# Beauty Bonus: Retinol SOS & Butter In Your Bra?

An episode of [Nothing To Wear](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1589394895), 8 Jun 2025, 14 min.

Audio: https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/3ea926be-9be7-482a-8ac3-a44f016e43d1/11b785d5-0d82-418d-9e1e-adbb006b7187/87e7cf58-2665-414d-8176-b2f20019fce3/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=039b07db-d1c2-417d-a245-adbb006e1ac5

In this weeks beauty bonus, Leigh and Kelly are back answering your wildest questions! Like whether you can slap your fancy face serum onto your scalp for longer, lusher locks (spoiler: maybe don’t) and what to do when your retinol is turning your face into a flakey tomato. There’s also a fresh batch of hacks straight from the beauty trenches – Kelly’s got a new use for your lip balm that involves… your bra (yes, we’re serious), and Leigh’s blow-drying her scalp in public like it’s totally normal behaviour. Because it is. Kind of. LINKS TO EVERYTHING MENTIONED: Typebea Overnight Boosting Peptide Scalp Serum $80 Dermal Therapy Hair Restoring Serum $14.95 tbh Rebound Barrier Serum $49.95 The Ordinary Soothing & Barrier Support Serum $54 Kiehl’s Vital Skin-Strengthening Super Serum $116 Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Strengthening Serum $153 Esmi Probiotic Skin Milk $65 FOR MORE WHERE THIS CAME FROM: Watch & Subscribe on Youtube here Follow us on Instagram: @youbeautypodcast Follow us on TikTok: @youbeautypod Join our You Beauty Facebook Group here For our product recommendations, exclusive beauty news, reviews, articles, deals and much more - sign up for our free You Beauty weekly newsletter here Subscribe to Mamamia here GET IN TOUCH: Got a beauty question you want answered? Email us at youbeauty@mamamia.com.au or send us a voice message, and one of our Podcast Producers will come back to you ASAP. You Beauty is a podcast by Mamamia. Listen to more Mamamia podcasts here. CREDITS: Hosts: Leigh Campbell & Kelly McCarren Producer: Mollie Harwood Audio Producer: Tegan Sadler Video Producer: Marlena Cacciotti Mamamia's studios are furnished with thanks to Fenton & Fenton. For more head to their website here. Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:10] Speaker 1: You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.
[0:13] Speaker 2: Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
[0:17] Speaker 2: that this podcast is recorded on Hi Friends, Lee here.
[0:21] Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you about an episode of You
[0:23] Speaker 2: Beauty because Kelly and I have some phenomenal products to
[0:27] Speaker 2: tell you about. I mean, every week we do, but
[0:29] Speaker 2: this week was especially amazing, and so I wanted to
[0:32] Speaker 2: let you know in case you wanted to be across
[0:34] Speaker 2: the best products too. Makeup is my therapy. I'm obsessed
[0:40] Speaker 2: and I don't even feel guilty.
[0:42] Speaker 1: Body.
[0:45] Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to You Beauty, the daily podcast for
[0:48] Speaker 2: Your Face. I'm Let Campbell, I'm Kelly mccarrot. I think
[0:51] Speaker 2: I've got another yawn in me, don't.
[0:53] Speaker 1: She's a yawny queen and.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Court one that means you're crazy.
[0:58] Speaker 1: Really yeah, Yawns are catage so gullible that without even
[1:02] Speaker 1: queshing it, I just was, oh, really, you know what
[1:04] Speaker 1: I mean?
[1:05] Speaker 2: Yawns are contagious. Otherwise you're a psychopath. It's true.
[1:08] Speaker 1: She's telling me this is a storat face. I do
[1:10] Speaker 1: not believe it's true.
[1:11] Speaker 2: Google.
[1:11] Speaker 1: I'm not a psychopath, but I am a helpful queen,
[1:14] Speaker 1: as is Lee, because on Mondays we answer your beauty
[1:17] Speaker 1: questions and we come into your lives with sometimes a
[1:20] Speaker 1: questionable hostag sometimes well we help your lives. I should say,
[1:23] Speaker 1: not come into your lives. That's weird interiors. Well, apparently
[1:26] Speaker 1: I'm a psychopast. Maybe I'm lurking.
