The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Georgia Louise - The Secret To Healthy Glowing Skin, How To Take Care Of Problematic Skin, The Do's & Don'ts of Skincare

Episode Date: April 5, 2019

#180: On this episode we sit down with celebrity aesthetician, skincare guru, and entrepreneur Georgia Louise. Georgia Louise is a La Mer global skin care advisor and has worked with (and on) some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood including Katy Perry, Cate Blanchett, & Emma Stone. Georgia is here to teach us the secret to healthy glowing skin. How to take care of skin from home, and the do's and don'ts of skincare.  To connect with Georgia Louise click HERE 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) This episode is brought to you by FOUR SIGMATIC We have been drinking this company's mushroom-infused elixirs and coffees for over a year now. When we need a break from coffee but still need that extra morning jolt and focus the Mushroom Coffee with Lion's Mane and Chaga is the way to go. Lauryn also drinks the Mushroom Matcha which is a green tea designed as a coffee alternative for those of you who want to cut back on caffeine without losing focus and cognitive boosts. This stuff doesn't actually taste like mushrooms, it's delicious. All of these blends have a ton of nutrients and amino acids to give you balanced energy without the jitters. To try FOUR SIGMATIC products go to foursigmatic.com/skinny and use promo code SKINNY for 15% off all products. This episode is brought to you by GOMACRO Enter promo code SKINNY for 30% of your order at check out. We love these all natural, plant based, and organic bars. We keep them in our bags on the go and love that they are a completely natural and farm produced bar.  Produced by Dear Media 

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. caffeine intake. Four Sigmatic has the blends for you. They're all delicious. Just open a pack and add to hot water. They don't taste like mushrooms. And like always, we have a special offer just for the him and her listeners. Go to foursigmatic.com forward slash skinny and enter promo code skinny at checkout for 15% off your entire order. 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. Aha! I was always surrounded by people that were being fixed, not because that they, at that time back in the 80s, it wasn't about I need a new nose. It was, oh, I had a car crash. My nose is all wonky. I need to fix, not because that they, at that time back in the 80s, it wasn't about I need a new nose,

it was I had a car crash, my nose is all wonky, I need to fix it, or I had cancer and now I don't have boobs, now I need to get like new boobs in, or so women would come in crying and then they would leave, you know, amazingly happy and I just kept seeing these people coming, I'm like wow, what an amazing gift to be able to give someone that confidence again to walk out, you know, happy and confident with themselves, their body, their skin. Hi, guys. Happy Friday. Welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. That clip was from our guest of the show today, Georgia Louise.

She is a major celebrity facialist and entrepreneur. Another show this week, two shows. Love when it's two shows a week, don't you, Michael? Love it. Absolutely love it. A lot of work, guys. A lot of work. No, it's not a lot of work. We love it. Today, we have a super exciting show, especially if you're into beauty and skin like I am. Georgia Louise is on the show. Georgia Louise. Just to give a little background on Georgia, my own background, I met her at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She and Barbara Sturm came out in the most it on the show. So we did two separate shows. We might do a round table with both of them too soon. So stay tuned for that. But she just is so knowledgeable when it comes to skincare and she has this beautiful spa in the Plaza Hotel that everyone needs to check out. They do the best facial

massage. And I mean, she's, she's totally like famous within celebrities. Like she does some major, major people. The Plaza Hotel is iconic, too. Home Alone 2. The Plaza Hotel is so iconic. Home Alone 2. Eloise. Eloise, babe.

Trump used to own it. And they have tea time, which I really love. Like those tea sandwiches that are like cucumber. What else is in them? Cucumber and what, Taylor? I don't think Taylor's the guy to ask about cucumber sandwiches. Taylor knows all about cucumbers. He's not the guy. He's not the guy. He's not the guy. He knows he's not doing tea time too often. I don't think so. Since I'm swollen right now

because of surgery, I thought this episode was the perfect episode to give some swelling tips that have been working for me. Um, we're going to talk about inflammation and we're going to talk about ice and we're going to talk about all the facial beauty, skin wellness things in this episode. So these are a couple of things that I've been doing that I've noticed have helped my swelling. The first thing is a jaw bra. Now, at first I was like, oh, you only need a jaw bra if you're swollen from a surgery like me. And then I started to use the jaw bra and I was like, oh my God, this is kind of great if you have a double chin. You know what I mean? Because it like holds up your face. It's really swell, Lauren. Really swell. Why is it really swell, Michael? You know, that's what they used to say like in the 50s.

They were like, that's swell. Yeah, it's really swell. You didn't get my joke. I didn't get it. So anyways, there's this jaw bra. It's on Amazon and it's apparently really popular in Korea after doing some research like I always have to do. And a lot of women wear this around the house. I mean, you could make the bed in it. I like to work out in it. I've been wearing it when I'm cooking. Whatever you're doing, you can wear this jaw bra and it like holds your face up. So I don't know if that's a find. I got to keep trying it. But right now I've been wearing it on my face with ice in it. It's called a draw bra. And I feel like it's lifting my face while also sculpting my face with the ice. So it's like a double whammy. The other thing that I've been

doing and I've been doing this every day and I'm swearing by it is chlorophyll water. I did a whole blog post and a video on the Skinny Confidential blog and YouTube. You can Google the Skinny Confidential chlorophyll. You remember in, what's that movie? Chlorophyll. You mean borophyll. Remember Adam Sandler says that? Are you talking about Billy Madison? Billy Madison. Yeah. Wow. Let's get it together. So anyways, I'm drinking chlorophyll water right now and there's so many benefits. First of all,

