“Life of a Showgirl” Fall! The #DamnGood Finds on our Wi$h Li$t. Plus: The Beauty Products Taylor Swift *Actually* Uses Herself

8 Oct 2025 · 1 h 1 min

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Breaking Beauty Podcast - Episode Summary

Podcast Information Title: Breaking Beauty Podcast Hosts: Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins Description: A beauty podcast where two former beauty editors share their insights on products, trends, and culture through a beauty lens.

Episode Title "Life of a Showgirl" Fall! The #DamnGood Finds on our Wi$h Li$t. Plus: The Beauty Products Taylor Swift *Actually* Uses Herself

Episode Description The hosts delve into a Taylor Swift-inspired beauty lineup in celebration of her latest album. They explore trending beauty products, fragrances, and discuss the lore surrounding Taylor Swift's beauty routine.

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Key Topics Discussed

  1. Introduction
  2. Hosts express excitement about discussing Taylor Swift's new album and its impact on beauty trends.
  3. Jill shares her recent journey as a beauty founder with Cassette Beauty.
  1. Taylor Swift’s Latest Album
  2. Theme: Life of a Showgirl
  3. Discussion on how Taylor's album influences beauty and fashion.
  4. Jill shares insights as a dedicated Swifty while Carlene provides contrasting opinions.
  1. Highlighted Beauty Products
  2. Fragrances:
  3. Lore’s “Somewhere But Nowhere” fragrance is recommended for its woodsy scent.
  4. Haircare:
  5. Discussion of Blake Lively's haircare brand and its reception.
  6. Iconic Fragrance:
  7. Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds is highlighted for its lasting power and cultural significance.
  1. Taylor Swift's Personal Favorites
  2. The hosts reveal the beauty products that Taylor uses, including her mascara and glitter patches.
  1. Track-by-Track Breakdown
  2. Fate of Ophelia: Explores themes of avoiding tragic endings; exemplifies Taylor's storytelling.
  3. Elizabeth Taylor: Discusses parallels between Taylor Swift and Elizabeth Taylor's romantic lives.
  4. Actually Romantic: A playful response to Charlie XCX's diss track, emphasizing Swift's dominance in the industry.
  5. Honey: A love letter to Travis, underlining the transformation of the term "honey."
  6. Canceled: A tribute to Blake Lively, emphasizing loyalty and the essence of true friendship.
  7. Ruin the Friendship: Explores risks in friendships, paralleling with Taylor's own life experiences.
  1. #DamnGood Finds
  2. The hosts share their current beauty wish list including products inspired by the album's themes:
  3. Timelines Skincare: Highlighted for its innovative approach to skincare.
  4. Nutrafol: Discussed for its effectiveness in promoting hair growth.
  5. Canopy Humidifier: Recommended for its benefits to skin health.
  1. Conclusion
  2. The hosts encourage listeners to engage with the episode and share their thoughts.
  3. Listeners are invited to check out the podcast's blog for product links and promo codes.

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Key Takeaways

  • Cultural Impact: Taylor Swift’s influence extends beyond music to include significant trends in beauty and fashion.
  • Authenticity: Swift’s choice to not endorse mainstream beauty products adds to her unique position in the industry.
  • Product Recommendations: The episode blends pop culture with practical beauty advice, making it relatable for listeners.

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0:00The following podcast is a Dear Media Production.

0:07Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. We're your hosts, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.

0:20Welcome back to Breaking Beauty podcast, everyone. I'm one of your co-hosts, Jill Dunn, and I'm here with Carleen Higgins. We, of course, are two magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. And now Carlene is also a beauty founder. What? I can't believe it. So surreal. Yeah. So last week we dropped two episodes, one of which was on Wednesday. And that was where you introduced your amazing new skincare brand called Cassette Beauty. And they should go back and listen because you are now on your founder journey. Yes, I'm on my founder journey. And so I tell you all about it in that episode.

0:53It's very exciting. It's been a hell of a week. We also had a bonus episode on Friday with a... With Jamie Holmes from Timeline Skincare. That's right. And we talk all about the art of the rebrand. So go back and listen to that as well. I know. And I can see on the back end. And it's so exciting. And not all the orders were my friends. So that's... That's great. There were definitely some people supporting and I appreciate that so much. And today we are doing a very fun hashtag damn good episode. And in more than our 400 episodes, these are our most popular. but today we want to do a little bit of a spin.

1:29Yes, we're doing a spin. Again, we're putting our editor hats on. Back in my magazine days, there was a hot minute when I had a page that I created called Makeup in a Movie. And it was like a focus on a movie that was coming out that month. And then all of the products that were inspired or part of that theme, it was just like a fun thing to do. So I love that we're doing that today. And the theme is all around Taylor Swift's hot new album. The life of a showgirl. And we are recording this a mere, not even 12 hours after the album has come out. So we have thoughts. Yes. And we have a lot of fun products to talk about.

2:10Some are brand spanking news. Some are icons that are in this vein or in this theme. And like Taylor, loathe Taylor. There's no question. She is influencing beauty. She is influencing fashion. She is the music industry, as Barbara Walter said. Yeah, she is. She's influencing the zeitgeist right now, really. Jill is a bonafide Swifty. Wearing the shirt. She is. And so she's going to be giving like factoids about the album. We're going to go through the song list and she's going to be shedding a lot of light on what these songs mean because there's so many Easter eggs in Taylor Swift songs. That's what I've learned from Jill.

