Beauty Needs Me – Details, episodes & analysis

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 Me at @beautyneedsme or email us at beautyneedsme@gmail.com!

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

AMP Beauty LA is a tech forward e-tailer carrying over 50 black owned and inclusive beauty brands. Montre Moore, one of AMP Beauty LA's founders joins us this week to discuss her early beauty influences growing up in L.A., how attending an HBCU helped shift her standard of beauty, her career journey from PR to beauty. Montre also discusses the role edge control plays in the birth of AMP Beauty LA, some of her favorite beauty hacks, products and tools (find out what a face smoothie making machine is), and what AMP Beauty LA has in store for 2022!

You can find more info on AMP Beauty LA at www.ampbeautyla.com and keep up with them on IG at @ampbeautyla.

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

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

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

Products mentioned in this episode are mentioned below:

• Kinship Naked Papaya
• Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow PHA+BHA Pore Tight Toner
• Glow Recipe Pineapple-C Bright Serum
• Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Serum
• Murad Nutrient Charged Water Gel
• SuperGoop Glow Screen
• SuperGoop Unseen
• Kadalys Hydramuse Organic Comforting Cream
• Tatcha The Deep Cleanse
• Biologque Recherche P50 Toner
• Skinceuticals C E Ferulic
• Versed Stroke of Brilliance Brightening Serum
• PCA ReBalance
• Wander Beauty Drift Away Cleanser
• Monday Born Beauty Rebirth
• SkinBetter AlphaRet Overnight Cream
• Shani Darden Retinol Reform
• Ami Cole Lip Treatment Oil
• Ami Cole Light-Catching Highlighter
• Kosas Tinted Face Oil Comfy Skin Tint

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

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

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

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

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

Divya Gugnani, Co-Founder & CEO of Wander Beauty is a force to be reckoned with! As a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Divya has the business of beauty on lock. In this episode, we chat with Divya about the way her south east Asian culture impacted her view of beauty, how she helps women beauty entrepreneurs secure funding and the habit she's been doing for decades that serves as the cornerstone of her wellness practice. Make sure you stay tuned for this edition of Beauty News & Beauty Tip. The new vitamin C from Wander Beauty is Sight C-er Vitamin C Concentrate. The hair steamer mentioned during the Beauty tip segment is by Q-Redew. More information on Wander Beauty can be found at: https://www.wanderbeauty.com and on IG at @wander_beauty. You can find Divya on IG at @dgugnani. Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. You can also keep in touch with Beauty Needs Me at @beautyneedsme or email us at beautyneedsme@gmail.com! Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

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

In this episode, Shontay gives us some insight into how she grew up and the experiences that shaped her ideas of beauty, lets us in on the importance of BGS' name being authentic to who she is, and the guilt some non-Black women express when using BGS. We also get into how Shontay has been staying on top of her wellness, the Black Panther party, the aesthetic procedures we're thinking about trying and so much more!

Products mentioned during the Add to Cart segment are listed below:

• Lily Lashes Power Liner
• Marc Jacobs Extra Shot Caffeine Concealer
• Kin Apparel
• The Brand Label
• The Wrap Life
• The Dickinson's Witch Hazel
• Clean Skin Club
  

More information on Black Girl Sunscreen can be found at: https://www.blackgirlsunscreen.com/ and on IG at @blackgirlsunscreen. You can find Shontay on IG at @shontay_lundy.

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

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

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

In this episode, we discuss Shirley's upbringing which includes being born to a Martinique mother & French father and growing up between Djibouti, Martinique and France. Shirley lets us in on how her early exposure to traditional Caribbean medicine fueled her into plant research, her DIY banana face masks, how her well routines defy some of the main things all the beauty gurus tell us and how drill music (yes, drill rap) is currently her favorite music to dance to in the morning!

More information on Kadalys can be found at: https://kadalys.com and on IG at @kadalys. You can find Shirley on IG at @shirleybillot.

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

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

The skin on our faces make up about 3% of the total skin on our body, yet we (consumers, beauty industry, skincare products, etc) focus on it the most! In recent years, there's been more and more focus on taking care of the skin on our body (97%). Blair Armstrong founded Gilded Beauty to address the 97% of skin we all neglect.  In this episode, Blair shares her journey with beauty growing up in foster care, her ambition, how she pivoted from being a Dermatological Physician's Assistant to creating Gilded Beauty and how travel and architecture is infused in the design of her products and brand. Most importantly, Blair also discusses how important it is for her to reduce disparities in dermatologic care and allow more access by providing virtual and in-person appointments. Blair is an absolute force! We also bring you Beauty Tips & Beauty Moments as this episode's segments.  You can keep up with Gilded Beauty on IG at @theartofbodycare and check out their website. Gilded Beauty can also be purchased at Thirteen Lune.  Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. You can also keep in touch with Beauty Needs Me at @beautyneedsme or email us at beautyneedsme@gmail.com! Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

Anti-aging and anti-acne are two of the biggest sectors in the beauty industry, however, products for each of these issues often cancel each other out. Clear Stem founders, Danielle & Kayleigh created an anti-aging & anti-acne skincare line with no hormone disruptors or toxins. In this episode, Danielle & Kayleigh discuss how acne impacted their lives through adulthood, why we need to watch out for pore clogging ingredients, some of their favorite meal & drink (non-alcohol) recipes & tips to boost your overall wellness (and skin) and so much more! 

Products mentioned during in this episode:

• Thorne Supplements
• Solaray Supplements
• Just Thrive Probiotic & Antioxidant Supplements
• Sakara 
• Clear Stem BrightEyes Eye gel
• Clear Stem Vitaminscrub Anti-oxidant Infused Scrub Cleanser
• Clear Stem Cellrenew Collagen Infusion Serum 
• Clear Stem Bounceback Repair Serum
• Clear Stem Hydraglow Stem Cell Moisturizer
• Early Bird Morning Cocktail
• EltaMD Sunscreen Sheer 46
• The Marble Body Brush

Products mentioned in the Add to Cart segment:

• Gypsy by Nature
• Down Dog Yoga App
• Garden of Life Tummeric Inflammatory Gummies
• MSM Sulfur

More information on Clear Stem can be found at: https://clearstemskincare.com and on IG at @clearstem. Head over to IG to keep up or reach out to Danielle (@danielle.the.acne.guru) & Kayleigh (@kayleigh.christina). 

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

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions

Tisha Thompson, founder & CEO of LYS Beauty is on a mission to diversify the clean beauty industry. After working as a professional makeup artist and serving as the VP of Marketing PUR Cosmetics, Tisha started Love Yourself Beauty (LYS). In this episode, Tisha tells us how good relationships played a major role in getting her business off the ground, how she went about getting into Sephora to become the first clean makeup line at Sephora and so much more. We had such a great time chatting with Tisha & look forward to you enjoying this episode! 

You can keep up with LYS Beauty on IG at @lysbeautyofficial & Tisha Thompson at @glamourgurl5. Dunni & Taleah can both be found on IG at @TheeDunniO & @TaleahGriffin. You can also keep in touch with Beauty Needs Me at @beautyneedsme or email us at beautyneedsme@gmail.com!

Hosts: Dunni Odumosu and Taleah Griffin Produced by: Le’Ru Productions