September 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Kash "KashBarb" Thompson Kash Barb is best described as a successful celebrity makeup artist. Living out her best talents she manipulates every aspect of social media. Starting as a local model in the dmv area she appeared in many commercial modeling gigs, hair shows, runway shows and music videos. Some music videos include Rapper Fabolous "When I Feel Like It", Rapper Black Cobain "Quiet Time", and more.
Also from her modeling career Kash found her love and talent in makeup artistry. She then began her career as a makeup artist with MAC cosmetics, which opened the doors to working with celebrity clients such as; Trina, SWV, Monica, Lil Mo, City Girls, Prince and his all female band 3rd Eye Girl, K Michelle, and many more.A known entity in the nightlife of the dmv area she was often asked to host numerous parties and events. Kash has hosted events alongside celebrities such as: Teairra Mari, Fat Trel, Lance Gross, Black Cobain, Miguel, Teyana Taylor, and more.
With the great turnouts that would be brought to the events from her celebrity she then began to host frequently and decided to start a promo group to accompany her to the events she had; which then brought about the Kash Dolls.
Women from all over the US would send pictures and entries to join her group. Kash decided that the nightlife wasn't her main focus and she wanted to focus on her makeup artistry solely. In doing so, she then poured all of her assets and resources into funding her very own cosmetic line.
currently has a very successful lipstick and lash cosmetic line, The Kash Brand.Along with being a highly-skilled celebrity makeup artist in the Baltimore-DMV area,
Kash is known for her ever-changing hair styles and has been featured on Carol's Daughters and The Cut Life (IG: @thecutlife). She has also successfully served as a brand ambassador for several companies such as; REEBOK, Seagrams and more. She has partnered with many heavy-hitter stylists across the DMV area, expanding the audiences of many brands. She has worked for networks and record labels such as; Def Jam, Roc Nation, WeTv, & Live Nation. She has serviced music artists for video shoots, reality stars during filming and much more.
Also from her modeling career Kash found her love and talent in makeup artistry. She then began her career as a makeup artist with MAC cosmetics, which opened the doors to working with celebrity clients such as; Trina, SWV, Monica, Lil Mo, City Girls, Prince and his all female band 3rd Eye Girl, K Michelle, and many more.A known entity in the nightlife of the dmv area she was often asked to host numerous parties and events. Kash has hosted events alongside celebrities such as: Teairra Mari, Fat Trel, Lance Gross, Black Cobain, Miguel, Teyana Taylor, and more.
With the great turnouts that would be brought to the events from her celebrity she then began to host frequently and decided to start a promo group to accompany her to the events she had; which then brought about the Kash Dolls.
Women from all over the US would send pictures and entries to join her group. Kash decided that the nightlife wasn't her main focus and she wanted to focus on her makeup artistry solely. In doing so, she then poured all of her assets and resources into funding her very own cosmetic line.
currently has a very successful lipstick and lash cosmetic line, The Kash Brand.Along with being a highly-skilled celebrity makeup artist in the Baltimore-DMV area,
Kash is known for her ever-changing hair styles and has been featured on Carol's Daughters and The Cut Life (IG: @thecutlife). She has also successfully served as a brand ambassador for several companies such as; REEBOK, Seagrams and more. She has partnered with many heavy-hitter stylists across the DMV area, expanding the audiences of many brands. She has worked for networks and record labels such as; Def Jam, Roc Nation, WeTv, & Live Nation. She has serviced music artists for video shoots, reality stars during filming and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, guys, it's your girl. How are you guys today?
It's a girl Kidderly Jessica reporting in Live Today from
Los Angeles, California. It is actually beautiful outside this morning.
We had a little bit of a haze. We were
wondering if the sun was even gonna come out at all,
you know, that La weather. And it was even crazier
because last night we were outside doing an event and literally, folks,
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it got cold. And I said to myself and the
people that were at the event, I said, oh my goodness,
what's going on with La But then we have to
remember in September. But I tell you, it was a
little bit of a haze this morning. And now it's
heating up. So we're getting into the midday sun and
it's getting ready to get hot outside. So we have
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that little East Coast thing going today. We're going to
be having the opportunity. Guy. I used to be talking
to an amazing land lady from one of my old
stomping grounds when I owned property on this planet in
the state of Maryland. And you know, and when we
say Maryland, we don't say Maryland, we say Maryland. You know,
it's like that action that comes with it. And now
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you know, I have days when I'm living in Los
Angeles and I missed Maryland. I missed the crab cakes,
I missed the restaurants, the school and just seeing amazing
people of color, just doing it really, really big Maryland.
If you really want to see some millionaires and some
people doing some amazing things, I'm going to tell you
right now, go to Maryland. I hear people say Atlanta,
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but let me tell you something. The first human millionaire
that was a non celebrity that I ever met, if
up close and personal, was from Merlin. And because of
those millionaires, I ended up upping my credit score, changing
my life, and I ended up buying one of those
tried duplexes where you know sits on three level, and
(02:00):
I'd got my master's degree and I bought my first
Mercedes there, And I mean, that's the energy of Maryland.
I'm telling you, people are doing it big there. And
of course I've since moved and came back to LA
so I can be closer to the entertainment industry. But
I have to tell you the people in Maryland. I
hear you talk about Atlanta, but do not sleep on Maryland.
So today, I'm going to be talking to an amazing
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young lady. She is best described as a successful celebrity
makeup artist. She's living on her best talents and she
manipulates every aspect of social media. She's started as a
local model in the DMV area and she's appeared in
many commercials and modeling gigs, commercial modeling gigs, here shows,
runway shows, and music videos. Some of the music videos
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that she's appeared in that you may recognize hers with
Rapper Fabulous, When I Feel Like It, Raper Black, Cobain,
Quiet Time and more. And also for her modeling career,
she found her love and talent in the makeup artistry.
She began her career as a makeup artist with Matt Cosmetics,
which opened the doors of working with celebrity clients as
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the Strina, SWV, Monica, Lil Moe, City Girls, Prince and
All His Female Band, Third Eye Rest and Police Prints
and Girl Third Eye Girl which is Princess female female band.
And then you have Kay Michelle and of course many
more unknown entity. She's known in the nightlife of the
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d MB area. She was often asked to host numerous
parties and events, and she's hosted events alongside other celebrities
like Tierra, Marie Fat Fat Trell, Lance Gross, you have
Black Cobain, Miguel, Tiana Taylor, who I absolutely love, and
you know, the list goes on with great turnouts of
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actually that could be brought to the events from her celebrity.
She began to host frequently and decided to start a
promot group to accompany her to the events that she had,
which she then brought with the Cash dolls. So this
is this is We're going to Cash Kash. Women's from
all over the USA would send pictures, you know, just
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to join her group. Hey, I might want to join
her group myself. I mean, she's drop dead gorgeous. She
decided that the nightlife wasn't her main focus and she
wanted to focus on her makeup artistry solely, so in
doing so, she then poured all of her assets and
resources ends up funding her very own cosmaic line. She
has a very successfulstic brand and last cosmetic land and
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it's literally called the Cash brand. That's Cash Kash money, money,
money but with class. Along with being a highly skilled
celebrity makeup artist in the Baltimore DMV area, she's known
for her ever changing hairstyles and has been featured in
Carol's Daughter and The Cut Life. She was six desfill.
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He served as a brand ambassador for several companies such
as Rebop Wow, Secrems, and more. She's partnered with many
heavy hitters stylers across the D and B area, expanding
the audiences of many brands. Of course, we know, we
know the names like rock Nation, Death Jam, RETV, and
Live Nations. She serviced music artists for video shoots, reality
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shows and all of that. So today we're going to
be talking with none other than Cash Makeup brand owner Cash. Hey,
what's up girl? Hey?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Correct you because you say Maryland, but I was f Baltimore.
