The Bossticks - Get The Fuck Out Of The Sun - Michael Interviews Lauryn On All Things Skincare

Episode Date: June 17, 2021

#366: On today's episode Lauryn and Michael are solo and Michael has Lauryn in the hot seat to discuss her new book, Get The Fuck Out Of The Sun. Michael interviews Lauryn on all the behind the scenes from the book and asks questions to extract the strongest tips, tricks, and shortcuts to better skin. We also discuss what it takes to write a book and all the questions you want to know.  To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) Check Out Lauryn's NEW BOOK, Get The Fuck Out Of The Sun HERE This episode is brought to you by Birch Helix Mattress Birch makes organic, non-toxic mattresses made right here in America and shipped straight to your door with no-contact delivery, free shipping, free returns, and a 100-night sleep trial. Birch mattresses are certified organic, and materials are naturally and sustainably sourced. Finally, an amazing night's rest you can also feel great about. They have a 25 year warranty and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk free. They'll pick it up for you if you don't love it-but I know you will. Birch is giving $200 off ALL mattresses and 2 free eco-rest pillows at www.birchliving.com/SKINNY  This episode is brought to you by Olive & June The Olive & June Mani system is the secret behind salon-perfect at home, all-in-one, no guessing, no messy nails, no salon price tag. All TSC Him & Her listeners can no get 20% off your first mani system with our code SKINNY. Visit www.oliveandjune.com and use promo code SKINNY at checkout for 20% off your first mani system.  Produced by Dear Media

The following podcast is a dear media production. This episode is brought to you by Get the Fuck Out of the Sun. That's right. My book. My second book. It's launched. It's here. It's pink.

It's Matt. It's cute. You will want it on your Instagram feed. It has all the skincare resources and value that you could possibly want. It's like 40 magazines in one. I hope you guys love it. I wrote it for you. It's available on Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble, and where all books are sold.

And with that, we're going to do a little fun. solo episode. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness.

Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. I was at a dance. Because you're turning the tables. I'm interviewing you? Yeah. Is that what we're doing? That's what we're doing. All right.

Well, hopefully I've prepared. Yeah, I can't wait to like... I don't got much more to ask you at this point. You should have a lot to ask me. And honestly, we haven't really done this like this. We're sitting across from each other. I can't wait to see how your interview skills are. They're pretty damn good.

I'm going to rate you at the end of this. Well, I'm going to just, I'm going to go into this and, you know, Barbara Walter, Walter, Walter Cronkite this on you. I am one of the most professional interviewers of all time, I think. Well, I can't wait to see how you read the book. This is my show. This is my interview. So I will lead where we're going. Okay, we'll see.

Lauren Everett's Bostic. Yes. When you first laid eyes on me, Oh, this isn't about you. Did you think to yourself, God damn it, I hit the jackpot, seeing this guy, crossing past them. Was it the greatest moment of your life?

I couldn't see you. Did your life suck before me? I couldn't see you. You were so short amongst all these tall sixth graders. Did you think to yourself, I basically didn't have a life before I met this majestic man and I've really been doing everything wrong.

I didn't. You looked like Danny DeVito. How dare you insult me on my show? You need to get to the point of this episode. Okay. You have a new book. Yes. Very exciting stuff. I'm sure it must have been a grueling process. Walk us through what went into this work.

That's the first question you're going to ask. Well, let's just, let's take it back. Why? Okay. Why a book? about getting the fuck out of the sun. Yeah. Why a book?

And maybe contextualized because you get these people, these, these, LeVie can insert my own opinion, you get these wackos. We need the sun. We all know we need the sun. Yeah, I'm not telling.

Between the line, people. But let me not do the interview here. Okay, let's start. Why the title get the fuck out of the sun? Okay. I'm not telling you to sit in a dark room like Taylor does and watch porn all day. Like Taylor does.

I'm telling you to be cognitive and aware of the sun and be proactive and preventative. So you can't be on your phone. My questions are on my phone, so I can be on my phone. Taylor, leave this part in. Don't tell me what to do on my interview show. Do you hear this people? Do you, did you answer the question? I'm running the interview here. I thought you were picking up your phone to go on Instagram or something. You thought I was zoning out. Listen, I told you I'm one of the best in the biz. I don't need to be told how to do this. Okay. Get back on track. I'm so over that privacy protector on your phone, because I can't see anything.

