Eyewitness 11.30 V1 N: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to Eyewitness Beauty, the podcast where we talk about the biggest stories in the beauty industry each week. I am Nick Axelrod, known as Nick Axelrod Welk, my married name joined by Diamond Creek, bomb, Annie Creek. Bomb. Annie Kriegbaum. Kba kba, who is in Dallas, Texas, where it all began for her for a wedding. Mm-Hmm. Who's getting married? My dad. How's the D? What do they call Dallas? Dirty Dallas. What do they call it? Big. The Big D. The Big D. The Big D. How is it? A: It's fine. I'm a little disappointed to hear, as you know, I love basketball games. Mm-Hmm. It was my per, it [00:01:00] was my single personality trait during Covid. And we have a really good team in Dallas, historically speaking the, N: hold on, let me guess. Lemme guess. Lemme guess. The Dallas Ravens. Mavericks. Mavericks, okay. A: It's a horse. And Mark Cuban famed billionaire entrepreneur Shark. Shark is not only leaving Shark Tank. N: Are you, is this breaking news? Are you breaking this news? I A: mean, if you live in Dallas, you know, 'cause it's like on all the local news stations and actually it's on, if you care about money, it's on all the like money N: reports that he's leaving. Shark Tank? A: No, he's, he's leaving Shark Tank and he's selling the Mavericks. He owns the Mavericks N: on, he's a reason that I'm, I'm more concerned about why he's leaving Shark Tank. Some people A: are, some people are guessing that he might be running for office. He's divesting so he can run for office. Oh. Some people think that he wants to focus more on his [00:02:00] cost savings drug N: program. Oh, I did like that. I liked that A: idea. Yeah. Yes. I mean, he's like a, he's like not an evil billionaire. He's a, N: to me, billionaires are chaotic. A: I think he's a chaotic N: Good. To me, billionaires are evil until proven innocent. You know what I mean? Like they have to prove themselves good because I don't know, and again, we don't actually do a ton of research for this podcast. Surprise, surprise. But I saw a headline that was talking about Bill Gates and how there's like a whole theory behind all of the like environmental stuff that him and his wife's charity had been, his ex-wife's charity had been doing, and how it was really about him and not about the world. Do you wanna A: elaborate further on this? N: Yeah, hold on. I'm gonna look, I dunno what you're trying. I'm gonna look up what I'm talking about. Okay. And while A: Nick is doing that, we do want to [00:03:00] remind everyone, this is our gift guide episode. Yes. And so you're saying that this gift that Bill Gates has bestowed upon the world in the form of charity is N: not, where would I have read this? Was I on Newsmax? I'm just kidding. You're A: on the Q Anon forums. N: the Nation is a conservative magazine, right? A: I wouldn't know. I don't read the Nation. I try to dabble in the far right wing press just to understand what they're saying. 'cause you can't fight them if you don't understand them. And I tried to listen to, who's that guy? Ben Shapiro. I tried to listen to his podcast. Oh God. Yeah. He has the most irritating voice. I couldn't even, like, it wasn't the N: content even that I listen to. He has incredible like overfilled lips though, which he's like denied having done Ben A: Shapiro. Hold on, I have to look this up. Can we talk? Today is the day where our N: Ms. Santos third po, A: possibly our third [00:04:00] podcast co-host is being voted in or out. N: I hope that he has more time on his hands than he can join the podcast. God willing. A: Oh, here we go. Oh, I see what you're saying. Let's see. Are we sure his face just isn't kind of Oh, I do see some filler migration. Yeah. Yeah. On the N: bottom. Yep. Yep. Yep, yep. A: You gotta get that dissolved. You gotta disolve Actually, N: well, maybe here's what I, okay. I did a little research on the gates, foundation controversy, and it's not that just now it's, yeah, it's not as bullet, it's not as bulletproof of a conspiracy theory as I thought it was. So forget that I scratched that from the record. Please. Anyway, do we have Good, so we like Bill Gates. We, I mean, listen, I don't like that he, he did certainly spend a lot of time with Jeffrey Epstein. More time than I have and more time than anyone that I wanna surround myself with. [00:05:00] Probably has. A: Here's my question. Yeah. Who hasn't, who hasn't been on Jeffrey Epstein's plane? Honestly, let, what was the name of the last episode? Let She Without Send Cast the first song. N: Yeah, exactly. Speaking of which, did you, you know, you know who's, uh, if we had a Mole of the Week, you know who would get My Mole of the Week? Who? Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn Carter's son who gave the eulogy at Rosalyn Carter's. Memorial on cspan. I was watching tiktoks of him and he like is delivering zingers. He's like, it's amazing to see all of the first ladies here. Thank Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Clinton, you know Mrs. Trump, Mrs. Whoever, el Oh, Mrs. Bush. He was like, and they're husbands like, it was like he, he was like doing a roast. It was kind of fun. Like parts of it were kind of funny. Oh, I like A: that. Yeah. You know whose roast is like the iest roast of all time? Justin Bieber's is, [00:06:00] no, I Ireland N: Baldwin to dad. Oh. Of dad. Of her dad. The Alec Baldwin roast. Yeah. I mean, it is shocking. Whoever wrote that was like, basically she must have just said literally, you can write whatever you want. And I'll say it, but her A: delivery I, well, yeah, like maybe she didn't write the jokes, but her delivery was, listen, she's the N: daughter of two of two act. I want say Academy Award nominated at, I mean Kim, her mom won an academy. No, she won award. She won. Right, but did a, Alec hasn't won one. I bet he's been nominated. No. She mentioned that in the roast. Oh, that is a really good one. Oh. But as you were saying, Annie, and not to get too far off topic today is our gift guide, which we are queuing up at the beginning of the gift buying season in the hopes that you can actually still get some of these hot items, like the Tickle Me Elmos Mm-Hmm. Of the, you know, the Tickle Me Elmos of the world. You know, we don't wanna come out with a gift guide. Oh, am I boring you? [00:07:00] Go on anyway. I was talking about Tickle me Elmo. So we're coming out hot in the beginning of the giving season so that we can give you some ideas, get you on those, you know, priority wait lists for the things that are gonna be moving the fastest this holiday season. A: And you can just get it on, you can order it on time. 'cause we all know you're not going out in N: person buying that stuff. Yeah, exactly. You can order it and you can do ground shipping. This is not, we're not in like the final stretch anymore. And I have to be honest that, you know, I didn't pick anything in the beauty industry for my gifts. They're all outside of the beauty industry. I. A: I have to be honest. I'm assuming that our listeners have all been on Epstein's plane and I can all afford the gifts. I'm about to, about to recommend. N: Okay. Let's without further ado, Ms. Kriegbaum, do you want to go [00:08:00] first with one? We can. We can go back and forth. A: This is a gift for you, Nick, because you have. You were always concerned about your lighting situation. I know you wanna be just fully like, blown to perfection. Yes. N: And and I know that. Yes. You mean like on on a computer or like on a phone? A: Yes. And I know convenience is important to you. I know you have to be portable. Like today, you're coming in live from my daughter's bedroom. Your daughter's bedroom. You're constantly moving house. so you're getting. The big softie, and this is a little light that you put on your phone and it's like having a big, like hot, portable hot box for your phone. Really? Sure. It's like, what? Yeah, I want it. It's like, really? It's cute. It doesn't, it, it kind of looks profesh. It doesn't look like a blogger. Like it's not a ring light. It's a big N: square [00:09:00] box. Well, that's better ring light. So what's so funny about ring lights is it's actually not considered a great way to light a light a face. You want soft, diffuse light. Well, A: this is the big softie. N: It's in the name. How much, how much, how, how much is this gonna set us all back? Well, A: listen, it's 30% off. For the next 15 minutes and 30 seconds, which I don't think that this episode's gonna get, uh, edited and put up in time, but let's see. Oh, it's okay. It's $101. USD. N: Is that with my 15% off? A: No, 30% off at Black Friday. Oh, N: 30. Oh my God. Will be. A: I don't know. I think you have to add it to cart. I can't do the math. Okay. 30% off. Oh, of a hundred dollars. That's N: $70. So it's about between 70 and a hundred dollars, depending on what minute of the 15 minute revolving. Yeah. It's always gonna be, yeah. You're always gonna have 15 minutes. A: They're gonna, they're saying that there's just 11 left in N: stock. This is one of those [00:10:00] websites. You guys are fine. Yeah, everyone's fine. A: so yeah, the big softie, have you used this? No, but I saw, an influencer talk about it and then I saved it on my Instagram Saves and I meant to order one, and then I never got around to it. N: Oh, it's big softy. S-O-F-T-I. Oh, A: I should spell it for you. Yeah, with an I big softy. It looks N: beautiful. Yeah, it's an ultra lightweight, portable LED soft light for better photos and videos on your phone's, tablets, laptops, cameras, and more. $101. A: I find it like just despicable to take a selfie public. Not really for other people, but for me, I just, I have, I'm way too self-conscious. I would never be able to do it with a ring light, but this thing I feel like looks. It looks like professional photo equipment in a way. N: Yeah. Yeah, it does. I just bought it. Okay, so there's 10 left. There's 10 left. [00:11:00] Okay. Um, woo. Okay, here's what I got my turn. Now, as the readers know, I have some might say champagne taste on a beer can budget. You know, I have been called everything from Prince Nick. To little Lord font Leroy, an old boss once called me, you can look that one up. It's not a compliment necessarily. So this is an expensive gift, but it's going to a, it's shopping small love that a female founded and owned and operated business. Gotta support that. And what I love about this present as and as longtime readers will know is I love like an artisan made thing. So like this is, I'm just going to