Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. Today's episode is going to be so special because I am hosting a brand that I have absolutely fallen in love with. I think when it comes to the supplement world, I am extremely picky with what I choose for myself as a consumer. And so I've really fallen in love with this brand. And I think a lot of you, if you have tried it, relate. But without further ado, I want to introduce you guys the founder of Fat Mermaid, Teresa Palvukas. Welcome. Teresa, I'm so excited to host you. Hi, Ecta. Nice to meet you. Glad to be with you. I'm excited to host you, Teresa, because I've literally been using Fat Mermaid now for, I think, more than a month. And I've absolutely

fall in love with what you've created. And I can't wait to learn more about you, if you don't

mind walking us down memory lane. And you have such a phenomenal background. And it's so

impressive work you've done in the beauty industry with over 25 years of experience. So

walk us down memory lane. How did you get involved with

wanting to create your own thing? So nice. Thank you. All right. I want to spend too much time

my history because it could just go back quite a bit. But I started in advertising working on the

L'Oreal account, which got me really into beauty and just the whole beauty space. And other than

about one year in my career,

I never left beauty. So beauty is my thing. I love it. I think it's so fun in developing

products that make people feel better. So started in advertising, the big chunks of my career

were really a big strategic companies like L'Oreal and Estee Lauder. And that's where I learned how to do

beauty. I still say what would L'Oreal do in certain situations because they really created the

playbook, as did Lodder. So at L'Oreal, I was working on Mabelene and I ran the global

eye business. So that was great lash, pink and green mascara, liners, shadows, brow. That was for a few

years. So that was literally working with the lab, coming up with all the new products,

and then flying around to all the markets in the world and saying, this is what we're launching,

here's how it works. So working hand in hand with our own chemist was what really lit me up. So then the same for

Lauder. I actually went over there and I was working in the beauty bank division, which was,

I don't know if you remember, we were building out the Cole's beauty department. I started with

internet, but then I ended up working on brands. I worked on a brand called flirt and a brand called

American Beauty,

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