it's like your five second green juice, which we love. You just put a little drop in your water. I do like 40 drops. I think you're supposed to do like 20, but whatever. I actually got this tip from a reader. Shout out to Erica of the Urban Chicness. And she said it really helped with altitude sickness. I tried it. It worked. Anyways. So the tips, if you're swollen, is it's going to increase blood circulation. It has vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, essential fatty acids, and it also promotes digestive health. So, I mean, if you have gut issues, drink up. I just put it in my water bottle. It tastes like mint. It's a win-win. And the third thing I've been doing is a lot of turmeric with black pepper. Dr. Mona Vann told me to do that. And so did the food babe. She has a

great one. It's called Truvani. I've been doing that. And I've been doing a lot of pure tea, a lot of water, obviously. And then things like drinking pineapple juice which pineapple it's known to help with swelling so if you're swollen or you feel puffy or you're hungover or whatever the fuck you are in your face and you're feeling bloated try these tips let me know how they go always ice though ice ice ice ice i ice all around the house in every which way you would be shocked at the way i ice right michael yep that's right lauren is the queen of ice icing she's the ice queen and i steal all her tools and i am like kind of like a mini ice king just don't put the ice near your penis that would yeah all right so that's a given okay let's get into the show so british-born

georgia louise has been rated as one of the world's most sought after facialist established since 2006 in london georg, Georgia Louise set up her famously acclaimed facial studio on Manhattan's Upper East Side, offering high-end, non-invasive facials. She's rated as one of the best facials in New York City, and her technique and touch perfected over 20 years of pure hands-on passion. She's an entrepreneur, a badass, and created the lift and sculpt method. I'm a fan. And with that, let's welcome Georgia to the Skinny Confidential, him and her podcast. Before we get into the interview, I want to tell you about what I do when Michael is hypoglycemic. Okay, here's a hot tip. I carry food in my purse.

If I don't do this, I get in trouble. Michael gets very, very hypoglycemic. So what I do is I have like a stash of bars in my purse at all times. And lately I've been carrying around Go Macro bars. Personally, my favorite is the coconut almond butter chocolate chip bar. It's so good. It's under a hundred calories. And it's just, it's this vegan dark chocolate chip. I keep a bunch of them in my purse. And what's great is they're mini. So they're the mini bars. They're not the big ones. And this is great if Michael starts to act up and throw his theatrical fits. So these bars that I like are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, non-GMO, organic, kosher, and soy-free. Soy is a big one for me. I feel like soy, people try to add soy into everything. And the fact that Go Macro bars don't have soy is very, very helpful.

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Wish I could say it'd be the first time that happened to me. Okay. My first question is just one. Is Michael glistening or not? No, he's got beautiful, radiant skin. Where have you been all my life? I don't know, over here. God damn. In a basement doing facials.

I don't get those kind of compliments from you. Okay, I want to go way back. I want to know how you even got into the skincare industry. I have to thank my mother, quite honestly, because she worked for a cosmetic surgeon all her life. And I was always surrounded by people that were being fixed, not because that they, at that time back in the 80s, it wasn't about I need a new nose. It was, oh, I had a car crash. My nose is all wonky. I need to fix it. Or I had cancer and now I don't have boobs. Now I need to get like new boobs in. So women would come in crying and then they would leave, you know, amazingly happy.

And I just kept seeing these people coming. I'm like, wow, what an amazing gift to be able to give someone that confidence again to walk out, you know, happy and confident with themselves, their body, their skin. And so I remember when I was 12, I was just so fascinated with skincare. And my mom, she has Indian French origin, would literally like bathe her skin in oil at night. So I'd see her brush her teeth and then get out the cleanser toner from D'Aclior and smother her skin with oil. And she would massage her skin for five to 10 minutes a night. I'm like, what is my mom doing? But I remember on my 11th birthday, she gave me my first oil.

And then together at night, it was like a mom and daughter duo would go to the bathroom, cleanse our skin, and then oil our skin, lube our skin with oil and give it a really good massage. And it was just some sort of ritual between me and my mother. We never really had a close relationship, but it really bonded us. It was like our time together. And from that moment onwards, I would literally teach my friends in cubicles at school how to like cleanse, tone and moisturize and massage their skin. And so I remember I was either going to go to college and like do art or something really creative. And I'm like, no, screw this. I'm going to, I want to be a beauty therapist. I want to like make people happy with their skin. That's where

my talent lies. I love to like massage skin. And so when I was 16, I went to a beauty school and did beauty and business. It was awesome. It was a combined course where you do beauty and business together. And there I was, I was there doing this course. And when I graduated, I worked for a health spa for two years. And I learned with D'Arclior and Clarins and Guno and Aromatherapy Associates and all of the big big big company houses and I just learned so much from them and what I realized was that they all had a protocol and you could only do one set facial and you couldn't like think out of the realms you literally had to do their seven steps and that was it but what about if someone came in and she had a little acne but she also had dry skin and she didn't just want to use, you know, the

