Breaking Beauty Podcast

Recorded live from her New York City apartment * pre-pandemic * Katie Sturino reveals just how she kickstarted a new kind of beauty empire with Megababe. The clean beauty brand for women of all shapes and sizes quickly skyrocketed to waitlist status with solution-oriented products that tackled beauty taboo – while being cute enough for the topshelf, too. From the iconic Megababe Thigh Rescue Anti-...

In today’s episode, we’re chatting drugstore dupes. From skincare dead-ringers to our all-time fave mascara and foundation clones – we swatched our hearts out to find your perfect, money-saving match. Listen in as we deliver our top skincare dupes for a vitamin C serum to rival Skinceuticals CE Ferulic , along with the frugal hyaluronic acid that stands up to the cultishly adored Drunk Elephant B-...

She’s sultry, she’s badass, she runs her own fashion label and her Instagram is a soft-filtered dream. It’s Pia Baroncini. Pia Baroncini is the L.A.-based Creative Director of the Italian-meets-90’s fashion label LPA , whose In the Kitchen With the Baroncinis viral videos are making the internet swoon. Dubbed “ Fashion's Most Relatable Oversharer ” by Elle Magazine , Pia is spilling the tea about...

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Who needs some motivation mojo right now?! Today, we’re serving the JUICE, with the “Queen of Beauty” Leslie Blodgett , creator of Bare Minerals makeup — celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. With just five ingredients on the label, BareMinerals Original Loose Powder Foundation was a panacea for skin so sensitive, makeup wasn’t even an option. But it should have been a flop . Listen in to fi...

When Renée Chow – a.k.a “ Gothamista ” – recommends a skincare product, watch it fly off store shelves. In today’s special edition of the #DamnGoods , the New York-based blogger and YouTuber plays guest co-host, in her first podcast ever! With a tagline like: “I Try Stuff So You Don’t Have To,” Renée boasts a hyper-curated #topshelf that helps inform the purchases of her “Skin Squad” community of...

With all the Zoom meetings out there, we all need good hair days. Today, you’ll hear the 411 on the question that’s been on everyone’s minds – how to touch up your roots and how to dye your own hair at home . We’ve got Ryan Trygstad on the line, the New York-based celebrity hair pro whose clients include Julianne Moore, Emma Roberts, and Kelly Ripa . (Look out for his new salon, Mark Ryan , openin...

Meet pioneer of the at-home micro peel, Dr. Dennis Gross , along with his wife Carrie Gross , co-founder and CEO of the best-selling acids brand at Sephora . They flew us to their Manhattan HQ in New York City, to discover the origin story behind Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare , one of the first dermatologist brands to launch twenty years ago. Find out how the iconic Alpha Beta Universal Peel came to b...

We’ve dedicated today’s episode to what’s sparking joy for your humble hosts! First, we highlight our favourite good news headlines , like the social media star who’s fundraised 4 million euro to help build ICU units in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. Not to mention the French beauty brand who quickly stepped up to meet the hand-sanitizer demands of health care workers.    Plus, we trade notes o...

It’s pretty much scientifically proven by now: good hair days really do make us feel better. With that in mind, we’re dedicating this entire episode to the hair tools that truly deliver post-salon happiness (in the comfort and safety of your own home, tbh.) First off, we put the new Dyson Corrale Straightener to the test, and reveal whether this highly anticipated innovation is really worth the he...

Jill and Carlene take New York City! In today’s episode, we sit down with Zanna Roberts Rassi , Milk Makeup co-founder and fashion-editor-at-large for Marie Claire .   You may recognize Zanna in her role as E! News fashion correspondent, where she reports straight from the red carpet — or perhaps you’ve tuned into one of her viral videos with the hashtag #CommuterBeautyWithZanna. We’re tracing the...

We put more than 50+ new products to the test to bring you our edited list of investment buys you’ll definitely want to add to your topshelf this spring. We spill the tea on the season’s biggest newsmakers, from Armani’s Luminous Silk Concealer, 20 years in the making (!) to Tatcha’s new Silk Canvas primer-in-a-bottle to Drunk Elephant’s upcoming haircare range, created with Jennifer Aniston’s lon...

Meet the personal makeup artist to Catherine O’Hara – the talent personally responsible for Moira Rose’s obsidian eyes and rouge bouche on the hit show Schitt’s Creek – it’s Lucky Bromhead ! (Fun fact: Lucky is also the key makeup artist for the upcoming series Canada’s Drag Race , debuting in 2020.) Schitt’s Creek has officially reached cult-classic status, and now counts everyone from Michelle O...

