Beauty Care Pod

Josie joined us on Beauty Care Pod to talk about Brazilian Lymphatic Massage and how it's going to become the next big thing after Brazilian Waxing.

She shared the story of how she moved from Brazil to U.S.A. and the value of this massage technique. She also explained how she has been able to help her clients realize that this technique will detox their body and system.

About Josie

Josie Rushing, founder of Brazilicious Beauty Spa, is the name behind the luxurious, highly sought-after Brazilian Lymphatic Drainage Massage technique. Born and raised in Brazil, Josie has worked with body contouring and wraps for the last decade and has seen thousands of different shapes and sizes of Latinas, Europeans, and American women. After studying the Lymphatic Drainage technique with a host of specialists, and combined with her firsthand experience from Brazil, she has decided to create and introduce her own technique to the United States.

The Brazilian Lymphatic Drainage Massage has quickly become one of the fastest growing secrets amongst celebrities of all kinds. Adored by celebs including Emma Chamberlain, Lilli Reinhart, and Whitney Port, Josie’s signature technique offers quick results, instant shape, and provides target contouring for all looking to improve their beauty and health. This exclusive method by Josie is specifically designed to beautify you from the inside out by improving blood circulation, strengthen the immune system, reduce swelling and bloating, reduce cellulite, and even fight infection.

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It was so much fun hosting Tahwah on Beauty Care Pod where she shared with us her experience treating her own acne through personal research and helping close members of her family. She has since then become a skincare advocate taking time to research various products in skincare and giving tips on her research on her social media channel. She has now started esthetics school due to her passion for skincare and her wish to become a licensed professional so she can help even more people in her growing community to have beautiful and better skin.

About Tahwah

Tahwan Garba is on a mission to bring a personalized beauty routine to each house. As a content creator, she provides skincare tips and product recommendations to help people achieve and maintain better skin and early signs of aging based on her own experience and bioscience knowledge.

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Chris joined on the show giving us a brief history of his childhood, how he told us about his journey to esthetics and holistic health coaching. He shared his story of how he was able to clear his very difficult acne as well as how he has since been maintaining a health young looking skin as well as how he was able to sell lots of his book and grow his YouTube audience all with being consistent.

About Chris

Chris Gibson is a sought-after skincare expert and holistic health coach/esthetician. He is also the Best-Selling Author of the acclaimed book Acne Free In 3 Days (1 Million+ Copies Sold) and has a very successful YouTube channel, Chris Gibson Live!

The YouTube channel (163K subscribers) is dedicated to providing expert information and product reviews on skincare and wellness topics for both skin issues and anti-aging. His social media reach is well over 300K, increasing every day, and can bring you more listeners and subscribers. He was recently featured in

USA Today on the topic "7 Freaky Chemicals In Your Skin Care Products and How to Avoid Them”. Chris has been popularly featured on CBS, ABC Family, Fox News, The Daily Buzz, and numerous lifestyle television and radio show across the country and in Canada.

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Cosmetic Dentist, Victoria Veytsman, discusses discovering dentistry: the perfect blend of art and medicine while building clients’ confidence. She shares what it took for her to build a business that treats everyone like a celebrity. Victoria explains that building this type of business is achievable. Still, it requires perseverance, working on interpersonal relationships, and providing quality services.                    

From full mouth reconstructions to porcelain veneers for pro-aging, Vic gives insight into her alluring dental work. She also shares her professional views on electric toothbrushes and charcoal toothpaste. Treating every single person like a celebrity certainly keeps celebrities coming.

About Dr. Victoria Veytsman

The youngest graduate of NYU Dental, Dr. Victoria Veytsman is a celebrity cosmetic dentist with a passion for all things oral health and beauty, wellness and building confidence. Her practice, Cosmetic Dental Studios, is female-founded and run, and features bicoastal locations in NYC and Beverly Hills. Known for changing the lives of patients with beautiful transformations and healthy smiles, Cosmetic Dental Studios serves patients from around the globe with a primary focus on smile makeovers, dentofacial aesthetics, and anti-aging dentistry. An artist at heart, Dr. Veytsman (known as “Dr. V”) chose cosmetic dentistry because it is the perfect blend of art & science.

Dr. Veytsman has become known for her smile makeovers performed as the official dentist to several prominent organizations, including Miss America, Miss Universe and the New York Giants.

Cheerleaders. She is sought out by celebrities, media personalities, and prominent individuals for her unique approach to patient care. She continues to be featured in national and international publications and has been highlighted in countless well-known media outlets for her outstanding results and professional patient care. Dr. Veytsman has been a featured smile expert on TLC, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Haute Living, WebMD, Yahoo! Health, New Beauty, Latina Magazine, Allure, Brides, Men’s Health, Social Life Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Hamptons Magazine.

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Crystal is a one-woman-show esthetician based in Atlanta, Georgia. She shares her unusual career journey, which allowed her to pick up skills in marketing and advertising until she eventually rekindled her love for the business of beauty. She is currently a beauty coach who helps people grow their businesses.

Crystal shares information about her early years as she hovered undecidedly between career choices from law to engineering to marketing and advertising, which she did for 10yrs until she decided to circle back to her first interest, the beauty industry. 

She explains how her business background made going solo after esthetics school a lot easier. She shares juicy marketing tips, including how to keep customers by building good relationships, showing expertise, and keeping in touch through emails and texts. She explains that you should let your clients know what you expect from them to get optimal results.

