Why This Founder is Shutting Down Their Brand — And What It Says About Beauty in 2026
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.6 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, founder David Yi joins us with difficult news: he’s closing his beauty brand, good light. We talk candidly about the financial realities of running an independent beauty company in 2026, the moment he realized things weren’t working, and what most consumers never see behind the scenes.
But first, Kirbie and Sara share their current favorite finds from our partner, Macy’s — from a stay-put eyeliner that truly won’t budge to a reformulated cult-favorite foundation that just might live up to the original.
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| 0:00.0 | G-M, Los Angeles. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi, Kirby. |
| 0:07.1 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to Los Angeles. |
| 0:14.7 | All right. |
| 0:15.6 | It's Super Woif. |
| 0:17.1 | I love a Super Woif. |
| 0:18.0 | Y'all love Woif in general. |
| 0:19.7 | I mean, we were really smart to come up with that. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, what's on your face? |
| 0:23.6 | If you're new here, what's on your face? |
| 0:25.3 | But it doesn't have to be on your face. |
| 0:27.1 | It's where we wax poetic about the products that we consistently use and love. |
| 0:33.2 | It could be Dawn Power Wash. |
| 0:35.9 | It could be Dawn Power Wash. |
| 0:37.3 | Okay, so yes, obviously talk about beauty, but some days you're like, Don Power Wash really killed it for me during the pandemic. And it's actually shocking to me that Dawn never reached. They did send me a bunch of product, but like, yeah, I felt like there should have been a bigger moment with Don Power Wash. 100%. It's really, there is no product like it. We do love Don Power Wash around here. To wash your makeup brushes, everything. It's amazing. So today's Super Wife is presented by our friends at Macy's. Of course, they're one of our partners. But we own these products. We've bought them with our own hard-earned dollars. So we truly stand behind them. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah. But you can also shop them at Macy's. Exactly. All right, Sarah, you're going to kick |
| 1:16.2 | things off with a beauty pick. What is on your list? Macy's has an incredible selection of beauty |
| 1:22.9 | products, as we all know. But I wanted to shout out a new product. It's technically a new formulation. |
| 1:30.6 | It is a new version of a beloved product. And I am honestly such a huge fan of this new and improved |
| 1:38.8 | version. So the Armani luminous silk foundation, I feel like the beauty people who are listening to the |
| 1:45.8 | podcast, no. If you know, you know. It's also like every makeup artist always says it's part |
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