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Lab-Grown Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend!

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A supposedly real girlfriend robot was only convincing from the neck up.

1. How To Be Less Old Podcast centers this episode on Sarah Jessica Parker’s lab-grown diamond move, Salish Matter’s skincare launch, AI girlfriend robots, and Laurie Cooper’s dating advice. 2. Deanna Chang and Emily Foster host the show, and they frame themselves as people who “download the apps, discuss the fashions, unpack the terms, and make the mistakes.” 3. The episode asks what these celebrity and internet product launches reveal about what people can actually afford, trust, and want. 4. Deanna and Emily open with tretinoin, discussing 0.05 versus 0.1 strength and the “peeling” that can follow a dose increase. 5. Emily says her face feels “tender” after using more beauty tools, and Deanna jokes that she is “really beating her up.” 6. The hosts then move to Sarah Jessica Parker’s partnership with Dorsey in the lab-grown diamond space. 7. They compare the new jewelry push to SJP’s shoe line, including the memory that her pumps cost about $600. 8. Emily says she once considered lab-grown diamonds a downgrade for her engagement ring, then notes the category has shifted. 9. They mention Brilliant Earth as an early name in the space and describe Dorsey’s fashion-forward positioning. 10. The hosts also note an 18-carat gold necklace with a one-carat pear-cut pendant priced at $4,000. 11. Emily says the pricing means SJP is not really meeting listeners “where the people are.” 12. Deanna and Emily compare lab-grown diamonds with cubic zirconias and joke about “R.I.P.” for CZ. 13. The episode then shifts to Salish Matter, whom Emily first knew from Estee watching her on YouTube. 14. They describe Sincerely Yours as a Sephora-exclusive skincare line and say 87,000 people showed up at the Jersey mall launch. 15. Deanna adds that the state police had to shut the event down and escort Salish and her dad, Jordan, out of the mall. 16. The TikTok segment follows a “girlfriend robot” video that looked real from the neck up and robotic below the neck. 17. Emily explains she used AI to investigate the clip, and the tool eventually said the video was fake. 18. The tone stays conversational, sarcastic, and very topical, with long back-and-forths and rapid pivots between consumer products and internet culture. 19. Listeners interested in beauty products, celebrity brands, and TikTok culture would like this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly focused single-topic interview might skip it.

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A sharp culture puzzle about celebrity luxury, price, and the gap between the pitch and the bill.

Sarah Jessica Parker's move into lab grown diamonds gives How To Be Less Old a tidy little culture riddle: a celebrity pitch for something that is supposed to feel more affordable, even though the prices still sound steep.

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Want beauty-tool confessions, SJP chatter, and a very not-affordable diamond story?

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