Welcome to Fit to Be Real. And a little extra,
I'm Victoria. Hey guys, I'm Carly. Wow, that
was a good one. That was more in my, hey, hey.
That's Carly's almost on vacation voice. Hey.
It's almost over. Well, I was thinking about
this this morning, how the kids always, you always
say, okay, two more sleeps, one more sleep. And
I'm like, okay, five more classes, four more
classes. Oh my God, I know. That's how I count
down to vacation. Yeah, well what else do you
do? People are like, are you excited? I'm like,
no, I have so much more to do before you're allowed
to be excited. That was me yesterday. Yeah. Well,
you leave tonight. No, almost. As soon as we
drop Little Miss off and then I have to repack.
Little Miss is not me, by the way. Oh, no, it's
Pepper. Little Miss is Pepper. I have to repack.
I have to completely go through everything. You're
taking everything out to repack. I don't need
fleece, long sleeve shirt and sweatpants. Yeah,
I will be doing the same thing tomorrow. Yeah,
I don't need to. Well, I'm leaving a day early.
This is not a fight. I also want to put it out
there that this is the first day we have a very
special Podcast episode for you today and special
also means traumatizing And I just want to put
it out there that this is the one day. I'm not
sweating coming from work Wearing see fit gear
or pajamas or something and we're not videoing
It's the one time she her hair is done her makeup
son She has a cute outfit on and she's like no
video and we're not videoing today. Here's why
we're not videoing today We're taking you all
on weird journey. Road trip. Of kind of like
a an extension of last week's episodes of weird
things we do together that I think everyone will
agree is weird. But you have to say it. I know.
No. Road trip. Let's all go. You gotta laugh.
No. Okay. We're going to get bikini waxed. And
dad just turned it off. So here's why. Number
one, I'm 37. I've never had one. Oh, I have.
Number two, Mikayla is beauty my Mikayla. She
is a C fitter. She is a V fitter, and she owns
her own studio and business in a suite by Regal
Edgemont if you're in the area. So if you also
want to go to the movies, you could do that too
after you get your bikini wax. But we're going
to go. We already got our eyebrows tinted. No,
we got eyelashes tinted and eyebrow wax. I got
my eyebrows tinted. Oh, you did? I'm pretty sure.
Yeah. Mine came out darker. I had to leave, so
I don't know. I think you did, too. OK, I did,
too. We're going to ask Makayla. I trust what
she does to me because she's a girl boss, and
that's what we really want to talk to her about
today. Carmella got a lip wax. Oh my god. It
was very painful for her. I wasn't in the room
for that. It was also very funny. And I have
a video, and I will share it. So that was our
first experience. And then we were like, you
know what? We're going to go again next week.
We're going to bring everybody with us. And we're
going to level up and get a bikini wedding. Yeah,
we're like, let's just make it as trauma. Awkward.
Awkward as possible. And Victoria was in the
delivery room when Dean was born, so I could
care less. No, I couldn't care less. What is
the phrase? I could care less. I could care less.
I couldn't. I couldn't care less. I have our
producer is Hiding in the kitchen. Yes, but also
in studio. He's in studio for the first time
He doesn't have to text us and tell us how awkward
so I couldn't care less. You couldn't care less
Yeah, I couldn't care less. Yeah No, you're not
coming on the road trip Pedro, it's a small room,
you know allowed he wouldn't fit in you are not
in the delivery room You can go to giant if you
want to go food shopping while it happens, but
so we're gonna bring you with you Nope. We're
going to bring you with us. And we're going to
give Michaela a microphone. She's going to talk
to us about the business that she's in as an
esthetician and some ins, some outs, some dos,
some don'ts, all while we're going to cry. Oh,
yeah. Except I hear lip and eye wax, she says,
is way worse. Well, the last time I got one done,
I think the process is very different. Now, mine
was about 20 years ago. You only had it one other
time? One other time 20 years ago. I did tell
Victoria this story the other day, but there
was a child in the room that was learning the
family business. I was in New York City and she
was... Maybe Melody's age 11 and they were like
it's okay that she watches and I was like, uh
Like I'm like a school hospital. Yeah, and I
was like, okay, and it was just so Awkward to
have a little 12 year old little girl watching
me get a wax that I I was traumatized and I never
went back so oh We should tell Michaela and she
should have brought one of her nieces just as
a joke. I did tell her well, hopefully she brings
But yeah, we're going on vacation in less than
24 hours. For me. Yeah. Our brother is getting
married. In Mexico. In Mexico. So we're all a
little timid, tentative, all the T -words. I
don't know if timid is one. I'm a little scared.
We're a little all over the... Trepidatious.
Thank you for the T -word. Wow, wow. Yeah, it
wasn't timid. But... We're all so, like, scatterbrained,
because we can't get a full sentence out very
well. Which is just the precursor to any type
of packing, if you ask me. As organized as I
am, I'm still, like, all over the place, mentally.