And you know when you say Baltimore, that is not Maryland.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We are not included in that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I am a Baltimore girlchol me, school me, school me.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're right, Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
World for so yeah, I'm on the West Sidetimore.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's being from Chicago, right, and saying you from uh,
you from some other part of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
People are like enough off on the wayside actually, And
you know what, it's crazy because when people aren't from there,
they're always like, but it's Maryland. Right, that's the state.
I'm like, yeah, but you gotta be from there to understand. Baltimore,
that's here to understand. Yeah, that's like New Orleans. You
won't say, oh, I'm from Believe Viana.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, you're from New Orleans and it's so different. And
you know, yes because my son used to be on
the show The Wire and you know The Wire, which okay,
in Baltimore, which you're right, Yesaltimore is its own world.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, we're our own interview.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yes, not DMV, we are Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what's
stop talk to us tells you. You know, you worked
as a celebrity, make a party for cons like print
Monica came to sell. How do those experiences shape the
way you approach your own cosmetic lineis.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Because my thing is okay when I'm I'm working with
these high celebrities, right, and it's I always wanted to
be able to promote my own business, so of course
I can use all types of other cosmetics. I'm starting
off as a Mac girl. I'm an ode Mac girl,
and so I have this mindset where it's like, let's
say they're on the red carpet and they ask them,
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I don't know, it could be a question, O, what
lipstick are you wearing? What shade is that or anything,
and it's like, I want my name to be that
name that's being sold, and as I'm doing the makeup,
I want to also promote myself. So my cosmetic brand,
it's not a full a full line brand, so it's
not foundation and concealer. But what I call it is
what you will put in your pocketbook, you know, what
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someone could just take one to go. So it's the lashes,
it's the lipstick, it's the liner. It's what you would
need the essential or daily, you know, if you go
into the club, Okay, I just need a lipstick and
I need a lift goff or I need a liptick
in a line or or you know. It's one of
those type brands. So for me, when I'm doing these clients,
I would always promote my own business. So I started
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this in twenty and sixteen, and I started doing my
first life time was actually in twenty thirteen. So it's like, okay,
if I'm doing this, I want to be the brand
that they're wearing. I want to have my so so
of course I'm using foundations from these big time brands,
but I want to have something that's my stable so
I can brand off. And hey, thellipsic she's wearing, that's
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the cast you know, the cast lipstick. So that's how
where that came from, and that's how I went into
it and why I wanted to start a cosmetic line.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Essentially, what was the inspiration behind starting to Cast Bring cosmetics?
And how does it reflect your personal style and artistry?
Because your colors are amazing. I had your lipstick on
the other day. I'm gonna have to show you a
video of me, and you couldn't tell me that I
was not fly. Okay, you could not tell me nothing.
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I'm about to send this video to Lizzy right now
because you're gonna put me on yourself for me.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know, I'm a makeup girl, but I love liftick,
so I'm one of those like I loved the bare
minimum when it comes to make up. You know, I
don't really like eyeshadows, so that's why I didn't want
to incorporate in that into my line because I wear.
What I put on myself is what I branch out
and what I brand. You know, you're your walking brands.
You're your walking billboard. So I always wore lipsticks. I
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always wore different colors. So for me, that is that
was the inspiration to starting the cosmetic line because essentially
it just started off.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
With just lashes and lipsticks.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But as I grew it was like, Okay, girls are
asking what's the lip combo, and I'm like, combo. I
really wasn't wearing liner, but you know what, let's start
doing lip combo. So now we add on liners and
now it's I'm not a lift gloss girl, but the
girls love lip gloss, so let's add lip gloss, you know.
So it was just from two thousand, I'm sixteen, until
now it's just branding and adding on top of that,
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just making it bigger. But I want to stay in
that niche of not being a full timeline but just
the essentials, the cosmetic essentials.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I like that you you found your niche within a niche,
you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, you have the
makeup line, but then there's your niche where you can
like we can like take you on the go, you
know what I mean, and you have your two pieces
that you love. That that makes it even sweeter. You know,
it's like that sweet spot where you found your spy
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inside of the makeup artistry and the makeup business. What
are your top three favorite products from the cash band
product you know, cosmetics and why do they stand out
to you? Like, I know you have you know, the
lipstick and the the eyelashes. Is there anything else? There's
another piece to that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, So I actually have my three favorites and they
have sold out over six times. So I've had a
lip gloss. So one thing I let me tell you
about my lip It's a liquid matte lipstick. My lipsticks
are hydrating. So back in the days, I used to
love retro mats. Now retro mats are super drying. I mean,
at some point you want to put some type of
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gloss on because your list, look, it gets to that point,
it gets to that point.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But mine, I.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Have a formula where it's still giving you that matter
fact where it's going to laugh up to eighteen hours plus,
but it's hydrating where you don't feel like, Okay, I
need to add some type of gloss. So that's the
feeling that you get when you wear my lipstick that
I was like, okay, I can't be the girl in
the early two thousands with this super dry mat.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We're evolving.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm older now, I'm in my late thirties, so I'm
like Mama likes to have comfort as well. So I
shifted the line also to the trends, because it's trendy
now to have things that's hydrating. So I have a liquid,
a liquid mass that it is called nudish. And the
thing about nudish is anybody of all shades and tones
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can wear nuwdish. Anybody like I don't care if you're
super dark. So newdish is it's like a peachy nude
and all it depends on whatever your shade is. If
you need to add a liner to it, you could
do that, but it's very universal. It's a new that's
very universal.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Then I have.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I have lash, a lash called flirting. Flirty is one
of those. It's universal as well. If you want a
little bit of volume, but you also want a little
bit of length, but not too much, not too scary.
You don't want to look like you have spider legs
on your out, like that is your last So we
have newdist for the liquid Matt lipstick, Flirting for the
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lashes and then I also have pressed highlighters. Now highlighters
are what's something you put on your cheeks, so it
gives you that sunkiss glow if you turn to the
I don't if the light hits it. And that one's
called the Cali Glow. And Cali is my daughter, so
I thought it's five years old. So I named one
of my Press highlighters after her because for me, it
gives you that natural glow. And when she was born,
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I came out with this highlighter, and you think about babies,
they have this natural glow, so I named it the
Cali Glow. So those are my three.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now tell me about the eye losses. Do I have
to like gluid or do you have the eye losses
where you know you wear like an eyeliner and then
it just goes on it easily.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So those are magnetic. So mines are strip lashes, so
you would have to put some type of glue adhesives
to your eyes. But the good thing about my lashes
they are top tier. You can get over twenty five
wars with my lashes, so we're not talking about what
you can curtain exactly like that man, you can just
continue to wear my lashes, I make sure, like what
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I what I also look for is quality. You can
get quantity of anything, but it's that quality. So with
my you can wear those up to twenty five. It
depends on how Again, it's your care.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So what I normally do.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I put on a lash, I take it off with
a bit of oil. I wash them off. And I'm
talking about like the strip, So the strip where you
put the glue adhesive, and then I store them and
then you can wear them again and again again. But
if you're one of those that you're sleeping with them
and everything, it's not going to retain its shape. So
you also do have to care for them. So it's
not one of those things you could just pop on
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and that's it. No, you have to care for it.
So yeah, but for my lashes, you have to use
some type of glue ahesive to adhere them to your eyes.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, I see what you mean. That's what I want
to say. I'm gonna I know I shouldn't be justing
at magnetic, but let me tell you. Let me tell
you something.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
When I have worn.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Those good thing with magnetic either, so you're not in
that boat by yourself. For me, I'm not a magnetic girl,
and sometimes you can't even put the line on streets,
so it gets hard. You you have to have a
skill to use those magnetics.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Right right. That's and I love the fact that you
said that you know you can get multiple wears out
of it. That's that's the best part is getting the
multiple wars out of it. Let me ask you this,
as a beauty founder and makeup artist, what gaps did
you see in the market that you wanted to fill
with your brand?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, the gaps I feel like I'm not so for me,
I'm a girl that I try everything right. I don't
care who's the CEO. I don't care who's the market
where they're marketing their product to. I try any and
every brand. But for me, it was just like, Okay,
I want to go to a brand that doesn't change,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I want those.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Staples and you know, signature products that I know I
could keep going back to over and over. You know,
if you do look at me coming from the Mac world.
