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🇨🇦The #DamnGood Canadian Brands We Personally Love (and Think You Will Too!)
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Unknown Speaker
The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
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Jill Dunn
Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast, all.
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Carlene Higgins
About the breakthrough people, products and moments in beauty.
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Jill Dunn
We're your hosts, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins. Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. I'm Jill Dunn. I'm here with Carlene Higgins.
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Carlene Higgins
Hi. Hi, Jill.
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Jill Dunn
How are you?
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Carlene Higgins
I'm good. How are you?
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Jill Dunn
Good. We are here in the Dear Media studio in la and we are going to be recording our damn good episode, one of the first that we've done in studio, I believe.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, that's right. That's why I was a little lost. That's what. That's why you heard me laughing, because I was like, wait, where's my camera? I'm so excited that we're doing a damn good studio because we always say these are our top performing episodes, and yet we record them in our basement. So they're now being given, like, the love and the worthiness and the lighting deserve.
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Jill Dunn
And the lighting, they, you know, they deserve it.
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Carlene Higgins
So we're going to put this on YouTube as well, and we're going to try and hold up the products, and y'all can see what we're talking about.
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Jill Dunn
What people have been asking for. And I. I love that we've been getting some feedback. When we did post, like, our Drugstore episode on YouTube, even though it was shot in my basement, people said they like listening to it on the way to work. And then they came back and they watched the YouTube.
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Unknown Speaker
Wow.
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Jill Dunn
So we're getting like, some double whammy. And I do that with some podcasts I listen to as well. Like, sometimes listening, you don't pick up everything necessarily, but you might want to watch. And so I really enjoy that. But if it's your first time here, welcome. We are Jill and Carlene to longtime beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. This is episode almost 400. We have 400 episodes in over eight years. And, you know, coming from our magazine editorial days, these, I think, are really where our editorial muscles and our editorial flex really shine in these types of episodes.
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Carlene Higgins
Yes, that's right. So we're kind of like testing everything on the market to figure out what our favorites are. We try really hard not to talk to you about anything that's, like, mediocre. It's things that, as editors, we know are special. They stand out from the other products and their competitors. And I think Jill and I were just so proud today of our topic because we're talking all about Canadian beauty products.
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Jill Dunn
Yes.
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Carlene Higgins
And we've been getting requests in our DMs for this. Obviously, with everything that's going on in the world and the tariffs, it's just the time.
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Jill Dunn
The time is right.
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Carlene Higgins
It's definitely time and we are delivering.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah. And I just want to say the show is not political. It will never be political. And you can just enjoy Today we're not going to be talking about any, any of that stuff that's in the news. This is just simply to celebrate our homegrown hits and we can support these from anywhere in the world.
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Carlene Higgins
Absolutely. I think this episode is just serving everybody, no matter what kind of border you're on. It's just really good to know like what is amazing in Canada. And the fact is that we have hit it out of the park with some heavy duty players in the Canadian beauty scene. Obviously Mac Cosmetics, deciem, which makes the ordinary Ilia Bite Beauty, RMS Beauty.
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Jill Dunn
And like so many that we're going to be talking about today. And I think what kind of unites Canadian brands, they always have a lot of heart because you have to work so much harder.
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Carlene Higgins
Yes.
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Jill Dunn
To get it out there. And they often have the best stories. Like some of the best guests we've ever had have been Canadian founders. Because though their why is so significant, it's too hard to do it if you don't have a great story and you don't have heart and you don't have a passion for it.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, exactly. And I mean, we're Canadian beauty founders in many ways ourselves. If you are buying Canadian intentionally and you're based in Canada, want to check out the shop Canadian indie beauty collective. Okay. I know we talked about another website in our last episode that was created by a brand called omi. This one was created by kind of a collective, an indie collective and they got together when the tariffs were announced because of course that had a lot of Canadian beauty brands scrambling and business of fashion wrote about this. I think within 48 hours this WhatsApp group of Canadian beauty founders like banded together, spent some money, got this indie beauty collective directory going. There's so many brands on there, some of them I didn't even hear of.
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Jill Dunn
It's called Shop Canadian Beauty ca.
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Carlene Higgins
Okay, great. So we're going to link to that in our show notes as well. Lots of brands I have not even seen myself. So I'm learning as well.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah.
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Carlene Higgins
And all of that being said, we're going to get into our personal favorite Canadian beauty products after the jump.
