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Welcome to Nirvana sisters podcast where we take the intimidation out of well being and beauty to help you achieve your highest state your nirvana. We are sisters in law and your hosts. I'm Amy Sherman. And I'm Katie Chandler. So let's get into some real conversation

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Welcome back to the show Nirvana sisters family. It is Katie and Amy. This episode is exciting. So we're going to give you a product junkies episode. But it's very specific. And it's something that Amy's been talking about for a long time. And she's been testing these products for a year. So we have some really good reviews and feedback. And this is our special i Episode. We are going to be she's covering lash serums fake eyelashes. Just a lot of things for the eyes. So I'm super excited to hear about it. It's all her today she's going to educate me as we educate yo. So what's up, Amy? Hi. Hey, thank you. I feel like I am you are weird. So yeah, I've mentioned it in a couple of our shows that I wanted to do an episode because I've been testing a lot of different eyelash extensions over the last year and other eye products that I wanted to talk about that I think would be helpful for our listeners. And it all started about a year ago, I went to a wedding. And I've always wanted to do eyelash extensions. And I had never tried them before. And a friend of mine had really good ones. I was like Where'd you go, I got them done, I immediately was obsessed. I like they looked so much better, especially for me because I have, I'm fair and I have very light eyelashes. So I can't go out of the house without wearing mascara, or I'll say look totally washed out. So anyway, I got these extensions on. And they only last like two weeks. But they made such a big difference. And I didn't feel like I had to wear any makeup practically because at least it looked like I had mascara on all the time. I didn't have to take off my mascara, which you've talked about a million times, which I hate doing because I'm constantly rubbing my eyes and it's irritating. And I just loves it like give me more confidence. I really just loves it. So for like, I don't know, six months or so I was going to get eyelash extensions every two weeks, such a pain. And then what happens is if you if you don't get them filled every two weeks, like they start falling out. And then it looks crazy. And like you can't really put mascara on and I was like there's gotta be a better way to do this. This is just so annoying. And I don't have time because the thing is, is when you do get them done, you're sitting in the chair for like an hour or two. And you can't I mean, I listen to podcasts, but you're just sitting there and it can be relaxing. But every two weeks, it's just not realistic. Like, no one has the time to do this. So I started seeing all these things online about eyelash extensions that you can do at home. The only ones I had done at home before were the ones that we've done, where it's just like, you know, the band on top with like the glue that you just do, which I've done a million times in the past and they last like a night and they're fine. I just never think they look as good. So I don't know if our audience has heard but there's all these lashes now that go under the eyes. So those were those are what I have tested over the last year. So I started with the extensions. And then I was like there's gotta be a weather way. And then I started experimenting with all of these at home DIY eyelashes. So I have a few different versions. I have kind of a high, medium low and they're all good for different ways. And the first one I'm going to review and just a heads up for listeners I'm getting into the minutia. So if you're into this stuff, I think you're really going to like it. But the first one is called lash five. And I have this box because I bought their kind of starter kit, which I've used and then I've bought the refills and Lasha phi is the originator of this I think they have the patent on this type of technology which is its little lashes. So it's not a Full Lash like if you were going to do you know the band on top that you always see people doing like makeup artists and you just take off the whole thing. These are individual lashes. So I'll show you. I mean these are all like practically gone. I'll show you this one. So see how it's kind of circle. The whole circle was full. Okay, but it's I'm not going to take this one. I'll take this one on their individual plans. So there's like four and a clump. Yeah. Yeah, like there's one little lash. Okay. The cool thing is so you probably need depending on your eye like four or five of these little

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pieces of lash. But the cool thing is is you can kind of customize it so some people just want to put a little lash like at the end of their eye just to kind of give it a little pop. You can do that or you can do your whole lie which I do. There's a lot of different ways to use but this makes it more flexible. So lash if I specifically comes with you can either buy just the lashes if you have your own glue and things like that. I would recommend if you're doing it for your first time at home just buying the kit because the kit comes with the bonder so this is called

