Speaker 1: Hey, Beauty's It's Jamie Joe and Jesse Massu and welcome
Speaker 1: to Skimployence, a podcast dedicated to beauty, fashion and self love.
Speaker 2: Turning your weakness into your uniqueness.
Speaker 1: Before we get started, we'd like to acknowledge the custodians
Speaker 1: of the land on which we record, the Gadigel people
Speaker 1: of the Eor Nation. In today's episode, we will be
Speaker 1: telling you the celebrity brands that are actually worth your
Speaker 1: money and the products that we think.
Speaker 2: Will serve you best and some that you should probably avoid.
Speaker 1: Okay, celebrity beauty brands. I think that every celebrity ever
Speaker 1: has come out with some sort of beauty brand. They
Speaker 1: saw Fanti Beauty do it really really well, and now
Speaker 1: everyone's just thinking that they can do the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it's just a way for them
Speaker 3: to like commodify off their name already and then make
Speaker 3: a brand from that.
Speaker 2: So it's just a big marketing ploy. Oh yeah, And
Speaker 2: sometimes I wonder if they're actually involved with the brand. Well,
Speaker 2: I would say that it depends on the brand.
Speaker 1: I think that some of the creators creators of the
Speaker 1: brand are so involved, which is really beautiful and you
Speaker 1: can see that coming through, and then others are just
Speaker 1: using the name whatever big celebrity name it is and
Speaker 1: sticking it on a brand and trying to sell.
Speaker 2: It to manufacturing products and selling it to us for
Speaker 2: the name.
Speaker 1: Yes, so true, But I mean I really love some
Speaker 1: beauty brands and they become staples in our makeup kits.
Speaker 2: And we all know.
Speaker 1: What those brands, we know what they have, Fanty Beauties,
Speaker 1: the rare beauty exactly roads and not everyone, unfortunately, has
Speaker 1: the same pool that Rihanna does, Like, you can't pretend
Speaker 1: to be rereach.
Speaker 4: She's going to sell anything because everyone loves her.
Speaker 3: That's true, But there are so many other celebrity beauty
Speaker 3: brands that you might not actually be aware about, and
Speaker 3: because they're kind of flops.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, let's be really Unfortunately, there are just
Speaker 1: too many, and a lot of people are doing the
Speaker 1: same thing.
Speaker 2: A lot of people doing hair.
Speaker 4: I think they were like, oh, everyone's done makeup, let's
Speaker 4: do hair.
Speaker 2: Let's be different.
Speaker 3: Now everyone's doing hair. As in let's name some of
Speaker 3: these brands.
Speaker 4: Okay, Jennifer Andison has a hair brand.
Speaker 2: Did we all know this? I actually did it? Not
Speaker 2: sure you told me?
Speaker 1: But honestly, would you ever look at Jennifer Anison be like, yes,
Speaker 1: her hair is amazing.
Speaker 2: I want no everyone back in her day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that, like I want the Jonah fan
Speaker 3: as a nineties haircut. Yeah, but it's like, but now
Speaker 3: it's I think it's done.
Speaker 2: Her hair is still the same.
Speaker 1: I do love her though, she's great, but you know whatever.
Speaker 1: There's also reader Or's hair brand. We've tried it.
Speaker 2: It is pretty good. Yeah, yeah, my hair type bait.
Speaker 2: I like the packaging a lot. It's like it's topology
Speaker 2: with the yellow I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the marketing side of that has done well is
Speaker 3: because of the way it's presented.
Speaker 2: I think reader Or is definitely like a business woman.
Speaker 1: She's she is a great celebrity, like she's very talented,
Speaker 1: but I think she's more of a business woman in
Speaker 1: my opinion.
Speaker 3: At the same time, I think it's also still early
Speaker 3: days for her for her, so I can't tell how
Speaker 3: that brand's going to do.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, Well, there's even JVN that's a hair brand
Speaker 1: from another celebrity who.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't you know that? No, I did at a
Speaker 2: celebrity own, Yeah, which celebrity. He's from Queer Eye. What's
Speaker 2: his name?
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, Jonathan van Ness JVN. Yeah, JVN kind
Speaker 1: of like came onto the scene and they've got good products.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that it did very well.
