Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains.

Hello and welcome to the Beauty Brains. Hello and welcome to the beauty brains a show where real cosmetic chemists

answer your beauty product questions and give you a unique look at the

cosmetic industry this is episode 249. I'm your host

Perry Romanowski and with me today is Valerie George. Hello Valerie.

Happy New Year. To you too I see you're still in your pajamas, huh?

A late day at work I had to change back into something comfy.

There you go. Well, on today's show we're going to be

answering questions like how do gray color reducing shampoos work? Is it okay to

spray perfume on your hair to get it to stop smelling is your foundation making your face

turn orange and can use body wash as a replacement for hand soap?

Interesting. But first let's get to some of that inane chit chat we're so famous for.

Welcome to the New Year's, first time I've talked to you all year.

Well, we're not too far in, so I don't know if that's, you know, impressive or not, but yeah yeah is our first time talking and I think what I love most about me and you one of the things I love most is that we're so

goal-oriented and I think both for the beauty brains and for ourselves we have some big goals this year right

Absolutely every year I put together my new spreadsheet which lists all of my goals and I use the spreadsheet for tracking.

I've been doing this since 2003, so I have this really long spread sheet of stuff.

But I remember last year you had a goal to read 52 books. How'd you do on that?

You know, I did not get to it and I got pretty far.

I read 26 non-fiction books, which I feel pretty good about getting halfway there but as you know I'm I

have a new venture that I'm starting in addition to the full-time work that I do.

And I did read a lot of trashy novels

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