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Jill Dunn
SA.
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Jill Dunn
So, Carlene, we have to kick this off by talking about your hotly anticipated skincare brand that you were creating for women over 40. I've seen some of the behind the scenes, but tell us what's next, what's new, what's the latest?
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, so we are in the final iteration. So I think, as a lot of listeners know, like you go through a lot of different formulas before you get to the final one. I feel like we are so close now.
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Jill Dunn
So close.
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Carlene Higgins
And it's so important to me that the product is, as we say, hashtag, damn good. So that's taken longer than anticipated, but it is in the works and it will be worth the wait. And then there is, as we talked about just a few minutes ago, there is wading through just like the whole new world order is like, you know, where exactly is this going to be manufactured? And I know again, like, a lot of Canadian brands have, like, set up warehouses in the U.S. they shipped a lot of products over there before the tariffs were going to come into place because otherwise it would drive up the cost for everybody.
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Jill Dunn
Sure.
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Carlene Higgins
So all of these questions, I think I'm. I do have a bit of an advantage that I haven't invested in anything yet.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah.
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Carlene Higgins
So it's wading through all of that. But, yeah.
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Jill Dunn
What can you reveal about the first product or the name or any. Any hints?
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Carlene Higgins
Oh, my goodness. I would say that's yet to come. I'm not quite ready yet, but I'm very close to revealing all of that. But it is a skincare product. It will be one hero product to start. I'm trying to fill a niche. So it will be something that's suitable for mature skin and also safe for sensitive skin types, which is what I have.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah, I love that. And I think everybody. To get updates, they can follow you where.
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Carlene Higgins
They can follow me at Carleen Higgins on Instagram for now. And also I have a sub stack called the Elevens, where I will start kind of slowly teasing out the first messages about the brand on the 11s.
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Jill Dunn
Okay, well, we better be getting the exclusive. That's what I'm saying.
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Carlene Higgins
Absolutely, girl. You know, so more to come.
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Jill Dunn
More to come. All right, so. So aside from your. What you're working on yourself, what are you passionate about?
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Carlene Higgins
We just talked about this with the indie beauty collective. Sahajan is just crushing it when it comes to Canadian skincare. And it's. The founder is Lisa Matam. And what I love about this line is that it's Ayurveda. I'm probably saying that wrong. I'm going to own that. I'm going to cop to that right now. But it's all clinically tested, so I love this merging of two worlds where it's like very natural, using ingredients that have been used for, like, thousands of years, but it's clinically backed as well. So the products really do work and they feel like a delight on your skin. Everybody needs to try the Nourish cream. Rich. This Is it here? It's US$55, 74 Canadian. And it is just like it's got this beautiful kind of earth toned color to it. And I just find even though it looks really thick, like feel it gel, it's just like. I don't know how to explain it. It's like this lovely like body butter, but for your face. And I think that's one thing I will say that Canadian skincare brands do really well is they know barrier protection because in Canada versus in the US we have nowhere to hide from the cold. You know what I mean? It's like it's not as diverse in terms of climate as it is in the US So you think about skin fix, which I know you're going to talk about Jill, very soon, who, you know, basically owns this category. We really know how to nourish and moisturize our skin. And I would say if there's one thing Canadian beauty does really well, it's that. So this just feels like this lovely, like cocoon on your skin. The fragrances are completely natural. Of course, it's cruelty free and it's just a delight. And the Radiance Face serum as well, 64 US 86 in Canada. It's a vitamin C packed serum. But it's like very gentle as well because like I said, it's like everything has to be able to withstand our broken skin barriers. So love both of these products.
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Jill Dunn
I also really appreciate that the Golden Glow Eye Balm, I think that's one of the best sellers and it's really brightening and it has ghee in there which of course is a very traditional ingredient for, you know, South Asian culture. So I think that that's and has like rose oil. It feels very elegant, very Elegan elevated. This whole brand does.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, exactly.
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Jill Dunn
Go Lisa.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, go Lisa. And I should mention in the rich cream, some of the ingredients there's got to cola, I hope I'm saying that right. And this helps to minimize the fine lines. And there's also Trivala and that's that potent vitamin C source. So again, it's like it's got those clinical ingredients, but it's coming from like very traditional sources.
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Jill Dunn
Okay.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah. How about you, Jill?