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WhisperLite flexible bond and it's basically like a mascara, and it's black and you put it on and it's kind of like glue. It's kind of like tacky. And then you wait like a minute, okay. And then you put on the lash. And there's definitely a learning curve, it took me a couple of times to perfect it. But now I can do it really easily. But you do have to be pretty committed. But I'm committed because it makes my life easier when I have these on. And if I can like to go to the office, I'm just gonna make up like, it's great. So you put the glue on like mascara, and then you literally take they have this kind of tweezer thing. And I'll talk about the tweezers too, because another brand I like that tweezers better. But they have this little tweezer thing. See this. And then you just put it I'm not doing it now. But you just put it under your lash. And it stays under it just on the lash line, but under your eyelashes as opposed to on top, which is what the traditional ones have always been correct. And that's why it looks more natural. Because those ones on the top. Yeah, we see that little black band. It looks like you're wearing eyeliner. This just goes right under your eyelash, but it doesn't hit that like water line. Okay, what does that it doesn't Yeah, right where your eyelash meets your eye, it doesn't actually hit that.

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Now it just you just place it at the bottom of your eyelash. Yeah, so I don't know if you can see I have ones on now. But see how it's just here. And you're literally in it stays, it works. Because of the mascara glue just sticks, mascara glue is genius.

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The mascara glue, and this whole invention is genius. Because like and I don't

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I think only these kind of lashes work this way. I don't think you could take any lash and do this. Like sometimes, you know, you see those recipes that you can buy and just glue at the end. I don't think those would work. I think there's like something on the bottom of these like wisps that somehow are like sticky and connect to the glue.

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So that's the step you basically put on the glue, you put on the lash, again, it takes some practice, you need to use the tweezer. And then you kind of just move them over, you know, you do like four or five. And that's it, then you give it like a minute. And then you put on what they call this one specifically is called a. This one's called Glass. But there's another one from another brand I'll tell you about. And it's just like,

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kind of like a clear it's not mascara, but it's kind of like a serum and you just kind of put it on over just to kind of seal it in and and do you have to wait a one one to put the sealer on? Or do you do it right after you apply them.

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I usually wait a little bit, just to kind of like let it dry. I forgot the main step. Or one of the steps. You do the glue. You do the lash and then you take this tweezer This is specifically for lash five. But you could do this for any of these kind of lashes. And you know, together. I was wondering about that together. Yeah, sorry, I forgot that important piece. So you clip it together. So that kind of like makes the lash and the glue like sticks together. You could also just do with your fingers. And you just kind of do that for one second and then it then it and then it like stays. It's crazy. And it looks so good. And then you can put on that CRM, you know, a little bit after once to try sometimes I put on right away, sometimes they wait a half an hour just depends. And depending on how you take care of it, it could last anywhere from like two days to like, oh, wow, it really just depends. Yeah, so if you clean them every day, so lash fi also has other things like they have a cleanser that you could just put on like a spoolie and go like this every day with it, you know, just comb through your lashes, and it just keeps them clean, and that tends to make it last longer. If you don't take care of it that much, I'll probably fall off easier, it just kind of depends. But they do last a couple of days. I mean, I've had them lasts up to a week.

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The reason why I like lash Rifai is because they have so many different types of lashes. And once you sort of get into it, you start understanding which ones you'd like better, but like I don't know if you can see these like this is one version, it's like the extreme level blonde, they're a little bit like a little more longer a little bit, a little bit more dramatic, or you can have like ones like this, which I don't know if you can see but they're a little lighter with spear so you can go more natural or more glam. Pretty much depending on exactly. And then the other things are like the different lengths like this is a really short one. This is 10 Select, I tend to use the more natural lengths which are like 1011 12 Like anything in that range just for our listeners, like super natural looking anything above that once you get into like 12 is okay, that's like pretty much as long as I go but you could do 1314 Then it sucks super long, but I don't have like huge eyes so it doesn't look as good. So the cool thing about lash Fi is that they all come in these like little, you know, oval type things with there's probably like, I don't know, maybe two sets or something in each of these and there these are $25 And the reason why like these, like I was saying is the quality is very nice. They they look very natural. They feel like good. They're made really well and there's

