Welcome to Fat Mascara, um, Jess. I'm Jen. Hi, Jess. Hey, hey. All right. Thank you very much for joining us today on our special, if you're listening to this one, could be any day of the week, but it's our special Wednesday episode.

First of all, I want to welcome a lot of our new listeners. Thank you for joining us for those of you who are not have not been listening for like the last six years.

I just wanted to take a minute to like reintroduce ourselves because maybe not all of you really know who we are, who like really deeply know us. So just want to like, refresh. Yes. And like, reintroduce us. I love what podcast hosts do this because if you dip into a new podcast and you're excited to be there and then you're just expected to know the whole like history of the people on the podcast.

So yeah, like, who am I to assume? Who am I to assume?

Exactly. Okay. So everybody knows who Jessica Mattlin is. Surely, right? So anyway, um, I am the director of beauty at Moda operandi. But before that, I was the beauty director at, um,

how could I forget? Um, just a few months ago, before that, I was the beauty director at Harper's Bazaar and at Teen Vogue. Yes.

I've been working in the end of the industry since basically I was a child, but, uh, yeah, those were those were the babies. We were both, uh, yeah, beauty journalists. And I'm a freelance journalist now full time podcaster.

I write for a lore, the cut, women's health, and most recently when I was on staff prepan, as I like to say, pre pandemic, I was the beauty director at Mary Claire. So Jess and I bring all of our contacts, all of our like, I don't know, we've access sometimes I think we bring that all to you.

And that's our job or access and all of our obsessive research analysis analysis. Yes. So anyway, you're getting the real.

The real real real. Okay. Um, but anyway, so that is who we are. And why don't we get to the podcast? And of course you want to get to know you. So drop us a line. All right.

What is going on, Jen? It was good. It was good to see you this week. Good to see you this week. And the God and I know Jess. She was more. Yeah, it's really nice to be back out in the scene.

Summers over what long over now. And I have to tell you event season isn't full swing. So I'm seeing Jen. I'm saying average now. It's nice. It's like once a week, at least at a beauty event. So yeah, we go to these brand launches to learn about products and you know we bring them to you and we love them.

So I'll continue to do that. We're going to do the news this week. Then we're going to raise a wand. Everybody did their homework.

Oh, they did. Oh, yes. The fan came through with some fall fragrances. So yeah, we're going to get cozy. And that'll be our episode. You ready?

Awesome. Let's hit it.

Okay. Headline time. So some major, major news at a stay lauder cosmetics. They have acquired the beauty license for Bama. I just love saying Bama. So easy on the mouth.

Bama, the fashion house has developed up. They're developing producing and distributing luxury beauty products with a stay lauder company is a stay lauder is going to be producing this line in the fall of 2024.

I hope I'm pronouncing his name right. Sorry, Olivia, if I'm not in women's wear daily, he said we're going to try to express what is the DNA of Bama and beauty, but with the modernity that speaks to my generation in future generations.

So in the piece, we, you know, we don't have super, super clarity on what the line is going to look like, but he gave some hints.

He's going to speak to his generation.

His generation. I mean, he's like a young cool guy, you know, lots of like, you know, cool fans. He's friends.

I just thought that was kind of possessive.

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