It’s a #GlowDown throw down with OG beauty YouTuber Kandee Johnson ! After a decade of teaching makeup how-to’s as “the happiest channel on YouTube,” Kandee is now a mom of four whose viral transformation tutorials – like the one where she morphs herself into Barbie or Kim Kardashian into Princess Jasmine – have earned nearly 4M subscribers. In today’s episode, the natural ray of sunshine explains...

You may know Dr. Jen Gunter from her no-B.S. New York Times columns, like My Vagina Is Terrific. Your Opinion About It Is Not ”. Or, perhaps you follow her on social media, where her epic junk science take downs have earned her a reputation as Twitter’s Resident Gynecologist and GOOP’s #1 enemy. Dr. Gunter’s recently republished book, The Vagina Bible , answers common questions about tricky vagina...

Today, we’re rolling up our sleeves to put the latest and greatest drugstore products to the test. There’s a new all-natural skincare find that left Carlene *SHOOKETH*, a made-from-TV makeup palette that’s sure to sell out in minutes, a nude eyeshadow palette tested for every skin tone and a no-smudge mascara for midi-volume lovers – plus so much more. It’s our first product review episode of the...

Today we’re speaking to Bite Beauty founder and serial entrepreneur Susanne Langmuir . As a product development guru, Langmuir succeeded where others couldn’t, creating bright, poppy shades that could measure up to the M.A.C’s and the NARS’ of the world, in earth-friendly formulas – and don’t forget the brand’s best-selling Agave Lip Mask that beauty editors stocked up on by the tube .   In this e...

In today’s episode, we have body confidence activist, speaker, writer, and 3x cover girl Sarah Nicole Landry. Also known as The Birds Papaya on Instagram, the newly re-married Mom of three has earned more than 800K followers since documenting her weight loss journey that began in 2014. Dropping 112 pounds, Sarah Nicole’s bikini pics are refreshingly raw in the Instagram age, revealing the stretch...

Welcome to our milestone, 100th episode!! Can you believe?! Our baby girl’s a centenarian already. Today we’re harkening back to our origins with an epic #foundersrule tale, featuring a brand leading the future of beauty as we enter a new decade. Meet John and Laura Nelson , the siblings behind Seed Beauty , a beauty incubator that’s launched mad successes like ColourPop , Kylie Cosmetics , KKW Be...

Today, we’re chatting all about how to build your perfect skincare routine with esthetician-to-the-stars, Renée Rouleau , who flew in all the way from Austin Texas just to be on our show! Renée’s career has spanned more than three decades, and she counts famous faces like Demi Lovato, Lily Reinhart and Lisa Rinna as clients. Lucky for us, Renée is also super passionate about skin education . Her s...

Today we’re chatting with our first ever tanning founder!! It’s Jules Von Hep , a celebrity spray tanner who has glow’d up everyone from Kate Moss to Sienna Miller to Poppy Delevingne. Jules started Isle of Paradise , bottling up his decade bronzing bodies of all sizes, shades and shapes with his super-smart colour-correcting formula that promises to bring the bronze without any dullness or orange...

Meet Jennifer Brodeur, aka JB Skin Guru. She’s the go-to skin whisperer to Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey and she tells us what it’s really like to give facials inside the White House. Plus, hear her top skin tips on how to handle holiday breakouts, redness and the reason she’s not a fan of exfoliation.    Thank you to our show partners; support us by supporting them! Codex Beauty Codex Beauty i...

Welcome to our final podcast #crossover of the year. In today’s episode, we’ve got none other than Whitney Port in the house! The style-setting mama has come a long way since the 2010’s reality TV hit, The Hills . Firstly, there’s her podcast, With Whit , where her heart-to-heart convos have kept her 1.5M-strong fanbase tuning in on the regular. Then, there’s her covetable fashion projects (look f...

2019 was a banner year on so many beauty fronts: product breakthroughs, influencer drama, celeb beauty,  billion dollar beauty biz deals and so much more. Tune in to hear us dissect the biggest wins and biggest fails -- all with a little help from our fellow beauty pod friends.   Description: 2019 was a banner year on so many beauty fronts: product breakthroughs, influencer drama, celeb beauty,  b...

Meet Wende Zomnir, co-founder of Urban Decay , the 90s makeup brand that’s as relevant today as it was in its graffiti-grunge heyday. In today’s episode, the Texas-born pageant girl, Mom and surfer recalls how frustration with the candy-pink facade of the beauty biz drove her to start a rebellious cosmetics company that was years ahead of its time with out-of-the-crayon-box bold eyeshadows, blue l...