About Crystal

Crystal Ochemba-Powell is an experienced Licensed Esthetician, Makeup Artist, Business Coach and Licensed Continuing Education Provider with a combined 10 years of experience in both Business Marketing and the Beauty Industry. In addition to her Esthetics License, she holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Advertising & Marketing.

During her career, she has used her knowledge and experience to successfully build her own beauty business as well as the beauty businesses of other creative entrepreneurs including barbers, cosmetologists, estheticians, etc.

When she is not servicing her own clients, she enjoys training and coaching other beauty professionals on how to use proven marketing techniques to increase customer acquisition and conversions. She feels that her biggest asset is her ability to intersect her passion for both Marketing and Beauty with her signature training courses.

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Carina Brooks is trained in skin care, lashes, and tattoos. She discusses her journey from modeling and, as a college student, rendering home services to starting her beauty business which includes tattooing. Carina keeps building her knowledge to deliver the best to her clients.

She shares how she did nails in people’s houses at the beginning but eventually built herself working under some of the most experienced Estheticians. She explains the importance of upcoming Estheticians in gradually building up their skills in the business to obtain a solid reputation and a thriving client base.

She talks about some of the challenges in skin treatment, such as how photodamage from the sun may be irreversible and difficult to treat. She also explains the danger of using chemical pills, which should be prescribed by a trained skin care practitioner.

Carina shares her love for tattoos and her excitement about the potential of tattoos to attract younger clients.

About Carina

Carina King is a Licensed Full Specialist  (dual licensed skincare and nails) NCEA Certified Esthetician, Eyelash Extension Artist, Make Up Artist, and Skincare Specialist.

She has 20 years of expertise in the beauty industry including ten years in skincare in a medical setting which sets her apart from other Skincare professionals.

Her goal is RESULTS and with every service, she makes her client the main focus and gives them the highest quality services with the highest level of professional grade skincare.

She carries, and is certified in, Skin Script Skincare, GlyMed Plus, and Image Skincare to create a customized experience focused on creating the skincare regimen specifically for each client.

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People buy value; they don’t buy things. Cherie Callahan is a trained esthetician and coach who makes as high as $52,000 a month as an esthetician with a single bed. She explains how she delivers value to her clients and trains others to operate at a higher level by doing the same.

Cherie explains the importance of building relationships to feel connected to clients. She shares how she gave out free samples of products just so that she could build long-lasting relationships with her clients and deliver value. 

She explains that understanding the work cut out for us helps us put in the necessary work in terms of marketing, financials, and business choices. She adds that our passion for our work shows through the value and quality we deliver.

Cherie shares how we can strategically talk about our business, even when grocery shopping. “Podcasts and Instagram marketing attract people to want to investigate a potential relationship, but you have to do the work,” Cherie says.

She emphasizes how accountability goes a long way. Knowing where we are at and what we’re aiming for guides us to reach loftier goals.

About Cherie

Cherie Callahan has over 20 years in the beauty industry. She began her career with Victoria Secret Beauty, working with their cosmetic and fragrance lines. After running a successful store, Cherie was promoted to District Manager with 12 stores on the East Coast. Upon returning to California, she was offered the District Manager’s position with PureBeauty located in San Francisco, and later was promoted to the role of Regional Manager over Northern California.

Cherie always longed to serve her clients from the “other side of the table.” Once she raised her family, Cherie went back to school for her esthetics license at the San Francisco Institute of Esthetics and has been living her dream ever since! Just one visit with Cherie and you are sure to identify with someone who has found her purpose in helping businesses as well as individuals reach their beauty and business goals.

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Less is more. Three ingredients are all it takes for Renee Harris to make her quintessential hard lotion.

Growing up in California, Renee shares how she experienced skin dryness due to the harsh summers. After growing up and having children, she noticed that her palms were getting cracked and split due to continuous hand washing after changing so many diapers. She decided to learn to make a lotion bar with three simple ingredients, and she was amazed at the results. 

She shares how she marketed hard lotion to cowboys and truckers, who were equally amazed. She explains the three ingredients that make hard lotion so special: beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil. Coconut oil melts at the same temperature as the skin, shea butter nourishes the skin, and beeswax helps it to stay longer on the skin. Renee finally shares the secrets of making good, hard lotion.

About Renee

Renee's first lotion bar was created out of desperation, mixed with creativity. The creativity came from the pleasure she got from making things from her kitchen for her family, whether it was soap, bread, mung sprouts or our family special "apple kefir" that resembles Martinelli's sparkling juice.

The desperation came, literally, from her hands. She had the worst pain from the tips of her fingers that were often covered in Band-aids from the cuts and splits from her daily activities and extremely dry skin. Her hands were her most important tools, but they caused her intense suffering... until the lotion bar.

Not only did that first lotion bar heal up her skin within days, but she tried it with her son's seasonal eczema, and was ecstatic that his pain also ended with the lotion bar.

Something that was so easy to make turned into a family business after she and her older boys took it to the farmer's market for testing where they received great feedback from customers at the market, as well as several online groups who agreed to test it and fill out surveys. Renee and her husband are now running MadeOn full time.

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Iranian-born Hanieh Sigari moved to America when she was seven. There, she made unusual friends for her age and had to deal with loss early in life. This experience as a girl inspired her to dedicate herself to figuring out the “fountain of youth.” Hanieh shares how she evolved as a passionate businesswoman by starting a nursing home health care business that boomed to building Qyral, a personalized skincare anti-aging brand.

