Hello, it's Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty

podcast. I am so thrilled to be presenting Maya Allen's very first podcast.

She hasn't ever been on the podcast before,

so I'm like so happy that she chose Naked Beauty

for her debut.

She is someone that I have been trying to interview for a year and a half, but if you follow Maya, you know that she is in a different exotic part of the world, literally every weekend.

It is impossible to keep up with this girl. She is living in the dream as a beauty

editor at Marie Claire. But here's the thing that I think a lot of people don't realize about

Maya. And she and I talked about this. She is on these fabulous

trips but she is working so hard. The girl works hard. She is like pushing

herself to the limit each and every day to turn out all of these incredible

articles and Maya has written some of my favorite beauty content on the internet in the

past few years.

Let me just read some of her headlines. Seven tips to pull off the

ultimate summer glow-up by Riana's makeup artist. These experts can explain

exactly how to identify your curl type, how to use coconut oil so your nails never break again.

Has the beauty industry progressed?

16 female beauty icons reveal their thoughts.

She talked to Zoe Kravitz about her line of

lipsticks for YSL. She's interviewed icons like Gabriel Union. She's talked to

Michael B Jordan. I mean, Maya has written some incredible beauty content and has been

working in the beauty industry for eight years. Like, she has just been at it constantly

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