[1:29] Speaker 2: I couldn't help, but wonder ask me anything you ask
[1:31] Speaker 2: Clenny questions. Today we've got a question from Danny L
[1:36] Speaker 2: who slid into our DMS. What are your thoughts or
[1:39] Speaker 2: experiences on using serums like vatamin C E or peptides
[1:43] Speaker 2: on the scalp? Do you think they can assist with
[1:46] Speaker 2: hair issues like thinning, premature graying and of course in
[1:49] Speaker 2: addition to supplements and wearing a cap for scout protection
[1:53] Speaker 2: from the sun, etc. Thanks hmm.
[1:57] Speaker 1: I wouldn't bother personally, because I think that there are
[2:01] Speaker 1: so many good products these days that are specifically formulated
[2:06] Speaker 1: for your scalp. Okay, there are some brands just about
[2:09] Speaker 1: scalp pals.
[2:09] Speaker 2: That's what I wondered. When she says using serums, do
[2:11] Speaker 2: you think she's meaning face skin care on your head?
[2:14] Speaker 1: That's what I yeah, because otherwise yeah, no, I assume
[2:18] Speaker 1: so yeah, she's saying serum. So she means, like, why
[2:20] Speaker 1: wouldn't I just use my face serum instead of going
[2:22] Speaker 1: out and buying a scalp serum. Yes, I just think
[2:25] Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
[2:26] Speaker 2: Bother it's a waste of your good face.
[2:27] Speaker 1: Well, skincare is generally more expensive than scalp care. Plus
[2:32] Speaker 1: your skincare hasn't been formulated to go onto your scalp,
[2:35] Speaker 1: and like work with your hair. A lot of scalp
[2:37] Speaker 1: care products these days, you will not know that you've
[2:40] Speaker 1: got them. In agree that that I was going to say,
[2:42] Speaker 1: make your hair oily. They don't make it textured, they
[2:44] Speaker 1: don't make it like they literally water exactly, bit dries.
[2:48] Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking, because if she means using
[2:50] Speaker 1: face skincare on your scalp, usually it's quite hydrating or
[2:53] Speaker 1: wants to give you a glow, so it will make
[2:54] Speaker 1: your roots look quite oily or greasy. Yeah real.
[2:57] Speaker 2: Whereas Yeah, but there's plenty of hair specific serums that
[3:01] Speaker 2: can help. They can definitely help with hair fitning. There's heaps.
[3:05] Speaker 2: Premature graying is an interesting one. There's a few products
[3:08] Speaker 2: that are marketed, but you know, slowing down the graying process.
[3:12] Speaker 2: I've tried a couple. They have not worked. However, I
[3:15] Speaker 2: have been fully gray for twenty years, so I don't
[3:17] Speaker 2: know if it's too late.
[3:18] Speaker 1: I want to see your gray hair.
[3:19] Speaker 2: Ah, one day I can try it. No, I can
[3:22] Speaker 2: show you the skink like. I'm happy to just use
[3:28] Speaker 2: root touch up and color my hair every few weeks
[3:30] Speaker 2: because I have to. But for thinning, absolutely so. There's
[3:34] Speaker 2: so many that are specifically designed for the hair. I've
[3:37] Speaker 2: talked about the Type B one, the overnight boosting peptide
[3:40] Speaker 2: serum for hair growth that absolutely worked too well, to
[3:42] Speaker 2: the point I had to have my hair threaded between
[3:45] Speaker 2: my eyebrows and my hairline.
[3:47] Speaker 1: They're just turning back into Chewbacca from her teens. I
[3:50] Speaker 1: was lost about that.
[3:51] Speaker 2: In a few weeks ago, there's a really great new
[3:53] Speaker 2: one from Locks of Time. They've gone into hair for finishing.
