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2 Jan 2026 · 36m · 13 chapters

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Friday Q&A on Wellness & Beauty

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  • Zoe Hardman
  • Georgia Dayton

In this episode, Zoe and Georgia kick off the New Year of 2026 by answering listener questions related to wellness and beauty. They discuss practical tips for living healthily, maintaining a positive mindset, and looking fresh.

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0:45

New Year Reflections and Wellness

Discussing reflections on health and wellness as the new year approaches.

“I mean, we're recording this pre-Christmas, so we wanted to make sure that you guys had lots of lovely content over the festive period and into the new year.”
3:09

How to Look Fresh

Tips and discussions on achieving a fresh appearance.

“And if you are a new parent who's not getting a lot of sleep or a parent whose kids don't sleep, that would be fucking irritating if we used to say that.”
4:25

Makeup Must-Haves

A conversation about favorite makeup products and techniques.

“Do you remember when we had Sarah Jossel on the podcast who's an absolute expert and she was like, oh no, water doesn't make any difference to your skin?”
6:00

Hair Care Tips for Volume

Advice on achieving bouncy hair with the right preparation.

“Right, so I use the Bobbi Brown Skin Full Cover Concealer.”
7:50

Exploring Skincare and Hair Products

Discussion on various skincare and hair products and their benefits.

14:00

Air Wraps and Skincare Brands

Explore air wrap hair tools and personal skincare favorites.

“It's like beautiful harmony with you and the air wrap.”
15:23

The Value of Botox and Tweakments

Discussing the effectiveness and perceptions of Botox treatments.

“Talking of Botox, Claudia says, what tweakments do you use and where do you go for them?”
18:15

Exploring New Treatments

An overview of various cosmetic treatments and their considerations.

“But I am also next year going to go and see Dr.”
23:17

Collagen Supplements and Their Benefits

Personal experiences with collagen and its perceived effects on health.

“And, like, he really notices the difference.”
25:34

Daily Skincare Routines

Insight into personal skincare routines and product recommendations.

“Welcome back to this episode of Made by Mamas.”
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28:03

Self-Care and Beauty Routines

Discover how simple beauty routines can enhance your self-care and well-being.

29:27

Effortless Beauty Tips

Learn quick beauty hacks that can make you feel polished without overwhelming effort.

“Any small things that you do that make you feel more put together or polished?”
31:59

Teeth Whitening Insights

Get essential advice on teeth whitening and safe dental care practices.

“People are just going to try and sell you everything, but just tell them no.”
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0:00Hello and welcome to Made by Mum as the podcast. I'm Zoe Hardman and I'm Georgia Dayton and this is your parenting safe space where no conversation is off limits with five kids between G and I we have seen a lot we really have each week we'll be joined by some famous faces and experts and we'll chat about the brands and products that have saved us along the way in short we're the parenting podcast for you before we get started hit subscribe or follow so you're the first to know when each episode lands and they're on Tuesdays and Fridays and it really helps if you leave a rating and a review You can also find us on Instagram.

0:34We're on at Made by Mummers. But for now, George, should we get into it? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Wow. I can't believe we're in 2026. It's wild. It feels wild to say it. I mean, we're recording this pre-Christmas, so we wanted to make sure that you guys had lots of lovely content over the festive period and into the new year. But we are already kind of thinking about New Year, New Us, aren't we, George? Yes, we are. And as cringy as that term is, and as much as we go on about it, I feel like everyone does have a natural reset in January. Whether you've got time off over Christmas, you haven't, whether you're happy with, you know, your wellness and your life right now or you're not.

1:17I think in January, everybody does have a little bit of a like, oh, what could I do? Or what works this year? What could I take into next year? um I don't know like I I made a few small changes last year and I'm like I'm going to continue build on them oh what were your small changes well no just small changes as in like started taking collagen every day consistently was taking electrolytes every day consistently got in got more into weight training and even I wasn't pushing myself to do like four times a week I was just like right just try and do two and see how you get to you know like I wasn't setting myself up to fail with anything and I think that is good yeah good it's kind of like a little and often isn't it I mean obviously I got really sick this year or sorry last year um so for me I had to have a big reset in September October time because of my stomach ulcer but that was interesting I actually wrote an article for stylist magazine a couple of weeks ago about kind of you know things I've learned about my wellness during the year and the one thing as I was writing it the one thing that really stood out for me was how not to ignore the signs that your body are giving you, that actually that is the worst thing that you can do because what happens then is burnout, illness, you know, you can get very low, you know, you can also feel incredibly stressed, you know, run out, all the things that we don't want in our lives.

