Laura Geller shares first-ever fragrance 'Tuscan Sun' and talks about limited-edition Breast Cancer Awareness Kit

If you know beauty, you know our next guest. For 30 plus years, Laura Geller has been the woman behind an immensely popular beauty line. You see the line everywhere. And this month, she is putting out something very special just for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So these limited edition Breast Cancer Awareness Kits featuring three Laura Geller Beauty fan favorites in special pink packaging. Half of all the sales go directly to cancer. Actress Fran Drescher's Foundation. So this is such a great, great thing to do. Welcome back. Nice to have you with us. It's so great being here. And, you know, one of the things you two have in common. Talk about that. You know, I am a thriver. I'm a cancer survivor, breast cancer survivor. And so is Fran Drescher with uterine cancer. And we teamed up with Cancer Schmancer over five years ago. and we give every month until October 31st 50 of the proceeds will go to Cancer Schmancer and if you know anybody or if you yourself from any kind of cancer suffers you should go to cancer schmancer.org and take a look at all the help you can get it's free and the kits are available right now until the end of the month so it's coming up quick oh yeah and it's on laurageller.com she hand signs every compact and we collaborate and pick things that will really give your skin an uplift you know things that give you when you're going through treatment that little bit of glow that pink yeah but everyday makeup of course yes that we're so proud of yeah it's such a miracle what lipstick does for anybody right just put on a little lipstick and women feel good Boost your mood. Empower. They feel pretty. It's true. It's really a mood booster. And to your point, I always say, you can put on a pair of sunnies, but you put on a lipstick and it brightens your face. And it changes your mood. Yes, it does. As a makeup artist for more than 30 years, I know I've worked on makeup on my clients who have been suffering from treatment and needed that lift. Yeah, absolutely. Talk a little bit about your story and, you know, what you went through and how you came out of it. You know, in 2019, and there was no history of breast cancer in my family, I went for my routine mammogram. And let me tell you, for those listening, it is so important because thankfully, I was only stage one. And I had friends who really suffered a lot. And I did not have to go through a lot of the treatment that so many people I know go through. But that's because I caught it early. but when I was called and I got that diagnosis I was like what what do you what and so it was a really rough time for me and I never thought I would be that person I always spoke about it I always tried to help in many different ways as a brand as a person as a makeup artist but it was a dark time for me and so now I'm a huge advocate I sit on the board at Mount Sinai the Ava Dubin breast cancer board. And I will tell everybody that you can be a survivor too, as long as you keep going and checking on yourself. You've always been an advocate, but once it personally touches you, it really changes things. Doesn't it? I still, I still can't believe that I was called. I was at QVC in between shows and my gynecologist called me and she's like, you know, you have breast cancer. I'm like, what? Yeah. Yeah. And I was paralyzed. I was like, What? But you move forward. That's what you got to do. You got to move forward. And you're doing so much good for this. 50% of guilt-free shopping this month. That's right. I love it. You only have a few days left for that. But you're also launching other new products. Look at this. Tuscan Sun. Excuse me. Don't you smell it? I want to smell it. Oh, you have to smell this. Talk about this. So for a million years, like so many others, I wear fragrance and people comment on how good I smell. Oh, my God. what are you wearing you smell delicious and i just took it for granted because take it go for it these are fragrance queens you talk about how like you put lipstick on and like it changes your mood that's how i feel about perfume so we're gonna i feel incomplete when i don't have perfume so do you wear it every day oh yeah we smell they smell me they can smell they can find me by smelling me oh so they know you vented the room yeah oh this is nice so it's very fresh it's an eau de toilette also available on laurageller.com and i will tell you okay it's the same same that's the travel size and that's the bottle all with that italian architecture on top hand signed at the top by me nice detail easy to hold makes the best gift you know it's just that vanilla yeah there is vanilla there's jasmine there's wild orchid there's lemon i mean it is so beautiful we worked with Givaudan one of the best perfumers in the world and people like i never thought i could do a fragrance i was only doing makeup yeah and why not right why not so we didn't know last april when i was in italy because our products are made in italy and we go there all the time i was talking to my team and i was like i don't want to leave i love this place i feel so transported when i'm there tuscan sun and i kind of wanted that under the tuscan sun experience which i didn't get just saying but i could try and then i told my team how do we bottle this feeling they were like you know laura why haven't we done a fragrance with you this smells that's how that was born so this is all you wear i'm assuming yeah of course i mean sexy and happy that's how i would describe it by the way i didn't hear any of those descriptions yet and i've heard a lot oh really delicious sunburst transformative sexy and happy same time yeah it's really fresh and to your point i never leave home without fragrance but there was a day a couple weeks ago i was not in a good mood i was in a funk i was at home and i was like what happens if i put fragrance on it changed my mood yeah i'll even wear perfume at home when i'm not even planning to go anywhere i never did that and i did it and it changed it uplifted my mood so i know what will do that for other people but all of these including our holiday collections available on laurageller.com we did beautiful artistry that doesn't look necessarily just how holiday-esque perfect so it works all year round i like that i like that thank you so much congratulations on this this is fantastic again check out her line exclusively on amazon and laurageller.com tuscan sun is available right there as well QVC and ulta check it out smells good now you gotta do a candle