marine algae, but she also wanted to have a clinical, you know, product as well as the marine algae or she wanted the hot mask, but she also wanted the massage of the shoulders. There wasn't anything like that. It was literally pigeonholed into one protocol. And so I thought, you know what, I'm just going to muddle this up and do my own thing. And it became the bespoke custom facial. So I'd be running around like pinching from D'Acleo, pinching from Clarins, one of their products and mish-mashing into this like experience that was completely customized to a client. And back then it wasn't about customization. People would look at you and go, well, I want to choose this off the menu. I'm like, no, I want to give you this because your skin needs this. And so I had a bit

of a reputation for being a bit naughty, I suppose. People just don't know, right? They were like, well, who is this Georgia? Like, why is she like doing all these crazy facials? And so I said, you know what? There's a real market for this. And I love to be, you know, I like to work for myself. I like doing my thing with my clients. Let's just do my own thing. So I opened up my first spa when I was 18. Oh my gosh. And I didn't have a clue about business. I swear to God, I had no idea what I was doing. I just literally knew that I love to do facials and I love to massage and I'm just going to go for it. And so I did. I learned a lot. I made a lot of mistakes and here I am. I'm still going strong. Where at 18 did you open your first? London. London. London town. So

I had a place, Fulham Road off Kings Road. So I don't know if you're familiar to that neighborhood. We were there for Christmas. We were not in that neighborhood. Oh, you love London. It's nice. And your accent is so soothing. Could I just put you to sleep? Yes. I want you to

count. A couple compliments so let's go to sleep. God, I must sound so annoying because I have such a high pitch voice. No, I love it. I think you sing a little bit, right? Because I can tell. Wait, don't encourage her. I bet you can hear this one. Check my Instagram stories.

I just put up my little mermaid snap today. See? I knew it. I knew it. It's very high pitch Disney. So you just said that you made mistakes along the way. What are some of the mistakes that you look back on that maybe you are glad that you made because you learned something from them? I think, you know, when you're so young, and I think right now you see a lot of young entrepreneurs, right?

They're like coming out of their diapers and they're making money. I mean, it's insane. I know one of my clients who's like eight and he's like made like his first 15,000 selling sneakers. It's just insane. It's the world that we've lived in today. And I think it's truly inspirational and amazing. But for me, you know, I did a business course, but of course I didn't like go to like, you

know, like business school and like got all my, you know, my eggs in the basket, figuring out legal aspects and contracts. And so, you know, 18, you're gullibleible you've got your eyes wide open you think the world's at your feet and to be honest you do kind of think you know it all because you just think that yeah i'm 18 i can drink i've got a car ignorance and confidence you know right and so i took on this space and i just like had a love of it i was too blinded by the beauty of this space and to think about all that legalities and so two years into it you know you know, I had a great clientele. I built it from the ground up and clients were loyal and everything was booming. And I had a team of three

and it grew to four and five. And the landlord just saw that I was doing so well. And he came to me and said, listen, I'm going to sell this business. I'm like, I just bought a laser. It's like $40,000. What do you mean? I can't pound. What do you mean? I can't, I just bought, I bought a laser. It's like $40,000. What do you mean? I can't pound. What do you mean? I can't, I just bought something. What do you mean? Well, you know, I've had a lot of interest in, um, in the salon and I think it would do really well. And I was literally screwed. So when you say sell the business, he was going to sell the space out from under you. Correct. Yeah. And so he did. And so I had to declare bankruptcy. I lost everything. I, um, I was, I'm a very proud person. I asked my parents for money and I remember going, uh, to the court

and declaring my last dollar. And I remember I just came back from skiing for the first time and I pulled my, my knee and I was in a crutch and I'm like, what the heck am I going to do? I'm like bankrupt. I can barely walk. I've just lost my business. But you know what? I'm like 21 and I'm still so passionate about the industry. So I'm just going to start all over again. And so the experience there was that don't always go blind and have someone help you. Like always get some business advice before you go into anything because you just never know who's going to like, you know, screw you. And it does happen, right? I mean, people can get jealous of what you're doing. So you just want to make sure that you've got firm contracts, whatever you do, and always invest in a lawyer, even if it's through an agency or

through someone that's wiser and older being there, done that. Like don't just go in with your eyes open. Always have, you know, a contract that you know is safe going forward another thing I remember was um I was so eager about making skincare and I did a formulating course and I used to make everything in my kitchen and it was like an apothecary in my kitchen and it smelt like rose petals it was amazing oh I wish we could go back I mean seriously I would one day come over and I'll teach you how to make some stuff but I remember like there I am with my boyfriend I'm like oh my god I've seen this like French bottle it's amazing I just see my brand taken off this bottle it's beautiful it's got a thick wall this lid is rose gold and it's just gonna feel so good in someone's hand they need 20,000 of these for me to order it i'm like i'm gonna order 20 000 bottles because

it's gonna like change my life it's like what are you doing like why are you gonna stick 20 000 bottles like there's no room in your like cabinet to stick 20 000 bottles and i think when you're that young you just think you can do anything and you don't think about well what would happen where am i gonna store those 20 000 bottles you know and? Where am I going to store those 20,000 bottles? You know, and how am I going to afford to store those 20,000 bottles? So those little things that you sort of live and learn along the way and you end up, you know, don't rush before you can walk, right? Take your time and always invest in one thing. If you're going to do something amazing, do one thing that's amazing.

