From $12 to $49 Bucks, It’s Our #DamnGood, Bougie-on-a-Budget Gift Guide. Plus! A Sneak Peek at The Best Black Friday Shopping Steals
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our bougie-on-a-budget gift guide! We’ve scoured the beauty aisles for the coolest holiday prezzies that won’t break the bank – and trust us, we’d want these makeup and skincare finds ourselves. Plus, Jill and Carlene share their fave non-beauty holiday picks that are under $49 – from a strapless bra alternative that won’t let you down to a sweater-saving defuzzing gadget, and a duvet-like robe dupe that’s already gone viral.
In this episode you’ll hear about:
- A new-fangled Sephora “Advent” calendar that *actually* makes sense
- Versed’s skincare gift set that boasts the viral GWP headband you’ve seen all over TikTok
- For the makeup junkie on your list, a fan-fave mascara quad for under $18, and a game-changing, lavender lash curler that’s sure to impress
- A slicked-back bun essential from the most coveted hair brand du jour, Emi Jay
- In partnership with Macy’s, our top Black Friday deals reco’s (Pssst! From now until Saturday, November 25, Macy’s online Black Friday event is saving you big on the essentials and gifts you’ve been waiting to snatch up all year. Visit macys.com for details.)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, |
| 0:08.8 | the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:12.9 | We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. Welcome to our seasonal gift guide. I'm |
| 0:27.3 | Jill Dunn, one of your co-hosts. Hey, Carleen, how are you? |
| 0:29.8 | Hi, I'm great. I'm feeling very festive today. Yeah, we're surrounded by tons of like little |
| 0:36.0 | Gifty moments. It's very festive in here and you're wearing your metallic shoes which I love. Oh, thank you. Yes, I this is you know, I'm getting into the holiday spirit heck yes and and I want to tell people what we're doing for our holiday party |
| 0:49.8 | Oh as people may not know that we have a couple of people that help us, Olivia on social media and Aaron on the |
| 0:56.9 | admin front, she puts together a shop my shelf and everything. |
| 0:59.5 | So the four of us, we're going to the Lipp actually, and we're going to be creating our own lipstick. |
| 1:04.8 | So I'm thinking we should do like a signature breaking beauty shade. |
| 1:08.4 | We've never like, we've kind of like dabbled in doing something like that, |
| 1:11.2 | but never like officially created a |
| 1:13.8 | Pantone color for us to do. Well we should probably try to get the Pantone |
| 1:17.8 | that's on our Breaking Beauty on our logo. You guys have seen it in Apple |
| 1:21.7 | Podcasts. Maybe we should try and get that red down. |
| 1:25.4 | That would be a fun one. I think they can totally match that and it's it's so |
| 1:29.1 | interesting because these used to be known as bite beauty, right? But the Lipp Labs have survived, |
| 1:34.2 | and they're in every city, like in Nashville, in Miami, |
| 1:37.5 | in New York, in LA, in Toronto, |
| 1:39.2 | and it's just like a fun festive thing to do. |
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