Yes, I have already packed for the five of us.
No, I'm sorry. I packed for the four of us, the
three kids and myself. And I said, hey, Andrew,
when are you going to pack? And he said, oh,
I don't know, like, maybe the night before. I
said, yeah, because I packed for everybody. But
does he have? the palette of colors. Yes, I bought
everything months ago. Our brother has decided
to do a white party the night before his wedding
on our winter white skin with white on top of
that. So that'll be fun. And then he sent us
a color palette for all the wedding guests to
pick a color off the palette to wear to the wedding.
So that's been fun. I did my best. I think we
did well. I do like to be told, I feel like that
was a good idea. In retrospect, I'm like, oh
my god, this was so hard. I spent hundreds of
dollars on clothes. I took everything back. Because
there was so much to choose from in those colors
that it was too many options. Oh wow, we had
very different experiences. I did not feel like
there was an ample amount of corals and sages
and forest greens and maroons. And then mom and
I are fighting over the colors. But see, I also
didn't see some of those colors. Are you serious?
So I'm confused as to why you're wearing a maroon
dress. Maroon and gold. That's not on the list.
Yes, it is. And Erin's wearing pink. Coral, but
not pink. OK, it was a suggestion. It said not
obligated to wear these colors. However, they
would like us to wear these colors. And they
gave us six colors to choose from. And I feel
like, Mom keeps putting them under different
lights to see what colors they are. Because they're
not right off the bat obvious, which is a problem.
Well, it's like gradient, you know, where it's
like, yeah, they're all just a little different.
He did. I asked him what one of the green colors
was or one of the darker colors, I should say.
And I was like, I feel like it's a hunter green
or I feel like, yeah, what color is this? And
he said it was like a hunter green. And I was
like, wow, I'm pretty sure it's navy blue. Like
I could have bet money that it was a navy blue
dark color. Well, I had a navy blue and coral
shirt for Andrew. Mom was like, neither of these
colors are on the palette. Yeah, coral is definitely
on the palette. It was like a pinkish. How do
you all feel about this? Do you care, yes or
no? Does this have anything to do with BQX, yes
or no? Actually, yes, it does. It's getting ready
for a vacation, for spring break, for an event.
And if afterwards we make it seem like it wasn't
so bad, you guys should all hit up Beauty by
Michaela. Yeah the beauty room the beauty room
by Michaela and Yeah, let's let's just let's
get into it. Let's rip off the Band -aid if you
will we're gonna take a second on that note So
hi everyone we are at the beauty room by Michaela
Carly's already pants off All ready. Pants off,
knee out. We are ready for this. Light on. Oh
my god, you like barely have anything. No, that's
not true. So here, Carly, um, Carly's naked.
No, I told Michaela I'm wearing my special underwear
for her today. Yeah, you like barely have anything.
It literally says Tuesday. Just so we all know
what day it is. It's like children's underwear.
Am I gonna cry? No. Dude if you work out the
way that you do and no no Michaela. This is very
different You've also had three babies with do
you give out epidurals here? No well then Not
the same pie You know you would like crank up
business if you gave out epidurals before bikini
waxes Oh my god Michaela am I gonna yell did
you guys ever see 40 year old virgin? No this
is not going to be Kelly Clarkson. How many times
a day do you do these Michaela? It depends so
now that it's spring break and you know spring
and summer is coming soon a lot more but I also
like I have my people who are consistent with
it all year around so that by the time that summer
comes it's not a oh yeah like me like it's been
20 years Michaela. to Like you know how they
say like your summer body starts in winter. Yeah,
you're your summer Yeah, of course you start
Whatever you want to say wait, but that's the
same That's like anything else with like beauty
You got to keep you got to keep it up. Mm -hmm.
If you don't keep it up if you don't use it you
lose it, right? All right one oh my god, I'm
gonna cry one damn it McKayla Kelly Clarkson
Although like there are there are Instagram accounts
that oh will do before and after of Brazilians
and so what they'll do is they'll just put their
hands right over their lips and you'll see you'll
see their entire like front yeah some people
do um do vagatials um i'm sorry what i actually
i kind of want to start i want to learn how to
do like a legitimate vagatial but it's it's a
stop saying vagatial It's a facial for your vajay,
and basically it does what it does for facials.
It clears you up. Do you need a full Brazilian
first? Not necessarily, no. I don't want one
of those, Michaela. I can barely do this. Are
you coming to class tomorrow? Because I will
be making you do everything that you don't want
to do. I know. Well, no, this is the same thing.
It's the same thing. You signed up to come here.
So that's not on me. What happens? I feel like
that's not fair. Every listener we have is happy.
Yes. You paid to be here, right? You asked me
to wax you. Was I drunk? Some people are drunk
when they sign up for class. You were high on
going on vacay, I think. That's true, and I'll
thank you maybe in a couple days. Yeah, after
vacay. How many clients do you have a day? Like
how many will these, how many people will you
wax? So it all depends because all of my services
are different, take a different amount of time.