cut right to it because no one can see it. This is a. It's called the seeded glass Catchall by this designer named Courtney Applebaum. Courtney is a [00:12:00] friend of mine. She's also helping and really leading all of the interior design for Contra Posto Casey's Clinic. She is, I think, one of the best like interior designers. And now she's also doing, uh, her own products like furniture and accessories for the helm. And she has the best taste of anyone I know, which is why. I forced her and convinced her to work with us, but she, she's launched some relatively more accessible pieces in her collection. If you go to Courtney applebaum design.com, and you can order all of her products on her website, but particularly she found a. Glass manufacturer that can basically, that pours molting glass into metal molds in all these different shapes. And she has in these like enormous coffee tables that are all like [00:13:00] made of this bubbling seated glass. So everyone is completely different. There's sometimes little bu, you know, imperfections that sort of make. Each piece, unique coffee tables, shelves, and now she has these little catchalls, which are for a coffee table for a entry, an entry table to like put your keys in so you don't forget them for your nightstand to put your rings in before you go to bed. She has a clear glass one and a black like obsidian glass, one with a little like divot for your items. They're this. I mean, my friends in LA know that, uh, we're working with Courtney and probably on a daily basis, one or two people will text me being like, do you think I can get a discount on one of Courtney Applebaum's? Catchalls? And the answer is, I can't. But they're 400. They're $450. You can buy them on her website. She is. I just saw they're back ordered. They're back ordered. But I [00:14:00] believe she has some stock. So if you. Connect to her through the website or her Instagram. I think there are still some for immediate order, but you could also like print out a beautiful picture of one and say like, arriving in four to six weeks, it's a beautiful present. It's a obviously like a high price point present, so this is not your office white elephant kind of present, but it's like for anyone who's into. Design Obje for the home. And you know, she's working, she's found all these like amazing artisans who create all of the different products in her line and is, you know, throughout the country. So it's really cool and she's the best and she has the best taste. So you're getting a little piece of Courtney Applebaum interior decorating in your house. A: God love Courtney Applebaum, N: I should say. I should say also, I probably like most famous. For having done the row store. Got it. In LA[00:15:00] A: why don't we bring in a reader suggestion, which. This is from our Patreon. This is Catherine who is a patron, and this is less of a specific gift and more of a state of mind when gifting. And Catherine has a great point. She says, if I'm being totally honest, the only gifts I wanna get are give, are perishable ones because she's too picky about the stuff that she keeps. She feels bad about getting rid of gifts when she doesn't like it, doesn't need it. So she's like, you know, the standby's candles. Food experiences, spa treatments, those are what we need to be giving each other instead of just like physical objects that are gonna take up space and maybe make us feel bad because we don't like them. We have to look at them. N: Okay. Well, I like that. Speaking of perish, perishable items, my next gift is. To be totally honest, a product that I helped bring to market last [00:16:00] Christmas, but there are still some left and that's why I'm recommending my friend Richard Christensen started this, incredible brand and. Place. Uh, and Fantasy Garden called Flamingo Estate in la And now he sells everything from olive oil to candles to hand soap to honey. And last year he came to me 'cause he knows that I work in entertainment now and he said I want to. Install beehives on a bunch of celebrities properties. I wanna harvest the honey and I wanna sell it in jars, like as a private blend and give the profits to charities of the celebrities choices. And I said, I'm in. We launched them last year. There are a few, and some of the talent that we ended up working with [00:17:00] kept. The hives on their properties 'cause they loved having them so much. And so this year there are still jars of honey that are being produced as part of this like charity initiative. And right now, A: like, like they're like, like Polly Shor's honey blend. Correct. Or Jennifer Tilley's. Correct. N: Honey Blend. Correct. So we had, uh, last year we had Iwe the Artist Iwe Way, uh, Savannah and LeBron James. Will Ferrell, Tiffany Haddish and Julianne Moore. Iwe is in la No, he, no, this was around the entire world. He's in Portugal. Oh. We figured out a way to install's to me, we figured out a way to install a beehive in Portugal, and I say by we, I mean Richard be, he's a mad genius, but currently you can still purchase the Julianne Moore honey. From her Montauk, New York estate, the Tiffany Haddish honey from her home in [00:18:00] Central Los Angeles will Ferrell honey for, uh, from Laurel Canyon. And again, like the, the proceeds go to a charity of