Martha Stewarts Skincare Line, Skims Face Shapewear, $1,100 Perfume, Youthforia Closing, Our "holy grail" products & more w/ Meredith!
I Know You Didn't Ask with Megan O'Donnell
Megan O'Donnell
3.9 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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It’s time for your monthly dose of beauty tea 💅 — and we’re kicking things off with Martha Stewart launching a skincare line the day after her 84th birthday (!!), because apparently she’s aging backwards and decided we should too. Elm Biosciences is here, and it's giving A3O Complex, $135 serums, and oral supplements that’ll allegedly fix our hormones.
We’re also strapping in for Kim Kardashian’s latest cash grab: the SKIMS face wrap. Is it post-op chic? A Hannibal Lecter cosplay? Or just the soft launch of her face lift? You decide, while I gua sha my way to clarity.
Then we dive deep into the sad state of small beauty brands — from the heartbreaking shutdown of Ami Colé (a Black-owned powerhouse that deserved the world) to the downfall of Youthforia, which fumbled hard on inclusivity and learned the internet never forgets a bad foundation match. Spoiler: no one wants ink-black skin tints in 2025.
Also in the chat: the stunning new Violet Grey store and their $1,100 fragrance (don’t worry, we found you a dupe), a love letter to Vaseline, Russian manicures, and why fame is worth more than formulation in the current beauty economy.
Come for the beauty industry gossip, stay for the hot takes — and maybe a few product recs that won’t bankrupt you 💸
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| 0:16.3 | Welcome to I Know You Didn't Ask, the unapologetic, unfiltered, and slightly unhinged podcast you didn't know you needed. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host, Megan O'Donnell, pop culture obsessive, professional oversharer, and the host of your new favorite five-day-week fix for celebrity gossip, reality TV chaos, books, beauty tips, and of course navigating your life in your 30s. |
| 0:37.0 | I know you didn't ask, but I'm telling you anyways. Sit back, grab a drink, and enjoy the show. Welcome to I Know You Didn't Ask. I'm your host, Megan O'Donnell, and today is the first episode of beauty news here at I Know You Didn't Ask, where I will be breaking down the news of the beauty industry, as well as just chit chatting with the guests about the latest and greatest products in our lives. My Bessie Meredith is here today because she is the queen of all things beauty. If there is a brand that you're just hearing about, she's heard about it four years ago. She's the queen of a product recommendation and is here today to let us plebs know what is going on in the beauty world. Meredith, welcome to the show. And we also have an animal |
| 1:11.9 | guest who is so thrilled to be here. I think I can speak for both Ozzie and I. We are so excited |
| 1:18.9 | to be here, share everything we know about beauty. I mean, we're going to have to discuss what |
| 1:24.7 | Ozzy's skincare regimen is like. His skin is gorgeous. |
| 1:29.4 | I know. |
| 1:29.9 | Well, I guess it's not skin. |
| 1:30.9 | It's fur. |
| 1:33.5 | He's super shiny. |
| 1:35.6 | He does nothing. |
| 1:36.8 | I never bathe him. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, I don't bathe my dog enough either. |
| 1:40.9 | And sometimes I look at her and I'm like, you need a bath. |
| 1:44.0 | And then just a month goes by. He doesn't like he just, if he ever gets like he just doesn't. He won't step in a puddle. He won't step in mud. He just doesn't like it. Yeah, we don't go outside if it's raining. It's not even in something that we do. And sometimes when Margot feels like cooped up, Matt will like take her on the balcony and be like, look, this is why you're not out. |
| 2:02.6 | Because this is bad. This doesn't work for us. And that's beauty tip number one. Do not go out in the rain. |
| 2:08.9 | You guys, if you're interested in any of these products that we're talking about today, because today's going to be product heavy and not like shilling products, like talking about brands talking about companies and just |
| 2:19.8 | dropping little nuggets of incredible you know items that we found along the way so check out my |
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