Ep. 63 Meet Nancy Twine, The Founder of Briogeo, The Fastest-Growing Haircare Brand at Sephora
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Meet the fastest growing hair care brand at Sephora: Briogeo. Today we’re chatting with its brilliant founder, Nancy Twine, a University of Virginia graduate and Goldman Sachs alum. As a woman of colour, she couldn't understand why there wasn’t any natural, non-toxic haircare on the market for all ethnicities and hair textures under one brand. Having whipped up DIY beauty products using avocado oils and butters with her mother and grandmother as a child, clean beauty was also top of mind. She blended the two ideas, and in 2013, Briogeo was born.
But why leave that high paying Wall Street job to begin with? In this episode, Nancy reveals the heart-breaking moment that caused her to re-evaluate everything in her life. She also shares a funny story about a surprising connection she has to Kelly Clarkson. And in the spirit of true #girltalk, we get her personal tips on blow-drying her hair in under 12 minutes, and the story behind that comb that broke the internet.
Jill and Carlene weigh in on why Briogeo’s best-selling Don’t Despair, Repair! Deep Conditioning Mask is truly a dream for dry, damaged hair. (Super influencers Hannah Bronfman and Ingrid Neilsen are fans of the brand.) Finally, Nancy explains which 6 ingredients you’ll never find in any of her formulations. And we don’t let her go without getting all the deets on why hair supplements are what she’s conquering next – coming this fall.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | I went to a very diverse high school |
| 0:04.9 | and I always had such a diverse group of friends. |
| 0:07.5 | And I knew that if I was going to create a product line, |
| 0:09.5 | I didn't want to create products that only worked for me. |
| 0:12.3 | I wanted products that worked for all my family |
| 0:14.3 | members, all of my friends. So diversity also became really at the center of |
| 0:19.6 | creating this brand and I really wanted to do something different and create products that |
| 0:24.8 | someone like you or me or anyone could identify as being their brands. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey guys welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:32.6 | The podcast, all about the best selling beauty products and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:36.8 | We're your host, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everybody. |
| 0:41.7 | Hi, Carleen. |
| 0:42.4 | Hey Jill. Ooh,leen. Hey, Jill. |
| 0:43.2 | Ooh, you're accessory today. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, we're twinning. |
| 0:47.4 | Let's tell everybody about our new accessory. |
| 0:49.5 | All right, little behind the scenes here. |
| 0:51.3 | Jill and I are wearing some very fancy bows headphones. Yes. They |
| 0:56.4 | were supplied to us by Amazon. Thank you Amazon. So now when guests come into the |
| 1:02.1 | studio every single one of us is going to be able to hear |
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