Makeup Legend Bobbi Brown is Here! Her “Still Bobbi” Memoir Reveals, How-to Use Jones Road Miracle Balm the *Right* Way and “Hacking” Her Way To The Top
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Bobbi Brown’s juicy memoir, “Still Bobbi” (September 2025), is hot off the press and today, the legendary makeup artist mogul is opening up like never before. From selling her namesake brand to Estée Lauder (that went on to be a billion-dollar empire!) to launching her scrappy second act - the wildly successful Jones Road juggernaut, Bobbi shares her hard-earned career highs, toughest personal lessons and little known beauty moments that shaped her incredible career. Plus, Bobbi shares her best makeup tips – like how to actually use Miracle Balm, along with her expert fix for dark circles that won’t leave you cakey.
Tune in to hear:
- Why Bobbi chose to write “Still Bobbi” now, and the surprising stories inside – from 90s Vogue covers with the likes of Naomi Campbell to family secrets and the reason she’ll always remember Kate Middleton's Royal Wedding
- The moment Bobbi knew it was time to walk away from her namesake brand, and what came next
- How the icon built Jones Road Beauty from scratch – and what she learned from starting over
- The definitive guide on how to use the Jones Road Beauty Miracle Balm, like how to pick the best shade for your skintone, why “activating” it is key, and the unexpected fan hack Bobbi never saw coming!
- A surprise scoop on the exciting products that Bobbi is developing next! (Pssst… She’s not “hiding” a thing)
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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. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty podcast, everyone. I'm one of your co-host, Jill Dunn, and I'm here alongside my fellow co-host, Carlene Higgins, like we have been for the past eight years. |
| 0:39.7 | Hey, Jill. And many of you know, we're longtime magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. We have a catalog of over 400 episodes now where we chat about the breakthrough people, products, |
| 0:44.8 | and moments in beauty. Yeah, you have to check out a back catalog if you haven't yet. We have |
| 0:49.3 | conversations with everyone from skincare pros like Dr. Shereen, Idris, hair masters like Chris McMillan |
| 0:55.8 | and celebrities like Haley Bieber and Tracy Ellis Ross. But I have to say, Carlene, |
| 1:00.9 | this week's guest, she's pretty much a household name. It doesn't matter if you know what's going on |
| 1:06.1 | in the beauty industry or not. And that is none other than the iconic makeup artist, Bobby Brown. |
| 1:12.5 | Yes. Even my mom knows who Bobby Brown is. Do you know what I mean? Bobby has been an arbiter of |
| 1:17.8 | effortless, you but better makeup for decades now. First at her namesake brand Bobby Brown that |
| 1:23.0 | she launched in 1991. Talk about ahead of the curve. She launched with 10 lipsticks. She then sold the |
| 1:31.0 | company to Estee Lauder and would later depart in 2016. Fast forward to 2020 when she launched |
| 1:37.8 | her Juggernaut Jones Road Beauty. This company was projected to have done 160 million in sales in 2024. It's unbelievably |
| 1:47.6 | successful. And so many people know that brand. And they don't even know necessarily that Bobby's |
| 1:52.6 | associated with it. So it's quite a journey for her. And Bobby, she's been a trusted voice in media |
| 1:58.3 | for decades for outlets like the Today Show. She was on TV for 14 years. She was a beauty editor at Yahoo. And her real point of difference, Carleen, is that she was always about educating people. You would always leave with a tip or a trick and not feel overwhelmed with all this stuff in your makeup bag you're never going to use. She was just really about makeup for the everyday woman and still is. She's written, I think, 10 books. We're going to be talking |
| 2:21.9 | all about that today. And Jones Road is just smashing it. They just opened their 11th |
| 2:26.7 | bricks and mortar store in Boston last week following stores in Manhattan, Dallas, Palm Beach. |
| 2:32.7 | There's more to come. And by the way, if you're listening |
| 2:35.3 | from Canada, a little birdie told us that they're working on it. They're working on it. So this |
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