So if I have, like there are some days where
I could have seven clients, but like I could
have seven hours booked. There are some days
where I could have seven clients and three hours
booked. So it all just depends on what they're
doing. Oh yeah, there we go. Well, the trick
is to right before you're about to like rip,
you know, you get into the next conversation.
So like, what are you doing this weekend? Oh,
yeah. And then you just So now I know your style.
So now, if I'm starting to, yeah, bring something
up. No clenching, Carly. Oh my god. So, also,
I'm a killer. This is the last one I'll assign
it to. Go ahead. Okay. Okay. Also, what? How
many brothers and sisters do you have? What power
should you throw? Yeah, right, yeah. What are
your lifelong goals? What are your dreams? What's
your biggest fear? No, of what I was gonna ask
you, that was how long have you had this space?
I have had this space for two years. I have been
an esthetician for eight. And yeah. I saw your
makeup on your Instagram. I want you to do my
makeup. It looks, I wish that I went out and
had friends. You do. You have a social life.
Like, you're very social. I can't wait till we
turn 20. Yeah, right. But yeah, your makeup is
so good. You had to learn all of it together,
or is it two different schools? Makeup was actually
what got me into being an esthetician. That's
what I wanted to do. And I didn't know how that
was going to be a career for me, because that's
not an everyday job, necessarily. I didn't even
know what an esthetician was until I was in esthetician
school. It was actually my oldest Candice, my
oldest sister, who had said, this is what I think
you should do. Except candy. And I can just remember
being like, I don't even know what that is. So
I don't know if that's going to be something
I do. And then all these years later, it's like
everybody caught on. Everybody has a brow girl.
Everybody has a... Has somebody all right, you
can straighten this leg out and then turn. Oh,
I can't wait this one. You can't wait. I just
killed um Oh probably um and I was also gonna
say you could do makeup every day if you moved
to LA and you were like a or even in New York
like a they get had their glam people I guess
that's also like I always I also knew that I
My willingness to move. Oh, yeah wasn't really
there. So like, I definitely knew that like,
at least in the beginning, I knew that I wasn't
just going to like move out. You have a very
large family. I have a very large family. You're
one of? I'm the youngest of seven. Youngest of
seven. And she does her sister's everything.
I do one sister. Yeah, one of my sisters, Brazilian,
but I do all their lashes, brows. Don't you like
it when we make you talk and work at the same
time? Well, it goes by quicker for me too. It's
the same thing. And that's another thing about
getting a bikini wax or a Brazilian wax. The
person that's doing it is not actually looking
at you, is not actually judging you. They're
just there for their job. They're trying to get
their wax off of you, and they're trying to make
sure that you're feeling as comfortable as possible
considering your legs are spread on a table in
front of them. Like, I'm just as concerned about
you as you are concerned about me, if that makes
sense? It is, because I said, oh god. Is this
fun for you guys? I really, really hope this
is fun for you guys. Okay, hold on. Do you regret
asking me to... A little bit. No, not at all
because I... Listen, I think it's true what you
said. You need to keep up all year. It's not...
What? Hold on. I'm not ripping. I'm not ripping.
Okay, you're not ripping. Okay. Everybody wants
a quick fix, right? In life, everybody wants
a quick fix. If you don't work for it, it's not
gonna happen. And that's with everything. That's
with working out. That's with keeping up on your,
you know, on your self -care. That's mentally,
that's everything. And that's completely true.
I mean, you can't let your eyebrows get, you
know, Frida Kahla on us all year long and then
one time. Have you guys seen Coco the movie?
No, but it's true because like especially because
like you know the first time that I see a client
I expect them to like what I like their eyebrows,
but like It's probably maybe like the third time
where it's like we I know your eyebrows right
in a good groove You're still coming if you're
still seeing me if you're not touching them in
between like can I can give you eyebrows that
you want but like in order to really get the
I mean it's the exact same thing I said that
to you last week I said I'm addicted I want my
eyebrows down too and she just did him to what
a week ago two weeks ago two weeks ago and I
was like oh I well I'm gonna tell you a little
secret that I told Michaela oh Jesus she said
I hold on Michaela Do you have animated people
or is everybody silent when you do this to them?
No everyone's different. Okay that was really
nice of you to say. No seriously everyone's different
there are some people that like I always wonder
how I would be going to somebody for the first
time because like I didn't start getting this
done until I started until I already did it.
