Chriselle Lim Says You Can Put Vagina Cream All Over
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Beauty rules be damned! Digital content creator and entrepreneur Chriselle Lim is here to teach us if your lotion smells good and absorbs perfectly into your skin, it doesn’t matter if it’s meant to plumpen your labia. We’re using it on our elbows and everywhere else! Plus, SuChin and Kulap break down the newly sparked conversation around the TV episode that launched Kulap’s early acting career.
Find Chriselle at @ChriselleLim on TikTok and Instagram.
Her business is called BümoWork: https://www.bumowork.com/
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Transcript
SPEAKERS
Chriselle Lim, Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak
SuChin Pak 00:10
All right. All right, everyone. Welcome to another edition of the refreshing. Always joyful ADD TO CART. You like that or no? I was just playing around with it.
Kulap Vilaysack
There’s definitely Asian joy, for sure.
SuChin Pak
Yeah, yeah, Asian joy and sorrow. You know? I’m SuChin Pak.
Kulap Vilaysack
And I’m Kulap Vilaysack. And this week we’ve got all kinds of fun things to Add To Cart.
SuChin Pak
Plus, we’ll be joined in a bit by my friend, digital creator and entrepreneur Chriselle Lim. She’s going to talk to us about all of her favorite add to carts and life hacks.
Kulap Vilaysack
But before we do that, a little update from last week’s show with Caissie St.Onge. We both on her recommendation bought Dr.Tung’s Ionic Toothbrush.
SuChin Pak
Last week, Casey came to the table with many things from the future. And she started to describe this toothbrush to us where it uses ionic science. You don’t know what it is. You lick your finger, or you wet your finger. You put it on the brush, and it’s a manual toothbrush, okay? And you brush your teeth with it. And the magic of it is, Okay not the magic. The science of it is, maybe it’s science, I don’t know, is that it’s supposed to repel plaque from your teeth. She said, my teeth feel like glass. We both immediately added to carts. And it is true. I’m so excited to hear what you thought about it. First of all, I texted you. Yes?
Kulap Vilaysack
You got it before me.
SuChin Pak
It literally came. I took it out. I took a picture of it, send it to Kulap and I said, “I’m about to lick my brush.”
Kulap Vilaysack
And then you wrote glass teeth, which is how Caissie described it. And I wrote Oh my god, you wrote I know I’m shooken.
SuChin Pak 02:10
I’m spooked, scared and confused, I said. That was right after I brushed my teeth. I needed to text you.
Kulap Vilaysack
And so I used it before our recording today. And so it’s $29 bucks. You get two heads, but it’ll last for two years. So yeah $29 bucks. But, you know, that’s not bad. It’s amazing. My teeth feel great.
SuChin Pak
Okay. Okay, you guys, were Stuttering through this because the game changer. Okay. Okay, listen. Babies, babies, babies. Quiet now. Everybody be quiet. This is a game changer. Okay? We have a few game changers on this podcast. This will go on that very short list.
Kulap Vilaysack
Do you feel because normally I know your schedule now enough. You’re gonna be wanting to do it a second brush after this podcast. Do you feel like you have to do a second brush?
SuChin Pak
Listen, I always feel like I have to do a brush, okay? And now I’m going to go in with my manual Oral-B, not Dr. Tung’s, only because I’m afraid of this science. I am afraid that I will have small invisible holes in my teeth. And there’s like some sort of degradation happening to the enamel of my teeth. And my dentist is going to be what have you been doing?
Kulap Vilaysack
What Caissie was saying last week, she’s like, are other parts of my body polarized?
SuChin Pak
Polarized. Right, exactly. It’s so revolutionary to me that I’m going to call my dentist this week, and I will report back. Dr. Siegel is a jewel in my crown, if you will.
Kulap Vilaysack 04:11
This person, this doctor is considered to be one of SuChin’s healers. Okay, so she’s gonna get a second opinion.
SuChin Pak
So I will report back. But I’m telling you right now, if the science is the science, and it is what it is, and it does what it does, this is, you know what? I talked about it the other day; I was out with some friends. And all I wanted to do was talk about this toothbrush. And I talked about this toothbrush to my dear friends Evan and Lynette who just sat there, like just so tempted to be scrolling on their phones as I was trying to tell them about my toothbrush, they just couldn’t be more bored. And now I have to send them this toothbrush because I will be vindicated. Am I going to get a heart condition from using this? I don’t know.
