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by Cynthia Garcia
We thank everyone else for our success... friends, team, mentors. But when’s the last time you thanked the only person who actually dragged you through hell and back? YourSELF. This show is my love letter to the version of you who doesn’t get enough credit. The you who kept going when it would’ve been easier to quit. I’m pulling back the curtain on what it actually looks like to be 48, building a skincare company, navigating perimenopause, raising a teenager, and refusing to become invisible. The stuff nobody talks about after 40. And how I’m rewriting all of it. Sometimes it’s just me. Sometimes it’s founders, creatives, and icons who’ve rewritten everything too. Always, it’s the raw truth. Nothing filtered. Nothing softened. Nothing for show. Just the truth... and a drink. Every episode ends the same way: we raise a glass and say the thing most people are too humble to admit: I’d like to thank mySELF.
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- 4 days ago21 min
Why I Quit Under-Eye Filler (And What I Do at 49 Instead)
Under-eye filler was the wrong fix for almost everything I was actually trying to fix, and I found that out after years and a stupid amount of money spent on my own face. What most people call under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, hollowing, darkness, crepey skin, fine lines, and true bags, and filler is only built for one of them. This is exactly what I do instead now, and how to figure out which under-eye problem is actually yours before you spend a dollar.Things I Mentioned:Rewritten Show The Face Up serumMy eye retinolMy peptide eye creamMy at-home radiofrequency deviceDownload The Under-Eye Fix Decision Card!Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quizJoin The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.This one is for every woman staring at her under-eyes in bad bathroom lighting, wondering when she started looking so tired, and this close to booking filler to fix it. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face, most of it by testing everything on my own.First I get into why under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, how to tell which one is actually yours, and why putting filler in the wrong one can make you look worse, sometimes years after the injection. I tell the whole story of my own under-eye filler, the round I couldn't even see and the round I genuinely loved, and why I still choose not to do it again.Then I walk through exactly what I do instead now, from the daily skin baseline to the treatments I actually booked for hollowing, crepey skin, fine lines, and jelly rolls, plus the one thing that is truly a different conversation with a surgeon. I get into the newer stuff I'm watching, the one I stay away from, and the single question to answer before you let anyone near your face with a needle.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #undereyefiller #undereyes #womenover40 #tearroughfiller #beautyover40 #fillermigration #undereyebags #skincareover40 #antiaging #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia #botox #microneedling
- 1 weeks ago25 min
If I Were 40 Again, These Are the Exact 10 Things I’d Do to Look Hot AF
If I had to start over at 40, knowing everything I know now after spending $1.3 million on beauty, these are the ten things I'd do first, in the order that actually works. This is the anti-aging roadmap for women over 40 I wish someone had handed me, and no, Botox isn't one of them. Get the 10 Steps to Look & Feel Hot AF After 40!Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.This one is for every woman standing in the middle of the serums, the hormones, the devices, and the anti-aging treatments after 40 with no idea where to start. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million and a decade figuring out what actually works on a face, and what order to do it in, so beauty over 40 stops feeling like a guessing game.First, the one thing I'd fix before I'd spend another dollar on my face (and no, it's not skincare). Then the unsexy stuff that runs everything after 40, including the daily habit that does more for your skin than your next cream, and why one simple routine beats a bathroom full of 147 products.Then the part they leave out of the ads. Why the treatment everyone reaches for first is not where I'd start, how I stopped shrinking myself to be taken seriously, and the last one, the reason 40 was never the beginning of the end. Because this was never about becoming 20 again. It's the part where you finally have the money, the standards, and the nerve to build a face and a life that look like you.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #AntiAging #WomenOver40 #BeautyOver40 #Over40 #SkincareOver40 #LifeAfter40 #Perimenopause #Menopause #HowToLookYounger #MidlifeWomen #Hormones #idliketothankmyself
- 2 weeks ago24 min
I Tested Every At-Home Skin-Tightening Device. Here Are the 3 I'd Buy Again.
