Breaking Beauty Podcast

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...

In honour of mercury leaving retrograde (finally!) we’re sitting down with fellow Dear Media #podfam, That’s So Retrograde! Meet Elizabeth Kott and Stephanie Simbari – two bomb wellness gurus whose show is a funny, relatable exploration of self-discovery, without the finger-wagging. We get the #glowdown on all the L.A. treatments worth trying, from facial cupping to rebounding to lymphatic detoxin...

This week we’re delivering the damn good story behind one of beauty’s biggest innovations, The Original Makeup Eraser! Accidental inventor Lexi McCarthy dishes the dirt on the O.G. reusable polyester cloth that broke the beautysphere by removing all traces of makeup with get this - no cleanser or chemicals whatsoever. You’ll hear all about how busy mom of four Elexis McCarthy (aka Lexi) discovered...

From the gone-viral #60secondrule to what happens when you don’t wash your face for 28 (!!) days, today we’re talking about everything to do with washing your face . Plus, you’ll hear about the #damngood cleansing tools, double cleansers and non-drying foams we use ourselves.   Description: Cleansing is the first step in healthy, pH balanced skin – the Daily Mail even conducted an experiment all a...

Our La-La land adventure continues and we made a pit stop at THE destination for flawless skin in 90210! Meet  Shani Darden , the go-to skin pro for celebs like Jessica Alba, Chrissy Teigen and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Live from her brand new, eponymous day spa in Beverly Hills, the former model-turned-aesthetician reveals why starting her career working alongside a dermatologist proved so forma...

Redness, burning, stinging - ugh! In today’s episode, Jill and Carlene deliver the damn good products for sensitive skin that keep their own complexions calm and carrying on. We’re laying bare all of our most trusted makeup, skincare and body care musts that help us manage red, stingy or itchy skin. You’ll hear about the non-irritating micellar cleanser that gained notoriety to remove models’ make...

We took our show on the road! Today we’re spilling the tea with fellow beauty podcasters Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan , hosts of Gloss Angeles podcast . We get their L.A. perspective on celebrity trends, the buzzy skin treatment taking Hollywood by storm and the next level cosmetic tattoos giving fillers and transplants a run for their money. Plus, you’ll hear all about the muscle-toning body treat...

In 1999, Toni Ko completely changed the game on how prestigious drugstore makeup could be with NYX cosmetics – highly pigmented makeup in sleek packaging, at rock-bottom prices. One multi-million-dollar acquisition and a five-year, non-compete agreement later, makeup mogul Toni Ko is ready for her second act. Launching this week, Bespoke Beauty Brands is an incubator for the kind of beauty influen...

For the first time ever, we are answering all of our listener questions - thank you for all of the wonderful submissions. As always, we love hearing from you so please do reach out any time and leave us a voicemail: 1-844-227-0302, slide into our DMs on Instagram or join our private FB group . Thank you for listening - we can’t wait for a million more downloads! Jill and Carlene  Thanks to our spo...

We mentioned in last week’s episode that there were SO MANY foundation launches this season that the whole topic requires its own dedicated episode! But we also wanted to deliver some really practical tips for how to shop for and apply foundation , so today’s Glow Down guest is red carpet makeup pro Mélanie Inglessis. With clients like Game of Thrones star Lena Headey and modern day ingenue Taylor...

We‘ve been busy test-driving all the buzzy products lining store shelves this fall! In this damn goods segment, we discover a new toner-meets-moisturizer hybrid that was 19 years in the making. Then, we luxuriate in an exorbitantly-priced (but oh-so-decadent!) face cleanser before highlighting the new brow tool that’s the lowkey brainchild of a huge Instagram makeup artist. Discover the latest, ea...

Today we take you inside the mind of French fragrance founder Kilian Hennessy , who launched his range of luxe scents, By Kilian , in 2007. Find out why his bold gourmand blend, Love Don’t Be Shy, is Rihanna’s ride-or-die perfume (it’s sold out in every store around the world!) We also introduce you to the all-time best-seller, Good Girl Gone Bad, a white floral that comes in a Serpentine-embellis...

Acne positivity ftw— and yet, many still struggle with acne and self esteem. So much so that we felt it was high time to dedicate an entire episode to the topic. And who better to be our guest than Dr. Sandra Lee , aka Dr. Pimple Popper herself!? The dermatologist’s Youtube videos have gone so viral amongst ‘popaholics’, she even has her own show on TLC . Perhaps you’ve seen one of her live-extrac...

The summer is unofficially over and while we can’t wait to stock our #topshelf for fall, we thought it would be fun to chat about the damn good products that really saw us through the summer of 2019. So welcome to our very special episode all about the summer staples that we loved to the very last drop. There are some new finds that made it into heavy rotation and cult favourites that we fell in l...