#DamnGood Special! The Best (And Worst?!) Beauty Innovations of All Time Featuring Guest Editor Brooke DeVard. Plus, Is Clarisonic Back?

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Jilldunn, Arts, Beautyeditors, Style541811, Beautyexpert, Beauty, Carlenehiggins, Fashion, Society & Culture, Magazineeditors, Fashion & Beauty

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Say hello to our guest editor, Brooke DeVard! Brooke is the wonderful host of the iHeart Radio award-winning podcast, Naked Beauty. For her sophomore visit, we’re discussing the best – and worst – beauty innovations ever to hit our vanities.

An Instagram alum, Brooke chats with us about the profound impact that social media has had on the industry, the beauty of artificial intelligence (including an avatar she created for herself!) and as a new perfume entrepreneur, how biotechnology is bringing back extinct scents from flora history. (RIP perfume fields of Grasse?)

Plus, you’ll hear about:

High tech beauty devices – Why so many promising innovations have ended up in landfills, and is Clarisonic back from the grave?
Botox – A cure-all for everything from wrinkles to migraines, “skin Botox” (aka “skintox”) is the latest Korean treatment said to achieve glass skin
Bond builders – Brands like K18 and Epres saved Carlene’s bleached hair, will a new bond-building nail strengthener promise save her brittle, peeling nails?
Robot massages – The golden touch or a step too far?
Laser hair removal – Goddess’ greatest gift, we get the scoop on the at-home IPL device that Jill is using to save $$$ and earn 18 months of hairfree bliss. In partnership with Braun
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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:08.1	Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast, all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.
0:14.0	We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:38.8	Welcome back to Breaking Beauty podcast, everyone. It's Jill and Carleen back in your feeds on this fine Wednesday. Hey, Carlene. Hey, Jill. We are two long-time beauty editors turn beauty podcasters. And this week we're welcoming a special guest editor to join us. Brooke DeVard is back.
0:43.8	Brooke is a fellow beauty podcaster and you might know her from her show Naked Beauty Podcast. It's so great. It's been around since 2016 and she's produced more than 350 episodes
0:50.8	just like us, Jill. She talks about intimate conversations around beauty rituals,
0:56.3	self-care journeys. She really kind of goes deep on the whole ethos behind beauty. And it's more like
1:02.4	sit down chats with the people that she admires. I know last year as well, she had Sir John as a co-host
1:09.4	for a limited run last year.
1:11.1	Like, he's such a great makeup artist.
1:13.5	He's been on our show as well.
1:15.3	So I'm just so thrilled that she's back on our show.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:18.9	And she had some killer looks for the Met Gala this year.
1:22.5	She went to, like, some events around the Met Gala.
1:25.1	And, like, she was just turning at the look.
1:27.1	She's so stylish. She's so
1:27.5	stylish. She's so beautiful. And in my opinion, Brooke has one of the best podcast voices in the
1:32.6	game. She's like soothing to listen to. And it's her sophomore appearance on our show. We first
1:38.6	did a pod swap way back in September of 2020. And since then, Brooks become a mom of two. She moved from New York to Los Angeles,
1:46.8	and she left her full-time gig at Meta slash Instagram to pursue her creative passions as a full-time
1:53.1	podcaster and creator. And recently, she became a beauty entrepreneur with her first fine fragrance.
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