2:53I am not a Swifty, though. So I'm going to be just adding like insights based on the song names and based on what it reminds me of. And so that's why I'm saying even if you're not a Swifty, you're going to love today's episode. We're just having fun. It's not my genre of music that I prefer, but I have huge respect for the woman. Yes. Like I do because I see her, what she does as her own, like she's like a business person slash artist, talent and artist. To me, she's like the modern day Elvis. And so another thing about Taylor Swift is that she doesn't talk a lot about like her beauty routine.

3:33She doesn't promote a lot of products where it's Like you have, I mean, she, back in the day, she was a cover girl. Right. She was a cover girl model. We remember that while she had ads in the magazines that we worked for. Right. I think it was that, that clean, natural mascara, if I'm not mistaken. She also has had a perfume called Wonderstruck, which is a Lauren of itself. And when she had a Tumblr, she talked a lot about beauty. But you don't see her out here like all of the other celebrities who have contracts. Never. They've all got contracts. And you can imagine Prada and everybody else is probably knocking on her door and she's just like, no, I'm I'm good.

4:11What was your first impression of the album? My first impression was it's it's like standard Taylor Swift. OK, that was my first impression. It was very like Taylor Swift. That's all I can say. It's like the typical storytelling that she does with the Easter eggs, all of that. No surprise that there were there was a lot of alluding to her new life, you know, as a wife to be and kind of slowing down. And I guess it's that idea of like behind the curtain, what she's feeling, the pressure of being on stage all the time. And so it was as expected. Interesting. How about you? I think that this is an album for the masses.

4:51Okay. I think it's a complete antidote from where we were with sad girl Taylor. She's out of her tortured poet era, obviously. And she's onto the show girl era. And if I had to sum this up. I texted this to a friend this morning. Taylor's dick is figuratively and literally on the table with this album. She is talking about her redwood tree inspired man's junk, basically. And she is also talking about how her dick is bigger than the guy who initially signed her and everything. But first impression is just like she is very confident. She is very honest and she doesn't give a hoot about what the industry is going to say about her because she owns the industry now.

5:34Yeah. Well, it's pretty much the whole cover of the album. So she is wearing like a Diamante bra. And just so people in case people haven't seen it, that, you know, there's kind of like the plumes and the feathers and, you know, the bright lipstick. And I think she's wearing a Diamante crown or something. So it's very showgirl in the bath. So to me, this album is like the juxtaposition. It's just like what is behind it all. So with all of that being said, let's get into it after the jump.

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8:06Now back to the show. Hi, I'm Moshe Kasher, and I would like you to meet my thick-ass thang. I guess that's me. I'm Natasha Leggero. We are comedians, and we're married, and we do a relationship and life advice show called The Endless Honeymoon Podcast, and here's the exciting part. We want to advise you. We're a no-judgment zone, so anything you want to ask about, it's all good. Yes, send us your questions to EndlessHoneymoonPod at Gmail, and tune in to the Endless Honeymoon podcast on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you like to listen.

8:45Okay, so the first song on the album, The Fate of Ophelia. Yes. Now, Ophelia is obviously a Shakespeare character. So for a bit of background, Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet that was written around 1599 to 1601. She is a young noble woman of Denmark and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. Due to Hamlet's actions, Ophelia ultimately enters into a state of madness that leads to her drowning. There's the literal background. Jill, what did you glean from this song? Well, Taylor has, first of all, this is the lead track. So that says a lot. And it also is something we haven't seen yet.

9:26when this episode comes out, there is a proper music theatrical release of the music video for this song that's going to be in theaters starting tomorrow. So we haven't seen. Now, my dream for this song is that she hired like Elizabeth Berkley, literally from Showgirls and is like going like because she's going to the theater to release it. She could have just put it on YouTube. It could have been an email. So I'm very curious what she's going to do with the theatrical nature of of this particular song. But this is very in-depth. You see Jill is deep in it. Okay. Well, you know, Taylor inspires it.

10:04You think beyond. Yes, yes. But the fate of Ophelia, I think it's just like about avoiding that fate that Ophelia has. And Taylor has talked about when you watch Titanic or when you watch Hamlet or what have you, about turning the movie off before the bad shit happens to the female character. So this whole nature of this song is about that, where she's rescued by the heiress tour. She now owns her masters. She's rescued by love, whatever. So I think that it is very much about that, turning off the movie before it gets sad. And avoiding these fates. Yes. Well, interestingly, I googled Ophelia in the context of beauty.

10:50And what I realized is that Ophelia has inspired a lot of fragrances. Now, some of them, you'll find them on Etsy and they're very obscure. But there is a British fragrance house called Healy Perfumes, Healy Parfum. And they are created by James Healy. And he's a designer who's based in Paris. And his fragrances are very artisanal and he creates them himself. Like, I feel like I would be all over this. He had a fragrance called Ophelia that it looks like maybe has been discontinued. Well, it turns out that you can buy just a tiny little, the little testers of the fragrance that are, I don't know, five mils or something of Ophelia on the Healy website.

11:39It's$3.50, except they're not shipping to North America right now due to tariffs. But if you happen to be listening from the UK and you want to let it and it says too pretty for words, the Shakespearean character of Ophelia has inspired writers, poets and artists for centuries. The absolutes of Jasmine, Ylang Ylang and Tuberos evoke the romantic sensual femininity of Ophelia. Fresh green aquatic notes combined with orange flower reflect her purity and eternal youth. Amazing. So there you go. I think she's used Ophelia in a lot of her imagery in the Aeros tour as well. Like the witchy parts of her dancing around in like Evermore and stuff.

