The Principles of Indigenous Beauty ft. Jenn Harper, Founder & CEO of Cheekbone Beauty

Naked Beauty

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Arts, Fashion & Beauty

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Before there was a “clean” beauty movement, there was Indigenous beauty. Before sustainability and naturally-derived ingredients were cool, there was Indigenous beauty. Jenn Harper, Founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty, is here to remind us that Indigenous culture’s contributions to beauty have always been and continue to be at the center of this industry. Tune in as we discuss her:

Anishinaabe roots
Founder story
Approach to product development
Healing from the historical traumas that have impacted her family
Utilizing her brand to help give back to Indigenous communities

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0:00.0	Everything is everything is everything.
0:03.0	Hello. This is Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty
0:07.5	podcast. I have been so inspired by my podcast guest lately because they're
0:12.0	all so different and you all know I'm very
0:14.4	picky about founders that I speak to on this podcast because I really only want to
0:18.8	speak to founders that have a different point of view that are doing something truly
0:22.3	innovative in the beauty space.
0:24.1	And I think Jen Harper, who you all are going to hear from from cheekbone beauty, is incredible.
0:29.5	She's so special and she's doing something really transformative for her community.
0:34.0	So Jen has indigenous ancestry from her father, her father being from the Ojibwe Nation.
0:40.0	But what we talk about in this episode is beauty as this vehicle for healing generational trauma in her community and for healing generational trauma in her actual family.
0:50.5	If you remember my episode from Thanksgiving, I was able to get into more detail about America's history with the indigenous people that were here before Columbus quote unquote discovered America, but Canada also has a very disturbing history when it comes to Native people.
1:04.3	The Canadian Indian Residential School System was this network of boarding schools for indigenous people
1:09.6	that affected hundreds and thousands of kids and families.
1:12.8	We talk about this really important history within the episode.
1:15.6	Jen is thinking really intentionally
1:17.4	about how beauty can heal and transform us.
1:19.9	And she goes into detail about the natural ingredients
1:21.9	that they use,
1:22.7	about really sourcing sustainable ingredients
1:25.4	for their products, and also having sustainable packaging.
1:28.6	I have been absolutely loving their concealer pencils,
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