[3:56] Speaker 2: Oh yes, that's so good. You can get some really
[3:58] Speaker 2: good ones at the supermarket. So I would just probably
[4:01] Speaker 2: get a hair specific one. Dermal therapy has the hair
[4:04] Speaker 2: restoring serum. There's plenty, so just get a hair one
[4:09] Speaker 2: and use that your hair for thickening, if that makes sense.
[4:12] Speaker 2: And like you say, supplements, absolutely anything that you ingest
[4:15] Speaker 2: is definitely gonna help. Like for me, I find that
[4:17] Speaker 2: my daily collagen that I have in my drink absolutely helps.
[4:21] Speaker 2: I don't wear a cap to protect my scalp from
[4:23] Speaker 2: the sun, but I don't want to go in the sun.
[4:25] Speaker 2: But that's also a very good thing.
[4:28] Speaker 1: After the break, We've got another question about retinal. Because
[4:32] Speaker 1: no one will ever get bored of talking of retinal.
[4:34] Speaker 2: It's a very confusing little thing.
[4:40] Speaker 1: All right. Stacier sentus an email. Hello, I have a
[4:43] Speaker 1: question f leeen Kelly. I love my retinal. I've been
[4:45] Speaker 1: using it for about five months and I feel like
[4:48] Speaker 1: my skin is so much firmer and less sliney. However,
[4:50] Speaker 1: it has made my skin so red and splotchy. I
[4:53] Speaker 1: think it is fled up like roseation between my brows
[4:56] Speaker 1: and around to my mouth. I don't want to give
[4:58] Speaker 1: up the retinal because with makeup on, my skin texture
[5:01] Speaker 1: is so good. But I feel like I don't want
[5:03] Speaker 1: to pop to the shops or go to the gym
[5:05] Speaker 1: without a BB because I have these red patches. Should
[5:08] Speaker 1: I change the strength or just give up?
[5:11] Speaker 2: Oh, don't give up, don't give up. You've come so fast, Stacy.
[5:16] Speaker 1: Yes, it's such a good question and such a simple answer.
[5:19] Speaker 2: I don't agree. Oh well, she says she thinks it's
[5:22] Speaker 2: flared up rose sha between her brows and around her mouth,
[5:25] Speaker 2: and now she's getting blotchy in some sections. So I
[5:27] Speaker 2: wonder if she knew or has rose sha or had
[5:30] Speaker 2: it before. So that's because there's you know, definitely levels
[5:33] Speaker 2: or specific rednoles you should use if you are rose
[5:36] Speaker 2: sha prone. But you're saying with makeup on your skin
[5:39] Speaker 2: smooth and less liney, great, but the red and the
[5:41] Speaker 2: blotchain e. I'd love to know what you're using. The
[5:45] Speaker 2: fact that we don't know what we're talking about here
[5:47] Speaker 2: is really stressing me out. But what I would suggest is,
[5:49] Speaker 2: you've come so far you like the results. I'd pair
[5:51] Speaker 2: it back. So say you're doing three nights a week, Well,
[5:55] Speaker 2: we're probably gonna have to look at it at a fortnight.
[5:57] Speaker 2: So instead of doing it every second night, do it
[5:59] Speaker 2: every third night or every four nights, just you know,
[6:02] Speaker 2: so you're doing the same thing. It's kind of like
[6:04] Speaker 2: going to the gym. Maybe you've worked out too much
[6:07] Speaker 2: and your muscles are too sore. Keep going to the gym,
[6:09] Speaker 2: but don't go as often.
[6:10] Speaker 1: I need to rest.
