Ep. 388: Mercury in Skin Whitening Creams & The Week’s Beauty News with Guest Co-Host Priya Rao Healy

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Priya Rao Healy, the executive editor of Glossy.co, joins Jenn to discuss the state of the skin-whitening market and a new report that finds high levels of mercury in products sold on eBay, Amazon, and Alibaba. Plus, they talk about Priya’s career, her favorite beauty products, the podcasts she hosts (Glossy Beauty Podcast and Unfair), and the news: Batman’s emo makeover; beauty trends at the Fall 2022 fashion shows in Paris; why qasil powder could be the next big thing in skincare; and new research showing that surgical masks make people look more attractive.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Fat Mascara. I'm Jen Sullivan. And this is...
0:11.4	Hi, guys. I'm Priya Rahili. How are you?
0:14.7	Hey, Priya. Another podcaster. I love this. You're a little bit out of practice
0:18.9	podcasting, aren't you? I am. The last one I did was right before
0:22.8	I had my baby. So this is a good way to get back into it.
0:27.2	Now, for people who aren't familiar with your work, tell us what you do,
0:30.7	your podcast, your writing, your everything. Who are you, Priya?
0:34.5	So I'm a journalist and a podcast host. I've been a journalist for the last 15
0:38.4	years. Worked a lot of the same titles at Hearst and Coddingass that Jen has worked at.
0:42.8	And now I am the executive editor at Glossy. And I host the Glossy Beauty
0:47.9	podcast and the special series that we did last year unfair on the global
0:52.7	skin whitening industry. Which is something I definitely want to talk to you
0:56.9	about because that's almost a year and a half now ago that you you put out that special
1:01.0	podcast, which is amazing. You guys should listen to it. So we're going to actually talk a little
1:04.3	bit about that topic later in the show. But since Jess isn't here, Priya and I are going to do
1:09.5	a regular fat mascara for you with the news and everything like that. But before we get into the
1:14.1	show, I know you just introduced yourself, but I have to ask you a little bit more about you.
1:18.8	I know you obviously because you've written for me and we've hung out at events and things.
1:23.6	But give me some background. What led you into journalism? And then I know you start out
1:28.0	in fashion, but now you focus on beauty. How the hell that path take off? Yeah. I mean, I was a
1:33.4	finance in English major in college. I'm from a small town in Laredo, Texas, like where nobody
1:38.5	did anything except stayed in Laredo, Texas. And I thought I was going to be a finance
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