12:23I think it's the green dress and like all of that. I think she's very much been inspired by Ophelia. And also somebody on TikTok pointed out that there's a 2012 movie called Savages. And Blake Lively plays a character named Ophelia, which is her whole story arc is inspired by the Shakespearean thing. So there's many takes on Ophelia over the years. Yes. So that's the first song decoded by the Breaking Beauty hosts, everyone. I love it. Next song on the list is Elizabeth Taylor. I feel like I've got the number on this song. So the whole thing about Elizabeth Taylor, well, number one, she was the first actress to command$1 million for her performance in Cleopatra.

13:10This was back in the 60s. But she was as well-known offscreen as she was on screen for her tumultuous love life. Yes, that's of course. She was married eight times. Yes, and Richard Burton twice. Exactly. Yes. To seven different men. So I think that what this song is about is kind of like with Taylor Swift, of course, before her current lover, is that she fell in love many times. they could not handle her as a star. Yes. And I think that's what she's saying about Elizabeth Taylor is like these guys want her as like on their arm. They want to have fun. But when it really comes down to it, they cannot handle being in her shadow.

13:55And so she has finally found this. So this is why she talks about Portofino, which is a place where Elizabeth Taylor, she stayed there. And so that's what she's directly referring to. And I think it's just that idea of like men cannot handle being in women's shadow. Now, I had a literal thought. I was like, well, I need to call in White Diamonds, Elizabeth Taylor. Yes. Because love it or loathe it, it is the most iconic celebrity perfume of all time. Yep. It launched in 1991, which kind of shocked me because I think of it as a very 80s perfume. Do you know what I mean? Yes. A very white floral.

14:34I called it in. let me tell you guys, it's white floraling. This, when you hear about perfumes in 2025 and the complaints on Sephora are, this doesn't last, this doesn't last. You want a perfume that lasts? Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds. It will be with you for days if you want it to be. Yes. I smelt it as soon as I got into the studio. I am wearing it today. Speaking of overshadowed, my poor fragrance is completely dying a slow death over here. And it's actually really affordable. It's 30 U.S. dollars on Amazon. Oh, wow. And I got the... Did we show it? This is Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds.

15:15It's got the Diamante kind of ring around the cap. It looks... The actual juice itself looks like this peachy amber color. Like it may have gone a little off. Yeah. Yeah, you would think. From the 90s. But it's not. And it has... Guess how many reviews it has on Amazon. Oh, my gosh. I don't know, 50 ,000? 25 ,000. Wow. Which I thought was significant. Yeah. And what I thought was so iconic, and I need to shout this out, is because she was such a proponent of helping individuals who were suffering AIDS, 20 % of the sales from this fragrance in perpetuity go to AIDS charities. Amazing. So she was just humanitarian, incredible, incredible businesswoman, as you said.

15:59And toward the end of her life, it was said that Liz Taylor, the white sales from white diamonds is basically was her main source of income. Yeah. Not surprisingly. Wow. Wow. And the top notes are lily, neroli and bergamot. Middle notes are ylang ylang, tuberose, rose, jasmine, violet. Base notes are sandalwood, amber and musk. You definitely get that muskiness. Oh, definitely. And there's a little patchouli in there too. But I just think it's of a certain era. That's for sure. It's so funny because I'm, like I said, there's a fragrance I'm going to talk about later in today's episode. And I'm like, wow, the contrast of a 80s, 90s fragrance compared to now.

16:40It's just absolute night and day. Now I will say just quickly as an aside, what has been rumored and I think confirmed is that Taylor loves herself personally, Tom Ford's Santal Blush. Oh yeah. Now, let's move on to the next song title, Opalite. Yes. So first of all, just for background, the Opalite crystal meaning is associated with emotional healing and a sense of calm. This stone is said to help us release negative energy and emotions and to open up our hearts to love. I think it's really, this is my favorite song so far after like listening a couple times. It's a banger. It really is a bop.

17:19And I can't wait to listen to this and dance around with my friends. I think it just exudes her finding peace and happiness. And I think it just has a lot of joy. And she was talking about how opalite is like manmade. Yeah. Right. And how isn't it something to do with like certain lights of it can make it look really blue and some of it can make it look a little darker, more like a moonstone. Yeah. So I think it's about like that perspective of shifting. Like you are in charge of your own happiness. Ultimately, are you making the opalite look blue or are you making it look dark? You know, and I think that's the deeper meaning behind this.

17:57But ultimately, I just feel a lot of joy when I'm listening to it. Yeah. If you're interested in walking the opalite look, first of all, I just got an email from Missouri, which is good timing, that Opal, they have a whole edited Opal collection. Although Opal is also Libra's birth sign, which is right now that we're recording this, September 23rd to October 22nd. So good timing for them. But on the beauty front, Clay DePoe luminizing face enhancer,$125 US dollars in Canada, probably going to be closer to 150. We know that these are like prized collectible possessions. Launched October 1st. So the luminizing face enhancer, I think they always kind of re-release it and they tweak it just a little bit.

18:46It's in a compact. It's an exquisite highlighting powder, says the press release, inspired by the brilliance of the precious opal for creating a captivating 360 degree radiance that flatters with every turn. So you apply it. It's just like a highlighter. Okay. And this one that they are launching for the holiday is a limited edition. It's number 110 radiant pea fowl. It's a glowing pink palette that draws inspiration from the tail feathers of a peacock. So this is kind of like, if you think about the Guerlain meteorites, you know, all the different colors that are in that little pot. This is almost like a flattened version of that in a compact that you can apply with a brush just really lightly.

19:33Really beautiful for all of the holiday parties that are coming and on trend with all things opal. All right. So moving on, we have Father Figure. What's your take on this song? This is where she's putting her BD energy on the table. Yes. So this is basically, I'm used to reading it and not seeing it, but it's like interpolation, I believe is how you say it. So it's basically taking some of George Michael's father figure song and she got permission to use. And he is listed as a writer on this song. And it's basically about Scott Borchetta, who got her into the whole industry, signed her when she was really young.