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Jill Dunn
Okay, well, I want to shout out an SPF from Canada that is an SPF brand that is crushing it. It's just so low key and not enough people know about it. And the brand umbrella brand is called the Sunscreen company and they have multiple subsidiary brands or sub brands under that umbrella, number one being Eva issa Now, the founder, Sarah Dudley. She's from Ottawa and she has been creating SPF specifically for 17 years.
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Unknown Speaker
Wow.
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Jill Dunn
So she is the authority. She is someone who is just like, like one with Health Canada and knowing their claims. And her expertise has been tapped by other brands to create white label products. Venus Williams for her brand. It's actually called 11. Now that I think about it, it's called 11. And she created her SPF for her. So I think she's tapped Loki behind the scenes more than we know.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, Yeah. I, I actually have often thought we should have her on the show.
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Jill Dunn
Yes.
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Carlene Higgins
Because A, she really knows her stuff, but B, you got. Everybody's got to follow her on Instagram.
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Jill Dunn
Because she's getting to that hot takes. Yeah. She doesn't hold back. And I think that that's also the beauty of it is like zero are given because she is small but mighty and she knows she's right about a lot of. She knows her stuff so well that she can go toe to toe with any influencer who or people are saying, you can ingest your spf, whatever. So I want to shout out the Ava issa every morning. SPF 30 broad spectrum. She says this is the Canadian alternative to L to MD.
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Carlene Higgins
Oh, interesting.
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Jill Dunn
What I like about this is it's 100 mineral. That's important for some people who can't tolerate chemical filters.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, I have rosacea, so that would be me.
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Jill Dunn
Yes. And. But the, the difference maker here, that's what's kind of mind blowing is it's 25 zinc oxide. So a lot of brands that claim to be 100 mineral, there's many out there. But a supergoop, for instance, they only have 13% zinc oxide. Well, that's a lot easier to do.
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Carlene Higgins
Right.
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Jill Dunn
Than 25% and make it sheer. She has a black woman in the campaign for this product, so that's how much she's banking on it being sheer.
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Carlene Higgins
On everything they developed 11, they actually had the product under their own company name, which I think I had talked.
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Jill Dunn
About Sun e serum before 11 launched.
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Carlene Higgins
And I was like, wait a minute, I know what this is. And sure enough, they were the makers. Although. So the parent company is called the Sunscreen Company. And from my understanding, they don't do private label anymore.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah, I think they, they've moved on. So this is great. You do have to work it in, of course, but it goes on invisible. There's no fragrance and it's just a sleeper hit. People need to give it a go. It is sold at the detox market and it's 100% transparent on all skin tones. And then I also wanted to shout out a product that she told me exclusively about.
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Carlene Higgins
Exclusively about.
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Jill Dunn
So it's coming out soft, launched very shortly after this episode comes out. But it's a new self tanning body product that does not use any of the traditional ingredients. And traditional active ingredients in self tanner. It's not DHA or Etherlos or skin staining. It's a combination of beta carotene and plant botanicals to encourage a warmer skin undertone. And it's also just a very good body moisturizer in terms of skin nourishment. So she discovered this ingredient called Terula oil and she said it's supplied by a biotech company that has funding from Bill Gates. I believe they were MIT students.
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Carlene Higgins
Oh wow.
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Jill Dunn
So she is on the forefront, like I said, of formulation. So it's not, not a surprise to me that she's innovating in this way. And I think and the what I've seen so far, I just saw a picture, it's a body butter in like a tub and then you're putting it on in the before and afters of the shape of how it sort of develops on the skin. Very beautiful.
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Carlene Higgins
Interesting. Okay, well we have to try this. We're gonna have of course a summer damn goods coming up. So yeah, if it makes the grade, it'll be in that episode.
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Jill Dunn
It's called the Sun Foria. If you all. Of course we will link to everything but it's going to be called Sun Foria Torula Gold. And it's a truly new concept of a product. Never seen anything like it in terms of producing a visible, beautiful but natural looking result. She's calling it Biotan.
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Carlene Higgins
Yes, interesting.
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Jill Dunn
Just to clarify that she said Cherula Oil supply from biotech company funding from Bill Gates is rich in beta carotene and torline. It's T O R U L E N E which is a carotenoid that's unique to yeast and then an Ergo Igora Stols which is a pro vitamin D. Love it.