Mac has his staples that we always sit there and
we're like, okay, I wish they come up with this again,
and why why do they discontinue this and I'm like,
with me, I don't want to ever change that. I
want to stick to what is known for my products.
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Sometimes I can add on, but most likely, like everything
that you see now is gonna stay that way. You know,
I'm not one of those like I don't. For me,
I'm not very trendy when it comes to make up.
I don't try new things very often. If it works
and it's a good product, yeah I'll try it, but
I stick to my staples. You'll see me in a
red lipt, You'll see me in a new list, but
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I want to make sure that can always get that
same red list. I want to make sure I always
can get that same new list. And that's that formula
be the same and it doesn't change. So I feel
like that was the bridge and that gap that I changed,
and I kind of wiggled myself and because I'm like,
if you want to get new the shit and baby
News has been here since twenty sixteen, it's twenty twenty five.
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He's still want to be here.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
She's still that girl. She's not changing, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So if that's why I feel like I fit in
that mold and I bring that gap for myself.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love that for you, and I love that for
me because I get the weird too, that what's up?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's what's up.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I love that you named your daughter Cali. By the way,
that's pretty dope. I only know one other girl out
of Massachusetts that named her daughter Cali.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And you know what, I always wanted to name my dog.
I think I have like a tweet that I saw
in like twenty twelve. So my oldest he's sixteen, well
he'll be sixteen in January, and his name is Khalil,
So I said, okay, after him, I wanted to have
another one back to that, which I didn't. I waited
ten years, so they're ten years apart. But I always
said I wanted to name her Cali with the K.
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So everyone and my all, my children, my name my dogs.
Everybody has a knee. So it's Khalil and Cali.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I love it. And then you've got Kimberly. See look
at you got a bunch of k A line hello
for this triple K. Yes, yes, how do you balance?
I mean, you got the babies, you've got your son,
you got your daughter, you know, y'aw do you balance
creativity and business and the beauty industry, especially when it
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comes to standing out in such a competitive space.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's crazy because I just had a talk on TikTok
about this, and I talk about my balance all the
time because people ask me. I get this question all
the time because I'm a girl that I still go outside,
Mama still has her own life, and for me, the balances,
I put my priority first, so my children and my
family come first.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Before anything, you know, so I go into it that way.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Is the home taking care of. When's home taking care of,
I can do everything else, and especially in my business,
my business is one of those things. If my house
is not taken care of, I'm going to fall short
on the business. So I have to make sure this
is playing this role. Everything is taken care of here, Okay, cool,
I can get to the business, you know. I work
like that where everything has to have function, it has
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to have order. So the way my house works, my
husband also plays a big role. Now, my husband used
to play in the NFL for nine years, so while
he was in the NFL, my business kind of took
a backseat because his schedule compromised a lot of things
for me. You know, a lot of times when I
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was in the you know, celebrity world doing clients. I
had to say no to a lot of deals because
Mommy had to be home with the kids because Honey's
not home and I really didn't live near my family
where I had that support. So now that he's retired,
he's like, hey, you do whatever you want. And the
balance is he stays at home, he takes care of
the kids, and mom can go out here and do everything.
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So it works that way where now it's my time
and he gives me all of the support that I
need to you know, flourish my business flurish, and also
me having my me time because I feel like a
lot of people, when you do get married, you lose
yourself in the marriage. Because you lose yourself, you have
to still maintain you're happy. And for me, I'm a
social bird. I love to go out with my friend.
I love to have girl times and girls trips. So
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I'm still able to do that and that's my balance.
You know, when you're happy, everything else is happy, you know.
So as long as my mental is stable, everything else flows.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
That's beautiful. That's wonderful that your husband, you know, being
former NFL allows you the opportunity to, you know, do
what you need to do for yourself and still have
your own identity. That's very important.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, yeah, and that's important for me, and he knew
that coming into this, this marriage and this.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Relationship, I have to have my own identity.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Like I was already cashed bar this celebrity NUA before
I met him. So it's like, hey, I'm going to
continue this. This is something that that was me. I
built this brand. So when I built this for myself,
I don't want to now live in the shadows of
your celebrity. You know, I still want to have something
that I call my own.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's beautiful. Let me ask you, what advice would you
give young women of color who dream of building their
own beauty brand.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Do it today, not tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I say, there's always a lot of people feel like, oh,
it's oversaturated. Money is getting printed every day, so there's
room for anybody. You know, Just make a signature for yourself,
stick to it, and go do it. I never let
anyone like it's think about it's so many cosmetic brands,
so many, and I'm like, I still want to be
a part of that, you know, I still I'm doing
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something that I love to do. I don't care if
it doesn't get as big as other brands. But I'm
still doing something that I love and I go it's
that ambition and that dedication. If you put forth that effort,
nothing is impossible. So I say start today, don't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Now, wow, do it. That's just do it. When I
was in the military and they would give us directions
to do something, and I'll be like, but petty officer
so and so he would say do it, do it now,
no conversation. So when you said you know what, I
was like, Okay, this is militant right here is militant.
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I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I love We're our biggest issue.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know you procrastinate or you know, you talk down
to yourself. For me, no, anything that I've ever wanted
in life, I've gotten because I put the work into it.
I put all my eggs in one basket. I remember
when I stopped working at MAC. I think I worked
at Max for eight months before I got my first
celebrity client. And then I said, you know what, I
want to be a celebrity makeup artist. Like I just
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don't want to be in the stores because the stories
really worry about selling.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You work in a cosmetic store, so you have to sell.
But I wanted to do the artistry. And I took
that leap of faith and I said, Okay, I want
to do this by myself. I want to be a
freelance work. I want to work for myself. And I
remember the first month, I only obtained forty dollars and
I said, oh my god, I got a kid, like,
how am I going to survive with forty dollars? I
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got rent like this is not gonna work. But I said,
you know what, I'm my faith in God and I
trust it in myself and I just pushed forward. And
it's one of those I became my own marketing person.
I became my own brand ambassador, and I just pushed
it and I used social media like crazy. I used
my own celebrity in my town in Baltimore. I already
made a name for myself. So now it's like, Okay,
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instead of them coming to mac hey, get this email
book here and do this, and I'm using that Instagram
and I'm just you know, marketing twenty four to seven.
So it's like when people want to get into this
and you want to be our entrepreneur and a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Of people push it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You got to be able to work twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
This is not one of those jobs where you got.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
To clock in and you know where that paycheck is coming.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
No, you have to do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You have to and if you don't have a team,
this is hard work and dedication.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
This is a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Wow, your story, so it's very inspiring. What roles of
self expression and confidence play in the cash B and
Cosmetic mission story? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well, my self expression is in my fashion. You know,
I'm always a girl that I stay with my hair done,
I stay with my nails done. Even I remember when
my son was younger. I used to down my son's hair,
you know, I used to do all different colors.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But I was that girl.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You know, I was in so many blogs and websites
because my hair was forever changing and people you select, oh,
I'm so glad you love you like your son expressed himself,
and I'm like, well, I'm his mom. To know me
is to know I any former expression, I'm for it.