[6:12] Speaker 2: You need to rest, so I would probably do that
[6:14] Speaker 2: and see if that kind of helps with the redness,
[6:16] Speaker 2: and then I would use on the other nights and
[6:18] Speaker 2: all mornings something to strengthen the skin barrier. So I've
[6:21] Speaker 2: got a few recommendations for you. I mean, I'm sure
[6:24] Speaker 2: you're doing hydration, but there's hydration and then there's sort
[6:27] Speaker 2: of strengthening and repairing. So a couple that you might
[6:30] Speaker 2: want to try. We talk about this one all the time,
[6:32] Speaker 2: the TBH Rebound Serum. It's fantastic. You can get at supermarket,
[6:36] Speaker 2: you can get a price line, or you can get
[6:37] Speaker 2: it online. Keels has a beautiful one. It's called the
[6:41] Speaker 2: Vital Skin Strengthening super Serum. It's one hundred and sixteen dollars,
[6:45] Speaker 2: but it's got a lot of very good reviews. Another
[6:48] Speaker 2: one of my personal favorites that I love is the
[6:51] Speaker 2: Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum. That's twenty nine bucks.
[6:55] Speaker 2: That's a pink one, it's like bright pink, and Dermologica
[6:58] Speaker 2: Dynamic Skin Strengthening Serum one hundred and fifty three dollars.
[7:03] Speaker 2: And one more, just because we like options, is that
[7:05] Speaker 2: I think you like this one is the Esmi probiotic
[7:08] Speaker 2: skin milk and it's a calming, milky probiotic serum.
[7:12] Speaker 1: I love that.
[7:13] Speaker 2: That would be really good, So I would like this
[7:14] Speaker 2: is a sexual podcast.
[7:16] Speaker 1: I really like that one.
[7:17] Speaker 2: So keep going to the gym, keep using the ret nul,
[7:20] Speaker 2: but go as often and make sure you're having rest days.
[7:23] Speaker 2: Which is your barrier support? What do you reckon?
[7:26] Speaker 1: No? I do actually completely agree with you.
[7:28] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[7:29] Speaker 1: Another option though, could be that she just carries on
[7:32] Speaker 1: the way that she's carrying on, but don't apply it
[7:35] Speaker 1: to the areas that you get red and blotchy. Yeah,
[7:37] Speaker 1: put a barrier cream down first, yeah, yeah, like the
[7:40] Speaker 1: doctor w wins seramaid balm, or even just your lip balm,
[7:44] Speaker 1: like your poor poor or whatever you've got. Just put
[7:46] Speaker 1: something down first in that area, on the areas where
[7:49] Speaker 1: you go red and blotchy, and then go in because
[7:51] Speaker 1: the retina won't penetrate as the same effect, or don't
[7:54] Speaker 1: put it on those areas.
[7:55] Speaker 2: Interesting. I really want to know what she's using. And
[7:57] Speaker 2: that's a really good question. I just hate enduring any
[8:01] Speaker 2: form of perrotation or irritation. Having said that, I've got
[8:04] Speaker 2: now got dermatitis all under my eyebrows. Maybe she's given
[8:07] Speaker 2: it to me and I'm not all.
[8:08] Speaker 1: I can see you've just done that with your face?
[8:10] Speaker 1: Is it? Your lashes are so long that miscaa has
[8:12] Speaker 1: transferred a little bit.
[8:13] Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you for telling me. And guess what, Mascar,
[8:15] Speaker 2: I'm using the one you don't like. Well, yeah, because
[8:19] Speaker 2: it's transferred.
[8:20] Speaker 1: So maybe this is.
[8:20] Speaker 2: My eyelashes so long, Frabe, I've.
[8:23] Speaker 1: Just proved you right that it's not that great.
[8:26] Speaker 2: If you don't know what we're talking about. Listened to
[8:28] Speaker 2: last week's episode, and up next we have our host
[8:31] Speaker 2: hacks and mine is a little bit left of center.
[8:39] Speaker 2: What you makeup packs. So my husband reminded me of
[8:45] Speaker 2: this the other day, that I do this with many things.
[8:48] Speaker 2: We were having breakfast out and it's quite cold now,
[8:51] Speaker 2: it's practically winter, and you know when you order something
[8:54] Speaker 2: and then they bring you like the toast or the
[8:55] Speaker 2: croissant or whatever, and then the butter, like the little
[8:59] Speaker 2: plastic thing of butter with the thing has been in
[9:01] Speaker 2: the fridge or the freeze when it's freezing and you
[9:03] Speaker 2: can't spread it on your toast.
