Tish and Snooky – Manic Panic the Legend Continues

How do music and lifestyle influence beauty? Patty Schmucker’s guests on this episode of RadioAMB know this better than anyone else, the iconic Tish and Snooky of Manic Panic! They will be sitting down and revealing how they started out in the music industry and ended up one of the most legendary beauty brands in the business and all while never deviating from their punk rock and alternative roots – no pun intended.
Find out how they have been able to build Manic Panic over 40 years into one of the most recognizable brands in beauty. Dubbed the “Martha Stewarts of Punk” they are the pioneers of the rainbow of hair color trends hitting the streets and have been propelling the movement long before it became mainstream. Hear how being young and fearless helped them pursue their beauty brand dreams and how they were able to speak to a very specific tribe that has grown steadily over the years.
Listen in as Patty, Tish and Snooky take you on a journey of music, personal expression and most importantly of all, color. We think that is pretty important in all things in beauty.
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and beauty my guests today are two
iconic leaders that have shaped and
defined the way music has not only
inspired new looks and beauty but how
long ago 2 P 2 women were empowered to
take the leap to become trendsetters
assuring in an era of punk rock and
developing an iconic beauty and
lifestyle brand called Manic Panic
today you’ll meet two sisters and native
New Yorkers Tish and Snooki Bala moe
and they have been America’s punk-rock
pioneers since the days and of the
original blondie band lineup in the mid
70s they opened the first Punk store in
America in 1977 and went on to start
their alternative beauty brand Manic
Panic in the 70s being the first to wear
the type of bright and wild hair colors
the today have finally become mainstream
Tish and Snooki have sung backup for
some of the music’s biggest icons and to
this day still perform regularly with
the all-star band blue coupe consisting
of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dennis
Dunaway founding member of the Alice
Cooper group and Albert and Joe
butchered founding members of the Blue
Oyster Cult for over 40 years Tish and
Snooki have delivered their
rock-and-roll lifestyle to the world
their legendary hair color which has
always been vegan and cruelty free has
helped make celebrities such as Rihanna
Lady Gaga Cyndi Lauper Dennis Rodman
Carrie Katy Perry Kylie Jenner Kim
Kardashian’s stand out in a grant in a
crowd Tish and Snooki have been dubbed
the Martha Stewart’s of punk I love that
and still rock the Manic Panic lifestyle
we don’t just sell it we live it has
been their model for over 40 years
welcome Tish and Sookie I’m delighted to
have you with us today so what an
amazing journey that you have had and
you know as whereas you we the three of
us are probably pretty close in age and
I find it really interesting how the
things that we’ve done for most of our
lives and that passionate to us is just
sort of finding a new resurgence in the
world again it must be very rewarding to
you to see people starting to really
take your lifestyle and make it
mainstream it is it’s pretty amazing we
I don’t think of over 40 years ago we
would have believed it
we would have dreamed it right so tell
me how it is that you got your first
really big break in music well we were
in this wacky kind of vaudeville show it
was in 1974 with at the Bowery Lane
Theatre across from CBGB and Debbie
Harry and Christine from blondie sauce
in it and came to see us after the show
came backstage and asked us if we wanted
to come and sing with them at their
rehearsal so we went to the rehearsal
and sang with them and then we were in
the band not easy
Wow just a sort of a dream come true and
um tissue you had were mentioning about
you really that experience it gave you a
lot of opportunity to learn about design
and makeup and that type of thing yes we
were probably the youngest people in the
show and all the other people were
seasoned downtown performers and drag
queens and dancers and very extreme
theatrical types and we learned about
makeup and about sticking three pairs of
eyelashes together so that they would
show up from a distance and all sorts of
tricks of the trade that carried on you
know to our extreme lifestyle as punk
rockers and and what what was it about
the music that inspired you to take it
to that extreme I mean I can certainly
understand about being in theater and
the dancers and the and you know all of
that type of environment that you were
in but where was the inspiration with
all of the colors and really being bold
and and assertive with a look oh the
music was so extreme and bold and
assertive and in-your-face that the look
had to go along with it right it
certainly wasn’t subtle about shocking
people and the music was shocking and
the look was shocking it was like you
know designed to sort of you know make
people you know take notice and you know
sometimes kind of make people mad or you
know but that was right yeah I was it
was part of the entire the entire
package as you as you began you
mentioned in the earlier the whole idea
that you sort of had that natural
inclination to connect entertainment
with merchandising by selling your
kool-aid
in the intermission of your puppet shows
so as you began thinking about
merchandising and opening up the first