You know, I never want to put anybody in a
box because I never put myself in a box.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So It's like that is That's.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What promoted me with this cosmetic line, because okay, my
forever and you know, changing hair color, let's do it
with liquios, Let's do it with a liftstick, you know,
so it matched. So when I'm in one of these
blogs and oh her hair is meant green now and
then she has this new lifted but her hair now
is red, but she has a red liftick, it matches
and it goes hand in hand. So for me, my
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expression of my hair and my outfits went to my
makeup as well. So it was all under the same umbrella.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I love the color with the hair. You know. We
started out in the nineties, little Kim Blue on the
scene with that, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, yes, that little was my fan wrapper that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, and then Nicki Minaj did it. And at one
point in like the twenty tens, I was rocking hot
pink hair literally fool, oh wow, look at that, look
at that. Oh then I'm blue purple pink, had the
turquoise and the hot pink and the light pink.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I had all the colors, any color that you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I had.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I used to be a girl with short pixie hair.
So I can always change my hair color. That was
the thing for me, that your pixie hair.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Oh God, yes, love it.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I love that. So let me ask you another question.
Can you define? Can you hear a defining moment in
your career where you knew that you were on the
right path, either as a makeup you know, artist or
as a beauty crenere.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Okay, so quick story.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It was Mother's Day and I forget the year whatever,
forget the year that Prince passed, but I was just
I just got off the road with Little Mo and
we just got back from Essenspeth, and I mean a blast.
If you ever saw the movie Girls Trip, that is
exactly how Essen's beest is. So we're, you know, backstage,
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and I'm I'm always the girl meeting the managers and
the road managers because those are essentially the ones who
book you for the Clinton. I've never been with a union,
I've never had a rep so and I've never been
with an agency. Every every book and that I ever
got is off of me by itself. You know, a
celebrity call in my phone, or a friend of celebrity
or their manager somehow word am I. So it got
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back to me and I okay, cool, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Can make it. That's how I always got gigs since
I guess.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I met some security guard at essens Fest and I
dropped my mom off for Mother's Day at the Spa
and I get a call and they're like, is this Cash,
And I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Like, yeah, this is Cash. Hey.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It's like you don't remember me, but I remember you
from essens Fest. I met you backstage.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You were with Little Mall.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And I'm like, okay, hey, are you available, And I'm
like for Prince and I'm like for Purple Rain Prince,
like Prince Prince, Prince the artist, Like huh. So she's
like yeah, like he needs a makeup artist. And he
just came to town to do a free concert in
Baltimore for Freddie Gray and Freddie Gray. It was a
guy who died from police brutality, so he did a
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free concert there. And I remember that I told people
stay ready so you never have to get ready, and
I always have my makeup case in my trunk and
so I said, yeah, yeah, I could be there. So
I had to go downtown to the Convention Center and
I get in there, it's like six other makeup artists
that I know. So I was like, oh, you all
got the call and they're like yes. I was like, well,
(28:05):
where where's your makeup kit? And they're like, whoa, we
didn't bring our makeup kids. They told us we didn't
need it. We just had to, you know, come down here.
They want to buy our products. And I said, ooh,
you're not ready. None of them, none of them touched
any makeup on any clients. It was all me because
I was the only one that had my makeup kit.
And I said in that moment, and I've been doing
(28:26):
makeup for a while at that time, but I said, yeah,
this is what I'm supposed to do because I was
ready and I got this opportunity. And this was with
Live Nations, so this wasn't with you know, a client payment.
This was Live Nation pay me. And I mean I
had to go in the conference room and okay, do
you have your W two's and your ten ninety nine
can you pull this up? And I had apps for everything,
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so I'm ready and I'm like, yeah, this is this
is my moment, like this is what I'm supposed to do.
And I was like this is crazy. And then I
you know, they're like, girl, you were supposed to do, beyones,
that's the stop playing with the yards. It's like, yeah,
because it was a whole I said, yeah, I think
that may be a rumor, but for me, it was
just like if I got to do that, baby, what
if you could tell me anything? But yeah, that was
the moment for me that I said, I have arrived
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like this, this is exactly where I'm supposed to be.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing. Because I
was ready and I got to get that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
That is amazing. And you were the one that ended
up working and they didn't. You had your stuff wow ready,
so you never have to go about Fate was on
your side.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Absolutely, Fate, Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's fate. That was beautiful. Let me ask you. I
know we're getting down to the hour here with with
this amazing interview, and just I feel like I'm sitting
there in the room with you and I can see
everything as we're talking because.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
She's like I can feel.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's one thing, you know, when you talk to people
and you can actually feel the interview, that's when you
know you're talking to the person's soul, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, yeah, one thing about me, I'm always authentically myself.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So you're gonna get that vibe you are.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I do get that vibe. I do I get, you know,
and leading into that vibe. What's the word on the streets.
What do women feel when they wear your brand? When
they wear your product?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Well, you know from what they tell me, they love it.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You know, it's it took a while to find that
that formula that I was scared at first, because again
times have changed, you know, it went from having that
drastic matt to now everyone wants that luxury feeling. You know,
you want something that's going to be long lasting, but
you wanted to also be comfortable. So changing the formula
and sticking with that. And I was scared because I'm like, oh,
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what if this is not received well? But the feedback
that I'm getting it's like, oh, I love your lashes,
I love your listic this is quality, even down to
my packaging, because I took time on everything. It wasn't
like I came up and I put my name on a.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Brand and that was that.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I wore this brand for two years before I even
set it out for the for the world to have,
because I wanted to make sure it will be received well,
so from the feedback since twenty sixteen until twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Currently, I'm getting they love it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
This is this is what they tell me.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, I sent your mind so you could see how
pretty I was I am because you couldn't tell me nothing.
I kept mudging my lips together. I felt like a
Dorothy Dandiest girl.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You love it like a girl I was.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I was riding in my little bins and I was
going to church yesterday and I had my hair in
the little side swoop and I just I couldn't stop
looking at myself. I was like, oh my god, I'm
so pretty. It's like see and that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
And that's how you should feeling something, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's how I felt wearing it. That's how I felt
wearing it. And it was like, oh my gosh, I'm
so pretty. This is it. And you're right. You know,
I've been wearing mac since ninety eight. And you're right
about the matt part of it, where you know it's dry,
like you have these dry, lucy fifties lips, know, And
what I liked about yours was the moisturization, the pop
color of the red that I was wearing it was
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just a pop and you know, it's not always easy
to find that dope red that Knea long red on
black women, you know what I mean. And I just
love that I got the opportunity to experience that for
my own self. So that's the that's my dope story.
You know, looking ahead, you know what's next for Cash
Brand Cosmetics and you know, are there any upcoming launches
(32:26):
or collaborations that we should be excited about when you
come in to La.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So I mean it's in the words that I did have.
I do get a lot of jobs in La, which
is crazy. One of my good friends she does an
r in La, so I haven't branched over there just yet.
But for me, it's the I feel like the trajectory
of this business. You'll see it mainstream, you know, and
(32:52):
that's just a work in progress at this point.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Right now. I still collab with a.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Lot of celebrities, so you'll see it on celebrities, even
from you know, other makeup artists having it in their kids.
So yeah, I feel like being the lookout to see
it in those you know, drug stores and you know
the freelance story. So it's big things for the Cash
Brand cosmetics for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Well, you got to hit us up and let us
know so we can come, because I want to come
and look pretty too.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well listen, we want to just thank you for, you know,
interviewing with us today at w k IM FM sixty
one point one in Los Angeles. Like, this is one
of the most fun interviews that I've done in a while.
Besides you know, interviewing you know Snoop's daughter. She has
her you know, her own makeup brand as well. But
(33:44):
I love yours because yours is not just a lip gloss.
It is literally lashes as well as it's a lipstick.
It's that old hobo style with the new you know,
with the new vibe, the new new vat, the new
new black. Yeah. Yeah. Even though anybody can wear it,
I can only speak for how pretty I looked as
a black woman and how other women looked wearing it.
(34:07):
So I want to thank you for just being alive.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, if you even down to the right that you experienced.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I try to.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
It's not a lot of I think I have seven
main lipsticks, but they are for different undertones. So when
it comes to black women, I have three different reds.