Do you do it to yourself? I have done it before
myself I've done a bikini wax on myself I've
never done a full Brazilian. Yeah, I mean you'd
have to go to yoga a lot. Yeah, I don't have
that kind of flexibility. Yeah No, it's I mean
Getting a especially getting all of the hair
off to like you're not yeah, you got to get in
there I mean, I'm not kidding Michaela's face
is in there wait going circling back because
I lost my train of thought when she ripped my
soul from my body I do this very horrible thing
to my eyebrows and I take a razor to them and
Michaela I swear to God I told her and I think
she died a little inside but I did say to I think
it was Victoria. I don't know if your mom was
still here or not, but I said I would never tell
Carly this, but she's done a really good job
so far. Like she's so lucky that she still has
really nice eyebrows because like that could
have gone like so wrong. Oh my god. I can't pluck
my own eyebrows like I can't inflict pain on
myself. I can't I gotta let you I gotta get somebody
else to inflict pain on me cuz I cannot do it,
so I take a razor to my eyebrows. Where do you
do it? In the bathroom. Okay. Like, is there
any... Look, I look in the mirror. I don't just
willy -nilly do it, but... Yeah, but like, but
my whole thing with that is like... Like, what
if your dog ran in real quick? Oh, yeah. What
if your kids were like, Mom! No, I could have
gone sliced or... What if you got scared? Yeah.
Oh, totally. Totally. Like, or what if... I consider
myself lucky. Anything. In life. For that reason.
Like... Hold on. God damn. Oh! God! I'm assuming
that people don't do that when they get these
then. No, people do. People do, for sure. Oh
god, I'm not special, she said. Listen, it needs
to happen, but... Yep, yeah, yeah. You're making
this really appetizing. You have some, like,
just smaller hairs, so these guys are... I'm
not gonna torture you trying to get all of them,
but... Okay. One last. All right. You're all
good. Let me... I'll do your brows first, or
I'll do your brows first. Yeah, just let me lay
here. Just let me... pants off. You added a brow?
Oh, yeah. I want them done again. What are you
doing? Because I'm gonna shave them if she doesn't
do them, and she doesn't want to do that. me
to do that. I have no train of thought right
now. The good thing is I'm completely done down
there so you don't have to worry about. She's
sweating and she's naked so you can all deduce.
I'm wearing literally the same amount of clothes
I would if I were teaching right now. However,
I can't wait for you to come back to class. Micaela,
out of all of the services that you offer, what's
your favorite to do? I would say probably brows
are my number one. I love shaping eyebrows. You
do? I love when people say that they haven't
gotten them done for a while or... I love doing
first time waxing as well, although it's definitely
tough having younger clients sometimes, just
because they're so, I mean, I don't know, I just
place myself back in their shoes, like that feeling
of being like, holy crap. How young are they?
How young are they? The youngest I've done is
10, and it all depends on, I mean... If they
haven't, some 10 -year -olds have plenty enough
hair. I have had some kids that I've done before
because of bullying, which is not great. But
I always say to my clients, let your kids come
to you with questions about them. I mean, every
person's different, but. I have had clients before
ask like when is the appropriate time to start
and I always just say like when they say something
not not necessary yeah like because again we're
also like we're so much more aware of that kind
of stuff and like and and again this generation
yeah this generation plus like like I said like
everyone's Everyone's got their girl for things
or a lot of people do I feel like like it's it's
very common to have you know, your lash girl
your brow girl or whatever your girl that you
get facials from or Vachials or Vajaycial Vajaycial
sorry See isn't that like it's like nothing now
like getting your eyebrows done early Don't say
labia. Never say labia and then look at me. She
lifted her head to look at me after she said
the word labia. Wait, I have a question. If you
can't hear me, Victoria, re -answer it. I will
say it again. Okay. How often would you suggest
getting your eyebrows done slash bikini wax done?
Long -ass question. I would say... How often
do you get these things done? Eyebrows, usually
I would say anywhere from like... I mean... Some
people come to every two weeks. Normally I say
four But like that's also like I also tell clients
that like Personally, I have the kind of eyebrows
that do not That you need to keep up with whereas
I feel like some Clients they grow out and they
don't you don't notice it as much, right? So
I don't think mine need to be done. No like yours
like even I mean even Carly's too, you could
definitely get away with being outgrown, but
I don't know. It also depends on skin tone, the
texture of your hair. I am super fair, I have
very dark hair, and it's coarse, so I don't have
the luxury of just putting my glasses on. For
the most part, you can always tell. Whereas for
some people, it's just not as obvious. And also,
like, eyebrows definitely make a difference on
the face, but, like, it also looks different
for everybody, if that makes sense, too. Yeah,
my face with Carly's eyebrows, I think, would
be very off -putting. And that's another thing,
too. Like, we're born with the eyebrows we're
supposed to have. Like, it would look... I mean,
granted, if Carly had, like... waxed all of her
eyebrows off and still didn't have, like, full
eyebrows. Like, I feel like you could... Wait,
I had shades of all my eyebrows off. True, true.
Wait, how old were you when you started? Like,
when did this, when did you think this was? It
was like, I... Oh, she's handing me the microphone.
