Our #DamnGood Best of Spring 2026 Edit is Here!
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We are officially kicking off spring with a #DamnGood episode featuring our reviews of the products making headlines right now.
Listen in as we fill you in on the next-in-texture innovations, from “milk de parfum" pour-on scents to the pan-free pigments emerging from “Leaked” Labs and lip products galore!
You’ll hear about:
- A first look at “Leaked Labs” by past guests The Lipstick Lesbians, including a review of their out-of-the-box, pan-free Flexible Powder, the debut product from their new brand that aims to bring lab-fresh formulas to the public for the first time.
- A deep dive into spring’s lip stain liner trend, as we compare Kulfi’s crayon stain to the marker versions we’ve seen from drugstore brands.
- New additions to the “quiet gourmand” fragrance trend, featuring Summer Fridays and the novel, skin-first “Mylk de Parfum” from Noyz.
- Esthetician Sofie Pavitt’s "acne-safe” SPF 30 — and how the label claim is changing the game for the breakout weary.
- The spring lip edit: We try out the blurring effect of Merit’s Signature Lip Blush, celebrity makeup artist Hung Vanngo’s new lip hues and the return of Bite Beauty royalty with Susanne Langmuir’s lanolin-rich, poppy lip masks from LIXR.
- Psst: Join Carlene on her Instagram live on March 24 at 12pm EST for more info on how-to use her signature product from Cassatt.
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*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*
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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. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. I'm your co-host, Jill Dun, and I'm here alongside Carlene Higgins. How are you, Carleen? Hello, I'm doing great. Thank you. And happy nine-year |
| 0:32.8 | anniversary to us. I know, almost 10 years, Jill. Yeah. I can't believe it. We've done it. We're pretty much married now. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, I'm happy with that. We're friends for life. Although I do have, I do have another ring that I'm going to talk about a little later today. Didn't come from Carleen though, okay? I love it. It's on your right hand, though. Yeah, it is on my right hand. I did need to clarify that. |
| 0:55.6 | I was like, what don't I know? Nothing. No, just married to technology, apparently. I love that our |
| 1:03.6 | anniversary is always on the first day of spring. Yeah. That's when we launched our podcast. |
| 1:08.1 | That's right. New beginnings. And it means that I never, ever forget. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, that's great. Yeah. That was like not really by design, but it kind of worked out. Yeah, I'm never going to miss our anniversary. And it's so exciting that spring is coming, by the way. Yes, in a couple of days. And so, you know, of course, if you're tuning in for the first time, We are two long-time magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. |
| 1:29.0 | We have had our podcast for nine years. |
| 1:31.2 | Now we've course, if you're tuning in for the first time, we are two long-time magazine beauty editors |
| 1:27.5 | turned beauty podcasters. We have had our podcast for nine years. Now we've had an incredibly |
| 1:32.9 | busy spring. We've had a couple of live events. It's always so great to see our listeners in |
| 1:38.3 | person. Like it never gets old. And it's fun for us to flex a new muscle, do a live event. |
| 1:43.6 | Yes. And we have more coming this year in case you did miss out. Very exciting. We're going to do more. But we've had so many guests on the show, everyone from Haley Bieber, makeup by Mario, Lily Reinhardt recently was amazing. And, you know, if you want more of us, Carleen, you have something coming up, don't you? |
| 2:02.1 | Yes. So two things. First of all, our next live event is with Nutrafall at the American Academy of Dermatology. |
| 2:11.8 | And that's happening on March 28th in Denver, Colorado. So we're going to be doing a live event there. So if you are |
| 2:19.8 | planning to attend, there's probably going to be a lot of familiar faces. Yeah, there's a lot of |
| 2:24.5 | brand founders. From what I understand, it's like Disneyland for derms and skincare brands. We've |
| 2:32.5 | never been, but we will find out. And if you are there, |
| 2:35.6 | be sure to say hi. I know we have a lot of industry people that listen to our show. We're there |
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