The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Lauryn's Esthetician Shares How To Get Your Best, Healthiest, Glowiest Skin Ft. Staci Christie

Episode Date: November 30, 2023

#631: Today, we're sitting down with Lauryn's esthetician of over 15 years, Staci Christie. Staci spent 15 years working in plastic surgery where she learned the ins and outs of facial aesthetics and worked with cutting-edge technology. She combined her knowledge, expertise, and passion to develop her own, one-of-a-kind techniques that she uses today at her anti-aging skin care and wellness boutique. Today, Staci joins us to give the audience all the best skincare tips that both Lauryn and Michael have implemented over the years. She tells us the absolute best and worst things you can do for your skin, how to achieve the best skin of your life, and how to sculpt the perfect skincare routine. We also discuss filler, when to start and when to stop, and how to naturally achieve the perfect facelift.   To connect with Staci Christie click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts Bosstick click HEREL To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To subscribe to our YouTube Page click 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 The Skinny Confidential.  This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp BetterHelp is online therapy that offers video, phone, and even live chat-only therapy sessions. So you don’t have to see anyone on camera if you don’t want to. It's much more affordable than in-person therapy & you can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/skinny. This episode is brought to you by Wella Wella Professionals just released its most luxurious hair care line; Ultimate Repair. You can purchase The Ultimate Repair Miracle Hair Rescue at Ulta stores, or go to wella.com to learn more. This episode is brought to you by Caraway Caraway Home’s non-toxic kitchen wares are all designed for the modern home and feature a chemical-free ceramic coating, so food can be prepared with peace of mind that no hard-to-pronounce compound will leach into your healthy ingredients. Visit Carawayhome.com/SKINNY10 or use code SKINNY10 at checkout to receive up to 20% off your next order. This episode is brought to you by HVMN Ketone-IQ™ is brain fuel. It’s a clean energy boost without sugar or caffeine. Visit HVMN.com/SKINNY to receive 30% off your first subscription order of Ketone-IQ. This episode is brought to you by Zbiotics ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic Drink is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic. Go to ZBiotics.com/SKINNY to get 15% off your first order. This episode is brought to you by AG1 If you want to take ownership of your health, it starts with AG1. Go to drinkAG1.com/SKINNY to get a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase. Produced by Dear Media  

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. 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! Girls just historically will take better care of their skin because their moms are, but I'm trying to change that man, woman, or whatever you are this day and age, animal, whatever the fuck, everyone needs to be taking care of their skin. And not just from an aesthetic point of view, skin cancer. My husband, I found a little bump on the top of his head. We ended up at John Wayne Cancer Institute, major surgery down to the skull, had to have reconstructive. If it wasn't for me finding that on the top of his head, he'd be dead. No sunscreen because people just think, ah, right? No, skin cancer is going to kill you. Bottom line. Let's welcome Stacey Christie, my personal esthetician for over 15 years to the Him and Her show. You guys, this woman is so talented when it comes to skin. She will blow your mind.

There is a reason that when I fly back to San Diego, I book with her six months in advance. She is so booked up. It's like you can't, it's like the Met Gala to get in with Stacey. First of all, she's walking advertisement. So if you see her in person or you see her on social media, she has some of the most beautiful skin I've ever seen in my life. And second of all, she knows her shit when it comes to skin. I've wanted to get this woman on the podcast for so long. She's going to teach you how to change your skincare game. The number one skincare tip from an esthetician, the perfect skincare routine. She's also going to teach you how

to get your partner on a skincare routine. The issue with young people who are using filler, how to do Botox correctly, questions to ask your facialist, and how to take all this information and then go to a facialist anywhere. She's truly one of my favorite people. She's funny, she's talented, and she is an amazing friend. Stacey, welcome to the show. This is the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Stacey fucking Christie is in the studio. I could not be more excited. You guys, first of all, I was telling you off air, I have been all over the world to have a facial. I could not be more excited. You guys, first of all, I was telling you off air, I have been all over the world to have a facial. I have been to Hong Kong. I've been to China. I've been

to Paris. And I don't care about the shopping. I don't care about anything. I care about the facial. I like to go and see what's out there when it comes to facials. And you are the best facialist on the planet. Thank you. Out of every facial I've ever had, there has never been a better facial. I mean, the precision and attention to detail and the customization to each person's skin is so thought out and so purposeful that it really makes you unique and stand out. So I'm so excited to have you on here. You've been doing my skin, I feel like, for at least six years. I've known you since the Skinny Confidential was an embryo. It was literally an embryo. It was a thought. I was a bartender. Yes, you were a bartender. Actually, I can remember going into Delicious and you said, excuse me, but what do you do to your

skin? You're just glowing. And I thought it was probably just sweat or something from the day. And then you had asked me, what is the number one thing if I gave you one tip, what would it be? And I told you, sunscreen. Avoid the sun at all costs. We live in sunny Southern California, but keep your sunscreen, a big hat. It's the first tip I ever gave you. You walked in, it was actually before I was a bartender, I was working at a clothing boutique. Gracie's. Gracie's. In Rancho Santa Fe, you come in, you were in line, and I remember being truly 17 or 18 years old and thinking, what does that woman do to her skin? And every single time I've seen you since,

every single time I see you, I always am like so intrigued by your skin because you do have the best skin I've ever seen in real life. Like it's out of control. Thank you. It's glowy, it's shiny, and you can just tell that you take care of it. So I think like that's walking advertisement. Like when you're going to a facialist, if they don't have that beautiful glowy skin, maybe it's time to go to Stacey Christie. And I'll tell you, so as a kid, now I'm 60 on October 10th. It's kind of hard to even spit that one out, but I used to lay on a silver blanket with baby oil and iodine. I was riddled with sun. I mean, I was so dark. It was ridiculous.

And at about age 20, I would say 26, I was working for an MD who specialized in nutrition and preventive medicine for about a good 10, 12 years. Then I went to plastic surgery. So my background is in plastic surgery. That's what I did for about 17 years. And I started taking care of my skin at that point. Just Epicurine. I've been using Epicurine skincare since I was 27 years old.

But what was your epiphany? And we've talked about this when you've given me a facial of when you wanted to take your skincare from laying in the sun to like really overhauling it and changing your whole life. Or is it something you saw when you were in those offices? Working in the operating room. So when you're doing surgery, when you're literally dissecting skin away from fashion, doing a facelift, you can see what kind of sun damage, what the sun does to the skin. You can see the loss of collagen and elastin, but when you're in an operating room, you see things at a different level. And at that point

is when I realized the damage that I had created. So now, okay, so can you turn things around? Well, I'm kind of proof that you can. I mean, I will say that my face and my neck look a little bit better than my arms, but I also, I do skincare head to toe. It's not just face, neck, chest, which I tried to tell people to do and always the back of your hands. But I just started on a journey of one thing after another, you know, peels, microdermabrasion, little things like that. But skincare, actual skincare, what I use on my skin morning and evening, I am so dedicated. I don't care how drunk I am. I get my face washed before I go to bed. I get my teeth brushed. I put all my skincare on no matter what.