Speaker 2: Oh why, Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I just think that again, so many incredible hair brands
Speaker 1: already and then.
Speaker 2: Just hair brands. Sometimes it's just good to stick in
Speaker 2: your lane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: I have an answer for why.
Speaker 2: I think it.
Speaker 5: So. Jonathan has kind of been a bit canceled because
Speaker 5: apparently has very like toxic behavior to his castmates.
Speaker 1: On Queer Eye.
Speaker 5: He's apparently a nightmare to work with. So that's probably
Speaker 5: why everything's flopping.
Speaker 1: I heard her rumor that it's kind of going under,
Speaker 1: but I don't even know if that's true. Don't take
Speaker 1: it as bible anyway. Okay, Well, Blake Lively just dropped
Speaker 1: a new hair brand.
Speaker 2: Very interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you know, Blake's hair is pretty phenomenally.
Speaker 1: You've got Serena vander Woodson, like, that's iconic hair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and for our generation, I feel like everyone's going
Speaker 3: to want to buy onto that because Blake is so
Speaker 3: loved as well.
Speaker 1: I love Blake Lively. She's phenomenal. Yeah, I think she's incredible.
Speaker 2: She always turns up to the metal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the best except for this year, but so true.
Speaker 1: But her brand is called Blake Brown, which I think
Speaker 1: is like her original name.
Speaker 2: That's rue, like her middle name.
Speaker 1: I like the way it rolls off the it rolls
Speaker 1: off the tongue. Now this is her catch. I think
Speaker 1: this is like where she's trying to be different. Okay,
Speaker 1: she says that no one in Hollywood uses conditioner.
Speaker 2: What Yeah, that was her, that's her. So she has
Speaker 2: no conditions.
Speaker 1: There's no conditioner in the whole hair range, no one
Speaker 1: in Hollywood US.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but here's the catch.
Speaker 1: She just has a mask like conditioner.
Speaker 2: They're using masks and said, I do that. Well that's
Speaker 2: what we do. Oh that's fair exactly.
Speaker 4: I think it was like a cute, little cheeky marketing
Speaker 4: place to.
Speaker 1: Be like, what are they doing? I want to do
Speaker 1: that conditioner in Hollywood? No, you just use a hair
Speaker 1: mask instead, which is just a better version of conditioner.
Speaker 3: One brand that I've been keeping my eye on just
Speaker 3: for the kickles is Florence by Mills.
Speaker 2: So you're actually keeping your eye on it.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just because I follow her. Well, I really
Speaker 3: like actor.
Speaker 2: She's so funny.
Speaker 3: The marketing is a little bit interesting. I think it
Speaker 3: is for like a younger audience than our generation.
Speaker 4: Do you think she could be doing better with the marketing?
Speaker 2: Do you like it?
Speaker 3: It's just not what you'd expect from a celebrity brand, right,
Speaker 3: but maybe maybe that.
Speaker 4: Will work for her.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a bit kiddish.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to say, like the pimple patches probably like
Speaker 3: unicorns and rainbows or something like that.
Speaker 2: People patch is done, Yeah I think so, but yeah,
Speaker 2: because grossed.
Speaker 1: But it's just not that Star People patches mean you're
Speaker 1: that girl. They just I feel like people wear Star
Speaker 1: People patches and they think that they're so indie.
Speaker 2: But they're kind of cute, like they're wearing a plastic
Speaker 2: pimple patch. But that's anyways, what else have we got?
Speaker 2: Beyonce has a hair brand.
Speaker 1: Beyonce has a hair brand, So Beyonce and Rihanna and
Speaker 1: both have hair brands.
Speaker 2: Now I think they're like battling it out. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I've never tried Beyonces.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Well, we're still waiting for them to be available in
Speaker 1: Australia and I am dying to try fenty hair.
Speaker 3: Okay, because fenty hair is looking incredible. I see all
Speaker 3: the tiktoks for the curly girls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the reviews have been really great. It looks extremely
Speaker 1: hydrating for curly girls. And honestly, there's like a few
Speaker 1: good staple products. But it's not like she just copying
Speaker 1: pasted from a regular curl hair range. You can really tell.
