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Too Niche?

Plastic Surgery Summer & The Current State of Beauty with Jessica DeFino

Too Niche?

Bleav + What’s Your Journey?

Personal Journals, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.7560 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with beauty culture critic Jessica DeFino, creator of Flesh World, for a deep dive into the forces shaping beauty right now. We cover Skims’ face shapewear marketing, this summer’s facelift discourse frenzy, Goop’s lasting influence, and the politics behind today’s beauty standards.

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0:00.0

Okay, quick check-in. It's February. How are you doing with those intentions you set at the

0:06.2

beginning of the year? If things are already feeling a little fuzzy club artist's way might be

0:12.5

exactly what you need. It's my 13-week guided experience through the book The Artist's Way,

0:18.5

designed to help you reconnect with yourself, your interests,

0:22.0

build sustainable habits, and stay in conversation with your creative voice without burnout

0:28.6

or a focus on perfectionism. Club Artist Way meets weekly on Thursdays on Zoom, and this session

0:35.5

runs from February 19th through May 14th. So whether you've

0:40.0

done the Artist Way before or you're finally ready to start, enrollment is now open. Head to

0:45.8

Clubartisway.com for all the details and use the code niche for $50 off its sign up. I'd love to see you there.

0:55.7

What's up everybody? Welcome to sign up. I'd love to see you there. What's up, everybody? Welcome to To Niche. I'm your host, Elizabeth Cot. This is the show

1:00.5

where everything is a thrill and nothing is too niche. I thought I'd add the question

1:07.3

mark in there for you. Hope you guys have had a wonderful week.

1:11.6

This is a rare occasion where we're doing two episodes in a row.

1:16.7

This is to make up for the fact that I skipped a week.

1:19.7

If you guys are new here, we release new episodes every other Friday.

1:24.5

We had gone off course with that, so we're course correcting.

1:28.0

So we had a new episode last week, new episode this week. Next week we'll be off and then we'll back on our

1:33.7

every other week schedule. Just some house notes. Also, when it comes to house notes, I just want to

1:40.4

say that Club Artist's Way is now open for enrollment. You can find all the information

1:46.3

for that on Club ArtistWay.com. Club ArtistWay is the quarterly groups that I run working through

1:53.9

the Artists Way. It is such a special place to nurture your creativity, get in touch with

1:59.9

yourself, set personal goals and meet them with

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