Remember one time you told me that you literally were like, you had a fun night and like Ed had to do it, her husband. Yes. And that is the funniest story I've ever heard. If you don't have a guy that will do your skincare routine for you. He did. Get out. The good thing is now because Stacey, you turned my skin around

and now I would actually know how to do it for you probably. You would. What would you do if I was really drunk? Well, I would probably just do what I do for myself. And I don't know if that's like so specialized to you, but it would be, I think it would work for a night. You'd throw a little CE on there. Yeah. The only thing you use CE, most important thing, most important. Here's what most people don't do is they don't get their skin clean enough. I will say, Lauren, 99% of the people, if not 99.5, do not get their skin clean enough. They don't clean their skin well enough at night. And yes, you need to clean your skin twice a day. You need to cleanse in the morning, cleanse at night. Night, double cleanse. I like

to pre-cleanse, whether you're using an oil cleanser or some type of a micellar water. I don't have any of my own skincare products. I have products that I love and I adore and each one of them has a reason for that, but I like to pre-cleanse then followed by a cleanser, double cleanse at night. Then my little tip is you take a cleanser on a bottled water with a little cotton pad, go over your face with bottled water and you're going to see, is your skin clean or not? Then you proceed with your product. But what about the people that say double cleansing is too much? Because I know some people say that. Some people say like, hey. They're full of shit.

Okay. And if you're using a harsh cleanser, what's Purvy's name? Purvy. You can just call him Purvy. Oh, Taylor. Taylor. Purvy. Sorry.

Purvy O'Connor. Yeah. He was showing me a cleanser that he uses that is really, really harsh. It's an exfoliating cleanser. You can use something like that. Was it St. Ives? Thank God, no. Using my preference, I've been using Epicurean's cleanser.

I either use herbal or citrus herbal. Citrus herbal gets your skin a little cleaner and it's not going to strip your skin. That's what I use. Yeah, I love this cleanser. And you could definitely double cleanse with that and not strip your skin. But there's a lot of cleansers out there that have a lot of harsh ingredients. What are those ones with like the beads in them? You know, no, that's a physical exfoliant. Like I have a little microderm scrub right there. Love that microderm scrub by Epicurine. But you don't love it every single day. No. Okay. No.

Cause you'll strip your skin. So I had this theory and you got mad at me and I would love for you to call me out and explain like the reasons why. I had this theory that I was washing my face really well at night and doing my skincare routine, the Stacey Christie skincare routine. And then I would wake up and instead of washing my face, I would just put the products on because I felt like it was too much cleansing. So why am I wrong? Well, the reason for that is because while we're sleeping, we sweat. We build bacteria. I also encourage at least changing your pillowcase

out at least twice a week. But while you're sleeping, you're lying your face on that pillow and you're sweating and you're building up bacteria, which is going to just then cause blemishes and things of that nature. So you don't have to use your spa cell mitt in the morning. I do because I like the way my face feels clean. But at least one time, one and done cleanse, just one application, a good cleanse. Rinse with lukewarm water. Never wash your face with hot water.

And then again, bottled water on a cotton round. And then you can use the Skinny Confidential roller. You can do all of that stuff with your product. But you must cleanse in the morning. And I'm going to call you out on something. Go for it. She does it every time I'm in her. When you were in Europe on your yacht, you had cleansed and you said, okay, so the morning you're going to cleanse your face and you're going to then get off what was left over from the night before. And I freaking cringed because there shouldn't be anything left over on your skin. After you cleanse your skin, it should be clean for your product.

Don't do a half-assed job. So you didn't like how I stacked products on my face after I didn't cleanse in the morning. That is correct. Okay, so what I should have done, Lauren Bostic, is I should have woken up, cleansed my face, and then started the skincare routine. That is absolutely right. So you know what? For instance, I was just with a girlfriend in Aspen for a few days, and I'm like getting ready, washing my face after I, you know, I just flew in. It wasn't that big of a deal. But in order to put some makeup on, I wanted to cleanse my skin again. She's like, oh, I'm just going to put, you know, some makeup on over what I already have. And I'm like, no, halt, you are not. You're going to cleanse your skin.

And I kind of scolded her on it. And after it took her five minutes to cleanse, put on her serum, her moisturizer, and her makeup, she said, thank you, Stace. Oh my God, I feel so much better and I look so much better. It is true. It's a commitment time-wise. I mean, five minutes, I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but it's five minutes. You're doing the stuff, but you do feel so much better when you do the routine. Hundred percent. Twice a day. And also the routine for me has sort of become like therapeutic. Yes. It's I kind of like crave it. Yep. And I tell people, make it some me time. Right. You guys have two kids. You're busy. Granted, you have some help. You need that help. But Michael, I'm so proud of you because you two have taken my lead. I put you on a decent skincare regimen. You have a morning,

you have an evening regimen. I see such a difference in your skin from that alone. Granted, you come in to see me for a few professional treatments that are customized to your needs, but. Yeah, but I was, I was looking a little rough there for a minute. Well, a little, yeah, no. And the boys,

this is what I noticed. They're kind of fine until they're about 30 and then it's starting to look a little crusty prune. Well, you start to notice things that you're like, where'd that wrinkle come from? And I were, we're on vacation together and I'm like,

what's going on with your skin? Like what's, what's going on? I'm like, you're not taking care of your skin. And he goes, yeah, yeah, I forgot my skincare routine. I go, you didn't bring a moisturizer? Was he wearing sunscreen? No, he had nothing.

Fuck me. Just nothing. No, you can say fuck me. It's been said on the show before. Don't worry. I mean, that's insanity to me. He wasn't doing anything, not even a sunscreen or a moisturizer. I said, I can't be friends with you unless you go to Stacey Christie.

I said, you need to get on Skype with her. You need to get the customized skincare routine. And now we've got him going. So I'm going friend by friend. I'm trying to like get them all. And you know, and I can literally do this with people all over the world. I, you know, just last week I was talking with someone in Turkey, but I can create a skincare regimen for anyone, anywhere, any age. But not everyone's skin is created equal. No. So can you talk about that? Oh, please.