Listen, the audience and I want to know. Okay. Get back to it. Answer my question. So you can't be like I'm not telling you to beat your meat in a dark room like Taylor does and just stay there all day. I'm telling you to be proactive and preventative. So whether that entails you getting tinted windows on your car like I did or whether

it entails wearing a driving glove while you're driving, which is not a big deal. It's so easy. It's in your glove compartment. I found out a glove compartment is called a glove compartment for, because it's for driving gloves. So utilize it. Or if it's even just wearing a hat when you're getting out of your car to go to the grocery store. I'm gently reminding you in the most in your face polarizing way possible to be cognitive of the sun.

Because I've talked. Cognizant, right? We're about facts. We're about facts on this show, Taylor. Can you Google glove compartment origin names? I'll run this show, Lauren. We'll see if you're telling the truth. Okay.

I do like that angle, but let's Taylor fact check that for me. It's true. you're just pissed that you don't have gloves in your in your compartment. Well, let's see if that's what the glove compartment is for. It is, Michael. So the thing is, is I've been lucky enough. We've been lucky enough to interview so many experts, doctors, celebrities, whatever it is. And the number one thing across the board is if you lay in the sun baking all the time and if you're not proactive about it, it's not good for you.

It's really, really aging. And some of the messages that I have gotten from people, and I haven't even told you this, have been so incredible. I had a woman, shout out to Sophie, DM me on Instagram and tell me that both of her parents passed away from son cancer, from skin cancer. And this is happening. I have another friend whose father passed away from skin cancer. It's important to protect ourselves from the son, whether you're doing it for beauty or for youth or for skin cancer. or whatever it is, we have to be aware. And so in this book, you'll find lots of tangible tips and tricks when it comes to

skincare. It's not just about the set. All right. Was that long-winded? No, it was good. That's what the audience and myself are looking for. We got the context now. Okay.

We can move on to the next question. So I would argue that you have pretty damn good skin at this point. I would say, I see you, I can observe you every day. It is, I'm not just fluffing that. I know you're my wife, but you do have damn good skin. Someone might see you in a pretty picture. Sometimes they're edited. Not unlike other people.

Sometimes you need a little face tune. If I can detail an eyelash or whiten a tooth when it's like looking a little yellow because of the light, there's nothing wrong with a little face tune. This is my interview long. It's just the overboard. Okay, go on. Can you talk about some of the skin issues that you've had? Because I know you've battled many over the years, especially people that are new to your

platform, might not have seen, you might not be aware of those battles. Can you talk about how you got interested in skin and some of those issues that you battled? You are going to freak out over Helix's new launch. They just launched a company, okay? Helix mattress. It's called Birch Living. And they make the best organic mattresses in the game. I moved to Austin.

I wanted everything earthy. I wanted everything grounding. I wanted it zen. And that included by mattress. So I left my current mattress in L.A. and I got a new one. And this one is by Birch. It's organic, non-toxic, and it's made right here in America, shipped straight to your door. There was this no contact delivery when I got it. It's free shipping, free returns. And this is the best thing. It's a hundred-night sleep trial. So you can try it out and

see for yourself. But I'm all about how it's organic. So it has organic latex, an organic New Zealand wool. it has American Steel Springs and this is the best part for me, an organic cotton cover. So even when the baby's on my bed, which she has a lot, let's be honest. We spend so much of our life sleeping. And you know this, I've said this, we should optimize our sleep. Let's streamline it. Let's make it the best sleep ever. And that for me includes an organic mattress. It's comfortable. It keeps me cool at night. It's hot in Austin. So this is really important. Michael has bad hips from driving. That's a whole different podcast. But this one's really supportive. The best part, though, I'm going to keep saying it, is I can now say I have an organic mattress.

You have to check it out. I think you're going to like it. And obviously, you get 100 days to try it out, test it out. Taylor got one. He's obsessed. You're going to check out birchliving.com slash skinny and stock them. I mean, they have so many good things. They have a 25-year warranty, which is insane.

