Extreme Beauty Rituals

Audra Lowe: We all have little beauty rituals when it comes to our daily routine, but some of them considered extreme. Ereka and our “it Moms tell us which rituals they have to have and are not willing to give up. Ereka Vetrini: I’m convinced that it’s in our DNA. As women, we love our girl talk, intimate conversations so we can discuss anything and everything. Well I’m here at the Hotel Gansevoort’s rooftop garden in there with me packing this trip with the few ladies to do just that. Welcome to Ereka’s Girltalk! Alright ladies, I’m going to ask the question. We’re going to talk about extreme beauty rituals and what are yours? Well how far do you go? I will go to EJ first. EJ: I really don’t have anything that that extreme; I get my hair done weekly, manny-patty, occasional waxes, nothing too extreme. Ereka Vetrini: At occasional waxes that’s it, just regular wax? EJ: Just regular waxes. I take care of myself in that respect. I don’t let anybody else do it. Ereka Vetrini: You do your own waxing? EJ: Will I take, I do it yes because I swim from school, from elementary school into high school and when you are in a swim team you have to clean and shaven and so I learned very young how to take care of myself. Ereka Vetrini: That’s impressive, very impressive. Alright then, I mean I need some tips Elena? Elena: No it’s just the regular, the waxing I do, I don’t do it myself but the waxing do might seem a little extreme to others, might seem not a shame at all to others, but just a regular stuff. Ereka Vetrini: Although I know you do but how about the eyelashes because Elena and I are friends something with your eyelashes that you are talking about last time. Elena: Yes, well now it’s been in the news a lot lately, but these are my eyelashes. And its funny people actually poke me at the streets and say, “Great eyelashes, are they extensions?” I’m like, no they’re mine and then it’s kind of like “Those are great, are they yours?” Yes they’re natural. It’s as seem everything is like it’s not okay to ask you about this shouldn’t be okay to ask like these are my eyelashes. Ereka Vetrini: Suzie? Suzie: Well actually not too long ago a friend of mine told me because this was bothering me like the wrinkles like this. So I put scotch tape on my eyes at night before I go to bed I mean if I remember, I don’t do it every ritually, every single night, but when you sleep and you get the lines in the mornings so we put scotch tape just two pieces of scotch tape. Ereka Vetrini: I love that. I think J.Lo used to do that when she is to perform. I think she used to wear a hat and then photo shoots or something and she would have them like that to keep it and see if it works. I think it will; now that’s a little extreme. Suzie: You have to pull the hair back so the scotch tape so in the morning it didn’t catch in you’re like that happens. Hopefully it’s working, I’m just doing the preventive the thing and I suppose to trying to avoid the botox over here so no need for it. Ereka Vetrini: Victoria? Victoria: Nothing extreme for me, I mean my hair is blown out 3 times a week only because it’s not, it’s going to be really bad for everybody in America, but that’s it. Like I get waxed, I go through the pain; I do my nails, many-patty’s, and my lips. But besides that there’s nothing extreme, like I don’t do the botox things to make myself look different or anything that’s a beauty ritual. And I do it like fair, minimum make-up only because my mother never really taught me like all of the things. How am I do it like foundation, this that and I’m done. Ereka Vetrini: You know what it is? It’s the adding in of all the little things together than make feel extreme the teeth whitening, the laser hair removal all of that stuff. Well here’s my question though, do you share these things with your significant others? Like do you have to hide these routines, because none of them are extreme but some of them are embarrassing, I mean I don’t like to see my husband watching me tweeze random hair through my base? Do you share that with your significant others/ Victoria: Yes why not? It’s not that extreme, none of us has anything so crazy about really like you have had them see us because they walk by doing it. Ereka Vetrini: I think is not letting my husband watch me wax and … Victoria: But you are not waxing yourself anyway that was EJ. EJ: I close the door on that one. That’s my private time. Ereka Vetrini: Big examples of these, how about for your men? Have you had any partners that you kind of encouraged to do a little man escaping? As they so call it. What do you do? How do you even go there? Suzie: I just take them, I take him in getting my haircut and get my highlights and I put them in this chair and then he gets his cut. Ereka Vetrini: Elena your ex had like lots of grooming stuffs. Was there any that was kind of over for you? And actually yes, you have got a couple of experiences of men who are. Elena: I have and it’s funny because I tend to be attracted to the guy that you need to tell that to, I mean like I said I’m a beach girl I kind of a girl all night, practice yoga and surfs so I like the guy who lives in winds burg with the beard and long hair and I mean to say “Did you shower today?” Over some reason I tend to date the opposite. Ereka Vetrini: This is true. Elena: So my ex Sam essentially has a nickname for his man escaping, it’s called FBT day. Which stands for full body trim, so he used to lay off the towel and take the clippers and it was the full body trim which is appreciative but then there’s also crossing the line and going a little bit too far and there’s such a fight line between metro sexual and just high maintenance. And that’s hard for guys to sometimes say, “The trim is a little too close” and I might be a little too trim to more than she’s trimmed. That’s never a good sign, only one person sleeps over and lies in bed and that’s me. Ereka Vetrini I don’t like when they noticed, “you should get your manicure done” or you don’t notice these things, like I want to do them and be an added bonus but I don’t want to have that pressure of feeling like it needs to be done. Thanks for sharing those little bit of details and that’s about it for this episode, we will see you guys next time.