The True Beauty Podcast

Enjoy one of my favorite interviews with an incredible woman. Our guest today, Ahsaki Baa LaFrance-Chachere is a proud tribal member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation, a black woman, and the Founder & CEO of Ah- Shi Beauty, the first Native American owned and operated luxury skincare and cosmetics brand in the United States. Thank you to the sponsors of today’s episode, OneSkin. OneSkin is for everyone...

Today we are talking to the incredible Vanessa Bartlett. To book a private reading with her (trust me, you should!) you can check out her website theaquarean.com Thanks to the sponsor of today’s episode, Füm. Join Füm in accelerating humanity’s breakup from destructive habits by picking up the Journey Pack today. Head to TryFum.com and use code TRUEBEAUTY to save 10% off when you get the Journey p...

Today’s episode is a mental health check-in as we head into Q4–which also happens to be my favorite time of year. I’m also answering your listener letters about vitamin C and splurge products! Links to products mentioned in today’s episode Murad  La Roche-Posay SkinCeuticals PCA Intensive Age Refining Treatment: 0.5% Retinol PCA HydraLuxe Moisturizer  Send your beauty questions and beauty baddie m...

As we go into the last week of summer, here’s one of my favorite episodes from last year as I prepare our fall lineup of episodes and guests. Enjoy!  Thanks to the sponsor of today’s episode, Füm. Join Füm in accelerating humanity’s breakup from destructive habits by picking up the Journey Pack today. Head to TryFum.com and use code TRUEBEAUTY to save 10% off when you get the Journey pack today. ...

Hey Beauty Baddies! We’re wrapping up Summer 2023, and heading into the fall and I’m working on new episodes for you all. Enjoy one of my favorite episodes from last year with the incredible fashion designer behind Emme Studios, and social and climate justice activist, Korina Emmerich! To learn more about Korina and Relative Arts Studio, check them out at https://www.relativeartsnyc.com/ and on In...

Beauty Baddies! While summer winds down, and I get ahead of new episodes for the fall, take a listen to one of my favorite episodes from one of my favorite people, Millie De Chirico. In this episode from last summer, we chat about what it means to reframe beauty on our own terms.  Pre-Order from Amazon, available October 25, 2022 TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult an...

Hey Beauty baddies! We officially made it to our J-Lo/Selena Cross over episode, in the Build Your Skincare Routine: Vitamins & Supplements series, where we cross over from speaking about ingesting our vitamins and supplements, to using them topically–ie in our skincare! One of the reasons today’s topic, all about Antioxidants, Vitamin C, and Acorbic Acid is my favorite way to cross-over speaking...

Be sure to check out Brianna and Moodeaux on instagram @Moodeauxofficial learn more abotu them at moodeaux.com and shop for their products here and at your local Credo Beauty Send your beauty questions and beauty baddie moments of the week to truebeautypodcast@gmail.com . Follow me on Instagram @thetruebeautypodcast and @thebrownelizabethtaylor Book virtual appointments with me at www. TRUEBEAUTYB...

Hey Beauty Baddies! This week I’m checking in on you, catching you up with what I’ve been up to, and answering your listener letters from a Baddie asking for tips for how to keep a skincare routine that can withstand the intensity of daily stage makeup, a baddie asking for some of my favorite vitamin and supplement brands, and some suggestions for a baddie battling oily skin with very annoying and...

Hey Beauty Baddies! This episode came out last summer, but it’s ALWAYS worth revisiting! Sponsorship for today’s show comes from OneSkin. OneSkin is for everyone that wants to prevent or reverse the signs of aging with a groundbreaking approach. OneSkin addresses skin health at the molecular level, targeting the root causes of aging so skin behaves, feels, and appears younger. It’s time for you to...

Today’s episode is special because I get to sit down with one of my dear friends, Steven Ray Morris, and my cousin Chey, to talk about community, drag, and self-defining your queerness, and Steven inducts Chrissy ChlapeckaI into the Beauty Baddie Hall of Fame.  I hope this episode reaches whoever needs to hear it. I love you baddies. To learn more about Steven, you can follow him on Instagram @Ste...

Baddies! I’m so excited to be back with another episode of Build Your Skincare Routine, where we are deep diving into a Vitamin and Supplement multi-part episode. We’re going to take a look at which supplements you’ll want to take a look at depending on your skin type and condition. Sponsorship for today’s show comes from OneSkin. OneSkin is for everyone that wants to prevent or reverse the signs...

Today is a catch-up on what has been going on with me, in building out the new TBHQ, and we celebrate Pride Month by initiating Janet Mock into the Beauty Baddie Hall of Fame. ADS: Thank you to today’s sponsors, Cozy Earth, and Thrive Causemetics! Cozy Earth provided an exclusive offer for my listeners today. Get 35% off site wide when you use the code “TRUEBEAUTY” at cozyearth.com  Big Thanks to...

