Hello everyone and welcome back to an all new episode of the financial confessions for which I am extremely excited because it's not every day that on this show we get to have someone whose content I watch so regularly.

As you guys know or perhaps maybe you don't, we've had a few other YouTubers on this channel whose content that I like to watch often, more in sort of the social political commentary genre, like people like Big Joel and Tiffany Ferg.

And I love speaking to them as well, but it's been a while that we haven't had someone in a category that is a bit removed from sort of the day-to-day nitty-gritty of personal finance, but which as we've discussed before heavily on this channel impacts us financially, especially as women in a massive way.

I'm talking specifically about beauty norms, beauty standards, and the entire world and increasing industrial complex of cosmetic procedures.

Some of the most popular content that we've done on our channel in the past year has been about

this phenomenon. I did a video about how celebrities are gaslighting us about beauty,

as well as how they all manage to look so young and no, it's not because they're unproblematic.

I did a video about the rise of Instagram face.

And we also in our new podcast series, Too Good to be

True, had our host Ryan and Julia dive

into the often dark world of essentially counterfeit

or cheap or shoddily done cosmetic procedures, which are

increasingly the norm as people want these effects, but aren't necessarily able to afford

what it really costs.

Now, in the case of that episode of Too Good to be true, our host Ryan went into detailed

description of the many procedures that he's had done over the past few years, which totaled in the tens of thousands of dollars and necessitated months of arduous recovery.

And I've also been honest about various things that I've had done mostly dermatological stuff and often to do with my ongoing never ending battle with my rosacea and acne.

So it's important to note that at TFD, we never

have and continue to not have judgments about procedures

that you may deem worthy.

We, of course, want you to make sure that they're financially

viable for you and that you're not cutting corners in a way that

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