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All these different styles all these different lengths so you can mix and match and I'm not an expert in this at all. But if you look online and this is how I learned to do it, there's a million videos to show you exactly how to do it. Like ranging from beginner to advanced, the some of the advanced videos are like people are taking lashes and then they're putting like another lash, they call it like stalking and they put another lash on top of it. So it's super like thick and dramatic. So there's all these like really cool looks you can do if you're into it. I mean, I'm just doing it for like basic. But there's a lot of different looks you can do. And you can customize it. And so sometimes I'll put like something dramatic on the end, but then something more natural over here. So you just can kind of play with it once you got comfortable. So that's lash fi like I said the lashes are $25 and then the kit, the starter kit was $125. But it comes with like the one that clamps the lashes that comes with lashes. It comes with all the stuff you need, like the the glue, the CRM, the Yeah, all this stuff. So do you can you reuse them? Or when? Or do you just have to throw them away after you've worn them? I throw them away. You can reuse them. I've seen people online who take those out and they clean them with alcohol and they reuse them. I just don't because I don't know. I should try. I think I tried it once and I couldn't get it to work. There's probably definitely a way to reuse them. And I probably should do that. But I don't know if I wear them enough because I haven't I have a couple other brands too that I've been experimenting with. But yeah, I would definitely be more economical to just reuse them. And there's definitely when it comes to a lot of cool things. It looks like there's a Yeah, it comes with a lot. And the cool thing about lash fi too is there's so many videos and so much education. There's like a million YouTube shorts and like a great Instagram channel. And like if you're into it, like I am, like I said you get into the minutia of all this stuff. You can like figure out how to do it and teach yourself how to do it. So. So that's lash fi and I really like it a lot. And Ben Yeah, wearing a lot of these. So I'll like usually save these if like, I don't know I have an event or these are like my nicer ones. Then I have another brands, which I don't know if you've seen online but this one's called Head candy. And these are more affordable option. And this I saw all of our tic toc. But this is a little bit different. It's actually the same technique, which is great. I don't know if you can see these dashes. But it comes in a different way. So it comes in a big palette and this one I got has size 1012 and 14 or something so you can mix and match within the palette which makes it nice. And you can kind of make your own looks. So this one is $43 for the whole set. And the cool thing about this is they have this you really don't have to think about I think the last refi one can be a little bit intimidating because there's all these different styles and all these different locks and it's hard to know like what you want what looks good. This head candy brand is like a lash system. And essentially they have let's see 12345 They basically have like five or six versions and this one I believe Yeah, this one's called smoke shows Ilana and it's just it's more of like

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it's not dramatic, I'd say more of like a volume look but then they have another one called everyday le I have those two I haven't tried them yet and the lashes a little bit less thick, a little bit smaller, more natural looking. And so you it kind of takes the guesswork out of it. So you just buy those and then you just use the different sizes based on where you're putting it on your eye and you're good to go. And the same thing here. So this one comes with three. I mean you have to buy these separately but like the three things that you need. I forgot to mention in lash fi which has this too there's also a remover. So if you want to take them off and you don't want them to just naturally fall off you can just use a remover which is basically like an oil and you put it on and it just comes off with like a washcloth super easy. So with this cluster cluster lash system, you can also get this set which is $12 and it has the glue, it has the serum and it has the remover. The funny thing is is I've used this a lot with the lash of eyelashes because this glue sometimes is a little bit better, it's a little bit stronger. So I tend to like this glue better but I kind of mix and match and play with it. The lash fi also