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Carlene Higgins
Okay, on that note, I have a very tanned looking face, glowy at the moment. I did get a self tan and we will be having a self tanner professional on the mic in a future episode. So that's part of it, but the other part of it is Salty Faces liquid bronzer which is $36 US and 42 Canadian. I love this product so much. I talked about it in the Best of Spring episode. It is just one tone I am holding it here. And what I really like about this, this product is that if you are a pale person like myself and you have pink undertones, so many bronzers out there have an orange undertone. And. And I'm sure it's great for certain people, maybe if you have an olive skin tone or something like that. But for us pale girlies, it. It does not work. Like, it just does not jive. So I love that this one kind of universal color that they came out with does have. It seems to be quite neutral. Like, it has that more of like a brown undertone to it. And so a little bit cooler. It's a bit cooler. It reminds me of the, say, glowy super gel in Sun Glow that I'm obsessed with, and I use that to contour. So I very much use this product in the same way. And it's also a matte finish, which I really like, but it gives you a dewy glow just because it's super moisturizing. It's got these like botanical hyaluronic acid and botanical extract. So it's just like, feels so nice on your skin and blends in so well. So I'm a big fan of it.
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Jill Dunn
So I'm so sorry.
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Unknown Speaker
Just.
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Jill Dunn
Can you clarify, is it self tanner or. No, just bronzer. It's just bronzer.
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Carlene Higgins
Okay, so you're right in the sense that Salty Face does create self tanners. That's kind of like their bread and butter. This is their tanning water that comes in a dropper and they have a brush to apply it. And I'm sure this is really lovely as well. And yes, it's sold on. On the site. But yeah, so the self tanners are great too, but I just can't get enough of that liquid bronzer. Like, I love it. I know there's. There's so many bronzing drops that have launched in the world. The vast majority of them are too peachy orangey for my skin tone. So I stand those two I talked about. And the Salty face is Canadian. So, hey, highly recommend.
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Jill Dunn
You know, really quickly, I want to shout out, you know who else has an excellent self tanner brand? And they're Canadian. Nuda. Excellent.
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Carlene Higgins
I wouldn't be surprised. I was going to say Nuda is another great Canadian brand. Nuda and I got a self tan last night, and she was actually telling me that there are so many professional self tanners in Toronto.
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Jill Dunn
Yes.
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Carlene Higgins
Because the moviemaking business is happening in Canada, so they are, like, kind of booming there.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah. And Nuda, I gave a couple of Nuda products to my Irish friend. Yeah, Ginger. And she self tans constantly and she said it's like the best she ever used.
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Carlene Higgins
I know, it's amazing.
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Jill Dunn
So they're out of Montreal. Check them out as well if that's.
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Carlene Higgins
And their branding is great too. Like both Nuda and Salty Face look like kind of like birado vibes or something. You know what I mean? Yeah, really good.
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Unknown Speaker
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Carlene Higgins
What'S next, Jill?
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Jill Dunn
Okay, so I'm going to talk next about a product that is out of the Maritimes. I'm a proud Maritimer. Hey, P.E.I. forever. So the brand is Skin Fix. It is out of Halifax. And I think that this is probably one of the biggest brands that we're talking about today that most people would be surprised to know is Canadian.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, true.
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Jill Dunn
Because I did that TikTok video where I was shouting out all of these Canadian brands and everyone's like, oh, my God, I use Skin Fix every day. I had no idea it was Canadian, let alone Maritimer. Yeah, she can do a little jig. She loves a lobster roll. So one of my favorite products from the brand is the Skin Fix triple lipid peptide cream. I have to give that one a shout out. That is a dead ringer dupe for the SkinCeuticals 242 Restorative Moisturizer. I want to give a shout out to their latest product from Skin Fix. It's the Barrier balancing water cream. And this is brand new. If you have anyone in your life that struggles with acne, like some people with acne are literally afraid to put moisturizer on. It's true.
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Carlene Higgins
That was me back in the day.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah. So I think this is going to be great for especially young people or just oily skin types in the summer. It's US$54.73 in Canada, so you can buy from Sephora or their website directly. And it's a weightless moisturizer that delivers burst of refreshing hydration last that lasts three days balanced with acne. Safe non pore clogging formula. And it's very K beauty. I think that's why I like it so much. Yeah.
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Carlene Higgins
Oh, that's nice. Very water bank esque. Oh, that's nice.
