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

Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists like us answer

your beauty product questions and give you an insiders look at the

cosmetics industry. This is episode 326. I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is Perry Romanoi. Hi Perry.

Hello Valerie, good to see you. Good to see you.

Did you color your hair?

I did not color my hair. It must just be the lighting of this room. Does it look darker?

Okay, it sure does.

We're going to talk about home hair color today, so I didn't know if you did something for the show.

I did not, but we can talk about it.

But we will, and we're also going to talk about some other things like foundation.

Is Petrolatum really a terrible ingredient? What is the best conditioner for

Barbie doll hair? How do you counter false and misleading claims about cosmetic

ingredients and back to hair color is it

okay to use home hair coloring kits but first that in name chit chat I was so excited to

see you have finally launched your new thing that you have

going on for the porch kitties. Tell everyone about it. Well you know what in the past I've talked about porch kitties, right? And, you know, I've been feeding the

porch kitties probably for a year now. And now they'll just keep multiplying.

And so I've caught a few and got them fixed,

but I've been taking pictures and I always talked

to my wife about them and I'm like,

you know what, I should have an Instagram account for Porch Kitty yeah and then I looked up

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