After a long run at her nursing home health care business, Hanieh decided to sell it off to create a personalized skincare company for individuals based on a quiz that helps to extract specific information to personalize her clients’ formulation. She details how she alters PH, concentrations, and other elements to suit individual skin types. Hanieh also shares how paying attention to customer feedback helps her brand evolve. She explains two tips driving her brand’s evolution: customer-centricity and flexibility with new ideas. According to Hanieh, empathizing with her customers helps her understand and personalize services better.

About Hanieh

After being disappointed too many times, Hanieh researched the science behind miracle skincare claims, and discovered that it didn't hold any true value. There was more than one thing missing. As you would expect, she discovered an obvious truth; generic products produce nothing more than generic results. There is definitely no one size fits all approach to skincare since our skin compositions are not the same. She then decided to do better, by giving the skin what it truly needs. A tailored approach based on the skins needs.

She has since dedicated years to working with world-renowned formulators and dermatologists who all agree: if you want to reverse the signs of aging and improve your skin’s appearance, cellular turnover holds the key. Effective skincare products work by supporting your body’s natural processes. As we age, those processes slow and are compounded by factors including genetics, lifestyle, and environment. And because those factors are unique to us, our skincare products need to be unique too. It’s more than just skincare; it’s cellular care.

Combining her training in biochemistry with entrepreneurial experience, she created Qyral, by taking cutting-edge research on aging and marrying it to beauty, science, and empowerment.

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Our guest on the show today is Stacey Levine. She is an oral care specialist and co-founder of GLO Science and GLO Good Foundation. On the podcast today, Stacy shares her childhood experiences in Brooklyn, being introduced to entrepreneurship at an early age, and the motivation behind starting her company and going into the teeth whitening business.  

Furthermore, she discusses how she developed her brand, GLO Science, with her husband and the hurdles she had to cross. Besides, Stacey examines teeth whitening technology and what differentiates her oral therapies from others on the market.

Stacy also highlights some of her patented products and technologies, including a device guaranteed to whiten the teeth in 16 minutes which can be used anywhere. She also mentions the importance of visiting a dentist to whiten teeth instead of DIY.

Besides, she discusses teeth aging, discolorations, and the impact of proper diet on the teeth. Being a wealth of knowledge, Stacy shares tips for budding business owners.

Finally, she deliberates on the impact of giving back to society and what her foundation is doing to help different groups have better teeth, including its mission to Rwanda.

About Stacey

Stacey Levine is the co-founder of GLO Science and the GLO Good Foundation. She is a mom of two entrepreneur sons, married to her partner in life/business, and a beauty/oral care entrepreneur with a passion for design. She is a true visionary with a personal and professional mission to advocate the importance of having a healthy beautiful smile. She is the inspiration and the powerhouse motivator for her company, her philanthropic foundation, and her family. The results of her passion and determination can be seen in the healthy and bright smiles of the millions served around the world by her foundation and her brand. She is determined to make people care for and fall in love with their smiles, so they do it more often!.

About GLO Science®️

GLO combines dentist-led ingenuity and science to create game-changing products for professional and personal oral care. With more than 4,000 dental practices on board, four-time Thomas-Edison award-winning GLO Science brings state-of-the-art technology to dentists and safely modifies best-in-class products for people at home. GLO created the at-home whitening device category with the launch of its first product in 2011 and its patented Illuminating Heat Technology ™ is revolutionizing the oral care category by using warmth to safely deliver unrivalled whitening results with oral care benefits. Advocating oral health as a gateway to overall health and wellness, co-founders Stacey Levine and world-renowned dentist & oral care specialist.

Dr. Jonathan Levine passionately believe everyone deserves to have a beautiful, healthy smile. Their GLO Good foundation provides free dentistry for people who do not have access to care, transforming smiles and lives around the world.  GLO’s professional-grade products are available in dental practices across the globe and its retail line is sold at gloscience.com and select retailers including Sephora, Bloomingdales, Amazon, Dermstore, and more.

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Today, the skincare legend, Pamela Springer, joins us for a second time and takes us on a deep dive into chemical peels for skin of color.

In today’s episode, Pamela discusses how different skin colors and types react to chemical peels and why an esthetician must investigate each skin to take care of it properly.

She emphasizes that, in caring for a client, an esthetician shouldn’t make assumptions by relying only on skin color but should dig deeper into the client’s genealogy to develop the appropriate skincare for the individual based on their DNA.

She shares how estheticians can investigate a client’s skin, how to prep various skins for chemical peels, how to prevent burns, the intensity of chemical peels needed for skin of color, and the role of PH levels in chemical peels generally.

On the business side, she also discusses tips on how estheticians should select their product line offerings to be able to cater to various skin types, her inside process of applying chemical peels, what estheticians can do to make more sales, and how to go about getting certified with her courses concerning taking excellent care of skin of color, and loads more!

Bio

Pamela Springer has been in the aesthetics industry for more than 20 years. She is a highly sought-after speaker for TV, medical conferences, aesthetic trade shows, and of course, Instagram Lives! She has appeared on Oprah, and a variety of local and national TV shows on networks such as: Fox, NBC and ABC.

As an expert in aesthetics, Ms. Springer addresses the beauty industry’s lack of specialized training when it comes to the skin differences between people of other races.

Her company, Global Skin Solutions, has become a national continuing education provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing. Being a Continuing Education provider allows Ms. Springer to train medical staff on the nuances of ethnic skin; how to lower risk factors and enhance results.