their choice. So for Will Ferrell, for example, his goes to a four, a 5 0 1 C3 foundation called Cancer for College. Which is about need-based college scholarships and educational experiences for cancer survivors. Anyway, flamingo estate.com, the private blend. You know, the celebrity blends, because it's a charitable initiative, are $250 per jar. But if that's too much and you just want to get some gorgeous, delicious. California Native Mountain Wildflower Honey, you can do that on the Flamingo Estate website. It's flamingo estate.com. $34 and 50 cents. Wow. Say you [00:19:00] wanna do Courtney Kardashian Manuka Honey, you can do that for $70. You're kidding me. No, and, and everything is packaged beautifully. It's like a, these are gifts that you will, that everyone will love to have in their home. The candles are really beautiful and you can't really go wrong on the Flamingo Estate website. A: I can't say I'm surprised that we have the same gift recommendation. Nick, I wasn't thinking of the honey, but I was gonna say, you gotta go to flamingo state.com and just. Load up the cart, all different price points. You could do one candle, you could do a set of 38 candles that they have or, so N: yeah, that's a, that's a wild one. A: But yeah, I love what this guy Richard is up to. I don't know how he has the energy or the time, I don't know. But for the, or the money, um, some something's N: in that honey is all I can guess. A: And can we, 'cause you brought, because, because you brought it up. Can we take a moment for URS and culture? N: Yes.[00:20:00] A: Did you see May, December yet? N: Is it even out yet? Yes. No, I haven't yet. Okay. It's really good. I want to, I've heard Charles Melton, the hunk from Riverdale is incredible. A: Yeah, I didn't know that he was like a fully formed adult that happened like overnight. Yeah. Well, I don't know much about this person. I just always knew, I always like imagined him as a child and he plays a not child in this movie. He plays a father. N: For the readers who don't know, it's a, it's a movie with Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman and Charles Melton loosely very, very, very loosely. I don't know if it is based on a book, but it's, it's this idea of like a Mary, uh, Kay Lano and Vli lau relationship. It's not teacher with student. I don't think you have 30 A: something teacher, right? I, [00:21:00] no, she's not a, she's not as teacher. You'll see. I I don't think you have to use that many varies. I think it's actually pretty closely based on that. Oh, it's, uh, with some. I mean, it's not a one-to-one, but it's also not like loose loosely based. It's very clearly based on that. And no, it wasn't based on a book. It was actually a screenplay that was submitted. What's that website or that like the black? The Blacklist? Yeah, the black Something where you can submit screenplays. It was on that and apparently people had been talking about it for a long time and it got made into this movie. It's so fucking funny. It's so dark and funny. Ooh. Okay. So there's a gift idea for you. Take your special someone to go see this creepy, funny movie. Okay. You know what, let's do another extensive one. I like Celine. I like what they N: do. Celine like, I like shoes. Not old Celine. You mean new seline? A: Yeah. I like it actually better than, I mean, I [00:22:00] don't like the clothes. I don't care about the clothes. I don't, but do you like the accessories, like logos? I like the shoes. I like, I like the little cha cheese that they do. I like the bags are, the bags are very nice, but they make these cute little travel perfume sprays. You can get one in gold, you can get one in silver, like they're, they're covers for the atomizers. Okay? Yep. They're atomizers and they're $255. They're very chic and they come with two. You can choose 2 cents to come with it. And I just think that's a very nice gift. N: I love that gift. Very. How much? It's nice. How much is it gonna set us A: back? 2 55. Okay. Not bad, but maybe like a boyfriend gift, A girlfriend N: gift. Yeah. I mean, listen, it's, that's a, that's a, again, I, that's a, that's an expensive gift this season. But I, I guess readers aren't coming here for like, you know, steals. But I actually have one that is a steal comparatively. [00:23:00] Is it my turn? I have a A: steal after this too. Go. Well, we do. We wanna do a reader? No, we did ask them. N: Wait. Well let's just do my steal 'cause I'm excited about it. Okay, Nick. First, I love how this is a steal. It's not really a steal, but it's. Better than other things. A little indie filmmaker named Sophia Coppola came out with a coffee table book called Sophia Coppola Archive, 1999 to 2023 came out a few months ago. There were a bunch of parties for it, but there wasn't a ton of ton of press around it. It's a beautiful, uh, obviously pink. Coffee Table book 488 pages, and for anyone who is obsessed with Sophia Coppola movies from the Virgin Suicides to. Marie Antoinette, it has her like sketches for costumes. It has behind the scenes, never before seen photos from like her [00:24:00] mood boards and like the most, when they shot Marie Antoinette, they shot it in Versailles. Right. Didn't they shoot some of the scenes in Versailles? I A: believe they did, yes. N: And it