174. THE LIPSTICK LESBIANS ~ Shop Like A Beauty Product Developer!
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In December 2022, Christina Basias-Androulakis (a PhD in digital education) filmed and posted a Tiktok of her wife Alexis Androulakis (a beauty product developer) in Sephora, evaluating the new Make Up By Mario Skin Foundation.
That video went viral, and @thelipsticklesbians were off.
1.7M followers later, today the duo continues to challenge and shape the way consumers, influencers, marketers, and chemists alike think, talk, and know about beauty.
That's the @thelipsticklesbians origin tale...Did you know that Christina and Alexis's begins with fragrance??!
Today's ep is full of personal stories, beauty insights and advice, the full scoop on their new beauty evaluation course, LLAB, and some important life lessons along the way!
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CHECK OUT LLAB: letslearnaboutbeauty.com
FRAGS MENTIONED:
St. Rose Juliet in White (SOTD), Burberry London, JHAG Not A Perfume, Byredo Blanche, Sol De Janeiro, Kayali, Daise, BBW, Aesop, Loewe, Method, Frenshe, Fine'ry, Solo Loewe Ella, Britney Spears Curious, Giorgio, Bvlgari Tygar, Amouage Guidance 46, Le Labo Another 13, Glossier You, Aesop Eleos, MFK A La Rose, Diptyque Do Son, Marc Jacobs EDP, Le Labo: Rose 31, The Noir 29; Aesop: Ouranon, [meant Aurner], Marrakech; Hermes Eau des Merveilles, Amouage Guidance 46, Shalimar, Dior Poison, Estee Lauder Youth Dew, Chanel No. 5, Balmain Rouge, Kayali Yum Pistachio Gelato, Laura Mercier Eaux Gourmandes, Eau de Space The Smell of Space, Le Labo Santal 33, Relevant 13 Stems
Products Mentioned:
Makeup Forever Superboost Lightweight Moisturizing Skin Tint, Estee Lauder Double Wear, Mac Ruby Woo, Mac Studio Fix, Danessa Myricks eyeshadow, Prada Pradalines eyeliner, Victoria Beckham Satin Kajal eyeliner
JASMINE SMELL CLUB: jasminesmellclub.eventbrite.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is Juliet and White by St. Rose. |
| 0:15.6 | This is a scent that is a good lesson that when you feel like you need a new perfume to go shopping in your own closet, |
| 0:23.6 | go through your samples, go through your bottles, look at what you're not wearing, |
| 0:26.8 | because that is exactly the case for this perfume for me. St. Rose generously gifted me a bottle of |
| 0:32.1 | this as well as their discovery set. I want to say now, like, I don't know, maybe it was like two years |
| 0:36.5 | ago. And I didn't even |
| 0:37.7 | open this bottle. I was just immediately going to give it away. And that is because I went through |
| 0:42.3 | their discovery set. And while I found all the sense to just genuinely be lovely, nothing really |
| 0:46.8 | felt like me, nothing really resonated personally. And so that was that. I think I might have |
| 0:52.0 | re-gifted the discovery set to a friend who I thought would |
| 0:54.5 | really enjoy the collection. And this bottle of Juliet in White went under my bed, which looking |
| 1:00.2 | back, I must have subliminally known that I liked Juliet and White because I really do make |
| 1:06.5 | an effort to re-gift or re-home perfumes that I don't personally wear. But I kept this one. |
| 1:14.0 | And thank God because I just got a new perfume wardrobe. Well, like a few months ago, and I know |
| 1:18.2 | I didn't tell you about it. And that is genuinely because my room has been a mess and I want to show |
| 1:21.9 | you it when I feel proud to display it. And it's like one of those things where it's like, |
| 1:26.7 | thank God my side of the bed is not where the door is because there's just been like bags and boxes |
| 1:31.4 | everywhere as I've reorganized. It has been the hunger games in here. I basically took everything |
| 1:36.9 | that was displayed. I took everything under my bed. I made some changes. I took inventory. |
| 1:41.5 | And of course, one of the biggest changes was that Julia and White in the process of all of this got a nice little promotion to my floral shelf. |
| 1:52.0 | When I rediscovered her, I wondered why we had ever lost touch. |
| 1:57.0 | It's definitely my favorite from the line and it's quickly becoming one of my go-to summer |
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