Ep. 41 Cheekbone Beauty Founder Jennifer Harper

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

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4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Cheekbone Beauty, founded by Ojibwe entrepreneur Jennifer Harper in 2016, is bringing indigenous women across North America together through lipstick. The Canadian-made cosmetics brand supports First Nations education through the sale of every lipstick, and in its Instagram feed you’ll see hundreds of indigenous and non-indigenous women alike wearing knock-out shades that can rival Nars, M.A.C and Kat Von D. (Just ask Carlene, who kept getting asked what hot pink and coral lipsticks she was wearing the whole time she was in L.A.!)

Find out the inspiring stories behind the shade names, each named after a strong, indigenous woman. Then, hear all about Jenn’s incredible journey in overcoming alcoholism, surviving her brother’s suicide, reconciling her identity and eventually, how she would come to start a socially conscious beauty business as rich in heart as its fashion-forward pigments.

We’ve got the foils (like being rejected during a Dragon’s Den audition) and the fist pump moments (like being invited to a round table on female entrepreneurship by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), including a new ambassador program (learn more here) set to give dozens of women new skills and financial rewards as they help Cheekbone Beauty rise to the top.

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn
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0:00.0	This was built from social media and I think this innate connection that we as indigenous people have with one another and that it's a connection of history, it's a connection of history,
0:13.0	it's a connection of pain,
0:15.0	and it's a connection of this new found joy
0:20.0	and like this way in the horizon we see a nation of us across what we call
0:28.3	turtle island is North America of we're rising and we're changing the narrative together.
0:35.0	Hey guys, welcome to Breaking Beauty.
0:40.0	The podcast all about the best-selling beauty products and the damn good stories behind them.
0:44.4	Were your host, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn.
0:47.0	Hey Jill, hi Carleen.
0:50.0	Welcome back to the studio.
0:51.0	Nice to see you again. I felt like we were just here. Yes, we dropped two episodes last week. That's that's different for us. We were hustling baby. Yeah, it was a Separia Bonanza. There was just so much to talk about. I know that we had to put it. We have to give it to people in two episodes and get it to you ASAP. I hope you guys liked it let us know send us a
1:13.2	DM write us a review tell us what you liked we want to know it was in your
1:17.1	hallbags can I just say that an Apple podcast review legitimately makes my
1:21.4	day so if you guys ever want to make my day, there's no
1:24.6	pressure but just write us a little note on there what you like, what you'd like to
1:28.6	see more of. Today we are really excited because we are back in founder mode and we are honestly honored
1:36.2	and thrilled to be talking with this woman and bringing her story to you today.
1:40.8	Absolutely. The brand name is Cheekbone Beauty founded by Ojibwe entrepreneur Jennifer Harper.
1:47.0	And we really feel like she's doing something that pretty much nobody else is, at least not on our our radar not at this level in color
1:54.8	cosmetics yeah her brand is socially conscious and I really feel like this is the
2:00.3	direction that beauty brands and especially indie beauty brands are going.
2:05.2	People want to know that their their purchase is making a difference, not only making them
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