Episode 15: BABE CHAT with Tish & Snooky of Manic Panic on Building a Candy Colored Fempire
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Cara Alwill
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Cara talks to Tish and Snooky Bellomo, founders of Manic Panic, about the life-changing magic of hair color, why your passion will never fail you, and what it was like to launch the first punk rock store in America nearly 40 years ago. Since then, their fempire has been going strong thanks to a whole lot of hustle and a serious love for what they do. Grab a notebook for this one, these babes are dropping serious inspiration in this killer conversation!
Learn more about Manic Panic here: www.ManicPanic.com
Follow them on Instagram at @ManicPanicNYC
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach. |
| 0:13.8 | I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best version of themselves and fulfill their potential. |
| 0:24.7 | If you're ready to style your minds and transform your life, then you're in the right place. |
| 0:29.7 | Let's do this. |
| 0:32.8 | Hi guys. |
| 0:34.1 | So, about a year ago, I decided that it was finally time to dye my hair pink. And I can't |
| 0:42.4 | even explain to you the amount of stress and agonizing and fear and anxiety that went into the |
| 0:49.6 | decision to do it, to finally do it. I'd wanted to dye my hair pink for as long as I can remember. |
| 0:55.3 | I actually remember, like, when Manic Panic first started to become popular in my world was |
| 1:00.3 | around the 90s when I was in high school. And everyone was dying their hair with these really |
| 1:04.2 | cool funky colors, pink, purple, blue. And I always really admired those kids that did that. |
| 1:10.7 | You know, the kind of like punk rock |
| 1:12.0 | kids who just really didn't care, went for it. They were super artistic and creative. But I was |
| 1:17.6 | never really bold enough to do it myself. And I think there's a lot of reasons why. I think I was |
| 1:23.6 | really insecure at the time. I was kind of like awkward and like a little chubby and I just |
| 1:28.5 | I didn't really want to draw attention to myself physically. So doing something like dyeing my hair |
| 1:33.1 | pink was like completely out of the question. But as I got older and I started to become more self-assured |
| 1:38.6 | and become more confident in who I am, especially when I left my full-time job and I realized, |
| 1:45.5 | all right, like nothing's stopping me here. I could have crazy hair. I could shape my head. I could have a red mohawk. I mean, I could |
| 1:48.9 | literally do whatever I want. I'm my own boss. And the idea of pink hair started to resurface for me |
| 1:55.1 | probably about two years ago. And I posted a picture on Instagram and of this girl, you know, I had like a million |
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