Don't go and do three or four things. That's good advice for young people because you get distracted. You get distracted and you think that you can do everything because you kind of feel like you're like this empress of skincare that can, but ultimately you just take your time and do one thing right. I want to take a second to talk to you about one of our favorite partners, Four Sigmatic. Okay. If you are listening to this podcast and you haven't tried Four Sigmatic, you're missing out. What the hell are you doing? Guys, you got to tried four sigmatic you're missing out what the hell are you doing guys you got to try the hot cacao one if you like spicy get the spicy one

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You know, like they always say, you know, it's 10 years right before you really can make it big. And I guess I can say it's definitely a good 10 years, right? And, you know, I never really spent a penny on advertising or marketing. It was all word of mouth. And thank goodness for the word of mouth and spreading referrals. And my first article was in Tatler magazine. Olivia Falcon, she's awesome from London. She wrote my first article and she was like, I'm loathed to tell you about George Louise

because now the secret's up. And from that moment onwards, the phone would ring. And back then, editorials really worked. You know, now it's all, you know, Instagram and social media, And back then, editorials really worked. You know, now it's all, you know, Instagram and social media, but back then it really worked. And so editors were flocking and socialites were coming and it was booming. And I met my husband, American, he was transferred to London. And he said, do you want to do, you know, a spa in like america and i just think yeah like harleywood you know and there's the little dreamy lights of me like yeah let's try it it's funny because we want to go to london

and you want to come to here right it's so interesting isn't it it's weird it's always greener i don't know i guess if you can make it anywhere you make it in new york right so there we were so um i'm like okay so i and it's insane because you spent a lot of time building a client base, you know, and that's and that's your bread and butter when you're doing skincare. And then I ended up making the products and selling them to my clients and they loved them. They would give it to their friends. And then I had to start all over again in New York. Can you imagine like I went from like 100 percent having a place from Fulham was the first location. The second location was on Birchham Place. And that's a really chic street and Knightsbridge.

I used to love it. I used to literally go to like Harrods Bakery and get my breakfast there every morning. I mean, it was a dream like location. And Princess Diana would go shopping upstairs, you know, so you would see her all the time. It was kind of special. And then from that moment onwards, I had to start all over again in New York so I didn't have any clients so I decided to carry the reputation carry over a little bit tiny bit impressed I suppose so I remember saying to a manufacturing company that makes machines hey if ever you need a trainer or someone to help out like call me and I'll be there like I'm just moved here from New York and I don't have clients and

I'm available to help whatever you need me to do just tell me and so they called me within a week and they said oh we have a client that has a microcurrent machine and it's broken so we kind of want you to go over there and fix it and play with it and we'll tell you how to do it so I'm laughing thinking I'm not an engineer I'm an esthetician but okay fine so uh you know we did like a little like conference call they showed me how to repair my own microcurrent machine and so a week later I'm walking into a celebrity's home and I had my little case of tools in her voice Canadian voice the machine is over there in the corner and I'm going to be on the Pilates ball and I literally like freaked out because it was

Linda Evangelista and I'm like oh no like what have I done I'm not an engineer and I'm about to fix this girl's machine and she was there on her Pilates ball waiting for her machine to be fixed and I'm like you know chewing gum so I managed to open up the machine and repair the circuit board by taking out my gum, putting the wires together, sandwiching them together. I had some blue tape, taped the board down and put the machine back together again. And sweating buckets admittedly, because I was so nervous, switched the machine back on and it lit up like a beacon. I'm like, oh my God, thank you. I'm now an engineer. And then she walked over, oh, it's now up. I said, yes, it's working. And I said, so when you do the microcurrent, make sure you flick the

switch up to 100% and you want to make sure you do gliding Golgi and you've got to switch to the right current. When you use the probe, she was like, slow down. Like, I don't know any of this. I said, well, why don't you just slow down? She goes, but you're an engineer. I said, no, I'm an esthetician. Two hours later, she looks at me because she was horizontal on her couch. Can you come back tomorrow? So I ended up being her esthetician. I had no clients. I had Linda, right? So I'd like, no, I had like a bottle of cleanser and toner, not a screwdriver. And she became a really close client and friend. And she's now a godmother to my kids, you know, it's amazing. And she like, put me on the map. You know, she introduced me to her world.

And then it was, I think, Anna Wintour helped me as well. Very nice. And Gucci Westman, she was Linda's neighbor. And she knocked one day. And it was, like, 7. And I just finished Linda's facial. And she was like, what are you doing to your skin? She goes, the secret.

She's over there, the secret. She's over there on the couch. And so Gucci, I mean, I didn't know who Gucci was. I'm a London girl. Like, I don't know who Gucci is or any of these, like, fashion people because it wasn't my world. And she goes, can I have whatever you're doing? Can I see you next week when you see Linda? I'm like, okay, fine. So then I had Linda.

