Ep. 34 CND Shellac Nails Co-Founder Jan Arnold
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It's not often that a true beauty invention comes along, setting a new standard and spawning legions of knock-offs. But that's exactly what happened when Jan Arnold co-founder of CND, shook the beauty industry with the first-ever hybrid gel polish, Shellac, back in 2010. Suddenly, women could walk out of nail salons in seconds, grabbing their keys without a worry in the world about damaging their perfect, gel-look manicure—that could last up to an astonishing four weeks.
Fast-forward to summer 2018 and CND—short for Creative Nail Design—has introduced Shellac Luxe, a new alternative promising faster removal (the O.G. takes ten minutes of in-salon acetone removal). Stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear Jill and Carlene's candid review on how this edition does—or straight doesn't—measure up... Plus, get an earful about the Insta-bait outfit, designed by The Blonds, that Jan Arnold wore to introduce Luxe to nail pros
But the mind-blowing doesn't stop there. Find out how innovation has been baked into CND's DNA from its very first invention, born out of her father's dentist's office forty years ago. More beauty trivia: CND pretty much invented the concept of nail trends backstage at Fashion Week. Don't miss the ballsy moment responsible for changing the way designers like Oscar de la Renta, Alexander Wang—and let's face it, the world—would come to embrace high-fashion nails, ultimately leading to what we now know as nail art today.
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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn
Audio production: Olivia Nashmi
Theme song: Cherry Bomb by Saya
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| 0:00.0 | We had no idea what nail pros would think what consumers. I mean we thought it was pretty cool |
| 0:06.8 | After we launched Yahoo.com did a story on it where the editor dragged her nails along a brick wall. |
| 0:14.0 | She put her nails through the torture test. |
| 0:18.0 | It crashed our website. |
| 0:20.0 | We sold out of all bulk bottles brushes everything by July 1. We sold a year's worth of inventory |
| 0:29.6 | in two months. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey guys, welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:33.4 | The podcast all about the best selling beauty products and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:37.6 | Were your host, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. How was everyone's summer? |
| 0:45.0 | Mine was amazing. I still wish I was on holiday but can't complain. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. Well, it's fall now. It's back to school. We're not going back to school |
| 0:56.1 | although I was thinking of taking a course. Can you guess what? Social media? |
| 1:00.7 | No. |
| 1:04.0 | Graphic design? No. Uh, graphic design? No. |
| 1:05.0 | Fashion design? |
| 1:07.0 | Improv. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, really? |
| 1:09.0 | Do you think that's a good idea? |
| 1:10.0 | Why not? I've heard so many great things about how it's just good in everyday life because I'm a bit of a slow talker which all of our |
| 1:16.8 | listeners will know they'll probably be like get to the point so I thought it could be good |
| 1:21.4 | for me isn't the whole thing yes and you just keep it going exactly and I'm also not good at small talk when I'm at parties I'm just kind of like duh unless I've had a few I don't know I'm I think it just sounds fun improv I'm all for lifelong learning yeah |
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