20:12And the song is about how she's turned the tables now and her dick is bigger. And she says that line in the song. And it's really just about her power and her ownership of her. Because this is the first album where she has officially owned all of her work. Yay! So this is kind of just a bit of a f*** you, I think, to Scott Borchetta. And that's my take on it. Yes, I think that's pretty clear. It's like businesswoman special. Absolutely, absolutely. So now George Michael did not have any affiliation that I know of with any beauty products in his time. Did he have a cologne or anything? He should have.

20:57Like, I mean, he is 90s fashion. Yeah, absolutely. You know, not father figure, but the other one. Freedom! Yeah, yeah. Like Linda Evangelista. I know. It's so great. It's so true. He apparently his personal cologne was widely known to be Jean-Paul Codier Le Mans, which actually makes perfect sense. Ah, okay. That he wore. it wasn't necessarily that he was the face of it or anything. And I think with her boldness in this track, I definitely think it is reminiscent of her signature red lip, which we all know is Pat McGrath. This has been confirmed. Pat McGrath, liquid lust, legendary wear matte lipstick in shade Elson, which is 34 US dollars and 51 in Canada.

21:39This is the one she wears on stage when she's feeling her most powerful. And Pat McGrath herself was in her bejeweled music video. So we know there's a relationship there having that f*** you moment. Yeah, absolutely. I think that was my favorite song on the album, by the way.

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23:50Now, next song on the lineup, Eldest Daughter. Yes. Now, doing a little bit of Googling, there is something called Eldest Daughter Syndrome. Yes. I don't know if you know this. Yes, it's a TikTok. talk, trope, and meme. Interesting. Okay. So this describes the pressures and responsibilities often placed on them. Strengths can include responsibility, leadership, and independence, while challenges involve stress, perfectionism, and a tendency to neglect their own needs to care for others. Well, anybody who has an eldest sister can attest like they are the ones buying all the Christmas gifts or getting their group check going, what are we doing for Christmas?

24:34Right. What are we doing? Like they take on all this responsibility, whether they are, whether they need to or not. Right. They become a parental figure of themselves. Yeah. I was away last weekend with like 13 of my friends and I was like, I love being away with eldest daughters. Yeah. And moms because they take care of everything. Yes. You don't have to think about it at all. And so I kind of think that theme is here in this song where Taylor's finally going, I had to do everything and now I found this love and I can just be like me and relax a little bit yeah I mean I thought it was interesting she she sort of talks about if I'm not if I'm not getting it confused with another song she talks about you know the trolls and the comments on social media and everything and how it does hurt but she's gonna just keep going she's like I'm not gonna abandon you right I feel like this song is a kind of a love letter to her fans that's like, I love and hate this job that I have.

25:34Right. I think that's the theme of the whole album. Okay. And, you know, but I'm going to keep doing it for you because I'm the eldest daughter in this relationship. Yeah. And I'm just going to keep going. Yeah. Even though, going back to George Michael, is like the, we eat our icons. We chew them up and we spit them out. just like kind of with George Michael. He couldn't live his authentic self. Right. And so that's how I interpret this song. Now, I just happened to Google who would be an eldest daughter in the world of beauty. And do you know who I found? Helena Rubinstein. She was a Polish and American businesswoman, an art collector and a philanthropist and a cosmetics entrepreneur.

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26:24Of course, She was the founder of Helena Rubenstein, and that made her one of the world's richest women. She was the eldest of eight daughters. That brand is still around, Helena Rubenstein. We don't know a lot about it because it's not in North America, but it is in Europe. And in fact, just in July of this year, they signed Adriana Lima as the face. I've been to the counter at Gallery Lafayette. Oh, yeah. Because it's, you know, there's that whole musical, too, that's like Elena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden. They were rivals coming at her. And they really like spurred each other on and stuff.

27:02There's so many examples of like eldest daughters doing the most. All right. Next song on the lineup, Ruin the Friendship. Yeah. This one made me tear up. Yeah. A lot of people were speculating initially that this song was going to be about Blake Lively. Taylor loves to do this. Yeah, because the headlines were going that are they on again? Are they off again? Yeah. But it very became very clear that this was not about a female at all. Right. And we will talk about Blake Lively a little bit later with another song. Yes. But this song is actually about obviously a past lover who was a friend and ruining the friendship as in like, shall we make out?

27:42Shall we take this step, take this chance and potentially ruin the friendship? Would it be worth it? is the gist of the song. Am I right? Yeah. I mean, I think it kind of samples a bit from her folklore era where she made up songs. And I don't think that this is necessarily about a Taylor specific scenario, but it's about looking back on your life and not having taken a chance on something that maybe you thought there's something there, but I don't want to ruin the friendship in life though. So maybe it's metaphorical. Okay. Well, it's, uh, you guys can weigh in on, in our Facebook chat room and on Instagram.

28:22I did think of a product for it though. What I always find funny about Taylor and Travis when they're out to dinner and they have been paparazzi so many times, every time they are out to dinner, they're snogging, they're making out. And I think the Ruin the Friendship song reminded me of her like signature lipstick, which is NARS Morocco. It's one of their original 12 lipsticks that NARS ever came out with. It's like an orange matte cinnamon, warm cinnamon color. She wears it all the time. She wore it on New Heights to talk about her, her album, dropping this album. She wears it on the red carpet.

