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How To Build Your Skincare Routine with Celeb Facialist Renée Rouleau Jan 08, 2020

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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 self-titled website boasts more than 1,000 articles on everything from how to know if your moisture barrier is damaged to the best way to prevent wrinkles starting in your 20s.

In this noteworthy episode, Renée walks us through the exact steps to building a rock-solid skin routine for your skin type, plus she gets down to some skincare 101 like: Does serum go on before or after moisturizer? What the heck is an essence? And how often should you use retinol? Plus, find out why this skin expert thinks our favourite face cleansing balms really have to go (say whaaat?!) Learn anything new? Drop us a line in our private Facebook chatroom or shoot us a DM – we love hearing from you! Or call us and leave us a voicemail: 1-844-227-0303

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Codex Beauty
Codex Beauty is a plant-based, certified organic, vegan and cruelty-free skincare brand. Discover your best skin yet! To get 20% off your entire order, visit codexbeauty.com and enter promo code ‘BREAKINGBEAUTY20.’

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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Self-Tanning & Self-Love With Jules Von Hep (Re-Release) Jan 01, 2020

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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-effect.

Isle of Paradise is a tanning brand for the millennial era with its vegan, cruelty-free and organic formulations, offered up in new textures (hello, tanning waters!).

But perhaps the biggest part of Isle Of Paradise’s fast success is the ethos behind the brand. Stemming from Jules himself, it’s all about body positivity and self-love, topics he explores as co-host of Wobble podcast, featuring guests like Bryony Gordon and Emma Guns. We also get to the heart of the body image matter in this episode, along with Jules’ no-fail tanning tips and a story of a celebrity tanning session gone so so wrong.

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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Meet Michelle Obama's Skin Whisperer JB Skin Guru (Re-Release) Dec 25, 2019

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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 is a plant-based, certified organic, vegan and cruelty-free skincare brand. Discover your best skin yet! To get 20% off your entire order, visit codexbeauty.com and enter promo code ‘BREAKINGBEAUTY20.’

*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*

Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

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Whitney Port Opens Up About Self-Care, Her Exact Skincare Routine and Reality TV 2.0. Dec 18, 2019

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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 forward to a Rent The Runway collab in April 2020!). And now, the MTV re-boot, The Hills: New Beginnings, is returning for a second season.

In this episode, Whitney reflects back on the realities of reality television, and how self-care can be as simple as saying ‘no.’ Plus, since Whitney is a fellow skincare obsessee, we find out the exact secrets to her glowing skin, including the pro treatments and the #damngood products lining her top shelf right now. And in true podswap fashion, you can find your humble Breaking Beauty hosts over on With Whit’s feed this week, where we discuss our own beauty faves of the season, including our most trusted skincare musts.

Sensitive subject matter alert: In today’s interview, we wanted to let you know that Whitney discusses her personal experience with a miscarriage - as we know this is a sensitive subject for many people, we wanted to give a heads up that is part of today’s conversation.

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Conair
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Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace Company
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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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We Recap All of The Top Beauty Moments in 2019 (All the Highs, Lows and Everything In-Between) Dec 11, 2019

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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.

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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.

In fact there was so much ground to cover that we invited a few of our fellow beauty podcast pals to weigh in with their biggest beauty moments of the year. Thanks to these wonderful women for their perspectives and insights: Priyanka Mattoo, co-host of Foxy Browns podcast, Jackie Johnson, host of the Natch Beaut podcast, Priya Rao, host of the Glossy Beauty Podcast and Brooke DeVard Ozaydinli of the Naked Beauty Podcast.

What did you think was the biggest beauty moment of 2019? Or of the decade? Get social with us and let us know what you think of the episode! Find us on Instagram, Twitter

or join our private Facebook group  . Or leave us a voicemail at 1-844-227-0302 - we’d love to hear from you.

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

Thanks to this week’s show partners - support us by supporting them!

Acuity Scheduling
Acuity Scheduling liberates you from the day-to-day drudgery of having to keep up with your clients and your busy schedule. For a limited time only, you can get 45 days of Acuity Scheduling absolutely free - no credit card required - by going to acuityscheduling.com/breakingbeauty

Conair:
If you want gorgeous frizz free shiny waves, try the Infinti Pro by Conair Texture Styling Hair Dryer. The innovative diffuser with multi-chamber design delivers your best, frizz-free curls and waves. To see this product go to Conair.com and search for Textured Hair.

OSEA Malibu
Osea Malibu is a plant-based, family-run skincare line that features seaweed as its star ingredient. Breaking Beauty listeners can try it for themselves with a special discount!

www.oseamalibu.com/breakingbeauty for $10 off your first order of $50.