Um, I think I started, like, in my 20s. Okay.
Like I used to get them done or my mom used to
pluck them or my cousin BJ used to pluck them
because my mom was like I trust her more than
I trust myself. So like in my 20s when I was
like ah I lived in New York and I was broke so
I like couldn't always get my eyebrows done so
I was like ah here's a reason. Well that's another
thing too like you were on stage like your face
was literally like your money maker and like
I mean your body too sure but like like that's
another thing like you you know. You don't have,
even now, you don't have the job where you're
like, oh, I'm sitting behind a desk. Like, if
I mess up my face, who cares? That's why I shave
them, because I'm like, I don't want anybody
to see that I can't pluck my own eyebrows. But
now I found you, Michaela. Well, I think I found
you. Well, I found you first. You did. And it's
taken us way too long to come in here. But just
like she said. It's something you need to keep
up. And I love being addicted to things. So now
I'm addicted. I'm addicted to you, Michaela.
And I also I also say like, I I will never eyebrows
are not something they're not a need. They're
not something that you like, absolutely can not
live without. But like, I think there's a lot
more benefits to having something to getting
something like this done and just like do something
for yourself because you can like. I just think
that there's so many more benefits than just
like in a vain way if that makes sense. I don't
think of it as vanity as much as mental health
as much as confidence. It's not a need it's a
want and wanting is okay too. And I mean nowadays
like people have such different work schedules
that it's so much easier to pop in and out and
Yeah, I mean if you're just coming in to get
your eyebrows done takes 15 minutes I mean your
whole this whole session the bikini wax and eyebrows
is a 30 minute session I mean you can do that
on your lunch break. Yep, and we're in the same
business of working out I mean people can work
out at their own in their homes by themselves.
They never need to come in It's a mental health
thing doing it in the group fitness space I feel
like in the same thing I left here a couple weeks
ago getting my eyebrows done and my lashes tinted
feeling like I had just gotten a full makeover.
Yeah. Like, I felt so good. And what that does
for, like... Shut up. She said I looked okay.
And what it does, like, it just, it goes so far.
Like, it's, it's... I don't know. I think sometimes
it sounds very cliche, but I also, like, like
you guys, I very much believe in what I do and,
like, my career and why it's beneficial for not
just, uh... For not just like again for not just
superficial purposes like there's very much a
Reason another like other reasons why you would
want to get this done 100 % agree and You are
very good at making people feel comfortable in
something that they might not be comfortable
in and also you're good at talking to people
so you have to More than just like hey, I do
eyebrows. Well, I can wax like you have to get
in your client's faces. I mean, in the beginning
of my career, like I was 19 years old. So like
so much more timid, so much. I mean, the the
person that I was starting out is not the person
I am today. You guys wouldn't even know that.
I mean, I know I wouldn't have even met you guys,
actually, because I would have never had the
confidence to start going to class or to start
going to to VFIT. Like I wouldn't. But anyway,
like being I mean, waitressing was definitely
one of the best. jobs to have before this because
you just learned how to talk to people. But like,
like I didn't talk. I didn't like talking. I
don't like like that kind of stuff. Like that
was horrible for me or like small talk. Small
talk is one of my biggest fears. It's the worst
though. We were waitresses and we very much believe
that everybody growing up should be one. Yeah.
I want all my kids to work in the restaurant.
Yeah. have to be forced to talk to people maybe
that they don't want to go through hard situations
like, you know, different client or tough people,
you know. They're just like a rush. Yep. Yeah,
it is a rush. Learning how to multitask, learning
how to. I mean, like a rush of people come in
the door. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
true. She said a rush of people coming. It is
a rush. She needs, like, the dinner rush. The
dinner rush of people, like... No, but I agree.
Waitressing and working in a restaurant is very
helpful for those that are maybe a little more
introverted. It's also, you just, you meet all
walks of life. You find out, you find all these
people that are... Similar to you in ways that
you would have never guessed there's other also
you find out how different people's lives are
and just like I think it gives you perspective
not in a In a comparison kind of way, but like
a just oh, yeah realizing, you know great Yeah,
like or yeah, just like knowing I don't know
knowing people with different backgrounds, especially
like I Mean, I was born and raised in Upper Darby.
I didn't Wait, what restaurant did you work in?
I need to know. It was called Cedar Crafting
Kitchen. It's not open anymore. It was a smaller
restaurant. And then after COVID, it was, unfortunately,
it did not survive. Oh, our restaurant. Well,
mine. You worked there. Didn't you work at Moe's?
One day. One day. And then she worked at Barnaby's.
One day. I love it. I love it. Which is so funny
because, like, Wait, Makayla, am I done? Oh yeah,
you're all done. Bottom and top. Bottom and top
is done. Victoria threw my pants over me because
she could not look at my bikini anymore. Thanks.
Alright. Alright, one down. One to go. I can't
really wear a thong here. Am I not supposed to?
