Skincare School in Session! Hollywood Facialist Gina Mari On What You May be Getting Wrong in Your Skincare Routine

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

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4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, we welcome esthetician Gina Mari Jensen, named “Top Celebrity Facialist in Los Angeles” by Allure Magazine and one of the best “Red Carpet Facialists” by Violet Grey. Tune in as the bonafide skin expert (and former ballet dancer and stunt person) gets nerdy with us all about skin, just in time for fall.

You’ll hear about:

Why the career esthetician is a fan of “wet” skin treatments
The one face soap Gina actually thinks is good for your skin
The old-school, in-spa facial treatment she still swears by
The indie, editor-founded skincare brand she believes is truly worth the hype
Why Gina would never recommend a cortisone shot for a pimple
The pore treatment she says Carlene and her teenage daughter could benefit from

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:08.2	Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast, all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.
0:14.1	We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:23.8	Hello and welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. The podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.
0:27.9	I'm your co-host, Carleen Higgins, and I'm here with my delightful co-host Jill Dunn.
0:33.7	Hey, hey, pod fam.
0:35.2	Hey, Carlene.
0:36.2	I am so excited to be talking today all about skin care. It's like, of all of the topics that we do, it's just like, I can't get enough of this topic. And I feel like that's our audience as well. And I'm really excited about our guest today who's here to help all of us reset for fall. It's Gina Marie named top celebrity facelist in Los Angeles by
0:57.1	Allure magazine, one of the best red carpet facelist by Violet Gray, and bona fide skin expert.
1:04.0	Yeah, and Carleen, I don't know if you know this or not because Gina Marie is a modest individual,
1:08.5	but her background, she was actually on screen. She was an actress and she was like a stunt person. Like she's badass.
1:16.6	Wow, I had no idea. Yeah. And I think that is what sets her apart in Los Angeles. There's plenty of incredible
1:23.8	estheticians and facials, but they may not have been on the big screen themselves.
1:27.8	So she innately understands what's what that's like to look at your pores on an 4K,
1:34.5	60 foot screen.
1:36.4	So no wonder that it keeps the people coming back, you know?
1:39.9	Absolutely.
1:40.7	That and she's just a steel trap when it comes to to she will not name names who her celebrity clientele is.
1:49.0	She's really kind of old school that way, which I'm sure a lot of celebrities appreciate that kind of discretion.
1:55.0	Yeah.
1:55.3	And when it comes to Gina's skincare approach, it's all about skin renewal and preservation being the key word, you know,
2:02.3	really taking care of your skin, holding on to what you have for as long as you can.
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