Deconstructing The Beauty Industry Hype with Jessica DeFino
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jameela is joined by beauty culture critic Jessica DeFino in a candid conversation about where her current research and journalism is taking her, after years of covering a multi-billion dollar beauty industry for major women’s magazines & beauty apps in the US. The two discuss the science of skincare products VS the science of skin, why the wellness industry makes you feel bad about yourself and the inherently disappointing pursuit of ‘anti-aging’. You’ll hear about current beauty trends that are unsettling your skin with longer term (and unknown) effects, some of the natural ways your skin repairs itself plus some practical takeaways (without a 12 step routine).
You can find more at Jessica's substack: jessicadefino.substack.com/
And her IG @jessicadefino_
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Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil. Her Substack is A Low Desire To Please.
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Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jamee and Jamil a podcast against shame. |
| 0:04.0 | I hope you're well and I hope you're ready for today's episode because it is a fucking banger, a total mind-blower, |
| 0:09.5 | and I think it's going to save us all a lot of time, a lot of frustration and suffering and mostly money. |
| 0:16.6 | And that feels really great as we are about to go into a new year. |
| 0:21.0 | We're going to have more knowledge. This week's episode is about beauty and I know that we |
| 0:25.3 | covered that already with Emma Dabbury a few weeks ago but that was from a very different point of view we were talking more |
| 0:30.0 | about the history of beauty and the cultural |
| 0:32.6 | understandings of beauty and how different they are around the world and |
| 0:36.1 | the economic factors of beauty and the racist factors of beauty and the |
| 0:40.5 | misogynist factors around beauty. This week's episode is more about the |
| 0:44.2 | literal beauty industry that we are in right now and how to understand it and how to |
| 0:49.2 | know what's real and what isn't real. We're talking about skin care, |
| 0:52.1 | especially body care, injectables, |
| 0:55.1 | all the things that we're being bombarded |
| 0:57.1 | with targeted ads about all of the time. |
| 0:59.8 | My guess this week is Jessica Tofino |
| 1:01.7 | and she's a beauty culture critic who is on a mission to reform the industry and reveal what the beauty industry isn't telling you and why. |
| 1:09.6 | She has interviewed loads of the best surgeons, the best skin care experts, the best dermatologist on the planet, |
| 1:15.4 | loads of doctors to be able to really get to the bottom |
| 1:19.2 | of what is going on and how this multi, multi, multi billion dollar industry continues to find new ways for us to hate ourselves and panic about ourselves and spend so much money on trying to fix what may well have never been broken. And so in this episode we really get into the details of what these products are doing to us, what these chemicals are doing to us, how they can not just sometimes affect our skin but also our cells. |
| 1:44.0 | Are they causing endocrine disruption which impacts our hormones? |
| 1:48.0 | Are they stopping our body from doing what it can do naturally? |
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