Skin Talks

Black Friday is the biggest revenue weekend of the year for retailers, and it’s also the most stressful. In part two of their BSE catch-up, Beate and Natascha go behind the scenes of how Boutique Skin Envie prepares for Black Friday and Cyber Monday (November 27 to 30). They cover why planning starts in August, how a campaign idea goes from a notepad to approved, and why every ad, email, text and web page now has to look like the same campaign. They also share why they have mixed feelings about the shopping frenzy.

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00:00 Intro

01:07 Welcome back and why Black Friday matters

03:58 Why we don’t love Black Friday

06:00 What success looks like for BSE

09:11 Starting the campaign in August

11:35 Presenting the idea and getting team feedback

14:00 Holiday shop, kits and advent calendars

16:44 How the campaign idea was born

18:13 Inspiration: Pinterest and female founders

21:46 Hiring plans: finance, warehouse and IT

28:09 Growing the business like turning a boat

29:12 Excitement for 2027, the office and becoming #1

In this solo episode of SkinTalks, Beate and Natascha, the mother-daughter founders of Boutique Skin Envie (BSE), explain why Canadian beauty brands are at the heart of their business. With over 70 Canadian brands on BSE, compared with about a dozen at Sephora Canada, they walk through their top picks in Canadian skincare, makeup, nail care, fragrance, sunless tanning and wellness.

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00:00 Intro

01:43 Why We're Obsessed With Canadian Brands

03:37 Canadian Skincare & Nail Favorites

07:03 Home, Intimacy & Fragrance Picks

10:45 Hand Care, Makeup & Face Masks

15:00 Face Tape, Face Cloths & Sunless Tanning

17:53 Hydrinity & Hypochlorous Acid Mist

20:05 Canadian Alternatives & At-Home Skin Tools

21:24 From Founder-Led to a Real Team

26:00 Growing Pains, Coaching & SOPs

30:06 Bringing Content In-House & Investing in SkinTalks

34:29 BSE App 2.0, an Investment Year & What's Next

Skincare trends come and go, but the habits that keep your skin healthy and your energy up are usually the least glamorous ones. In this confession episode, Beate and Natascha share the daily routines, small systems and mindset shifts they actually rely on, from sticking to one skincare routine to protecting their sleep. They explain why a full routine from one brand works better than mixing products, and what they’re doing in the treatment room, from microneedling to Botox and the shift toward more natural results.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:48 Brands we're highlighting

02:38 Why unsexy habits matter

03:44 Skincare: one routine, no brand hopping

10:16 Microneedling, Botox and treatments

16:17 Movement after baby

18:11 Lifting weights, protein and walking

26:25 Morning routines

34:37 Protecting your sleep

40:42 Why we quit alcohol

47:00 Structuring your week

54:21 Slowing down

Living with acne, rosacea, melasma, eczema, psoriasis or scarring is never just a skin issue. It’s a confidence issue, and often a mental health one too. In this solo episode of SkinTalks, Beate and Natascha get real about the emotional side of skin concerns: feeling insecure in photos, the pressure of social media filters and comparison culture, online negativity, and how to stop losing hope when nothing seems to work.

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Our Website:

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Stay Connected:

New episodes every Wednesday

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

4:26 Melasma, photos and feeling insecure

7:14 Online hate and comparison culture

9:46 Social media is getting more authentic

14:50 Positive self-talk and knowing your angles

19:38 What desperation does to your skin

23:09 Why you should see an esthetician

25:56 What a real skin plan looks like

29:17 Patience, purging and not losing hope

32:36 Makeup that doesn't make it worse

35:11 Your confidence toolkit

38:45 Perfect skin, makeup and self-love

Flushing out of nowhere. Redness that never fully fades. A sting when a product goes on. Rosacea and reactive skin are common, frustrating, and often treated the wrong way, and fall is peak flare season.

In this solo episode, Beate and Natascha break down what rosacea really is, how it differs from reactive, sensitive and sensitized skin, and why “sensitive skin” has become an identity for so many people. They cover everyday triggers (hot showers, red wine, stress, laundry detergent), how to calm a flare gently, and the BSE picks worth trying.

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Our Website:

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Stay Connected:

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:14 What is rosacea?

