In Episode 4, Phoebe McDowell, Assistant Editor at BURO 24 joins me for Required Reading. We discuss Jo Ellison's column in the Financial Times about how Congresswoman AOC, Vanity Fair’s December 2020 cover star, uses her love of make up to take on the patriarchy.
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My guest on this week's Talking Points is journalist and editor Felicia Pennant. We discuss Emma Dabiri's powerful new Channel 4 Documentary on black hair , hair discrimination and the joys and frustrations of the black hair salon.
In this week’s show, I and my guest Kathleen Hou, The Cut and New York Magazine’s Beauty Director, discuss why TikTokers are cancelling Hair by Chrissy, fat shaming by instagram and toxic beauty ingredients. The influential make up artist Mali Thomas (and new Global Artist in Residence for Bobbi Brown) joins me to share her journey and thoughts on colorism and representation.
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In Episode 2, we are with Chloe Hall, the US Elle Beauty Director and Dr Lauren Hamilton, founder of aesthetics clinic , Victor & Garth. We talk Trump’s Hairstyling bill, Tweakments, Racism and Misogyny in the Medical industry and so much more.
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In Episode 2 , Required Reading looks at the story in GQ.COM that discusses Trump writing off $70000 on taxes for hairstyling services and how the haircut has become a weapon in politics - and how women such as Alexandra Ocasio Cortez - bear much of the brunt of it.
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In Episode 2, our guest for Required Reading is US Elle’s Beauty Director Chloe Hall. She joins us to discuss the US Elle feature on the misogyny faced by attractive women in the medical profession.
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In Episode 2 of On Reflection, I speak to Dr Lauren Hamilton, founder of aesthetic clinic. , Victor and Garth about the rise of tweakments, whether it is skewing our view of beauty and why ( as written in Funmi Fetto’s British Vogue article) black women are keeping quiet about it.
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This week’s In Praise Of… The Face Oil that Gives Good Glow
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In Episode 2, Required Reading is with Chloe Hall, the US Elle Beauty Director. We discuss this piece from the New York Times which looks at the relationship between Gen Z and the Beauty industry.
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Episode 2. In Required Reading , we discuss the US Elle feature on one woman’s experience with medical racism and why the health care system needs a reckoning.
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Welcome to the beauty podcast with an intelligent, informed and inclusive take on beauty
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This week's In Praise Of ... is a global bestseller for very good reason. it will revolutionise your skin.
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We discuss the beauty news, features and stories piquing our interest this week.
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In Episode 1 we discuss Lizzo on the cover of US Vogue and whether this is a win for the body positivity movement
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In Episode 1 we discuss Kahlana Barfield Brown's piece in US Elle about her experience as a Black beauty editor
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In Episode 1 we discuss whether launches from brands such us Byredo, Pat McGrath Labs and Victoria Beckham can reboot our love of lipstick
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In Episode 1 we discuss using make up as a political tool.
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UOMA beauty founder, Sharon Chuter explains why her campaign calling for beauty brands to support black lives at all levels for their lack of corporate inclusion is still relevant.
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This sublime 30-shade range of foundations will give you a luminous matte finish
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