is, it's just like a beautiful coffee table book for anyone who is either like a fashion or a movie, a cinephile or a fashion file. And it's $65. It is. They're, they're actually going, it was sold out, but they're going, they're printing a second edition now, so the new orders will begin shipping. On December 5th, and you wanna order from MacBook, US, MACK books us. And it's like, who? Who doesn't want a book? Like with pictures from Lost in Translation? Divergent Suicides. Marie Antoinette, the Beguiled. I want A: that. Yeah. I don't not want that. Yeah, I bet you can also get it at bookmark. Probably, I think they actually N: had a [00:25:00] signing there. Yeah. I actually bought, they have, they also have, I think I wanna say for maybe $250, they have a special edition that includes a photograph by Sophia of the woman who plays Priscilla Presley, Kaylee A: Spiny. Yeah. Love that. let's, let's get into, this is a great going on our theme of perishables and something that maybe you wouldn't buy for yourself. Let's see this reader's name. This is coming from Instagram. This is Jordan Sparks. Amir Connie. Okay. She looks very chic. She's a curator and head of program research and development for Follow Rivers Institute and Nola. She's a writer, a former educator, and a gas station coffee connoisseur, and she looks cool to him. Okay, Jordan, and she the best gift that she ever got, which is what we asked. It is a tin of Iranian caviar and a marble egg. [00:26:00] I don't know if these are two separate gifts, so she got them at once. It seems like it's a theme happening with the eggs, but Oh, I get it. A tin of N: caviar is, but Iranian caviar, that's the, that's the, I didn't even know they had caviar. Me neither. Do you wanna hear something interesting? So I guess all of the caviar that, that can be exported into the west is pasteurized. But I met this, uh, a guy in London once who was from a big. Really wealthy Indian family and he was saying that all the really wealthy Indian families when they have their multi-day weddings will get black market unpasteurized Russian caviar because that's like actually, like, it tastes like completely different than anything any of us have ever experienced. It does real, you've had it. [00:27:00] Of course. How, how, how would you know that you've had unpasteurized Babe? We just A: bring it in on the private plane. N: Got it. From, from from Russia. Okay. A: Well, not recently, obviously. Okay. Okay. It's a little tough. No, but you know that they do this, like, I won't say the brand, but they did tell me it's a, it's a niche hot N: Brandi melt. A: And they were saying that they have customers in Dubai that will fly in their perfumes for them. 'cause you know, there's like so many regulations with like, ingredients and things. Mm-Hmm. Like in cosmetics on their private planes to like customers in Dubai. I think we just saw Nancy, didn't Nancy Gonzalez, the handbag designer get in trouble for doing the same thing with her? Like with her snake N: Nancy Kins Nancy? Yes. I just sent you that. So I don't know. Some people who have been in the fashion worked in the fashion industry will remember the name Nancy Gonzalez. She's an accessory designer who sold these like snake skin, crock alligator bags. Like Bergdorf, [00:28:00] right? Neimans, yeah. Neimans in, in the two nineties and two thousands. I, I hadn't heard much about her since the 2000, the early two thousands. And then I saw a headline in Business of Fashion. That said, hold on, I'm just gonna find the exact headline. And A: she makes, she makes all of her bags out of like exotic animal skins. So gator lizard, N: it says, God knows what else. BOF reports designer Nancy Gonzalez, pleads guilty to smuggling exotic skin handbags. And that A: literally means she went on her friend's private plane and just brought like N: a suitcase while her back. Yeah. She was charged with one count of conspiracy and two counts of smuggling handbags made from Python and Cayman skins between February, 2016 and April, 2019. Both species are protected by the convention on international trade. An endangered species of wild fauna and flora. The designer was extradited [00:29:00] to the US from Columbia earlier this year to face the charges against her? No. Yeah, because, uh, her Columbia based business and two other individuals have also been charged. A: Nancy, bad girl. N: Oh, and just to be clear, Python and Cayman skin is not illegal. It's just that she did this to avoid paying the high taxes, taxes. A: Listen anyway. You gotta pay N: those. You gotta pay taxes. A: Serge Esberg was such a man of the people. He loved paying taxes and he would actually go down, he would walk down to the tax office himself and pay them in person. Really? It's a little fact N: for you. Yeah. That's amazing. I saw someone on a, on an Instagram. One of the eyewitness accounts asked for a good present for a soon to be parent or like a kid. Baby present. Kid present. I believe they were asking me, [00:30:00] and I have a good one. I don't think I've ever talked about this brand before, but I wanna talk about it now. It is the kids clothing brand that everyone's wearing and nobody's talking about. And it is called Ru, ROUX. And the website is shop ru.com. And they have these rompers, which