Oh no, you can either way. Are you not wearing
a thong? Is that not a thong? Oh wow, I like
those. Wait, mine say Tuesday. Mine have a flower.
I can't wait for you to get this. I'm nervous.
This is the closest I've ever gotten to a client.
Wait, explain. Michaela works out with you. So
Michaela works out with me and her sister. They
come as a package set every Monday and Tuesday
of the week. And I tortured them this morning,
except this morning wasn't so bad. Well, coming
from not being able to breathe out of my nose,
I was a little rough. She's having some sick
upper respiratory problems, but that did not
stop her from doing 30 burpees, three mile bike,
and a lot of weights. I was like, so what am
I wearing? Later it. River hard, Michaela. Don't
say it like that. She's like suffering and sweating
and semi like over it at the end. I was like
so what bombs Yeah, how how do you prepare for
you to be like the easiest for you. So the easiest
way is exfoliating in the shower which is like
any kind of like a scrub or even with the washcloth
basically just like exfoliating the area to let
the hair it helps the hair like stand up and
grab to the wax. I would say if you've never
had it done before like right now don't don't
look anything up or like don't like I just I
think, I just said this to a client the other
day, who I was doing a full Brazilian on, and
I was like, I know it's easier for me to say
because I'm standing above you right now, but
I feel like Brazilians really aren't as bad as...
Really? I really don't think they are, but also
my tolerance for pain is, I guess, high. Well,
Carly, you're... Tolerance of speech should be
high. Not inflicting on myself. I like to inflict
on other people. See, which is funny because...
I get that, I get that. But that was also a learning
curve for me because I had to get used to putting
people in pain. Like, I'm an empath through and
through. And so whether I know you or have a
relationship with you or not, I really don't
like, I don't like that part of it. Like a dentist.
Yeah. Like, I don't know. It's just, all right.
One, two, three. Are you kidding me right now?
I mean, that hurt a lot. You didn't move? No
Kelly Clarkson's for you? No, no Kelly Clarkson.
Yeah, I don't like that aspect as much. It hurt.
It definitely hurt. Wait, Michaela, is there
something wrong with her? No, some people are...
I'm not kidding you, though. I'll do some of
the worst parts of the Brazilian, which is the
lip area. That's by far the worst. My best friend,
she just lays there on her phone. Literally,
she'll just... For a Brazilian? She'll just lay
there. She'll just have it above her head, as
if she's laying in bed at night. Hey, are you,
are you good? Like, I just did that. And she's...
You're like, react to me. Yeah, no, she doesn't,
she doesn't even flinch. So... Impressive, because
I think I did. Well, and then... She went, hot
damn! Hot damn! I think I did. How long will
it last? Um, forever. The pain. Forever. the
pain um wait the pain or the the memory it will
live rest free in my head about like yeah about
like four weeks um my gosh really i would say
around three weeks you start to like see it coming
back but um because we're the hair is pulled
from like the bulb like the root of the hair
um that's why it takes so long to grow back rather
than like when you shave your One, two, three.
You gave her a one, two, three. I started with
one, two, three for you. She was going, ha, ha,
ha, ha. But you were so aware of what I was doing
that I couldn't even, I couldn't even, like you
were just like ready for it, whether. She went,
oh my God, oh my God. I didn't get the chance
of surprise with you. I also saved up, I just
had, this is a lot of TMI. I'm sorry. I just
saved up. I just had my period, so I haven't
been shaving. Yeah, that's crazy. You guys both
have barely any hair. What? Yeah. That's so much.
Ask her. Ask her? I'm going to ask you a question.
What's the question? So yeah, so the red bumps,
that's totally normal, especially if it's your
first time. Usually that's just, it's just your
skin reacting to the wax. It will go away within
a half hour. What? And I put on aloe afterwards,
so that'll help with any redness, any kind of,
nothing really ever is inflammation, but like
if it just feels like a little like. puffy at
the time. All right, head power's not bad. Now,
will I irritate it because I have to teach the
next couple weeks? No. The only thing I would
say is because your pores are open, you just
want to be exfoliating still. Because if you're
sweating, it could clog your pores. So really,
that's it. That was the worst one. Really? That's
how you reacted. Are you serious right now? Oh,
that was the worst one. Well, how about your
mom? When she got her lip wax, she was like,
I pulled it. I pulled it off. She's like, oh
my God, that really hurt. Like she just stated
it. She didn't move. She didn't wince. She didn't
like nothing. She was just like, wow, that really
hurt me. I was out of the room for that, so I
did not. Oh yeah, you went to the bathroom. Yeah,
no, she was a... She would and then that's and
then once she once the first rip came off. She
was then more nervous But but laying down she
didn't even she wasn't nervous at all Also wanted
to say for you today I did shower and exfoliate
and put on which I don't normally do and I put
on all the body butter that I ate. You're like
spraying perfume. Yeah, yeah, I put on like,
I did spray perfume all over me in places I don't
normally put perfume. Wow, I literally can't
smell a damn thing. And she's wearing a mask.