Her passion is educating other skin care professionals on the unique nuances of ethnic, pigmented skin. Before opening The Skin & Makeup Institute of Arizona in 2000, Pamela studied under a board-certified dermatologist and medical school professor specializing in Ethno-Dermatology.

She is also the author of, “Don’t Be Left in the Dark: Learn How to Master Chemical Peels and More.

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In this episode of Beauty Care Pod, we have Holly Brown, founder of Look, Feel, Fab which happens to be the very first non-profit in the professional skincare industry.

She shares with us her journey on how she has been able to run a fully not-for-profit organization in the skincare industry even when everyone thought it was a very bad idea.

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Jessica has a surprising story from a humble beginning and into becoming a Celebrity Makeup Artist. She was able to, in the space of three months, become one of the most sought after makeup artists, drawing the interest of celebrity photographers who loved her work and wanted to collaborate with her.

She now helps people who want to be able to attract celebrity clients how they can achieve this.

About Jessica

Jessica Doolin graduated from Make up school at age 27; Three years later, she had the opportunity to attend Ms. Brazil 2015, where her carrier as a Celebrity make-up artist began.
Now, after seven years in the Hollywood industry, she made it her mission to help all make-up artists reach their goals in the industry with her signature program GlowDiggers with Jessica Doolin.

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Jacqueline is a Licensed Esthetician, Naturopath and Reiki Master. She brought Australia's leading skincare brand with her to North America after trying various products in Canada that could work with her skin the way she was used to but couldn't get.

Jacqueline also shared with us some stories from her background, including that her mother brought her and her sibling up alone, mostly as a divorcee, and that she finds herself lucky to be able to still be friends with her friends from before she was ten.

About Jacqueline

Jacqueline has been an Esthetician for over 35 years. She originally wanted to be a Makeup Artist but back in the day for TV work they wanted you to be a hairdresser as well which is what she didn't want to do, so the next best career was to study to be an Aesthetician.

She is also a Naturopath (Australia only) and a Reiki Master which goes together with Aesthetics.

She specialized in Facials and changing Skin as it can be life changing for clients. Jacqueline still has a Love for Skincare even more today as much as she did 35 years ago.

Jacqueline and her husband and her live a healthy lifestyle. Organic food and grass-fed protein. She is a great baker, as there are only two of them in the house, she is fond of sharing her baked goodies with friends and neighbors, which most of the time is half of what she bakes.

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 Joni has been an Esthetician for 29 years and practices Minimalist Makeup. She started with no direction. She worked multiple jobs and was even an Aerobics instructor in Boston and got involved in Esthetics when she started to assist an Esty at the gym where she worked. She then took time to go to Esthetics school and fell in love with it from day 1.

Since going to Esthetics school up until now, we can see that Joni has been very passionate from the chat she had with us.

About Joni

Joni Leahy is the owner and operator of Joni's Skin Care and Makeup Boutique in Chelmsford, MA. She has been a licensed esthetician for more than 25 years, and in that time, she has successfully treated many different skin conditions and skin types. 

She believes in making everyone feel beautiful and confident. She is committed to helping clients achieve balance in their beauty routines, to keep them looking and feeling their best! She only allows products and treatments into her spa that she fully believes in and would use myself. 

Joni is committed to continuing education and researching the latest innovations to help bring you the most cutting-edge treatments and services. Her experience and dedication to my clients is what allows her to deliver exceptionally personalized services to each client.

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Diedre shares with us how she goes about the process of selecting products and devices that she uses in running her business as a licensed esthetician. She also explains how she’s been able to create reliable pricing scales for services rendered. Her amazing story on her Esthetics journey between 1984 and 2022 is one of the highlights of this episode.

She believes school is just to get you licensed, while real education starts right after getting your license. One of the many tactics she’s got up her sleeves is personal and proper relationships with clients, especially with regards to their complaints and the best products to use for their skin.

About Diedre

She has her business within the Twin Scissors Salon in Poway, where she has been a manicure client since 1999. After a hiatus from the beauty business, she reignited her love of the industry. In 2009, she discovered a crazy new trend, eyelash extensions! She learned everything she could about this new service. However, she quickly realized that she missed doing facials as well and began reeducating herself with classes on anti-aging protocols, great new modalities & machines, as well as researching many skin care companies to determine which products and ingredients would work best for my clients.

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Christina Fernandez believes so much in empowering future estheticians with adequate information that they would need to thrive in the industry that she updates them with the latest styles of makeup artistry immediately after she learns them.

After getting fired from her old job while on maternity leave, Christina’s makeup side business, All in One Beauti, became her full-time business. She shares how she built her business from the ground up by dedicating herself to taking more training, adding more services to her business, and pushing forward. 

She also discusses her non-exclusive training program, where she teaches services and up-to-date techniques, including seven different techniques for microblading, personal business experiences, social media, and website management. Christina doesn’t like to keep secrets. Instead, she equips future aestheticians in the best possible way. Her teaching services have made her program number one in Brooklyn and one of the best in New York City.

About Christina

Christina Fernandez has been passionate about makeup since the age of 13 when she snuck makeup into school. She attended the Fashion Institute of Tech and Christine Valmy School of Artistry in New York. After a few career changes, Christina found her way back to makeup when she found her calling in the field of professional wedding and special events makeup artistry.