06:51 Sensitive skin vs. breakouts

18:28 Everyday triggers

19:43 How to treat a flare

21:48 BSE brand picks

28:19 Take it or leave it

29:55 The ideal rosacea routine

Under-eye skin is the thinnest skin on your body, and it's usually the first place to show age, stress, lack of sleep, and genetics. In this episode of SkinTalks, Beate and Natascha from Boutique Skin Envie explain why dark circles, puffiness, and fine lines are three different problems that each need a different fix. They cover what causes each one, when to start using an eye cream (mid-20s to early 30s), and what an eye cream can and can't do for hollowing, fat pads, and genetics.

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Stay Connected:

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Chapters

00:00 Why the eye area ages first

01:43 New launches

02:45 Why under-eye skin needs special care

05:32 Puffiness vs. dark circles vs. fine lines

11:01 Do you really need an eye cream?

13:00 What eye creams can and can't do

16:01 Our favorite Canadian eye creams

21:30 Top picks by concern

23:50 Habits that make under-eyes look worse

26:30 Botox, fillers & fat transfer for hollowing

28:00 Take it or leave it

31:00 Build your eye routine

You did your time as a teenager. So why are you getting deep, tender breakouts along your jaw and chin every month, the week before your period? Adult acne is incredibly common, especially in women, and here's what nobody tells you: it is not the same as teen acne, and you cannot treat it the same way.

In this solo episode of Skin Talks, mother-daughter duo Beate and Natascha, founders of Boutique Skin Envie, give an honest breakdown of adult and hormonal acne: why it happens, what actually clears it, and the everyday mistakes that keep making it worse.

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Chapters

00:00 – Intro

01:12 – Why adult acne isn't teen acne

01:39 – New launches

02:42 – The four drivers behind every pimple

03:39 – Why it shows up on your jaw and chin

05:30 – Hidden triggers

07:05 – Know your acne type before you treat it

09:45 – The routine that actually clears hormonal acne

12:50 – On Accutane or antibiotics?

14:41 – The golden rule

16:15 – The systems we trust

26:10 – The daily habits making your acne worse

31:39 – Take it or leave it

38:25 – Your AM, PM and weekly routine

41:28 – One product, the biggest myth, and what to stop doing

Exosomes might be the most hyped word in skincare and medical aesthetics right now. Clinics charge $300 to $500 extra to add them after microneedling or laser treatments, serums promise to regenerate your skin, yet almost nobody can explain what they actually are.

In this episode of Skin Talks, mother-daughter duo Beate and Natascha, founders of Boutique Skin Envie, sit down with Charles Larin from Xcite Tech, part of the Korean wave that put exosomes on the map. The conversation stays educational and brand neutral: what exosomes are, what the evidence shows, how they're used in clinic versus in a bottle, and how to be a smart, skeptical consumer.

You'll learn why exosomes are cellular messengers that tell your skin to repair faster, how they reduce downtime and boost collagen and elastin after microneedling, CO2, erbium and Clear + Brilliant, and why injecting them is not legal in Canada. Beate and Natascha share their own results on melasma, redness and scar healing, plus one painful experience that proves not all exosomes are equal.

Charles explains why purity and isolation methods matter, why serious exosomes come as a powder that must be reconstituted and kept cold, and why most shelf-stable exosome serums have little to work with on intact skin. He also breaks down exosomes for hair loss, how they compare to PRP, why they're now used after hair transplants, and why Korea leads the science.

Before you book your next treatment, you'll know exactly which questions to ask your med spa, the red flags to watch for, and who should not use exosomes.

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Hosts:

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Stay Connected:

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Chapters

00:00 – Intro

01:05 – Exosomes: the most hyped word in aesthetics

01:50 – Meet Charles: how he landed in exosome science

03:20 – The promise and the caution: why injecting isn't legal in Canada

05:45 – Health Canada, human-derived exosomes and the switch to plants

07:27 – Why everyone is suddenly talking about exosomes

08:36 – What an exosome actually is

10:20 – Less downtime, better results: how exosomes boost treatments

15:21 – Our results: melasma, redness and scar healing

21:24 – Not all exosomes are equal: purity and isolation

27:23 – Exosomes for hair loss vs PRP

34:19 – Why real exosomes are kept on ice and mixed on the spot

36:28 – Do retail exosome serums work at home?