2:38So for me, the message that I'm taking into 2026 is prioritizing my health, listening to the signs before things get acute, which is what happened yeah and also just little things like how much acid I was consuming I didn't think I was but even things like chewing gum all the time which I love doing that was causing so much stomach acid and you know the amount of coffee that I was drinking alcohol all of those things actually that we sort of take for granted and we're like oh it's fine once you've got a stomach ulcer you have to cut all of that out so I'm definitely going to be taking that into 2026 with me and just having a look at my diet and stuff yeah I love that we're not just going to be talking about like diet and wellness and stuff today because every time we do a Q &A you know whether it's 2023 2024 2025 or 2026 people always ask us about makeup skincare hair I don't know I feel like maybe there's not a lot of like honest info out there on in this space I think sometimes it's really confusing and it's oversaturated so I hope that you're asking us because we are just giving you the genuine things that we use and the genuine things that we love so um I'm pleased that you come to us for that and me let's get into it um I like this one to start with how to look fresh and I think where do we start how to look fresh I mean isn't like I hate this answer but isn't kind of like the golden egg, enough sleep.

4:07And if you are a new parent who's not getting a lot of sleep or a parent whose kids don't sleep, that would be fucking irritating if we used to say that. Yeah, tell us to piss off. So I apologise. Yeah, tell us to piss off. But actually, I think sleep and water are my two biggest, you know, tips on how to look fresh. Do you remember when we had Sarah Jossel on the podcast who's an absolute expert and she was like, oh no, water doesn't make any difference to your skin? I don't agree. Yeah, I'm the same. And I thought, oh, okay, like fine. Because she's like, oh, it goes to your face last or whatever.

4:40But I genuinely notice the difference. Maybe more in my eyes. My eyes look brighter if I've had more water and I'm better hydrated. So maybe the science doesn't back it up. But I do agree with you. Sleep and water is absolutely.

5:03by the way not many people I know use them but I use them pretty much every third night so I will put five or six drops in with my moisturizer after I've done my serum in the evening all over my face and then regardless of how little sleep you've had or how much water you've drunk you do have that extra glow don't you yeah I do think like fake tan and fake tan and the base of a concealer like a concealer primer are the two things that if you need to fake looking fresh then that is the way that's the way to go agreed should we go on right oh here we go look what face tan do you both use you look glowing there we go what one do you use there you go so i love isle of paradise that has got to be my number one i love which one do you use the drops or the yeah yeah yeah have the drops so this is all my my face drops that I use so I love paradise um like they're like a tanning drop that you put in with your moisturizer I love soul skin which is my friend George he's part of that and I really love that brand for tan and I also really love Vogue's face mist which I think is really good yeah I used to use her hyaluronic acid um face serum but I use that more in the summer because I use the extra dark one in the winter I use the Saint Tropez face water so you can spray and you can actually spray it over makeup which is mad you can just literally spray at any time and that is lighter I would say like the one that bogue's one I find darker which I do love but in the winter I can look a bit mad you you have turned up to the studio on the on the on the odd occasion looking like david dickinson's love child yes so yeah I'm just jealous though because I wasn't looking as tanned that day um where else are we going typical makeup please typical makeup I mean I typically don't wear makeup every day but when I do I wear I'd like to wear makeup that's like not not too heavy so I use the bobby brown um what's it called bobby brown concealer the newer one hang on let me just quickly get the concealer you've got your makeup Like a BB cream?

