NYX Cosmetics Founder Toni Ko is Back in Beauty
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In 1999, Toni Ko completely changed the game on how prestigious drugstore makeup could be with NYX cosmetics – highly pigmented makeup in sleek packaging, at rock-bottom prices. One multi-million-dollar acquisition and a five-year, non-compete agreement later, makeup mogul Toni Ko is ready for her second act. Launching this week, Bespoke Beauty Brands is an incubator for the kind of beauty influencers that helped put NYX on the map.
We’ll reveal all on her first collaboration with inimitable makeup artist and RuPaul’s Drag Race favourite, KimChi Chic. Tune in as we unbox KimChi Chic Beauty on the air! Plus, Toni gets real about the wild world of entrepreneurship (like is selling your brand for half a billion dollars really as dreamy as it sounds?) You’ll also hear all about Toni’s #topshelf must-haves, and her sage advice to anyone out there hustling to be the next beauty unicorn.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | So, you know, when I sold a company, I thought I was just like ready to go and like celebrate and party. |
| 0:08.2 | But actually the day I got the money wire transfer into the bank account and I walked out of the office. |
| 0:15.6 | I literally walked out with just like one bin. |
| 0:19.0 | And like there's 15 years of my life just behind me. |
| 0:22.1 | Hey guys, welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:25.0 | The podcast all about the best-selling beauty products and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:29.0 | We're your host, Carleen Higgins, and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast everyone. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, Carleen. |
| 0:36.0 | So for any new listeners out there, |
| 0:38.0 | you know, we are all about the breakthrough people, products, |
| 0:41.0 | and moments in beauty, and I am Jill Dunn and I'm |
| 0:44.2 | Carleen I know that you love nothing more like you get so excited when like |
| 0:50.6 | the timing of one of our episodes like is just so on point. |
| 0:54.6 | Like a launch or a new idea or a newsy buzzy item. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, like if I feel like I'm getting a scoop, |
| 1:00.9 | yes, hearkens back to my magazine editor days and that's happening today. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm so excited about our guest. She's been on her wish list from day one and the timing couldn't be better. |
| 1:12.4 | We are talking to serial beauty entrepreneurs. from day one and the timing couldn't be better. |
| 1:12.5 | We are talking to serial beauty entrepreneur Tony Coe. |
| 1:15.9 | She's the founder of Nick's Cosmetics, that's NYX, |
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