*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*

Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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Meet Urban Decay's Co-Founder Wende Zomnir Dec 04, 2019

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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 lipsticks and all-gendered, near-black nail polishes to mark its initial lineup.

We also get the incredible back story behind *the* NAKED palette that helped propel Urban Decay to the top of the beauty game (estimates are that they have topped 1 billion dollars in sales of just that one palette since it launched in 2010!)

Get social with us and let us know what you think of the episode!
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OSEA Malibu
Osea Malibu is a plant-based, family-run skincare line that features seaweed as its star ingredient. Breaking Beauty listeners can try it for themselves with a special discount!

www.oseamalibu.com/breakingbeauty for $10 off your first order of $50.
Acuity Scheduling
Acuity Scheduling liberates you from the day-to-day drudgery of having to keep up with your clients and your busy schedule. For a limited time only, you can get 45 days of Acuity Scheduling absolutely free - no credit card required - by going to acuityscheduling.com/breakingbeauty

Native Deodorant
Breaking Beauty listeners can try Native deodorant for yourselves with a discount code! For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com/beauty and use promo code beauty during checkout. Plus you get free shipping and returns in the US.

*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*

Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

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Wellness Trends Worth Trying According to That’s So Retrograde Nov 27, 2019

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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 detoxing and more.

Don’t forget to check out our podcast swap over on That’s So Retrograde’s Feed - we’re sharing loads of new product faves (many of which are drugstore finds!).

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

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OSEA Malibu
Osea Malibu is a plant-based, family-run skincare line that features seaweed as its star ingredient. Breaking Beauty listeners can try it for themselves with a special discount!

www.oseamalibu.com/breakingbeauty for $10 off your first order of $50.

*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*

Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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The Original Makeup Eraser Founder Lexi McCarthy Nov 20, 2019

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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 her sustainable beauty invention that’s sold over 5 million units since it launched at a Bridal Show back in 2013. (Just one Makeup Eraser is equivalent to 3,600 disposable makeup wipes, and lasts for up to five years.)

We find out just how the heck this magical cloth *actually* works to remove even waterproof makeup; the reason Demi Moore claimed it saved her hyper-sensitive skin in a recent (unpaid) get-unready-with-me video; plus, major scoop on the brand’s next innovation - something *so big* Sephora is calling it just as “disruptive” as the original game-changing cloth.
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For almost 100 years, Almay has been committed to hypoallergenic makeup for sensitive skin. Right now if you go to the nearest Canadian Walmart, or Walmart.ca you can pick up any two lip or eye products for $14.

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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Skincare Basics: Are You Cleansing Your Skin The Right Way? Nov 13, 2019

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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 about what happens when you *don’t* wash your face for 28 days and we are shook! In today’s episode, we’re talking about everything to do with washing your face! You’ll hear the insider scoop on key ingredients, best-practice tips, and whether double-cleansing is worth the hype.

In this Damn Goods segment (brought to you in part by our friends at Foreo) Jill and Carlene go deep on their own personal cleansing routines, in a multi-step versus #lazyslashbusy face off. And for the first time ever, they introduce a brand new “Call a Chemist” segment, featuring Michelle Wong from @labmuffinbeautyscience, to get the hard science on which ingredients to look for and which to avoid when building your own cleansing routine.

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

Thanks to our sponsors - without them, our show wouldn’t be on the air!

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AO Skincare is a New Zealand-based, clean beauty company founded by a dermatologist. It’s EWG certified and AO Skincare is free from parabens, sulfates, PEGS, DEA, mineral oils, and fragrance. Breaking Beauty listeners can get 20% off by using the promo code BreakingBeauty20 on their website, at www.aoskincare.com

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

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Celeb Facialist Shani Darden on the Three Treatments That Will Transform Your Skin Nov 06, 2019

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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 formative to her tried-and-true methods today. In fact, we’re “lasering” in on the top 3 skin treatments she most often uses to maintain the flawless faces of Tinsel Town’s A-list.
You’ll learn the key differences between LED treatments, lasers and micro currents, including what to expect post-procedure – and how to know when you’ve gone too far. And for those of you who don’t have the budget for spendy treatments? Don’t worry, Shani’s got you covered with the specific names of machines you can use at home. Better yet, you’ll hear all about her own skincare routine, including her absolute obsession with retinol, a new product guaranteed to make your legs glow and a recent discovery she’s loving to smooth those stubborn, rough bumps on arms.

For any products mentioned in this episode, check out our blog and detailed show notes: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog

Thank you to this week’s show sponsors - without them, we wouldn’t be on the air! When you support our advertisers, you’re supporting our show.

Almay:
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*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*

Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya 

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