7:17No, the concealer. I can't remember which one it's called. I've got my makeup bag right here. Oh, well done. Right, so I use the Bobbi Brown Skin Full Cover Concealer. I have used that, I think they sent us one about three years ago, and I've bought it probably every two months since. I also use the corrector stick that goes underneath, and I think that makes a huge difference. for skin I love the by terry cc serum that's really yeah it's gorgeous but it is really light so if I want a heavier um like a bit more coverage then I use this the same one as you the charlotte tilbury um what's it called charlotte beautiful skin beautiful skin well actually George you change I've converted I am now using the Giorgio Armani luminous silk perfect glow and it is incredible yes that used to be my one when I was in the office every day that was the one I don't know why I came away from it so I think I would definitely say that my day to day is still the Charlotte Tilbury beautiful skin because I find that a bit obviously i'm a bit little bit older than you george so i need a little bit more coverage um but i love the luminous silk because it's really buildable so it actually goes on and it's it's actually quite kind of well silky but actually the more you put on you can build for for a deeper coverage um so i love that i wear shade six they've got loads of shades i would highly recommend that you go and get tested skin tested because they can do that um i absolutely love i this palette which is called nude gasm face palette this is from charlotte tilbury and inside get you get your eyes around that so you can see here you've got um a like a bronzer which can also be used as a what's it called when you contour the contour you've got um an actual bronzer there and then you've got two shades of highlighter which you can use on your cheeks and underneath to your eyes here just to give you a little bit of lift that palette's amazing people forget highlighter and i think it is really important like and also i much well i say much prefer i do a bit of both i prefer a cream blush over a powder blush although the hourglass powder blush is really nice but then hourglass is all about being a bit glowy and a bit yeah you know so then it has got that in it what mascara do you use day to day so the mascara i use day to day is the maybelline the colossal and it's the curl one my top tip with mascara is always always curl your lashes um i've got these from tweezer man they're absolutely amazing so i always do those before i put my mascara on and then do you know what i've discovered i absolutely love this brand it's called nyx um i used the lip liner before but these lip glosses are amazing and i think this color here what's it called is called creme brulee love it there's one actually that i really like and it's an elf um eyebrow mascara and that is brilliant and so reasonable and i use that even when i'm not on days i'm not wearing makeup i do usually just brush my brows yeah never forget your brows yeah well because i was at well i was allergic to eyebrow tint until about six months ago and Now I have them tinted.

10:46Oh, my God. What a life moment for you there, George. It was. It was. George, which perfumes do you like? Oh, okay. So I love Creed Love in White, but I do not love how expensive it's got now. It's£250 a bottle. Like, it's not okay. Like, it's really not. It was the perfume that I bought for my wedding day, and then I just loved it and continued wearing it. But now it's got to a point where I think, no, no, no more. Zara perfumes. I wear the London one. Yeah, Zoe's got hers. I think, so which one did you use? Tokyo. Elegantly Tokyo. It's under 20 quid. And I've never had so many people saying, oh my God, you smell delicious.

11:38What's that? Yeah, the Zara perfumes are so good. And also, I really like the Beauty Pie. It's a fig and lime one. Love it. It sells out all the time. I buy that one a lot, so they're mine. I also love Marc Jacobs Daisy and the Chloe. Oh, yeah. That reminds me of you, actually. Yeah. Tips for bouncy hair. I have an air wrap, but the curls fall out. Okay. Do you want me to start or you? You go on, you go. Tips for bouncy hair is all about the prep. So if you wash your hair, don't just expect to blow dry it and then curl it without any other product in it and expect it to hold because it absolutely won't.

12:25So things that you need to definitely use. If you have got, if you suffer from hair that doesn't hold any volume at the root, then definitely invest in a good mousse. I love the living proof mousse is really really great also obviously don't forget a heat protection spray and you need a really good hair spray but the mousse is absolutely key in holding your curls it's all about the blow dry for me so get yourself a big barrel brush I've got the GHD one it's absolutely wonderful and when you're blow drying blow drying the hair out then curl the hair around the hairbrush and then hold it at the root with heat on it move the heat away let it cool down and then let your hair out does that make sense yeah that's how i get all my volume yeah i was gonna say with the air wrap i just find like some people love it and some people don't get on with it and i wonder if it's either the prep or just some people's hair types like it doesn't it doesn't work for curling like my hair holds a curl really well so but But on the flip of that, if I do a curl too tight, it doesn't drop out.

