“Life of a Showgirl” Fall! The #DamnGood Finds on our Wi$h Li$t. Plus: The Beauty Products Taylor Swift *Actually* Uses Herself
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
“Life of a Showgirl” fall is here! This week, we’re diving into the ultimate Taylor Swift-inspired beauty lineup – think glitter freckles suitable for a Showgirl’s dressing table, creamy woods-inspired fragrances and opalescent shine – in celebration of the mogul’s latest album. From the fragrances we’re obsessing over to the cult beauty products Taylor actually reaches for herself, this episode is your VIP pass to everything iconic, utterly covetable and slightly savage this szn.
Disclaimer: *Please note that mature themes are discussed throughout*
We discuss:
- Taylor Swift-adjacent fragrances: How Lore’s “Somewhere But Nowhere” fragrance, debuted by ex-Rhode CEO Melanie Bender, is the “woodsy” scent to covet this minute– at a fraction of the price of a certain Santal classic
- A Blake Lively comeback? How Taylor’s BFF figured into the highly-anticipated album, and why we’re rethinking everything we thought we knew about Blake Brown haircare
- Elizabeth Taylor lore: We break down the parallel between Taylor Allison and Liz Taylor – one iconic fragrance at a time.
- Actually romantic: The story behind the Charli xcx diss track and the “Puffer Gloss” Vs. “On Stage” lippie showdown we’re calling now
- The real beauty products Taylor swears by: From her go-to mascara, to the glitter patches currently selling out and her go-to lipstick, Jill reveals the actual beauty products Taylor herself keeps on her top shelf
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:13.8 | We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:24.9 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm one of your co-host, Jill Dunn, and I'm here with Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:33.0 | We, of course, are two magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. |
| 0:35.0 | And now Carleen is also a beauty founder. |
| 0:36.1 | What? |
| 0:36.9 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:39.2 | So surreal. Yeah. So last week we dropped two episodes, one of which was on Wednesday, and that was where you introduced your amazing new |
| 0:44.0 | skincare brand called Cassat Beauty. And they should go back and listen because you are now on your |
| 0:50.1 | founder journey. Yes, I'm on my founder journey. And so I tell you all about it in that episode. |
| 0:55.0 | It's very exciting. It's been at Halloween. We also had a bonus episode on Friday with a |
| 1:01.7 | with Jamie Holmes from Timeline Skin Care. And we talk all about the art of the rebrand. So go back and |
| 1:06.7 | listen to that as well. I know. And I can see on the back end and it's so exciting. And not all |
| 1:12.2 | the orders were my friends. So that's, that's great. Although there were definitely some people |
| 1:17.5 | supporting and I appreciate that. Oh my gosh. And today we are doing a very fun hashtag damn good |
| 1:23.3 | episode. And in more than our 400 episodes, we these are our most popular, but today we want to do a little |
| 1:29.7 | bit of a spin. Yes, we're doing, we're doing a spin. Again, we're putting our editor hats on, |
| 1:34.9 | back in my magazine days, there was a hot minute when I, when I had a page that I created called |
| 1:40.7 | Makeup and a Movie. And it was like a focus on a movie that was coming out that |
| 1:46.1 | month. And then all of the products inspired or part of that theme. It was just like a fun |
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