Kulap Vilaysack
We don’t know. Until then this ionic brush is iconic.
SuChin Pak
Ionic, iconic. Thank you, Kulap.
Kulap Vilaysack
Oh, SuChin I have something that I want to discuss with you.
SuChin Pak
Yes.
Kulap Vilaysack
So last month, there was an article that I think it was on. I think maybe it was picked up off Washington Post and the article that I shared with you is people from people. And the photo of it. I’m in it. And that part feels good. That part feels great.
SuChin Pak
By the way. You look amazing in it. I know we’re not to say that and you may cut it out.
Kulap Vilaysack
Nope. We keeping it in. You said that I look great in this photo. No, but the article is the office actress Kat and calls out show over problematic portrayal of Asian women in Benihana episode. Now, for those of you who aren’t familiar with my […]
SuChin Pak 06:05
Shame on you, get a hop, take the earbuds. Go away.
Kulap Vilaysack 06:09
I don’t understand why your homepage isn’t my IMDb. But anyways, I was in this episode, and it aired in 2007. It was the Christmas episode of season three. And if you haven’t seen the episode, it is where Michael Scott and his coworkers they go to Benihana. They flirt with you know, some waitresses, they bring a couple of waitresses back to the office. This is where it becomes problematic. And I remember this in the script. So it’s not said out loud. But basically they bring uglier waitresses back to […]. It’s cringy. And then Michael, he can’t, there’s too waitresses to come back. He can’t tell us apart. And so at one point, he marks me with a sharpie so that he can tell me apart from the others now, okay.
Kulap Vilaysack
Look, in the scope of today. I’m not by the way. Really quick, guys. I’m not defending this everything Kat, my costar said is absolutely true. She’s right. Yes. Like everything she’s saying is, right. We couldn’t have this episode today. Michael Scott’s character is cringy. They play him like the fool. But as a lot of the comedy has, you know, of the last like 10 years, even though you’re playing that character off as a fool that characters beloved. And it’s also oftentimes it’s just a pass to do inappropriate. And, you know, blank, comedy, misogynistic, racist, stereotypical, right? Because like the fool, it’s the clown. Right?
SuChin Pak 08:14
It’s like an easy pass, like an easy way around it. It’s like no person would do this. Duh, this guy’s an idiot.
Kulap Vilaysack
Yes, but in doing it, you are perpetuating whatever it is that you may be supposedly lampooning, which very rarely that’s the case, this wasn’t satire. So that said, of course, this was also my big break. Hello, it’s my big break. It was my big break. It was my big break. It was a highly pleasurable experience. Again, everything Kat said is right and true. In hindsight, 100, so I’d love to have this like nuanced conversation to talk about representations, to talk about these types of roles and the past and the future. And I actually kind of just want to see where we go.
SuChin Pak
Yeah. I don’t know where we’re gonna go with this either, because I think it’s so complicated, right? And I’m not saying that to excuse the creators, you know, and I would even argue that I could see a version of this still playing out today. Even like when I you know, watch Schitt’s Creek, and I love that show.
Kulap Vilaysack
Me too.
SuChin Pak
And I love that show. And then every time that South Asian actor comes on, why does he have an accent? Is it additive to the story like we, I don’t get it and I have a hard time ever even criticizing Asian actors, for taking on certain types of roles, because that implies we have control. That implies we have power and I’m not going to perpetuate that fucking lie. That’s a myth.
Kulap Vilaysack 10:02
Yes. And Kat says that. It was a role, it’s role. But we also, you know, you don’t have the power and when you’re building your resume as a young actor, there’s not a lot of choice or not a lot of opportunities. I want that to change. But I think about even like the stuff I would do at UCB, and the funnier dive videos, and I think about how many times I said yes, or was asked, and usually I always said yes, because I rarely would say no, when I was younger, to either being a prostitute or like a slutty version, you know. And it’s not something that I would point a finger I certainly wouldn’t post about it. But like, I’ve been thinking about that a lot in that conversation about Asian fetishization. I say that fast because I never say it right. I think I really, I really think about that think about how I was objectified.
SuChin Pak
Because I think in a lot of ways to be female, and to be a woman of color. You yourself are part of internalized racism, and misogyny, because we’re all taught and socialized in a white, patriarchal culture. So we hold both of those conflicted versions of ourselves in us, we hold those. And so I think that some of the awakening that happens is when you start to realize, wow, there’s two identities in here. And they conflict and they don’t actually coexist peacefully. But they’re there. But I also think that this is why it matters. When you talk about decision makers, writers and producers and directors and people at the table that actually can green light things, make things happen.