[9:04] Speaker 1: Oh and it's never enough. You boys could ask for
[9:06] Speaker 1: tool totally.
[9:06] Speaker 2: So I just honestly, I get mine, and I get Alexanders,
[9:09] Speaker 2: and I just put in my bra and I warm
[9:10] Speaker 2: them up.
[9:11] Speaker 1: And Rich goes, oh, such a weird thing to do
[9:13] Speaker 1: in public. I don't like take my top off. I
[9:15] Speaker 1: just just.
[9:16] Speaker 2: Now imagining you that you're like opening up your top.
[9:20] Speaker 2: But Rich goes, oh, yep, it's winter here. She goes
[9:22] Speaker 2: putting things in her bra And I do this too
[9:24] Speaker 2: with my lip bumps. So if I've got lots of
[9:26] Speaker 2: lip balms that live in the car, and particularly if
[9:28] Speaker 2: they're natural, like a lanolen or your first thing in
[9:30] Speaker 2: the morning when your car's freeze, yeah, and they're like
[9:32] Speaker 2: concrete and you're trying to do your lips because your
[9:34] Speaker 2: lips are dry and you can't squeeze it. And then
[9:36] Speaker 2: if you squeeze it sometimes it uncrimps the crimp and
[9:38] Speaker 2: explodes everywhere. That happened to you. So when I get
[9:41] Speaker 2: in the car first thing in the morning, i'd pick
[9:42] Speaker 2: up my car lip bum I put it in my bra,
[9:45] Speaker 2: start driving. A few minutes later, my body heat has
[9:47] Speaker 2: just warmed up my lip balm, and off I go
[9:50] Speaker 2: softened dish. Yeesh, it's so good. So if you've got
[9:53] Speaker 2: hard butter. Whack it in your bra. If you've got ferm,
[9:55] Speaker 2: lip balm, whack it in your bra and your body
[9:57] Speaker 2: heat will just make it the most beautiful consistency and
[10:00] Speaker 2: you won't be using your freezing fingers running and get
[10:02] Speaker 2: some frozen lip bar out. See it wasn't that bad.
[10:06] Speaker 1: Everything in your bra is better, including your breast.
[10:09] Speaker 2: And then you could put some balm on you nips
[10:10] Speaker 2: and happy days.
[10:11] Speaker 1: And they won't get cold either. Well, they won't get.
[10:13] Speaker 2: Frosty, they won't get wind wind burn.
[10:17] Speaker 1: Yes, ah, so it is, as Lee has just pointed out,
[10:20] Speaker 1: very cold. And I have to wash my hair on
[10:24] Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Now what because okay, let's back it up
[10:30] Speaker 1: a little bit. Thursday morning I have a very early
[10:32] Speaker 1: start and I need nice hair for the day. Wednesday
[10:36] Speaker 1: night I have netball. Oh, sweaty, but it finishes so late.
[10:40] Speaker 1: Oh I'm tired that I have to wash my hair
[10:42] Speaker 1: prior anyway, Yes, which I know sounds wild. So sweaty, wash,
[10:48] Speaker 1: blow dry everything bright to netball?
[10:51] Speaker 2: Are they like? Okay, girls, this is your best outing of
[10:53] Speaker 2: the wind.
[10:53] Speaker 1: Literally. And then so the other night I got home
[10:56] Speaker 1: and I was like, ahts, I did not have any
[10:59] Speaker 1: dry shampoo, because usually then I would just put dry
[11:02] Speaker 1: shampoo in after net as soon as I was home
[11:05] Speaker 1: from netblaw while my hair was still sweaty, and then
[11:08] Speaker 1: by the morning it's like completely fine and like smell. No, Okay,
[11:12] Speaker 1: I'm quite good at it, but I don't sweat that much. Okay,
[11:15] Speaker 1: it's damp, it's not wet. Okay, god Lee's like.
[11:20] Speaker 2: But no, But I honestly love the like secret lives
[11:23] Speaker 2: of how people do their hygiene and their routines. It's
[11:25] Speaker 2: so fascinating.
