Davis Factor & Lori Taylor-Davis: Collaboration, Invention and the 3 'L's.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Davis Factor (@davisfactor) and Lori Taylor-Davis (@lotayray44) are the creative forces behind Smashbox Cosmetics and they stopped by The Beauty Podcast's studio on a recent visit to London to talk all things Smashbox, inspiration, creation and a lot more besides...
Davis is a world renowned photographer who has seen the world's greatest beauties through his lens. He is the great-grandson of the legendary Max Factor and the creator of the original Smashbox studio - the creative hive that's been the birthplace of some of the most iconic images of the last 25 years.
Lori, or LTD, is Smashbox's Global Pro Lead Artist - name a celebrity or a supermodel and chances are she's made them look crazily beautiful at some point. Furthermore, Lori has an incredible philosophy about the power of make-up and its ability to heal.
If you enjoyed the podcasts with Daniel Sandler and Jay Manuel, you're going to love this one.
Smashbox started life in 1990 as a photographic studio in LA and quickly became the go-to studio for the world's most famous photographers, so much so it had to move and expand quickly to satisfy demand.
What's unique about the range of cosmetics is that they are formulated, in the first instance, through Davis' eye through his lens, add Lori's insight and skill into the mix and you have a little bit of magic.
As a beauty lover I adore their products and as a beauty editor I have no problem recommending them because I know people will try them, love them and I'll look good as a result...
Having spent time with them I also LOVE the energy I feel when I'm around them, and I hope you feel it too.
Enjoy! EG xx
P.S. You can follow Lori's husband DJ Big D on instagram here - @deejbigd
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| 0:36.4 | I'm so excited to bring you this episode of the beauty podcast with me, Emma G. |
| 0:41.3 | My guest, a Davis factor and Laurie Taylor Davis from Smashbox cosmetics. |
| 0:45.7 | And having worked with them previously, I was desperate to get them on the show and just let |
| 0:51.9 | them fly because they are both creative geniuses in their |
| 0:55.9 | own right and Davis is a photographer. Laurie is the lead makeup artist for the brand and it is |
| 1:02.5 | those skills combined that have created this incredibly high performance, innovative, user-friendly |
| 1:08.5 | and unbelievably beautifully beautifying brand that just you buy something from |
| 1:12.9 | Smashbox and it works, it delivers. I personally have never come across anything of theirs that |
| 1:18.8 | has left me down. So I really wanted to unpick that, find out why that's the case, how they |
| 1:25.0 | create their products, also take it back and find out about how the brand was born, |
| 1:29.3 | but also speak to them a little bit about their chemistry and what influences them. |
| 1:34.3 | So it's all in here, it's all in this conversation. |
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