punk rock store did you have some
concern as to whether or not there would
be people that would be receptive to
actually buying merchandising around
that not really
we just thought if we build it they will
come we like it they will too and they
did and they still do right right like
we were young and fearless and everybody
always asked us where we got our
clothing and our makeup and you know
wanted to dress like we did and wear
what we were so we figured you know we
could sell it it’s definitely a market
out there yeah there was originally the
market was you know really small was
basically our friends and downtown
people people who lived in the
neighborhood and fellow musicians it was
like everybody who went to CBGB and
max’s our customers right right and so
the it wasn’t always sort of developing
that it was a lifestyle rather than just
necessarily a beauty brand oh absolutely
it was but everyone was welcome we
weren’t
Noby like some of the stores that opened
up after us mm-hmm
made people feel uncomfortable as they
didn’t look like us
Oh God endpoint was you can look any way
you want it wasn’t you have to look like
this right but some people just didn’t
get it they were trying to doors yeah
right the competition and so what were
some of the initial products that you
came out with we really doing in beauty
we were selling all sorts of here while
we were selling the haircolor and
cosmetics and the cosmetics were extreme
and they went with the hair color they
we I think we at the time we’re doing
you know our own private label which
really was private label it was just
like a little label stuck on right it
was so we we would I think we dealt with
about five different cosmetic companies
and only bought the most extreme most
vibrant highly pigmented cosmetics from
each different company and some of them
were theatrical brands we sold some of
them system further label they were just
you know theatrical cosmetics right
sometimes we find great vintage
cosmetics that we probably shouldn’t
even do something selling but we didn’t
know any better and maybe in these
beautiful old metal cases and so we we’d
find those and sell those and there were
like colors that they didn’t make
anymore and just really dark Reds and
extreme colors and so that was part of
our part of what we sold right and you
know in addition to clothing and shoes
and accessories and
things we made this was designing great
original designs back then and I was
making knitting sweaters loosely knit
punk looking sweaters and we sold
records only we sold records and
fanzines and everything to do with punk
rock in the punk rock lifestyle anything
we liked we even sold yes somebody so
one of our friends sisters was making
chocolate lollipops or something and if
we like so we ate up all prophets but
edit any any you had a following there I
mean you you were definitely not only a
pioneers and the punk rocker but as
being influencers and people who were
creating a lifestyle that people wanted
to follow and so when why do you think
that you know fast forward to today I’m
what what do you think is happened that
all of a sudden it became more
mainstream how’s the market changed you
know why did it become more mainstream I
think music yeah
celebrities all lettering our hair color
and people follow them and want to look
like them and people are bored they’re
there you know there’s almost only so
much you can do with black brown blonde
hair red hair
yeah there’s only so much so far you can
go with that
our extreme colors you know started out
as like maybe more highlights and subtle
effects here and there and you know
under the back of the hair and just in
places where you could hide it at work
and just people are getting more expert
at Oh body work mom
hmm
for her yeah I think it’s just a change
in lifestyle and it’s just everywhere
now it’s in the magazines and on the
runways and you know all the rockers and
musicians and rappers and sports people
they’re all wearing it and loving it and
endorsing it and you know it’s not real
it’s like much more accepted now because
everybody’s doing it now it’s safe in
our day you get beat up for having wild
hair coloring wild clothing but now
totally safe and acceptable and that’s
an interesting and an interesting
perspective that I hadn’t really thought
about but being bold and being
pioneering 40 years ago wasn’t just it
wasn’t just daring it you were literally
taking your life in your own hand yeah
oh you were we got somewhere abuse for
the way they look I got punched in the
face once and knocked that I ended up
waking up in the hospital you know
that’s that’s the way it was back then
not all the time but you know just
sometimes and now you can’t go to a
trade show without tripping over a new
company that’s making oh extreme collars
like it’s not like it’s a like a real
real pioneering of directions so what
have you learned I mean you’re welcome
right we made it for you that’s right
that’s right well they say that you know
somebody has got to go through through
the door and you know Avenue I was just
listening to a presentation on Bitcoin
and that you know the first few people
that have gone through the door have
ended up in jail but as a result of that
that currency is actually going to
become a reality and that’s really you
guys were the first ones that went
through the door you got shot you know
you’ve gotten you know
had had those kinds of effects what do
you think you’ve learned since you
started the company never learned so