13:37So it looks ridiculous. So I can't use the thin, you know, the thin, the thin is like a bit that goes on the end. I have to use the thicker one, but then I don't necessarily get a real curly look. So if I wanted a curl, I would have to use a towel. But you use the, I've seen you use the air wrap and watching you use that is like watching someone making a pizza. It's like you're like all over it. It's like beautiful harmony with you and the air wrap. And I'm watching it going, I can't do it like that. So like you said, I think some people get along with the air wrap and some people don't. There are much cheaper versions on the market now as well.

14:13You don't have to spend£300 on an air wrap. No, you don't. I mean, I love mine, but there's, yeah, if it doesn't work for you, then I would change it up. Lauren says, have you ever tried Tropic? Tropic skincare is incredible. now I got sent some about well I was in the Walposten house so it must have been five or six years ago maybe just during lockdown and they have got the most beautiful facial oil which I am a total convert to I love it I also use it on different dry bits like if I've got dry skin on my hands or on my feet it's really I love the ingredients um if you suffer from kind of irritable skin or if it gets itchy or red it's really also really great to use but do you know what they I Someone reached out on Instagram and was like, thank you so much for talking about it because we really believe in the products.

15:03And they've got loads of kind of like tropic ambassadors that are basically mums that are going out and selling the products. But it's actually a really brilliant brand. I love it. Yeah, I had it for the kids and I liked it, but I have actually never used it on my sale. I'm going to send you some, George. We'll be right back after this short break.

15:22Welcome back to this episode of Made by Mamas. Now, where were we? love Botox is it worth the money or will this ever die out well I hope it doesn't die out it's worth the money I think I love Botox so I've got among my friendship group I would say there is a turn on it like I have noticed lots of people being like I'm not sure anymore I don't no I'm going to try something else and then they always come back to it so I think I do think maybe at one point everyone went a bit wild with it and like was having it in every area and like then looking a bit mad but I think if it's used in the right way and you go to the right person who's not going to just like sell you six areas if you only need two or something then yeah it's worth it you and I but specifically me have looked a bit mad like I've seen myself back on some podcasts where I've had too much around my eyes and I've looked completely insane yeah I've figured out I can't have it around my eyes but on the flip of that I then don't like it when lines start to show so maybe I might start having it once a year as a prevention and look mad for three months yeah and just like this is all about finding the right person to do your brain talks for you it has to be somebody that comes highly recommended that has done all the training i like the fact that paula who i use at clinical cosmetics she's got she's a nurse so yeah she did all of that training first and she doesn't like you said just shove the needles in willy willy nilly it's like where do we need it it's really curated and um i feel in safe hands with her yeah yeah no i i I would agree that's the right thing to do.

17:16Talking of Botox, Claudia says, what tweakments do you use and where do you go for them? Oh, so I only had Botox and Profilo and I have been to the same person, Leslie Ludlow, since day one, never been anywhere else. She is somebody that I actually met at Axel's nursery. She's, do you remember, she's a nurse, like that's her date, you know, which is her day job in intensive care. So she's, yeah, I've only ever had those two tweakments. But I would like to try the new Profilo. Is it called Structura? Structura. My dentist mentioned it. Yeah, my dentist mentioned it to me. But I'll wait and see what that looks like.

18:04And then also the polynucleotides. I keep thinking about that. But then I don't know if my under eyes are necessarily my like problem area. Do you know what I mean? The profilo structure you have to have by cannula. Yeah. I don't like the idea of it. No, me neither. I don't like the idea of it, but yeah. So I go to Paula, clinical cosmetics. She's in Woking. And then I see Dr. Jane, who is based in centre of London. And she does. I've had filler in my lips. I got it done last year. But I am also next year going to go and see Dr. Benji, who's based out of the Define Clinic, which is in Beaconsfield.