28:56She wears it. She loves it. And so I just picture ruin the friendship. If you do go for it, you're going to not hold back and you're going to be smudging your lipstick. And I feel like she, Travis always has her foundation all over his nose and her lipstick is always messed up. Oh, that's so funny. But I would say if I had to guess, she would probably say that he's her best friend now. Oh, she said that. She just said that on the BBC radio this morning. Exactly. So maybe I feel like as somebody, when you get married, it's like you don't know what's going to happen, but you just take the step. Right.

29:36You know, so I wonder if it's about that. But I just want to say, I think we need to give some original credit. Yeah. Demi Lovato had a song called Ruin the Friendship. OK. It was from her 2017 album. Tell me you love me. Right. And the lyrics are pretty obvious. They she talks about a strong attraction and the idea of taking a risk, even if it might ruin the friendship. When it came out, a lot of speculation online was that it was inspired by Demi's longtime friendship with Nick Jonas. And so I just thought it was kind of crazy that there's a song literally with the same name, not that long ago.

30:19And really, it's literally about the same concept, the same idea of taking that friendship one step further. So, so right. I don't know if anybody else is going to call, call out this parallel, but I saw it. I will just say as a side, love Demi, that she's doing so well. There was a point there where I was quite concerned about her, but she seems really happy. Yes. And she's taking a piss out of herself on it, the internet, which I always think is fun and good to do. And she's, she's back. So yeah, I hadn't heard that song, but I will take a listen to it for sure. I literally wondered if it was a cover or a collab.

30:56Like I had no, it's, it's kind of weird. Yeah. Anyway, next song. This is a spicy one, actually romantic. Yes. And spicy in the sense it's a little, it's dramatic romantic. Yeah. There's drama here. There's beef. There's beef. Yes. Tell us about that. Okay. So in short, when Charlie XCX came out with Brat era, defining her in her own way, Brat in summer of 2024, for I'm obsessed with that album. She has this song and she talks about her insecurities in being in the same room as someone as big as Taylor Swift. She doesn't come out right and name her, but she does talk about that. And I just love that album.

31:39Everything about Brad is so frigging iconic. And she's talking about such deep things and just puts them in these, like a set you would hear at the boiler room or whatever. So Taylor has done a rebuttal with this song called Actually Romantic. And she's basically saying, oh, isn't it cute? Like you wrote a diss track about me and I had no idea we had beef. That's the idea. And she, I'm not like, I think the song is good. It kind of gives me like teenage dirtbag Weezer vibes. Yeah. But I didn't love that she went there. I just feel like right now Taylor's on top of the world. Why does she need to punch down?

32:21But what's your take? Yeah, no, I agree with you. And I thought it was interesting because when I listened to that song that we talked about before, Eldest Daughter, I think it was. And you're listening to the lyrics of that one. She talks about she says something to the effect of like, I'm not a bully. I'm not savage like that. But kind of the kind of thing where she's like, I'm just a softy, but like, I'm going to keep going, guys, for you. But then this song is like, wait a minute. This is pretty savage. Well, I actually was thinking while I was getting ready this morning, maybe it's not so coincidental that she dropped this album on Mean Girls Day on October 3rd.

33:03What's Mean Girls Day? Well, Mean Girls, you know, in the movie Mean Girls. Oh, right. And she turned and he asked me what the date was. I said October 3rd. I actually think diabolically Taylor might have done that on purpose and she does shit like that. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So I just was like, did you need to go there with Charlie? Now, Charlie has said lots of shit about Taylor off, not on her album and stuff too, but like they have beef because Charlie is married to George, who's in the 1975 and that's the lead singer was Maddie Healy, which obviously Taylor was involved with yada yada. So there there's personal stuff there.

33:41So she that's that's kind of I think where why it goes a little bit why it goes there. But I don't think she needed to go there. Yeah. No, I agree. Anyway, I guess it's a way of taking the high road in a sense where it's like if somebody is dissing you, you can actually take it as a compliment. They're spending their energy on you is what actually romantic is about when you listen to the lyrics. It's like, oh, I didn't know that you cared about me so much that you would spend the time writing a song about. It's like I live rent free in your head. Yeah, exactly right exactly to borrow a term um anyway we talked about the fact that taylor doesn't have a beauty line and she doesn't do campaigns all of that charlie xcx does though she is currently a brand ambassador for valentino beauty uh this fall she is the face of valentino beauty puffer gloss it is a multifunctional lip product that acts as a gloss plumper and oil yeah and uh She highlighted this product during her performance at Coachella in April 2025, where she showcased the gloss in the shade In My Glowing Era.

34:49Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Over Valentino's Spike Buttery Matte Lipstick. So there you go. There you go. Factoid on Factoid.

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36:55Now, next song, Wishlist. My most hated of the... Oh, interesting. So it sounds like this song and it's spelled wish like W-I dollar sign H-L-I dollar sign T. So it sounds like she's just kind of taken the piss and she's like she's grown up now. So it's like let all the other youngsters go and do get that bag, whether they're like the face of a campaign or they're just, you know, doing every single thing to to get that money and that fame. where now what she's getting ready for, what she really wants is a basketball hoop and a driveway and two kids, she says, and all of the things. So I have a gift idea for what I'd be gifting to Taylor Swift for her new era.

37:47It is the Fortuna Skin Beneath the Olive Tree Holiday Kit. It's$265 US with a$380 value. And you know what's cool about this holiday gift set, Jill? is that it has Fortuna Skin, which I love. I love their oil. Everything's made at like an olive farm in Italy for real that they own. So it includes the bi-phase moisturizing oil that I love and artisanal bar soap, but also some of their food products that's grown on the farm as well. So their olive oil, the LX-R06, you know, she can put that with a little bit of bread and feed it to Travis. And also black bee honey in there and olive leaf botanical tea.