much yes never give up
rarely take no for an answer if you
can’t get in the front door go around to
the back door or the window back in the
wall whatever it is I mean we we just
it’s really hard to keep us down even at
our age we’re still feisty it’s still
feisty that’s right and are there are
there moments that you can look back on
and really see that as a turning point
where you could say you know what this
is working this is working what is there
any was there any aha moments I think
we’ve had so many it’s so funny but but
we never get a chance to really enjoy
them because something else comes up and
we’re like oh my god we have to do this
now it’s like Niagara Falls is something
never stops yeah we one of the things
was getting into these big stores in in
malls and we had been used to selling to
mom and mom mom and pop or mom and mom
operations like our own small punk rock
boutiques and you know little
underground stores record parlors and
then we started getting these big orders
from these like you know companies you
know we didn’t know from mall stores
were from Manhattan we didn’t shopping
malls or we hadn’t been to them so views
wow what is this you may have more than
one just to learn Wow
so you know we had to ramp up and be
able to supply them and you know we just
like I had these moments throughout our
history have been figuring everything
out as we’ve gone along because we
neither of us had any business
experience or business what a mental
training stands right right
the extent of our place our business
training and so we just had to figure it
out as we went along and we’re still
figuring it out it’s not rocket science
you figure it out right right well and
and that was a period in in history
where you could little by little sort of
figure it out are you finding at this
point that the digital market is
changing the way that you are having to
do business oh you were definitely is
definitely is you know it’s a whole
different world and you have to you have
to deal with it as it comes and it’s
it’s not only that it’s you know digital
now but digital keeps changing and you
have to be ready for everything to
change constantly and things used to
change you know every few years and kind
of trudge along and they would you know
you’d have time to go with the flow and
figure out the changes and stuff but
everything’s so much faster now that you
know you just have to really be on your
toes do you think that you’re pioneering
kind of spirit is serving you well in
this environment where it’s changing
much faster than it did years ago yeah
because I think a lot of it is just
common sense and you know psychic
ability I guess I don’t know having a
feeling that you know what else and I
think that’s gonna really work right I
think that’s the way we’ve always been
though we’ve always we we haven’t been
followers so we have to kind of I think
just have a feel for things and that’s
why a lot of people follow us and use us
as the gold standard of creative hair
dye and you know just follow what we’re
doing right all right well we’re going
to take a break and with the from these
two
an earring women it’s so exciting to
hear your story it’s quite an
inspiration and when we come back we’ll
talk a little bit about their goals
today for the brand learn a little bit
about the ingredient story behind it and
you know really what the brand is
developed into today so stay with us as
we continue this fun conversation with
Tish and Snooki of manic panic we’ll be
right back
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I’m here with Tish and Snooki of manic
panic a brand that has been in the
market for over 40 years and really
pioneered the punk rock culture so um
Tish um actually I’ll leave it up to
both either one of you to answer but
tell us a little bit about what manic
panic is today I think it’s still the
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alternative brand that everyone knows
that you have people our age who know
it’s an older and you have their
children knowing it and their
grandchildren knowing it so I think
we’re the brand that’s been around the
longest they’ve been doing it for over
40 years and believing in it so we’re
kind of the real deal right and we’re
sort of like the coca-cola of extreme
hair mm-hmm and so what it would tell us
what is may what what products are in
the Manic Panic brand today
well the haircolor is still the number
one seller and best known product in our
entire line but we do have a line of
cosmetics to and clip in pieces of
colored hair and even some wigs and just
other beauty products where we’re
looking to expand into hair care
products maintenance and shampoos and
conditioners because hair is what we’re
best known for
and expanded the haircolor line into the
professional arena and have a whole line
of Manic Panic professional and so with
regards to the the Manic Panic hair
color that’s consumer-oriented is it is
it demi-permanent is it peroxide what
what what is the product that is used by
the consumer
it’s semi-permanent mm-hmm phase
gradually with every shampoo it’s best
it shows that best if it’s applied on
pre lightened hair but some of the
colors don’t have to be put on lightened
hair you can get a nice highlight on
Bloor in if somebody has blond hair
natural blond hair you can get great
colors as well and it’s always been you
know for all this time it’s been vegan
never tested on animals
PPD free gluten free and all that good
