Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference.

Welcome into another episode of Your Brand Amplified.

I'm Anika Jackson, and today I am here

with an entrepreneur, creator of shy beauty,

shy Lynn Ubray.

Thank you so much for being here.

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

Super excited.

Yeah, me too.

So I know a little bit about your backstory, but I'd love for you to share with our

audience what was behind creating your own beauty line.

Absolutely so the idea kind of began growing up. I moved around a lot and biracial so I was the first person in my family to have hair the way you know curly hair, my mom's hair was straight and my dad, you know, guys don't really wear their hair.

Their hair pretty long. So we moved around a lot. I went from Detroit to Arizona. And in Detroit I was too

light for the brown kids in Arizona. I was too brown for the light color kids

kids. So it kind of as a child it really affected my self-esteem and then

eventually I got older I actually spent some time in foster care with a Middle Eastern family and there it was really tough to take care of my skin or my hair.

And so it was just kind of like pink lotion ponytails for me every day.

Wow.

And back then, there wasn't a lot of representation

for women of color in the beauty industry

for hair or skin.

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