Thank you, God, for opening that door. Fuck me. Seriously. Skincare is not one size fits all. It just isn't. And I mean, and I have the most respect for influencers and all of this stuff going on with where we are in this world.

But so many people are very easily influenced. And if you see your celebrity crush is using this skincare product, it is not necessarily used by them, A, but not necessarily the right one for you. And there's a lot of wonderful skincare out there. There's a lot of bullshit out there. And that's what someone, and I'm not the only one in this game, right? There's a lot of people like me that can help everyone get on a proper skincare regimen. And everyone, they're different. You're all different. Man, woman, what you're going through.

Are you on medication? Do you have allergies? You know, all of these questions need to be asked. And I mean, what's your gut health like? I dive in to your overall health and well-being so I know what kind of skincare regimen to put you on. And I will promise you a thousand percent, you will see a difference in your skin within two weeks. What do you think most mistakes people make are when it comes to skincare? Go off on all the mistakes, like the little mistakes, the big ones.

The first and foremost is not getting their skin clean enough, A. Okay, then you're putting on the wrong product. So someone might be, oh, I break out, so I don't want to use a moisturizer. False. If you're not hydrating your skin, your oil glands are going to kick into full gear, and you're going to actually break out more. So many people have made that mistake. But there's someone like me to help point you in the right direction for the right moisturizer to use. Cellular turnover at night. I'm the only esthetician on the planet, and everyone's going to cringe when they hear me say this, but I am not a fan of Retin-A until...

I agree with you on this. Totally. You know, all Retin-As have made, and I have given it the long haul where you go through the itching and the peeling and the redness. And then you're super sensitive. And if you do go outside, and I'm a very sporty gal. I'm outside all the time wearing my big hats. But then you're so sensitive to the sun. I've just never liked retinol.

It also gives you a waxy look that you can't place. But it makes people look older because the longer you use it, the waxier you get. So the older you look, your skin is actually getting thinner. Yes. That's what it does. Yeah. It actually makes your skin thinner,

which is why your, your wrinkles look less, but, and I'm, you know, this is not an ad, but skin better science came out with a product. It's alpha red overnight renew,

which I believe I have you on. Oh, I want to get you both on that. I use this one. Oh, I love the Alto advanced too. That's a great antioxidant. But the Alpha Red Overnight Renew is an, it's alpha hydroxy with some retinol and a hyaluronic acid. And that's the only one you like. It's the only one I like. I can use it on a daily basis and I'm literally, and I know I have

decent skin and I've worked at it, but I've watched that literally make my pores smaller. Oh, Michael, that may be a good one for you. Yeah, it's an excellent product. But even that product, I start people out, let's just try three nights a week. And certain products you only want to use at night, certain products you only want to use during the day. A lot of people don't know that. So when you guys are just bantering back and forth about the vitamin C, I'd put some CE fruit on you. Vitamin C is only to be used during the day. Why? Daylight activates vitamin C. Shit. I think I use that during the night sometimes. Nope. You don't need that at night. At night is when we want to do our cellular turnover. Get it together, Lauren. I'm impressed.

You didn't know that? Yeah, I do. I only use vitamin C in the day. Yep. Because I told you to. And actually, I will give you out a written instruction. Super easy to follow. A lot of men, they're like, how do you do this? Because I just went on this show. A shout out to the Meat Mafia podcast. And we talked about my skin.

Did you really? Yeah. I love that. And they were wondering like, oh, well, this seems like a lot of work. I'm like, no, once I knew the exact routine from you, it takes me three minutes. Right, exactly. It's not a big deal. It's easy.

It's like anything. As soon as you start doing a routine, it's like anything else, right? You just repetition, repetition after what, three, four days kicks in and you know when to use what. And then that's why oftentimes it's like, Hey, Stace, do I need to change anything up? Because during a calendar year, our climate changes, stresses and life changes, God forbid, some health issues can come up. So that's all going to affect our skin, our largest organ on our body. Everything that we eat, we drink, the hours that we sleep, everything that we do reflects on our skin. Besides Retin-A, is that how you say it? Retin-A. Retin-A. Retin-A retinol.

What are the other ingredients that you, if you see in a skincare product, you're like, get that away from me? Well, you know, like all of the silicones and things of that and all the fillers. I, now, someone will argue like they only want to use a super clean skincare regimen. So Epicure and Agent Nature are the two natural skincare products that I use myself. And I don't sell or promote anything that I don't use on myself. I've used everything you see. I try myself as a guinea pig for everything. And I've kissed a lot of toads. I've seen a lot of stuff that's terrible. Medical grade products will have some chemicals in there, but these products have so much science and so much research behind them with results that are phenomenal when you look at what they can actually provide for the skin.

If it's the right brand. If it's the right brand. And let me tell you this, all medical grade products, you have to have a medical director, as I do, in order to sell this. So you're not going to get anything from Elastin, SkinMedica, SkinCeuticals, Skin Better Science. None of it's on Amazon. None of it's online. You have to be careful of Amazon with skincare, right? Yeah. I just, I brought that to your attention the other day. She let me know that it's not always real. It isn't. There's a lot. If you can get it, you know, oftentimes. So one of my favorite products, and I'm all over the board right now, I'm sorry, but SkinMedica's TNS Advanced. That

product, I've told you this, Lauren, I said, I don't think you need it yet because it's an advanced product for aging skin. I'm 60. You're, how old are you? I'm 21. Fucker. That product alone has about 11 products and it is excellent. It's very, very pricey, but it works. So how do we manipulate our husbands, boyfriends, guy friends to getting into an esthetician? Because that's that I think is a struggle for a lot of people who are listening. A lot of women want to get their husbands on skincare routines. What's a good product to start them on? Well, you know, a good cleanser, obviously a cleanser and a moisturizer and a sunscreen is what everyone needs. That's the staple. But I think there's no difference between a guy and a girl. We're all human beings and we all have skin and we all should be taking care of our skin. And I think that if men could realize that

it's attractive, it's very attractive when a man looks nice, when their skin looks healthy. I just read something. No, no, a crust. I just read something. I just read something in a magazine that says 50% of the way you walk into a room that people perceive as healthy is your skin. So if you look at someone with dull, bad skin, your brain automatically does not think that they're a sign of health and radiance. Your skin, the way you walk into a room, if you have crusty skin, like you did when I met you, I'm just kidding. No, Michael's never had crusty skin, but definitely. Okay. As time ticks on, you know, you're a, you're Zaza and town's age, and then you're a teenager and you're exposed to all the elements of the outdoor and you start seeing this aging and girls just historically will take better care of their skin

because their moms are, but I'm trying to change that. I'm trying from, I don't care, man, woman, or whatever you are this day and age, animal, whatever the fuck, you know, let's, everyone needs to be taking care of their skin. And not just from an aesthetic point of view, skin cancer. Jimmy Buffett just died of Merkel cell, you know, a very rare form of skin cancer. My husband, I found a little bump on the top of his head. We ended up at John Wayne Cancer Institute, major surgery down to the skull, had to have reconstructive and lymph nodes out. If it wasn't for me finding that on the top of his head, he'd be dead. And it's because Ed drove around in a convertible all of his life, living in the Caribbean, no sunscreen because people just think,