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not overcomplicated but they have the glue that you put on your eye they also have another thing that came with my kit so I've been using it but you certainly don't need it. It's like another glue that's like a lighter glue that's like a white and you can put that directly underneath your lashes to give you like a guide which is helpful especially in the beginning. But that also comes with the lashes I kept that this one I think these are just as good and I've been using these to like mix and match just depending on and what's the name of that one. That's the end so you like to head candies lose the most with the lash of eyelashes so far. Yeah, but again, I mix and match. The other thing that I found that makes the lashes stay longer is if you clean

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Your lashes before you put these on. So you use, I liked the lash like cleaner, actually, you just clean your eyes, make sure they're dry after you clean them, and then you do the glue. So both good options, I think the lash Nephi, you can make a look a little bit more natural because they have all the different styles for as the head candy, it's like you pick one style, and you sort of just can style it up based on the different sizes. I mean, you could mix and match if you've got different palettes, which I have. But I haven't really tried that yet. So those are really good. And the most affordable and like easy to travel with. And you just throw them on. And those are the first ones I tried before I tried the last Nephi. And I was like, oh my god, this is amazing. And as like soon as I put them on, they were so easy. And I was like this is great. And then I wanted to try the lash fi just to like, you know, just shut up. But the last reply is like a little bit more complex, I would say. But once you get used to it, it's fine. So that's those two love those. And then the third option is

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what I tried, because I saw it online and I ended up not really loving it. But it's it's kind of a fun option if you need lashes for the night. So these are these are the kiss brand and they're called impress press on falsies eyelash clusters. So this takes it even an easier step. And these are literally like stickers. You don't need glue. You don't need the tweezer you know, anything. They're just here. This one's off the thing. So I'll just show you. They're just the clusters and you can just stick them underneath your eye. Like I was showing you before. Oh my God this day, and you just got sick. I know they're they last for very long. Yeah. They left for the night. That's like that's that's my my alley. I feel like I could get into Yeah, it's super easy. I think they look good. The problem with these is there only one length, you can't. And I don't even know what length these are. But they're the ones that I bought about two different styles. So again, they have two different styles like this one's probably a little bit more Oh yeah. Matic and maybe this one's more natural, but they're long, they're not, you can't really customize the size. And for like my eyes, I can't wear these long lashes. Like they look really bad. So I put them on and they're fine. They're good for like a night event when you know, you want to do a dramatic look. But I wouldn't wear these during the day. But they're super easy. And like, you know, last for the night. And they're fun. I'm sure they'll start coming out with more maybe shorter sizes. But yeah, they're all the same length. They just have a few different sizes. And that actually, I think they're 20 Let me say yeah, these are 90 Literally like so yeah, onto your eyelashes. And yeah, like it says on the box, just pressing that you just put it's the same method you just stick them on and then it comes with this little tweezer which is such a you know knockoff of the nice one. And you put them on and you just do this and like press them in.

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So those are great. If you don't want the mass if you don't want to deal it takes like two seconds and you're done. The other ones take a little bit more time but they once you really learn how to do it it probably five minutes. That's how long it takes me now but used to take me longer when I don't know how to do it. The other thing I forgot to mention is this head candy one comes with tweezers that I happen to like better they're more of like traditional regular tweezers. So you don't necessarily have to buy it but I didn't have any just regular tweezers. And for me I find these easier to work with so I just do the lash. You know do this you need a close up mirror and just do it. And to me this is easier than like that other one the other one just is like too big for my hands, but it's really just preference and learning what you like but anyway, I think you should experiment it also really I'm gonna try the sun the sun ones just because I feel like flick for a night out. Yeah, my lashes have grown so much on that serum that I people asked me if I have fake eyelashes now.

