K-Beauty, Natural Hair & Beauty Editor Ethics Ft. Siraad Dirshe
Naked Beauty
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🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This goes out to the true beauty junkies! Siraad is a girl with a 10-step beauty routine, who lives for Korean skincare and travels with her own silk pillow-case. She’s currently a beauty editor at Essence and she has incredible product knowledge but what I find even more impressive — her general attitude and approach towards beauty. She’s really inspired me to try new things!
We talk:
- how she graduated with a psychology and communications degree, worked in finance and then found herself transitioning to a new career in beauty at 28
- Korean skin-care & our desire to move to Japan and be teenagers
- The SWAGGER level in Korea & Japan & surprising level of black culture love
- Working with women of color
-Brands that don’t understand the Essence reader
- The ethics of being a beauty editor
- Me being a kitchen beautician
- Her natural hair journey
- maximum hydration method (not sustainable)
- the silk pillowcase & throwback memories to dominican hairdressers heating your hair
- Stanning for Pat McGrath - Dying natural hair & hair shaming in the natural hair community
- Oil cleanses & I finally learn what essences are (they’re huge in K-Beauty so they’ll get popular in the US in 6 months to a year)
- Sunscreens and eye creams & much much more
Products Mentioned:
Tatcha Camilla Oil
- https://www.sephora.com/product/pure-one-step-camellia-cleansing-oil-P392235
Powder Cleanser (Siraad recommends for traveling):
Tatcha Rice Powder Cleanser - https://seph.me/2N9sbKT
Glossier Milky Jelly Cleanser - https://www.glossier.com/products/milky-jelly-cleanser
P50 Biologique, Pricey but she swears by it - https://intothegloss.com/2017/03/biologique-recherche-p50-lotion-review/
Cure Gel - cult exfoliating product I recommend - https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Natural-Aqua-Gel-250/dp/B001ABLKK2
Koh Gen Do Essence - Japanese Essence (one step before primer)
https://kohgendocosmetics.com Ole Hendrickson Vitamin C serum, great for hyper-pigmentation
https://www.sephora.com/product/truth-serum-P42343
SuperBerry Hydrate & Glow Oil by Youth to the People, her final step in her nightly skincare routine
https://www.youthtothepeople.com/products/superberry-hydrate-and-glow-oil
Glossier Sunscreen - https://bit.ly/2MxkxbU
Kjaer Weis Dazzling Bronzer - https://bit.ly/2lDy4TY
Artis brushes, she says they’re good but she applies stuff by hand
https://www.artisbrush.com
AmiKa hair curl defining cream and gel combo - https://loveamika.com/products/curl-corps-p-defining-cream
Oribe everything - https://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/Oribe/Designers-A-Z/cat322602/c.cat
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& check out her writing: https://www.essence.com/beauty/astrologers-new-year-scorpiomystique ********
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm so excited about this episode. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm so sorry it's taken me a while to upload it, but I promise you it is worth the |
| 0:10.8 | weight. This episode is for the Beauty Junkies. |
| 0:14.0 | Serrod is a beauty editor at Essence magazine. |
| 0:18.0 | She has so much knowledge to share and this is actually one of the few interviews that actually |
| 0:23.7 | changed the way that I think about beauty. So since our conversation I've |
| 0:27.4 | colored my hair I've gotten highlights I went to Diva Curl I had an amazing |
| 0:31.5 | experience I went to the Diva Curl shop down in Soho. If you go on |
| 0:35.3 | Diva Curl's website, D-E-V-A-C-U-R-L-Dva Curl, you can also put in your zip code |
| 0:40.9 | and they'll tell you where they're Devacural stylists by you. |
| 0:43.7 | They do a method for highlights that's called the Pintora method where they kind of like paint on the highlights |
| 0:48.6 | and you can kind of decide where they want to go and it's actually designed to highlight the natural curl pattern that |
| 0:56.3 | you have so they're very kind of strategically placed highlights I'm very happy with |
| 1:00.4 | my decision I used to be so afraid to color my hair and now they see that |
| 1:03.5 | it's absolutely fine. I have to use different products now. Like I got a |
| 1:07.8 | special shampoo and conditioner for color treated hair so that my highlights don't |
| 1:11.8 | get brassy. I'm still not 100% sure what |
| 1:15.6 | brassy means but I know that it is to be avoided if you have highlights and |
| 1:19.6 | you are in the sun a lot. And then we also talked about having more fun with makeup and |
| 1:24.1 | really seeing makeup as self-expression and so I just went to the BETT awards and I |
| 1:28.3 | did like a white-winged eyeliner which was very different for me so I love talking to people that remind me that |
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