Why Beauty Hurts: Waxing, 2016 Makeup Trends, and Kendall Jenner Nose Discourse
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.6 • 771 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We’re kicking things off this week asking ourselves the eternal question: why do we willingly go get waxed?! The conversation is inspired by Marcello Hernandez’s painfully accurate bit about just how brutal beauty salons can be. On that note, we’re sharing a major listener-exclusive deal with SEV Laser — a free underarm laser hair removal treatment for first-time customers (!!).
Then we dive into What’s On Your Face?, including Saie’s new CitySet setting spray and Kirbie’s current lip-and-cheek MVPs. From there, we time-travel back to 2016 beauty trends — think blinding highlight, matte liquid lips, bold brows, mermaid makeup, and the YouTube era that made beauty feel playful, expressive, and empowering — and unpack why we’re all so nostalgic for that moment.
Finally, we break down the latest headline around Kendall Jenner denying plastic surgery, what Accutane can (and can’t) do to your nose, and why face-analysis culture online is getting increasingly out of hand.
Part of this episode is sponsored by Saie. We partnered with them on this content, but all thoughts and opinions are our own.
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| 0:00.0 | G.M. Los Angeles. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, Kirby. Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to Los Angeles. |
| 0:14.6 | Kirby, have you watched Marcelo Hernandez's stand-up special on Netflix yet? |
| 0:19.8 | No, but he's so cute. |
| 0:21.8 | He's one, so freaking cute. |
| 0:25.7 | Two, so funny. |
| 0:28.1 | It is so funny. |
| 0:30.7 | Matt and I were dying. |
| 0:31.7 | And I feel like I relate to a lot of his, like, immigrant stories and, like, having, like, |
| 0:37.1 | an immigrant mom and like not |
| 0:38.3 | being able to be depressed you're not allowed to be depressed um but he does this bit about |
| 0:44.0 | beauty salons and how women are violent um and like violent things and this all comes from a place |
| 0:51.8 | of like he loves his mom totally he. He mentions his mom all the time. |
| 0:55.5 | All the time. He brings his mom like everywhere he goes. But he grew up with his mom and his sister. |
| 1:01.3 | And so like he had to spend a lot of time like going places with his mom. So he went to like the beauty |
| 1:06.4 | salon with his mom a lot. But he talks about specifically waxing. |
| 1:12.5 | And he was like, I would be there in my soccer cleats because my mom would have to take |
| 1:16.7 | me. |
| 1:16.9 | And he'd watch her getting like a Brazilian, not like watching, but like behind the other side. |
| 1:22.0 | Yes. |
| 1:22.4 | And how like violent it is and how like intense women are. |
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