So if you're darker shade. If you need something, you know,
on a darker scale, we have that, you know. So
I did cater to the black woman experience at hand
because I'm a black woman, you know, so definitely when
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I came up with this line.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Fearful, but it is universal. It doesn't matter any you know,
shade or or race that you are. But at the
same time, it came from a black woman's, a black
woman's perspective.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
It did, it did, and I want to thank you
for creating that for us, for us, and you know,
just just so you just one for the team. So
I love it and I love you and I can't
wait to meet you. And I sent I sent little
miss Lindsay the video so you could see me. Just
you get in my search on I just want to
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thank you for interviewing with us today and tell us
how we can buy your brand. By the way, tell
us how we can buy your brand and how we
can find you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
You can get it from the website ww dot the
Cash brand Cosmetics dot com. If you have a hard
time remembering that, you can go to my Instagram at
the Cash barb and it's right there in my bio
at the cash bar, at the cash barb yes, cash,
what's the kkash?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well, I want to thank you again, miss cast All,
for interviewing with us today WKMFM sixty one point one
in Los Angeles. And we're going to go pay some
bills now with a radio commercial, but we want to
thank you and we welcome you back to the show
at any given time. Keep us. Thank you so much
going on you can shout you out. Thank you, love
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you mean absolutely, thank you, Sister God bless you and
thank you you too. Bye bye, bye bye.
Okay, guys, it's your girl. How are you guys today?
It's a girl Kidderly Jessica reporting in Live Today from
Los Angeles, California. It is actually beautiful outside this morning.
We had a little bit of a haze. We were
wondering if the sun was even gonna come out at all,
you know, that La weather. And it was even crazier
because last night we were outside doing an event and literally, folks,
(00:32):
it got cold. And I said to myself and the
people that were at the event, I said, oh my goodness,
what's going on with La But then we have to
remember in September. But I tell you, it was a
little bit of a haze this morning. And now it's
heating up. So we're getting into the midday sun and
it's getting ready to get hot outside. So we have
(00:53):
that little East Coast thing going today. We're going to
be having the opportunity. Guy. I used to be talking
to an amazing land lady from one of my old
stomping grounds when I owned property on this planet in
the state of Maryland. And you know, and when we
say Maryland, we don't say Maryland, we say Maryland. You know,
it's like that action that comes with it. And now
(01:16):
you know, I have days when I'm living in Los
Angeles and I missed Maryland. I missed the crab cakes,
I missed the restaurants, the school and just seeing amazing
people of color, just doing it really, really big Maryland.
If you really want to see some millionaires and some
people doing some amazing things, I'm going to tell you
right now, go to Maryland. I hear people say Atlanta,
(01:38):
but let me tell you something. The first human millionaire
that was a non celebrity that I ever met, if
up close and personal, was from Merlin. And because of
those millionaires, I ended up upping my credit score, changing
my life, and I ended up buying one of those
tried duplexes where you know sits on three level, and
(02:00):
I'd got my master's degree and I bought my first
Mercedes there, And I mean, that's the energy of Maryland.
I'm telling you, people are doing it big there. And
of course I've since moved and came back to LA
so I can be closer to the entertainment industry. But
I have to tell you the people in Maryland. I
hear you talk about Atlanta, but do not sleep on Maryland.
So today, I'm going to be talking to an amazing
(02:21):
young lady. She is best described as a successful celebrity
makeup artist. She's living on her best talents and she
manipulates every aspect of social media. She's started as a
local model in the DMV area and she's appeared in
many commercials and modeling gigs, commercial modeling gigs, here shows,
runway shows, and music videos. Some of the music videos
(02:45):
that she's appeared in that you may recognize hers with
Rapper Fabulous, When I Feel Like It, Raper Black, Cobain,
Quiet Time and more. And also for her modeling career,
she found her love and talent in the makeup artistry.
She began her career as a makeup artist with Matt Cosmetics,
which opened the doors of working with celebrity clients as
(03:07):
the Strina, SWV, Monica, Lil Moe, City Girls, Prince and
All His Female Band, Third Eye Rest and Police Prints
and Girl Third Eye Girl which is Princess female female band.
And then you have Kay Michelle and of course many
more unknown entity. She's known in the nightlife of the
(03:30):
d MB area. She was often asked to host numerous
parties and events, and she's hosted events alongside other celebrities
like Tierra, Marie Fat Fat Trell, Lance Gross, you have
Black Cobain, Miguel, Tiana Taylor, who I absolutely love, and
you know, the list goes on with great turnouts of
(03:52):
actually that could be brought to the events from her celebrity.
She began to host frequently and decided to start a
promot group to accompany her to the events that she had,
which she then brought with the Cash dolls. So this
is this is We're going to Cash Kash. Women's from
all over the USA would send pictures, you know, just
(04:15):
to join her group. Hey, I might want to join
her group myself. I mean, she's drop dead gorgeous. She
decided that the nightlife wasn't her main focus and she
wanted to focus on her makeup artistry solely, so in
doing so, she then poured all of her assets and
resources ends up funding her very own cosmaic line. She
has a very successfulstic brand and last cosmetic land and
(04:38):
it's literally called the Cash brand. That's Cash Kash money, money,
money but with class. Along with being a highly skilled
celebrity makeup artist in the Baltimore DMV area, she's known
for her ever changing hairstyles and has been featured in
Carol's Daughter and The Cut Life. She was six desfill.
(05:00):
He served as a brand ambassador for several companies such
as Rebop Wow, Secrems, and more. She's partnered with many
heavy hitters stylers across the D and B area, expanding
the audiences of many brands. Of course, we know, we
know the names like rock Nation, Death Jam, RETV, and
Live Nations. She serviced music artists for video shoots, reality
(05:24):
shows and all of that. So today we're going to
be talking with none other than Cash Makeup brand owner Cash. Hey,
what's up girl? Hey?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Correct you because you say Maryland, but I was f Baltimore.
And you know when you say Baltimore, that is not Maryland.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We are not included in that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I am a Baltimore girlchol me, school me, school me.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're right, Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
World for so yeah, I'm on the West Sidetimore.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's being from Chicago, right, and saying you from uh,
you from some other part of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
People are like enough off on the wayside actually, And
you know what, it's crazy because when people aren't from there,
they're always like, but it's Maryland. Right, that's the state.
I'm like, yeah, but you gotta be from there to understand. Baltimore,
that's here to understand. Yeah, that's like New Orleans. You
won't say, oh, I'm from Believe Viana.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, you're from New Orleans and it's so different. And
you know, yes because my son used to be on
the show The Wire and you know The Wire, which okay,
in Baltimore, which you're right, Yesaltimore is its own world.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, we're our own interview.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yes, not DMV, we are Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what's
stop talk to us tells you. You know, you worked
as a celebrity, make a party for cons like print
Monica came to sell. How do those experiences shape the
way you approach your own cosmetic lineis.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Because my thing is okay when I'm I'm working with
these high celebrities, right, and it's I always wanted to
be able to promote my own business, so of course
I can use all types of other cosmetics. I'm starting
off as a Mac girl. I'm an ode Mac girl,
and so I have this mindset where it's like, let's
say they're on the red carpet and they ask them,
(07:31):
I don't know, it could be a question, O, what
lipstick are you wearing? What shade is that or anything,
and it's like, I want my name to be that
name that's being sold, and as I'm doing the makeup,
I want to also promote myself. So my cosmetic brand,
it's not a full a full line brand, so it's
not foundation and concealer. But what I call it is
what you will put in your pocketbook, you know, what
(07:51):
someone could just take one to go. So it's the lashes,
it's the lipstick, it's the liner. It's what you would
need the essential or daily, you know, if you go
into the club, Okay, I just need a lipstick and
I need a lift goff or I need a liptick
in a line or or you know. It's one of
those type brands. So for me, when I'm doing these clients,
I would always promote my own business. So I started
(08:11):
this in twenty and sixteen, and I started doing my
first life time was actually in twenty thirteen. So it's like, okay,
if I'm doing this, I want to be the brand
that they're wearing. I want to have my so so
of course I'm using foundations from these big time brands,
but I want to have something that's my stable so
I can brand off. And hey, thellipsic she's wearing, that's
(08:32):
the cast you know, the cast lipstick. So that's how
where that came from, and that's how I went into
it and why I wanted to start a cosmetic line.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Essentially, what was the inspiration behind starting to Cast Bring cosmetics?
