Why Korean Beauty is Always Ahead (With the Lipstick Lesbians)

Gloss Angeles

Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Thank you to our partners, Laneige, for this episode! The Lipstick Lesbians are back: Alexis Androulakis and Dr. Christina Basias Androulakis join us to unpack K-beauty’s past, present, and future. We cover the first wave vs. today’s resurgence, what Korean skincare does better than Western beauty, how AI will be involved, what makes a brand truly “Korean Beauty.”

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0:00.0	G.M. Los Angeles.
0:05.6	Hi Kirby. Hi, Sarah.
0:08.4	Welcome to Los Angeles.
0:14.1	All right. We need no introduction.
0:17.9	We said this the last time, too.
0:19.2	But this truly, we need no. But I feel this the last time too. But this truly, we need no, this is, but I feel like
0:22.4	we manifested their return. And here they are. With open arms. With open arms, anytime come back,
0:30.9	we said we wanted to talk to you for five more hours. This won't be one, but you know,
0:34.9	here we are. Well, we're happy to be back. Thank you. Welcome back to the lipstick lesbians.
0:39.7	Woo!
0:40.5	My God.
0:41.2	I love that you have claimed that word.
0:44.7	I think so, too.
0:45.4	It's so good.
0:46.2	It's so good.
0:46.9	We did, actually.
0:47.6	It just went through the other week.
0:49.2	Oh, congratulations.
0:49.6	Oh, you didn't know.
0:51.5	I didn't know.
0:53.6	Cheers. You didn't know? I didn't know. Now you know who takes care of what. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. Now you Google like lipstick lesbians, we actually come up. We come up. It defines the second thing. It's kind of crazy. And then it like answers. And they're also an Instagram duo. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. Do you have to fight anyone? Like did anyone own it? No. It was truly yours. It was truly original. Yeah. Love a smart business woman.
0:54.4	Yeah.
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