The Beauty Founder Giving Away His Fortune, “Looksmaxxing” Gone Too Far and the One Body Oil You Need This Summer

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Fashion, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Style541811, Carlenehiggins, Beauty, Arts, Jilldunn, Beautyexpert, Beautyeditors, Magazineeditors

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re back in the studio to have a proper catch up and to make sense of the recent beauty headlines! Everything from an unexpected “holy” pivot for a beauty brand founder to the sponcon wedding boom.

Tune in as we discuss:

Is it tacky or genius to have your entire bachelorette trip sponsored by a beauty brand — 747 private jet and all? We break it down.
Sephora’s latest content pillar alongside Makeup by Mario aims to sort out your makeup dilemmas
Our thoughts on the “Natural Nail Movement” that’s picking up steam on social media — is it a recession indicator or a shift that says a lot more about our societal norms?
For the first time ever, we are joined by our producer Olivia who helps us debrief the disturbing mindset of Gen-Z “Looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular
The new body oil discovery unlike any other that Carlene has tried
Our experience with the latest innovation from Olaplex — direct from the very salon where master celebrity hair colorist Tracey Cunningham (and Olaplex ambassador) can work on up to 20 clients per day
Stay tuned to the end for a jaw-dropping conversation about a beauty biz billionaire who’s giving it all away for an entirely new career pivot that we’re certain has never been done before
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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:08.2	Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.
0:14.1	We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:25.1	Welcome back to another episode of Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone.
0:28.3	I'm one of your co-hosts, Jill Dunn, and I'm here alongside.
0:30.2	Carleen Higgins, that's me.
0:35.1	And we are here in your feed every single Wednesday, like we have been for nine plus years. And Carlleen, of course, we are two long time magazine
0:38.3	beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. And we talk about the breakthrough people,
0:43.5	products, and moments in beauty. And last month, we did an episode that was like news, point
0:48.7	of view, just chatting about the industry, new products, new ideas, stuff that's making headlines,
0:57.6	and we thought maybe we'll do it again and see if you guys like it. We have had some feedback
1:01.2	where people were into this. Yes. Exactly. So we'll hit you with some beauty news. But I think
1:07.7	POV is really the key word. It's really what our true thoughts are on certain things that are happening in the industry right now. So let's see if things get spicy today. Yeah, you never know. We like a hot take moment. And, you know, our episodes, of course, if you may be discovered us through one of our interviews, we've had so many incredible guests on of late Joanna Czech, Erica Taylor. We've had celebrities like Haley Bieber, Tracy Ellis Ross, Kate Hudson,
1:33.5	and then, of course, our hashtag damn good episodes, which we do every single month. And those
1:38.6	are sort of like, I would say, round up around a theme or a category where we're really putting our editor hats on and saying,
1:46.7	what's standing out? What's worth your money? What's hashtag damn good, as we like to say?
1:51.4	And next week, you want to mark your calendars because we're doing a whole episode,
1:55.7	a shopping guide about what to buy it all of Young, which is officially landing in North America next week.
2:01.6	Yeah, I think that's the biggest news happening right now.
2:04.4	Yes.
2:04.9	Is around K Beauty. The Olive Young news is huge.
2:08.7	We are in L.A. right now. We went to a VT. cosmetics dinner the other night.
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