Hey beauty baddies! This week is a little crazy because I got super sick, and our poor editor, Donny’s house caught fire! Please forgive us for re-airing an old episode, but I promise we will be back next week with new episodes! Big thanks to today’s sponsor, Lume! Control B.O ANYWHERE with Lume Deodorant and get Save $5 off your starter pack–that’s OVER 40% OFF!!--with my code TRUEBEAUTY at lumed...

Today we are talking about the ways the earth is trying to destroy us–aka Free Radicals–and a category that includes vitamins and supplements that everyone who lives on earth needs to save us from said radicalization–Antioxidants. RESOURCES: Cosmetic Dermatology Third Edition by Drs. Leslie Baumann, Evan Rieder and Mary Sun ADS: Thank you to today’s sponsors, Cozy Earth, and Hello Fresh! Cozy Eart...

Beauty Baddies, today’s episode is all about one of my absolute favorite topics. I love vitamins and supplements, along with nutrition, they are the unsung heroes of the beauty industry.  This is a multi-part episode and today we are taking a deeper dive into the science behind supplementation and nutrition, honing in on The Essential Nutrients, specifically alpha-Linolenic (LNA) aka omega-3 and L...

Beauty Baddies, today’s episode is all about one of my absolute favorite topics–yall know that I’m a vitamin pusher. Along with nutrition, vitamins, and supplements are the unsung heroes of the beauty industry! Today, in part one of our two-part BSYR mini-series (sort of like a Build Your Skincare Routine subreddit), we are talking about all things vitamins, supplementation & Korean skincare with...

Hey Beauty Baddies! Today I have the incredible Vanessa Bartlett on the show with me! Vanessa is a Psychic-medium, tarot reader, and host of "The Aquarean", a new podcast that explores the inner workings of magic. Vanessa's psychic sensitivity brought mostly discomfort and pain into her life, until she embraced the practice of meditation.  She's helped dozens of people begin their meditation pract...

Hey Beauty Baddies! This is it! The first step into The New Era of The True Beauty Podcast!  This episode is a little different than our usual format, in that I wanted to take a moment to share with you all of the changes that have been happening in my life, and tribute this episode to the induction of Annie Turnbo and Madam CJ Walker into the Beauty Baddie Hall of Fame.  Today’s reference is Blac...

Hey guys! Beauty Baddies! I wanted to bring this episode back before launching our new season! I had a few technical glitches while prepping for this week, but I can’t wait to be back with you Baddies! Today we're speaking with Sally Olivia Kim, the founder of Crushed Tonic collagen. Click here to check out Crushed Tonic, and here to purchase her book The Collagen Glow from Amazon.com . Check out...

Beauty Baddies! Next week we are back with brand new episodes of The True Beauty Podcast, and I've missed you all SO MUCH! Enjoy this re-airing of one of our fan-favorite episodes! This week we're wrapping up our Beauty School: Prep, Correct, Protect Skincare 101 chapters by talking all things SPF. Why you (yes, you too people of color!) NEED to use it if you have any hopes of preserving your wrin...

Happy 420 Beauty Baddies! While I get ready for the next season of The True Beauty Podcast, I’m re-airing some of my favorite episodes. For you witchy Beauty Baddies, you'll love this–I didn’t even realize that this magical episode was recorded on 022222!! Enjoy!  In less than three years, Olivia Alexander has grown Kush Queen into a multi-million dollar, multifaceted brand carrying only the fines...

Hey beauty baddies! While I prepare for the new season of The True Beauty Podcast, check out some of my favorite episodes from the past! This episode is a re-airing of Ep.94 | Greece, Ingredients & Engineering w/ Lena Philippou-Korres owner of KORRES. For over 25 years, KORRES has pioneered the natural beauty space by combining nature’s most powerful ingredients found in Greek agriculture with a s...

Hey Beauty Baddies! While I'm busy making new episodes of the Podcast for you, I thought we'd play some of my favorite episodes from the last 130-something episodes! Send us your beauty questions and beauty baddie moments of the week to truebeautypodcast@gmail.com . Follow us on Instagram @thetruebeautypodcast and @truebeautybrooklyn & @thebrownelizabethtaylor Book in-person and virtual appointmen...

Hey Beauty Baddies! Today is a special episode because we are celebrating the end of an era. For the past 3 years, Alix and I have been co-hosts of this incredible show, and together we’ve grown this community of beauty baddies, but this is the last episode of The True Beauty Brooklyn Podcast with Alix as my cohost. So today’s episode is all about reminiscing and sharing memories about how far we’...