18:40because I've just noticed a bit of like sagging around my face here, just like jowly. So yeah, you've got to, if you have profilo-structural, Georgia, you've got to get it done with a cannula. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I mean, a cannula reminds me of like when they're putting anaesthetic into your hand. Anyone who's had an operation, it's that little, what is it like, a little plastic needle that sits in your, It feels more serious, let's just say, than Profilo. Although Profilo hurts a lot. Oh my God, Profilo hurts so much. Next year in January, I'm going to go and see Dr. Benji. He works out at the Define Clinic in Beaconsfield.

19:19And I'm having three sessions of this treatment called Jelaine. Have you heard of Jelaine? No. J-U-L-A-I-N-E. Okay. And so it's not a filler, but it's essentially acts in the same way. And it's supposed to slightly fill and lift, you know, because I was being a bit worried about my jowls and my neck. God, I'm turning. I'm going to be like death becomes me, aren't I, in a couple of years. And then three sessions of Moxie, which is a laser. But the downtime is quite aggressive. I think it's five or six days downtime. And I just haven't been able to fit it in with like filming and radio. so but I really want to do that and that's for my melasma so I will be filming that and I'll put it on made by mama's because I know loads of people will be really interested yeah I was gonna say one of my friends had that recently um and I wouldn't say she'll have it again painful that yeah and the downtime was a lot yeah but I think it depends what you're there like what you're doing it for like I don't know if she necessarily had like melasma or a like a specific issue she wanted to um do you know i mean like to solve which i think she was just having it because this is what happens isn't it we all become like oh i'll try that oh i'll try that um oh look it's freddie kruger and i'll be like hi guys the downtime's quite aggressive yeah it's quite aggressive do you take collagen hell yeah yeah i take it every day without fail absolutely same uh brands George I've started taking elevate collagen because it's got no flavor so I I just put it in water and when I use when I use my electrolytes I just put it into the same drink and I just I drink it every morning now I've faced that it's actually taken me a while to find one that doesn't taste of anything um I did like revive the ones um you know the in the sachets but that has got a flavor yeah yeah elevate it's really nice i mean i like it i think i think it's good as well um obviously colo is still one of my favorite i absolutely love colo so use that i also use um what are the and the revived sachets and then obviously now i've started to use elevate because they very very generously sent us some bits didn't they so i've been loving them but they did it one does have a flavor one's vanilla quite like that one there's a chocolate one as well that you could put in a hot chocolate I started with that and then now I have got one that is unflavored and for me that is better like yeah I'm I don't want another flavor like I'm happy with unflavored also can I just say that we've had quite a lot of people on this podcast that have said they've done they've they have not been able to scientifically prove throughout all of the research and studies that they've done that collagen does or doesn't do something I would like to just stand here and say from my own experience I truly truly believe that it does and and I really did notice that during a period over a year where I wasn't taking it my hair growth I took my hair extensions out the other day my hair growth has been wild um my mum I grew up watching my mum take collagen every single day and I just kind of think well why the hell not yeah I was gonna say do you know what so obviously this year if you've been listening along you'll know I've been going to my granny gym and um there there have been a few women there who have said oh you know I don't know I'd say they had a shoulder problem or whatever and they're like oh it's okay now and they're like and the coach will be like oh what what's been the change and they've said oh I started taking collagen regularly so anecdotally there's So, like, I don't know, in your friendship groups, your family groups, I bet there'll be so many positive stories.

23:18Like, my husband takes it now as well. And, like, he really notices the difference. So, it's one of those things. Maybe the research will come in three years' time, four years' time. But if you don't mind spending the money and you find one that works for you, then it can't do any harm. Yeah, I love that. um what are your daily skincare routines including brands and products please that's from Jodi cool mine's really simple now um because I had perioral dermatitis earlier this year which I spoke about and essentially perioral dermatitis is becoming so common because we're all putting too much stuff on our faces so I had to strip everything back so when I had the flare up I was only using Cetaphil cleanser the green one which is a like a hydrating one and um a La Roche-Posay Toleraine moisturizer then it cleared up then now I've gone back to very basic so I use Beauty Pie cleanser the Japanese fusion and the oil one so day and night and then I use um either Sunday Riley SEO glow for like in the morning as a serum I don't necessarily do that if I'm wearing full makeup because I think it does the makeup doesn't sit properly with it but day-to-day fine and then I used just a very basic moisturizer it's either the beauty pie and super healthy skin one or I will use a tatcher um the perfect dewy skin yeah either one of those yeah and then again in the evening like pretty much the same um I will maybe try and I'm going to try the medicate um retinol because apparently that's okay if you've got sensitive skin but I'm being really really careful at the moment yeah and your skin is looking loads better it's so much better yeah but I did have antibiotics so like you know it wasn't just cured by skincare it was a course of antibiotics and I I think the majority of people probably have to do that.

