How a K-Beauty Esthetician Gets Her Skin So Glassy with Peach & Lily Founder Alicia Yoon
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re sitting down with Peach & Lily founder Alicia Yoon! Along with its budget-friendly sister brand, Peach Slices, the Korean beauty phenom is celebrating five years in skincare, and according to WWD, a collective $100 million in sales. Tune in as Alicia shares her early struggles as a diver on the Korean national platform team – until an injury that landed her in a wheelchair would set her on a new path.
Then, from “toddler” facials at the age of three to bonafide #glassskin guru, the K-Beauty esthetician shares her journey overcoming lifelong eczema, as she drops every step of her glass skin routine. Plus, keep listening for a sneak peek at the brand’s late-breaking innovations: Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Restore Serum and Barrier Restore Cream, dropping tomorrow!
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Alicia’s best tips for acing age-defying facial yoga – yes, it’s a thing!
- Her unique take on skin flooding – does the limit of layers exist?
- The latest K-beauty trends you’ll be hearing about everywhere, like exosomes
- Why the secret to a juicy skin barrier just might be…. calcium?!
- How playing “skin detective” can be the key to managing even the most sensitive skin types
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and |
| 0:11.8 | moments in beauty. |
| 0:12.9 | We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey, Hey, breaking beauty fam, |
| 0:22.4 | welcome back to another episode. It's Jill and |
| 0:25.1 | Carleen here like we are every single Wednesday bringing you the breakthrough |
| 0:29.0 | people, products, and moments in beauty. Happy December, Carleen. Hey Jill and hello friends so as you all know by |
| 0:37.2 | now we're two longtime magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters and this |
| 0:42.4 | week we are diving into the world of |
| 0:44.7 | K Beauty with one of the foremost voices on the topic and that is Alicia |
| 0:50.0 | Eun, founder of Peach and Lily. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, and I am all about K Beauty. |
| 0:54.9 | You know, like pretty much every single SPF |
| 0:57.1 | that I recommend is a K Beauty formulation. |
| 1:00.7 | And it's always been, you know, K-Beauty products are always sort of at the forefront of innovation. |
| 1:06.0 | I think though for a while in the marketplace people might have thought K-Beauty was like waning a bit with trends or innovation, |
| 1:12.0 | but Tik-Tock has certainly put it back in the |
| 1:15.4 | ether again absolutely I know that the term Korean glass skin saw a 134% year over year increase in terms of search on Tik-talk. |
| 1:26.8 | So I think that really tells you that the interest is still there and it probably never really |
| 1:31.1 | went away but it's surging once again. |
| 1:33.0 | Absolutely K Beauty is back and I have been a long time fan because I find that what K Beauty does so well is |
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