Kulap Vilaysack 12:07
That’s the power right there.
SuChin Pak
It isn’t the actors and the reality stars that are just trying to get a foot in, you know what I mean? It’s not that, yes, you know, because I don’t want anyone to make the assumption that there’s an equal power dynamic happening here, because that’s really dangerous.
Kulap Vilaysack
That’s right.
SuChin Pak
Did you at the time when you took the role? Were you excited about the opportunity? And so there wasn’t a party that was like, I can’t do this. Like this isn’t?
Kulap Vilaysack
No, no, it was fun. It was exciting. Yeah, I’m not in a position to be able to be choosy, like at all. And it wasn’t hard to choose this at the time. Like and look, it was an episode that was supposed to be 30 minutes, it became an hour, I still get recognized for it. And you know, nobody wants to hear this. And this is the wrong take. But like I was supposed to be like unattractive and like, I remained very attracted to that episode. They tried to ugly me down with the purples and the pink and
SuChin Pak
Impossible. Impossible.
Kulap Vilaysack
And that didn’t work. And then they took all of my makeup off. If you look at the later scenes, I’m not wearing any makeup and yet still glow. Glow up!
SuChin Pak
Yeah, you know, it’s complicated. But I’m so glad that we talked about it. Because this is like the everyday stuff, the everyday decisions, especially our younger listeners are struggling with, you know? It’s like how do you navigate decisions like this? How do you understand what real power is? And for me, when I saw this, I was like, this is not the issue, you know? The issue is not about whether actors are taking these types of roles. The issue is really about where is the true seat of power in this conversation, and how much has it changed and hasn’t changed? You know?
Kulap Vilaysack
There you go, ding, ding. Ding, ding right there. And it needs to, and it really needs to, and I, however it may be if they remove it from peacock or not, that’s not big change. Big change is like getting some you know, more bipoc people to have the power to greenlight things.
SuChin Pak
That’s right. All right. Well, we’re gonna take a quick, quick break, but when we come back, we’re going to have Chriselle talking about all of her amazing life hacks more on Add To Cart.
Kulap Vilaysack
SuChin Pak, what’s the most important thing in the world to me?
SuChin Pak
Well, first I would say sleep and then maybe your electric bike?
Kulap Vilaysack
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SuChin Pak
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SuChin Pak
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Kulap Vilaysack
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SuChin Pak
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Kulap Vilaysack
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SuChin Pak
We are so excited. I am so excited to have Chriselle Lim finally on this podcast. Chris I feel like this is just it’s been in the star, has been in the works. Here we are. Listen, if you don’t know Chriselle Lim, she has been doing this for a long time. Started back in I want to say like what 2010 on YouTube with fashion stuff. And then from there is just like skyrocketed into the orbit, the universe. She’s a digital influencer, that is such a small title for what she actually does. She’s a creative director, she’s an entrepreneur, you run multiple companies, you have a startup, a new education startup called Bümo Brain. Chris, welcome to ADD TO CART. I’m so excited to have you.
Kulap Vilaysack 16:40
This might be our first mogul.
SuChin Pak
For sure.
Chriselle Lim
I needed to hear this every single day. I’m gonna record this and have it as my ringtone.
SuChin Pak
We got to get a mogul ringtone. This is a mogul ringtone.
Kulap Vilaysack
Because that is what you are. You are a queen. You are a mogul.
SuChin Pak
That’s correct.
Kulap Vilaysack
You are an entrepreneur. You are a spirit. You are a force.
Chriselle Lim
Oh my god. Keep going.
Kulap Vilaysack
You are gorgeous.
Chriselle Lim
Stop. Okay, stop.
SuChin Pak
And cut. Okay, CEO back in the room. There she goes. Okay, let’s orchestrate.
Chriselle Lim
But honestly, I am so honored to be here.
Kulap Vilaysack
Thank you for being here.
SuChin Pak
I know. Listen, I thought about this. Chriselle and I know each other a bit. You know, we shared some laughs and some tears over lots of food. The one thing that I wanted to know and I’m sure you’ve been asked this is you do so much, right? And people oh, Chris, you do so much. How do you get it all done? Right? And then I was like, no, that’s not the question I want to know, on the laziest day of your life. On the day when the companies are need to just run themselves when the children are out with Papa and […] and […], what does the day off for Chriselle look like? Like what are you eating? What are you wearing? What are you putting on your face, etc?