25:28We'll be right back after this short break.

25:34Welcome back to this episode of Made by Mamas. Now, where were we? So my favourite brands are, no particular order, Elemis. I always do a hot cleanse, which George introduced me to about six years ago. Oh, it's so good. and I've actually I use their um is it called is it their marine marine marine cream I love it that is such a good one yeah really good Tatcha um I sort of dip in and out of using Tatcha but their dewy cream is absolutely incredible and their rice polish rice polish I really love as well Sunday Riley is an amazing brand um uh I've actually also um been using the Medicaid overnight like it's like a night cream which is really good if you're over 40 that's kind of where you want to be going because you want active ingredients you want them to be working whilst you're asleep you don't want it to be too heavy so i love medicate and their retinol is brilliant obagi if you want if you've got any dark spots on your face at all any pigment problems obagi is the only product that really shifts it um and then obviously in and out of murad there's a couple of brands that i sort of introduced i definitely don't do the same thing and i think it's for me it's important to mix up lots of different kind of products uh it they're the ones that seem to to work to work yeah yeah yeah and also you could like I don't know if you find but throughout the year I sometimes change things like yeah it gets to the winter and I need a slightly heavier moisturizer or I'll sometimes use like a hyaluronic acid serum if my skin's feeling like a bit dehydrated and a bit flat so there's a few things but I am at the moment like properly stripping it all back um do you use a red light mask yes we both use the um help me because of an absence for current body current body that's the newer version um that has the bit that comes under your chin um like again people say that the research maybe doesn't suggest that it makes any difference but I do think if you use it four times a week like for 10 minutes it makes it makes a difference even if it's a 10 % difference it makes a difference also red light therapy is so good for you so I'm sorry there's no denying that so I just think even if it's taking 10 minutes four times a week where you sit and do nothing and you just have this beautiful it feels so warming it's really good for me it's really good at resetting my nervous system I always feel so much calmer my anxiety's gone all that stuff I love doing it so it feels like a bit of self-care and I really think it's worth the investment yeah now I do as well because you can also like can have if you work from home you can have it on like when you're at your desk you can have it on like you it's easy to fit in it's one of those things that's like an easy thing to fit into your daily routine it's it's not like a full-on thing um but joe said where to get face cloth for hot cloth makeup removal so joe this is how i take my makeup off but i don't have specific hot cloth so i just buy flannels i've just got a box full of flannels which i just use once in the evening once in the morning then i wash it and yeah that i just i've got seven of those and i just use them throughout the week and then wash them and then start again so i don't use a specific one i just get one from john lewis yeah i'm the same i literally just ordered a pack i think of like 20 of these little flannels from amazon um and then i've got two baskets clean dirty and then exactly exactly the same i also used to when the kids were little use their old muslins oh yeah we used to do that that's perfect i mean they don't have any of those kicking around anymore but again like you can use that you don't need to order specific ones um as long as they're like 100 % organic cotton, like they're not got like nasties in them, then it's fine.

29:27Any small things that you do that make you feel more put together or polished? Nails. Nails. I've got dark nails for once in my life. Oh my God, they're so nice. They're dark. That really suits you, George. Yeah, I do it just for two months of the year. but by Feb I'll be back to nude again you've got dark red the other day I looked like a crack addict because they were so bad they were like peeled off and I painted them with like marker to try yeah nails nails do my moustache because sometimes I look at myself and think I look like a man in fact the other day Kit was like why have you got a beard on your face and I was like shit it's time to do my tash and then eyebrows always having my eyebrows I don't get them like medically done or anything I don't go to a to a salon but I always do my eyebrows and I think if you've got your eyebrows on you can tackle the world yeah I was gonna say that I I now have my eyebrows done every two months and I just have like very light tint put in them and like just shaped and I think that does make a difference but I think like my worst thing is not washing my hair like if I it feels like such a big job and I don't do it but I think as soon as I do wash my hair even if I'm just like rough blow drying it with like a little brush or something I've been ages on it it makes me feel so much better but concealer eyebrows face tan and nails would be the things that make you feel instantly more polished nothing worse as well staring down at your legs and seeing a forest.

