HeyJaredPretty Smart Too
Pretty Smart Too is the skincare and business podcast hosted by two best friends and estheticians, Laura and Brandy. From facials to front desks, we talk real-life spa stories, small biz wins and fails, and everything in between.
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- Jul 6, 2026
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AI Won't Take Your Job, But Somebody Using AI Will (opens the original)
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👧🏻 ABOUT THIS EPISODE She was sick in bed, scrolling her inbox, and almost deleted the email as spam. It was Cengage (Milady’s parent company) asking her to be a contributing author on the next aesthetics edition because they’d found her teaching skin of color on TikTok. Six months later, she was on a set in LA shooting facial demos for twelve hours straight. Armenthia Carr, ASCP’s 2026 Esthetician of the Year, joins Laura and Brandy from just over the bridge in North Little Rock. This one is fo
Amy S. Smith (opens the original)
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👧🏻 ABOUT THIS EPISODE A teenager on a Young Democrats field trip sees the Rock the Vote bus parked in Little Rock and thinks: I want to be part of something bigger than me. Thirty-something years later, that same girl is a therapist, a mom of three, and, by her own description, “a very quiet and reserved person,” but now she's knocking on doors in Ward 2 in El Dorado, AR, running against an eighteen-year incumbent. Amy Smith is an underdog, and she knows it. She also isn’t a quitter. This one is
Esthetician Morning Skincare Routine (20 Years In) (opens the original)
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👧🏻 ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Laura is standing in her bathroom, hair up, holding a nearly empty serum bottle she has cut open with scissors so she can scrape the last two days out of it with a cleaned makeup brush. “I’m only human after all.” That is the exact energy of this one lol. Twenty years of esthetician credentials delivered while yelling SCRUB, SCRUB, SCRUB and telling you to “exfoliate your dang chest already, honey.” You’ll walk away with her full morning routine in order: ZO Exfoliating Cl
Get Ready With Me: Brandy's Oily-Skin Morning Routine (opens the original)
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🙉 ABOUT THIS EPISODE: “Brandy, who’s gonna do all that every morning?” If you’ve ever looked at a seven-step routine and thought exactly that, this one’s for you. We’re live from the bathroom, freshly showered, walking you through the real, unfiltered morning skincare lineup an oily girl swears by. From why the scalp is skin too, to the one product that makes every other product a waste of money if you skip it. By the end, you’ll have a step-by-step order of operations you can actually follow, p
Advice to Our 13-Year-Old Selves (opens the original)
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👧🏻 ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Reunited in the same state at last! Laura is talking quietly in an echoey, furniture-free new Arkansas house while Brandy juggles a brand-new gig at Exhale Med Spa alongside running The Spa at Rockwater. The girls turn the mic toward their thirteen-year-old selves. What advice would they give little Laura and little Brandy? The answers get real fast: passivity, people-pleasing, fear, and the myth that hard work has to mean running yourself into the ground. You’ll walk away
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