Chriselle Lim 18:04
Oh my gosh, that is an incredible question. Probably the most profound question I’ve heard in a very long time. And I don’t even know how to answer that. Because no one’s ever asked me that. But I would have to say that. Number one, one thing that no one really knows about me is I am lazy AF. Like the true inner Chriselle that no one really knows about is that I’m uh, I could sleep and hibernate for five straight days. If I had absolutely nothing to do. The immediate thing that goes through my mind is out probably sleep in until 3pm. And I would have no problem doing that. I might wake up being like, like, I might need some water, but then I’ll go back to sleep.
Kulap Vilaysack
I mean, that’s luxury. The going back to sleep.
Chriselle Lim
Yeah, there could be an earthquake. There could be a tsunami and I could go back to sleep.
Kulap Vilaysack
It’s good that you live in the West Coast.
SuChin Pak
None of those things are possibilities. You know what I mean?
Chriselle Lim
So yeah, by 3pm I would probably wake up order something from Uber Eats most likely Chipotle. And then I’ll probably listen to a podcast and read a book.
Kulap Vilaysack
Wait, sorry, can we back up a little bit? What’s our order? What’s our basic order? What’s our go to?
Chriselle Lim
I would probably order a burrito. A burrito with lots of avocado, I love they’re Sofritas which is their I think it’s like their tofu meat. Lots of hot sauce. I like things real spicy to the point where I can’t like feel my face. And then I’ll probably drink a coke because they never drink soda. Then I’ll probably go back to sleep. I mean, in all honesty, I probably wouldn’t even do my skincare if I was real with you. Like, I would just sleep.
SuChin Pak 20:11
Wow. That is not far from what I imagined your day would be like knowing you. And that’s the thing. It’s like, you know, there is, of course that side of you to say that that’s not true would be also, you know, a lie that side of you that’s just like, ambitious and always creative and always thinking, and then truly, there is that side of you who just doesn’t really give a rat’s ass.
Kulap Vilaysack
The battery must recharge. There’s got to be some restorative energy. Now, what I would say for Chriselle is that she’s got a really strong battery, and it charges fast. It’s very efficient.
SuChin Pak
We’re gonna get into all of your Add To Cart’s, which we have kept a secret, and it’s been really hard. Chriselle not to text you about I feel like you’re like dying to tell because you’re like, wait, can I tell you? And I’m like, no, you can’t tell me yet.
Kulap Vilaysack
Chriselle, I have a pen and paper. I’m so ready.
Chriselle Lim
Oh, my gosh, you guys, pressure is on now. I feel like I shouldn’t really bring it.
SuChin Pak
You are going to bring it. No preshies. That’s the other name of our secret podcast is called no preshies, because nothing is ever pressure here. And then number two, I wanted to kind of really quickly talk about the most recent video. Kulap, I don’t know, if you were able to see it, I should have sent you a link. But, Chris, that would have been, you know what I mean, like the actual.
Kulap Vilaysack
It would help. I’m gonna answer you No. I have not seen it.
SuChin Pak
But you know what, we’re just doing our best, no preshies, no preshies. This is the other side of no preshies. Sometimes things fall through the cracks. But I was, as I obsessively watch and consume everything Chriselle does. And she did this really very honest. I called it a fireside chat video on her feed about the question that a lot of Asian Americans get of, where are you from? Where are you from? And you really broke it down in a way that I was half like, there’s a part of me that was kind of laughing because you had to break it down so simply, too.
SuChin Pak 22:28
You know what I mean, like, yeah, you really do because it, it seems like such a like benign, no big deal question. And yet, I think a lot of us, including Asian Americans are starting to articulate how years and years and years and years of that it always rubbed me the wrong way. But I, I didn’t exactly know why. And then when you kind of broke it down, I was like, yeah, that’s why it bothers me. And you said something there about just when you ask that question, it seems simple. I get it. But it makes us feel like we’re perpetual foreigners. Right? That we’re just visiting. And then we’re not from here. We don’t live here. We don’t have businesses here, children, etc. I wanted you to talk about anything about that video, whether it’s the reaction or how you came up with that particular question.
