Spring Makeup Reset: How-to Glow With Textured Skin, the New Contour and More Pro Makeup Tips with Smashbox Makeup Artist Lori Taylor Davis
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Can oily skin achieve a perfectly “dewy” glow? This week we’re re-visiting all of the rules that you thought you knew about makeup with veteran makeup artist and friend of the show, Lori Taylor Davis. Lori has helped shape Smashbox’s artistry and product development for more than two decades, counting celebrities like Sandra Bullock and Paris Hilton as past clients. Tune in as we tune up your spring makeup routine with take-note tips on contouring, snatching, glowing, mattifying and more!
You’ll learn about:
- The evolution of “glow” according to Lori, and how it means something very different in 2026 vs 2006.
- Glowy! Matte! Velvet! How-to master your skin finish with the right prep and application technique, no matter what your skin type.
- How-to contour in 2026: the best way to snatch eyes, cheeks and jawline — with a sneak peek at Smashbox’s new Precision Contour Sticks.
- Cream blush over powdered blush, or powdered blush over cream blush? Turns out you can do both, depending on the benefit you need.
- Lori’s “rolling” application technique for covering skin texture, so that skin looks seamless in real life–especially on textured skin.
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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. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. Hey there, Carleen. Hi, Jill. And welcome to our pod fam. We are two long-time magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. And each and every Wednesday we're chatting about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. And Carleen, one of the things that I used to love so much about writing for magazines |
| 0:43.2 | was that like service journalism, the how-to stories, those pieces that helped you get back to basics, |
| 0:49.3 | but also elevated your routine, tips and tricks. And I think the topic of this week's episodes, it feels like a story I would have written back in the day, but with a modern twist. And it's all about how to transform your makeup for 2026 with tips that will change how you do your makeup for this year. And joining us in the studio with all of the pro tips on this topic is makeup artist |
| 1:11.9 | Lori Taylor Davis, who is the global pro lead artist at Smashbox Cosmetics, where she spent |
| 1:18.4 | over two decades shaping the brands for artistry, product development, and pro education. |
| 1:24.1 | And Carleen, you and I, we just get along with Lori so well. |
| 1:29.6 | Like, I feel like she's our friend. |
| 1:31.0 | Who doesn't? She's amazing. |
| 1:35.7 | Like the vibes of this conversation is just like such great vibes. |
| 1:37.3 | I know that everyone's going to love it. |
| 1:41.9 | And Lori's work, it's been featured in top publications like Women's Wear Daily, Elle, |
| 1:43.4 | brides, and more. And her artistry has grace the faces of celebrities like Sandra Bullock and Paris Hilton. And by the way, Carleen, over the holidays, I'm going to pat myself on the back here with a little smashbox tidbit. I was featured in Vogue. You were actually the one who told me. Yes. I don't know how I clocked it, |
| 2:02.6 | but I did. I know. And I was like, I think it's Christmas Eve, but Carleen is reading Vogue. I'm obsessed. |
| 2:07.3 | And the reason why everyone was because there was a huge beauty moment in the Taylor Swift |
| 2:14.0 | docu-series where she was finally showing which red lip pencil she was wearing. |
| 2:20.4 | And I made a video about it because I clocked that it was a smashbox product called |
| 2:25.7 | Be Legendary Line and Prime pencil. |
| 2:28.5 | It was what she wore on stage for the heiress to her. |
| 2:32.9 | And I was like, Taylor, she's just like us. And it wasn't a new pencil, |
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