And Birch is giving $200 off all mattresses. And they're going to give you two free eco-rest pillows. which I got two for Austin. I actually got four. And you're going to get this offer at birchliving.com slash skinny. That's $200 off all mattresses and two free eco-rest pillows. You're going to have the best sleep your life. Yeah, that's the whole platform for the book.

So how initially I got interested in skin is my mother was psycho about sunscreen. She was always having me wear hats. I remember her telling me to protect my knees when I was little. So my mom is definitely the one who was like, it's so important to be preventative. So I will attribute that to her. My dad, not so much. Brad Everett's, you got to wear a hat.

Maybe two. We're working, maybe three. We got to wear a rash guard, okay? We got to use some copper tone at least, okay? But my mom was really into it, and she was very proactive. So that's the first thing. And then the second thing was, and I talk about this all in the book and sort of walk you through it, I went and got a pumpkin glycolycolic peel.

and I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I think I was 18 years old. And the woman who gave it to me didn't tell me that you cannot go in the sun for one fucking second if you get a peel that's invasive like that, especially when you're that young. And so I got the peel. My skin looked great. I walked off. I remember walking to the parking lot. And the parking lot was this huge parking lot.

I was walking without a hat. I don't even think she put sunscreen on me. and then I was on birth control. So the mixture of having that peel and stripping the skin and then being in the sun, because I was in the sun after that, you know, whether I was out with friends or whatever it was. And then being on birth control gave me horrible, dreadful melasma and hyperpigmentation all over my face. So that was sort of the second thing. And then the third pillar that just got me obsessed with skin, aside from the skinny confidential and interviewing all these people, was jaw surgery.

And I feel like I've talked about this 600 times. I'll make this one second. I got 16-hour surgery where they broke my entire face. They told me I was going to be swollen for a couple months. I was swollen for a couple years. So I became a practitioner of swelling. And I learned how to tighten and sculpt and contour the skin while also taking care of all the issues like hyperpigmentation.

And I would say people should go and Google this because I also thought it was just going to be some minor swelling. And there should be some type of award or acknowledgement. maybe even, I know there's some acknowledgments in the book, but maybe maybe a little bit more acknowledgement about how great I was for sticking around because. Are you fucking kidding? I also thought that that was going to be just a minor, a little bit of puffiness. And that, that was a lot.

You were actually really poker-faced during that time. Well, I was just thinking to myself, at some point, I will get that, that face I love back, you know? How did you know? People are going to listen. listen to this, it would be like, oh, but it was a little bit jarring because... How do you think it fucking felt for me? Yeah, I can only imagine, but... I had a full-blown identity crisis.

I was scared for you. I was scared for me. It was gnarly. An intern, scared for myself. You were scared for yourself. But mostly scared for you. That's like narcissistic personality disorder for yourself. Yeah.

Okay. But I still loved you. It was very humbling, though. And I learned a lot from it in this book would not have been written without the surgery. And my platform, I think, would not be what it is without the surgeries. I've launched a whole beauty line around inflammation. So looking back, I'm a really big believer in every single lily pad that you're on is there's a reason. And so I'm happy it happened.

But at the time, it was a huge blow to my ego. I couldn't look in the mirror. I was used to using my looks more than I should have. And I'm not saying I think I'm really pretty. whatever. I was just used to not looking in the mirror and not associating myself with myself. If that makes sense, it was a truly an identity crisis. Do you think this audience gets our sense of humor or that sense of humor got left in 2019? I think this audience gets it.

I do too. Why do we have to throw in a question about yourself, though? I learn, again, my interview show. I mean, this book draws from a lot of inspiration. There's, I don't even how many people, over 100 people in this book. Is there one or two people that you could point out here that really inspired you to get into skincare that you're able to interview here? Was it something like you touched on your mom? Is there someone else? Like this is what I would say, the holy Bible of skincare at this point because so many authorities, experts, icons, people that care about skin are in here. Is there, is there like one major inspiration here that led you to this?

Or is it multiple? Or how do you look at that? I have been a huge fan of Dr. Lancers since I was little. He's the one that taught me to take care of, like take it to the tits, take care of my neck, take care of my back. Don't forget about your hands, Dr. Harold Lancer. And when we had him on the podcast, that was really iconic for me, as well as the audience, he's amazing. So he's a big one. Dr. Dennis Gross is incredible.