Speaker 4: It's very well thoroughly thought out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, read out a few of the products. Okay, she's
Speaker 2: got the rich One moisture Repair shampoo conditioner and then
Speaker 2: a deep conditioner.
Speaker 1: Right, but we would say that might be for a
Speaker 1: bit kinkier hair than.
Speaker 3: Our Yes, I probably wouldn't buy those products. Like after
Speaker 3: reading them and seeing them online, it looks like we're
Speaker 3: a tied to curl exactly, which is good because there's
Speaker 3: a lot out there for looser curl patterns already.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: But the products I have my eye on as the
Speaker 3: Home Curl curl defining cream, the jelly type stronghold gel.
Speaker 1: Yes, these look incredible. It looks so good and the
Speaker 1: packaging is so unique too.
Speaker 2: I love the packaging.
Speaker 3: It's in like a tub, which is not unusual, but
Speaker 3: it opens like a makeup palette.
Speaker 2: It doesn't like scroll off. Yeah, I really like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the jelly type stronghold gel looks so it
Speaker 3: looks amazing.
Speaker 1: I also really like that. It's kind of a simplified
Speaker 1: routine for curly girls. So you've got just the cream and.
Speaker 2: Just the gel.
Speaker 1: A lot of uni, Yeah, a lot of girls have
Speaker 1: been saying just two products and the hair is looking
Speaker 1: better than ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because a lot of the time you see on TikTok,
Speaker 2: like ten products lined up just to get your hair
Speaker 2: looking good. But like, honestly, that's not what you need
Speaker 2: when the products are good exactly. We've always preached that
Speaker 2: two steps for styling is perfect, Yes, but they.
Speaker 4: Do have one more thing, right, No, they've got three
Speaker 4: more things.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, So the controlling type hair thickening, edge control job.
Speaker 2: So this is more of a styling product when you
Speaker 2: want to slick your hair back, yeah, or even for
Speaker 2: girls who wear wigs.
Speaker 4: That'd be really good for under a wig exactly.
Speaker 3: And with that they've got the side stick three in
Speaker 3: one edge styling tool.
Speaker 2: See that looks so good.
Speaker 3: I want it so and that together, Yeah, like even
Speaker 3: for your hair right now, it would look so.
Speaker 2: Much better than what it does.
Speaker 4: That's a shade you're throwing at it.
Speaker 3: And then the last product is the Protective type five
Speaker 3: in one heat protectant styler. And a lot of time
Speaker 3: you think about heat protectant is before you straight and I'll.
Speaker 2: Give your hair a blowout.
Speaker 3: But honestly, when you're diffusing your hair, he protected should
Speaker 3: also be used. And I don't do it, but I
Speaker 3: think I want to start employment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe we should try and get a hands
Speaker 4: on that. Then.
Speaker 1: I think he protected before diffusing is really good if
Speaker 1: you want a tight hold, because if you're diffusing without heat,
Speaker 1: it's you're not going to get a.
Speaker 3: Strong, long holding curls. Yeah, and that's why I really
Speaker 3: liked to refuse, because my hair lasts longer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, honestly, like re Rey really always comes in with innovation,
Speaker 1: and that's one thing I love about her, and I
Speaker 1: I just think she does really really well to set
Speaker 1: herself aside.
Speaker 4: In the market.
Speaker 1: I would say, in terms of like the holy grail
Speaker 1: of celebrity brands, what do we have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we said earlier it's definitely fenty it's
Speaker 3: rare beauty, and I think now Roads has come onto
Speaker 3: the scene quite well. Yeah, I really like Rhoades, but
Speaker 3: with Fenty, Like, let's get into this a little bit
Speaker 3: more in terms of her makeup. How has that like
Speaker 3: aged over time because it's been around longer than these
Speaker 3: other brands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they kind of stepped onto the scene and
Speaker 1: they made a big impact. Like Fenty Beauty was massive.
Speaker 1: This was the biggest launching beauty you know, after that
Speaker 1: massive beauty Guru era, Like this was iconic because she
Speaker 1: came out with a massive shade range that no other
Speaker 1: brand was doing, and that level of inclusivity did not
Speaker 1: exist before.
