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Skincare Anarchy

Tisha Thompson, Founder of LYS Beauty

Skincare Anarchy

Ekta et al.

Fragrance, Fashion, Entertainment News, Fashion & Beauty, Education, Entrepreneurship, Skincare, Skin, News, Makeup, Style, Dermatology, Self-improvement, Beauty, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A trained makeup artist turned beauty business maven, Tisha Thompson, is the Founder and CEO ofLYSTM Beauty with more than 15 years’ industry experience in clean beauty product development, brand management, marketing, finance and operations. Unapologetic in her pursuit to diversify the marketplace, Tisha built LYSTM as a landing-place for makeup and skincare solutions that are uniquely catered to various skin types, textures and tones, while addressing common skin concerns, like hyperpigmentation, dark spots and sensitive skin. With ingredients as her tool and confidence as the goal, Tisha is on a mission to dispel the myth that clean beauty, deep shade ranges and high-performance products cannot coexist.Following a listen and respond approach to innovation, Tisha has spent years intimately studying the beauty consumer to fill gaps in the market as it relates to performance, shade offerings, undertones and marketing representation. Truly becoming one with the lab, she relays these consumer concerns for a final result that gives you the immediate payoff you want with the lasting benefits your skin needs. Because when it comes to your skin, compromising shouldn’t be an option.Innately curious and hungry for change, Tisha dedicates her time traveling the world to discover best beauty practices, emerging trends and consumer-facing concerns to create products that break down barriers and build up confidence. She is known for celebrating the non-conforming views of beauty through globally recognized campaigns. Most notably, after her frustration on the lack of representation in beauty campaigns and shade assortments, she launched the 4-in-1 Love Your SelfieTM Longwear Foundation and Concealer duringher tenure at PUR. This product, which launched in 100 flattering shades, cemented her commitment to serving underrepresented communities through the vehicle of beauty.As a millennial mom of two, beauty enthusiast and undisputed go-getter, Tisha understands the industry’s need for clean products that are equal parts effective and inclusive. She dedicates her time traveling across the world to discover emerging trends, ingredients and practices and consumer-facing concerns, which are echoed throughout the company to produce a carefully curated collection of products that satisfy the needs of the global consumer. Whenshe’s not at the baseball field with her two son’s, you can find her testing products in the lab, conceptualizing beautiful packaging or brainstorming strategies to break down the barriers in the beauty industry.Tisha earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management from Kennesaw State University. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skincareanarchy/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skincareanarchy/supportSupport the show

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0:00.0

Hi guys, welcome back to Scinture Energy. This is Echda and I have a fabulous guest for you guys today.

0:13.2

This line is truly something I've had my eye on for a while and they're just such a beautiful

0:18.6

brand. So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys to the founder of LYS Beauty,

0:23.6

Tisha Thompson. Welcome to the show Tisha. I'm so so happy you had the time for this.

0:28.4

Hello, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Such an awesome opportunity.

0:33.2

It's my honor to host you. I would love to get started with your own beauty journey and just

0:38.4

everything that kind of inspired you to create LYS. Yeah, you know, I actually started off as a

0:45.7

makeup artist many moons ago and I actually fell in love with makeup trying to find, you know,

0:54.0

what made me comfortable when I was around 16 I guess. I was always like a tomboy and you know

1:00.7

really struggled finding my identity and so I got into hair and makeup really heavy and then I

1:08.3

you know, wanted to pursue it as a career and be a makeup artist and I had no Terry parents.

1:13.2

They were very strict and they were like, no, you're not going to be a starving artist and this

1:18.2

was like before they really like, you know, there was this glamorized, you know, side of makeup you

1:25.0

see today and so they were like, I go to college and you know, so and they really wanted me to be

1:31.6

first generation to graduate college and my family. So, you know, to make them proud I did do that

1:35.8

and I went to school to do accounting, which is so ironic, totally out of my creative realm,

1:40.6

but to satisfy that creativity, I did makeup on the side and so I did like weddings and brides and

1:47.6

I worked at my cosmetics for a while and that was kind of like my part time gig on the side and

1:52.8

and I just always loved it was just always a way to get that creative outlet and fast forward, you

1:58.8

know, I you know, ended up when I when I got out of college working in finance and I actually landed

2:06.0

a gig with a cosmetic, I didn't know at the time they were more like a branding agency but they

2:13.1

owned cosmetic brands and and it was just so ironic because they went on the job, I'm like,

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