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Yeah, wow. Oh my God, that's incredible. The other thing about the head candy ones which they recently came out with, which I also bought and I'm wearing today, they have brown ones. So I've been wearing the brown ones a lot because they're again more natural like these are black and they're really pretty. But you know when you're fair sometimes when you wear the black so dramatic the brown just kind of like looks even more natural. It really doesn't look like I'm wearing like these you can kind of tell I'm wearing a lash extension who cares, but the brown ones I think are pretty like yeah, it looks very natural. But it's it's like very nice. Speaking of Brown, I just liked a sidebar. I only use brown eyeliner for that exact reason because the black is like too harsh and doesn't look natural. So I'm obsessed with you brown eyeliner that maybe i'll reveal in next product junkies. Yeah, okay, good. So those are the glue type extensions that go under the eye that I highly recommend supernatural really easy, pretty and you don't have to wear mascara so I haven't worn mascara and forever. I do take them off sometimes and I have a break for a few weeks and then I wear mascara and it's fine, but it's just good to have the option. So

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Speaking of serums because you were just talking about CRMs in when I wear the the lashes or even when I'm not wearing the lashes I started doing because I noticed when I did the real extensions that my eyelashes once I got them off they were much shorter than they used to be. Which is another reason I wanted to stop doing the lashes these do not damage your lashes I have used them for like I don't know 678 months and my eyelashes have been fine. The other ones I think are just like you know they're really glued in so I think that you can lose eyelashes from it so I got a friend that told me her lashes were falling Yeah.

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Yeah but these lash Rifai etc. They do not do any of that which is fabulous. But what I've been doing while I'm using these lashes at night is I put on the lash serum and I tested a few different versions that I know you have one that you love, but the one that I love is called Torres and honor enhancing eyelash and brow serum is from Amazon. It's supposedly on natural it's $22 The reason why I like this is because it doesn't contain an ingredient con pro stag Dilantin. I don't know if I'm even saying it right PPro sta je la n di N I had read that that specific ingredient which is in most lash serums can make the under eye darkness sting if you're using these lash serums a lot so I was using grande lash which you know everybody uses and loves and I I did like it I used it for probably a month and it did grow my eyelashes but then I started reading or maybe seeing on tick tock about this ingredient pro lag press dangling pan whatever this is that it can do that to under your eyes and I was like okay, I definitely don't want that and then I had seen that this term was an honor was one that didn't have and I read the ingredients and it didn't have it and it says it doesn't have anything Vega more is another one that doesn't have that. So I tried this one and ever since I tried this one like I've loved it my eyelashes have gotten so long and my eyebrows have grown like crazy. And so I've been really happy with this one and it's funny when I'm not wearing my lashes and I put on mascara there's so long and like people have said to me the same thing like oh, I didn't realize you because I asked my mom I was like does it look like I'm wearing lashes? I go Yeah, I thought you were I go no, that's my lashes I've been using the serum so it's actually really cool. Yeah, look it's probably in yours because it's in most of them and I don't know if you've seen that because if you haven't seen it then it's probably you know, it's probably fine for you but I just didn't want to right now so I'm very curious deal with that if I did yeah, I mean Yeah, yours is cool. You score last when you scolaro law it says it's a vegan eyelash serum. That's like the first thing that comes out Oh,