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And then it's vented under the arm into the armpit. So it breathes. But they're lightweight and they protect you like crazy. And that's what I wear when I'm playing tennis, when I'm out for a walk in the dogs. Hat always. Eric Jarvis hats inspired me. Yeah. Well, you know, and I want to come out with my own hat because there's some things that I need, but I always wear a large brimmed hat. I'm going to ball cap might look cute. It's providing zero sun protection and might protect you to your cheekbones. What? Yes. I didn't know that. Yeah. Seriously. No. If you're outside, you need a large brimmed hat in order to protect you from the sun. Think about it. You have this little brim. What's it going to protect you to your

cheekbones? Big whoop. So I have to walk out in a huge brim top. Yes. I do my driving gloves. Good girl. And and I also think what's so cool about you is you do you told me that like your your face is to your nipples. Yes. Your face goes literally from your forehead down to your chest. Yours too, Michael. Well, my thing is like if you're going to take care of your face every night and you're already there, you might as well take it down to your nipples. And if you have extra product, don't you dare wash that off. Put it on your hands, right? A hundred percent. But you know, I mean, I'm getting to the point now where I'm like TNS in my arms. I mean, I'm turning 60. I'm like, forget this shit, doll. I mean, my butt. Yeah. You're like my big toe. There is something that I have not talked to you about.

I don't think that I would love for you to weigh in on. I am seeing so many young girls overfill their face. Oh, my God. It's horrible. And what I've found after just observing it is it's actually ages a person because it brings the eye down if you get it like in your jawline and your cheeks and your chin and your folds right here and it it doesn't necessarily age well either because it stretches the skin i agree with you photographs better than it looks in person that's called a filter but yeah honey well honey. Well, no, I think Michael, well, you know, and I mean, let's just talk about that for a second. I am 60 on October 10th. I had

a facelift when I was 50. So it's been 10 years. I went to the best surgeon. I'm going to give a plug, Timothy Martin in San Francisco, hands down in my opinion. Thank you. But I did that 10 years ago. And I feel like I look in the mirror and I'm like, I need a little something. Now, I just bought, I call it the Birkin because I could have bought another Birkin bag. But instead, I bought this. It's the Neatris microcurrent machine, which will give you a facelift effect. But it's just repetition. You know, you have to do it twice a week for three weeks to build it up.

And it's something I just need to do to myself. But I see, you know, oh my gosh, you know, the under my eyes and nasal labial folds, I've had nothing, no filler. I can't do Botox anymore because if I do Botox, my eyebrows fall. So I just do my skincare and my, you know, I do my customized own, my facial treatments myself, but there are things, laser treatments and things that you can do to help. So you don't need to go down that road but what is it about filler that you think like why are people overfilling and what is it actually doing in the long term they're all trying to look like everybody that's filtered online everyone's being influenced

but it's i think that a lot of these celebrities it's not necessarily filler what they're getting they're getting faceless it was interesting is i talked to a lot of my guy friends a lot of these celebrities it's not necessarily filler what they're getting they're getting facelifts it was interesting is i talked to a lot of my guy friends a lot of my guy friends really have like a visceral reaction to women they hate it over feeling they don't like his friends don't like it i personally don't like it either i think listen do what you want but from like what i think the guys i know are attracted to like it's not maybe and listen this is different for everybody but most of the males i know it's not their preference but to your point i think there's a lot of women seeing other women doing this online and then trying to emulate quote-unquote people that they believe to be famous or getting attention and they're doing these things and everyone's like what the fuck is going on exactly

a hundred percent so you know and the younger generation which i mean shame shame shame on the doctor or the nurse that's injecting these people, A, all right? They're just trying to make money. Shame on them. But if I could talk proper skincare, some hyaluronic acid and a good moisturizer is going to plump up your skin beautifully. And now I'm all for plastic surgery.

When it's time, you know, a good facial massage and your buckle fat pad and all that stuff, that's going to give you a little temporary lift. But the only thing that's really, if you've got a lot of excess skin in your native facelift, you need to go in for surgery and have a facelift by a good board-certified plastic surgeon. How do you know a good one from a bad one? Talk to someone like me. Yeah, you find someone who looks really good. You get a couple of consultations,

you know, talk to someone like you. But, you know, there's a lot of really good and a lot of really bad, really bad plastic surgeons out there. Yeah, I think that you have to see the kind of work someone does. A hundred percent. Look at before and after pictures,

make sure they're board certified. How many facelifts do they do? If you're going to someone who, you know, does everything under the sun, might not want to go to that particular person. Yes, because it's not a specialty. Exactly. You know, and, but there are things, there's lasers and like my Birkin, my Neatris machine, which it's microcurrent. Microcurrent's incredible. And it is known for the non-surgical facelift. It's just, again, it's a commitment. You know, you have to come in twice a week for three weeks. But isn't every single thing in life a commitment and discipline? Like to me, it makes a lot of sense that you would pull commitment and discipline through to your

skincare routine. If you want beautiful glowing skin, you have to commit and have the discipline to do it. Well, like we were saying a bit ago, and I'm all over the map, but you guys are busy with the kids. But at night, when you have a second, and I tell people, make it your me time. Buy the candle, put on some music, whatever, you know, makes you feel good. And take that 10 minutes. What's 10 minutes to get your skin clean, put on your regimen, use some of your wonderful tools and get yourself ready for bed. Or some people are like, oh my God, I'm so tired by the time I get home. I'm

so busy with the kids and making dinner. Here's what I say. Before you get involved in all that, maybe while they're doing the homework, go in and do your evening routine. It doesn't have to be right before you go to bed. Just get all the shit off your face from all day long, your makeup, your sunscreen get your your routine on and then you can make your dinner you do whatever have your glass of wine if you're tired then you hit the hay yeah that's that's a great great tip it doesn't have to be right before you go to bed not at all i make michael do his skincare in the dark because i don't like lights on at night so he's serious yeah he has to do it to a salt rock you know those like olden days

people with the light where they would like the lantern he's like to a salt rock light. I can do it now. You know those like olden days people with the light where they would like the lantern? He's like that with the salt rock light. He has a tiny little salt rock nightlight that he's allowed to use because the too much light at night,

I can't do it. Well, you know, truthfully, I could probably give a facial with my blindfolded. I mean, you just learn. I can put lip liner on without a mirror.