are one piece sweat. They're one pieces, one piece outfits made of sweatshirt material in like eggplant blue and like, you know. Or eggplant purple and like Kelly Green, like these beautiful colors. Some of them are printed with like yin yangs or hearts or strawberries. They're 40 bucks. And when, when I tell you that it's hard to get a wiggling, you know, nine month old into any kind of an outfit or clothes, let alone separates, let alone anything that's skin tight, [00:31:00] I think all the parents on who listening will. Will agree that it's. A godsend when you find a piece of clothing that is both soft and cozy and stylish for kids, that they can literally just like slip in and out of it. Buttons at the bottom so you can change diapers. Specific product that I'm talking about is the Jarvis sweatshirt romper on shop ru.com. It's 40 bucks and they, I would size up and then they could just wear it really baggy, really cute for a few months and then. They'll, I mean, belt it then. Then they can belt. Honestly, they can do, yeah, exactly. You can wear it as a hat after your kid is done with it. The one thing I'll say though is that they also are really, really wonderful quality. They're made in LA and we, honestly, we have the same, if your sweatshirt A: material isn't coming from LA then don't, don't, N: but what I was gonna say is. Rafi is now wearing [00:32:00] evie's old ones. So like they, they last versus like anything I ever bought at h and m or Zara. I know that they're cute and it's excessively priced, but they're made with bad labor practices, allegedly, and they don't last. Like my, the bigger issue, if we're gonna be honest, to like what consumers really care about is like value, right? And like whether something will last or like, you know. Well, it's like not endurance. What? What would be the word? Quality, I guess. Quality, yeah. And the Zara and h and m shit doesn't. Stand up. It doesn't stand up to washing, let alone generations, let alone siblings. A: And like, if you're, if you're not gonna wear it yourself, why are you putting your kid in it? N: Exactly. So shop brew ROU x.com. Just kidding. I'm not a parent. I don't know. Oh no. What I, I just love this brand because it's like. 20 bucks for a onesie, you know, 15 or $18 for a cute t-shirt. You can si [00:33:00] again, I, what I like about this brand too is you can really size up so that, uh, you get a lot, you get sort of six or eight months out of each of these items because it's meant to be kind of worn baggy. They have like drop shoulder t-shirts. Another woman-owned business in la. Ru Ru, what do you got? A: Let's do a little cheapy or a little affordable one. Well, I have two affordable ones. We can consider these stalking sufferers maybe? Yeah. Or black elephant gifts under $50. White. Elephant? White. Oh, what's a black elephant? I don't know. Huh? Chic? The answer is chic. Okay, so I have discovered. So I am a known insomniac and I had one of those, like puny, they're not cheap. They're actually quite expensive, like silk sleep masks. Mm-Hmm. They don't stay on your face. No. They don't really block out the light. Nope, nope, nope. So I googled in sleep [00:34:00] masks for insomnia and. I highly recommend you have to find, is N: this the one with the goggles that are like that? Like go over your eyes so you can still blink and your eyelashes don't touch it. A: They do have like cups. Yes. They're almost like a brasier for your eye. Yes. Like a concave. So this brand is called Ostrich Pillow. These are, I would say there's, there's several brands that do these type of eye masks. I would say this is the shees looking one. You could actually wear it on a plane. And it is just their eye mask. The sleep blackout eye mask, it's $45 and it really works. It really does block out all white. You can take a nap in the middle of the day in like your bright living room, and it'll feel like it's nighttime. N: which I is literally, you've never had a sound of a sleep until you've slept with an eye mask that fully blocks out light. I, it's incredible. I have a sleep related gift, which is also, I don't know if I've already done it as a product of the week, but we [00:35:00] all love sleep and too often. We don't get enough of it. Or we have bad sleep, whether it's kids, too many drinks that night. Anxiety, too much coffee. You took your Adderall too late, whatever it is. I have been really into magnesium at night. I. I used to do that drink calm, but like I didn't feel like it really worked as well. Oh A: yeah. I think you mentioned N: that before on the pod. I think I did the calm drink, but I recently found a liposomal, which is like a sort of gel suspension supplement of magnesium from a brand SymbioticA with A-C-C-Y-M-B. SymbioticA, they have a magnesium theran supplement. Little packets, one a night. Uh, you can either squeeze it directly into your mouth, it's like vanilla latte kind of flavored, or you can add it to a little bit of water. When I say this will knock you out and give you the best night's sleep of your life, [00:36:00] I mean that. Wow. You can buy them on Amazon or on symbiotica.com. Hell yeah. Give the gift of sleep. A: The gift of sleep. N: 68 bucks for a box of 30. A: I love that. Let's N: do magnesium three. Inate. Did I say Theon