Chriselle Lim
Well, it’s funny, because it was, I posted a TikTok/Reels, kind of making fun of it first, right? And it was that kind of that viral trend that’s happening if they tell me that you’re that or that without telling me that you had that or right? So I did one where I was I tell him that you’re Asian-American without telling me that you’re Asian American. And there’s kind of skit where I was like, where are you from? And then the Asian person was like, oh, I’m from I’m from here. I was born in Texas. And then the non-Asian person was like, no, where are you really from? And then I go, I’m really from here. You mean like, Where was I born? I was born in Texas. I grew up in San Jose. And then they go, no, where are you like, really, really from? And then I went off and said, I’m from my mom’s vagina that was in Fort Worth, Texas. That’s where I’m from.
Chriselle Lim 24:16
So that was the original video that kind of went viral. And then I got so many people on that specific video saying, why is this offensive? Like, why are you making such a big deal out of it? And then I felt like, ah, I have to go there. You know? Like, I just have to teach these people why and explain it in a way where it’s not offensive because I have a lot of followers that probably have said this in a way where they didn’t mean harm, and they just need to know what it actually means Asian-Americans. So, I had to break it down. And so I broke it down in a very elegant way. And the amount of people that were like, Oh my god, I had no idea. Thank you so much.
SuChin Pak
Me included, by the way.
Kulap Vilaysack
And it’s also a call for all those well-meaning white people. Just do more. Just a little more effort. You’re being called to, you know. Just to give us a little bit more. I think that’s fair.
Chriselle Lim
Yeah. I felt like I was called. I felt like I was called. I was like, I can’t be silent on this one. You know, so many people are asking about it. So I felt like, because I had the platform, and now the eyeballs are there, like, I should give an answer. And yeah, also, Asian Americans, like I’m guilty of it too, sometimes, right? If someone asks me that, I just don’t want to explain myself. So I’ll say, oh, I’m Korean. And when in fact, they didn’t ask me what my race was or what my heritage was.
Chriselle Lim
They asked me where I was from, but because I knew the answer that they want. Wanted from me. I immediately just went; I always just go there. I’m like, I’m Korean. And so we as Asian-Americans, we’ve always just kind of naturally avoided that question, because we didn’t want to explain ourselves. It’s exhausting, right? Honestly, it’s not just Asian-Americans. A lot of people of color, were like, I get that question all the time, too. Right?
SuChin Pak 26:21
That’s awesome. Well, I mean, with that, I want to know, what are your Add To Cart’s, you removed from carts, we have no idea what you’re bringing to the table, Chriselle.
Chriselle Lim
They’re really all over the place. So I hope that you guys are ready, because some of the stuff just does not make sense. That’s our favorite stuff.
Kulap Vilaysack
I’m here for it.
Chriselle Lim
Okay, so can I just start anywhere? Okay. I’m going to first start off with this guy, because it’s not what you think it is. It’s called Rosebud Woman, I got this in kind of like one of those goodie bags, you know, when you go to events, and they just give you all this free shit. And this was in it. I liked the smell of it. It smelled rosy. And I was like, I wonder what it is. I loved it. And I just start putting it all over my body. And I like use it up and I went to their website to order more because I don’t know what these people, and I realize that it’s a vagina balm.
SuChin Pak
Wait, I need to go to the website. What is this thing called?
Chriselle Lim
So I used it up completely.
SuChin Pak
What is it called?
Kulap Vilaysack
All of your body? Everywhere? Maybe but your vagina?
Chriselle Lim
No, no, but this is where it’s not my fault because it says Rosebud Woman and it says every day balms. I’m like, Oh, it’s an everyday balm, right? But I didn’t read the back. It doesn’t say vagina here anywhere. But it says and I probably should have read this. It says honor your feminine parts every day.
SuChin Pak 28:16
A cracked heel.
Chriselle Lim
But I’m telling you, you know why I love it so much my body and I’m still going to use it for my body. I don’t care if it’s a vagina balm. It’s because my problem with body creams is that, one, it’s too thick. And it takes forever to like just moisturize into my skin. Or it’s the opposite, which is an oil and it just like soaks into my skin and like minutes later, I’m like, I’m dry again. Right? Whereas this guy. I feel like I get the best of both worlds. Like, I think more people need to figure out how to make a vagina balm into an actual body balm because this lasted me literally three days. And I was like this why? Why would they put it into such a small bottle? Like it’s like a face cream bottle.
Kulap Vilaysack
So this is both a life hack and the company should, you should be the spokesperson. Because, you know more sales for them. Like to use it as a body balm.
SuChin Pak
Oh my god, this hilarious. Wait, the intimate moisturizer feels great. Improves skin density. I mean, it doesn’t really say anything about your lady bits until you kind of have to scroll down.