38:34So this is a kit that has beauty products and food and home products. Each product is crafted from their botanicals grown on Fortuna's organic farm that's dedicated to protecting the land, preserving farm workers' jobs and safeguarding rare species of plants and animals like the bees. I just don't know that she cares that much. Well, she may not. But for our listeners who care, Yeah. It's not all just marketing. We do know that Taylor Swift, by the way, uses Tracy Martin's facial products. Oh. The Amla Purifying Cleanser and apparently the Tracy Martin Lotus Sculpt iPads. At least she did in 2014 when she sent out this like curated, kind of like a curated box of her beauty favorites with handwritten notes to certain fans.

39:18They're designed to moisturize, calm, and diminish the appearance of lines and wrinkles around the eyes. Okay. So she did a gift to fans And that was what she what she used at that time. OK, next song would. What are we saying? Oh, my God. This song, I was like. My hand was over my mouth, like when you hear the first time your jaw just drops, it is. I think I missed something because I didn't have that reaction. So you tell me what I have. This is her horniest song she's ever written. What? Yes, girl. Okay. We were listening to like two different versions, I swear. Okay. So this song, Taylor says, she said, when she did a little press junket, some of the things have leaked.

40:06She talked about this on iHeartRadio. She sort of like queued up every song and they like played it at midnight or whatever. And she said, this song is about superstitions, like, you know, knocking on wood or when like a black cat runs in your path. It's about superstitions and, you know, knocking on wood. And then she's like, and, you know, it's just like a really in-depth love song is what she said and just left it there. And I think she's probably today maniacally laughing at how everybody is reacting to it online because I need to pull up the lyrics before I. OK, I took it at face value. OK, what did you think?

40:41No, I thought it was about the about these superstitions. And basically what she says in the song is, girls, I don't need superstition anymore. I have the I have the lock. I have the guy. Right. I don't need to like keep your don't throw your bouquet at me because I already have the rock coming. That was that's what she said. People online have been saying she's hypnotized by him. And like in her previous album, she talked about how no one's ever had me. Not quite like not quite like you. And she's had all these innuendos. And here she is literally hitting us over the head with like, you guys don't even understand what I've got.

41:19going on here. So the chorus goes, forgive me. It sounds cocky. He ah-matized me and opened my eyes. Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see. His love was the key that opened my thighs. Girls, I don't need to catch the bouquet. To know a hard rock is on the way. And baby, I'll admit I've been a little superstitious. The curse on me was broken by your magic wand. Seems to be that you and me, we make our own luck. New Heights, New Heights of manhood. I ain't got a knock on wood. New Heights is his podcast name. He's taking her to New Heights of manhood. Anyways, it is. Wow. I feel enlightened. And the fact that she put he ah-matized me when online everybody's saying she's dick-matized.

42:11She's like in a trance. Wow. Right. Okay. Well, that that was genius. You see, my appreciation is growing. Now, when we think about beauty and wood, we think about fragrance. Do we? I do. I think about woody fragrances. Okay. That is not what I'm thinking about after this song. Well, I mean, in the beauty, in the realm of beauty, and I'll tell you who is coming in with some big D energy in the beauty space and it's Melanie Bender with Lore. Okay. Okay. Lore Fragrance came out just a few weeks ago. And it is, you know, she basically says on her Instagram, like people really, so Melanie Bender for background, she's been on our show.

42:52Yeah. And she was the CEO of Road Beauty with Kelly Bieber. Short live, but yes. And they were on our show. She was with Versed Skincare. She was there from the beginning with versed and helped to kind of grow that and scale that. And so Melanie Bender came out on our Instagram and basically in so many words said, people never thought that I had the main character energy. And like, this is me now, like I'm going for it. She's all in on the branding. It's all about storytelling and creating this whole world. It's very poetic. I would say Taylor Swift would appreciate perhaps. Okay. The fragrance I'm wearing today is Lore Somewhere But Nowhere Eau de Parfum,$88 US, not available in Canada yet, exclusive to Sephora.

43:40Melanie herself sent me this sample with a personal note before it launched. I feel very privileged. She also did it just by the way, guys, with the two founders of Youth to the People Skin Care, industry veterans coming up with this concept. And they just, if they do that, it's just like the playbook. They know it. They just go and knock right on Sephora's door and say, we're here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But it's a lore world. She's creating a world around it. It's very like sexy, youthful, travelly, very into it. So are you wearing it today? I am. This is why I said you're completely opposite.

44:17Your white diamonds completely wiped out my lore fragrance. So the fragrance is earthy and woody. It's a warm woods is the scent type. The keynotes are cedar wood, not morning wood, Jill, get your head out of the gutter, cedar wood, vanilla cream, and cardamom. And people are saying that it is kind of a dupe for Centel 33. Now I'm getting it a bit more. Now it's got a similar structure, the wood, it's got leather and creamy notes, but it also has black tea, cardamom, and a slightly different spice profile. So I agree with you. I think it has a little bit more of that like green quality to it. Yeah, like the cedar.

44:58I don't know. It's not the cedar wood. It's like the cedar needles or whatever. Yeah, it's a little bit different, I think. But just to put it in perspective, this is kind of genius. Le Labo Santel 33, which is iconic at this point. It's 240 US dollars. Yeah. For a bottle. Well, that's what like Byrito is. Absolutely. But I think she's quite genius because she's positioning Laura to be in this universe of Byredo and all of that. Like she even has some setups in her Instagram with different fragrances. And like Laura is right up there with those big guns in the photograph. But it's only$88. Okay, great.