eight? Yeah. Three Inate. A: Three Inate. Embarrassing, but okay. I have another one that's kind of like a health related, and I know I already talked about it, but I've been using it for a few weeks now and I've already been seeing results, so we love that. It is an investment, but let's just, let's say this is a gift to buy someone you live with, so you can just use it yourself. This is the Dr. Dennis Gross body Wear Pro. Oh, it's 30% off. Dunno how much longer that's gonna last. And it is their body, LED treatment mask. [00:37:00] And it is bendable so you can mold it to the contours of your body. You can use it anywhere other than your face. And I've been using it on my neck, my chest, my back, my butt, my legs, and IU and my knees. As a preventative, I'm not trying to get any like wrinkly saggy knees. So I do the red light, I fold it into a little tent and I do it over each knee. N: Huh. And this is, and it's only is that te that technology is like legit, right? Like that peop it's, A: I think it's like one of the only at-home devices that is considered legit. Huh? They have really incredible before and afters. Okay, and where do you buy it? And I do hear you buy it on their website. I don't know if they have it on Sephora, if you're a VIV or whatever, but it is currently today in the year of our Lord, 2023, November 30th, it is 30% off on Dr. Dennis Gross's website, and it is [00:38:00] 30% off of $455. Okay. But again, buy it for, maybe it's a community gift for your household and you can use it as well. N: Yeah, I think that's a great present. my next A: present and oh, I should say it's also apparently good for sore muscles and joints. Like it's not just for skin care. Oh, it's anti inflammation. Yes. So if, if you have, if you're a Thera Gun family, this is like right up, right in that same kind of sweet spot culture. Yeah. N: Okay. so I know we're, we're releasing this episode early enough that I feel like it's appropriate to add a few. Christmas decor items that you could still grab and put up this Christmas, this holiday season. And as someone who grew up without a Christmas tree celebrating only Hanukkah but married a Christian person or someone who's not Jewish, I guess I should say, I'm buying, acquiring Christmas stuff for the first time. I found the [00:39:00] best Christmas decor. Of course in Sweden from a very like historic company called, and I'm probably mispronouncing this VE 10, which is Ssv 10 S-V-E-N-S-K-T. TENN, Joseph Frank is the, he was the famous designer behind a lot of the fabrics and, uh, lighting and furniture that the brand created very early on in its history. It's a very. Eco-friendly company. They don't, they say on their website they don't wrap Christmas decorations due to environmental and logistic re reasons. They also, uh, I believe like the profit, it's like something about the profits like, don't even, you know, it's like they go to like preserving Swedish heritage. Like there's amazing things about this company, events 10. It is basically like, imagine a. It's like a fancier [00:40:00] ikea. A: Yeah, I was about to say the prices are shockingly N: low. Yeah, so they have really great Christmas decor, including something that I. Can guarantee that none of our readers have, which is a Christmas goat garland. I didn't even know that Rams or goats were like a Christmas thing. But they have these really, really cute garlands that would go on like a fireplace mantle or on a bedside, that are like a little foldout paper garland for $22. The other thing that I'm obsessed with that I got, is a Christmas tree topper the brass. Christmas tree star for $64. It's like just a beautiful simple star that has little like, you know, curly spring on the one side that you can stick on the top. They have really cute hand painted ornaments and again, like the company's doing good and [00:41:00] it's very eco. Love that like everything comes in paper, everything's recyclable. It's pretty amazing. Okay, A: so vent 10. Vincent 10. Great. Why don't we consider Go her world. N: We've talked, we love Go Her World, but A: let's a favorite of Eye Eyewitness Beauty. Mm-Hmm. They have gift guides on their website. You can shop under 200. Under a hundred. Under 50. They have a mother of pearl butter knife that comes in a little felt like. Snap closure envelope, which is a very cute little hostess gift you would say. they have aprons, they have like doily aprons for champagne bottles and sparkling water bottles, and I saw that they just came out with a very cute recipe card box. So like throughout the year, they've been posting on their Instagram, like family lunches that they have for their team every Friday [00:42:00] where their founders. Make meals for the team and then all the recipes they've printed on really beautiful stationary and have it in a beautiful little box. And I think that's really cute. I N: love that I've been trying this year to print out my recipes and I wanna start keeping them in writing notes. I'm, because I'm getting old and that would be a great way to organize A: it. And you know what's a great gift for a guy? They have these cute little, I don't know if they're Yes, they are. Uh, well, they're sterling silver plated toothpicks with a little bean on the end, and they come in like a little