Chriselle Lim
I saw their website. It’s like plumping and I’m like, does my vagina need plumping?
Kulap Vilaysack
Have you noticed when you sit down that you’re a little taller?
Chriselle Lim
No, I don’t I would like to talk to their marketing people because I think they’re marketing it all the wrong way. I think this could be a huge hit. But it’s a little confusing.
SuChin Pak
Chriselle new client, new client, get your team on this. It’s obviously a great product.
Chriselle Lim 30:02
It’s amazing.
SuChin Pak
When you recommend a product, I’m writing things down because you try everything people send it to you, you buy whatever, you try so much. So for you to really love something to then go and reorder, only to discover. It’s a balm for your hooha. Like, it’s a great product. It’s just needs a little bit of marketing.
Kulap Vilaysack
I don’t want to say a tub. There’s a better.
Chriselle Lim
No, we do need a tub. I’m tall. Like it takes me a minute to moisturize my entire body.
Kulap Vilaysack
Yeah, okay. I mean, because it’s an Add To Cart for the balm. Remove to cart, its intended purpose. Add To Cart a larger size for the entire body.
SuChin Pak
Correct. I mean, it’s a complicated Add ToCart, which we love. It’s an add to cart that you made your own. So that’s also lovely.
Kulap Vilaysack
You’re a disrupter. Let’s do her intro again. So I can say disrupter.
SuChin Pak
Marketing Guru, and very thirsty body skin.
Kulap Vilaysack
Okay, what’s your next Add To Cart?
Chriselle Lim
Okay, so the next one is a little bit more. It also has to do with skin. But it’s a little bit more scientific. I probably not gonna say it right, because there’s a lot of things behind it. But have you guys heard of OPTE before?
SuChin Pak
No.
Kulap Vilaysack
Yes, I have heard of it. Because it was in the gold house, winter gold market. And it was one of the yeah, one of the companies. I’m very interested.
Chriselle Lim
It’s really fascinating. And I have to say I didn’t like it at first. But now I really understand why people love it. So it’s a skin scanner, pretty much like you put it on your skin, it’s not plugged in. So I can’t really use it, but you put it on your skin, and it quickly scans your skin. And ejects out like a printed scan of your skin but camouflage onto your skin. So it’s like the future of makeup. I know I’m saying this all wrong. Like, yeah, but it’s the future of makeup. Because it’s not makeup, it’s actually serum that is printed onto your skin. So, one, you don’t need to put on makeup, which was so weird to me at first, because part of my ritual every day is putting on makeup.
Chriselle Lim 32:48
So I felt a little naked. But now what I do is I just apply this on. And it makes like this little clicking noise and it just ejects out a scan version of your skin. But what also happens is that over time, your skin becomes more blemish free because it has the blue light in it. So over time it’s gonna scan less because you have less blemishes. So it picks up any like dark pigments. You know, just hyperpigmentation.
Kulap Vilaysack
Do you only just do spot or is it whole face?
Chriselle Lim
The whole face. I do my whole face. And then you could do spots if you have like I had this pimple here. So I could just hold it there. And they’ll keep like printing it out until you’re satisfied with the coverage.
SuChin Pak
When you say print out, a product squirts out of that device?
Chriselle Lim
Yeah, it does squirt out, but you can’t feel it, which is so weird because their whole thing is that you actually don’t need as much makeup that you put on so it’s so micro to the point where it’s like your skin. At first it’s weird, because you’re like oh, it doesn’t feel like a serum like it’s not wet. Right? But it’s so tiny. That you can’t see it with your eye.
SuChin Pak 34:11
Okay, so after you do that, and you look at yourself in the mirror, you look like you have like really good foundation on?
Chriselle Lim
Really good skin. Yeah.
SuChin Pak
Okay, and so I’m just trying to understand this like so, is it a cartridge that’s like a serum that you refill like what is the inside of it look like?
Chriselle Lim
So do you guys see this right over here? I know on the podcast; you can’t see it. But this is that ink serum cartridge. And so that is what it spits out and then you have to replace it like every few months. But a little goes a long way so you don’t need to replace it for like for me I replaced my first cartridge after three months.
SuChin Pak
And it matches, so you’re not when you’re shopping for the cartridge, are you shopping for your skin shade or?
Chriselle Lim
Yeah, you are. So it’s confusing because it acts like makeup, but it’s not makeup. And I think this is where marketing for them also becomes challenging because I had a hard time really understanding it as well. Because I’m like, wait, so is it skincare or is it makeup? But it’s actually both.
