I gotta tell you guys,
I’m cool on a clean girl aesthetic for a minute.
Yeah. Uh-uh.
I don’t want it no more. No?
I want it to be glam boots down.
[table thuds] Yeah.
[all laughing]
I wanna be so glam.
I wanna get to Dolly Parton level.
Like I’m on the treadmill- That’s fierce.
With a full face of glam. I hear you.
What’s up guys?
It’s Keke Palmer and we are the cast of I Love Boosters,
better known as the Velvet Gang.
And this is Truth Serum.
[thoughtful music]
[all laughing]
Okay.
Oh shit! Okay bitch, woo.
Okay girl.
Ah!
Cheers to the truth. Cheers.
Cheers to the truth. Cheers twins.
Look me in my eyes. Or bad sex, so they say.
I’m not having any, so maybe that’s better than none.
[Taylour laughing]
Okay Pops.
[contemplative music]
How often do you wash your makeup brushes?
Oh, that’s a bad one. Me too.
[dramatic music]
Ooh, okay, I actually ordered like a makeup spinner thing.
Did you actually? Yeah like-
Yeah you get it and [mouth buzz].
And then you vibrate it.
Yeah, ow!
And then it spins around inside of like the dish soap.
But I don’t do it, okay.
[suspenseful music]
How often?
Ah!
[Naomi laughing]
You know, your dirty clothes thing
where like you wear clothes but it’s not dirty enough to put
in the laundry.
Yeah.
[ominous music]
But it’s not clean enough to put back your closet.
So you put it in a pile, I have that with makeup brushes.
Okay.
So I have like my clean pile and then I use some,
and then I put it- Oh, it’s actually, yeah-
I put it in a liminal space.
Yeah. Where like,
it’s not dirty, but it’s also not totally clean.
But I still kind of use it.
But I heard you gotta do it
like once a day every time you use it, you gotta clean it.
So how often?
I would say once a month.
[dramatic music]
Poppy, how many brushes do you have?
But I’ve more- I have a lot
of brushes. I don’t clean my brushes,
but we get our makeup done all the time.
Exactly. I, very rarely,
do my makeup myself. I use my fingers a lot,
like I’m a finger girl.
No, I guess that’s the caveat.
That’s actually a good point.
Yes.
That’s why they end up getting dried up like that.
The caveat, yes.
‘Cause we don’t do this.
Don’t you use your hands a lot, I use my fingers.
Yes.
I was gonna say, I don’t use brushes, yeah.
Like the YSL cream pocket blush.
I only use the eyebrow.
Yes, that’s what I feel too.
I don’t use brushes, I use my fingers.
I like fingers. Me too.
I don’t like wearing foundation on a daily basis.
Me neither.
No.
I do, I gotta tell you guys,
I’m cool on a clean girl aesthetic for a minute.
Yeah. Uh-uh.
I don’t want it no more. No.
I want it to be glam boots down.
[table thuds]
[all laughing]
I wanna be so glam.
I wanna get to Dolly Parton level.
Like I’m on the treadmill.
That’s fierce.
With a full face of glam.
I hear you. I’m here for that.
I’m ready, I played around with what you guys were doing
and I’m done with it. We were talking
about it today because we were looking at your glam
and I was like.
[Naomi] So cool.
It’s just like her face is so beautiful.
My girl turns me into an anime character.
She can take anything.
Yeah, I love it. Yeah.
If I did that,
you’d be like, girl, where are you going, a quinceañera?
I can’t do bold mascara.
You’d be like- [Keke exults]
What’s happened?
But you just like, you’re perfect.
You’re like an anime.
You really are like an anime, cartoon, you’re like pop!
I really so touched by this, I’m really so touched,
I receive this, sister.
You got that face card, it ain’t declining.
Definitely I love you my girl!
Girl, I got you!
Oh my God.
This is for Eiza.
[Eiza gasps] Yo.
Eiza. Yes.
Stop gatekeeping, reveal your fave beauty hack.
Stop it. I do be doing crazy stuff.
Come on. I do be like traveling
with the craziest like light in the airport.
I carry it and I go on the plane.
No way. Red light?
Red light. So, light therapy?
On the airplane? Yes.
She likes light therapy.
On the airplane, I am that crazy lady with it.
And it’s the longest- Come on-
Put it on my neck like this.
Wait, so the whole area of your seat
is under the red light?
It’s like just, you just see bright red light.
But when it comes to like beauty treatments,
salmon sperm I do do.
Really? I’ve heard that’s worked.
I do wanna go to Korea
’cause all my friends are going to Korea.
I do the salmon spray for the quality of skin, for sure.
Wow. Yeah.