And how does it reflect your personal style and artistry?
Because your colors are amazing. I had your lipstick on
the other day. I'm gonna have to show you a
video of me, and you couldn't tell me that I
was not fly. Okay, you could not tell me nothing.
(09:02):
I'm about to send this video to Lizzy right now
because you're gonna put me on yourself for me.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know, I'm a makeup girl, but I love liftick,
so I'm one of those like I loved the bare
minimum when it comes to make up. You know, I
don't really like eyeshadows, so that's why I didn't want
to incorporate in that into my line because I wear.
What I put on myself is what I branch out
and what I brand. You know, you're your walking brands.
You're your walking billboard. So I always wore lipsticks. I
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always wore different colors. So for me, that is that
was the inspiration to starting the cosmetic line because essentially
it just started off.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
With just lashes and lipsticks.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But as I grew it was like, Okay, girls are
asking what's the lip combo, and I'm like, combo. I
really wasn't wearing liner, but you know what, let's start
doing lip combo. So now we add on liners and
now it's I'm not a lift gloss girl, but the
girls love lip gloss, so let's add lip gloss, you know.
So it was just from two thousand, I'm sixteen, until
now it's just branding and adding on top of that,
(10:03):
just making it bigger. But I want to stay in
that niche of not being a full timeline but just
the essentials, the cosmetic essentials.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I like that you you found your niche within a niche,
you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, you have the
makeup line, but then there's your niche where you can
like we can like take you on the go, you
know what I mean, and you have your two pieces
that you love. That that makes it even sweeter. You know,
it's like that sweet spot where you found your spy
(10:33):
inside of the makeup artistry and the makeup business. What
are your top three favorite products from the cash band
product you know, cosmetics and why do they stand out
to you? Like, I know you have you know, the
lipstick and the the eyelashes. Is there anything else? There's
another piece to that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, So I actually have my three favorites and they
have sold out over six times. So I've had a
lip gloss. So one thing I let me tell you
about my lip It's a liquid matte lipstick. My lipsticks
are hydrating. So back in the days, I used to
love retro mats. Now retro mats are super drying. I mean,
at some point you want to put some type of
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gloss on because your list, look, it gets to that point,
it gets to that point.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But mine, I.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Have a formula where it's still giving you that matter
fact where it's going to laugh up to eighteen hours plus,
but it's hydrating where you don't feel like, Okay, I
need to add some type of gloss. So that's the
feeling that you get when you wear my lipstick that
I was like, okay, I can't be the girl in
the early two thousands with this super dry mat.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We're evolving.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm older now, I'm in my late thirties, so I'm
like Mama likes to have comfort as well. So I
shifted the line also to the trends, because it's trendy
now to have things that's hydrating. So I have a liquid,
a liquid mass that it is called nudish. And the
thing about nudish is anybody of all shades and tones
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can wear nuwdish. Anybody like I don't care if you're
super dark. So newdish is it's like a peachy nude
and all it depends on whatever your shade is. If
you need to add a liner to it, you could
do that, but it's very universal. It's a new that's
very universal.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Then I have.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I have lash, a lash called flirting. Flirty is one
of those. It's universal as well. If you want a
little bit of volume, but you also want a little
bit of length, but not too much, not too scary.
You don't want to look like you have spider legs
on your out, like that is your last So we
have newdist for the liquid Matt lipstick, Flirting for the
(12:51):
lashes and then I also have pressed highlighters. Now highlighters
are what's something you put on your cheeks, so it
gives you that sunkiss glow if you turn to the
I don't if the light hits it. And that one's
called the Cali Glow. And Cali is my daughter, so
I thought it's five years old. So I named one
of my Press highlighters after her because for me, it
gives you that natural glow. And when she was born,
(13:13):
I came out with this highlighter, and you think about babies,
they have this natural glow, so I named it the
Cali Glow. So those are my three.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now tell me about the eye losses. Do I have
to like gluid or do you have the eye losses
where you know you wear like an eyeliner and then
it just goes on it easily.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So those are magnetic. So mines are strip lashes, so
you would have to put some type of glue adhesives
to your eyes. But the good thing about my lashes
they are top tier. You can get over twenty five
wars with my lashes, so we're not talking about what
you can curtain exactly like that man, you can just
continue to wear my lashes, I make sure, like what
(13:53):
I what I also look for is quality. You can
get quantity of anything, but it's that quality. So with
my you can wear those up to twenty five. It
depends on how Again, it's your care.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So what I normally do.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I put on a lash, I take it off with
a bit of oil. I wash them off. And I'm
talking about like the strip, So the strip where you
put the glue adhesive, and then I store them and
then you can wear them again and again again. But
if you're one of those that you're sleeping with them
and everything, it's not going to retain its shape. So
you also do have to care for them. So it's
not one of those things you could just pop on
(14:26):
and that's it. No, you have to care for it.
So yeah, but for my lashes, you have to use
some type of glue ahesive to adhere them to your eyes.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, I see what you mean. That's what I want
to say. I'm gonna I know I shouldn't be justing
at magnetic, but let me tell you. Let me tell
you something.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
When I have worn.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Those good thing with magnetic either, so you're not in
that boat by yourself. For me, I'm not a magnetic girl,
and sometimes you can't even put the line on streets,
so it gets hard. You you have to have a
skill to use those magnetics.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Right right. That's and I love the fact that you
said that you know you can get multiple wears out
of it. That's that's the best part is getting the
multiple wars out of it. Let me ask you this,
as a beauty founder and makeup artist, what gaps did
you see in the market that you wanted to fill
with your brand?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, the gaps I feel like I'm not so for me,
I'm a girl that I try everything right. I don't
care who's the CEO. I don't care who's the market
where they're marketing their product to. I try any and
every brand. But for me, it was just like, Okay,
I want to go to a brand that doesn't change,
(15:44):
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I want those.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Staples and you know, signature products that I know I
could keep going back to over and over. You know,
if you do look at me coming from the Mac world.
Mac has his staples that we always sit there and
we're like, okay, I wish they come up with this again,
and why why do they discontinue this and I'm like,
with me, I don't want to ever change that. I
want to stick to what is known for my products.
(16:06):
Sometimes I can add on, but most likely, like everything
that you see now is gonna stay that way. You know,
I'm not one of those like I don't. For me,
I'm not very trendy when it comes to make up.
I don't try new things very often. If it works
and it's a good product, yeah I'll try it, but
I stick to my staples. You'll see me in a
red lipt, You'll see me in a new list, but
(16:28):
I want to make sure that can always get that
same red list. I want to make sure I always
can get that same new list. And that's that formula
be the same and it doesn't change. So I feel
like that was the bridge and that gap that I changed,
and I kind of wiggled myself and because I'm like,
if you want to get new the shit and baby
News has been here since twenty sixteen, it's twenty twenty five.
(16:48):
He's still want to be here.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
She's still that girl. She's not changing, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So if that's why I feel like I fit in
that mold and I bring that gap for myself.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love that for you, and I love that for
me because I get the weird too, that what's up?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's what's up.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I love that you named your daughter Cali. By the way,
that's pretty dope. I only know one other girl out
of Massachusetts that named her daughter Cali.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And you know what, I always wanted to name my dog.