Then I had Gucci. And then Gucci got up one day she goes I can introduce you to the world I'm like well I don't know what that means she goes you don't understand and I had no idea who Gucci Westman was I mean she's just a neighbor next door but she was you know the makeup creative director for Revlon and she knew the world I mean she had so much power and she was the kindest person she really is someone that on today I respect her and I've shouted out on my Instagram today like thanking her for everything she really introduced me to some incredible people and it's not just

celebrities that I treat you know it's the school teacher it's a neighbor down the road it's the teenager that's got acne it's really an amazing client base that I have built and it all stemmed from that you know and I think the power of America and what I'll tell people in business is that if you're good and if you're passionate and if you're nice and if you believe in what you're doing people will help you like that's the land of America for me it is um I have to tell you being european and coming from london it's very different like people are a bit quieter about sharing good news or what's happening or what's good they're a little people are quieter and just general over there right we go there and i always feel like we're like the loud americans are like oh shit here they are you know right so it was

nice and i came here and it was it was a whirlwind for me. Like it was a domino effect. It just happened really quickly. And then I was making my products and now it's got into devices. So I now sell tools and equipment. And we're about to launch in Barneys, which is so exciting. I mean, that was like the icing on the cake. Like I remember like wishing one day my brand would be in Barneys. And now it's happening. So it's all, it's all it's it's good it's

coming it's growing still you know so what is the main what is the secret to skin like what's the main thing you see in common when people come to to you to have their skin fixed or helped or improved I think you have to just understand what's wrong with their skin because so many people don't really understand their skin type so as long as you can figure out what their skin type is and give them a really solid foundation and regimenting because I think the power is I can do all the prep work for you and like work skin deep, but you also have to do the homework. So it's really important that you do the homework and that you, you know, do your eight steps that you told me earlier. Right. And keep on exaggerating.

I think I have like maybe four, five, five. But it's because I keep having these conversations and learning more and more about it. But it took me a while. I mean, like for literally 30 years of my life, I did nothing. Right. I mean, the foundation of beautiful skin is cleansing, actually. And, you know, people think, oh, I'm just going to quickly like wash my face with water and use some like Cetaphil. I'm not bad mouth in that, but you know, if you

really want to have beautiful skin, you have to double cleanse. You have to use an oil to get the oil out of the skin because it pours out the oil. You have to use a cream cleanser because it's hydrating and nourishing, full of amigas and fatty acids, which is going to like create a lipid barrier so you don't dry out. And then you have this beautiful, dewy, hydrated cleanse and it sets you up for everything else so when you start layering what are the brands i need specifics on this oh god really just give us a georgia louise bomb is my favorite bomb it's organic it's got roman chamomile so really calming and soothing um i have to say i like lamera i like the um i like the lamera um esla water as well it's

beautiful and what i said when you walked in, I said it. You smell like La Mer. You smell like La Mer. Lip balm. The other day I stole her La Mer and she knew because of the way I smelled. The other day, this motherfucker gets in bed and I'm like, what? You've been using my cram. Did you?

We have separate bathrooms because that's the key to marriage. That's like golden cream, by the way. I know. And you know what what he's like slobbing it on like it's like i knew enough no no i knew enough to use a little i had a um didn't a buddy of ours use it like on his legs or something my friend mauricio thought it was a body cream it was my friend gillian's cream and just used it just lathered up and she came in and he had thick La Mer all over his arms and legs. She was. I didn't do that. I knew enough to just do a little bit.

But if it's good enough for J-Lo, it's good enough for you, right? That's true. That's what I've been telling everyone. Okay. So you like the Georgia Louise balm, La Mer, and then is there. I love Environ. I love Barbara Sturm, of course. Yes.

Her foaming cleanser is really good. It's really, really good. I like Environ's youth essential line of cleansing. It's like a beautiful, like brightening cleansing experience. It's really, really good. I like EnviroOne's Youth Essential line of cleansing. It's like a beautiful, like, brightening cleansing experience. It's pretty. Biologique Recherche VIP02. It's a beautiful oxygenating cleanser. It really, like, brightens up your skin. So walk me through your nighttime skin routine. Say you have your makeup on, and you want to get it all off and you want to clean your skin. Are you doing it in the shower first and then moving it into the bathroom

or is it like a whole step? It's a whole, God, I close the door from the kids. I light the cans on. It's like a whole ritual, you know, like I start with Mercer Water, La Mer, Mercer Water, take off my eye makeup, remove my eye makeup. And to be honest, I don't wear a lot of makeup as you can see it's like mascara and um I have a Lemaire um compact on that's it um um so I start with the micellar water and then after we remove their makeup I then used the balm because the balm is like the first oil cleanse and I serenadelessly like massaged it into my skin um and then I remove that with a warm towel so you pull out all the oil and all the debris i'm gonna be taking notes on this and then i reach for it depending on my skin and it's like i have an arsenal like i have like five cleanses to pick

from by the way five toners is it bad to switch do you want to pick one per week or you want to switch it up you want to switch it up you want to read how your skin is if your skin is dry go for the milky hydrating cleanser if your skin is dry go for the milky hydrating cleanser if your skin is oily go for the cleansing wash and foam it all out right so if my skin is feeling dry i'm going to go for uh the vipo2 from biologic rashash because it's really oxygenating and brightening equally if my skin is oily i'm going to go for george louis ph perfecting cleanser which has ahas phas and bhas to exfoliate the skin so once i've done my two-step cleanse which is the oil and then the cleanser i then go ahead and tone the skin dry with kleenex

tissue then i tone my skin and toning means introducing hydration back into the skin preventing the skin from feeling stripped and dry you You're re-basically hydrating the layers of skin. So toning is an important step in this process. So we're down to what, how many products now? Right now she's done an oil balm, a warm towel, a foaming cleanser, a tone. What's the toner that we need? Depending on how your skin is feeling, like I said, you can go ahead and use, for example, P50. Everyone loves that. I've never tried that. It's really good if your skin is oily i get i i have like breakouts believe it or not i have an oily skin so that's that's a great one if your skin's breaking out um and then if your skin is a little like dry for example then i like to use

the environ sequence toner which is really like which is like really like nourishing and peptides it's tightening and it's like glistens on the skin it's really nice and then i like to spritz with rose water so i like la mer rose water it's just like really hydrating and nourishing michael don't even think about it i'm like an obsessive skincare i'm a skincare junkie don't say yeah so once i've rose mist my skin then we get down to layering so it's all about layering. Have you been layering or what? Layering.

