The #DamnGood Beauty Finds Defining Fall 2025: Skin “Silking,” $4.99 Must-Have Mascara and Yes, Eyeshadow Palettes Are SO Back

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

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

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Fall is almost officially here, and we’re breaking down the season’s must-have beauty products and viral trends – from “toasty” eyeshadow palettes and a soft matte makeup revival to luxe “skin-silking” serums. Plus, our takes on the latest celebrity beauty launches and stay tuned to the end to hear about a $4.99 mascara that we both rate, and a rock-bottom budget acne find from The Ordinary.

You’ll learn about:

The expert-led brands ushering in a whole new beauty era — We test Jennifer Aniston's hairstylist Chris McMillan's Glassy Blowout Spray, the revolutionary “underpainting” palette from Hailey Bieber makeup artist Mary Philips, and the new Eyeshadow Colorstory Palettes by Selena Gomez's pro, Hung Vanngo
What sets Victoria Beckham’s splurgy Foundation Drops apart from her contemporaries (hint, Professor Bader’s back in the house of Beckham!)
First impressions of Martha Stewart’s skincare line — and the reason we’re not writing it off as just another celebrity line yet
The soft matte renaissance— meet Glossier’s 2.0 Cloud Paint “Plush” Blush, fluffier powders and “3D matte”
Do we really need a $200 snatching serum for those on GLP-1 weight loss medications?!

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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.
0:13.8	We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:24.4	Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everybody.
0:26.8	We're Jill and Carleen here in the studio.
0:30.3	We are going to be doing a hashtag damn good episode today.
0:31.3	Best of Fall.
0:34.4	Yes, fall is always the most exciting time.
0:38.9	And we're going to be highlighting some key trends for this season. The products that we're talking about today are really defining what we think is the direction for this fall in
0:46.0	beauty, whether we're talking about skin care, we're going to be talking about color cosmetics,
0:50.1	even some internal supplements that are popping off, all of the things. Yeah. And I think this is where we really get to like flex our editor muscle. You know, obviously we were magazine editors before we turned beauty podcasters. Our podcast is in its eighth year. Many of you know that. But if you're joining us for the first time, welcome. And I think that this is really fun for us because we're able to, yes, review the products, but contextualize them, like Harleen said, in trends, in what's happening in the greater scope of the industry. And that is what we like to do as editors. We really can't help ourselves, you know? Yeah. And there is new. There's change afoot, I would say. Yeah. So it's a good time to do a reset, get inspired. Yeah. And there is new, there's change afoot, I would say. Yeah. So it's a good time to do a reset,
1:29.8	get inspired, and, you know, have your shopping carts at the ready. I love it. And I think
1:35.6	there's just so many trends that we've touched on, like in the last couple of episodes,
1:39.7	expert-led brands. This is really what Sephora seems to be doubling down on these days. Like Chris
1:45.7	McMillan, his hair care line, Hung Van Gogh coming out with his makeup line, Mary Phillips coming
1:50.1	out with her makeup line. There's a bunch of others as well. And I think that feels in and of itself
1:56.3	like a new direction and really fresh. Yes, absolutely. And kind of like a throwback in a way to
2:02.4	some of the brands that were popping off when we were, I would say, junior. Yeah, baby beauty
2:09.5	editors. Absolutely. That back in the Laura Mercierge, there's like a second coming, if you will.
2:15.9	Other trends we're going to be talking about
2:17.8	today are that matte skin is back. We're going to dive deep into that. We're also going to be
2:23.8	talking about the GLP1 effect, which is now rolling out into products. Into skincare. We're going to
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