Patrick Starr is another person who people look too so much for skin and makeup. So that was a cool one. And then we had some people that are really micro, like the Glow Recipe founders. They talked about Korean skin care. and Stossie Schroeder goes into so much depth on her routine. Kristen Cavalieri, one of the most professional people I've ever interviewed, she really talks about her journey, and I think people expect her to have had all this Botoxin filler,

and she hasn't. She's just taken really good care of her skin. So yeah, this is definitely a resource that I was learning as I was writing it. I think people are going to be excited about it. So what was the criteria for people? because obviously we've encountered a lot of different people on the show. You've encountered a lot of different people running your blog, doing this podcast, obviously the social, everything you've done on social media. What was the criteria that you looked for to get into this book? And I know like there were some people that didn't come in the book, but like, did you have a set of rules, principles, criteria in order to feature someone? That question could have been tightened up. Okay, Lauren, Taylor, tighten me up. Now, Taylor, don't do it. Leave it. I'm just, if you're going to interview me, I'm going to like give you a couple of. Next question. Okay. You're in it. And you were a really important part of the book. That was one of the criteria. You had to be in it because I think so many people have asked me about your skincare routine and how I've tricked you into it because you really do a gnarly skincare routine. And maybe you can share your favorite product right now. I'm going to turn the tables on you. Well, in the book I talk about Dr. Dennis Gross, vitamin C serum because it was the first thing that responded well to my skin. I got deep set sunken eyes. Really sexy eyes. But.

deep there, something they look a little dark. And so that vitamin C serum and the vitamin C eye cream brighten me up, maybe look a little bit more alive. I was looking like a corpse there for a second. But the thing that I've learned in conjunction with you and doing this show, getting the benefit of speaking to so many doctors, like, it wasn't just like, hey, somebody with pretty skin came in. It was doctors, people that have dedicated their life to studying skin at the cellular level. I've said this on the show before. You'd have to be kind of an idiot to not understand how important it is to take care of your skin. And I know, no matter how many men say they don't care, deep down they care. Everybody wants to look better, feel better, have better skin,

especially if you look at it the way I do, which is taking care of your skin from a cellular level. Like, why would you not want to do that? And I take care of myself now because of all these things I've learned. Well, this is so fitting that we're talking about Olive and June because the owner, the founder of Olive and June, was in the book. And she was on the podcast. She is an incredible entrepreneur that created the Manny System. And this is the answer to at home salon perfect nails. In the book, she talks about the skin health of your nails. So the cuticles, how to take care of your hands. It was so informative. So I'm not surprised that she created this Manny System. You're going to be obsessed. So why I could not paint my nails at home before the

Manny System is because they were looking like they were painted by a five-year-old. One hand would look so pristine. And the other hand looked like someone put white out all over my hand. It was horrendous. But they have this thing. Okay. It's called the poppy. And it's patented. It's incredible. And you basically put it on the cap of your nail polish. And it makes it easy to paint both nails. So now if I'm painting my nails at home, it looks chic. It looks good. It looks salon perfect. Another thing about Olive and June that I think is so incredible is their polish looks like a gel. Some of you guys have messaged me on Instagram story when I have Olive and June on and you're like, how do you get your nail so shiny? And most of the time it is a polish through Olive and June.

Right now I'm currently taking a break from gel because I felt like it was making my nails thin. And using Olive and June's polishes have been a game changer because it's super shiny. I like a very nice crisp shine that doesn't chip either. Okay, that's important as well. The Manny System has five steps. You're going to get that poppy, the patented brush handle. that you've got to try. And it has all kinds of fun goodies in it. It's pink. It's adorable.

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We're done with expensive bad manis. Okay. This is the new us. Yeah. So there's a chapter on how to manipulate your man into skincare. So that was very important. That was something I had to have in the book. As far as the people that I approached, I approached a huge amount of people.

I sent questions to everyone. And that process was 20 times norlier than I anticipated. Because some people, you ask them, you know, what their tip is and they say water. And that's just not enough for me. So they get cut from the book or you just say, you go back? No, I went back and I just said drinking water. We know this. Like what else?