Well, and I'm congested. The whole process took
me like an hour today. If I were Julia Finio,
I would call it an everything but the bagel shower.
Oh my god, stop, I love that. That's such a good
point. But it's the truth, because she's like,
I'm doing an everything shower. I'm like, what
the heck is an everything shower? She's like,
where you shave, you wash your hair, you exfoliate.
So to me, a conditioning mask. That's legit.
So for me, it's an everything but the bagel shower.
I did that this morning. And I did it for you.
And then put on, I mean, I was a slick fox this
morning. A slick fox. With body butter and perfume.
And I was like, Mikaela's going to, oh my god,
Victoria made a face. And that's as much as we're
gonna get from her. One more on this side, you're
done. Don't be nice to her. Oh, one more and
you're done. You were with her this morning,
she tortured you in that VFit room. You weren't
even there. We talked about pop culture. No,
I don't care. I just wanted to tell you that
I took care of myself today for you. Thank you.
Well, the reason Carly has said that is because
we have heard horror stories, which I'm sure
Michaela has a bunch of. of you really have to
prep yourself in consideration for your esthetician.
So for those of you listening... not knowing
of any kind of etiquette, I guess you would call
it. Don't go to the gym before you come and don't
tell me that you just came from the gym. Right,
because you're sweaty and smelly. That's just
one little tip. If I could say anything. Like
a fun tip is that if you go to the gym, you're
going to sweat and things aren't going to smell
great for too long. And not to mention, like,
all right, you can switch legs. If your skin
is all sweaty, the wax isn't gonna stay. The
wax isn't gonna stay. Plus, sweaty and salty.
The wax isn't gonna... Say less. That's gross.
Sweaty and salty. It sounds like a potato chip.
Yeah, or like a trip to the beach. Oh, God. Yeah,
I'm sure you have encountered... I mean, as we
have, if I can think of things from New York
and just how many years of teaching, there are
things that people will surprise you with. so
maybe no surprises for your esthetician visit
if you're gonna come yeah there's um perfume
body butter all over glitter do you put glitter
on currently oh i should have put some like 90s
shimmer like bed bath and beyond i know what
is it bath and body works bath and body works
bed bath and beyond bed bath and beyond is wax
cucumber melon did you ever hear that story of
like I think it's obviously somebody made this
joke, but they're, you know, getting ready for
a brand new gynecologist and they're showering
and they're like, you know what, I'm gonna do
the Carly, I'm gonna do the extra steps of lotion
and blah, blah, blah. And then they come out
of their visit and they're like, oh, the doctor
was so nice, but he just kept looking up to me,
just kind of being like, mm, okay, choices. And
she didn't realize she put glitter all over.
She put lotion with glitter. I don't know if
it's a joke or a true happening, but I remember
hearing it. I didn't think it was over. And then
you stopped. Because you stopped, I'm like, is
she breathing? That's not fair. That one hurt.
Carly, I'm in pain. That one hurt. Congratulations.
It depends on the pain yeah, yeah depends on
the pain like tattoos also really hurt, but I
keep getting them. Oh, that's another She's so
cool. She's three Yeah, right, I'm like I don't
even know how many I have Wait Michaela went
to a wedding where they had a small tattoo art.
Yes not a small tattoo artist, but she did small
line. She was 5 '1". She was 5 '1". And she came
in, she was like, look, we went to a wedding.
And she and her sister Caitlin were like, these
are the tattoos we got. Oh, it was the coolest.
It was my sister's best friend. Last October,
she during cocktail hour, or like, yeah, actually
during the whole night, I guess he was there
for maybe like three, four hours. And my sister's
friend's wife, She's super artsy. She like does
like all these different designs. She's She did
all of them and you could do I guess it was either
like your leg or your arm and it was just like
a little small fine line tattoo, but they all
were like relative all the tattoos were like
somewhat relative to the couple and like they
live in South Philly so like you So like they
were like Philly things there was I did the No,
no Caitlin got an eight ball which was cute I
got the fire Meanwhile I'm like I'm like that
to me so I said it I'm like that sounds wrong
for something I got a little teal tree Yeah,
oh, that's the other one Right so really cool
piggybacking off of this We can get your true
honest answer live here, but we were thinking
of doing some sort of like pop -up wellness thing.
