Hello, it's Brooke de Vard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast.

Thank you guys for joining me for another week in quarantine.

We will get through this together.

For this episode, I really wanted to check in

with some of my previous guests, some faves

from past episodes of Naked Beauty

and just hear how they're doing. I also focused on people

that are kind of freelancers or beauty professionals, people that don't have a

typical nine to five job. So we've got Alicia, aka the Hair Artiste. She opened a salon called The Way in lower Manhattan.

It's only been open for a year. So I wanted to hear what it's like for her, coping during this time, but we also play a very fun game in this episode.

I ask all of the guests, what could you do on your own, beauty-wise, versus what should you leave up to the professionals and I go through

everything from hair coloring cuts is this the time to do dermatplaining can you do

your own nails what are some tips you have for deep conditioning hair masks and

spoiler alert? Alicia is not here for people coloring and cutting their hair at

home unless you are prepared to pay the consequence. I also talk to

Vic. You guys may remember her from her episode from student to stylist to

influencer. She's one of my favorite influencers to follow. She goes by Vic Stiles and she just has some really

amazing tips about how she's been able to figure out her beauty routine at home. She actually does

derma planning at home,

and she has a game-changing tip about how to do your own nails.

And I was like, why have I never thought about that?

She also shares some of her favorite sweatpants at the moment but also just

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