From Developing the Naked Palette to Shutting Down a Brand: Highs and Lows from Developer and Founder Amy Zunzunegui
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Starting a beauty brand might seem glamorous — especially according to social media — but the hard reality is that being a founder and navigating the insanely crowded and complicated beauty space can be disheartening and even impossible. On today’s episode, we have beauty veteran Amy Zunzunegui, founder of recently-shuttered WLDKAT skincare, to give us the honest truth about what it’s like to start and shut down a beauty brand. Tune in to hear what Zunzunegui learned from her days at Urban Decay (developing iconic products like the NAKED Palette and Moondust eyeshadows), what the highs and lows of launching her own brand were, what she was up against when creating CBD beauty products, and what she wants up-and-coming founders to know when starting their own brands.
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| 0:30.7 | Hi Kirby. |
| 0:32.3 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:33.4 | Welcome to Los Angeles. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome glamgelinos. |
| 0:38.6 | We hope you stay a while. |
| 0:41.7 | That's cute. |
| 0:43.8 | I am very excited for this episode, y'all. |
| 0:47.5 | This is a long time coming, truly. |
| 0:50.1 | Sarah and I have both seen this woman throughout her career. |
| 0:52.9 | We first met her at a little brand called Urban Decay. |
| 0:58.0 | And she just has done some really amazing things. And she has been so transparent about her journey through this crazy beauty industry. |
| 1:08.3 | If you are thinking about starting a brand, if you want to know about |
| 1:11.6 | product development, if you just want all of the juicy tea, Amy is going to give it to you. |
| 1:18.6 | This is Amy Sun Tunei. Amy has almost two decades of experience under her belt, dedicated her |
| 1:24.8 | career to developing iconic industry disrupting products such as the naked |
| 1:30.5 | palette, moon dust eye shadows, which are having a moment, the 24-7 glide-on eye pencils at Urban |
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