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Jill Dunn
2% Humectant blend. 1% Heptapeptide solution. 2.35% Very specific balancing complex with niacinamide, zinc and green tea that helps to absorb oil and visible redness. So the before and afters were pretty crazy with getting rid of red.
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Carlene Higgins
This is a hit 100. They are the kings of barrier. They are so honestly like homegrown hit. Bowing down. And I just finished the newish Ceramide and ectoin gentle gel cleanser from Skin Fix. It won an Allure best of Beauty in 2024. It's so good. And I. And I just finished it this morning. Sad face.
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Jill Dunn
They do formulation very well.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah. Love it.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah.
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Carlene Higgins
And my daughter, I'm gonna give that barrier. Yes.
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Jill Dunn
I think that this is going to be a hit.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
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Jill Dunn
It's like moms and daughters. We'll be liking it for sure.
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Carlene Higgins
Love. Okay. Speaking of Halifax, the Seven Virtues is one of our both. We both love this brand so much. It is a fragrance brand out of Halifax and we love it so much because she also loves the lobster roll. But we are just obsessed with Barb Stegman who is the founder of 7Vutues and so proud that she's in our world.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah. Episode three of Breaking Beauty podcast in 2017 if you want to go check it out.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah. We'll link to that in on our website. She is a powerhouse. We can't tell her whole brand story here, but she's an activist turned beauty founder and she created the seven virtues back in 2010 kind of to her Friend at the time was in war in Afghanistan and was injured. And so she created this line to help create peace, not war.
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Jill Dunn
Right. It's like sourcing fair trade ingredients from war torn regions to create beautiful perfumes is essentially it. And it has come a long way and it's at Sephora now. It's been backed now, I believe by Unilever Ventures.
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Carlene Higgins
She's.
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Jill Dunn
She's crushing it. And when I talked at the very beginning about these people who are so passionate, it's like she's. She is it. It's like you believe in her so much that you believe in the brand.
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Carlene Higgins
Absolutely. And she has a book called the Seven Virtues, which is based on different philosophies. And honestly, she is one of those people where you speak to her and you're like, yeah, I can do anything. She's like a professional TED talker now. And she also created a make your own fragrance kind of like Lab Atelier in Halifax.
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Jill Dunn
Yes.
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Carlene Higgins
Which I have not been to, but I think that's so fun and such a beautiful tribute. Like, she's so. She's such an east coast woman. Like, she's never going to leave those roots behind and she invests in the community. So she put the store there instead of anywhere else that it could have been. And I think it's just beautiful and lovely. Her fragrances are great. One of the things that I think sets it apart is that they use between 22 to 30% fragrance oils in their formulas, which is double above the industry standard, which means that the fragrances are long lasting. Jill, I'm holding in my hot little hand. Their newest fragrance is called Clementine Dream.
- [29:10]
Jill Dunn
Oh, yes.
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Carlene Higgins
Have a, a go of that one. I think people are gonna love this for summer. Very fresh. It's got that very, like an orange blossom energizing type of. Type of a scent to it. But what's really gone gangbusters on, you know, with the Tick Tock girls is their vanilla fragrances. Vanilla woods, they've got a vanilla Santel. My favorite is the amber vanilla Eau de Parfum and a regular. Don't you love this? Like, it's so nice. It's giving like Le Labo a little bit beautiful. The regular size bottles are 94 in the US and 127 in Canada.
- [29:46]
Jill Dunn
I'm gonna read something that's right on this label. This perfume funds days for girls in advancing period equity in North America. That's just one thing she's involved in.
- [29:55]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah, love it.
- [29:56]
Jill Dunn
Incredible.
- [29:57]
Carlene Higgins
And she basically grew up in a In a trailer park. So she's gonna. She tells that story in episode three that, like I said, that we're going to link to. So such a.
- [30:06]
Unknown Speaker
Love it.
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Carlene Higgins
Love that brand.
- [30:07]
Jill Dunn
I'm going to talk about a fragrance brand that I like.
- [30:10]
Carlene Higgins
These two.
- [30:12]
Jill Dunn
Okay. We did an episode all about the indie brands. You should know about. About two years ago, I think. And I talked about this brand at that time and I'm so happy they're still around. It's called Persons of Interest and it's just one of the perfect name. Best branding. It's created by Dino Caracciolo. I hope I'm pronouncing that last name correctly. Do you know he's the creative force behind Persons of Interest and he also was in charge of Crown shaving company, if you remember that brand. Do you remember?