41:17 – Why Korea leads exosome science

43:55 – Red flags at the med spa and who shouldn't use exosomes

53:06 – Three signature questions

Face taping before bed. Tongue exercises for a sharper jawline. The morning shed. Ten-step routines for ten-year-olds. A drawer full of devices that buzz and glow. Skincare in 2026 has gone next-level weird, and in this episode of Skin Talks, mother-daughter duo Beate and Natascha, founders of Boutique Skin Envie, go through the strangest rituals, devices and habits one by one and call each of them: science, harmless fun, waste of money, or genuinely risky.

They start with why skincare got weird in the first place: the fear of aging, algorithms that reward extreme routines, and marketing that now targets teenagers and tweens. Dermatologists are seeing more young people with compromised barriers and dermatitis than ever before.

Then they go trend by trend: face taping and mouth taping as a Botox alternative, mewing and facial yoga, the morning shed, skin cycling, skin flooding, skin fasting, and whether your puffy face really is a cortisol problem. On the gadget side they break down microcurrent devices, ice rolling, cryo globes, gua sha, LED red light therapy, and the one they have the strongest opinion about: at-home microneedling and derma rollers, including why a 1mm Amazon roller does nothing except hurt.

They close with a simple framework for judging any skincare trend you see online: is there a real mechanism or just a vibe, who profits from you believing it, could it hurt your barrier if you get it slightly wrong, and would a boring cleanser, vitamin C, moisturizer and SPF cost you less and work better?

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Hosts:

Beate Instagram → @beatevonhuene

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Our Website:

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Stay Connected:

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00:00 – Intro

01:14 – Skincare has gone next-level weird

01:51 – New launches: Electric Lemonade & Iles Formula

03:15 – Why skincare got weird: the fear of aging

06:41 – Face taping and mouth taping: does it actually work?

10:52 – Mewing and facial yoga

12:15 – Morning shed, skin cycling, skin flooding and skin fasting

18:07 – Is your puffy face really cortisol?

19:16 – Gadgets: microcurrent, ice rolling, cryo globes, gua sha, LED

22:50 – At-home microneedling: what's safe and what's dangerous

29:13 – Sephora kids and marketing anti-aging to children

37:47 – Weird but real vs weird and pointless + the weirdest things we've tried

September is the real reset season for your skin. Humidity drops, summer damage surfaces, and suddenly your skincare routine stops working. In this episode of Skin Talks, mother-daughter duo Beate and Natascha, founders of Boutique Skin Envie, break down exactly how to transition your skincare from summer to fall without wrecking your skin barrier.

They cover why you should never have stopped your retinol in summer, how to restart actives the right way (low and slow), why the packaging of your retinol matters as much as the percentage, and the four-to-five step routine that works for every skin type. They also explain the BSE rule they've built their clinic on: stay within one brand system so your products actually work in synergy instead of fighting each other.

Inside the episode: vitamin C, AHAs, BHAs, hydroquinone, ceramides and hyaluronic acid explained in plain language. Plus the brand systems they personally reach for, including Skin Better Science, Vivier, SkinCeuticals, Jan Marini, ZO Skin Health and Eminence, and a rapid-fire "take it or leave it" on fall skincare trends like retinol sandwiching, bakuchiol, facial oils and reset peels.

If you're dealing with melasma, pigmentation, acne, dryness, fine lines or postpartum sensitivity, this is your fall skincare roadmap.

New this season: V Collection Retinol Pure (encapsulated, slow-release retinol for easing in without peeling) and YOE's award-winning hero cream. Both available at Boutique Skin Envie.

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Connect With Us:

Hosts:

Beate Instagram → @beatevonhuene

Natascha Instagram → @nataschaschillinger

Our Website:

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Stay Connected:

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Chapters

00:00 – Intro

01:16 – Why fall is the best time to reset your skin

01:50 – Two new launches: V Collection Retinol Pure & YOE

03:22 – What actually changes from summer to fall

04:41 – The "stop retinol in summer" myth

06:39 – Why not all retinols are equal

08:48 – Actives decoded: vitamin C, AHAs, BHAs, hydroquinone

15:04 – Richer moisturizers, ceramides & hyaluronic acid

18:19 – The BSE rule: one brand, one system

22:19 – The 4-step routine + starting retinol safely

24:35 – The brand systems we reach for

30:24 – Take it or leave it + your simple fall routine