Her work has been featured in Kleinfeld Manhattan, The Knot, The Wedding Channel and Weddings New York Magazine, music videos, various short films, the BET | MTV network, and celebrity-hosted fashion events. 

In 2016, Christina took her passion project and turned it into a full-time business. Today, Christina runs a 5-star beauty and Training studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, specializing in elevating the art of semi-permanent cosmetic tattooing.

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When it comes to skincare, a one size fits all approach doesn’t apply to all skin types, and today, beauty industry legend, Pamela Springer, is on the show to shed more light on this. 

Pamela, founder of Global Skin Solutions for professionals and author of Don’t Be Left in the Dark, joins us today to discuss the importance of understanding the nuances of ethnic skin in the beauty industry.

She walks us through her early career, becoming the first plus-sized model for Essence Magazine, starting her own production company, which catered to plus-sized women, her TV show, and how she grew her school.

She shares her journey into the esthetics industry and how and why she built her courses and practice on ethnic skincare.

Additionally, she discusses how skincare has evolved for black skin, top anti-aging concerns for skin of color, and her recent book, which is packed with details on understanding skin of color and ingredients that are best for it, the different skin scales, and how products function on each layer of the skin.

Bio

Pamela Springer has been in the aesthetics industry for more than 20 years. She is a highly sought-after speaker for TV, medical conferences, aesthetic trade shows, and of course, Instagram Lives! She has appeared on Oprah, and a variety of local and national TV shows on networks such as: Fox, NBC and ABC.

As an expert in aesthetics, Ms. Springer addresses the beauty industry’s lack of specialized training when it comes to the skin differences between people of other races.

Her company, Global Skin Solutions, has become a national continuing education provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing. Being a Continuing Education provider allows Ms. Springer to train medical staff on the nuances of ethnic skin; how to lower risk factors and enhance results.

Her passion is educating other skin care professionals on the unique nuances of ethnic, pigmented skin. Before opening The Skin & Makeup Institute of Arizona in 2000, Pamela studied under a board-certified dermatologist and medical school professor specializing in Ethno-Dermatology.

She is also the author of, “Don’t Be Left in the Dark: Learn How to Master Chemical Peels and More.

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Gabriela Hernandez, the author of Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup and the founder of Besame Cosmetics, is today’s guest. Her childhood fascination with beauty rituals at an early age and knowledge gained from studying vintage cosmetics led her into the makeup industry.

Gabriela discusses her book on today's show and highlights makeup use in different periods. She also talks about her company, products, her journey in the cosmetics industry, notable personalities she has worked with, and projects she has handled.

Besides, she reviews beauty items in the twenty-first century and their significance as a symbol of status. She also emphasizes the need to embrace environmentally-friendly makeup materials.

This episode discusses various skills makeup artists need to embrace, including dedication, practice, focus, and adaptability.

About Gabriela

When she was a little girl in Buenos Aires, the beauty rituals of Gabriela's older relatives fascinated her. The Burbank-based artist spent years studying vintage cosmetics and after graduating from Art Center College of Design, she began designing makeup packaging. Digging deeper into the history, she wrote the book Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup, and in 2004 she created her version of a 1920s lipstick and started her company, Bésame Cosmetics. 

Today the company manufactures mascara, lipstick, and powders; offers period beauty classes; and runs a boutique where patrons, including makeup designers on period films and TV shows, can immerse themselves in the charms of earlier generations. The ingredients, design, and packaging are drawn from a century of techniques and products.  Gabriela is also a make-up historian and a board member of the make-up museum in New York.

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The path to practicing your passion isn’t always straightforward or carefully planned out. Jenn Michelle, the notable celebrity and media hair and makeup artist with many laurels, is on the show today. She shares her reasons for choosing a career in makeup and how her self-confident answer to a stranger led her to become an assistant at New York Fashion week, resulting in her switch from nursing school to makeup, her first passion.

Jenn isn’t a stranger to setbacks, but her grit has propelled her to the current level of success. She shares exclusive details on how she had to close her first business within days of opening it and how she has managed to put setbacks behind her to attain success. We also discuss the importance of putting yourself out there, being ready for opportunities, and other personal characteristics that she has developed to make her a sought-after hair and makeup artist.

Additionally, she lets us in on how she was able to grow her makeup brand, consisting of multipurpose beauty products, her opinions on how to collaborate in the makeup space, and the reason behind her creation of the Women Warriors Collab.

About Jenn

Bio:JennMichelle is CEO of GlamLife Beauty Collection, a Celebrity Makeup Artist & Hairstylist, Beauty Educator & Hair Extension Specialist, GlamLife TV Producer & Creator, Women’s Empowerment Advocate, and Entrepreneur.

She is currently the Makeup Artist and Hairstylist for The Lifestyle Today Show on CBS, Cover and feature hairstylist for Bella Magazine. Founder of GlamLife Beauty Collection, a product line of makeup and accessories for beauty professional and makeup lovers worldwide. Glam Life Beauty Collection is a one stop shop for all your beauty needs. 

With a long list of achievements, she has also worked New York Fashion Week, Miami Swimsuit Fashion Week, various movie and television sets including The Food Network, The Today Show, Chopped, Long Shot Production Company, Cool Magazine, Bridal Magazine, US Female Hockey Team, L’Oréal Events, QVC, For Women First Magazine, and more. She has also participated in photo shoots, off Broadway productions, and assisted with creating media content.

