The Backstory Behind The #1 Ranked Hair Care Brand at Sephora with Amika CEO Chelsea Riggs. Plus: The New Product Drop to Help You Ace the “Fluffy” Hair Trend!

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Jilldunn, Arts, Beautyeditors, Style541811, Beautyexpert, Beauty, Carlenehiggins, Fashion, Society & Culture, Magazineeditors, Fashion & Beauty

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We took a trip to New York with Amika to learn all about the colourful brand behind the #1 dry shampoo in prestige hair care. Listen in as Amika CEO Chelsea Riggs delivers the scoop on the viral thermal round brush that helped usher in a fluffy hair revolution, what makes Amika’s best-selling Perk Up Dry Shampoo so damn good and, the brand new Volumizing Rising Star collection (oh my!) destined for your next big hair day.

Plus, you’ll find out:

Why Amika is the #1 hair brand ranked on Sephora.com (based on traffic to the website,) offering up formulas for eleven different hair types and textures
How to achieve the fluffy hair trend at home, with Chelsea’s personal tips on boosting thin strands, from haircut to blowdry and beyond
How Amika builds allyship within the company – with lessons for indie brands who lost their footing this year (ahem)
What it takes to earn B-Corp certification – and why it matters to us as consumers
Why Chelsea chooses to see the *positive* in a one-star review

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0:00.0	The Summer Games are upon us y'all, opening this Friday in Paris and yay for the amazing athletes but also can we talk about what a better time there could be for the whole
0:18.0	athleisure trend in fashion that's going on right now you know what I mean the nylon striped pants with ballet flats, a white tank top, that kind of mismatch vibe, not to mention the whole stealth wealth preppy looks that have made a comeback. So I need to tell you guys about what might be the best kept
0:35.3	secret that Macy's has in stock. Okay, did you know that Ralph Lauren is the
0:40.8	official outfitter of the national athletes this year.
0:44.4	They've actually been designing the team's looks with their classic Americana style
0:48.8	for nine years running and this year it just feels especially on point.
0:53.4	Everything is red, white and blue and really the whole Ralph Lauren collection has nailed it with the
1:00.9	Lux Sport 80s nostalgia feel. I'm so into it and the prices are
1:06.4	really reasonable in my opinion. The baseball jackets are so cool they have
1:11.2	oversized sweatshirts. Everything is really good it does not feel like
1:15.3	merch it's really more like a cool high-end collab and of course you can find so many more of your favorite
1:22.4	athletic brands at Macy,
1:24.4	Puma, Adidas or Adidas as they say across the pond. So check it out at
1:30.0	Macy's.com or in store that's Macy's.com or in store Macy's.com or in store Macy's dot com or in store that's Macy's dot com or in store Macy's dot com
1:37.0	welcome to breaking beauty the podcast all about the breakthrough people
1:41.8	products and moments in beauty.
1:43.8	We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
1:47.0	Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. I'm your co-host Jill Dunn and I'm here as always with my co-host,
1:58.0	Carleen Higgins. Hello Jill. Of course, have you been tuning in for a while now, you know that we're two long-time beauty
2:04.4	editors turned beauty podcasters delivering what's hashtag damn good in the beauty world each
2:09.5	and every Wednesday from interviewing top hair, makeup and skin pros to personally
2:14.4	reviewing the hottest products hitting store shelves and today we're
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