stuff yeah yeah and we never like blew
our own horn about it it’s just the way
we wanted it and the way we are right
and now other companies are coming along
and you know how ting themselves as
being vegan and cruelty-free but and
that’s nothing new for us we’ve always
been like that right right and so how
does the professional brand differ from
what the consumer hat can use it’s only
available to stylist through
professional outlets it’s a different
formula it’s a gel formula the rent the
products are available to the consumer
are a cream formula I think they’re a
little easier to use and but a lot of
stylists have been using their cream
formula for the past 40 years mm-hmm
it’s just a sort of different
applications yeah
and a lot of people will mix the two
together which is interesting
and the beauty and why the professional
is so exciting is because it’s a stay
put gel formula you can actually paint
the Mona Lisa on the back of somebody’s
head or you know get placement that
wouldn’t be possible with any anybody’s
cream formula really because it bleeds
more ah okay
stay put formula and I’ve seen people
put it in like in some intricate design
with yellow next to red next to blue
next to green and they’ll let it sit in
the hair a couple of minutes and then
they’ll take a comb and comb comb right
through it and the colors don’t even mix
into each other they are mixable if you
want to mix them into each other but if
you don’t you don’t have to and they’ll
stay put so it’s kind of an exciting
medium that people can use for very
artistic projects on heads or just you
know save time was not using full – or
her from the fixing hair like you might
have to with the crane right where they
would stain each other if they got too
close in and what was really exciting
and people are loving it yeah stylist
love it because it gives them artistic
freedom that they never had before
so once again you’re sort of jumping the
curve and and bringing out something
else that creates and a new opportunity
for art to be made yes actually
our mother was an artist uh-huh that’s
what you’re channeling a little of her
and so and then you moved into clip-in
hair pieces and wigs looking at
expanding later on in terms of actual
maintenance products but also others
cosmetics I believe um tell us all the
cosmetics and some other lifestyle brand
products yeah we have
we also have a hair freshener that’s
like a dry shampoo is shaken dry shampoo
that helps people between washings
mm-hmm so you know the more you wash
your hair the faster any of these
semi-permanent will fade right so you
can use our shaken hair freshener in
between shampoos we’ve got that we’ve
got our cosmetic line is really
beautiful and we’ve got glitters and
we’ve got temporary hair color as well
that’s like a styling gel that will wash
right out and we’re coming out with some
new products I don’t even know I guess
we’ve already shown them a little bit of
the trade shows but we do have a hair
spray that’s coming out in cotton this
summer okay just a hold hairspray or say
a color a color okay that’s got like 50%
more pigment than what’s out on the
market right now so you know we’re
always all about the pigmented more
pigment and yeah because we want it to
always be really bright and in-your-face
that’s a theme that hasn’t gone away but
that’s great we’re getting into
licensing our name we’ve licensed in a
manic panic for some salons and we’re
gonna license it for like lifestyle
stuff like you know clothing and
whatever housewares it’s going to be a
whole lifestyle brand coming back full
circle to where we started
absolutely all right well we’re at the
wine that we licensed during our image
for that’s pretty cool it’s okay so we
nice red wine okay good way I definitely
have to have some of that all right
we’re going to take another break we’re
going to take another break and when we
come back we’ll talk a little bit more
about the actual ingredients and the
brand and what what are some of the
goals coming up
so stay with us we’ll be right back
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listening to radio am beyond healthy
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of Manic Panic a brand that’s been in
the market for over 40 years in the
pioneers of the punk rock lifestyle so
Tish we and and Snooki we’ve talked a
little bit about some of the goals the
expanding the brand into maintenance
products I have a hair spray coming out
this summer that is more intense color
we before we broke you’re talking a
little bit about licensing your name for
salons as well as wine and clothing tell
us what what are some of the the short
term goals that you’re looking at around
this whole licensing opportunity well I
think we’re we’re very excited that we
have three salons instead of a nickname
one three or one in LA and one in Fresno
so we’re excited about that and hope
that expands and the second is such as
edibles the lifestyle items we’d love to
expand into and the I know you mentioned
earlier that in the early days it was at
you that was actually designing clothing
yeah and so are you it you must in this
new licensing opportunity will you have
an opportunity to get
some creative input oh absolutely if we
one of the you know our goals is to what
perception because it’s such a tough you
know obvious add-on that you know when
we do it we’ll have a lot of input
because nothing can go out we’re really
we’re kind of control freak nothing can
go out without our seal of approval and
