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What Real Inclusivity Looks Like With Uoma Beauty Founder Sharon Chuter (Replay)

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Dermatology, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Beauty News, Makeup, Skincare, Perfume, Fragrance

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sharon Chuter is stepping away from Uoma Beauty, the brand she founded, but she leaves behind an amazing legacy. In this interview, she tells us about the rebellious path she took from teenage beauty entrepreneur in Nigeria to head of her own company, and opens up about the difficulties she’s faced as a Black woman in the corporate world and why she wanted to do things differently once she was in charge. Plus, Sharon shares her take on the beauty industry’s efforts to become more diverse and inclusive, as well as some of the makeup and skincare she can’t live without. This podcast has a new intro but the interview originally aired in August 2021. We'll be back next week with all new episodes!


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0:00.0

Okay, okay, listen, it's Fatma Scour here. You clicked on us for a reason. You know that

0:12.6

this is the interview, but it's not the interview. The interview. I'm Jen Sullivan, by the way.

0:18.8

Hi. I'm just Matlin. I want to get straight to the big interview. This is not a new one,

0:28.5

we had just so many interviews. I don't expect you you hear them all. You're busy people,

0:34.1

but Jen and I like to resurface some of the best ones. And we thought now during our two-week

0:41.2

memorial day, summer, like, you know, moment, we had one week off. We had one week off. Yeah, you

0:49.4

would kind of book. Oh, I don't want to get nifty about it, but I was working last week. We

0:57.6

had a prima too. And then at least who with the book flawless? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay.

1:04.6

So now we're both on VK. We have Sharon Shooter. What a four. Yes, she is a four. Jen, tell

1:16.5

us about when Sharon came when Sharon came to visit. It was 2021. I remember like it was yesterday.

1:24.2

No, she is the founder of Oma Beauty and Oma by Sharon C. She was the CEO and creative director

1:30.6

of those brands, but she actually just announced that she's stepping away from the brand. In a post

1:35.2

on Instagram, she said, quote, I'm going into solitude mode for most of June to do some writing,

1:40.5

enjoy my garden, cook, spend time with close friends, all the things I've not been able to do for a while.

1:46.0

It's time to do less and achieve more end quote. I think there's something in the ether actually

1:50.7

with regards to this. I just saw the founder and CEO of Sugarlash pro stepped down this week

1:55.7

and some indie brands have closed. I think we talked about this on the podcast in the past,

1:59.2

the brand Wildcat. That just shuttered. There's just a bit of a reshuffling going on in the beauty world.

2:04.7

But none of that diminishes the power of the brand's Sharon built. And also the activism she's

2:09.8

done in 2020. She launched the pull up or shut up campaign calling for other brands to publicly

2:14.2

release the breakdown of black employees at the corporate and executive levels. And this spring,

2:19.2

when Oma launched its most recent marketing campaign called We See You, she alluded to the long time

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