Yep. And what like a serum-
Bio-stimulators are like- Bio-stimulators,
that sounds real, Bio-Stimulators.
So something you swallow? Yeah, like SKINVIVE I like.
[dramatic sting]
Oh! What is this?
And I do love PR-PURAFEM like they take out your blood.
I bet you do Bariatric chambers too, don’t you?
Yes. Who, who?
I knew it, Bariatric chambers, that’s the new thing.
What is this?
That’s the oxygen cage.
And I’ll tell you something.
[Poppy] I’m sorry, what?
Preparation H for under your eyes.
Preparation H? Really?
And what, who is she?
The stuff for your hemorrhoids?
Yes, honey.
As a mother, I know that product.
Oh my gosh, I’m so tired.
I’m so- Under your eyes,
it helps. I know that product.
Does anyone have a- Yeah, I give you like five.
I need links, I need links.
I’m sending off, I’m putting in our group chat.
Okay.
By the way, you nailed it, you passed,
you’re a girl’s girl.
You’re a girl’s girl, girl’s girl!
[all applauding]
Girl, you call me for anything.
I will send you to the right person.
Yeah. Girl!
That’s my girl! I got you, I’m that girl.
Oh wait, what does Preparation H do under your eyes?
I don’t know this. Yeah.
So for bags, when you’re like flying and traveling,
we do that, it’s like a very Mexican thing.
We do that a lot-
And it helps just moisturize?
Yeah, inflammation, because imagine like those things
are inflamed under there.
You wear it the whole flight?
And so you un-flame it under your eyes.
Under there. Under there.
When I tell you I got that shit on every flight now.
[Eiza] In there!
Not in there!
In there. Where?
Where? In there.
On your booty. In the butt?
In the butt? So it’s for hemorrhoids.
[dramatic music]
You have to put it? It’s for hemorrhoids.
You know when you have a baby.
No girl, Preparation H is for hemorrhoids.
When you have a baby, there’s no way to avoid it.
Oh, I thought you meant you take it…
No, well, that’s what it’s for.
Out you booty? Yeah.
It’s for your booty.
So when you put it on your face?
So you put it on your eyes. Yeah, yeah.
Ah!
And it really, I’m telling you it works.
Okay, Kek’s, what is the grossest thing you’ve ever done
in the name of beauty?
[dramatic music]
The grossest thing I’ve ever done in the name of beauty?
Not much.
I haven’t done anything gross in the name of beauty.
It could be gross like you did your beauty
and you didn’t wanna like wash your face
and had something else going on the next day
and you just kept your makeup, that’s kind of gross.
But sometimes we do that.
Well, I have done that before in the name of beauty,
I took off everything but my eyes, I slept with the same.
I’ve done that!
There you go, there you go. Ah, definitely
But my eyes. I’ve done that,
I’ve done that. But my eyes.
But my eyes, the eyes were glam,
lashes on, sleep like this.
How long have you gone without washing-
[ominous music]
[all in unison] Cheers!
Cheers to the truth.
Cheers, cuties. Cheers, gorgeous.
[lips smacking]
[contemplative music]
Okay, I got this, I’m asking Taylor this
because she’s a very honest person,
especially to the girls ’cause she wants us to win.
So I have to ask name an instance
where you think it’s okay to not tell the truth.
Ooh! Oh.
It’s a hard one for you.
Oh, I love you.
I think you don’t have to overshare on the red carpet
and when you’re doing press, right?
Ooh!
Keep it concise, show some restraint.
You nailed that mama.
No need to overshare.
So no butthole convo as I just did.
[Keke laughing]
No that’s okay.
On the carpet. So that is,
oh on the carpet. That’s okay, on the carpet.
Yes on Allure.
On Allure, like.
On Allure’s fine, not on the carpet.
It’s different.
Noted!
I’m like, I have IBS, can’t stop saying it!
I love that.
[suspenseful music]
Not right now, you know, but sometimes.
[contemplative music]
Okay, my question’s actually for you.
Aww, twin!
What’s the weirdest thing you do to relax?
Mm!
Because you work so hard.
Yeah. Yeah, true.
The weirdest thing I do to relax.
I mean it depends on what you consider weird, I mean
You can’t even say it ’cause you don’t be relaxing.
I feel-
So these are the things I do to relax.
She said define relax. Some of them might be weird.
Sometimes I masturbate, okay, I do it!
[all laughing]
[all applauding]
Of course!
No other answer! Sometimes.
Okay, okay, you pulled it outta me.
That helps a lot.
And are we using devices?
I mean you have to, it’s too hard analog.
And it’s too much time sometimes,
you gotta like make it snippy.
That’s some carpal tunnel for your ass.
Yes!
