Episode 284: The Real Story Behind Glossier with Marisa Meltzer

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Health & Fitness, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

You’re familiar with Glossier products, but do you know the hot gloss-ip behind them? Kate and Doree welcome journalist Marisa Meltzer on Forever35 to talk about her new book Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier, all about the brand’s enigmatic founder Emily Weiss, how Glossier went from go-to beauty blog to a millennial beauty brand success, and when it all took a turn.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.
0:15.5	I am Kate Spencer, and I am Dory Schaffer, and we are not experts.
0:21.7	We're not.
0:22.7	We're two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.
0:26.5	Oh, my goodness.
0:28.4	I don't know.
0:29.4	Okay.
0:30.4	It's been like, it's been like all six years.
0:32.6	I got to mix it up a little bit.
0:34.4	I feel you.
0:35.6	We have been doing this podcast for a long time.
0:38.7	When we started, I was like in my 30s.
0:41.5	Yeah.
0:42.5	I mean, I wasn't, but you were closer to your 30s.
0:46.9	I was much closer to my 30s.
0:48.6	It's true.
0:50.2	I had a realization that when COVID started, I was 40, and now I'm 44, and I was like,
0:55.4	oh, my God, that's a freaking long.
0:59.5	The time has stretched on.
1:00.9	I was giving my kids COVID tests last night, and I was like, sorry, here we go again.
1:04.6	Then I had this sad moment of half their childhood has been me shoving things up their
1:08.1	nose, digging around to see if they have this scary virus.
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