Radioactive Beauty Products & Mary Shelley
Episode 11
The wellness industry will sell you anything, including a radioactive glow! Nylene looks at the nightmare of the radioactive era of the beauty industry. Then Nym fangirls out on Nightmare Legend Mary Shelley.
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