I think I have like a tweet that I saw
in like twenty twelve. So my oldest he's sixteen, well
he'll be sixteen in January, and his name is Khalil,
So I said, okay, after him, I wanted to have
another one back to that, which I didn't. I waited
ten years, so they're ten years apart. But I always
said I wanted to name her Cali with the K.
(17:38):
So everyone and my all, my children, my name my dogs.
Everybody has a knee. So it's Khalil and Cali.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I love it. And then you've got Kimberly. See look
at you got a bunch of k A line hello
for this triple K. Yes, yes, how do you balance?
I mean, you got the babies, you've got your son,
you got your daughter, you know, y'aw do you balance
creativity and business and the beauty industry, especially when it
(18:09):
comes to standing out in such a competitive space.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's crazy because I just had a talk on TikTok
about this, and I talk about my balance all the
time because people ask me. I get this question all
the time because I'm a girl that I still go outside,
Mama still has her own life, and for me, the balances,
I put my priority first, so my children and my
family come first.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Before anything, you know, so I go into it that way.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Is the home taking care of. When's home taking care of,
I can do everything else, and especially in my business,
my business is one of those things. If my house
is not taken care of, I'm going to fall short
on the business. So I have to make sure this
is playing this role. Everything is taken care of here, Okay, cool,
I can get to the business, you know. I work
like that where everything has to have function, it has
(18:58):
to have order. So the way my house works, my
husband also plays a big role. Now, my husband used
to play in the NFL for nine years, so while
he was in the NFL, my business kind of took
a backseat because his schedule compromised a lot of things
for me. You know, a lot of times when I
(19:18):
was in the you know, celebrity world doing clients. I
had to say no to a lot of deals because
Mommy had to be home with the kids because Honey's
not home and I really didn't live near my family
where I had that support. So now that he's retired,
he's like, hey, you do whatever you want. And the
balance is he stays at home, he takes care of
the kids, and mom can go out here and do everything.
(19:40):
So it works that way where now it's my time
and he gives me all of the support that I
need to you know, flourish my business flurish, and also
me having my me time because I feel like a
lot of people, when you do get married, you lose
yourself in the marriage. Because you lose yourself, you have
to still maintain you're happy. And for me, I'm a
social bird. I love to go out with my friend.
I love to have girl times and girls trips. So
(20:02):
I'm still able to do that and that's my balance.
You know, when you're happy, everything else is happy, you know.
So as long as my mental is stable, everything else flows.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
That's beautiful. That's wonderful that your husband, you know, being
former NFL allows you the opportunity to, you know, do
what you need to do for yourself and still have
your own identity. That's very important.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, yeah, and that's important for me, and he knew
that coming into this, this marriage and this.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Relationship, I have to have my own identity.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Like I was already cashed bar this celebrity NUA before
I met him. So it's like, hey, I'm going to
continue this. This is something that that was me. I
built this brand. So when I built this for myself,
I don't want to now live in the shadows of
your celebrity. You know, I still want to have something
that I call my own.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's beautiful. Let me ask you, what advice would you
give young women of color who dream of building their
own beauty brand.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Do it today, not tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I say, there's always a lot of people feel like, oh,
it's oversaturated. Money is getting printed every day, so there's
room for anybody. You know, Just make a signature for yourself,
stick to it, and go do it. I never let
anyone like it's think about it's so many cosmetic brands,
so many, and I'm like, I still want to be
a part of that, you know, I still I'm doing
(21:29):
something that I love to do. I don't care if
it doesn't get as big as other brands. But I'm
still doing something that I love and I go it's
that ambition and that dedication. If you put forth that effort,
nothing is impossible. So I say start today, don't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Now, wow, do it. That's just do it. When I
was in the military and they would give us directions
to do something, and I'll be like, but petty officer
so and so he would say do it, do it now,
no conversation. So when you said you know what, I
was like, Okay, this is militant right here is militant.
(22:05):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I love We're our biggest issue.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know you procrastinate or you know, you talk down
to yourself. For me, no, anything that I've ever wanted
in life, I've gotten because I put the work into it.
I put all my eggs in one basket. I remember
when I stopped working at MAC. I think I worked
at Max for eight months before I got my first
celebrity client. And then I said, you know what, I
want to be a celebrity makeup artist. Like I just
(22:32):
don't want to be in the stores because the stories
really worry about selling.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You work in a cosmetic store, so you have to sell.
But I wanted to do the artistry. And I took
that leap of faith and I said, Okay, I want
to do this by myself. I want to be a
freelance work. I want to work for myself. And I
remember the first month, I only obtained forty dollars and
I said, oh my god, I got a kid, like,
how am I going to survive with forty dollars? I
(22:56):
got rent like this is not gonna work. But I said,
you know what, I'm my faith in God and I
trust it in myself and I just pushed forward. And
it's one of those I became my own marketing person.
I became my own brand ambassador, and I just pushed
it and I used social media like crazy. I used
my own celebrity in my town in Baltimore. I already
made a name for myself. So now it's like, Okay,
(23:18):
instead of them coming to mac hey, get this email
book here and do this, and I'm using that Instagram
and I'm just you know, marketing twenty four to seven.
So it's like when people want to get into this
and you want to be our entrepreneur and a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Of people push it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You got to be able to work twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
This is not one of those jobs where you got.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
To clock in and you know where that paycheck is coming.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
No, you have to do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You have to and if you don't have a team,
this is hard work and dedication.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
This is a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Wow, your story, so it's very inspiring. What roles of
self expression and confidence play in the cash B and
Cosmetic mission story? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well, my self expression is in my fashion. You know,
I'm always a girl that I stay with my hair done,
I stay with my nails done. Even I remember when
my son was younger. I used to down my son's hair,
you know, I used to do all different colors.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But I was that girl.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You know, I was in so many blogs and websites
because my hair was forever changing and people you select, oh,
I'm so glad you love you like your son expressed himself,
and I'm like, well, I'm his mom. To know me
is to know I any former expression, I'm for it.
You know, I never want to put anybody in a
box because I never put myself in a box.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So It's like that is That's.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What promoted me with this cosmetic line, because okay, my
forever and you know, changing hair color, let's do it
with liquios, Let's do it with a liftstick, you know,
so it matched. So when I'm in one of these
blogs and oh her hair is meant green now and
then she has this new lifted but her hair now
is red, but she has a red liftick, it matches
and it goes hand in hand. So for me, my
(25:07):
expression of my hair and my outfits went to my
makeup as well. So it was all under the same umbrella.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I love the color with the hair. You know. We
started out in the nineties, little Kim Blue on the
scene with that, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, yes, that little was my fan wrapper that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, and then Nicki Minaj did it. And at one
point in like the twenty tens, I was rocking hot
pink hair literally fool, oh wow, look at that, look
at that. Oh then I'm blue purple pink, had the
turquoise and the hot pink and the light pink.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I had all the colors, any color that you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I had.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I used to be a girl with short pixie hair.
So I can always change my hair color. That was
the thing for me, that your pixie hair.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Oh God, yes, love it.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I love that. So let me ask you another question.
Can you define? Can you hear a defining moment in
your career where you knew that you were on the
right path, either as a makeup you know, artist or
as a beauty crenere.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Okay, so quick story.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It was Mother's Day and I forget the year whatever,
forget the year that Prince passed, but I was just
I just got off the road with Little Mo and
we just got back from Essenspeth, and I mean a blast.