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Liana Blomquist, multiple award winner and founder and CEO of Brooklyn Rooftop Botanicals, New York’s first and only beauty rooftop farm that grows over 50 beauty botanicals, joins us on the show today.

Liana started her rooftop farms out of her love for gardening and a desire to bring beauty ingredients closer to home to combat climate change. In this episode, she goes into length to guide us on starting and maintaining such farms regardless of pests and weather changes. She also discusses the various benefits of rooftop farms, including the financial, environmental, social, and psychological benefits. She provides excellent advice for those seeking to start similar farms, including weighing in on the pros and cons and risks you should consider before starting one.

About Liana

BRB was founded by certified horticulturist, Liana Blomquist, in 2019 and was born out of her passion for gardening and beauty while re-evaluating her consumption habits and the way they affect the planet.  Liana's career spans over 10 years at Elizabeth Arden and Revlon as a Global Marketing and Product Development Exec in their fragrance and skincare categories.  Over the span of her time there, she launched over 30 fragrance and skincare products winning global awards and nominations from key publications and foundations. Her sustainable beauty and gardening expertise has been seen in NY Post, Thrive Global, NY Live, NY Magazine and Real Simple.

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First: dream big. Second: think about yourself as unlimited, and finally: allow yourself to become as big as you really are.

Today, our guest, Rene Stufano, is a firm believer in that ideology. It’s no wonder that Rene is a distributor of three groundbreaking skin products that would definitely push the boundaries in your beauty business. They include Epilfree, a permanent hair removal serum that is about 80-85% effective in unwanted areas, the Illuminating collection, a natural hydroquinone-free antioxidant cream line that reduces hyperpigmentation, and O2skin pro, a product that delivers 100% oxygen into the skin to promote healing and restoration. According to Rene, putting 100% into what you do most definitely yields 100 times more.

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To be the best, you have to put in the work. Our guest today, Brooke Kennedy, is a firm believer in this. Brooke is a master esthetician and the renowned Suite B Lounge owner.

Today, she discusses how her prior experiences before entering the beauty industry equipped her with customer service, sales, customer relations, multitasking, and other life skills that she puts into her business.

She talks about her journey into esthetics and how she started her practice immediately after finishing school. She gives tips for starting your own business, how Yelp, Google, and referrals helped build her business, and how continuing education helps you be the best in the industry.

For those desiring a similar schedule, she shares how she manages a 12-hour business schedule, the personal decisions that make it work, and the importance of the critical ingredients of planning, support, and time management. She also gives advice to estheticians who desire a 12-hour workday and how she can do this in a way that her team members love their work-life and remain motivated.

Brooke's Bio

Brooke Kennedy is more than just a fresh-faced beauty queen from Sequim, WA; she’s got ambition and brains and a profound passion for the health and wellbeing of people and the environment. She learned much of her adult regimens and character qualities from her mother, who taught her from a young age the importance of skin care, and from her father, who owned a restaurant and demonstrated hard work and excellent customer service.

After attending the University of Washington, where Brooke studied molecular cell biology, dance, and French, and was an active member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, she decided that medical school was not going to be her path, and she began to pursue other avenues while supporting herself in the food and beverage industry. Along the way, she also spent time in the electrical industry developing business and sales, and working in project management.

In 2012 Brooke graduated from the Euro Institute of Skin Care and opened Bliss by Brooke Skin Care in 2013 in a 7 ½’ x 8 ½’ made-over closet of a hair salon. Since then she has continuously improved her knowledge base and skill set as an aesthetician by completing courses in advanced skin analysis (with Florence Barrett-Hill of Pastiche) and acquiring an oncology esthetic certificate, which is a personal passion for Brooke.

Skin care, for Brooke, feels like a perfect combination of serving others, creating a memorable guest experience, and using the latest scientific advancements. She works hard and believes that life is too short not to love what you do!

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With profits as high as 75% for a single treatment, teeth whitening is a rapidly growing cosmetic treatment in the beauty industry and a great way to bring additional revenue to your business. 

CEO of Sis Smiles teeth whitening, Sandi Simmons, enlightens us about the teeth whitening process. She highlights the advantages of using the tooth whitening agent, carbamide peroxide, instead of a direct application of hydrogen peroxide that tends to cause “Zingers.” She also addresses our burning questions concerning teeth whitening; does teeth whitening cause damage to the teeth? And how permanent is the effect of teeth whitening?

About Sandi

Sandi has 28 years of medical industry experience with the last 5 years being in the beauty and dental industry. Providing the most in-depth Training and Certification at an affordable price. Using a pre-filled treatment tray to self-administer without direct contact to your client’s mouth. Products are made in the USA and FDA approved. A simple, effective, and profitable cosmetic service.

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Are you willing to take the leap to do the things you love? Today, our guest is Jennifer Dover, a licensed esthetician for almost 14 years with her own practice called Luminosity Skin Boutique. Before becoming an esthetician, she was a nurse for almost 16 years. She started seeing an esthetician in her 30s which sparked her interest in esthetics and prompted her to go to esthetics school at age 40.

In today’s episode, Jennifer shows that it’s never too late to do the things you love or learn something new. She shares how she grew her practice through referrals and other incentives before winning the Skin Games. She also shares how that win helped her grow her practice and how she successfully marketed herself to people outside the beauty industry after the Games.

She shares the lessons she wished she had learned before becoming an esthetician, advice for upcoming beauty specialists, and her top three skincare tips.