So I was really aggressive, like I am on the podcast, of, getting the audience, the juice, the skinny. So a lot of back and forth in quarantine, hours and hours of back and forth. And then you have to make sure the pictures write that they want and the contracts are signed and da-da-da-da-da-da. So gathering the information was a big chunk of the time. And then I didn't want it to just be a book that was all interview. I wanted to also make sure I was guiding the reader through the journey and having happy hour with them and making it light. I have read so many skincare books. I'm a huge reader and one of my favorite topics is skincare. I'm not a doctor. I'm not an expert. I'm someone who loves skincare. And so to me it was really

important to not make it too clinical. I wanted it to be digestible. Something that you could open to any page, read a tip, walk away. You can also read it cover to cover. It's light, it's fresh. You're on your patio, sipping a skinny margarita, listening to Bosanova reading this. It's not like this heavy studious book. If you want that, I would say go to a doctor. But you are going to pick up so many valuable tips that you can apply to your own life, of course. Are there any key takeaways or any common themes that you've seen from all the people that you interviewed? And I guess yourself too. Sleep, everyone says sleep. You can't not sleep if you want great, glowy skin. Sleep is huge. Another one is microneedling. I think it's so underrated. Microneedling grows your hair.

So you can use it on your scalp. Okay. My friend Ingrid just launched a new microneedling tool that's awesome with her gangster chic brand. It's really cute. I just bought it. You can also micro needle your eyebrows and your hair will grow. I know a guy that was balding so bad and he started micronealing and his hair is growing back. It is truly such an effective thing because it's creating micro wounds on the skin.

So your skin is essentially healing yourself. micro-needling out of everything that I've tried, and I have tried a bag of fucking tricks, is something where I wake up the next day and I'm like, damn, this works. Your skin's glowy, it's tight, it's plump, it's lifted. And then so many people said ice too, which I was so excited about. Doctors said ice, and to be able to know while I was writing this that I was launching an ice just made me freak out. It was so exciting that people kept saying ice because it tightens your face.

Some of the critical feedback of you, if there is any. There's a lot. Is that... What do you mean if there is any? Well, how your scroll? I don't deal with that issue myself when I don't think anybody ever has any critical feedback for me. And if they do, I'm not paying attention to it.

Anyways, save your nasty comments for yourself. Anyways, some of the critical feedback is sometimes, and this is a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation is people feel overwhelmed because you're so detailed. You get so much information. People don't know where to start. They don't know what to buy. I think there's a good thing there because there's something for every level, right? There's an entry.

You can talk about this. There's someone that's just getting started and there's stuff for people that are like really deep in it. Speaking of the people that are just getting started, when they're thinking about taking care of their skin, what are some of the first steps or some of the easiest things they can do on a budget to begin with that you learned from this book? Yeah, I want to say this. Things are not overwhelming if they're organized and streamlined before. So I'll give you an example.

say you want to make this gnarly smoothie for your skin every single day. Have a little cabinet with all the stuff ready to go. Have your blender out ready to go. Everything in my life is optimized. So yes, I can totally see from the outside why the skinny confidential could be overwhelming because there are so many things that you can do and start. But I always say you have to be your own guru. You have to do what works for you.

If waking up and meditating and doing breath work or whatever it is that you want to do, works for you, great. If it doesn't work for you, then create space to do something else. My whole platform, I try to save you time while also practicing self-care and doing things for yourself. In saying that, where I would start with skin, after doing this book, interviewing all these incredible people, just being able to text Dr. Dennis Gross when I have dermatitis. on my face is what I would say is this. Narrow down your products. Stop trying to use everything and anything that you see on Instagram. Okay, less is more. Find out the brand that works for you.

For me, I like to do a lot of small businesses like people that make their own stuff. Like, for instance, Santo Cabo, floral farms, tiny little shop has incredible lotion. So I like to find little natural products like that and then I'll pepper in the higher level things like a skin suiticles or a doctor Dennis Gross. Love both of those brands. I think Dr. Dennis, like Michael said, the vitamin C is a great place to start skin suiticles. I think you should go do your research on what type of skin you have, which is why it's hard for me to answer this question with one answer quickly because everyone's skin is different. You need to figure out what your skin is like and start there. But don't start everywhere. It's like what with Michael said, pick one product, see if it works, go slow. And then the

tip is, and this is like what the whole book is about, is practice covering your face in incidental sun exposure. So if you're getting out of your car, bring a hat. If you're going on a walk, bring an umbrella. If you're on vacation, like we were in Cabo the other week, make sure you have sunscreen. Like there's all these little things you can do to just protect yourself from getting skin cancer and hyperpigmentation. You know what is so fitting that we We are talking about humidifiers because I dedicated a whole section to humidifiers for my skin. So based off that from my book, I'm going to tell you about the humidifier that I use that I talk about in the book. So here's the deal. Traditional but ugly, moldy, lumbering humidifiers were not working for me.