I mean, I can do everything without a mirror. So can Michael Bostic because he's doing it by himself. But look, right now, you just have your skincare on. Look at how glowing your skin is. Your skin has never looked this good. No.

It looks so... I'm like a real Benjamin Button right now. Yeah, you are looking good. You better be careful, Lauren. What's something that people need to look for when it comes to Botox? Like, what are mistakes that you see people doing wrong with that? You know, I just think that too much of anything. I mean, a little of everything is fine.

Anything in moderation. You know, the Botox is every three to four months. I think twice a year is all you should really do Botox. And I think on all of those counts for fillers and Botox and all that, I think less is more. You really do. You've told me. I'll be like, I have a wrinkle right there. You're like, nope, I think less is more. You really do. You've told me, I'll be like, I have a wrinkle right there.

You're like, nope, you don't need to do anything right now. You know what's interesting with me, because we've talked and I've got it a few times. I haven't done it in like, what, almost two years. She doesn't want you to get it.

But she told me that I shouldn't do it because it'll drop my... Yep. Because you have, you know, like I have, when I get my hair done, I'm like,

I don't have a forehead. I have more of like an eight head. I was, you know, very, because hair loss and all that shit. I mean, you have the most hair done, I'm like, I don't have a forehead. I have more of like an eight head. I was, you know, very, because hair loss and all that shit. I mean, you have the most amazing head of hair, A, and you have a very short forehead. So if, and you have a very heavy eyebrow, all of it, very handsome, by the way. Thank you. But if you put Botox in your frontalis muscles, the frontalis muscles are located above the

eyebrows about the size of silver dollars. And that is the muscle that's injected that elevates your eyebrow, right? So if you inject this too much, your eyebrows are going to fall and you're going to look angry. Someone who really knows what they're doing, they may want to just inject your corrugators a little bit and open this up. Your corrugators just make you frown, right? So if you just put a little Botox in here and maybe a little in the tails of your eyebrows, that's going to kind of open up your eyes a little bit. But again, less is more than you don't want to also do around your eyes. It's those people that they talk and nothing moves.

I don't think that's a good look as the overfill look now this is just my opinion you know that's when you're in a facial it's like being with a cook in the kitchen it's like a chef the way that you construct your facial if someone is listening and they are in let's just say they're in i don't know minnesota and they can't get a facial with you what are the non-negotiables to ask for in their facial? Like what are things, and by the way, I believe you need to be an advocate for yourself in a facial in a respectful way to the esthetician. I think it's a collaborative thing and you can just be like, hey, like these are the things I want to get done. I think it's a mistake to just go in and say, do whatever you want. You know, I just worked on someone yesterday who she lives half here, half in New York. And when she's here, she sees me. And she

went to someone in New York, a new gal had a facial and the lady didn't, she didn't interact at all. The, you know, the client just wanted to go to sleep. She was tired. She was jet lagged. This esthetician did whatever she wanted and she had an adverse reaction, an allergic reaction to a particular product and her face just blew up, you know, and you have to let the esthetician know, do you're having any allergic reaction or anything? Hey, I'm sensitive to lavender, pumpkin, who knows what it is. I'm sensitive to niacinamide. I say that if I go to a new person, I say that I'll be like, I really like facial massage because I like, I like the sculpting.

I'll say, I really want to focus on lifting my eyebrows. You know, they can take the fluid out of there and lift that. I'll say, I really like it when my skin feels super hydrated. Like I'm very, I communicate with the facialist before you even start. If someone's communicating with their facialist, what are things that they should say? Well, I think starting out, you know, less is more, obviously. You don't want to be too aggressive. Don't want to over strip your skin. You want to cleanse your skin, exfoliate your skin, and then treat your skin and hydrate your skin. Basically, that's that's a facial. Now, you both know that mine, my facials are all incredibly customized to each individual needs, and it's going to change every time I see you. It's cleansing, exfoliating, treating and hydrating and protecting is what you need to do.

But just don't be too aggressive. Some people are too aggressive and, you know, find out how much experience your esthetician has. What are the most common things that you have to maybe work to correct? Hyperpigmentation. I would say hyperpigmentation from sun damage, extreme dehydration from someone just not taking care of their skin, possibly blemishes from acne, you know, again, from just not taking care of your skin. And a lot of this also comes from your total overall health and wellbeing, what you're eating, what you're drinking, what your lifestyle is like. If you're boozing it up, eating pizza, drinking Coke, you're going to look like shit. You know?

I mean, it's just the way it is. Now, I'm not saying that you can't enjoy a piece of pizza or a piece of cake and have some cocktails, but everything in moderation. You're just saying if you don't have a healthy lifestyle, you're not going to have healthy skin. No, no. Your skin is a reflection of you, of your daily lifestyle. Everyone should be drinking half their body weight in ounces of water a day. You're 120 pounds, 60 ounces of water. Have you taken a sip of water today?

I drank a shitload of water. Just make sense. Michael does a huge bottle in the shower. That's his thing. No, no, no, no. He takes the bottle in the shower. I go slow throughout the day, but in the morning, right when I get up, 32 ounces goes in my body within the first 30 minutes of me.

Yeah, that's smart. For the last 35 years, water, lemon, and since you guys turned me on to the Quinton. The minerals. Love that stuff. Love the minerals. I do water, lemon, minerals. Then I do water, fire cider, glutathione package, and a vitamin C package. Then I do green tea latte with my Agent Nature, which I didn't bring my holy mane love.

It's just two ingredients, non-GMO kosher fish and pearl for hair, skin, and nails. I've done that routine every single day for over 30 years. And what I'll do is I will take that routine and I will post a blog post on it so people can go see all of those things you do. Because you have told me that you do that fire cider, you do your agent and tour collagen in your green tea latte. Like you've told me that since I've gone to you. That's your same routine. When I travel, I do that except for the fire cider, you know, which is apple cider vinegar, but it is on steroids. But I take all everything with me

when I travel, wherever I go, you know, water and lemon, lemon turns your body alkaline. Cancer can't live in an alkaline environment. To me, water is one of the most inexpensive, easy cure-alls on the planet. Everybody takes water and lemon in the morning. My God, you're going to turn your system alkaline and cancer can't live in an alkaline environment. It's so healthy. You know what else? I recently, because I just knew, I was drinking way too much coffee, too much caffeine, and I was hydrating a lot, but I couldn't get hydrated. And I think people overuse, I mean, listen, I love coffee and I think it can be healthy in moderation, but I think we over-caffeinate ourselves in this, especially in this culture.