About Jennifer

Jennifer had spent 16 years in the nursing industry before becoming an Esthetician at 40. Working in the field of Dermatology lastly is what inspired her to move into this industry.

She is a previous Skin Games Winner, who spent years in the travelling the trade show industry. Jennifer is also licensed in South Carolina as well, board certified instructor, and holds many continuing education courses under her belt. She teaches advanced training and one on one mentoring for new graduates. Jennifer is also certified in various forms of makeup from Ryder makeup labs and worked as a rep and MUA with Urban Decay.

Her hobbies include cooking, gardening, music, sports, and spending time with her dog Trina and of course most things on Netflix.

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How do you thrive in the real business world when esthetics school doesn’t prepare you for essential things such as client and time management?

Esthetician for over 20 years and business owner, Kelly Wolcott, is a second-time guest today. She teaches us how to navigate this situation and shares how she learned the ropes for building her own business.

She details the business classes necessary for every esthetician, the importance of mentorship, and ways to find a mentor. She also shares personal recommendations for apps and other resources that have helped her better manage her practice in bookkeeping and client, time, and general business management.

We also discuss the pros and cons of starting a business right after school against choosing to work under an esthetician. She suggests the best option outside of these to ensure that you have the necessary support and freedom.

It is easy to get carried away when bonding with clients, so Kelly also shares tips on sticking to the scheduled time and treatment routine. She also guides us on managing different types of clients, building your target market, and when and how to say no to a client without harming your practice.

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Tiffany once had an eye-opening encounter with a great esthetician who understood her skin type. Like anyone would, Tiffany returned a month later to book a second appointment. But on returning to book a new appointment, the esthetician was gone. Untraceable—nobody knew her whereabouts.

After years of skin breakouts, Tiffany needed another esthetician who understood her skin type. This time around, she wanted not only a great esthetician but also one that would be easily accessible. She created SpaSho, an esthetician directive where people of color can connect with estheticians with similar skin types that live close to them. As SpaSho celebrates the upcoming National Black Esthetician’s week, Tiffany discloses speakers from skincare companies and magazines, including Skinscript and Dermascope, amongst other esthetician insurance companies that will be supporting and speaking about skincare awareness and education among the black community.

About Tiffany

Tiffany Medois is a licensed Esthetician and the Founder of SpaSho, a directory where clients can find licensed Black Estheticians in their area.

She is also a senior level Copywriter with more than 10 years of writing/editing experience, producing compelling copy for high-profile brands and companies, such as: Mattel, Hot Topic, and ABC.

When working for ABC’s The View, Tiffany was asked by the show’s makeup artist, Eve Pearl, to write a piece about lipstick for her book, Plastic Surgery Without the Surgery: The Miracle of Makeup Techniques. Tiffany was even featured in the book and, if you squint hard enough, you can see two tiny photos of her on its cover.

Tiffany is passionate about skin care and the esthetics community.

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You might know her for her consistent 5-star-reviews on Yelp, Facebook, and Google. That’s because Gigi’s mantra as the owner of South Bay Beauty is commitment. She somehow manages to seize the moment to reply to every comment on her social media platforms.

Gigi McConnell joins us on the show today and shares nuggets about commitment and consistency. It’s no wonder that she has a colorful variety of clients: from next-door neighbors to actors to a chiropractor. She also shares information about two of her best-selling products and her most popular service, “The difference between a successful and unsuccessful person is the unwillingness to give up,” says Gigi.

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After working with skincare for a while, Mayada discovered another word for passion —Lashes. Her passion for lashes allows her to bring so much positivity and energy into her business.

As Mayada’s creativity in eyelash product artistry evolved, she grew from creating light, hypoallergenic lashes to eyelash extensions. She soon became an esthetician after realizing the need to register as one. 

Mayada discusses how MayaLash was created from women’s actual needs. The reason behind her business reflects in her individualistic and alluring approach to her practice. Maya shares how she adjusted to virtual changes when COVID hit and managed to create individual client experiences that still made clients feel as if they were physically present in the spa. Not only would this episode leave you grinning, but you’ll be sure to pick up sincere business tips about captivating the hearts of your clients.

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Can you ever have too much knowledge as an esthetician? Today, our guest is Kelly Wolcott, a licensed esthetician for over 20 years who is NCA certified, a CIDESCO diplomat, ITEC certified, and a business owner.

Kelly never thought she’d be in the beauty industry until post-partum hormonal acne led her to an esthetician who cleared her skin and taught her how to take care of it. This marked the beginning of her career in esthetics because she wanted to give that knowledge to others.

In today’s episode, Kelly discusses why you should see your esthetics career as an ever-learning journey. She shares the benefits of various certifications and diplomas and what they entail while highlighting how they have been relevant to her career. She also discusses her personal tips for remaining up to date in the industry.

She also shares exclusive details on her professional experiences as a leading esthetician and how she gives her clients the most fantastic service possible.

About Kelly

Award-winning, licensed esthetician, advanced educator, and business owner Kelly Wolcott is passionate about granting a beautiful WISH: achieving Wildly Intense Skin Health. With over two decades at the forefront of the professional skin care industry, Kelly addresses the skin’s unique needs by creating custom treatments and utilizing the latest advanced cosmetic formulations and esthetic technologies to maximize results. A self-professed education junkie, she’s obtained three advanced certifications: CIDESCO Diplomat - the world’s most prestigious qualification in the field of esthetics and beauty therapy, ITEC - an international education standard recognized in over 40 countries, and an NCEA certification - the highest skin care credential available in the United States. She also holds an advanced certification in Oncology Esthetics.