SuChin Pak
Wow.
Kulap Vilaysack
Very intrigued. Personal question, for me, and by personal, me. I have freckles that I like. Will this probably remove freckles?
Chriselle Lim
It will. This probably wouldn’t be good for you. I think freckles goes into the category of maybe it picking it up as hyperpigmentation. So it probably will identify oh, it’s hyperpigmentation, discoloration, so we’ll probably cover that area.
Kulap Vilaysack
Okay. All right.
SuChin Pak
And you said it also has the blue light, which I’ve just, like so interested in all this, like light home technology. And so that is also incorporated in this?
Chriselle Lim 36:05
Yeah. So as you’re scanning it, you will see a blue light that kind of is like constantly blinking. And that is like blue light therapy pretty much. So if you continue to use it, that over time, it will fade your hyperpigmentation and your discoloration. So eventually, the goal is that they’ll just disappear. I mean, it’s hard. You can’t claim that all disappear, but they’ll lighten you know?
Kulap Vilaysack
Okay. Because I feel like you’ll know this answer. I was gifted a solo wave that has red light. And it feels nice. It’s warm. Is it doing anything?
Chriselle Lim
I know, it’s really hard with these light devices, right? But how often do you use it?
Kulap Vilaysack
Very rarely.
Chriselle Lim
There you go. With these lights, you have to be really diligent, like you have to be consistent with it. It’s one of those things where if you do it, probably two to three times a week, consistently over time, maybe in about like three months. People will be like, did you get Botox, or did you? Did you lose weight? Did you? You know, it’s like those little subtle questions. You’re like, no, I don’t do anything. That’s when you’re like, okay, I think it’s working. But you know, that’s skincare so hard because of that you don’t really see the immediate effects, right? Kind of have to continue with it. And just hope and pray that something will happen.
Kulap Vilaysack
This is great.
Chriselle Lim
And hope and pray that you’re applying it to the right body part, or just any part.
SuChin Pak
Okay, so thank you for this. Do you have more, please tell me you have more because I could listen to this all day.
Chriselle Lim
It’s a timer. It’s called Time Timer. And I actually saw this on my daughter, six-year-old Chloe’s teacher’s desk, and I asked her what it was. And she says that it helps the kids in her class to evaluate the time that they have available for certain activities and allows them to be more productive with the given time that they have with homework or like any experiments that they’re working on. And it’s visual. So I’m gonna show you.
SuChin Pak 38:28
Oh…
Kulap Vilaysack
For the people who can’t see it, it’s red, and then it counts down and becomes less and less read so that you can see it.
Chriselle Lim
It’s pretty much for elementary school kids.
Kulap Vilaysack
I am so into this. I’m really, really into this.
Chriselle Lim
And because kids are so visual, you know, if you tell them 10 minutes, they’re just like, oh, whatever. But they actually see it like, dissolving, right? Then all of a sudden, they realize they have less time and less time and less time and they work harder, and they work faster and smarter and I was like, huh, that’s really interesting. Like, I think I could use that. So I actually bought myself one on Amazon, again, I don’t buy anything like I mean, I get sent so much stuff with what I do, right? But these random things that I discover and become obsessed with, like I live by the sky. So this actually has helped me a lot during the pandemic, because now in the morning, I give myself 30 minutes of social media time. It works for me because social media is my life, right? And I can always use that as an excuse. Oh, because it’s my job. I am on social media, but really like, is my job to look at other people’s photos and other people’s videos for three hours? I don’t think so, right?
Chriselle Lim
I used to use that as an excuse all the time, right? Like it’s my job. I have to do it. Research. And then at the end of the day, I’m like, Oh, I don’t have enough time to finish all the things I needed to do. And then if you actually look back on your phone and see how much time was spent on Instagram, or whatever it is, you’re like, oh, that’s where my time went, right? So this self-timer, this visual self-timer actually helps me visualize how much time I have left. And the alarm is actually quite obnoxious. And when it goes off, I’m like, okay, I’m done.
Kulap Vilaysack 40:27
I mean, this goes back to, you know, her intro here. This is why she’s successful. This is a Chriselle Life Hack Number three. All of these are life hacks.
Chriselle Lim
I think it’s like $5 on Amazon. If anyone’s interested. Add To Cart.