especially when it relates to fashion
because it’s so close important to us
right so the the product the beauty
products itself I know you mentioned
that you were naturally drawn to making
healthy products vegan paraben free and
all of that kind of stuff long before it
was popular but as you have started
formulating in the current environment
do you find there’s some interesting
ingredients that you’ve been able to
include in your product oh yeah oh yeah
yeah definitely
and for the past 40 years we’ve always
been wanting to and succeeding at
improving our formula and you know
putting in ingredients like in the
professional line for example we have
castor oil and lactic lactic acid now
you get that lactic acid yeah and
ingredients that you know give shine and
just make the product better and better
all the time
yeah that is iffy Katsura castor oil
improves moisture retention so it really
makes the hair beautiful and shiny and
our regular classic lines has aloe vera
a lot of other moisturizing agents
similar to the castor oil right and and
in the area of cosmetics is there
particular something there that has has
really captured your attention in the
ingredient arena we’re in the process of
kind of revamping our whole cosmetic
line mm-hmm so we’re really really
excited about that and you know it’s
doing new packaging and partnering with
some people in the industry who really
you know have some great ideas and will
you know help the line really succeed
because we really have it sort of like
the redheaded stepchild this is going to
say that maybe they you know landed it
and you know the hair color has taken
priority and we have to give some love
back to our little cosmetics line and
you know really focus on it and bring it
back to where it should be now as an
ingredient of the of the haircolor brand
it would seem that that education has
played a pretty significant role how do
you how do you deal with education we
have educators we never did it before
but now that we have the Pro Line we’ve
hired educators and we’re hiring more
and more all over the country and we do
trade shows and have classes at the
trade shows these classes it certains
salons and
what up until now it’s been on our
website and you know social medias how
we’ve been educating people and at trade
shows and educating our customers our
wholesale customers the stores that we
sell to the benefits of our product
right and it sounds that you’ve also
sounds like you’ve also been very
comfortable with allowing your users to
experiment with and and take cues from
how they’re utilizing the product for
continuing to evolve it yeah yeah that’s
really true they have great ideas and
we’re always so happy to hear to hear
from them and to hear about their ideas
and and our distributors to like think
of things that and ways to use the
product that we haven’t thought of
hmmm it’s wonderful yeah and now we’re
in over 40 countries worldwide and it’s
so interesting to see what the various
countries do with our hair color because
it’s um it’s different they have a
different life style like it took us I
don’t know how many years to finally get
in to France but our distributor has
done the most amazing job to make us
fabulous over there uh-huh
for the longest time you know you always
think you know the French oh they’re you
know kind of exciting but as far as a
looks goes they we did show after show
and nobody wanted to you know on a big
level wanted to carry our hair color all
the young people loved it but none of
the distributor’s really wanted to carry
it they’re just so they were so
conservative over there we have a friend
who’s Amer
ken who lived over there and she said
they are never going to do that here
women will not do it while they’re doing
it uh-huh
big time and our French distributor puts
on these amazing shows that we can’t
even compete with they’re so good
Wow and so what’s what is the most
interesting thing you’ve seen in terms
of other countries that are doing are
working with the probably different than
here well I know each country has its
own little you know style it’s really
hard to say I mean Japan is amazing
they’ve got very dark hair yet they’ve
done some work that is just to die for
and it’s not just the color it’s the
cuts too that make it you know
completely new fabulous look uh-huh that
you know people have never seen before
and all our distributors are really
great at doing that each for its own
country mm-hmm and I think we we hit on
something almost fine of steaks when we
had a an ambassador and she didn’t know
what she was going to do for some show
and we said well you know we love Frida
Kahlo and we have this beautiful Frida
Kahlo fabric and it was black with very
bright colors and she was confused on
how she could you know show this on hair
and we sickles you know what if you just
decolorize part of a dark wig you know
let’s to decolorize it and make it and
then put the bright colors in hmm you
know we moved the color she thought oh
it’s gonna you know if I do black it’s
gonna run and so he said no I’ll just
take the dark wig and decolorize it and
you know makes it fabulous Frida wig and
that started a whole trend over here
with doing more and more with dark hair
and just lightening
parts of it cause I used to do that when
I was younger I used to bleach my roots
and let them grow out and then I would
also do the sides a little bit here and
there but I would I would have striped
hair hmm
so my hair would be dark and then bright
