Meet the Glossier Alum bringing skin-first-cosmetics to melanin-rich complexions, Ami Colé Founder Diarrha N’Diaye
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re welcoming Diarrha N’Diaye, founder of the hotly anticipated Ami Colé, a new, eco-friendly beauty range born in Harlem, inspired by Senegal. Hailed as “No Makeup Makeup for Melanin-Rich Skin” by Women’s Wear Daily, Ami Colé is about celebrating – rather than covering up – dark skin tones. Launched just last week, the indie start-up has attracted investors like Hannah Bronfman and Versed Skincare’s Katherine Power, while Katie Jane Hughes and Emily Weiss are already singing its praises on Instagram.
Tune in as Diarrha N’Diaye recalls rising through the ranks at L’Oréal Paris and Glossier before cultivating her own beauty line, crowd-sourced from a BIPOC community of 400 over three years. Plus, we chat about self-acceptance, representation in the beauty industry, the challenges of launching during a global pandemic and the gap that still exists to get brands like Ami Colé to market. Finally, find out how Diarrha plans to take Ami Colé beyond beauty, creating a community where women of colour are free to exhale.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | So for me is kind of answering the little girl who, you know, |
| 0:05.7 | wanted to play around with makeup but not really transform. |
| 0:07.9 | I wanted to see my skin. |
| 0:09.2 | I wanted to be able to celebrate my dark skin and not really cover it up or try to be lighter. |
| 0:14.7 | And that kind of effortless, like on-the-go, makeup style wasn't there and still really doesn't exist. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey, hey, beauty pod fam, hey, |
| 0:41.0 | Carleen. |
| 0:41.9 | Hello, Jill, and welcome back to our show friends. |
| 0:44.6 | So today we have a founder episode for all of you and if you've been with us from the |
| 0:49.3 | beginning you know that we started our show doing only founder episodes more than four years ago. |
| 0:56.1 | We really aim to profile the iconic products and beauty helping listeners edit their top shelf. |
| 1:02.4 | And you know what, Curlyling like the reality is is that |
| 1:04.5 | there's this whole new guard that's bringing a really unique fresh point of |
| 1:09.2 | view to beauty and today's guest is definitely leading the charge. |
| 1:13.6 | Today we welcome Jada and Jai. |
| 1:15.6 | She is the Harlem Raised first generation |
| 1:18.7 | Senegalese American founder of Ami Colle, |
| 1:21.4 | a brand new eco-conscious beauty range designed to celebrate melanin rich skin. |
| 1:26.9 | The line launched literally this past week with a trio of skin enhancing products in beautiful or mez like orange packaging. |
| 1:35.0 | There's a skin tint, a highlighting bomb, and a lip oil that were three years in the making. |
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