Speaker 2: Re redid it.
Speaker 1: She really did pave the way for other beauty brands
Speaker 1: to step up and get it together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it kind of kicked everyone else in the butt,
Speaker 3: like this is the industry standard that needs to be happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was a really really like pivotal shift
Speaker 1: in the beauty market. And also she was really one
Speaker 1: of the first big celebrities to come out with a
Speaker 1: brand and kind of have this insane hype around the launches,
Speaker 1: Like it was so much fun. I remember going to
Speaker 1: the Sephora desk for the first time and just being
Speaker 1: like why.
Speaker 2: Did you go to like early fenty Beauty again and
Speaker 2: like you got to meet Rihanna. Oh yes.
Speaker 1: When fenty Beauty dropped in Australia, there was a massive,
Speaker 1: like exclusive event and I was fanging so hard, like
Speaker 1: I'd actually never felt that type of anxiety before because
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be as close to Rihanna as possible.
Speaker 4: That's so short, but ghost I was unlocked memory time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for reference, Fancy Beauty did launch in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: so it's it's in that era. It was in that
Speaker 2: like beauty guru error.
Speaker 3: The makeup and strackaging and the artistry of it is
Speaker 3: really suited to that time, and I feel like there
Speaker 3: is room now for the brand to sort of give
Speaker 3: it a little regig in terms of packaging.
Speaker 1: Also in that time, there was a lot going on racially,
Speaker 1: so this was kind of a way to empower a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the beauty industry as well as
Speaker 1: outside of it.
Speaker 2: Like it just created a lot of noise. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it definitely kicked off her brand super well. It launched
Speaker 2: at a really good time.
Speaker 4: Yeah for what it is, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Well in terms of now, like we I still really
Speaker 1: do love fnty beauty, but I feel like it just
Speaker 1: has a little bit less of a place in my kit.
Speaker 1: That's when I think Rare Beauty has really done an
Speaker 1: amazing job at establishing themselves as a brand for everybody.
Speaker 3: And like I said, you know, we never know where
Speaker 3: real beauty will be in Like we might feel the
Speaker 3: same about her brand in three years time or four
Speaker 3: years time, but for right now, she seems a bit
Speaker 3: more relevant to the current makeup because before it was really.
Speaker 2: Into like artistry, the full beat, the full.
Speaker 3: Glam, and now it's kind of like stripping it back
Speaker 3: and then everyone's sort of wanting to.
Speaker 2: Whatever's been portrayed in the media.
Speaker 3: I guess at this time it's more of like natural
Speaker 3: but glowy compared to a beef like a full beat.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Selena herself as a CEO of Red Beauty, she
Speaker 1: is so involved and you can really see the love
Speaker 1: filtered through, which.
Speaker 2: Is what I love about Red Beauty.
Speaker 1: And I like that it's an approachable brand, so you know,
Speaker 1: they have packaging that is easy for everybody to use
Speaker 1: even if you you know, struggle with any sort of
Speaker 1: like muscular things. Like I really like that she keeps
Speaker 1: everybody in mind when she's creating.
Speaker 2: That's really nice. Yeah, she's so sweet.
Speaker 1: I have met Selena Gomez, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I've literally been in the room with
Speaker 4: both of that.
Speaker 2: It's really cool. That's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, honestly, literally, she was wearing this like snake
Speaker 1: skin little mini dress and bucket hat.
Speaker 2: Wasn't she wearing a hat? Yeah? Oh my gosh. It
Speaker 2: was such a good time.
Speaker 1: It was a really cool time like that. That time
Speaker 1: in the beauty world was so exciting. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that besides Fenty doing an incredible job, rare
Speaker 1: beauties like really solidified themselves in the market and they
Speaker 1: have so many beautiful products and they're super approachable.
Speaker 3: I find that these products a lot. They're in my
Speaker 3: kit now, like these are my staple products. We use
Speaker 3: them everywhere.
Speaker 2: With Fenty, what products would you say are like in
Speaker 2: and out?