If you ever saw the movie Girls Trip, that is
exactly how Essen's beest is. So we're, you know, backstage,
(26:39):
and I'm I'm always the girl meeting the managers and
the road managers because those are essentially the ones who
book you for the Clinton. I've never been with a union,
I've never had a rep so and I've never been
with an agency. Every every book and that I ever
got is off of me by itself. You know, a
celebrity call in my phone, or a friend of celebrity
or their manager somehow word am I. So it got
(27:00):
back to me and I okay, cool, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Can make it. That's how I always got gigs since
I guess.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I met some security guard at essens Fest and I
dropped my mom off for Mother's Day at the Spa
and I get a call and they're like, is this Cash,
And I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Like, yeah, this is Cash. Hey.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It's like you don't remember me, but I remember you
from essens Fest. I met you backstage.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You were with Little Mall.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And I'm like, okay, hey, are you available, And I'm
like for Prince and I'm like for Purple Rain Prince,
like Prince Prince, Prince the artist, Like huh. So she's
like yeah, like he needs a makeup artist. And he
just came to town to do a free concert in
Baltimore for Freddie Gray and Freddie Gray. It was a
guy who died from police brutality, so he did a
(27:44):
free concert there. And I remember that I told people
stay ready so you never have to get ready, and
I always have my makeup case in my trunk and
so I said, yeah, yeah, I could be there. So
I had to go downtown to the Convention Center and
I get in there, it's like six other makeup artists
that I know. So I was like, oh, you all
got the call and they're like yes. I was like, well,
(28:05):
where where's your makeup kit? And they're like, whoa, we
didn't bring our makeup kids. They told us we didn't
need it. We just had to, you know, come down here.
They want to buy our products. And I said, ooh,
you're not ready. None of them, none of them touched
any makeup on any clients. It was all me because
I was the only one that had my makeup kit.
And I said in that moment, and I've been doing
(28:26):
makeup for a while at that time, but I said, yeah,
this is what I'm supposed to do because I was
ready and I got this opportunity. And this was with
Live Nations, so this wasn't with you know, a client payment.
This was Live Nation pay me. And I mean I
had to go in the conference room and okay, do
you have your W two's and your ten ninety nine
can you pull this up? And I had apps for everything,
(28:47):
so I'm ready and I'm like, yeah, this is this
is my moment, like this is what I'm supposed to do.
And I was like this is crazy. And then I
you know, they're like, girl, you were supposed to do, beyones,
that's the stop playing with the yards. It's like, yeah,
because it was a whole I said, yeah, I think
that may be a rumor, but for me, it was
just like if I got to do that, baby, what
if you could tell me anything? But yeah, that was
the moment for me that I said, I have arrived
(29:10):
like this, this is exactly where I'm supposed to be.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing. Because I
was ready and I got to get that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
That is amazing. And you were the one that ended
up working and they didn't. You had your stuff wow ready,
so you never have to go about Fate was on
your side.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Absolutely, Fate, Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's fate. That was beautiful. Let me ask you. I
know we're getting down to the hour here with with
this amazing interview, and just I feel like I'm sitting
there in the room with you and I can see
everything as we're talking because.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
She's like I can feel.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's one thing, you know, when you talk to people
and you can actually feel the interview, that's when you
know you're talking to the person's soul, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, yeah, one thing about me, I'm always authentically myself.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So you're gonna get that vibe you are.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I do get that vibe. I do I get, you know,
and leading into that vibe. What's the word on the streets.
What do women feel when they wear your brand? When
they wear your product?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Well, you know from what they tell me, they love it.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You know, it's it took a while to find that
that formula that I was scared at first, because again
times have changed, you know, it went from having that
drastic matt to now everyone wants that luxury feeling. You know,
you want something that's going to be long lasting, but
you wanted to also be comfortable. So changing the formula
and sticking with that. And I was scared because I'm like, oh,
(30:39):
what if this is not received well? But the feedback
that I'm getting it's like, oh, I love your lashes,
I love your listic this is quality, even down to
my packaging, because I took time on everything. It wasn't
like I came up and I put my name on a.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Brand and that was that.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I wore this brand for two years before I even
set it out for the for the world to have,
because I wanted to make sure it will be received well,
so from the feedback since twenty sixteen until twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Currently, I'm getting they love it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
This is this is what they tell me.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, I sent your mind so you could see how
pretty I was I am because you couldn't tell me nothing.
I kept mudging my lips together. I felt like a
Dorothy Dandiest girl.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You love it like a girl I was.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I was riding in my little bins and I was
going to church yesterday and I had my hair in
the little side swoop and I just I couldn't stop
looking at myself. I was like, oh my god, I'm
so pretty. It's like see and that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
And that's how you should feeling something, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's how I felt wearing it. That's how I felt
wearing it. And it was like, oh my gosh, I'm
so pretty. This is it. And you're right. You know,
I've been wearing mac since ninety eight. And you're right
about the matt part of it, where you know it's dry,
like you have these dry, lucy fifties lips, know, And
what I liked about yours was the moisturization, the pop
color of the red that I was wearing it was
(32:06):
just a pop and you know, it's not always easy
to find that dope red that Knea long red on
black women, you know what I mean. And I just
love that I got the opportunity to experience that for
my own self. So that's the that's my dope story.
You know, looking ahead, you know what's next for Cash
Brand Cosmetics and you know, are there any upcoming launches
(32:26):
or collaborations that we should be excited about when you
come in to La.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So I mean it's in the words that I did have.
I do get a lot of jobs in La, which
is crazy. One of my good friends she does an
r in La, so I haven't branched over there just yet.
But for me, it's the I feel like the trajectory
of this business. You'll see it mainstream, you know, and
(32:52):
that's just a work in progress at this point.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Right now. I still collab with a.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Lot of celebrities, so you'll see it on celebrities, even
from you know, other makeup artists having it in their kids.
So yeah, I feel like being the lookout to see
it in those you know, drug stores and you know
the freelance story. So it's big things for the Cash
Brand cosmetics for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Well, you got to hit us up and let us
know so we can come, because I want to come
and look pretty too.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well listen, we want to just thank you for, you know,
interviewing with us today at w k IM FM sixty
one point one in Los Angeles. Like, this is one
of the most fun interviews that I've done in a while.
Besides you know, interviewing you know Snoop's daughter. She has
her you know, her own makeup brand as well. But
(33:44):
I love yours because yours is not just a lip gloss.
It is literally lashes as well as it's a lipstick.
It's that old hobo style with the new you know,
with the new vibe, the new new vat, the new
new black. Yeah. Yeah. Even though anybody can wear it,
I can only speak for how pretty I looked as
a black woman and how other women looked wearing it.
(34:07):
So I want to thank you for just being alive.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, if you even down to the right that you experienced.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I try to.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
It's not a lot of I think I have seven
main lipsticks, but they are for different undertones. So when
it comes to black women, I have three different reds.
So if you're darker shade. If you need something, you know,
on a darker scale, we have that, you know. So
I did cater to the black woman experience at hand
because I'm a black woman, you know, so definitely when
(34:41):
I came up with this line.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Fearful, but it is universal. It doesn't matter any you know,
shade or or race that you are. But at the
same time, it came from a black woman's, a black
woman's perspective.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
It did, it did, and I want to thank you
for creating that for us, for us, and you know,
just just so you just one for the team. So
I love it and I love you and I can't
wait to meet you. And I sent I sent little
miss Lindsay the video so you could see me. Just
you get in my search on I just want to
(35:14):
thank you for interviewing with us today and tell us
how we can buy your brand. By the way, tell
us how we can buy your brand and how we
can find you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
You can get it from the website ww dot the
Cash brand Cosmetics dot com. If you have a hard
time remembering that, you can go to my Instagram at
the Cash barb and it's right there in my bio
at the cash bar, at the cash barb yes, cash,
what's the kkash?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well, I want to thank you again, miss cast All,
for interviewing with us today WKMFM sixty one point one
in Los Angeles. And we're going to go pay some
bills now with a radio commercial, but we want to
thank you and we welcome you back to the show
at any given time. Keep us. Thank you so much
going on you can shout you out. Thank you, love
(36:04):
you mean absolutely, thank you, Sister God bless you and
thank you you too. Bye bye, bye bye.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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