SuChin Pak 40:46
Add To Cart. What I love about this is it is very visual. I think a lot of creative people tend to be visual. And so like the things that may work for someone who uses a different part of their brain may not be as effective if it’s not visual. Because I time myself as well. But I just do it like on my phone. That’s kind of easy to ignore, or to set up because it’s a little bit boring. You know what I mean?
Chriselle Lim
And you are right. I think as a creative if I see things right in front of my face. That is what motivates me, versus a sound or whatnot.
SuChin Pak
Yeah. So smart.
Kulap Vilaysack
I also like it because it matches, the theme in my house with the black and white.
Chriselle Lim
I was gonna say your house looks real sheek. Like it is a whole black situation? What’s going on there?
SuChin Pak
I’m sorry, it’s matte black, Chriselle. So I mean..
Chriselle Lim
Matte black. I’m sorry.
Kulap Vilaysack
All is forgiven.
Chriselle Lim
So sheek. Where do you live?
Kulap Vilaysack
Dirty Hollywood, my friend.
SuChin Pak
Well, Chriselle, long overdue. I love that I get to catch up with you. And do a podcast so we can record the conversations. But thank you so much.
Kulap Vilaysack 42:08
I mean, if we’re not, if people listening aren’t following you already. Where can they go? Where should they go?
Chriselle Lim
Yeah. On Instagram at @chrisellelim, TikTok at chrisellelim. And I do have a podcast called BEING BUMO. Which SuChin will be on very soon. And it’s all about modern parenting. All the things that we want to know that we don’t want to know about parents and kids. And yeah, that’s me in a nutshell.
Kulap Vilaysack
But you also have your opening a business in Century City?
Chriselle Lim
Century city, yes!
Kulap Vilaysack
Tell us about that.
Chriselle Lim
It’s pretty much the first in class kind of members only workspace for parents that has fully licensed childcare, meaning that you can literally go there at 8am, all the way down to like 8pm, have your kids be taken care of. You go work out of a beautiful space, hop on back into the childcare side, do like a little lunch date with their kid hop on back over to do a meeting, hop back over to I don’t know, do like a little craft with them, then go shopping, and then go back to the meeting. It just pretty much integration.
Chriselle Lim
And I really believe this is what the future of work and parenting is going to look like is integration, right? And so you’re able to be an incredible parent, be a present parent, and also still be able to continue and thrive in your career because especially mothers, I feel like so many of them have to give up their jobs and the careers to become mothers and I don’t think that’s fair. And with Bumo Work now they don’t have to.
Kulap Vilaysack
Awesome, awesome.
SuChin Pak
See? She’s gonna figure it out and she’s gonna be walking around with that red timer thing. You know what I mean? It’s great. There’s the timer lady, guys, we got..
Kulap Vilaysack
We’re running out of time, that’s right.
SuChin Pak
Chriselle, thank you so much for all the great life hacks and you know, fun conversations and it’s just so good to see your face, hopefully in person soon.
Chriselle Lim 44:08
Likewise, oh, I want to hug you SuChin, and hopefully I get to come over to your house soon, too.
Kulap Vilaysack
Yes, please. Please, please, please.
Chriselle Lim
Alright guys, thank you so much.
Kulap Vilaysack
That is it for this week’s show. What a good one. Thanks, everybody for listening. Find all the things we talked about plus Chriselle’s items on @AddToCartPod
SuChin Pak
And call us at 833-453-6662.
Kulap Vilaysack
Would it help if we ask specific things for something maybe just going hey, call me. It’s too open ended? Right?
SuChin Pak
You know what, why don’t you call us and tell us about the best thing you added to cart this week. How about that?
Kulap Vilaysack
I love that, assignment, clear parameters.
SuChin Pak
I’m gonna put Chriselle’s clock on, you know, you guys have 15 minutes to come up with an answer call us at 833-453-6662 I mean I’m gonna call and leave a voicemail about the best thing I bought this week because I like to do that.
Kulap Vilaysack
She loves a landline. She loves it. We will be here next week because we’ll not get up from the places we’re sitting down right now. So when you go we’re still here.
SuChin Pak
That’s right waiting for you. And you’re welcome.
CREDITS
ADD TO CART is a production of Lemonada Media. Our producer is Claire Jones and our editor is Ivan Kuraev. The music is by Wasahhbii and produced by La Made It and Oh So Familiar with additional music by APM music. Executive producers are Kulap Vilaysack, SuChin Pak, Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs. Be sure to check out all the items we mentioned today on our Instagram at @AddToCartPod. Also, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcast.