If you've got your eye on all these at-home skin-tightening devices promising to lift and snatch your face, but you have no idea which ones actually work, I tested pretty much every one so you don't have to. I'm 49, I've never had a facelift, and I've spent tens of thousands of dollars figuring out which at-home devices are worth the money, which are a total waste, and the $6,000 one I'd never buy again. Get the free At-Home Device Cheat Sheet. Which device fixes what, how to use each, and the 3 questions to ask before you spend a dollar. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.Devices I Use & Love:NuFACE Trinity (microcurrent) ZIIP (microcurrent, jowls + custom routines) Dermalux Flex MD (red light panel) Omnilux men's mask (red light, deeper wavelength) CurrentBody Skin RF (radiofrequency)NIRA Pro laser (face, neck, larger areas)NIRA Precision laser (eyes + lips)(My discount codes for these are inside The Vanity Club.) This one is for every woman who keeps getting told to just age gracefully and accept it. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face, including a vanity full of at-home devices I bought so you don't have to.First, I get into the one mistake that makes women waste the most money, which is shopping for a device before you know what you're actually trying to fix, and why the device that improves your skin is not the one that lifts your face. Then I walk you through every category I've tested- microcurrent, red light, radiofrequency, at-home lasers, and microneedling, and I tell you exactly which bucket each one lands in and what it's actually worth using for.Then I get to the part you came for. The $6,000 device I'd skip in a heartbeat, the one I'd never use on my own face, the melasma warning nobody gave me before I started, and if you took every device I own tonight, the only three I'd buy again tomorrow.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #skintightening #athomedevices #redlighttherapy #microcurrent #radiofrequency #looseskin #jowls #beautyover40 #skincareover40 #womenover40 #antiaging #over40 #idliketothankmyself
- 3 weeks ago34 min
I Spent 2 Years Trying to Regrow My Hair Only 4 Things Mattered
My hair started thinning after 40, and I spent almost two years and an embarrassing amount of money trying to grow it back. This is everything I actually tried for my thinning hair, what genuinely worked, what was a gorgeous waste of money, and the exact four-step plan I'd use if I had to start all over.Grab My Free Hair Regrowth Plan. The four things that actually work, in the order I'd do them, plus the exact products I use.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.Things I Mentioned:Topical minoxidil (the one I use)Nutrafol (the hair-growth supplement I take)My hair regrowth peptide serum with Capixyl™ My multi-peptide hair-density serum (budget option)The scalp oil I love (with rosemary)Air dry cream that leaves my hair shiny without the heat Ketoconazole shampooThe laser cap I landed onMy silk bonnetMy boar-bristle brushBudget brush option I loveThe scalp massager I use with my minoxidilMy clip-in extensions made specifically for thinning hairThis one is for every woman watching her part get wider and getting told to just accept it. I'm a skincare founder and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and I spent almost two years and a stupid amount of money figuring out what actually regrows hair after 40 and what is a complete waste.First, I get into why your hair is really thinning after 40, because hair loss is not one problem with one fix, plus the one question that saves you the most money before you buy a single thing. Then I walk through everything I actually tried, from the topical that made me shed even more before it worked, to PRP, microneedling, red light, ketoconazole, rosemary oil, and the supplements that earn their spot versus the ones that are a scam.I get honest about biotin, the shed that actually means it is working, what a good hair-growth serum needs on the label, and the one gadget I have zero proof does anything and refuse to stop using. And I close on the part most women will not say out loud, why losing your hair after 40 hits so much deeper than just hair, and why you are allowed to fight to get it back.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #idliketothankmyself #hairloss #hairlossafter40 #thinninghair #hairgrowth #womenshairloss #femalehairloss #perimenopause #hairregrowth #hairover40 #womenover40 #hairthinning #minoxidil #haircare
- Sep 1, 202621 min
The 5 Things I Do For My Jowls At 48 (And The One I Regret)
If you've ever pushed your jowls back up with two fingers, chasing the jawline you had at 35, this is the episode that finally explains why it's happening and what actually fixes it.I'm 49, i've never had a facelift, and I've spent $1.3 million on my face figuring out what works on jowls, what's a total waste of money, and the treatment I paid thousands for that made mine worse.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.Things I Mentioned: Daily sunscreen I use.My favorite microcurrent device.This one is for every woman who looks in the mirror lately and doesn't recognize the bottom half of her face. I'm a skincare founder and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million and years of my life testing what actually holds a jaw up after 40, so you don't have to learn it the expensive way like I did.First I get into why jowls even happen, and it is not what you think. It is not just loose skin, it is your fat pads sliding, your collagen thinning, and the part I found out the hard way, your actual face bones shrinking.Then I walk through everything I do, in order from the cheapest thing to a facelift. The two free things you can start today, the microcurrent I do at home, the Sculptra reveal that even injectors get wrong, exactly where I put filler and where I would never, and the little Botox trick that lifts a jaw instead of just smoothing it.Then I tell you the truth about the stuff that gets all the hype and does nothing for a jowl, the treatment I regret paying thousands for, the one I am about to try next, and where I would spend my own money if I had to pick just one. Grab a drink. We have got shit to talk about.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#womenover40 #beautyover40 #gettingolder #midlifewomen #over40 #aging #confidenceafter40 #ageisjustanumber #selfworth #hotaf #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