- [30:38]
Carlene Higgins
Yes, I do. Yeah. A men's brand.
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Jill Dunn
Men's brand that was very much like not elite barbershop. Yeah. Upscale kind of offerings. Canadian made. So they're all crafted in Ontario and their ingredients are sourced from Canada as well. Plus they have the coolest merch. I was at my hair salon the other day and one of the guys in the salon was wearing a persons of interest jacket. And it's like a black and gold and has like an embroidered kind of like snake on the sleeve. And then on the back it says persons of interest.
- [31:08]
Carlene Higgins
Amazing.
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Jill Dunn
And I want one.
- [31:11]
Carlene Higgins
Oh, my God. I'm on their website now. They have a on the run leather duffel bag.
- [31:16]
Jill Dunn
Yeah.
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Carlene Higgins
And they also have kind of Wayfarer esque sunglasses with like a little snake on the side.
- [31:23]
Jill Dunn
This is jacket. Mad cool stuff.
- [31:26]
Carlene Higgins
Love.
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Jill Dunn
Hyper creative. And I want to support love. So one thing I talked about in our previous episode, one of their more affordable products is the eucalyptus shower spray. All black, has this kind of logo on it. Carlene. I didn't bring it with me because it's giant, kind of like. Like a Windex trigger on it. But it's chic in your shower.
- [31:45]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
- [31:46]
Jill Dunn
And then they have like incense cones. All of the fragrances are a delight. They even created a custom fragrance for that permission store on Ossington.
- [31:55]
Carlene Higgins
Okay.
- [31:55]
Jill Dunn
So they're doing very creative, interesting things. And one, the fragrance I brought with me to Los Angeles is called Crybaby.
- [32:02]
Carlene Higgins
Oh, great name.
- [32:03]
Jill Dunn
And if you want to smell.
- [32:05]
Carlene Higgins
Yes, I do.
- [32:05]
Jill Dunn
I'm not sure if it's exactly your.
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Carlene Higgins
Type, but I really see how it dries down. It's like sweet off the hop. Like candy. Ish off the hop. But I bet it dries down. Very differently.
- [32:14]
Jill Dunn
You totally nailed it because it has citrus, sugar, cotton candy, which normally I'd be like, no, no. But it's dries down beautifully. Viol, rose, patchouli, sandalwood, amber and vanilla.
- [32:26]
Unknown Speaker
Very cool.
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Jill Dunn
Candles, incense, hand care. Like if you want the asap look, but you want to support Canadian or you want, you just want to have cool ass branding in your house and your people are going to be like, what is that? Yeah, this is the brand, absolutely the coolest product.
- [32:43]
Carlene Higgins
So everyone needs to check that out as well.
- [32:45]
Jill Dunn
Okay?
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah. Speaking of body products, I don't even want to talk about this product. I want to gatekeep it so badly because I'm afraid for them. I'm afraid that somebody out there listening is going to buy this and recreate it for some big non canadian company and make so much money off of it. And where will beauty from bees be after that? This is the beauty from bees body serum. It's 19 U. S, that's the 21 Canadian. And it is just absolute heaven in a bottle.
- [33:26]
Jill Dunn
Body wash. Body serum.
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Carlene Higgins
So it's a body serum. And this product was recommended to me by my girlfriend who has been going through like oncology treatments. And so she only wants things that are like super, super natural. And she's like, I'm addicted to this, this body serum, the sweet vanilla body serum. And I was like, well, if you're addicted, I need to try it. So I called it in and one of the things that they wrote me after they shipped it was, we hope you'll be as addicted to it as we are. And I was like, oh God, there's that word. Addicted. Addicted. If anybody's addicted to a beauty product, you know it's gonna go ape. So this product looks like liquid honey, okay. In this it looks like, as you say, like a body wash. But it's like the, the kind of sensation of it is like a liquid honey.
- [34:15]
Jill Dunn
Okay?
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Carlene Higgins
Like look, when you pour it out, it's just this beautiful, like golden. And then it melts into like a creamy like serum almost. And then it melts into an oil. But you apply it in the shower. As soon as you turn off the shower and your skin is still a bit wet, you apply this all over and then you dry your skin with the towel, okay. And it seals in everything. It smells like a day at the spa. It is not oily on the skin when you apply it in that way. And like it's that thing where when you get in the shower the next day, you can still see that the Droplets are, like, bouncing off the outside of your skin.
