The Beauty Brains

Love this brainy duo. I always learn something useful or entertaining upon each episode. Both Perry and Valerie bring a lot of interesting and useful facts to the world of beauty.

I have tried weekly to like these two but essentially they just hate on some pretty amazing products with little to no suggestions of better products. Both of them are co lately oblivious to the needs of any multicultural consumers frequently making some very embarrassing comments about African American skin/hair . it’s two Karen’s that put everything down and have a myopic view on the beauty space.

Perry continues to comment on collagen supplementation without doing a deep dive into the literature. It’s hacks been known since the 1970s when extensive studies on protein and amino acid digestion/absorption were done that some di- and tri-peptides do make it to the small intestine intact and are absorbed. In addition, collagen is does not have the same amino acid profile as meat. It’s made up of glycine and proline mostly. Modern diets don’t include much connective tissue so we aren’t consuming a lot of those AAs. So even IF no peptides were absorbed those AAs which are part of skin are.

Perry may know the science, but he has no experience using beauty products himself. (not even moisturizer) It might benefit some listeners having everything explained to him, but this makes me question him being posited as an expert, his lab experience and science degree notwithstanding. I think he should gain some first-hand experience using the products he’s expounding on in order to credential himself and as a sign of respect to the listeners.