[11:26] Speaker 1: Yeah, so my hair is still clean, it's just that
[11:28] Speaker 1: it's a bit damp. And because my hair gets so
[11:31] Speaker 1: oily so quickly, I know that if I didn't dry
[11:35] Speaker 1: shampoo or anything the next morning, it would be just
[11:37] Speaker 1: yuck and it would not look like i'd washed it
[11:39] Speaker 1: the day before. Alas I had no dry shampoo. So
[11:43] Speaker 1: do you know what I did? My hair dry was
[11:45] Speaker 1: still out from blow drying my hair before netball, while
[11:47] Speaker 1: it was still damp. I just absolutely blasted the sweaty
[11:51] Speaker 1: bits with the blow dryer.
[11:52] Speaker 2: With cold or hot hot.
[11:54] Speaker 1: Yeah, probably because I was trying to do it quickly.
[11:56] Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, my hair was not sweaty, and.
[11:58] Speaker 2: Because it was almost like, oh wait, did we just
[12:00] Speaker 2: get out of the shower again?
[12:01] Speaker 1: Forgot Yeah, because it was just so quick, so I
[12:04] Speaker 1: guess I'm still so clean. Yeah, that wouldn't work if
[12:07] Speaker 1: your hair was sweaty, but that bit damp.
[12:09] Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get away perspiration, and that would.
[12:12] Speaker 1: Work the same if you know, if you go to
[12:13] Speaker 1: the gym in the morning and then you want to
[12:14] Speaker 1: get ready for work, just blast it with.
[12:16] Speaker 2: When I used to go to the gym in the
[12:17] Speaker 2: morning before work, I would do that, but because I'd
[12:19] Speaker 2: still be so hot from the workout, I'm guessing by
[12:21] Speaker 2: the time you got home you went too hot. I
[12:22] Speaker 2: would use a cold setting. Yeah, and it's cold. Yeah,
[12:25] Speaker 2: see this is summer. I was shitzy. I would use
[12:27] Speaker 2: the cold setting. Takes on going to dry it kind
[12:28] Speaker 2: of work, mamma.
[12:31] Speaker 1: Anyway, for anyone that doesn't want to use product, doesn't
[12:34] Speaker 1: like dry shampoo, doesn't have dry shampoo.
[12:35] Speaker 2: Do you wash your hair another day or I'm drinking
[12:39] Speaker 2: Oh great, Okay. I was just so confused because I
[12:41] Speaker 2: thought you were no, no, no, I've got real dirty hair.
[12:44] Speaker 1: I have to And also I have like, yeah, a
[12:46] Speaker 1: thing about cleanliness, and no judgment to anyone that doesn't
[12:49] Speaker 1: wash their hair, but like I simply cannot.
[12:51] Speaker 2: I've got a friend who's got such dry skin and
[12:53] Speaker 2: dry scalp that she can do it once a fortnight,
[12:56] Speaker 2: and I'm so jealous of that.
[12:57] Speaker 1: But no, I don't like that because my pillow.
[13:00] Speaker 2: But it wouldn't be because she's dry anyway, but it
[13:02] Speaker 2: would smell still of what just life?
[13:05] Speaker 1: If you cook a barbecue, does your hair not smell
[13:07] Speaker 1: like meat?
[13:08] Speaker 2: I don't know. Thank you for listening, and don't forget.
[13:10] Speaker 2: You can also watch us on YouTube, so check us out.
[13:14] Speaker 1: We will pop a link to the YouTube in the
[13:16] Speaker 1: show notes because I was looking for it one day
[13:18] Speaker 1: I couldn't find us, So we'll be helpful and we'll
[13:20] Speaker 1: pop it there. If you have a question, make sure
[13:22] Speaker 1: you dm us at Your Beauty podcast. This episode of
[13:25] Speaker 1: Your Beauty was produced by Molly Howwood, with audio production
[13:27] Speaker 1: by Tigan Sadler.
[13:28] Speaker 2: Bye Bye Bye

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.