So I interviewed the canopy team and I became obsessed. Canopy humidifiers is where it's at. It's recommended by leading dermatologists. It's so good for your skin, your sleep, your overall wellness. But the main thing is, it just makes your skin plump and dewy. I like to put it on when I'm sleeping the entire time. What I've found with indoor heating is that air conditioning takes the moisture from the air, if that makes sense. So when your air feels super dry, it actually pulls moisture from your skin. And I've interviewed a lot of doctors on this. And it gives you that dehydrogen. irritated, irritated complexion. So a humidifier is key for the skin, which is kind of a new development

that I am very, very excited about. I notice a huge difference. So the canopy humidifier, the reason I was sold on it is because it's chic, it's cute, it comes with a little puck. You can pick your scent, but most importantly, it doesn't have a visible mist like traditional humidifiers. So they found this was really unhealthy because the particles in bacteria are being carried by the water into the air. This one's mist free. It's clean. It's the best kind for your skin and for your health. And it has an antimicrobial filter that catches irritating minerals, bacteria, and other nasty-ass stuff. Okay. So, you never have to worry about mold. That's the best thing about canopy. You're going to go to get canopy. com to save $25 off your canopy humidifier purchase today with Canopies filter subscription.

Plus, you'll receive a free aroma kit to be used with Canopies built-in aroma diffuser. Even better use code Skinny 10 at checkout to save a an additional $10 off your canopy purchase. I like the white one. Your skin will thank you. It will be plump a.F. Well, and I would also say like in the chapter, joking aside, in the chapter that I did where you interviewed me, my advice, because I was in the camp of I was a beginner, right? I was just getting started up until I started talking to people on this podcast about skin. I was like, you know, acetophil in the morning or shampoo on the face type of guy. That was all I did. I like did that and slapped on like a neutrino like, you know, face.

I don't love set afil. Yeah. Okay. But, you know, that's, I'm saying like, I was a rookie. I wasn't doing anything. I think the only thing that anyone ever taught me about in high school was proactive, which I think we've learned is not so great. But what was helpful to me in the beginning is we met Dr. Dennis Gross and I had one line. I think I got started with a serum, eye cream, and one moisturizer. And it was really easy. It wasn't like eight different product lines. It was all the same color. And just by adding that into my morning routine in the morning, it was so easy. It took like two minutes. I was able to say, okay, and then see the results. So I think if you're beginning and especially if you're someone who's getting your significant other to get into this, not overwhelming them with

eight different products and eight different product lines and just keeping it simple and then having them try it for a month. And I also think as you continue to move forward, not switching all these different products and trying like one or two product lines at a time and then switching and see if it works or not is the way to go. Just keeping it simple. I got to witness you in quarantine complaining a lot about writing a book. I didn't complain a lot. That's bullshit. It was. Well, let's just say it was a lot of overwerewell. Let's just say it was a lot of overwerewell. days with a new baby in this podcast and, you know, and postpartum anxiety and depression and you being like, what's wrong with you?

Yeah, and me, me sometimes just being there, I guess. When you would breathe. Yeah, I'd blink my eyes. The process of writing a book. Yeah. Recommend. Don't recommend. I think everyone should write a book at one point in their life.

And I think you have to find your unique perspective on whatever that is. but the process of writing a book is a lot of discipline, a lot of commitment, a lot of scheduling, a lot of micro-scheduling, and holding yourself accountable. So what I did is I had microsystems in my calendar. So I would write every single day from 11 to 1. I had a call twice a week. Shout out to Hillary, love you, with Hillary, who helped me streamline my thoughts and organize everything. and, you know, make sure it was how I wanted it.