So let me tell you how to layer it up. So think of it like you're in your commando suit or your naked body and you start dressing yourself, right? So you put on your underwear first. Then you put on your T-shirt if it's cold. Then you put on your woolly pullover. And then you put in your underwear first then you put on your t-shirt if it's cold then you put on your woolly pullover and then you put on your coat so it's the same thing as layering so you want to go for the lightest item for your skin first and then the thickest is the cream so when you set up your cabinet which i should do for you one day um which is by the way a great business opportunity for anyone out there who wants to go and sort out

skincare cabinets that's a total dream job but you should look at putting the water ones that go first so like a liquid like water and then you would then put an oil next like lay them in order or thickness so lightest to heaviest so because you don't want to put an oil on because and then you use a serum because it's not going to push through the skin so you use your water-based like for example barbara's hyaluronic acid is amazing like you could put that on first right because it's super hydrating it really penetrates quickly it's literally this is the first time i've ever seen her with a notebook i'm so sorry why would i not she's getting georgia louise i get it this is her protocol don't come fucking ask me what what

what the list was tonight because i know you're gonna do a little snap of the yeah he's gonna come in and ask me he's doing this all the wrong way okay so we're at the water oils you like the hyaluronic yeah i like the hyaluronic acid and then if if you've got some scarring or breakouts i would say use my stem cell i can send you some of my stem cell stem cell yeah apple stem cell so that really, I'd have a water-based one. So then you, you want to lay those together and then you can actually massage them in together because they're both the same lipid base. So once you've got that down, then you can start to use a thicker based serum. So for example, I may use a retinol A. I think retinol A is the best thing for

breakouts, for fine lines. It's really the most proven anti-aging product out there still. But you want to use a non, in my opinion, from a skincare point of view, not to use one that's prescribed. Go for one that's a vitamin A like skincare one because it doesn't irritate the skin. And irritation is like the worst thing you can do. So for example, I like my vitamin A. It's really gentle and it doesn't

like make the skin red or break out and then michael uses retinol a and doesn't know it and went to get his brows waxed oh and then you had no and then you were red for two weeks it was it was a messy business well lauren sent me to do this and i love the woman who does it lindsey asks every woman if she's actually beeninol. She's actually been on this show. But Lindsay didn't think that a man would be using retinol. How would I know? Well, first of all, I didn't know I was using retinol. And second of all, I wouldn't know to ask for that.

But yes, I was walking around and it looked like my eyes were thrown out. That just happened to our friend last week. I was like, did you get punished? I was really concerned. I'm like, oh my God, are you okay? He goes, no, I've got my eyes wet. I'm like, oh my goodness. I just told everyone.

I was like, I got in a really brutal street fight. I was out there. I was being really tough. I couldn't go around this office full of women and say that was, you know. Okay. So we're on retinol, eh? And then go ahead and use your cream. So you could either use a crème. I know that you're a La Mer fan or you could use your blood cream.

Yes. You know. Love. And then you want to like apply a little oil to like keep it sealed in. So I use my Sleeping Beauty oil and it acts like a top coat. You know, when you use something like an oil, it literally looks and feels like a top coat and it just keeps everything hydrated in the skin. And then if you're really good, you'd apply an eye cream.

So I can't even tell you how many steps it is, but it looks like it's more than. Let me ask you this. But there you are. That's me down. Or then I massage my skin. Oh, and then sometimes I use a device. So it could be a pulse and glow, which is a little like galvanic current. I love my pulse and glow.

You got one. What if you're starting? Say you're a novice. Yeah. Sorry to anyone thinking that's me. Let's pretend you're talking to me who's a novice. And I'm like, okay, that was just a lot. Where do I start so strip

it down i would say do one cleanse definitely do a tone pick one serum that you you know it's a multitasking all-around good serum and um you know use a retinol on a cream okay skip the eye cream you could use the cream you know a little a little bit. I mean, eye creams are, you know, questionable. Do you like vitamin C? Vitamin C is for the morning. I use it in the morning. So you use your A for night and you use your C for morning. You know why?

Because C is an antioxidant. So basically it's a free radical scavenger. So basically it's like a major, like, boost of antioxidants. So it's great for sun protection as well. Not that it's actually sun protection, but it really helps to prevent damage on the skin. At nighttime, you're rebuilding and repairing. So use your vitamin A at night.

