Ep. 53 Makeup For Melanin Girls Founder Tomi Gbeleyi
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Meet Tomi Gbeleyi, the 27-year-old founder of Makeup For Melanin Girls. Winning headlines in Glamour Magazine, and Buzzfeed, MFMG Cosmetics was born out of a beauty blog that blossomed into a 170,000-strong online community, filling a void for women of colour. Just a year and a half in, the direct-to-consumer makeup line recently earned investment capital from the New Voices Fund – a Unilever-backed initiative designed to support Women of Color entrepreneurs.
Tomi was driven to develop her line of beauty products at the behest of her loyal following. The best-selling liquid lipsticks boast “nudes” and “flesh” tones for every skin hue – and they haven’t gone unnoticed in Hollywood either. This fall, MFMG will enter the foundation category, with shades currently in development using never-before-used technology - which shouldn’t come as a surprise given her first life working as a woman in tech.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | I don't know if the makeup artist hadn't seen the call sheet or what was going on, but she kind of was very surprised to see me. |
| 0:09.0 | And I know she didn't mean him maliciously, but it became to scramble looking for products. |
| 0:14.4 | She got nervous and the rest of the other models could feel it and immediately it took |
| 0:18.6 | that joy of like oh my first runway gig And I remember just feeling like, |
| 0:24.3 | I felt like I was a burden on everyone. |
| 0:27.1 | And I was almost wishing I wasn't my skin complexion |
| 0:29.6 | because I just wanted things to be smooth. |
| 0:31.4 | In that moment, I was doing a job and I just wanted to do my job and it |
| 0:35.0 | felt like there was all this attention on me because of my features and my hair and that I was |
| 0:40.4 | a kink in this in the system. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey guys welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:45.0 | The podcast all about the best-selling beauty products |
| 0:48.0 | and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:50.0 | Were your hosts, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:52.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Breaking Beauty. your host, Carleen Higgins, and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:52.8 | Hey everybody, welcome back to a Breaking Beauty podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | Hello, Jill. |
| 0:56.8 | How's everybody doing out there? |
| 0:59.0 | I think a lot of people are on vacation, |
| 1:01.4 | as they should be. I'm not. I'm working on a |
| 1:04.1 | podcast but I'm I'm pumped about this one. I know I'm so excited to share this |
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