Danessa Myricks: Danessa Myricks Beauty Founder

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Danessa Myricks, founder of Danessa Myricks Beauty, started out her career in nursing before parlaying a chance meeting with a media executive into a job at a hair-and-beauty magazine publisher. When the magazine she worked for abruptly closed, she pivoted again, teaching herself to be a makeup artist. She built up her experience and expertise and, within a few years, was an in-demand artist teaching at trade shows and selling DVDs of her master classes. She then went on to work at Kiss and Benefit, where she led product development and innovation on projects such as Benefit’s brow collection. In 2015, she launched her eponymous brand, which made a splash in the beauty world with its imaginative, multiuse products. The brand launched in Sephora in 2021 and has seen huge year-on-year growth, all while creating entirely new formulas and offering programs like the Danessa Myricks Angels, which provides mentorship opportunities to up-and-coming artists.

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1:04.1	and this is Second Life, a podcast, spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
1:13.0	We're talking about their work journeys,
1:19.1	what they've learned from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life. Today on the show, I'm chatting with the founder of
1:24.9	Denessa Myrick's beauty, the one and only, Denessa Myricks. I know Denessa as the founder of Denessa Myricks Beauty, the one and only, Denessa Myrix.
1:29.8	I know DeNessa as the founder of her groundbreaking cosmetics company. It is a remarkable
1:36.3	brand with a huge, amazingly loyal customer base who loves its innovative products and formulas.
1:47.0	And so, in speaking with her, it wasn't really surprising to learn that Denessa has been applying that same tenacity and innovation to all
1:53.6	of the different careers that she's had. She studied business administration in college and
1:58.9	worked in nursing for a while, getting her bachelor's degree
2:02.1	in just two years while also working full time. She turned a chance meeting into a job at a company
2:10.4	that published hair and beauty magazines, and when the magazine she worked for closed abruptly,
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