So C for day and night. I use the C in the morning because I get black eyes, like dark eyes. Right, and it brightens you up, right? Yeah. What are your thoughts on sunscreen? I think they're really important right now. I mean, I'm more of a fan of like you know full spatium you know like sunblocks really i like mineral based they're then chemical based mineral ones

you just don't burn like i find that you can't always trust the ones of chemicals because you generally can burn so i like zinc you know like titanium based minerals you know mineral based sbs really need to check mine. This is a question that I get asked all the time because when I get a facial, I micromanage the whole situation. Like I tell her exactly what I want. Is there something that if someone's listening and they want to go find a facialist, what are things that they can tell their facialist to do to get really great benefits from the facial? I think first time going, you know, you want to probably get like a really good cleanse, you know, because I think sometimes if you haven't been for a while,

you've got congestion in your skin and you need to like look at, you know, blackheads and like thick skin. So go and get a really good cleanse because you don't want to like jump in and start doing too many invasive things before you even know the person that's treating you. And you don't want to have too much risk with too many like too heavy duty machines like radio frequency at that point so my advice is like when you start a relationship you don't want to like jump into bed right you want to like you know like be careful and take it slow so take it a little slower and like do a nice cleansing treatment to get your skin really well prepped and remember

cleansing is the key to and the foundation to beautiful skin. So go in with a good cleansing treatment and ask her to really hydrate because 99.8% of the population is dehydrated. And so if you go in asking for a cleansing and hydration facial, then that's a really good way to test a relationship. I had major, major jaw surgery

and I'm constantly swollen still four years later, which is why I love facial massage. Like that's what got me obsessed. I saw your Instagram when you had the amazing Russian massage and you were like in love with it. That's beautiful. That was gnarly. He was, that was a different experience. I've never had an experience like that. He's less of a facialist, more of a masseuse. Got it. But if I could mix a facialist with that, it would be heaven for me. Then you need to come to Georgia Louise because we, I've specialized. I mean, I'm also a masseuse. So I also trained to do massages, aromatherapy, sports massage. So one of the biggest things that stood me out, I guess,

from a lot of other estheticians was my lift and sculpt massage, which I created 10 ago and it's it's funny because i look at his videos and it's very similar technique with the lifting and sculpting and like we're literally like digging into the muscle to move the belly up and to like you know contour the skin so we spend in our treatments um 10 to 15 minutes just doing that technique during your facial michael when we stay at the closet you're gonna love it so you had a little bit You had a little bit of a tap, didn't you, when you were there? Didn't I have that facial at the Victoria's Secret show? Mimi said, Mimi and I were both like,

this is one of the best facials we've ever had. I can't wait for you to have a full 19 minutes. Well, I'm coming in April. Maybe I'll have to invite myself in because Lauren seems to bar me out. She's barring me out. Well, who is going to like, I think who's going to text Nancy first. Cause she's the gatekeeper. Hi, Nancy, I was annoying

you. I said, we have to get Georgia on the podcast. Like we can't. So what I'm curious about and what I really admire about you is how you're able to scale a business while also doing what you love. So, um, you know, an example for me is I started as a blogger and, and blogging is like my one true love. But as I grow, I understand that I need to be able to scale the business. And that's hard when you fall in love with giving the facials, but now it's like, you have to, you know, be traveling and be on social media and all these different things. How do you manage that? You know, I, my husband's in finance and so he was the one, it's all about scalability, scalability. I'm like, it's just about passion, passion, passion. So he sort of like helped me,

I suppose, like get my head in gear. And, um, you know, like, cause at the end of the day, my body's going to wear out, like, you know, I'm not getting any younger and it's physical labor. I mean, it's sometimes like eight hours and I'm hunched over and I have tech neck and I'm like paranoid that I'm going to have jowls and I'm going to have like a saggy neck. But equally, my back hurts, my joints hurt, right? So my engine is going to run out at some point. So another thing for me is that I can't touch the whole world. You know, I can't.

There's only so many hours I have and so many appointments I can see. So I realized that I needed to create a protocol for home care so that people that couldn't come to see me or they couldn't honestly afford to see me, they could actually experience Georgia Louise at home. So then I started to create the Georgia Louise skincare kits, you know, with the modalities such as the freeze tools, which are an amazing way to replicate the cryo facial that we do in the atelier. And this really helps to calm, cool and sculpt the skin. I also have my Gua Sha butterfly stone, which I created 10 years ago in London. And it's an amazing rose quartz stone, which literally like sculpts the skin. So it's great because now not only do I, you know, have the business working in this bar,

but I have products that people can now touch. And even if they don't see me, they're using and watching my app. Like I have the app now. So you can actually follow a lot of the stuff on my app where you can see all the tutorials. And then it was always about me. And everyone always wanted to see George Louise. Well, I'm only going to go if I can see you.

But I'm like, well, it's really hard just to see me because I'm really quite busy. So I've trained like these amazing estheticians now. So all of the estheticians at the Atelier are all trained in George Louis. So they have the same machines. They know how to lift and sculpt. So growing it that way is great. I always tell people it's like the different pillars of my business. And I think that when you have a business, you want to figure out what are your pillars because there's different brand pillars, right?

So like you, you're a major mega influencer. I'm not even there yet. I've only got 32,000, 40,000 followers. Don't say stuff short. I mean, seriously, like I, you know, I was late in the game of Instagram. And then the second pillar is the spa, which is the clients and, you know, the treatments. And the third pillar is skincare and selling products to clients. And the fourth is devices because devices are what, you know, are able to have the facials at home without that big price tag so that you can have an amazing facial at home if you do a device.

So that's how we're growing the business. And I think that ultimately you're at the forefront of that, right? So that's your brand and that's your baby. And then you basically just have to make sure that whatever you're doing has like that golden seal and that standard. And as long as you are having a standard and everything that you're doing, it can work, you know. How important is social media to your business? It's insane. Like I honestly, we don't worry about anything else now. Like I would say 20% of my clients for the girls, not for me. It's all at standby social media.