hot hot pink or fuchsia and then dark
again and I’d have these stripes going
down and no one knew how I did it and I
guess that was so many years ago it kind
of got lost but you know this this
technique has been really interesting
and it’s spread throughout the world now
and a lot of people are doing it all
over that’s great all right well we’re
going to take our final break and when
we come back we’ll talk a little bit
about how Manic Panic is taking this
success over the last 40 years and
applying it into philanthropic efforts
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healthy life dotnet and we are here with
Tish and Snooki that have been dubbed
the Martha Martha Stewart’s of Punk with
their brand Manic Panic so we have been
talking all about how the brand I came
to be and what it is today but I know
throughout your history that you’ve
really done a lot in terms of giving
back in fact I read that 15% of your
annual profits go to a variety of
charitable efforts tell us a little bit
about that well we’ve always been all
about giving back and um we just never
until recently blew our own horn about
it but it something that you should do
and we always thought you know it should
charity to kind of be anonymous and you
should just do it because it’s the right
thing to do but now we’re we’re telling
the world because that’s what you have
to do nowadays laugh about yourself
write about yourself and but we’ve
always been like that we’ve always been
rescuing animals ourselves and finding
them homes and putting on benefits for
all different kind of kinds of charities
and organizing them ourselves and being
in other people’s benefits we’re always
doing stuff and now we’re doing it in a
more organized fashion and keeping track
of it all right but but and you know I
need to acknowledge the fact that you
know there are not many organizations
that that put out there an actual
percentage of what they’re giving no
less a percentage of their profits so
once again you guys have really
pioneered the idea that it’s not just
enough to be successful but we’re
to make a forceful commitment on doing
good in the world is also a part of your
DNA it is I think it is idiot and it’s
so great that we can know lucky that we
can and it’s what we’ve always wanted to
be able to do we’ve always wanted to try
to help save the world and in whatever
way we can and now we’re like doing it
it’s wonderful you know pick up any
animal on the street oh my god another
cat that was like you know that’s how we
started and you know just always you
know giving to our friends people who
you know didn’t have much trying to help
them out giving people jobs
you can ask like anybody from the olden
days like did you work at Manic Panic
yeah we worked at medic panic but hired
all our friends and now breast cancer
research has become a big focus of ours
mm-hmm especially since you know friends
of ours have died of it and I had it
several years ago so that’s big one of
our big donations right but you know we
donate to mental health organizations
and children’s hospitals and you know so
many different charities because there’s
so many good ones right right well and I
understand though that this year
actually coming up here in April there
is an event where you are the honoree
for your philanthropic efforts
tell us a little bit about the beauty
bus event coming up oh they’re a great
organization and it’s a great event that
will be Saturday April 14th
two to five in LA at the Skirball
cultural center and we’ll be there
accepting our Lifetime Achievement Award
which we can’t believe oh my god we were
over there getting over that’s a great
honor and there’s such a great
organization and we’re so thrilled to be
a part of it and to support them tell
our audience a little bit about the
beauty bus we’ve actually I’ve been I’ve
been looking to have them on the show
and last year we had Marian Marian
Dougherty who was their honoree but for
our audience that does don’t know tell
us a little bit about what beauty bus is
it’s a great organization they go around
to hospitals and even people’s homes and
do beauty treatments to make people who
are really sick feel better and feel
normal
because you know a beauty treatment can
just really lift your spirits and change
how you’re feeling when you’re like you
know feeling like you when you’re
feeling like heck and looking like heck
right right it makes you feel better
yeah it really helped me heal right
absolutely it does and people are so
grateful for it and they don’t only give
beauty treatments to the patient but
also to their caregivers which is
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somebody is taking care of a loved one
and they’re letting themselves go
because they don’t have time to you know
maybe look the way they would normally
look because they’re taking care of
somebody right and it’s a wonderful idea
that they had to not only give to the
patient but to the caregivers as well
such a great idea yeah absolutely so
that’s the beauty bus that Saturday
April the 14th from 2 to 5 at the
Skirball Center in Los Angeles where
Tish and Snooki will be receiving a
Lifetime Achievement Award a
congratulations it’s really wonderful to
to acknowledge you and the beauty bus is
just such a great organization for you
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and provide those services ladies thank
you it’s really been an honor to get to
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