We live in the 21st century.
Let me benefit from it.
Like I need to go get my wrist massaged.
Right, fucking around all night.
Yeah, the one forearm muscle.
Again no time for this, wrap it up.
Even that I’m speeding up though too.
Me too, like.
Look about that, I gotta calm down.
I gotta like, I gotta do a lot of other things.
Because some of the girls really set the mood
for themselves, I’ve heard some stories.
I’m like really?
Well I mean we should.
We should. We should?
Really?
But who has time for it but you should.
Yeah. Who has time for that?
Candles and stuff?
I have so much going on.
You should because nobody can love you
the way you wanna be loved, so you should love you that way.
It’s what you love, though. I’m speeding that shit up.
It’s true, you’re speeding shit up,
so maybe he gonna speed it up, or she, I don’t know.
You know, whatever.
[Keke laughing]
Okay, okay, this one’s also for Keke.
Okay.
What is the biggest lie you’ve told
to get out of plans?
Ooh girl.
That’s a good one.
You know the funny thing is this is the everyday lie.
And, and guys, if I ever say this to you that is not,
you know, it’s not true ’cause I would never lie to y’all,
but I’m always like, oh my gosh Leo needs me.
[dramatic music]
Oh fantastic, fantastic!
Wait, I do that too, I do that too.
The baby needs me because I honestly.
I wish I had a baby just for that.
It’s not really a lie because he does need me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes! Correct!
The truth is I could get out of it possibly.
But I don’t…
But no, no, no, not for you.
Better let go, I’m here. Yes.
The baby needs me.
♪ Leo. ♪
♪ That’s my name. ♪
♪ Leo ♪
♪ That’s my name ♪
I wrote this song for my son when we were working
on the movie guys.
And I say it all the time and it was so ridiculous.
Like please show them the shoulders that I was doing.
♪ Leo ♪
♪ That’s your name ♪
♪ Leo ♪
And we were all singing it at one point.
I’d be like, in the makeup chair and be like
♪ Leo ♪
♪ That’s your name ♪
Oh my gosh, I’m crying.
He was so happy to be around y’all.
Aw, Leo.
I think he really felt like he was that guy.
Yes.
He was that guy.
He is that guy. He’s that guy!
He’s still that guy. Aw, my son!
Forever be that guy.
Yeah, he’d roll up in his stroller,
sat like this in the stroller.
[Keke squeaks]
Yeah, her mama.
Yeah, giving that look, like.
Cheers!
Cheers!
To the truth.
Look me in my eyes.
[glasses clinking]
[contemplative music]
This one’s a strange one, I don’t know.
I wanna hear Poppy, I wanna hear Taylour. I wanna hear Eiza.
I want to hear Naomi.
Tell us a past beauty look that you deeply regret.
Ooh.
Yeah, you see why I wanted everybody,
you know what I mean?
We all need to chime in.
‘Cause you know they’re gonna pull up the picture.
Yeah! Oh no!
They’re gonna put it right next to you.
Would you actually pull up the picture?
Would you do that? Okay.
They will, oh they will.
[contemplative music]
I’ve only started working in like the industry
since like 2019.
And before that I was like in New York doing really like
very, very experimental art stuff in my
aforementioned twink era.
And so this is the time where like my entire head
was shaved all around.
Wow.
I just had like a little island of hair
on the top was very long.
The first job that I had gotten,
I got a series regular on a show called Sunnyside.
I’d never done a carpet before.
Yeah.
Ever and so I didn’t know anything about like doing glam
before whatever.
I had a budget and in my mind I was like,
oh I have a budget.
I’m gonna redistribute this to my community.
I went to Flushing, I was like,
let me go hit up all the aunties,
let me buy stuff from their stores.
I got a bunch of Jade.
That’s sweet!
I got like a taupou, which is really nice.
That’s very sweet. That’s cool.
But that’s how I spent my whole day.
I didn’t, I didn’t allocate any time for glam.
[dramatic music]
So by the time I’m supposed to show up,
I’m meeting my manager there.
I go there no glam, it’s, it’s been raining.
I’m wet, I’m wet and no makeup on my face.
I mean, but the face card.
You probably looked beautiful.
[Keke] I was about to say, you are beautiful.
You’re beautiful.
But then they had sort of like just on-call makeup
people there that do your makeup.
Oh no!
And I was like, oh, maybe this is just how it is.
So I let them just do my makeup.
Oh no. No!
There, someone who met me for the very first time.
No.
And it’s-
No.
Really bad, like I think the skin tone is, I look like I,
I look like I’m flaking.
The lip shape I is like there’s no lip.
The space buns I have in my hair is like from earlier in the
day still kinda wet.
