Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. This is your host, Ecta. I'm very excited about the brand we're

interviewing today because I think there's very few brands out there that are really kind of

approaching skin care with this inclusivity mindset of it's for everybody. They're targeting concerns

that might be very specific to more melanated rich skin and also for all of us, right?

So I think that's very unique whenever I find a brand like that. So without further ado,

when I introduce you guys to the president of Butta Skin Tamara Watkins. Welcome Tamara. I'm so

excited to host you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here too.

Yeah, I'm excited to learn all about you. You have such an amazing background. It's very unique in terms of where you've worked, your experience.

I'd love for you to walk us kind of down memory lane if you don't mind and tell us about, you know, what got you into the beauty industry?

Like what led you here with your career?

So funny. Like if we want to go all the way that.

When I was in high school, I used to spend a lot of time at the libraries, the public libraries in Tallahassee, Florida, a panhandle area of Florida.

And I remember stumbling upon this book by Kevin Alquois, the makeup artist who has,

you know, who recently, unfortunately he passed. But seeing the images in his books just really

just inspired me when it came to beauty. And so I went off the college, studied chemistry

with the hopes of becoming a cosmetic formulator.

That didn't happen.

However, I started while I was in college, I started working for Mac and for Bobby Brown and just really thrust myself into the world of beauty.

And after working as a makeup artist, it was just a, it was a, it was a, it was a

grind as a so a 20-something year old. I lived in D.C. Most of the work was in New York at the time.

Like if you wanted to do like magazine work and, you know, fashion type of work, like you had to go back

and forth to deep to New York. And that just kind of, it was a grind on me.

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