- [34:55]
Jill Dunn
Right. You've created a.
- [34:56]
Carlene Higgins
Because you've created that barrier. So once again, it's just like Canadian winters. You need this, like, all summer long to have shiny, glowy legs. You need this. This. It's avocado oil, castor seed oil, coconut oil, essential oils, lavendula, shea butter, beeswax. Beeswax, right. We've got beeswax in the house. Okay. Well, anyway, I. I love you. I feel sorry for you for what I just did. Consider me addicted. Color me addicted. And they also came out with a bronze version, which I haven't tried yet.
- [35:30]
Jill Dunn
Yeah, I was gonna say they got you in your sweet spot.
- [35:34]
Carlene Higgins
Up.
- [35:34]
Jill Dunn
Because I'm gonna out you a little bit here. I don't really think Carlene's Lubin up. How do you know that? You've talked about it. So this is, say, your trademark. It's lazy.
- [35:45]
Carlene Higgins
Lazy slash busy. I'm lazy slash busy. And I don't. It is true. I don't moisturize my body. Like, once the. Once all the care goes into my face. There's nothing. There's nothing. I'm not taking it to the tits. It's tm. Caroline Hirons. I am not.
- [36:02]
Jill Dunn
Because I'm lazy.
- [36:04]
Carlene Higgins
It is perfect for me because I. I'm. I'm in the shower. It's the motion. I'm. I've got to dry off anyway, I put it on. If there's anything that falls, that's falling in the bathtub or in the shower, which is the beauty of applying it this way. And a little goes along my lifestyle. Because again, yeah, it's like, what do I. I have to put on a robe? When do I put on the body cream? It's like.
- [36:24]
Jill Dunn
I love that part.
- [36:25]
Carlene Higgins
You put the clothes on and it's wet. And this way, you towel after. It's so genius. This. Anyways.
- [36:31]
Jill Dunn
Yeah, no, it's good. It's good. It's good to have the options.
- [36:33]
Carlene Higgins
If anybody knocks it off, by the way, I am calling you out. I am calling you out so hard.
- [36:39]
Jill Dunn
Yeah. Watch out, everyone.
- [36:41]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
- [36:41]
Jill Dunn
Okay. Well, it won't go unnoticed. Well, if you have a little bit more time to spend to put on body cream, I have a recommendation.
- [36:53]
Carlene Higgins
Who knows what's under these linen pants, Joe? Oh, you just never know.
- [36:57]
Jill Dunn
You never know. Okay, I'm gonna shout out Deal Bodies. So this is a Canadian brand founded in Toronto by bipoc woman named Chris Deal Leonardo. She's the best. I love her. You've Met her. Carlene.
- [37:13]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah. She's really cool. I want to have a coffee with her.
- [37:15]
Jill Dunn
She's fantastic. So she's created a body care line. That's the whole idea, is that it's waterless, so every ingredient is active. The condo is super concentrated, and it is. She has four products in the lineup. She teased that she might have something else new. So we will. We will try to share that when we can. But I really like the Cruise Control Smooth and Plump Body moisturizer. This is $38 Canadian. It's a retinol alternative in there. It's got Bakuchi oil and half a percent of salicylic acid, which suits me really well. Very gently exfoliating, but very nourishing as well. But you can get dressed to your point. Yeah, yeah, It's. It kind of. It kind of gives a plumping effect for the skin on the body, which usually you don't want to, like, necessarily invest a lot of money in that. So I think she's nailed the price point and I really love the formula and that you do notice that gentle exfoliation over time. So in a way, I think that it's kind of saving you time because you don't have to do like a separate scrub necessarily, like all and every time you shower, but this kind of like getting the job done while you're out and about. And then another.
- [38:24]
Carlene Higgins
Lovely. It's not greasy.
- [38:26]
Jill Dunn
Not at all. Yeah, not at all. So she. I just want people to support her. She was part of the Sephora Accelerate a couple years ago. She's since, like, rebranded, but there's just people you root for and she's one of them.
- [38:36]
Carlene Higgins
And the products are great and the branding is. I mean, I'm looking at. So the box is like a Kelly green, and so is this bottle I'm looking at. And it's got almost like NASCAR vibes where it's just like very, very cool.
- [38:50]
Jill Dunn
Very, like, sexy formula one kind of.
- [38:52]
Carlene Higgins
Exactly.