And that'll dehydrate you, by the way. Yeah. And then you can't get hydrated. That was my problem. I was like, why am I dehydrated? I'm drinking all this water because it's way too much coffee. If you're having multiple cups of coffee throughout the day to get through, there's no way you're hydrating properly. I haven't had coffee for, oh shit, probably, I don't know, 15 years? It was hard to fix it, but I just subs it with green tea or matcha or whatever. Do you not do it because it dries your skin? No, I had to have my gallbladder removed back in 2011.

And after that, I was unable to drink coffee. I would burp like a sailor. I'd fart. It was terrible. It would just make me so gassy. It would make you feel good. No, I couldn't do it. So I've been doing, I do

peak green tea, matcha green tea every single morning. They can use Code Skinny for peak tea. I love their matcha. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Do you do it with almond milk or do you just do it with almond? Mainly hot water and a little bit of almond milk. Yum.

And a little bit of manuka honey. Then I use my little floss, whatever you're doing. Frother. Frother. Yeah. And what are you eating throughout the day to support healthy skin? I'll have a protein shake with spinach, blueberries, strawberries, banana protein. I've been doing total wellness protein. It's 30 grams. I try to get at least 30 grams of protein with each meal. I'm not a big eater. You know, I just, I'll have a salad at dinner or like dinner, late lunch, you know, salmon, chicken. I mean, come on, everybody knows me.

What is Daisy order? Salmon. I eat so much salmon. I've never seen someone eat so much salmon, but it's so good for your skin. So good. Yeah, I eat a ton of salmon. Quinoa, youa. I'll snack. I like Aloha protein bars because they're really low in sugar, 30 grams of protein, and they don't hurt my stomach. I don't do dairy. It doesn't agree with me. So I'll do coconut yogurt with maybe some

good healthy granola, blueberries, raspberries. I mean, you've seen, you guys have known me for how many years. I've always eaten like this. I eat simple and clean, but I do have, I mean, you know me, I can also drink my body weight and be a cartel. I love my champagne. I mean, let's be real. That is my nemesis. We have drank in a few bottles of that together. And I like sweets. Every once in a while, I like, you know, chocolate and my husband, I mean, that's, he's cookies, candies, cake, and ice cream. I love my husband to death. Do you think he's listening right now? He 100%. Hi, Ed. Hi, honey. I love you. I miss you, Ed.

So what are some free hacks and tips that our audience can do? For instance, you mentioned earlier changing your pillowcase every two weeks. What are other little things that people wouldn't think of? Maybe they're struggling with acne and it's actually not from what they think it's from. So our water in San Diego is really dry and really terrible. Like the water you shower with. Like the water you shower with. Get a shower head. Get a shower head. I just got the VitaClean and I love it. Yep. But if you can't afford that, honestly, you could take a bottle of water and dump it over your head your body in the shower it actually feels good too i do that after i shampoo my hair i take bottled water and go off over my head and honestly i think that you might like the vita clean because it's

like bottled water over your your head that's when you replace little cartridges or something yeah and it's okay the water is like it It completely changes the water. The water is like, it's so, what's weird is, we have two shower heads and we put the VitaClean on one shower head and we didn't put it

on the other. And what I noticed is I started gravitating towards the shower with the VitaClean and so did Zaza. Really? She was like,

Mommy, I don't like that one. I like this one. The water is like soft, beautiful. We have a system throughout our house that does that. But you also want the bottled water. Yeah. Why? It just makes a difference. It just makes a difference.

You know, to me, because it's a bottled water and I like the cold. You know, I just I haven't graduated that whole cold plunge thing, which I'd like to, but I just do cold water all over my scalp and my face when I'm done with my shower. But at the bathroom sink at night, if I'm not taking a shower before bed, cold bottled water on a cotton round over your face after you cleanse before your skincare. To get everything off. Yeah, and that's going to be nice, clean water. I can't tell you how many people have seen a difference in their skin's clarity from doing that. I'm going to try that.

Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. Another Stacey Christie tip that you gave me is never wash your face in hot water. Never. Always use, because it strips your skin. Right. So you like cold, cold, cold.

Well, lukewarm. And I like to finish it off with cold. Yeah, that's how you give a facial. You warm it up to cool it down. You guys, when she gives me a facial, she uses two skinny confidential ice rollers on my face at once. It's literally amazing. I'm surprised you don't ask me to do this at home.

She does it like she like. I didn't know it was an option. Well, you never know. Two is always better than one, Michael. Yeah, two is better than one. Imagine two on your face at once. It feels so good. After when I have your mask on, whoops, I have a mask on and then I use the Skinny Confidential Roller. It feels so good. It also just calms down because,

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Go to drinkag1.com slash skinny. That's drinkag1.com slash skinny. Check it out. IPL. And I want you to speak about that because I think a lot of people are getting groupons and they're not realizing that IPL can be done wrong. IPL, which is a laser treatment, aka photofacial intensive pulsate laser, it targets pigment and vascular lesions. And yes, it needs to be done by someone who knows what they're doing. I worked in plastic surgery for, what, 17 years. So I have extensive knowledge in laser treatments and all of that kind of stuff. There's a lot of people out there that can go anywhere. And also in different states, there's different licensing for things. But if you're not going to someone who knows what the hell they're doing, they could burn

you. Someone who has dark undertone skin, you don't want to do a laser treatment on because it could actually hyperpigment them. Which goes back to everyone's skin is different. A hundred percent. One of my favorite things to do on people is the VI peel, which I've done on both of you. I think I'm going to be doing it on you later today. You are. I had her bring it up from San Diego with my Browton. Yes. And Dermablane. And my nose, my nose waxer. She's pouring shit in my nose to wax my nose. Yeah, we're going to wax Michael's nose too. And Weston's. And Taylor's. Taylor. Oh, yeah, Taylor. Purvy.

Purvy. Do you do assholes also? Do you want me to wax your assholes? No, I'm joking. Okay. It's going to cost you, pal. I actually have a question. I have a question for Taylor.

So Taylor is someone who shaves everything. He's talked about it on air. He shaves his entire nether regions. Okay. But he's constantly getting razor burns. So when he lifts his shirt, he has razor burn up to his belly button. Are you using a single blade razor? Are you using an electric razor?

What kind of shave are you using? It's one of those ones that's like... Are you using the skinny confidential razor? What are you using for real? It's got like three blades on it. No, you need to up that to the Fusion 5 blade. Oh, damn. Maybe it is a Fusion 5.

