Beauty Needs Me

In our season 3 closer, we talk about what we've learned from our season 3 guests and our current thoughts on products and innovations in the beauty industry. This is just a good ol' ki-ki session with your two favorite lazy beauty girls! See you next year! Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. You can also keep in touch with Beauty Needs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This episode was originally aired on September 3, 2020. In the spirit of NYC Fashion Week making a come back, we are running it back!  Nana is a force to be reckoned with! The Founder & CEO of EveryStylishGirl is a journalist by trade who has built her career at places like BBC, The New York Times, ELLE, Refinery29, New York Magazine and The Cut. In this episode, we discus

This week, Dunni & Taleah are talking about wellness! They discuss the practices & routines they kept up over the summer to help keep them feeling and operating at their best and what they’re thinking about doing in the fall to keep themselves from feeling the seasonal blues. Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. Keep in touch with Beauty Needs M