31:08Get the razors out, gals. Get the razors out or go for a wax. The other day I looked at it, I was wearing tights and I was like, why does that feel so weird? And I was like, oh, that's because my hair is coming through the tights. Yeah. Someone here has put, I feel trying to keep on top of beauty, hair and wellness routines is hard work. It's fucked. Tips, please. Agreed. It's so much. It's so much. But I would say, like, just don't say, oh, in the new year, I'm going to wash my hair every day, go to the gym every day, get up and journal. Like, just do little tiny things to begin with. Like, don't overload yourself.

31:47But I agree. Like, it's actually so much maintenance. Everything is so much maintenance. And that's annoying. It's so annoying. It's absolutely ridiculous. And we all buy into it. and then we feel a bit shit if we're not buying into it but actually really like georgia said just do those small little things and also do not get bamboozled by oh yeah this this this you need this you need that what we're talking about here is a good retinol if you're over the age of kind of 35 probably yeah a really good night cream a great spf always spf in the day factor 50 even if it's you know the middle of winter 100 and you know anything else on top of that is a bonus But really, those are your like staples for me.

32:34Yeah, I agree with you. Totally. People are just going to try and sell you everything, but just tell them no. I know. How do you keep your teeth so white? That's definitely aimed at you. I don't know how to answer this. What do you mean? Well, I had my teeth whitened when I was 18 at the dentist with lasers, right? and even before I had my braces my teeth were still white from that one round of whitening and then this now is after my braces and I had like the trays from the dentist so yeah but you are whitening them though no I don't yeah because you've got the trays you said for the trays from the dentist yeah but that was that was only to bring like these ones up to the same like they from having my teeth done at 19 or 18, I don't know what they did, but I don't think it's legal anymore.

33:29It bleached my teeth. I'm not joking. It's true. Wow. Like, if I look back, like, before I had these, I think my teeth were whiter before I had my braces. Jesus. Yeah. You go to Turkey or did you do it in the UK? I went to my local dentist. I was like 18. Whoa. Okay. But I do think you just have to have, like, well, I think personally for whitening, you've got to go to the dentist. Yeah, because the strips, if I ever do the strips, I can't breathe in. I can't eat anything. I can't drink anything. It's the most excruciating pain. I think you have to be so careful. Do not fuck around with teeth whitening at home.

34:11Well, no, exactly. I just think you've got to go to the dentist and then keep on top of it with a really good toothbrush. and toothpaste yeah just anything without fluoride in it yeah like i use that whack whacken is it w-a-k-e-n yeah yeah i use that um because that's got no sls which when i have my periol dermatitis they said not to have but i just yeah i just wouldn't mess around with that like i just think you have to just go to the dentist i'll use like a himalayan toothpaste that I got from Amazon. Do you? Oh, okay. Yeah, it's like a dark one and it tastes a bit like mud, but it's really good for teeth whitening and really good for kind of gut health and tongue and all that kind of jazz.

34:59Oh, well, there we go. I'll post that one. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say. It's a difficult one, though. But it's not a delicious experience. Oh, okay. I won't be doing that. Thank you so much for sending in all of your questions for today's beauty Q &A. Thank you. it's always a joy to kind of read where your head's at and hopefully we've answered some of these questions if we've missed anything as well we can always do the rest of them and pop it onto Instagram as well so you've got all the links there as always we'd love you to rate, review, subscribe and please give our podcast a follow yeah and if you've got any feedback on this episode or Q &As you'd like us to do for the rest of the year drop us a DM on Instagram we're on at Made by Mamas and we'll be back on Tuesday

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