I don't know. Fusion 5 and get it real sudsy and clean and hold it real tight. I can't have this visual right now. Did you just throw up in your mouth, Lauren? Yeah, I'm not having this visual right now. Wait, but my question is- And then finish it off with cold water. Yeah.

I bet you're doing it with hot water, aren't you? He's doing it with hot water with a three blade. No, and you know another good thing, but it would hurt a little bit on your nads, is one of those, the high frequency, you know what I use? I call it the little bug zapper.

Oh my God, that would hurt. Well, turn it down. That's a good tip. But it kills bacteria. Did you call it the bug zapper? Yes.

The bug zapper on the balls. Bug zapper on the balls. If he already has the razor burn though, like if it's already there. Then don't shave for a little bit. But is there anything he can use? You know, you could use a little bit of like ceramide treatment cream.

You can even use a little trace of hydrocortisone 1% with ceramide. Put it on there because that'll help reduce inflammation. But you don't want to shave. Do you remember the time that I ran into you guys? You were walking the dogs. I think we only had Zaza. Townes wasn't born yet. And you were hiding your face from me. And Michael said, Stace, look were walking the dogs. I think we only had Zaza. Townes wasn't born yet. And you were hiding your face from me.

And Michael said, Stace, look at Lauren's skin. You had folliculitis all over your face. Yeah, it was dermatitis. It was dermatitis. Yeah. Folliculitis, dermatitis. And it was from microblading over, or planning over dermaplaning over dermaplaning. I also have a theory.

What's that? I also think it was from cinnamon toothpaste. There is something. Yes. Go Google this. You're going to, you're going to test me later. But it was on your whole face. I think, you know, with the derma, the over dermaplaning, what is it called? Microblading, not microblading. And then cinnamon toothpaste mixed together. There's something in cinnamon toothpaste that offsets the reaction. I switched my toothpaste. Okay, that's a possibility, but when there's a razor burn, razor rash,

whatever, you don't want to then go and shave or dermaplane over the top of that. You need to let the skin heal. So don't dermaplane my testicles after I've already frozen that. This is correct. Don't squeeze cinnamon toothpaste all over your dick. Are you still doing all that, man?

No. You haven't grown up yet and just let it kind of... Yeah, just let it grow. It just gets out of control. You look like... It looks like a little boy. I'm going to have the smoothest testicles ever. There will be no wrinkles.

I've had so enough of your testicles today. Can we change the subject to my face? You can put a little C.E. Ferulic on them, too. When it comes to shaving your face, because you know, I like, I like a shaved face. I know you like a shaved face. What are the practices that people need to do to do it right? Great question. Cleanse your skin really well. First, I'm talking double cleanse, pre-cleanse the bottled water, make sure that the cotton round is clean. Then use your shaving cream, the Skinny Confidential shaving cream, because you want to have a barrier between that

and the razor and shave downwards. So when I'm dermaplaning a face, I'm also using a surgical blade that's indicated for dermaplaning and I'm taking off a layer of dead skin as well. And I'm, you know, going the opposite direction, but I know what I'm doing. Oftentimes people at home, they're just maybe a little bit awkward working on their own skin. They could actually create little micro tears. So make sure your skin is clean. Make sure you have your shaving cream on, shave down with the hair, then cleanse your skin again, cold water rinse. And if you have either the light stem for acne or a micro, not a micro, hydro frequency or high frequency, the high frequency, you had me get

one off Amazon. I'll post that on the blog post. You guys, it's like 30 bucks and you just can use it whenever you have like a rash or dermatitis or whatever, or a little pimple. You know, if you have a little blemish on your skin, cleanse your skin and just zap, zap, zap. Just kind of hit the pimple with it back and forth, back and forth. And that's going to help just reduce the inflammation. Taylor's taking notes for his razor burn. Oh, Trenton Owen on TikTok. It's all the rage.

TikTok trends. What do you think about Trenton Owen? What do you think about the TikTok trends? I think that everyone should take everything with a grain of salt. Do you like Trenton Owen? Not particularly. I don't either. I think it's still- What the hell is trentanoin? It's all over TikTok. I think it literally gives you waxy skin. Well, it is like a form of retinol. It's just for cellular turnover, but it's just the latest craze. Again, for some people,

it might be the right product. It's not the right product for me, for myself, and I would have to give everyone a consultation, but most people it might be a little too strong for. How do we get rid of milia under our eyes, the little white dots? That is impossible unless you go to someone like me with a 30-gauge needle, and prior to getting them out with a 30-gauge needle, the skin needs to be prepped. No, I've done it to you. You're not even aware of it. Oh, really? She's done it to You're not even aware of it. She's done it to you. What does a 30-gauge needle do? A 30-gauge needle I use to elevate out. But you can't just do that. You have to prep the skin. You have to prep the skin.

Amelia is never going to come out of it. What is Amelia caused from? Build-up of product, not getting the skin clean enough, someone's using the wrong makeup or sunscreen or their makeup brushes are filthy. Hot yoga with makeup on, you know, and so then milia is just a little bit of oil gland under the skin and almost looks like a little pearl. And so it's never going, you're never going to get that on in your own. And you don't want to be taking some sewing needle to your face, folks, please go to an esthetician and let he or she properly extract that milia. And it has

to be elevated out with a 30 gauge needle. I mean, but I worked in an operating room forever. What's the craziest thing you saw in an operating room? Oh, shit. I think the, one of the first surgical procedures I did was a facelift. Actually, I remember this and it was on a Friday and my girlfriend and I were driving out to the desert, Jules, and we were driving in her Beamer out to Palm Springs for the weekend. And I explained to her step by step that when we did the forehead lift back in the day, you would do an incision, basically earlobe over the top of the head to earlobe. And then you would peel down the forehead, right? Everything would peel down down so you would have the whole scalp like here by your eyebrows and then you would pull it back tight and anchor it with sutures and cut off the excess skin I have to dissociate the

bucket that is a lot that is a technology advanced because I'm not doing that yeah that's was back in the 80s you know so now they do different forms to where you can do things arthroscopically and things like that. So that's not as invasive. But they're still putting screws in your head. Pulling from the scalp now, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, oftentimes in a facelift, you know, a facelift, a facelift, people, you know, will also sometimes not realize a facelift. They're like, I just want my neck done. In order to get your neck done, you make an incision, top of your ears, into the tragus, which is this little guy right here in your ear, behind, back into your neck, and you undermine. In order to get to here, you have to undermine through all of this stuff, right? To get down to your clavicle bonds. So you don't just want to do one area because then the other area will look weird. Right.

