Jennifer Sanchez has been on Broadway (8 times as of this moment) and is a singer/songwriter who has an amazing story! She shared how she grew up in a military family with influences from her Mexican, Spanish, German and Japanese heritage. She studied music in school and graduated high school early. During her first year of college Jennifer got pregnant (and went into labor during a final!). Everyone in her life thought she would move back home and that would be it, but instead she started on an amazing journey with her son as her co-pilot. .Jennifer is a ball of light, joy, determination and silliness and was the perfect conversation to end our season with.

Josey and I got to discuss our top selling product, Tamanu Oil, and why it's so popular. We also go through the different uses for it as well as how it got added to our line in the first place.

Episode Call Outs:

• Erin's Faces Mineral Foundation (Jennifer is Natural Beige)
• Lineup pic of the foundation ladies
• The Michael Singer Podcast
• The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
• Erin's Faces Tamanu Oil

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Today’s guest is Digital Content Creator, Monique Cupid who has a really uncommon slant on aging – she loves it! She says it’s her superpower! Amazing, right? We get into the why and the how on it and it’s really inspiring and exciting. We also discuss societal beauty standards, black beauty standards and raising a black son in today’s landscape. Monique also shares some of her favorite clean beauty hair and skincare goodies.

Our #2 top product in our chat with Josey today is our Matcha Mascara. We talk about how it performs, why I made it and why it's lovely.

Episode callouts:

• Melanin Haircare African Black Soap Reviving Shampoo
• Lotus Moon Coconut Cream Hydrating Cleanser
• Marla Renee Beauty Tumeric Honey Gel Cleanser
• Erin’s Faces Rosewater Tonic
• Lotus Moon Tonic Rebalance
• Lotus Moon 360 Renewal Cream
• Erin’s Faces Argan Oil
• Erin's Faces Matcha Mascara

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This episode is really fun because our guest, Tara Jarrett, and I both have some epiphanies during our conversation and we get really jazzed about it! Tara is in real estate development where she literally creates communities and she also has a beauty community through her blog, Her Natural Way and her Instagram account.

Tara and I discussed a topic we’re both passionate about – redefining beauty – what does it mean and how can we feel more beautiful? Does it come from the perfect cream or lipstick or is it deeper than that? Spoiler alert – yes, it is deeper than that. She shares how a month of not wearing any makeup to work changed her life and how her new chapter in her mid 30’s is causing her to do some soul searching.

Our discussion with Josey today is about our Peptide SPF 30, #3 on our countdown of our top products. We talk about why sunscreen is important, how ours came to be and why it’s such a top-seller. Also – it’s game time for SPF as a concept so if you haven’t picked one up, whether it’s ours or someone else’s, please get on it!

The discussion Tara and I had encompasses so much of what I believe about the concept of beauty – it’s SO. GOOD. I hope that you love it!

Callouts from episode:

• RMS Beauty
• Vapour
• Figgy Co
• Blue Ridge Beauty Barn
• EPA’s stat - 90% of aging is due to sun damage
• Not skipping sunscreen as you get older – THIS article
• Renee Rouleau
• Erin’s Faces Micellar Water
• Erin’s Faces Peptide SPF 30
• Episode 9 where we discuss how to know if your sunscreen is “clean” or not – starts at 40:15

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Email: questions@beautyfullstories.com
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Lori Dalvi is a Shamanic Practitioner and Energy Healer. In today's episode, Lori shares her journey to and through shamanic work and gives us an example of how we can use it in our own lives. She talks about how the concept of “truth” is what leads her through the challenges in her life and how our connection to nature is what her work is all about.

New this week at Erin's Faces are our:

• Limited time "Plant More Flowers" Organic T-shirts
• Free packet of zinnia seeds with every order in May while supplies last
• Sunstick SPF 15 Watermelon Lip Balm

Today with Josey we are talking about our #4 product, our Extreme Moisture Balm and it’s delicious! If you’re in the market for a night cream stick around to the end.

