Ep. 43 GlamGlow Skincare Co-Founder Shannon Dellimore
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Pinch us! In this Hollywood edition of Breaking Beauty, we sat down with Shannon Dellimore, co-founder of the one and only GlamGlow. One of the fastest growing indie beauty brands around, GlamGlow launched in 2011 with just one product: a mysterious mud that had been passed around from celebrity to celebrity in unmarked jars to clear up imperfections and create a spa-style glow in 15 minutes flat.
But this isn’t just a studio recording y’all. We were lucky enough to be invited into Glam Land—the posh HQ housed in a 1920s mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Find out the hidden secrets behind the Tudor walls, as Shannon reveals the star-studded story behind how the original YouthMud came to be. Then we go deep on the beloved follow up—SuperMud Clearing Treatment Mask—that earned a spot as Sephora’s top selling mask for three-years straight, not to mention being awarded Allure’s Best in Beauty three years in a row thanks to its activated charcoal formula blended with six (!) acne-obliterating acids.
GlamGlow broke onto the scene with its laser focus on instant, transformative results—a ‘masking’ brand before K-Beauty sheet masks were even a glint in any self-care enthusiast’s eye. It broke the internet, too, with a mind-blowing Sonic the Hedgehog collaboration that would lead to many more glittery… greats or gimmicks? Shannon answers that precise question, and lets us in on GlamGlow’s next move, including a hint that a certain cult-product may soon have some little sisters in store.
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| 0:00.0 | The turning point was we got a call a few weeks after giving out the first few batches from the Vice President of Talent for 20th Century Fox and she said I got this product I understand it's yours I think it's incredible I do all these shows it was desperate housewives at the time American Idol had recently |
| 0:14.3 | started a few other things and she said I think it's great to prep the skin before makeup and I'd love to do |
| 0:20.0 | it maybe you can do some backstage things so we started doing that so for a year and a half it's |
| 0:25.0 | it was strictly like a behind the scenes product. |
| 0:28.0 | No name, no packaging. |
| 0:29.0 | People would call. |
| 0:30.0 | We would fill little jars up and just kind of give them out or sell them for like |
| 0:34.6 | whatever price we could think of. |
| 0:36.1 | Hey guys welcome to Breaking Beauty. The podcast all about the best selling beauty |
| 0:41.4 | products and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:43.4 | We're your host, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:46.4 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. We've got Jill here on the mic and |
| 0:51.5 | this is Carleen. So some of you may be new to our show. Maybe we need to get them a little refresh. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm what we're all about. Absolutely. So some of you may have heard about us through Mary Claire in the UK just did a nice little mention. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah. Also our collaboration with Skinny Confidential with Lauren Bostick. |
| 1:09.6 | We had so many new Instagram followers. I'm sure we have more listeners too so hello everybody yeah and |
| 1:16.3 | Jackie Johnson who does the wonderful beauty podcast Natch Butte she we did not do a pod swap with her but she gave us a little shout out which is awesome and so we wanted to just give you guys sort of |
| 1:28.6 | The 4-1-1 about what Breaking Beauty is. Yeah, so we are two beauty editors who are freelance writers. |
| 1:35.8 | We write for a lot of big publications here in Canada and also we started the podcast back in |
| 1:42.2 | early 2017. |
| 1:43.8 | Yes. |
| 1:44.4 | And our whole thing is we like to speak to founders |
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