envelope too. So like, I feel like Guy is like a toothpick, you know, love. N: But, uh, it's a, it's a sterling toothpick. Mm-Hmm. A: Yeah. N: It's a sterling toothpick. Oof. That ling just gave, I just got the chills. That seems like something you don't want to like, put in your mouth. A: No, you do. Okay. I think people, people are not, people are brushing too hard and they're not flossing hard enough is [00:43:00] my, they're not getting in between the teeth hard enough and they're, they're, they need to be gentler on the brushing the outside of the teeth. That's what I've found. N: I don't know, I just like that sound of putting silver in your mouth. A: I mean, just imagine like picking out a little like chia seed N: with, okay. Okay. That's not gonna hurt you. Yeah, I guess not. Okay. I don't know. I dunno if I can handle that. That's, those are the presents that I have. I went really with a tight edit. No more. That's it. A: I have one. I have another one for you. Speaking of, you want, I know you like you, you're excited on the Christmas stuff, but what about the Hanukkah N: of it all? What about the Hanukkah of it all? And this is a year where Hanukkah's, uh, coming, it's coming very soon, next week I think. A: Next week. Okay, we'll get your orders in there is a designer, a furniture maker, a kind of man of all, what do you [00:44:00] call it when a guy is good at everything, Jack of all trades Renaissance. Oh, Renaissance man named Aiden s. He lives born and raised in New York. Carpenter artist, his sister does a lot of work with him. She is a designer of with textiles clothing. he designed a really cool menorah and it's made of stainless steel and. N: Aiden, what's his name? Aiden A: Elias, E-L-I-A-S. And he designed and made, produced these menorahs and is selling them through lichen, NYC, and that is spelled L-I-C-H-E-N-N-Y c.com. N: Oh, they are beautiful. A: Yes. So there it's, it's two solid steel interfacing pieces that are intended to be rotated once a night, forming an additional space for a candle with each turn. Hard to [00:45:00] explain. It's more of a visual thing that you just have to like see to believe. Uh, but it's like very modern looking. It doesn't like scream menorah at you. It's just like this really cool, kind of like. Disc with candles inside of it. It's beautiful. N: I know also this website, liken nyc.com, has really cool and not crazy expensive A: stuff. Oh yeah. Have I not talked about them on the pod before? No. They started as like a little vintage furniture store in mostly like specializing in like mid-century and like a little bit of postmodern in like East Williamsburg. And then they've just kind of exploded since then. And now they're producing their own objects. but you can still get really cool vintage stuff from them as well. N: And like, like, I mean, there's like a, into bigger space. There's a really cute three piece side table by Alvaro OCHA Rodriguez for $249, like super chic. 15 inch square side table. [00:46:00] Yeah. A: Cool. Yeah. Yeah. While you're there, while you're on the website shopping for this menorah, check out their other stuff. It's great. Yeah. Like an NYC and invest in a nice menorah, you know, get, get rid of that pier one thing and get like a little like. N: Heirloom. There's a real dearth of stylish menorahs. I don't think any of those, like sexy menorahs. Yeah, it's, and you can't even find really good vintage ones. I don't know. It's a hard, it's a very hard thing really. Yeah. What do you think about this one? I think I, it's great. It, it would confuse me about like how to, like where, which way do you start? Because it's like in a circle kind of, but I mean, I love it. I think that's part of the fun of it. All right. Yeah, I A: agree. so yeah, liken, is that it? Are we done with N: our gift guide? I think our gift guide was a very tight edit. and we're gonna be, you and I are gonna be talking tomorrow to. Record a bonus episode, but A: we have so much to discuss.[00:47:00] I would say this was a very busy week. Yeah. This is for things that we care N: about. Very busy week for things that we care about. that bonus episode is available to our Patreon subscribers, so make sure you subscribe to one of the tiers on patreon.com/eyewitness Beauty, as always. We love you. Text us, call us. You can find the A: video video version of this episode N: on our Patreon, Paton on Paton, and we are produced by Jonathan Kornman. Our editing is done by AJ Moseley, and we will be back next week. Well, we'll, we'll, I mean for those of you who are on our Patreon will be back sooner than next week. Twice. Yeah, twice next week with a, with a bonus episode, but then. Otherwise, we'll see you next week. Also, I should say, given that we're pretty good about send, uh, sending this episode out early-ish in the holiday buying season, we could also do a [00:48:00] second gift guide if we need some last minute ideas. So shoot us texts, email us, call us, call my mom. A: Oh, you know what you're supposed to do for the bonus app. We want people to send in voice notes of questions for N: us. Yes. And we'll play. And we'll play them. Yeah. That's the idea. Oh, yeah. You can email hi@eyewitnessbeauty.com with a voice note file. Mm-Hmm. We'll talk to you later, A: Mary. Everything.