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Mara Roszak is a celebrity hairstylist and founder of her brand RŌZ, pronounced ‘rose’, a curated line of essentials for hair at its best. Launching with a single hero product in 2021, the Santa Lucia Styling Oil, RŌZ highlights the importance of simplifying routines with fewer products doing more. With Mara’s ode to her upbringing among nature showcased in RŌZ’s commitment to environmental preser...

Leslie Tessler is the founder and CEO of Hanni, a beauty tools line centred on the belief that the first step to great skin is a great shave.  Incorporating her personal philosophy of positivity into the brand, Leslie has transformed what was once a chore for women into a self-care ritual. Today, Hanni has become the first razor brand to be carried by Sephora and shows no signs of slowing dow...

Dr Peter McQuillan, Akil Memishi and Valerie Stark are the brains behind Novomins: a delicious range of nutritional gummies for both adults and kids.  Novomins was formed with a 360 approach to health and safety with Peter’s expertise in dental surgery and Akil’s experience in drug safety and pharmacology. However, when Valerie joined and created the Women’s Bio Balance gummy, Novomins launch...

Karen Young is the founder and CEO of OUI The People, the beauty brand educating on the sustainability of safety razors and advocating the impact of beauty on culture. Discovering that the shaving industry catered largely to men only, Karen made it a point to build an inclusive community at the core of the brand: OUI The People, formerly known as OUI, is designed to reflect their ‘People’ of all i...

Leading aesthetician Shani Darden is an A-list favorite and founder of her namesake brand, Shani Darden Skincare.  Drawing from her years of experience training under a highly-esteemed dermatologist, Shani began formulating custom products for her celebrity clients, including her much-loved Retinol Reform serum. With her year-long waiting list for appointments and global launches, you don’t w...

Wellness expert and founder of her namesake brand, Susanne Kaufmann is a global pioneer in natural, sustainable skincare.  First launching the brand as an in-house spa range for her family hotel in Austria, Susanne Kaufmann has quickly become a household name, with her holistic approach to beauty, homage to her culture and commitment to sustainability continuing to resonate with beauty lovers...

Jess Hunt is the model, influencer and co-founder behind one of Instagram’s favourite beauty brands, Refy. Inspired by her own aesthetic and with her personal inspirations of beauty, fashion and photography in mind, Jess has made her mark on the industry. Refy has garnered major social media hype since its launch in November 2020 and become widely known for redefining beauty as we know it.  I...

Today I’m sitting down with one of the most influential and celebrated hair stylists in the world, Sam McKnight. Launching his Hair by Sam McKnight range in 2017, each product expresses styles that have become synonymous with his most signature looks.  Join us as we discuss the most iconic moments over his career, from his 200+ cover shoots for Vogue to being the personal hairstylist to Princ...

French makeup artist and creative director for Guerlain makeup, Violette Serrat is also the founder and CEO of her own namesake brand, Violette FR.  A multicategory vegan beauty brand with makeup, skincare, fragrance AND haircare, it actually comes as no surprise when we look at Violette’s incredible career - she’s worked at the likes of Sephora, Estée Lauder and Dior - she is the definition...

In today’s episode, I sit down with Margo Marrone; a pharmacist with a huge passion for homeopathy and nutrition, pioneer of clean skincare and co-founder of The Organic Pharmacy.  Offering a 360 approach to holistic wellness with personalised assessments and treatments in her London-based clinic, Margo’s ‘nature with nurture’ approach throughout her 20 years of The Organic Pharmacy has been...

A veteran cosmetic chemist, Ron Robinson is the founder and CEO of BeautyStat, a beauty insider agency, and now his own brand, BeautyStat Cosmetics.  With over 20 years of experience innovating bestselling beauty products for some of the biggest global brands including the likes of Estée Lauder, L’Oréal, Clinique and Revlon, Ron was one of the first to recognise the need for online beauty con...

Wende Zomnir is the founding partner of one of the industry’s favorite makeup brands, Urban Decay and to the delight of beauty lovers everywhere, the founder of a new brand, Caliray. The perfect concoction of clean beauty and wellness, Caliray is a bold love letter to California. From its vibrant, sunset-inspired packaging and focus on sustainable standards, Wende has once again created a brand wi...