Callouts:

• Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
• Erin’s husband dying her hair red during pandemic video
• Ondine Landa’s Beauty Full Stories Episode
• Four Winds Society

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Instagram: @erinsfaces
Email: questions@beautyfullstories.com
Website: erinsfaces.com

Stephanie Mero is a consumer advocate, certified wellness coach, cosmetologist and curly hair specialist,author, a new mom and she’s featured in Episode 4 of the new series on HBO Max, Not So Pretty, which is all about the hidden hazards in cosmetics.

Stephanie used hair products herself and on her clients which initially were wonderful and then later caused her hair to fall out, causing hair loss and bald spots in both her and her clients. It’s how her advocacy was born and she challenges brands to do better and calls for more transparency. We talked about her experiences with all of that as well as challenges that come with growing up with curly hair.

Number 5 in our top seller list discussion with Josey is our Fruit Smoothie Lip Gloss which makes me so happy because when we launched her last spring I had no idea if anyone would even wear lip gloss with all of the masks!

Callouts:

• Stephanie's main website - www.curlsandhealth.com
• Follow Stephanie on Instagram @steph.mero
• Erin's Faces Matcha Mascara
• Erin's Faces Fruit Smoothie Lip Gloss
• Stephanie's Facebook Group for Hair Damage & Loss
• Stephanie's Youtube channel
• HBO Max Not So Pretty
• Organic Way Haircare (Oway) - see link below
• www.holistichairtribe.com
• Stephanie's book – Cracking the Curl Code – a simple guide to effortless hair
• Stephanie's Hair Blog & Oway Hair Product Recs - www.curlpromise.com
• Stephanie's Clean Living Products & Recs - www.toxinguide.com
• Stephanie's petition for cleaner packaging - www.change.org/safepackaging

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Email: questions@beautyfullstories.com
Website: erinsfaces.com

Today’s guest is Dr. Serena H. Chen who is a Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist and all around super smart lady (@drserenahchen on Instagram). Dr. Chen graduated from Brown University in Providence Rhode Island. She attended Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, and then trained in Gynecology and Obstetrics and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Whether you’re trying to have a baby or not she drops so many specific wellness action steps that are simple but effective - hormonally, physically, mentally – you name it she has a great suggestion.

Our talk today with Josey is about our Peptide Eye Cream which is #6 on our countdown of our top-selling products. We get into a discussion on aging and how that can feel as our face changes.

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Quiana Agbai is a Boston-based, Ohio native who has been covering urban family life on her blog Harlem Lovebirds since 2009. A graduate of Wellesley College with 8 years of both ad agency and client-side experience, in 2014 Quiana launched Trifecta Media Group (TMG); a marketing, PR and graphic design firm catering to start-up companies. Beyond Harlem Lovebirds and TMG, Quiana is a Toastmaster, has served as the Community Outreach Lead for the Boston chapter of Moms Demand Action, and on the Leadership Collective of the Wellesley Racial Justice Initiative from fall 2017 - summer 2020 and is involved with several other community organizations as well.

During our conversation we talked about how she prioritizes being accessible to her family while running a successful business, raising children in today’s climate in terms of race and weight and her thoughts on social and racial justice. I fell IN LOVE with Quiana during our talk and I know that you will too.

Our conversation with Josey today is all about our Firming Eye Gel which great if you didn’t get sleep and you eyes need a depuff or you want something that will wear well under makeup.

Mentions from episode:

• The Nap Ministry
• Therapy for Black Girls

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We're back for Season 2 with our first guest, Whitney Austin! Whitney is the Executive Director of the Nonprofit, Whitney Strong which focusing on reducing gun violence across the country. She has a passion for this because she was shot multiple times during a mass shooting. She shares the story with us, how she pulled through it and how beauty ties in to her messaging. The pillars of her recovery are gratitude and hope.

In Erin’s Faces news we launched a new Fruit Smoothie Lip Gloss this week! The shade is called Starbright and it’s a cool toned berry shimmer. If you haven’t tried our glosses before they’re awesome – they’re made with organic ingredients, have glass packaging for easy recycling and aren’t sticky - honest!

If you’d like to pick one up, or anything else on the site!, you can use the discount code BEAUTYFULLSTORIES, at erinsfaces.com for 10% off your order.

We’re starting a new series with Josey where we’re walking through our top 8 products and answering client questions about them – today is our Rose Quench Serum.

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