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okay so that I highly recommend I use that with my lashes and it's like it's so good. It's really grown my eyelashes and my eyebrows a ton. Okay, so I have two more products and these are more just like I treatment type thing. So this again is like another going into my okay so what is it is it it starts with a P How do you say yeah, process Dag lanton pr O S TA G la de not in squirrel ash. Oh excellent. Yeah, great. So score lash veg amour. And this Terrebonne are none of them have it which is good. But if you guys have lash serums you should look for that ingredient because it's not sensitivity right now talking about eye treatment. So this one that I've been trying over the last month or so it's going into my holy grail category. So remember how in our last product junkies I talked about that i Yeah, well that's good. Like if you just kind of want to fresh in your eyes. Yeah. So this product is something you put on before you do anything else and this is called the The brand is cor ace K O R R E S is called the Greek yogurt wide awake Igel so it's like an eye gel serum. And it has caffeine in it. I think that's the only ingredients and it's for you know D puffing your eyes. It's so good see that? Like has this silver ball you know I love a roller literally feels amazing. And you just kind of do this around your eyes. I Mikayla you know on tick tock review this one and as soon as I saw it, I was like I have to try that. It feels so good. And it really works well in the morning so I just lather it up in the morning first of all it feels really good especially now with like Yeah, looks like it would be relaxing. Yeah so you could just use this on there on your own just to deep off the eyes but we could also do is put this on and then put on one of those like you know eye patches or whatever if you're really puffy and then it like it's like a double and it just sinks in but anyway this is so good. So I've been using this in the morning and then I'll put on you know one of my favorites like I do that color correct or something over it and it just like it also is good too because it's almost like a serum so it's not as like slippery as cream so it just kind of like make sure under I moisturize too. So I love this and it's really cold and what is so good. It's really good for makeup prep. It's called cor cor s i think is the brand Kay

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O R R E S and it's called the Greek yogurt wide awake Eye Gel. I bought it on Alta it's $29 so yeah so I think like between this and the oil from last time it's like such good i products I'm loving it and then the last thing is found a new concealer, which is really good. It's called lawless and of naturalness. This is called Lawlis. The brand is spelled L A. W Eliot, l e s s lawless and this one's called conceal the deal. Lightweight full coverage concealer with caffeine there we go caffeine again, the reason why I like this is like I never wear a full coverage concealer because it's always too sick. It doesn't feel good, like even that elfin that you reviewed I have that and I like it but it gets cakey on me but maybe with some of these gels that wouldn't it just doesn't work for me this one's great because it really does feel like skincare and like they said it's lightweight but it's full coverage so it's like really clearly and really moisturizing like it doesn't feel like a concealer and it's so good under the eyes like you literally need like the tiniest dot and then you can just kind of like you know rub it rub it out like he's like

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he's Kosis concealer

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you know I tried Kosis ones and I returned it because I didn't I thought it was very dry. I wonder if you've maybe had a different one than I don't know and I have the ones that I have are very very lenient moisturizing I know and everybody says that about the closest ones but I tried it and for some reason it like didn't react well with my skin it like it like I put it on and it got like interesting you know those dry patches but that was also before I was using like these like serums under my eyes so maybe it's different now. But anyway, I love this one this lawless and it has like tons of different tons of different colors is $26 a great one I have a really quick little I hack that you just reminded me of for those those of my girls out there that use the LaRoche posay Toller rain face cream, it says on there that it's safe for eyes and I have been out of ice cream and I there's one that I really liked that I wanted to get and it's just been it's been like on backorder it's it's an old eight Hendrickson one so I been using my LaRoche around my eyes and it's honestly it is just as nice as a nice eye cream and moisturizing. Oh, it's very

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it's like it's just like the right finish and the right texture for around your eyes. So it's it's a good thing to have. That's yeah, it's moisturizer and you just use it around your eyes if you need to, which is good in a pinch. Nice great I love that. So I think that's all I could go on and other eye products but that's that doesn't matter reviews for the day just the the eyelash extensions were a big one because I had been testing it for so long. And then the other ones are really good. Yeah. And so hope this was helpful for all of our listeners going into the summer and wanting to have a natural new Omega Tamale and I like that you're not doing eyelash extensions anymore because I feel like you were gonna like kill your eyelashes which I think if people do that repeatedly over and over and over again it'll do that. So this these are great alternative options. I love it. I can't wait to try them. Nice. All right, well, that was a great eye episode and I loved like interviewing you. sigh Thanks, Katie. Thanks for listening to Nirvana sisters. For more information on this episode, check out the show notes please subscribe and leave us a review. also find us on Instagram at Nirvana sisters. If you loved what you just listened to or know someone that would please share it and tag us. Tune in next week for a fresh new episode of Nirvana sisters will continue to watch out for all things wellness so you don't have to. Bye.