So would would you as the beauty room by Michaela
absolutely be able to offer services on an on
a pop -up night? Absolutely. Really? What kind
of things could you be Brazilian? Did anyone
want to watch? Yeah, I could do, I mean, I could
do anything, any kind of waxing. I could do lash
tinting. I feel like that's like a big, a really
easy one. And people would do that, like nobody's
wearing makeup to come work out. Right. So they'll
be fresh. Carly wore mascara to come here to
get her eyelashes tinted, but she's a very special
case. But isn't that funny? I was actually thinking
about that. I come to you in literally my worst,
in my worst shape. My hair today was in a bun
that was knotted 18 times. I am all sweaty, I'm
all gross, I'm all disheveled. But basically
there's no preparation for me coming to you,
but you coming to me, there's... There's body
butter, there's sparkles. To be fair, I did not
body butter, but I did shower. Like I said to
you last time, when you were like, you can't
look at my face with all, you can't do a facial
on me. Oh yeah, I was like, don't look into my
pores. And I'm like, you see my body. And you
know what's funny? She came in with a messy bun,
and I was like, God, I wish my hair could do
that. Yeah, and I'm looking at it like, I look
the worst I've ever looked in my life. Okay.
Cool. Oh, that felt good. What was that? There
you go. That's aloe. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
That was aloe. It's crazy. Just a little bit
of aloe. So now that we have you on microphone,
whoa, my Tuesday underwear just got stuck to
my body. Hold on. That's one thing. A lot of
the time, there's usually like one or two little
pieces of wax that can stick around. You're right.
Yeah. No, that's for guys. You're not free balling.
I hope not. Well. So we have you on record saying
that it would be part of our wellness pop up.
Yeah. Pop up and pop off for summer. So yeah.
Pop up, pop off. We're trying to get like a little
tattoo. Wax off. Wax off. Wax off. Pop off, wax
off, tin or anything that you can get done in
a short amount of time and do a little workout
and maybe get a little Tattoo or maybe a little
you know and have some like something drink and
I would be fun I want to say I don't know if
you guys have the a person in mind already But
I think I can get the information of that guy
because I know he does. Oh, yeah. Give it to
us I think he's done Other weddings before he's
located in Havertown now. I don't know if he
if it's like his place Give us his address and
his phone number right now But yeah, we're thinking
about doing something like that and after we
left you we were like she is a girl boss we want
everybody to go to her and What a good idea to
bring you in on like the you know Where we could
work out get our eyebrows done. Everyone can
leave feeling good. Have a couple of drinks Maybe
you know, well, that's super fun I don't know
if I said this or if I was thinking about this
recently but like I'm just so like I feel so
lucky that I mean I feel so lucky to know you
guys but also like I feel like it's so it's such
a genuine like a genuine like easy connection
that like I don't know even if you guys weren't
even if I didn't work out with you I feel like
I would still be friends. We would still be friends.
Me more than Victoria, right? Well, I'd spend
a little bit more time with Victoria. I'm just
kidding. But like I don't know just like how
I guess going into my own business I it's so
easy to think like Like I don't know like how
am I ever gonna make it or like yeah How am I
ever gonna like I was just talking about with
Victoria the other day like networking and like
my worst dislike for it and and again the worst
it goes it does go back to like my lack of wanting
to small talk, especially on my free time. If
I'm not in, if I'm not working, I don't necessarily
go out of my way to go talking to anybody, but
just how natural the relationship is and just
how easy it is. Well, I think you're a lot like
Victoria in the fact where you both get into
a small room with people and talk to them all
day long. Yeah, so like I think I'm a lot like
Victoria in general. Yeah, like there's a lot
of I find we have a lot of like similarities
Like -minded people find each other and and that's
another thing too. I think that Because of my
job and like my career like that can that continues
on My client in your clients. Yeah, I think that
might find the right yeah and like especially
now that I'm by myself too like I feel like when
I even when I meet a new client that's referred
by somebody or if they found me on Google, I
just feel like I Tried I tried to like get my
vibe out there. Yeah, like you can live the right
vibe. Yeah, exactly Like so I feel like I feel
like a lot that has continued to happen and like
especially with you like with you guys to just
like the natural progression of it all. Well,
we love you, Michaela. I love you guys. And we
love your family. You have a great family. Your
sister works out with us online. You have a great
family. You have a great family. I love your
mom, Avi. Well, you've done her lips, so you
are family. I need to meet Pedro and Andrew because
I just feel like I hear so much about them. How
have you not met Andrew? You serious? Does he
need anything, though? Yes, so many things. He
doesn't come on Wednesday mornings. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Oh, does he come? Does Pedro come? No.
Andrew's there all the time. Pedro needs two
brand new knees. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. No,
you don't have to do anything. We're just gonna
sign off by saying, everybody check out the beauty
room by Michaela. We will post the Instagram
yet again, and we have cards that we're leaving
at CFIT. She gave me cards last time, I forgot
to tell you. But highly, highly recommend to
check her out. She's been in our area, let her
be in yours. That's my housewife for you. That's
my housewife for you. How long did you think
about that? Dude, chat GBT who? Chat GBT who?
No, that's what I'm saying. Who needs chat GBT
when you have you? She ruined it. She ruined
it. Alright, we're gonna pay. Bye! Thanks, Michaela.
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