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This week’s GlowJob News Roundup covers the biggest shifts in the beauty industry — from collapsing legacy brands to luxury expansion and AI disrupting relationships. Drunk Elephant is facing a 65% sales decline under Shiseido after the Sephora kids controversy damaged its brand perception. The once-viral skincare brand has wiped its Instagram and is attempting a reset — but can Drunk Elephant rec...

Is NAD the next true breakthrough in skincare…or just another longevity buzzword? This week on GlowJob, we sit down with Melisse Shaban, CEO of Aramore and former beauty executive at Revlon, Aveda, The Body Shop, Virtue Labs, and L Catterton, to unpack the real science behind NAD, cellular energy, and why longevity is not a trend — it’s a cultural shift. We cover: What NAD actually is (and why you...

This week’s GlowJob News Roundup is covering the beauty industry stories everyone’s talking about — from founder controversy to billion-dollar brand strategy. We break down Peter Thomas Roth appearing in newly released Epstein files and what reputational risk really means for founder-led skincare brands in today’s consumer economy. When the founder is the brand, can you separate personal scandal f...

Welcome (or welcome back) to GlowJob — the only podcast to make you hotter and smarter. After celebrating our one-year anniversary, we realized so many new listeners have joined the GlowJob fam… so this episode is a full reintroduction. We’re Julia and Sasa— a skincare marketing executive and a Private Wealth Advisor — who met in esthetician school in Los Angeles and turned our beauty-obsessed tex...

This week on GlowJob’s Beauty News Roundup, we break down the biggest stories in beauty, business, and pop culture — from founder controversies and celebrity politics to Sephora’s top-selling products and major retail launches. We discuss the backlash surrounding Huda Kattan and founder activism, Nicki Minaj’s public support of Trump’s new financial program, and the growing question: how political...

Is being an influencer still worth it in 2026... or has the golden era officially ended? This week on GlowJob, we break down the creator economy from day one to now: from early beauty bloggers and YouTube legends like Michelle Phan, to Instagram’s glam era, to TikTok virality, and today’s rise of UGC creators and AI-powered commerce. The industry is now worth hundreds of billions globally, with br...

SUBMIT A QUESTION TO OUR LISTENER AMA!  -------- This week on GlowJob’s News Roundup, we break down the biggest beauty, business, and pop culture headlines shaking the industry. Ulta’s Beauty World event sells out in minutes — but fans are furious after thousands of influencer tickets cut the line. Meanwhile, Sephora partners with Olive Young to bring K-Beauty mainstream, e.l.f. enters fragrance w...

SUBMIT A QUESTION TO OUR AMA! Theme = Oversharing. We'll answer your questions in a February Episode!  In this episode of GlowJob, we unpack why 2016 is suddenly everywhere again — and why millennials can’t stop romanticizing it. Searches for “2016 aesthetic” are up 450% on TikTok, but this isn’t just a trend cycle. Psychologists say nostalgia is a coping mechanism for anxiety — and in an era of b...

SUBMIT A QUESTION TO OUR AMA! Theme = Oversharing. We'll answer your questions in a February Episode!  This week on GlowJob’s News Roundup, we break down the biggest stories shaking beauty, business, and culture right now. France officially bans PFAS “forever chemicals” in cosmetics, forcing global beauty brands to reformulate products. Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni avoids jail after the vira...

In this episode of GlowJob, we sit down with Ryan Roth, Director of Media at Peter Thomas Roth, to unpack the inside scoop of a family-run legacy beauty brand and how his 102-year-old grandmother accidentally became one of TikTok’s biggest icons. Ryan shares how Peter Thomas Roth landed in the very first Sephora, his real-talk thoughts on being a “nepo baby”, and that time Gossip Girl filmed an ep...

In this week’s GlowJob News Roundup, Julia & Sasa unpack beauty’s biggest shakeups: Pat McGrath’s asset fire sale, why Rare Beauty going to Ulta signals a major shift in Sephora’s power, and Estée Lauder putting Too Faced, Dr. Jart+ and Smashbox up for sale. They also break down Olaplex’s 36% stock surge amid Henkel acquisition rumors, what Saks Fifth Avenue’s Chapter 11 filing really means fo...

In this episode of GlowJob, Julia & Sasa break down the most infamous beauty product flops of the last decade — from Tower 28’s mineral SPF disaster and Kylie Skin’s walnut scrub backlash to Jaclyn Hill’s contaminated lipstick launch and Kim Kardashian’s failed $600 skincare line. We unpack exactly why these launches failed, how poor formulation, lack of testing, celebrity misalignment, and ru...

Chemical burns, billion-dollar beauty stocks, eyelid surgery trends, and the GLP-1 takeover — it’s time for another weekly News Roundup!  This week on GlowJob, Julia & Sasa break down the lawsuit against Sonya Dakar for allegedly burning a client during a chemical peel, Ulta’s stock hitting an all-time high, Saks missing a $100M debt payment, and why the blepharoplasty is suddenly everywhere....

