Beauty as a Birthright Beauty as a Birthright

In this episode, Paige and Tamsin reflect back on the completion of Season I! Tamsin shares her biggest takeaways from the season while Paige uses one word to describe her beauty journey this year. Tamsin explains how others' experiences may or may not influence your own face and beauty, and asks Paige how she has been integrating her body/body image into her beauty story. Both Tamsin and Paige end with a beauty wish moving forward.



Show Notes


Elemental Archetypes – Daoist self-cultivation practices
Yang Face — Luxurious Chinese facial tool line

Thank you to Diana Ho for the production and research coordination!

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In this episode, Paige and Tamsin reflect on their previous guest episode with Leah Abramson, Ep 25 — Is Beauty Happening for Me? They talk about how plastic surgery influences your Dao, and Tamsin shares an observation between eyebrows in Asia versus the US. Both hosts discuss mixed race beauty inspired by Leah and how it impacts society's changing narrative of beauty. Paige also shares what she feels can often be a distraction and barrier when trying to connect with others. Lastly, Tamsin and Paige chat how they feel intergenerational trauma may affect epigenetics and beauty?



Show Notes


Follow Leah on Instagram
Elemental Archetypes – Daoist self-cultivation practices
Yang Face — Luxurious Chinese facial tool line

Thank you to Diana Ho for the production and research coordination!

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Leah Abramson (she/her/hers) is an open-hearted soul, Bay Area native, aspiring editorial model, currently located in the Los Angeles community and recent graduate from UCLA with a degree in Gender Studies. Leah comes from a multi-racial background from Russia, Lithuania, Sierra Leone and parts of India. As an aspiring model, diversity coordinator, fashion fanatic, dancer and music lover, Leah is currently detoxing from the madness of her long academic career in hopes to continue her spiritual journey to guide her towards a genuine and creative career path ahead.

In this episode, Leah talks about how she relates to her different ethnic identities in terms of beauty. We hear what it was like growing up in the Bay Area as a mixed race human with freckles. Leah also shares some of the important lessons she has learned about beauty from a gender studies lens. Tamsin asks Paige to weigh in on the culture around race in Hawai'i.

Key Points


Gender Studies 
Happening to you vs Happening for you 
Nor Cal vs So Cal
Multi-racial model
Natural beauty - hair and skin
Gen Z wisdom
Daughter of psychologist

Show Notes


Follow Leah on Instagram
Elemental Archetypes – Daoist self-cultivation practices
Yang Face — Luxurious Chinese facial tool line

Thank you to Diana Ho for the production and research coordination!

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Mangda Sengvanhpheng is an artist, healing practitioner, and the Founder of BACII. Her life’s work is guided by her Laotian last name, which means “the light of the full moon.” She explores ways of illuminating our fears and bridging the duality of living and dying through her platform, BACII. Additionally, she has been immersed in the mystical and healing arts for over 15 years, and is currently enrolled in New York Zen Center’s Contemplative Care program. 

In the episode, Mangda talks about her work as a "death doula" and what it was like growing up mixed-race and multiple cultural in a primarily white-dominant neighborhood. She shares about how her mother's own relationship to beauty had an impact on her ideas of beauty, as well as what she believes is on the other side of death.  Tamsin draws a comparison between death in the Western world and Eastern Asian Medicine, and Paige shares her perspective on after-life consciousness. 

Key Points


Death Doula
Fear of Dying
The Sterilization of Death
Death as Failure 
Laotian Culture
Funerals in Different Cultures 

Show Notes

Learn more about Mandga's work and why we need death doulas here. See and sign up for Mangda's upcoming workshop here. Follow Mangda on Instagram @_bacii Elemental Archetypes – Daoist self-cultivation practices Yang Face —  Chinese facial tool line honoring Chinese culture and tradition

Thank you to Diana Ho for the production and research coordination!

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In this episode, Paige and Tamsin discuss their previous guest episode with Claudia Soto, Ep 21 — Is Beauty The Last Dance? and how they felt inspired by the lessons Claudia learned from her mother as it relates to body image and fitness. Paige shares where things currently are for her with her sugar addiction, and Tamsin opens up more about her recent experience with grief. Both Paige and Tamsin talk about how grief appears in different ways, and also how eating disorders take on different forms. In this episode we get to learn what Tamsin's ultimate craving is.                    Show Notes Elemental Archetypes offers Daoist facial analysis consultations and Yangsheng guidance to reclaim beauty through self-cultivation.  Yang Face is a line of undiluted, unappropriated luxurious Chinese Facial Tools from a direct source.  Thank you to Diana Ho for the pre-production research!   Follow us on @beautybirthrightpod on Instagram, and if you liked this episode please give us a 5-star rating and review!

In this episode, Paige and Tamsin reflect on this past 2022's Year of the Water Tiger. Tamsin discusses what the year was like for her as a monkey and what it meant for this Tiger year to be her "clash year." Paige shares about her experience as a Fire Tiger in the Water Tiger year and what exactly she feels got turned on its head and burned to the ground. Both Tamsin and Paige also share about their hopes and intentions for this upcoming Yin Water Rabbit Year. 



Show Notes

Elemental Archetypes – Daoist self-cultivation practices Yang Face —  Chinese facial tool line honoring Chinese culture and tradition

Thank you to Diana Ho for the production and research coordination!

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If you enjoyed this episode, share it and tag us — We'd love to hear from you! To support us decode beauty in a beauty obsessed culture, please subscribe, rate and review the show. Follow us on Instagram @BeautyBirthrightPod