And then Hillary also helped me, and so did Ansley, with getting everything organized from all of the people in the book. But, you know, you have to go back and forth. Taylor sat in on some of the recordings. A lot of them I interviewed in person. Taylor made sure that I got the audio. We got it transcribed. I had to go through it.

I had to make sure it was the flow that I wanted it. I had to make sure that you guys were getting some piece of value. Like I said, drink water is not an. enough. And then here's the crazy thing about writing a book. You write the proposal, which everyone should start with. Then you write the book. And assuming that you get a publisher from the proposal, you start writing the book. You can also self-publish too. So don't let having a publisher deter you. And then once the book is done, you turn it in and you're like, ah, I'm done. No, it's like 25 edits back and forth. So that process was a lot of late nights back and forth.

and then my book needed to be very aesthetically pleasing. So from the graphics to the fonts, to the colors, to the splotches, swatches, how do you say that, swatches, to the photos. And the photos is a whole different layer because you need B-roll photos of products. You need photos of people. You need photos of yourself. You need photos of Michael, which was a nightmare to deal with. I have some photos of tutorials that I did with my amazing photographer. for Aria Levy.

And, you know, there's just a lot of coordination with the photographers. It's hard because normally I would be in San Diego, but I was in L.A. I was in San Diego. I was in Austin. So just coordinating all of that was a lot. But I think the point of this is everyone should write a book, but just make sure that you commit, and this is the most important thing, to at least an hour a day. Because if you write for an hour a day, 365 days a year, that's 365 pages at least.

Now that you have the finished product, when you think and when you were writing this book, when you think the ideal way someone could use this, the ideal person to use this, and how you'd want them to use this book or utilize the book. What does that look like to you? The ideal person is probably someone who is a podcast listener. They're curious. They want to be the best version of themselves in every way. They're designing their life.

So they're very purposeful with their life. They want to know everything that there is to know. about a subject and then they sort of pick and choose what they like. And also the person I'm writing for is someone who wants something digestible. I'm not writing something for someone who's in medical school for skin probably. Like I would tell you to go to a doctor. This is something that you can hang out. It's very light.

It's very boozy brunch. It's very airy. So yeah, it's someone that that wants to shoot the shit, not take them to selves too seriously and have fun with the substance. subject of skincare, which can sometimes be a little flat and dull. Okay. Last and most important question.

Okay. Does my beautiful daughter have a skincare routine? You know that. You do it. There's certain products that she uses all the time. I have been very purposeful with what I use on her because she's obviously my baby. And her skincare routine is very simple. It's not a lot of products.

And what it is is she uses Wiley Baby. which was recommended to me by my holistic facialist in San Diego Mo. I love the bubbles. I love the shower gel and I love the lotion. She also uses Nosh Body, which is very natural. I love the bubbles. I love the scrub. They have a great oil. And then she uses K Pure. All of these are small businesses. I would totally recommend supporting them. The K-Poor product that she likes is the sweet babe and it's the oil. So what we do is we give her a bubble bath. We take her out. We put a little lotion on her. I give her a little massage. I massage her feet. There's a lot of reflexology points on babies that you can massage to help with constipation. And then I put the oil on top of the lotion. And that's what she

does. I really try to avoid diaper cream if I don't have to use it. And as far as a scent, what's the scent that Gillian got her? It's like bond point. Yeah, bond point. Bon point. And sometimes I'll spray that like in her hairbrush and like brush her hair a little bit. But other than that, She keeps it simple. Lauren Everett's Bostic. Thank you for joining the show. Pimp yourself out. Where can everybody find you?

That's typically what I ask people at the end of these shows. Where can everyone find your book? Pimp myself out. You better be careful. You can find my book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, all small bookstores. Go support small bookstores. I know book peoples in Austin has 200 signed copies right now.

I'm going to be signing books left and right. And just a little quick giveaway. if you write a review for the book on Amazon and you send us a screenshot to book at the skinny confidential.com with your mailing address and full name, we will send you a bookmark that is a new cute get the fuck out of the sun bookmark. I just want to say before I go, I appreciate everyone's support so much. You guys have been amazing sharing the book, the stories, the posts,

it's incredible and all the celebrities, influencers, podcasters, doctors, experts who were in the book, they've all shared it too. I'm so grateful. I'm so excited. It's here. And now it's time for me to go work on my next book.