45:43For basically the same size. So I think she's coming for these bigger kind of indie, they're hand designed from glass and aluminum. It says, our bottle is inspired by the experimental work of Parisian glassmaker Andre Tourette from 1918. He passed away in 1965. And they're also refillable, which I love. I think fragrance should be refillable. That's what we should be doing. okay well it's it's definitely a moment yes and uh congrats to melanie i think it's wonderful i think especially for the money it's wonderful so let's move on to the next song because we're running out of time yeah canceled uh this one's juicy yes okay go off she says she just says it all basically you know the blake lively of it all the you know everybody was speculating that ruined the friendship was about Blake Lively.

46:41Well, Taylor is saying in this song canceled with her whole chest, she's standing with Blake Lively. She rides, she's dying with her. She's just basically saying, I've been in that dark place. I've been canceled before they really even had a name for it. And I'm not going to turn my back on my friends. And I know what the real truth is. And basically I'm sure Taylor could, can't, she's never issued a public statement. She's never even really been seen with Blake. Probably doesn't want to like fan the flames. But again, she's speaking through her art. Yeah. And she's making it known, ten toes down, that she's on Blake's team.

47:16That's right. Yeah. That's right. What did she actually say? She says, I like my friends layered in Gucci and controversy or something. Just one sec. Scandal. Gucci and scandal. Yeah. Love that. Makes things spicy. Now, on the tip of Blake Lively, I think there's been quite a bit of speculation about her hair care brand because a lot of people really felt that it was kind of not the most authentic thing in the world. Interestingly, though, I was listening to the Beauty Brains podcast the other day. Didn't even know they were still around. They're still putting out episodes. Oh my God, wow. And Valerie George had an astute insight because of course they're cosmetic chemists, so totally different take than us.

48:01And what she had said was that Blake Lively's products were actually legitimately very good, very well formulated for the price. She was very impressed that for the money, she was like, I think they're excellent products. And the fan favorite, just so people know, is the Milky Sandalwood. It's called Blake Brown, by the way. Yeah. Milky Sandalwood Rich Reset Pre-Shampoo Mask. It's$25 US. It's a pre-shampoo mask that is commonly described as being very effective for restoring softness, smoothing and reducing tangles. Yeah, I think that this song is going to help Blake Lively's career, not career, but Blake Lively's product line to surge again because she couldn't even be out here promoting it whatsoever because she started promoting it tied to the movie.

48:52Right. Lesson, hard lesson learned. That's right. The hair in the campaign was what I thought was really bad. Do you remember it? It was like she was basically saying the whole premise was like, we don't need conditioner. Do you remember that? Yeah. So there's no conditioners in the line. Yes. It's all hair masks. It's shampoos and hair masks. But it was like girlfriend, girlfriend could have used a conditioner. Speaking of someone who doesn't use a lot of conditioner, but in the in the in the campaign. Anyway, so my pick for that just very quickly with Canceled is a ride or die mascara that Taylor, I've seen her use time and time again.

49:32She has been using it for, I'd say, a better part of a decade now, is the Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara. And she's put it on. I've seen her in images putting it on, whatnot, and she reaches for it time and again. And it's still a great mascara that is not talked about a lot. But I think it's very telling that she goes back to a classic. And how does it tie into Canceled? Because it's called Two-Faced? Well, I'm just saying that her rider, Dynas, doesn't only extend to friendships. And Two-Faced has been canceled. It had a moment. So I think she's quite loyal in whether that's her mascara or to her friends.

50:10Okay. I love that. All right. Next song is Honey. Didn't like this one. Ah. Upon first listen. Okay. But maybe it'll grow on me. Again, I need to get in a car and the windows need to be down. I think that this was a love letter to Travis. She basically says that she used to be called honey in the past and she hated it. You know how it's very divisive. Condescending. When people say, listen, honey. Yeah. And so she didn't like that. But now the way Travis says honey, she loves it and it's comforting and the meaning has completely changed. Yeah, she says, if anyone called me honey, it was standing in the bathroom, white teeth, and they were saying that the skirt don't fit me and I cried the whole way home.

50:53But you touched my face, redefined all those blues when you say honey. That's right. Now in the world of honey. Did you know it's the only thing that never expires? I learned that on a Jeopardy, Final Jeopardy. Oh my gosh, I did not. It's not interesting. It is interesting. So if any of you people are doomsdayers out there, fill your cellar. Yeah. You know what? We've had this conversation in the past. I'm a big fan of honey. I love that it's a natural product, but it actually has clinicals around it. Like it has been used in hospitals. It is very healing and you can ethically source honey while protecting the bees.

51:28So it's not like your, you know, bees are being harmed in this process. So anti-inflammatory. First thing I do is like in the winter, I just start taking Manuka honey. Anyway, go ahead. Exactly. So So Guerlain, they're all about saving the bees. And they created something that's quite novel. It's called the Guerlain Abel. It's that A-B-E-I-L-A-B. I think it's called. Abai. I think you pronounce it. Royal Bee Lab Shot. Okay. This is very unique. This launched in August. It's$60 US,$79 in Canada. It's very, it's basically a very extravagant skincare treatment. And it's a seven-day shock treatment, they say.

52:09Okay. So each day for seven days, you take one of these. Okay, I'm holding it here. Here is the Guerlain eShot. So what you do is you take this little tube. It looks like a tester tube from the lab. And there's these little balls in here, Jill. Ooh. Here, get ready to slather your arms. No, they're not. It kind of reminds me of a cotton candy texture. That's right. Okay, bring your hand over here. Sorry, I started messing it up already. No, no, come over here. Come, come. So what you do is you drop 10 drops. two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Of this other product. It feels expensive.