And the minute we post something, we get like a jump in sales on our Instagram, through our Shopify account, our website, e-commerce site. It's been amazing. Like I, it totally opened up a new door for me. And I always tell people that the more you give it, it's like a beast. It's like the more you feed it, the more people want it. They want to see you in your bathroom. They want to see you in bed with a device on. And it's like my husband doesn't get the world.

He's like, why is your phone out again? Like, what are you doing? I'm like, well, I'm trying to help people like take care of themselves. And I'm the brand name of my business. And so I have to be personable. And I'm okay with it because you know what I know that I'm going to make a difference in someone's lives and I like the fact that I can like put a random post on and it's me cleansing my skin but yeah you know 39,000 people it's instant connection

it's great and then it's I'm helping people and that's what I was you know putting this out to do is to give confident skin and make people feel good about themselves and if that's my if that's my platform then that's my platform, then that's my platform, you know, let's see where it goes. Do you have any morning rituals that you can share with the audience? Like for instance, I like to meditate. I have like a water that I drink. Is there anything that you do every morning that's non-negotiable? Well, you know, for me, I have my kids, right? So I have, I have a two year old and I have a six-year-old. So my ritual is to always spend time with them in the morning.

So I make their breakfast for them. We make gluten-free pancakes. And we do a little bit of like singing. I'm trying to sing at the moment, like on the side. So we end up like singing nursery rhymes or like singing like really cool songs. And so we blow up the music really like high in the house. And that's non-negotiable. like we will sing and like have pancakes together and that's like my mummy and like my like children's time which is really nice and in terms of beauty I always give

myself a lift and sculpt massage with my rose quartz stone because it's the stone of love it's just like this very I sort of meditate when I massage my skin so I always like to do I'm always multitasking I think as a, I'm always multitasking. I think as a mother, you end up multitasking. You end up, you know, like breastfeeding and like cooking the dinner or you're like putting the laundry in and you're also like trying to like, you know, like play with the baby or eat a big piece of cake. Michael's unfamiliar with the name, with the word multitask.

So he doesn't know what you're talking about. It's not just me, a lot of men. It's hard. It's hard. And sometimes it drives you crazy. So. I always say that women have it a lot tougher. I mean, we can't do that.

Men, we can't hold a candle to that. You want to tell me to do a pancake? Celebrating National Women's Day. Yeah, I'm celebrating that women are amazing and that I can't do that kind of stuff. That's nice. That's another point today. Right. Get a lot of points well is there a book or a podcast or a resource

that you can recommend to your audience that you think would bring them a lot of value oh gosh podcast recently i've been like listening to like laura devkin um boss have you been watching that one or hearing that one um boss beauty is literally about women in business so it's really relevant for today um i really like her podcast. I think it's really, really good. I don't know. I also sometimes listen to Gwyneth. I think hers is really interesting. She's always like got interesting like people on and I like some of her stories and she's got a good resource. Kind of fun. Where can everyone find you? Pimp yourself out. Tell us your Instagram handle. So if you want to learn more about me

and my crazy kids or like how to like take care of your skin the handle is georgia louise sk sk skincare so georgia louise sk it's me i love it and website it's just my name so it's www.georgia louise.com i love a little jingle at the end of that right thank you so much for coming on thank you i'm so sorry. I mean, I don't know how we got here. She's got concussion. Like, poor Nancy. Well, it's kind of, it's a confusing building.

My previous client was snoring. I had to, like, wake her up. I was so embarrassed. I'm like, she's like this major celebrity. Like, I'm, like, dying. And she's, like, saying, we've got to leave. I'm like, but she's passed out. Like, I don't know what to do.

And she's like, but we're going to be late for this podcast. But she's, this is, she's sleeping. She's sleeping. Who's the biggest celebrity that you've ever done that has the best skin? Oh, I mean. I heard Paris Hilton's skin is pretty amazing. Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence.

She's a baby. If you want, I mean, Cate Blanchett. Oh. You know why? She stays out of the sun, huh? Both of them do. That's a secret. I never go in the sun.

If there's a piece of sun on my ankle today i was laying in my like doing my workout in the room and there was a piece of sun on my ankle and a piece of sun like a little like dot of sun i don't know it's like it's and i could get the melasma the fine lines and wrinkles it's cure of all like skin like aging if you look at a granny like you know 85 and she pulls up her midiff, her skin would be beautiful on her stomach because it's never had any sun. If you look at a granny. If you look at your granny, ask her to show you a midriff, granny, and you'll be like, oh, wow, she's got baby skin there.

That's going to be my skin if I stay out of the sun. Stay out of the sun. I stay out of the sun. I've got to show you the schema. Wear a hat when you go, like. Listen, if I stood against that wall, I'd look like, I'd just blend right in. I'm like a ghost. Get a spray tan like I do.

Spray tan. Thank you for coming on. Thank you for having me. You guys follow georgia she's amazing thank you bye guys as always we're gonna end this show with a little fun tsc giveaway going to drop in to your dms with maybe a meal plan or a pop socket all you have to do is tell me your favorite takeaway from this episode on my latest instagram at the skinny confidential and obviously make sure you've rated and subscribed to the show on iTunes. It takes five seconds. So easy. Hope this show brought you tons of value. And with that, we'll see you on Tuesday. This episode is brought to you by Four Sigmatic, one of our favorite companies, one of our favorite sponsors. Four Sigmatic specialize in superfoods, medicinal mushrooms,

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