Beauty Needs Me

AMP Beauty LA is a tech forward e-tailer carrying over 50 black owned and inclusive beauty brands. Montre Moore, one of AMP Beauty LA's founders joins us this week to discuss her early beauty influences growing up in L.A., how attending an HBCU helped shift her standard of beauty, her career journey from PR to beauty. Montre also discusses the role edge control plays in the birth of AMP Beauty LA, some of her favorite beauty hacks,...

Founder of Beauty Beez, Brittney Ogike joins us this week to discuss the need for Black owned beauty stores that celebrates multicultural beauty. Brittney shares her frustrations from the past as she shopped at beauty supply stores and how that led her to creating Beauty Beez, a luxury beauty supply store in LA that not only sells beauty products, but also has space for women to get their hair done! Brittney shares her journey with...

In this episode, we chat with the founders of ConditionHer, Wendy Rose Berry and Eugenia Marshall. Wendy & Eugenia are employed entrepreneurs who are normalizing the discussion around feminine hygiene and care. In this episode, we discuss best tips for taking care of down there, the importance of changing your underwear annually and so much more!  

For more information on ConditionHer, check out: https://www.conditionher.c...

Dana joins us this week to discuss the inspiration behind creating @beautyincolor_official, a blog dedicated to skincare for Black women with sensitive skin. Dana shares her journey with eczema (the second largest skin concern for Black people - acne is the first), her first experience with botox, some of her favorite beauty products and how she is currently practicing self care.

Products mentioned in this episode along with Dana's...

In this episode, we do a discuss our thoughts on an article published in The Atlantic, titled "What Makes a Black Woman Real' by Hannah Giorgis. We touch on the insecurity some Black women feel in not having curvaceous bodies, pressure to get a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) and what exactly qualifies women, mainly Black women as having a "real" body.

Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. You ca...

Eunice Cofie-Obeng, Chief Cosmetic Scientist and Founder of Nuekie, joins us in this episode to share her early relationship with beauty, her motivation for pursuing a career in beauty, the under utilization of plants in Africa as ingredients and the importance of Black representation in esthetics and much more. Eunice is also a 2021 recipient of the Glossier Grant Initiative for Black-owned Beauty Businesses and she keeps it real ...

In this episode, we have an extended discussion during Beauty News, giving our take on Trevor Noah's podcast titled "Social Media Friend or Foe" (aired Aug 31, 2021). We discuss the impact COVD-19 has had on our image of ourselves and whether or not we experience Zoom Dysmorphia, the rising occurrence of teenagers wanting to look like Snapchat filters in real life and much more. We also discuss whether or not your face will fall of...

This episode was originally aired on September 3, 2020. In the spirit of NYC Fashion Week making a come back, we are running it back! 

Nana is a force to be reckoned with! The Founder & CEO of EveryStylishGirl is a journalist by trade who has built her career at places like BBC, The New York Times, ELLE, Refinery29, New York Magazine and The Cut. In this episode, we discuss how Nana's view of beauty AND working in the fash...

Dunni & Taleah are back from spring/summer break and ready to catch up on all things beauty! In this episode, they discuss the beauty treatments & products they've used over the summer, the health of their skin and how they're thinking of switching up their routines this fall. As usual, they dive into some random topics and share lots of laughs!

Products mentioned in this episode are mentioned below:

• Kinship Naked Pap...

In our season 2 closer, we talk about what we've learned from our season 2 guests, our current thoughts on body modifications and new beauty services we tried during this season. This is just a good ol' ki-ki session with your two favorite lazy beauty girls!

Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. Keep in touch with Beauty Needs Me at @beautyneedsme or email us at beautyneedsme@gmail.com!

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Shontay Lundy transitioned from her career in corporate America to being an entrepreneur in 2016 when she founded Black Girl Sunscreen (BGS). BGS was created to cater exclusively to Black women 

In this episode, Shontay gives us some insight into how she grew up and the experiences that shaped her ideas of beauty, lets us in on the importance of BGS' name being authentic to who she is, and the guilt some non-Black women expres...

Founder & CEO of Kadalys, Shirley Billot is a beauty activist, sustainability leader, skincare pioneer social visionary and entrepreneur! Shirley has built an eco-conscious luxury skincare line with bananas being the hero ingredient! In addition to this, Shirley is also changing the economy of her home country, Martinique by partnering with banana producers in Martinique, creating jobs that enable young people to stay in the co...

Anti-aging and anti-acne are two of the biggest sectors in the beauty industry, however, products for each of these issues often cancel each other out. Clear Stem founders, Danielle & Kayleigh created an anti-aging & anti-acne skincare line with no hormone disruptors or toxins. In this episode, Danielle & Kayleigh discuss how acne impacted their lives through adulthood, why we need to watch out for pore clogging ingredi...

Tisha Thompson, founder & CEO of LYS Beauty is on a mission to diversify the clean beauty industry. After working as a professional makeup artist and serving as the VP of Marketing PUR Cosmetics, Tisha started Love Yourself Beauty (LYS). In this episode, Tisha tells us how good relationships played a major role in getting her business off the ground, how she went about getting into Sephora to become the first clean makeup line ...

We are giving flowers to some of our favorite women beauty entrepreneurs for Women's History Month! In this episode, we both share 3 of our favorite beauty entrepreneurs - how they're making their mark in history and why we admire them so much.  

You can find out more about each of the women we admire below:

1) Brittney Ogike (@bmiddle_): www.beautybeez.com

2) Myleik Teele (@myleik): www.curlbox.com

3) Beverly Hinds (@hairscri...

In this episode, Dr. Rahi, a well known aesthetics physician with 2 clinics, in LA & NYC, joins us to shed more light on minimally invasive anti-aging procedures and how she focuses on wellness from the inside out. Dr. Rahi informs us about what aesthetics actually means, the bad reputation it has and what these procedures do to your face. We also learn how much vitamin D we should really be getting, the trickiness of buying su...