Ep. 225: How Funmi Fetto Wrote the Beauty Bible for Women of Color

Fat Mascara

Fat Mascara LLC

Dermatology, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Beauty News, Makeup, Skincare, Perfume, Fragrance

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Beauty and fashion journalist Funmi Fetto (British Vogue, The Observer) has tested thousands of beauty products, and she shares the absolute best picks for women of color, how she chose them, and why she needed to write her book, Palette: The Beauty Bible for Women of Color. She also tells us about her inspiring career, and we discuss cancel culture, industry watchdogs, performative allyship, and why inclusivity is more than a beauty trend. -- Want more of our beauty podcast? Episode Recaps & Notes: fatmascara.com/blog; Our Private Facebook Group: Fat Mascara / Raising a Wand; Instagram: @fatmascara, @jessicamatlin, @jenn_edit; Twitter: @fatmascara; Email: [email protected]; To Leave a Voicemail & Be Featured on a Future Episode: 646-481-8182.

Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fatmascara.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everyone it's fat mascara on a Thursday. Hi Jess. I'm so excited about this show. I also love what we do our Thursday
0:15.1	episodes because it's like you don't need too much of us just like we're in we're out
0:19.6	and it's all about the amazing guest right? You know it's all about, can I tell you? You know, it's all about, can I tell you?
0:26.0	Tell us, Foume?
0:29.0	I love how you said that.
0:31.0	Okay, so Foume Feteau, I will give you her like resume really quickly.
0:35.6	She's just a fabulous beauty and fashion journalist with more than 20 years of experience.
0:40.4	She probably won't like me saying that. It's about 20 years experience. She's
0:44.0	written for Gonnaise.
0:45.0	She's written for Glammer, Harper's Bazaar,
0:46.0	L. Tattler, the Sunday Times, and many others.
0:49.0	She's a contributing editor to Vogue and a columnist and beauty director for the observer.
0:55.0	So her book, Pallet, the Beauty Bible for Women of Color, came out last year in England and then
1:00.3	this spring in the US where it's published by Mobius an imprint of the
1:04.2	hashette book group. So she is joining us, I would love her to be here in person, but
1:09.4	she is joining us from her home in London and she's going to tell us all I mean she's going to
1:14.9	tell us all about her career and her book and we're going to we're going to have
1:17.9	some real fun talk. Are you ready Jeff? I'm ready. Let's do it. So, now we're live, hi again.
1:33.0	Hi, hi!
1:34.0	So Fumi, I just did your intro, I said how amazing you are.
1:40.0	Let's just get right into it.
1:42.0	First of all, we were supposed to record with you in
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fat Mascara LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Fat Mascara LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.