Do Beauty Standards Need A Glow Up? with David Yi

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week on Getting Curious, Jonathan and David Yi explore the history of beauty beyond the gender binary. Listen in to learn about Neanderthals who used highlighters, Korean warriors who invented three-in-one sticks, ancient Egyptians who relied on anti-aging creams, and more stunning historical figures. David Yi is the co-founder of good light, a gender-inclusive beauty brand, and editor of Very Good Light, a men's and masc-identifying beauty publication. They are the author of the new book PRETTY BOYS, which honors beauty icons past and present who have redefined masculinity and gender expression. You can find David on Twitter and Instagram @seoulcialite; good light is @goodlight.world; and Very Good Light is at @verygoodlight. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40-minute
0:04.6	ish or more conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.4	On today's episode, I'm joined by David E where I ask them, do beauty standards need a glow up?
0:19.9	Thank you for creating this book, for writing this book, for taking me on that journey. I was
0:24.5	moved, I was enlightened and I'm so excited that you're here. So without further ado, welcome,
0:30.5	David E who is the editor and founder of the Beauty website, Very Good Light, which we love,
0:36.6	must follow you guys need to be into it. And also the CEO of the Personal Care brand Good Light,
0:41.7	their new book, Pretty Boys, Legendary Icons, who redefined beauty and how to glow up to
0:47.8	is out this month. Welcome, David. Thank you so much, Javian. I'm super excited to be joining you today.
0:54.4	I'm so happy that you're here too and I just have to say, you look so gorgeous. I mean, who are
1:01.5	you obsessed with? What is this skin care? I guess we all really need to just be like really
1:07.3	following and reading all up on Very Good Light and we will find out for ourselves.
1:11.5	Well, I have to shout out like honestly, I was using all Good Light products today and it is from
1:17.1	our line that launched two months ago. It is cruelty free vegan. It is EU clean. It is just
1:24.2	dewy and it makes your skin barrier function that much more robust and I'm using it all and it
1:29.4	gives me that nice donut glaze glow. Ah, your skin gorgeous moisture barrier is doing that good work
1:38.7	today. I have just a wow, just beautiful. Get actually leave anywhere, but just
1:44.1	obsessed. Your beautiful. We're just obsessed. So I want to just dive right in. This book is
1:49.9	incredible. Your research, your approach to the world we love, we just love. I almost said we
1:58.4	stand, but then I felt like it's 2019. I'm not saying that anymore. We say simp. We stamp.
2:05.3	What simp stamp for that's even like the younger cooler thing to say, because now that I'm 34,
2:09.5	I feel like I don't know. I'm in where the same age. And so I'm trying to keep up with
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