- Aug 25, 202619 min
The Lies I Burned On My 49th Birthday (Literally)
It's my 49th birthday, and instead of dreading getting older the way we're all trained to, I'm doing the one ritual that changed how I feel about aging for good.If your birthday has started to feel like a countdown, if you're seeing fine lines and wrinkles that feel like they showed up overnight, like your face fell off a cliff while you were sleeping, if you feel yourself going invisible after 40 and you've laid awake at 3am doing the math on everything you think you've lost... this one is for you.For the first time on camera, I'm taking the five biggest lies we all get handed about getting older, and I'm burning every single one of them.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.This one is for every woman who's been told it's all downhill after 40. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works, on my face and everywhere else.First I get into what hot af at any age actually means, because it was never just the outside, and I tell you the story of the worst birthday of my life, the one where I decided I wasn't special and didn't deserve anything. I take you through the morning I turned 40, the birthday texts from people I knew telling me to enjoy being invisible, and exactly what I built out of that instead.Then I walk you through the five lies about getting older that I believed for way too long, from "aging gracefully" to "aging is a privilege" to the biggest one my own family taught me, and I set all five on fire. I close with the thing I do every single birthday, and an open invitation to do it right along with me, whether it's your birthday today or just the day you decide to start over.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#womenover40 #beautyover40 #gettingolder #midlifewomen #over40 #aging #confidenceafter40 #ageisjustanumber #selfworth #hotaf #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
- Aug 18, 202629 min
I've Been Taking Testosterone For 2 Years. Here's What I Wish I'd Known
Testosterone for women over 40 is the conversation almost no doctor will start with you, so I'm starting it.These are the ten things I wish I'd known about testosterone before I ever asked a doctor for it, from the magic number every doctor chases that doesn't exist, to the one test almost all of them run wrong, to the exact words to say at your appointment so nobody laughs you out of the office again.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.This one is for every woman who's been told her exhaustion, her low libido, and her missing spark are just her age. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a woman's body over 40, hormones included.First I get into what testosterone actually did for me, which I found out the hard way when I accidentally ran out for two weeks, why you are not too young to be having this conversation, and why so many women get told their labs are "normal" while they feel nothing like themselves.Then I walk through the form they don't warn you about, the doctor who told my friend to just be grateful her husband still finds her attractive, why it's rarely just testosterone, and the exact playbook I'd use to walk into an appointment and not get dismissed.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#testosterone #testosteroneforwomen #womenover40 #menopause #perimenopause #hormones #womenshealth #hrt #lowtestosterone #testosteronereplacementtherapy #menopausesymptoms #hotafover40 #idliketothankmyself
- Aug 11, 202624 min
The Only 3 Peptides I Put On My Face At 48
The truth about topical peptides at 48, from a skincare founder who spent a fortune testing every one of them. These are the three peptide serums actually worth putting on your face, the two that are a total waste of your money, and the one anti-aging ingredient that beats every single one of them... and it isn't even a peptide.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz.Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.The Topical Peptides I Use:NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum (my copper peptide) Medik8 Liquid Peptides (my Matrixyl)The Ordinary Multi Peptide + HAThe Ordinary Multi Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% SerumThis one is for every woman getting handed another peptide serum with no clue which ones actually do anything. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent one point three million dollars figuring out what actually works on a face after 40.First I get into the copper peptide I will never take off my face, the vitamin C mistake that cancels it out every single morning, and the only peptide in my whole routine with a real, placebo-controlled study behind it.Then I break down the upgraded versions worth keeping, the two “Botox in a bottle” peptides that are a complete fantasy, the ten-second trick for telling whether your fancy serum even has peptides in it, and the one ingredient that beats every peptide I own, with thirty years of studies behind it.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#facelift #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
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About I'd Like To Thank Myself
We thank everyone else for our success... friends, team, mentors. But when’s the last time you thanked the only person who actually dragged you through hell and back? YourSELF. This show is my love letter to the version of you who doesn’t get enough credit. The you who kept going when it would’ve been easier to quit. I’m pulling back the curtain on what it actually looks like to be 48, building a skincare company, navigating perimenopause, raising a teenager, and refusing to become invisible. The stuff nobody talks about after 40. And how I’m rewriting all of it. Sometimes it’s just me. Sometimes it’s founders, creatives, and icons who’ve rewritten everything too. Always, it’s the raw truth. Nothing filtered. Nothing softened. Nothing for show. Just the truth... and a drink. Every episode ends the same way: we raise a glass and say the thing most people are too humble to admit: I’d like to thank mySELF.
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