2026 is officially the year you get hotter and smarter — and this episode is your full execution plan. In the first ChitChat episode of the year, Julia & Sasa introduce the GlowJob Hotter & Smarter Guide: a system built around discipline, beauty ROI, money habits, career leverage, dating strategy, and real accountability. We cover: The GlowJob Method to set goals that are specific, measura...

Welcome back to Season 2! In our first News Roundup of the year, GlowJob breaks down the latest beauty power moves. Starbucks hires a former e.l.f. exec to lead fashion & beauty activations, signaling a serious push into beauty culture. Sol de Janeiro expands its lawsuit against MCO Beauty, accusing the $400M dupe empire of copying packaging, scents, and even paying influencers to promote knoc...

CLICK HERE TO ENTER OUR SEASON 1 LISTENER GIVEAWAY In the final episode of GlowJob Season 1, Julia & Sasa break down the biggest beauty stories of 2025 — from billion dollar deals to brand closures, the resurgence of skinny culture, and the trends that defined the year. The besties also share their favorite skincare, makeup, fragrance, hair, and body products, and spill never-before-heard stor...

CLICK HERE TO ENTER OUR SEASON 1 LISTENER GIVEAWAY In the final GlowJob News Roundup of Season 1, Julia & Sasa dive into the biggest beauty, business, and pop-culture stories shaping the week. First, they break down Netflix’s $72 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers — including why Paramount stormed in with a $100B hostile bid (hello unwanted love triangle drama) and what this merger means f...

The fragrance boom isn’t just hype — it’s the most explosive beauty category of 2025. GlowJob's Julia & Sasa break down why perfume has become identity, status, and self-expression rolled into one. From Gen Z’s scent wardrobes and blind-buy culture to the rise of unisex perfumes and collectible bottles, this episode unpacks the emotional and economic forces fueling the billion-dollar fragrance...

This week’s GlowJob News Roundup hits everything blowing up in beauty and culture. Julia & Sasa break down the Armani Luminous Silk reformulation panic, the macro forces behind why the average age of first-time homebuyers is now 40, the ultra-exclusive Le Bal (the debutante for nepo-babies), and the Williams Sonoma vs. Quince dupes lawsuit that could change “affordable luxury” marketing. Plus,...

Beauty writer Arabelle Sicardi joins GlowJob for a brutally honest deep dive into their new book, The House of Beauty, exploring the power structures behind beauty. From NYC vs. LA beauty culture, to the explosive truth behind Coco Chanel’s anti-Semitic legacy and the Wertheimer takeover — nothing is off limits. Arabelle breaks down the politics of makeup, the ethics of beauty journalism, fragranc...

This week’s News Roundup is unhinged in the best way. Julia and Sasa break down Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sanchez taking over the 2026 Met Gala, Sol de Janeiro’s Gen Alpha–bait “6/7” drop, and TikTok’s Danish Deception — a Bachelor alum’s $300K scam saga that feels straight out of Tinder Swindler. They also get into Perelel Health’s $27M raise, Oddity Tech’s massive growth (METHODI, Il Makiage, &amp...

A chaotic Thanksgiving is inevitable — but surviving it is an art form. In this mini-episode, Julia & Sasa give you the GlowJob Survival Guide to Thanksgiving: how to dodge political debates, fire off harmless clapbacks, and keep the dinner table fun instead of feral. Plus, Julia and Sasa share some of their Thanksgiving traditions. Fast, funny, and just what you need before facing your relati...

In this week’s GlowJob news roundup, Julia & Sasa break down the beauty, business, and culture stories dominating your feeds. They kick things off with Black Friday fatigue and ask whether the clean girl aesthetic is officially dead — a debate reignited by Mikayla Nogueira and her comments in a recent Business of Fashion article. They move into founder comebacks, analyzing Carisa Janes’ new li...

In this GlowJob interview, we sit down with Lynn Heublein, the cofounder and CEO of SkinSpirit, the country’s #1 provider of Botox and filler. Lynn breaks down the real science behind today’s fastest-growing aesthetic treatments — what’s worth your money, what’s overhyped, and what the future of regenerative beauty actually looks like. We cover everything from lip flips to Morpheus8, exosomes, Scu...

This week’s GlowJob News Roundup is pure chaos in the best way — celebrity scandals, billion-dollar power moves, and beauty industry BS getting exposed left and right. Sasa and Julia kick things off with Shay Mitchell’s Rini kids skincare fiasco — toddler sheet masks, K-Beauty name-dropping, chemical fear-mongering, and why parents are getting played. Next, they tear into Dua Lipa’s surprise skinc...