and Dawn

It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but there’s a chance you’ve already tried some form of biohacking. 

Taking supplements like collagen, or even red light therapy, are all ways in which we try to improve how our skin functions. 

According to Amitay Eshel, founder of Young Goose (a biohacking skincare company), “Biohacking is improving or affecting our biology, through changing our environment, either around us the environment within our body, and then we can control the biology in the way we would like it to go.” We talk to him about:

• Biohacking: the fundamentals of this growing field
• NAD+: What is this and how does it affect our skin
• Bioavailability and precursors to NAD+
• NAD+ depletion as we age and how to help restore this
• Sirtuins and how they affect the aging progress

SHOP THE SHOW:

C.A.R.E. (with NR Nobel™) Concentrated Moisturizer

ProC.A.R.E.

Bio-Retinol

NAD+ powder (recommended by Amitay)

This podcast is not sponsored. All opinions are always 100% honest and my own. Links are affiliate links. If you click a link and buy something, I may receive a commission for the sale. It doesn't cost you anything extra and you are free to use the link or not as you choose. If you do use my links, I appreciate your support.

What do wine and beauty have in common? Casey Georgeson.  

The entrepreneur had deep roots in the wine industry and parlayed her experience in the space to create a luxury beauty line, Saint Jane Beauty. We talk to the founder about:

• Her roots in creating wine and beauty brands for Sephora (Marc Jacobs Beauty, Disney, Elizabeth, and James) and The Wine Group (Cupcake Vineyards, Chloe, Love Noir).
• CBD: After suffering from sensitive, stressed skin, Casey discovered a powerful, effective way to combat skin irritation with beautiful, clean blends of potent botanicals.
• Sun Ritual: The newest launch is a luxury sunscreen in every beauty aficionados beach bag.