Speaker 1: Well, I would say it's a really big brand now,
Speaker 1: Like they've got a lot of products, so it can
Speaker 1: be established. Yeah, it can be like slightly overwhelming if
Speaker 1: you're new to makeup or if you're more like that
Speaker 1: kind of girl next door, like relaxed vibe with your makeup.
Speaker 1: But I would say, like the iconic gloss bomb lip glosses,
Speaker 1: that's the Yeah, that's the lip gloss, Like that's the blueprint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I don't think any lip gloss comes close
Speaker 2: to me. It doesn't top it. But like the.
Speaker 3: Consistency, like the thickness of the loins, the way it
Speaker 3: actually like makes your lips look juice.
Speaker 2: Even just the innovation of shades.
Speaker 1: She really did kind of bring out the first range
Speaker 1: of lip glosses.
Speaker 2: That were so different and bold. Then you're just like
Speaker 2: pinkies and you know regularly ones you're seeing the price line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. She she changed the game for shades.
Speaker 2: Some of like some of the brands now not celebrity rands,
Speaker 2: but they are stuck with like the old lip gloss
Speaker 2: shade ranges and like on tan skin, it's like you're
Speaker 2: putting conceala on your lip and it's foul.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true, That's what I mean. For all types
Speaker 1: of races. She brought out shades that matched everybody. Like
Speaker 1: I found my first brown lipgloss from like re Re,
Speaker 1: and I remember being like this is revolutionary for me,
Speaker 1: Like I don't have concealer lips anymore.
Speaker 2: This actually matches well, I don't have bright pink fish Yeah,
Speaker 2: bright pink Fisher lips.
Speaker 4: We're not revisiting that today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I would say, like when we're kind of
Speaker 1: fighting off between fenty and Red Beauty. Fenty just did
Speaker 1: release a whole range of lipliners. They're called Traced Out
Speaker 1: and they're thirty dollars. You can get them at Saphora.
Speaker 1: On the other side of that, Red Beauty haslipliners as well,
Speaker 1: and they're twenty nine dollars for.
Speaker 4: A one dollar Yeah, very even out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like in the same price range. But we
Speaker 3: have tried both these products out now. Yeah, we just
Speaker 3: recently got the fenty ones and we both tried them
Speaker 3: out for the past couple of days, and we fought
Speaker 3: the battle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rad Beauty one. Ah yeah, Red Beauty one.
Speaker 1: They really did because Red Beauty is my staple lip line.
Speaker 1: I wear it every single day and nothing has ever
Speaker 1: come close to it.
Speaker 3: No, the formula is really good, Like you can eat
Speaker 3: with it, it will like usually stay on and then
Speaker 3: it just.
Speaker 2: Merges really well when you put like ar lip gloss on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The why is the consistency not as good for fenty?
Speaker 3: What's the difference it's a bit more slippery. I found
Speaker 3: that it wasn't going where I wanted.
Speaker 1: It's almost too creamy. And also it's the packaging itself.
Speaker 1: So reduity is a wind up and then fenty is
Speaker 1: a you have to sharpen it like it's a kind
Speaker 1: of original pencil. And I just feel like the wind
Speaker 1: up is a lot more easy to use all the time.
Speaker 1: Like if I have a lipline in my bag and
Speaker 1: it's blunt, then I have no lips for the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't I want lips.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just almost too creamy to the point
Speaker 1: where I can't get good definition.
Speaker 2: Which you want from a lipliner. Yeah, you would want that.
Speaker 1: But the shape range almost beats re Beauties like they
Speaker 1: have so Traders exactly. There's a bit of like you know,
Speaker 1: it almost balances itself out. The shades are stunning from
Speaker 1: Fentie and like again, trust Rihanna to bring out the
Speaker 1: best shades for everybody, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in ryleb Kit, it's going to be the rebuy.
Speaker 2: Yeah me too. I've for that one two.
Speaker 4: I've got to be petty like that. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: So hopefully we've given you a little bit of guidance
Speaker 3: on what brands to try and what brands to avoid,
Speaker 3: and we'll leave you with that information to make your
Speaker 3: own decision.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really fun, like obviously give everything a go,
Speaker 1: but we've got our paples, so we really really love
Speaker 1: so thank you so much for joining us today on
Speaker 1: skimp Flood.
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