And I just like roll up
and afterwards I was like.
[Eiza] I bet you looked pretty though.
Yeah. I need a tissue, I’m sorry.
Can we pause?
[color bars beeping]
There.
Bitch, you look good as fuck!
No, that’s okay.
What the fuck is that outfit?
No but it’s very like, a Y2K moment.
That’s actually cute.
Baby girl, you look fine as hell.
That’s fire, it’s a Bambi dress.
The outfit is a unique choice, why that outfit?
I love that outfit.
Why would I wear that, I don’t know.
The outfit is a unique choice, why Bambi?
What is this about?
Why is, why do you I said yes, a Bambi dress.
Well she’s actually was telling her.
I have a way worse one. Yes.
Oh yeah.
There was something back home called screen internet,
oh my God.
She getting chills thinking about it.
Oh no, proper, because I thought I was doing something.
[all laughing]
So like this is before, this is before I had a stylist
or whatever.
So I went to Zara, got myself this little coord set.
And then I had this obsession with like having a giant afro.
So I got this like afro wig.
But like I realize now it looks like just a helmet hat
on top of my head.
[Keke sighs]
And I wasn’t very privy to eyebrow drawing at the time.
Oh! Oh!
Okay, so it’s giving like completely washed out
on the face.
Oh, oh no.
No eyebrow.
[Naomi laughing]
No don’t find it!
Helmet hat of an afro, the Zara outfit.
It’s tough.
And it was on this, yeah. It’s tough.
So mines I’ve already, I’ve told it before.
I wanted, I was trying to think of something new,
but it’s the one that I’ve always deeply regretted.
It is me at ComicCon during the Scream Queens era,
she had a similar vibe going, you know what I mean?
Oh, cute.
It was all shaved around.
I had the one thing in the, hair in the middle
and it was like a long braid that was like
a afro at the bottom.
I don’t know.
Afro at the bottom?
It’s the squinty for me, she said long braid
I had two rattails at the back of mine.
And I remember and I remember they tried to talk me out
of it and I was like,
Absolutely not, I’m being me, I’m doing me.
[Eiza laughing]
That was you being rebellious.
That’s my version, see, my of rebellion is always me
being like, I gotta be me. This is my prerogative.
I gotta show up, Y’all never let a black girl live.
They were trying to save me from myself.
Aw God, that’s so funny.
Had nothing to do with me being black.
It just wasn’t the look.
That’s so funny.
And I, I look at it every time
and just think I should have,
I should have maybe took a minute
It’s funny, ’cause I was gonna say mine is anywhere
from 2013 to-
Oh, it’s so bad, I’ve just seen it again!
[Naomi laughing]
She’s crying, show me.
2013 to when?
To like 2020 when we, basically till
after COVID is when I started
to get it together because a bitch was broke.
Show me!
[Keke] I saw you doing it and you look like a ballerina.
[Eiza] Why are you crying?
[Keke] Your hair was always pulled back.
It’s always pulled back because she’s broke.
[Keke] Your skin was fresh.
Skin is fresh because she’s broke.
Or someone like overly contoured and it just looks crazy!
No but-
But you know what, sometimes that is the vibe.
I think it’s, your face card is one of the most insane.
That’s what I’m saying, it’s ridiculous.
I’ve ever seen in my life. Oath.
[Eiza] Insane.
She don’t even need nothing up on there.
Thank you, thank you.
It’s really that fierce.
Who, look who talking.
Aw.
Please.
Now, show us your phone’s lock screen background.
[suspenseful music]
Oh.
[Keke] She’s proud of it.
I think it’s cute.
It is me and my boyfriend when we’re in-
That’s so cute.
Oh, she got a man, y’all!
[all laughing]
So cute. He’s tall, he’s tall.
[Keke] I already knew that, I already knew that.
We’re in South Korea, ’cause I was doing press
for Mickey 17 and then he came with me
and that was really fun.
And then we extended a little bit
and then we started walking around the really cool like
parts of this city.
[Naomi laughing]
That’s really freaking sweet.
Yeah.
Around the city and we had literally an amazing time.
And this was a really cool cafe
where they played jazz music. Yeah, it’s gorgeous.
And you could like change the record player.
That’s so cute. Classy.
Did I learn about them?
I know,
♪ If you wanna know what a motherfucking boss looks like, ♪
♪ You’re looking at one ♪
♪ A bitch that handles big business ♪
Yes!
We love that lady on TikTok.
We love her. She was funny
[peaceful music]
We’ll see you next time.
Bye. Bye!
Cheers.
Cheers!
Cheers.
Look me in my eyes, in my eyes.
Look at me, look at me.
Look at me.
Chug it.