Utilizing her experience working as a licensed esthetician, advanced educator, and business owner, Kelly’s mission is to educate, provide mentorship, and share her esthetic journey to help other skin care professionals achieve success and to provide the very best service and products for her clients. She is honored to have been voted by Gwinnett magazine as “Best Esthetician” (2016 & 2017) and a winner in The Skin Games 2020 placing 1st in Age Management, 2nd in Acne, 3rd in Pigmentation categories, and serve as The Skin Games 2021 Director of Judges for the Skin Care Categories.

When not granting skin care WISHes or teaching advanced education, Kelly is busy exploring the beauty of Georgia with her husband, two daughters, their partners, and an amazing grandson. An avid outdoor enthusiast who loves to travel, she finds joy in the moment, regardless of whether it’s work or play.

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Eyelash artist Alma Valladares shares her experience in the beauty industry. Her professional expertise comprises being a makeup artist, an eyelash artist, and a licensed esthetician.

After being inspired to work for a makeup company that involved an extensive range of skin colors, Alma explored the world of eyelashes artistry, from volume lashes to classic lashes.

In today’s episode, she shares many tips borne out of her vast business experience as an esthetician for over 30 years that helped establish her as a renowned lash artist, helped expand her beauty services as an esthetician, and then led to her becoming a judge at the Skin Games —a competition and awards show among estheticians.

Confidence is all about positivity, belief, and feeling good about yourself. It’s no wonder that great skin is a confidence booster.

Christine takes us through her life, first as a little girl hungry for creativity and later as a woman discovering how to impact people’s lives as a certified esthetician.

From working with clients who had horrible acne to burn victims at a hospital in San Fransisco, she was inspired to create skincare products and start her brand—Glymed plus. She also takes us through her creative process of skincare products, from research to testing them out on herself and finally signing them out to the public. Christine explains the ups and downs of her journey in running Glymed plus from its inception about 25 years ago.

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Today, our guest is Jessica Cooley, the founder of Layers Skin Journey and Skin Wand Pro.

Jessica always knew that she wanted to be in the beauty industry from childhood but discovered esthetics in her late 30s. In this fun and powerful episode, she details her venture into esthetics, from working with oncology clients to becoming an esthetics instructor and then opening up Layers Skin Journey.

On the business side, she discusses how she was able to start a cutting edge and a subsequently highly profitable business during COVID, Skin Wand Pro, her experience in the Skin Games, and its benefits for small businesses and brand new businesses. She gives us some private access to future expansions to her brand, a new men’s line, and her continued involvement in the Skin Games. 

She also shares tips on how to make it in the esthetics industry, how she manages her multiple businesses, the importance of having a community, and advice for those considering getting into esthetics.

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Andrea Synder, the founder of Advanced Esthetics with Andrea and the part-time practitioner in the spa, Skin and Body Esthetics, joins us on the show today.

Andrea’s journey into esthetics can be said to have been influenced by her desire to care for people. She is a licensed esthetician of 17 years. Initially, she was a CNA working with Alzheimer’s patients for five years before pivoting to esthetics school.

Today’s episode lets us in on some private details of her life by talking about the impact growing up in an abusive and broken home had on her, her reason for choosing esthetics, and the point in her life in which her choice was validated. She also discusses specific life lessons outside esthetics that have significantly impacted her life.

Based on her professional experience, she shares tips on what to do when you feel defeated or feel like quitting the esthetics industry, how to stay relevant in the ever-changing industry, how she balances her practice with her faith and life roles, how new estheticians can find their niche and her top five tips for estheticians for managing their practice, clients and themselves. She also discusses her skincare line, Skin Remedy, and what it took to make it a reality.

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Cheryl Zen Miller, the founder of the Zen Institute, is today’s guest. She created the Zen Institute against the background of her experience and knowledge gained over the years as a fitness instructor, a cardiorespiratory therapist, a massage therapist, and an esthetician. At the Institute, she teaches her own techniques, incorporating her knowledge and love for fitness and massage into her facials.

Her esthetics journey has been quite colorful with its fair share of ups and downs. On today’s show, she talks about strength for new beginnings flowing from having to start her business afresh after closing down her 25-year-old spa due to COVID, starting a “bad idea” business that is currently thriving, and her struggle with, and overcoming, imposter syndrome.

She also talks about how embracing challenges helped her become a powerful one-person-show in her business, the growth and lessons learned during the skin games that made her a better all-round businesswoman, and how she navigated the legal and manufacturing obstacles in the beauty manufacturing industry to bring her top-selling Zen Butter to life.

This episode is loaded with business tips such as habits for success, building good menu services, and avoiding competition.

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Jennifer Rosenblum, an esthetician for over 10 years and the director of The Skin Games, an international competition for skincare professionals, is on the show today. Jennifer can be regarded as a multipotentialite, and in today’s episode, she talks about her background in various fields such as graphic design, advertising, finance, event planning, and nursing, and how all her diverse interests have helped her thrive in the esthetics industry by positioning her to better understand the pain points of most players in this industry.

She also dives into her journey into the industry and how she feels about her daughter following in her footsteps. She shares her motivation for starting the pioneering skincare and beauty care game which has been running for seven years with over 24 different countries represented. We also discuss how participants can benefit from the games and improve their businesses by growing a community, increasing their visibility, and enhancing their beauty skills.

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