52:45Which is the Youth Watery Oil Serum. Oh, yeah. That friggin' product is amazing. I was going to say, we love this product. So you blend them together. They're sold separately. And it makes that little ball, the cotton candy ball, just melt. Absolutely melt. So what I think that this is, is almost like, you know, powders, like how vitamin C powder. Yeah. They would, to keep it stable, they would have powders that you could buy and then you would mix it, right? They didn't really go that far. People didn't really love this idea, but that's basically what this is. So what it's comprised of is black bee honey from Norway, and it's formulated with 20 % vitamin CG in spheres crystallized at minus 40 degrees Celsius.

53:31Designed to melt perfectly under 10 drops of youth watery oil serum, Bee Lab Shot embodies Abbey Royale Sciences' cutting edge innovation. It has a patent around it. It's been tested on like over 100 women and they all say that they feel like their skin is fresher, brighter and wrinkles are filled in after after seven days. So I've only used it like three times experience, but it does feel really fresh and lovely. We know vitamin C is good. I think it's like that powder idea. So it's a way of keeping that concentration and not having it go off, but in a much more elegant 2025 format. It's kind of like a ritual.

54:13Yeah. Yeah. So that's what I have to say about Honey, which brings us to the last song, The Life of a Showgirl. Yes. So this is really about her, I think, bidding adieu to this, the Aeros tour, certainly, and this notion of Taylor as the show girl in a lot of the imagery leading up to the release of this album, there was director Taylor, Taylor the real person, and then her directing the showgirl. Come on, baby, get into it. And there's literally one thing where she's trying to like hold this poster up and the showgirl version of Taylor kicks over a bucket, like literally kicking the bucket. Yeah, yeah.

54:57So I think this is kind of like her bidding adieu to this era. and who better to accompany her on that journey and maybe pass the torch a bit than the ultimate showgirl right now, which is Sabrina Carpenter. And there's a lyric, I don't remember if it's in this particular song or another one on this album, but she's basically talking about how the industry is like waiting for her to die. And she's like, f*** you, I'm immortal now. My picture's on the wall. So she's just like, my work here is done. I, again, I own this industry now and I will write off and do my next thing when I feel like it. Anyway, my pick for the showgirl look and how you can easily become a showgirl yourself without the Bob Mackie connection is the Fazit makeup patches.

55:42So F-A-Z-I-T. And they actually came - Or F-A-Z-A if you're in Canada. Yes, exactly. So these are the temporary makeup patches, glitter freckles, which Taylor actually wore to a Chiefs game and overnight turned this sort of mom and pop indie brand into a huge sensation. That's right. blew it up. Yeah. Love those. It's so incredible. And so they've expanded since the glitter freckles and they actually came out with a whole life of a showgirl collection. Really? Yeah. Which is sold out right now. I tried to get the brand to send it to me and they wanted to, but there was, they just didn't have the samples.

56:17So they have show stopping speckles, which are kind of the colorway of the teal and the orange. They're glitter freckles. And then they also expanded into eye glitter patches. So for this particular, for the showgirl, they have like green, orange, and white stars that go across the eye. And then they have decollete patches now. So it's kind of coming full circle. So I love that. I love that because if you're not a makeup artist, it's so easy to do. Anyone can do it and make it super accessible. I wear these like stick on sparkles sometimes when I go out and I'm having a night or like for New Year's, stuff like that.

57:00And I love it because I wore them to the Aeros tour. Yeah, it's so great. And I want to also shout out that this brand is on Amazon. So check it out. It's Amazon Prime Day right now. We'll link to it if it is on sale, because at one point they had these on sale for$13.13. So if you're a Swifty, you know, you know, 13 is Taylor's lucky number. There's always lore. It doesn't end. There's always lower. It doesn't end. I feel like it's really great to just these are really fun and you're supporting a small business. There you go. And if you are not into glitter, let's go with Taylor's signature red lip.

57:35There is a new lipstick in town. It's the Rouge Dior on stage. It's a shine lipstick with extreme performance. Forty eight dollars U.S. and sixty five in Canada. I wore this one last night. It's called Red Shock. It's in this long cigarette like bullet with the CD logo. I think this is a new CD logo. Chic, chic. Yeah. And I think there might be shoes that have come out with the CD on it. So, of course, Peter Phillips, the creative director, came up with this. And it's all about having a really shiny lipstick that is said to last for 24 hours. I wore it last night. I wouldn't say that it lasted through my entire three-course meal, but it is a very comfortable lipstick that is probably longer wear than your typical fully pigmented high shine lipstick.

58:27And there are 10 shades from the most essential to the most daring. Amazing. Amazing. Well, this was really fun. We went through this track by track. Probably by the time this episode comes out, she will have released more tracks because that's what she does. There's Reputation Vault tracks. We know those are coming. They're probably out right now. And it's endless source of fun and inspiration to talk about Taylor. Like I said at the beginning, love her or loathe her. You can't ignore her. And I'm excited to see what like her wedding look is going to be. Well, we'll be excited for that. Who's her makeup artist that we need to follow on Instagram?

59:05Lori Turk. And by the way, yes, anything that we've talked about that I said Taylor has used herself, I have triple checked that. And it's been either confirmed by Taylor or her makeup artist. Okay, great. It's L-O-R-R-I-E, Turk. And she talked about loyalty. She always uses the same stylist, same hair person, same makeup person. Okay. So be sure to give her a follow for more Easter eggs on Taylor Swift's personal beauty routine. We hope that you guys had as much fun as we did creating today's episode. Let us know what you think if you want more of these fun out of the box themed episodes and we'll see you next week.

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