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Kate's Mariana and welcome back to the life with Mariana podcasts.

This episode is with Kristin Noel Crowley. She has a successful entrepreneur and beauty

mobile and a fashion favorite thanks to her frequent partnerships with luxury fashion houses

such as Dior and Louis Vuitton. Five years ago she started her skincare brand,

Can See Beauty, and it's available now at top retailers around the world, including Sephora,

Cult Beauty and Neiman Marcus. Kristen also launched the Can See School of Beauty as an initiative

to help other black entrepreneurs in beauty and wellness navigate the industry.

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Now let's hear from Kristin.

Thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

Yeah, of course. You know I love you.

So I know you as you're such like a style icon and I feel like I know so much,

but you really are so many things and two of the things that I think people know you best for

our fashion and beauty, which I feel like is really hard to do both and to do both.

Well, so which came first for you fashion or beauty?

If I take it back to like my childhood, I think it was beauty just because I didn't have the means

to participate in fashion as I do now and beauty is something that you can do at home, you know,

like you can experiment with face mask and hair mask and all types of different treatments

in your house, like from your cupboard, you know.

And I think back I always started with beauty, but to me like fashion and beauty is the same thing.

I don't feel beautiful if I'm not in like a fashionable outfit and if I'm in a fashion

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