Well, you can't get to your neck without traveling through at least a lower base. Got it. Got it. Got it. So you have to go through the lower face. Then your temple is a whole different job, you know, and I never did anything on my upper face. So that's when I go in, in the next year or two, you know, have a little tune up. What are you going to tune up? Oh, I would like to have my face just a little tighter, you know, because I've got nasolabial folds and some, I see some things that I'd like to have my face just a little tighter you know because i've got nasolabial folds and some i see some things that i'd like to change but i will not go do filler i won't do it i will not go down that road it just looks like fake yeah i've had a look it's like you know what i'm 60 and i'm proud of it kind of i kind of am like i'm not into filler no i'm not into it unless i'm into it sparingly done right barely there effortless enhanced like enhancing the person i'm not into it to just overfill overfill over no and and i

think that hopefully that is actually you know weaning out as far as a fad goes because i don't think it's an attractive look at all and like michael was saying men are looking at women going wow that's hot i mean it's freakish i think if things start to look too artificial i don't think that we've evolved yet far enough to find artificial looks that attractive i mean there's certain things but i think if it's too far out i mean we had um anesthesia of beverly hills but the brows right the golden talked about the golden ratio. I think people are fucking up the golden ratio

and we've evolved to find certain things attractive. When you get so outlandish with it, I think men are like, what the hell is going on? A thousand percent. If someone wants to do a customized skincare situation

with you, what should they do? Should they reach out to you on Instagram? Yep. Instagram at Stacey Christie Skin. At Stacey Christie Skin. So they can DM you.

Yep. And what I would recommend is if this was me and I'm living somewhere away from you, what I would do is I would book a Skype with you. Yes. I would talk through what my skin's like with you. And I would have you like prescribe a skincare routine to me. I do with that people all over the world. And what I want to see is what you're currently using,

because I'm not one of those that's going to go in and let's change everything up. It's expensive. Yeah. And it's an investment. You're investing in yourself. And we can always just take baby steps. And I can create the simplest routine that's user-friendly. And that's another thing is I want to set people up for success, right?

Especially the male species that they're not so into a 12-step skincare program. I do think we need to add Phyto-A brightening treatment to Michael. I think he'll love that because you said it's great for capillaries and redness. I think he'll really, that is, out of all the products, and I know I can't say to anyone to get this because it's like, you said everyone's different. But for me, that, that Fido A brightening treatment is like I'm obsessed with it the way it lays. Everyone needs a good cleanser. Everyone needs a good serum. And I prefer vitamin C serum. I like a vitamin C for everyone. And by the way, SkinCeuticals, which is my favorite line for the vitamin C's, I have a few different vitamin C's, one that targets acne, one that targets pigment or the CE for Rulic. But vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, I do like hyaluronic acid after

we get to like at least age 30 because hyaluronic acid you want to use before a moisturizer. You would never use just hyaluronic acid. You put hyaluronic acid on to draw a thousand times as white in water to the skin. Your moisturizer over the top of that seals it, and that's what draws the moisturizer. You're on that? Yeah. You're on HA? Yep, and then a moisturizer over the top. Okay.

Yep, and nighttime is cellular turnover. Cleanse, cellular turnover, hyaluronic acid moisturizer. If you're in San Diego, fuck, if I was in LA, San Francisco, if I was in Cabo, I would come get a facial with you. If you're anywhere near San Diego, go run to get a facial with Stacey Christie. You are booked out, though, so far in advance. I literally have to book a year out a facial with you. If you're anywhere near San Diego, go run to get a facial with Stacey Christie. You are booked out though so far in advance.

You know, I do. I literally have to book like a year out in advance with you. Well, I'm booking until I think like February or March, but you know, I'm always getting cancellations and I still am taking new clients. But I mean, of course, I'm going to always take care of my existing clients to be able to...

Most of the people that I see, I've been seeing since like 2001, 2002. Yeah, because once you get hooked on the heroin of you, it's like you can't, you see how good your skin can look. You can. Yeah. And you know, you don't necessarily need to see me if you don't live near me. I can always, you know, after I do a consultation with you, I can send you,

I sent like during COVID, I was sending facials to people with like microderm scrub and a certain enzyme exfoliant. Yeah, you can work with anyone. Appeals, different things. I can always do that. But at least getting everyone on their individualized skincare regimen for morning and evening, that's key. And that's going to make all the difference in the world. Even if you saw someone like me once or twice a year and went on a good skincare regimen that you're consistent with.

And that's what I'll do is set you up for success. Something that you're actually going to use every morning and every night, like Michael's now doing. And look at his skin. Glowing. Yeah. I do have to shout out my mother-in-law,

Lisa Bostic, your best friend. Because she is the one who I believe gave me my first gift card to you. And she goes to you all the time. Her skin looks amazing. Hi, Mom. Hi, Lisa. The reason you do go to Stacey is because of your mom, really, if you think about it.

Well, you know, your mom is who introduced me to my husband. Aww. And, yeah, I mean, she's, my mom's, she's an A player. Yeah. No, but Lisa was given a gift certificate to see me by Jinda Schatz. And then Lisa comes in and says, are you dating anybody? I was like, no. Off men, I'm going to be a Spencer's, can be me, my horse and my dogs for life. And so she kept saying, well, you know, my husband and I have this great friend. And

finally, after a third time in, I said, is he tall, dark and handsome? She goes, no. And I said, is he short, fat and bald? And she goes, he's not fat. And he's got the best smile, and he's the nicest man on the planet. But Ed is, hi, Ed. He is one of my favorite people. He is the best. He is. I love Ed. I love Ed.

I'm so lucky to be his wife. And you guys are like family to me. I mean, I've been to every Christmas and Thanksgiving since 2006. Every Thanksgiving, I'm like, what's on your skin? What's on your skin? What is on your fucking skin? What is that? And will you please make your fruit salad? Make your fruit salad. What's on your skin? How's your skin so glowy? 20 questions every single time. Every time. I adore you. I am so happy to share your expertise with the community. I know they're going to love you. The reason I wanted to have you on is because I know recommending you to anyone,

you will upgrade their skin, their life. I know you've changed Taylor's razor burn already. Thank you for fixing my husband's skin, my skin. And now you're going to go do Weston Skin. Yep. At Stacey Christie Skin. S-T-A-C-I Christie Skin on Instagram. Go book a consultation with her. I'm obsessed with my skincare routine. I do it morning and night. Stacey, I love you. Come back anytime. Thank you, Stacey.

Love you guys. I hope you guys loved that episode with Stacey. And we are launching something fun on Shop Skinny Confidential. So make sure you're signed up for emails because you want to be the first to know. Go to shopskinnyconfidential.com and sign up today. And also you can watch this episode on YouTube. I hope you guys have the best Thursday and I'll see you next time.