Hey, everyone. Welcome to Fat Mascara. I'm Jess. I'm Jen. Hi, everyone. Hi. Okay. This is a very special

episode of Fat Mascara. It is all about friends and eyes. Okay. We had our first ever live podcast

and that took place on March 8th. It was a blast. It was really fun to see everybody. We had a live

chat kicking off. You know, we had focused from Des Moines to Dubai in the retinoid chat.

I was so nervous. I couldn't even look at the chat in the beginning. I saw you like reading and

saying hi to people, but I was just like, is the audio working? Is everybody here? All the guests

happy. We had some big names with us. We had some really big names. It was so much fun, Jen.

It really was. And we partnered with Differen, who sponsored the event. And they're actually the

soul sponsor of this special episode, which you're about to listen to. And it's the reason we're

able to bring this episode to you commercial free. So thank you, Differen. They're a brand that,

if I may say this, they're more obsessed with retinoids than we are if that is possible.

So the live podcast took place during their fifth annual Retinoid Education Week. I will be

celebrating every year, everyone. I'll see you at the sixth annual. And boy, did we get educated?

They sent a rep from their companies. And before like the event began, they said this rep out

into the streets of New York to just sort of see where the education level was on retinoids.

Now mind you, these are not fat mascara listeners. I realize a lot of you out there listening

might have a slightly higher level of like skincare education. You do after all listen to fat

mascara. But let's see what the real people of New York know about retinoids.

Oh, hi there. We're so obsessed with a certain acne fighting ingredient that we made an

entire holiday to celebrate it. So now, let's see what the public knows about retinoids.

Do you know what a retinoid is? No. I have no idea. No. No. Wait, is that like something in your eye?

It gets worse before it gets better, guys.

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