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Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Jilldunn, Arts, Beautyeditors, Style541811, Beautyexpert, Beauty, Carlenehiggins, Fashion, Society & Culture, Magazineeditors, Fashion & Beauty

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It’s almost officially summer, so this week we’re sharing our thoughts on the new beauty launches coming in hot ☀️Is Mikayla Makeup’s skincare line, POV Beauty, legit? How many lip glosses, balms and oils are too many - does the limit exist?! Plus Do you prefer mineral sunscreens? Listen to our PSA about why some sunscreens *might* be duping you.

Tune in to hear about:

With skincare “milks” trending, a look at Mikayla Makeup’s POV Beauty
Dior’s luxe lippie - perfect sidekick to your Labubu
Buh-bye nude: pop colour lips and cheeks are back!
A genius reinvention of a French pharmacy cult classic that we’ll be slicking on from head-to-toe
A grown-up take on the decadent fragrance mist trend
What is SPF “doping”? And why mineral sunscreen users might be paying the price (Article by The Sunscreen Company here)
What happened to Pride month? The beauty crusade that brands forgot this year

Pssst! - Final call to RSVP for our live event with dermatologist, #skinfluencer and skin nerd, Dr. Shereene Idriss coming up in Toronto on June 20th!

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

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Transcript

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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.
0:14.0	We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:25.2	Welcome back to another episode of Breaking Beauty podcast, everyone.
0:27.2	I'm your co-host, Jill Dunn.
0:28.7	I'm here with Carleen Higgins.
0:29.1	Hello.
0:34.3	We are in studio to film our summer damn good special.
0:38.6	So I love doing these in studio with you, Carleen, because it's just so much more fun. And we get to show, you get to show the people, the products. We're going to be lifting
0:42.3	them up. And yeah, we've got the good lights. So you can actually see what we're talking about.
0:46.9	So much fun. All of it. bit warmer here. Yeah, love it.
0:54.3	So I'm really in the mood for summer. People are wearing shorts outside. It's officially summer.
0:59.7	And of course, if you're new to our show, welcome. We are Jill and Carleen to long time magazine
1:03.7	beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. And every single Wednesday, we are in your feed,
1:08.7	whether we're talking to a makeup artist, skincare expert, putting our editor hats on, reviewing products, and telling you what's really
1:15.3	worth the money.
1:16.7	That's right.
1:17.2	And if you fall in love with any of the products that we're talking about, we list every
1:20.9	single product over on our website at breaking beauty podcast.com.
1:24.8	And if you didn't catch our drift before, we are also on YouTube.
1:28.3	So you can watch this episode on YouTube.
1:30.7	It's Breaking Beauty Podcast.
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