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Today's guest is the founder of Carmendi Beauty, Carmendi. Starting at the age of 15,

when she fell in love with the idea of natural beauty, she became a makeup artist and worked her

way up in the industry working with such incredible people like Arthur Elgord and amazing supermodels

like Cindy Crawford. Now she has her own beauty brand, Carmindi Beauty. It is all about the

five minute natural bringing out the best of you, not some contour stuff that's going to take

you 100 hours to achieve. In this episode, she highlights what she had to do to get a break,

how she's been able to stay innovative and what she's doing to ensure her future as the expert continues. Take a listen.

Carmindy, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to be here and see you again. I know. You had the greatest memory. You're like, we're at a dinner party pre-COVID with our mutual friend Tamara. Yeah, yeah. It was a memorable night. We had such a good time. Oh my gosh. That was a, that was one for the book. She throws great parties. She does. Yeah, indeed. You know, we will dive into Carmendi Beauty,

and I want you to sort of share the origin story. But growing up, what were you interested in and what did you think you wanted to do? Well, growing up, I grew up in Southern California. And my mom was a watercolorist, but she had at one point been a local model, not a big model, but, you know, she had done like local, you know,

they called them tea room models back then, right? Where they would go to like Bullocks and do tea room models. Oh my God, Bullocks. Right, remember that? Yes, because I'm from San Diego. Oh, so you know. Yeah, I'm from Huntington Beach. Yeah. And so there were these photographs of her as a model. And I was this overweight chubby kid that was being teased and bullied in school. And so my mom, to kind of boost my self-esteem, would take me to art class with her. And I'd learn how to paint. And then I would see these pictures of her modeling. And I'd be like, wait a second, I want to combine the two.

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