Nutritional consultant, certified health educator and chef, MaryRuth Ghiyam is the founder of MaryRuth Organics, a family-friendly wellness brand that offers herbal supplements, sprays and gummies - tools to empower people to support their own health.  MaryRuth truly embodies the brand philosophy to ‘move forward every day’ and has created an invaluable personal touch that remains in every as...

Dan Hodgdon is the CEO and co-founder of Vegamour, a vegan haircare brand offering a holistic approach to beauty, innovating at the junction between botany and technology.  Focusing on wild-harvested, organic plant actives that outperform chemicals and importantly, provide fair trade opportunities, Vegamour is the epitome of beauty giving back and raises the expectations of sustainability bey...

Working in the beauty industry for over 30 years as a journalist, presenter and broadcaster, Sali Hughes is a British beauty icon. Sali has now created her own skincare line in collaboration with Revolution Beauty, dubbed the ‘jeans and white t-shirt’ of skincare. Tune in to discover more about how Sali has focused on democratising beauty, co-founding the charity, Beauty Banks and empowering throu...

Matthew Herman is the co-founder of Boy Smells, a candle and fragrance brand celebrated for its distinct, ‘genderful’ scents and aesthetic that have gained cult status. Stay tuned as we discuss just how Boy Smells has made loving your identity a beauty ritual of its own, where Matthew’s love for beauty began and the brand’s recent launch into Sephora! If you enjoyed this episode, please make sure...

Kim Van Haaster is the CEO and co-founder of Bloomeffects, a botanical skincare line uniquely formulated with the Dutch tulip. As one of the largest exporters of tulips, Kim’s family has even supplied the British Royal Family with their flower bulbs. For more on how Kim created the first-ever brand to offer field-to-face skincare with such a unique ingredient, make sure you tune in! If you enjoyed...

Christina Funke Tegbe is the founder of the clean beauty brand, 54 Thrones, inspired by the rich cultures and beauty of Africa. Pivoting from her career in corporate consulting, Christina travelled across the continent, determined to learn more about her Nigerian heritage and cultural beauty routines. Tune in as we discuss her journey with 54 Thrones so far, from being part of the Sephora Accelera...

Dentist and co-founder of Spotlight Oral Care, Dr Vanessa Creaven is on a mission to create the best oral health products.  With Vanessa’s firsthand insight into her dental patients' and customers' needs and wants, the brand has provided a customised experience for the best oral health from home. Stay with us as we learn how they’ve gone from strength to strength to the forefront of the indus...

Renowned skincare expert and one of the most sought-after celebrity facialists, Joanna Czech is now also the founder and CEO of her own skincare range.  Joanna created her range of skincare products to tackle different climates and skincare concerns - with her distinct, premium aesthetic. With a 6 month waitlist for her skincare studio and booming online store, Joanna is showing no signs of s...

Meg Pryde is the founder and CEO of the beauty product discovery platform, Brandefy, out to make great skincare accessible to all - through a mobile app. With an online community of over 90,000 people and the launch of the new in-house skincare line, Brandefy Skin, Meg has truly transformed the way we shop for beauty products. If you enjoyed this episode, please make sure you like, subscribe and s...

Founding her first company at the age of 20, Alexandra Keating is now the founder and CEO of Uni, a zero-waste body care line that is ‘designed for you and made for the planet’.  The brand is both chic and informative, and with a percentage of every sale donated in support of coral restoration, it’s clear that Alexandra is set to tackle the industry’s waste problem and influence a shift towar...

Jenn Harper is the founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty, a cosmetics line dedicated to championing the Indigenous community through beauty and education.  Celebrating a culturally deep connection to nature, Cheekbone uses sustainably sourced ingredients with the goal of becoming zero waste by 2023. Tune in to hear more on Jenn’s journey, from her charitable initiatives to her feature on Dragon...

Lisa Mattam is the founder and CEO of Sahajan, a natural skincare line leading the way to unlocking the ancient science of Ayurveda in today’s beauty landscape.  As the only Canadian to have been selected for Sephora’s annual beauty accelerator programme and having been recognised by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce as Female Entrepreneur of the Year, Lisa is a force to be reckoned with.&n...

Vanita Parti is the founder and CEO of BBB London, also known as Blink Brow Bar London. A self-professed brow lover, Vanita created one of the first walk-in brow bars as a premium beauty experience. With the brow beauty market now triple its worth today, realising this gap in the market couldn’t have come at a better time and BBB London has only continued to grow across the globe - join our conver...