- [38:53]
Jill Dunn
Quick shout. Another former guest on our show, Mary Fether. She goes by at Madame Sweat on TikTok. And fun fact, in 2024, her episode was our most popular of the entire year.
- [39:04]
Carlene Higgins
What?
- [39:05]
Jill Dunn
It was.
- [39:05]
Carlene Higgins
Stop.
- [39:06]
Jill Dunn
So we did a whole thing with her about hygiene, etiquette, what to do with ingrown hairs, how to transition it.
- [39:13]
Carlene Higgins
To a natural deodorant. I know that was part of it.
- [39:15]
Jill Dunn
Correct. So she's another one that her brand is called Kaya Naturals. K A I A. Yeah. And she has a multitude of. Of body products that really are fixes for ingrown hairs, brightening under the arms, these kinds of things. But she is a legend when it comes to product development and she is a badass. She looks like a very cool grandmother. Black glasses, black turtleneck, cool ass haircut.
- [39:40]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
- [39:41]
Jill Dunn
Madame Sweat. She.
- [39:42]
Carlene Higgins
She kind of has this like, Persona to her that you'd know her from. Tick tock. I think she has like over a million followers.
- [39:49]
Jill Dunn
Her brand should be bigger than it is.
- [39:50]
Carlene Higgins
I know she's very quiet about it. Very polite, very Canadian.
- [39:54]
Jill Dunn
Yeah. Yes. And so I wanted to make sure we gave her a shout out.
- [39:57]
Carlene Higgins
Oh, my gosh.
- [39:57]
Jill Dunn
And also shouting out that episode because it did so well. But the underarm bar that she created.
- [40:02]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
- [40:02]
Jill Dunn
It's a soap you keep in the shower. You lather up under your armpits 20 times on each side and it basically kills the bacteria that would cause odor. And then that allows you to wear a natural deodorant more effectively.
- [40:14]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah. That's why it's called the Takasumi Detox. I think you can buy these two products together as a duo. So basically the idea is like, you can't just switch to a natural deodorant and expect that you're not going to smell. You need to go through this detox period. And she has these other products that helps you to like, get through there and reset, like reset the ph, reset the bacteria. And she was talking to me about this, like I met with her eight years ago, I remember, in Toronto at the East Room. And she already had had this product for years. Like she was.
- [40:46]
Jill Dunn
Is way ahead of what I'm saying.
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Carlene Higgins
Any other deodorant brand is like standing on the shoulders of Mary Futher. So this is the og It's Canadian. She's incredible. She knows exactly what's up. And I had a great sit down with her talking about my brand and she offered to have these quarterly where we're gonna kind of, you know, give each other insights and stuff like that. So she's wonderful for Mary.
- [41:12]
Jill Dunn
Yeah. And this line that reminds me, I did a photo shoot with her after you had left and I ended up in her bathtub.
- [41:20]
Carlene Higgins
We need to unearth both of us.
- [41:22]
Jill Dunn
In our black turtlenecks in the dead of February. And we were. And I was in the shower with her. It was a whole thing. And I don't know how come it never ended up seeing the light of day. Probably just I just got busy and it didn't get posted. It was hilarious.
- [41:33]
Carlene Higgins
Amazingly clothed, by the way. Amazing. And I think. I think Kaya Naturals is at Ulta now, by the way, so you can find it in the us but anyways.
- [41:41]
Jill Dunn
It'S just extremely effective. So if anybody out there is looking for a new option for some of you, like, I'm gonna make the switch to natural deodorant.
- [41:47]
Carlene Higgins
Absolutely.
- [41:48]
Jill Dunn
Check out the underarm bar. You need part one, which is the underarm bar, and you need the deodorant and it really freaking works.
- [41:53]
Carlene Higgins
Hell yeah.
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Unknown Speaker
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- [44:10]
Carlene Higgins
Okay, I'm gonna switch it up. We've got some more skincare, but you know, Canadians do color cosmetics as well. So let, let's talk about that for a bit. I mean, probably the best known company for that, I want to say, is Nude Sticks. Would you agree with that? That hasn't been acquired yet. Like Ilia RMS Beauty.
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Jill Dunn
I think Nude Sticks has been around like 10 years. 11 years.
- [44:31]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah. So they've definitely expanded, but they started out with, with these Nudies matte.
- [44:37]
Jill Dunn
Everybody probably has seen them.
- [44:39]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah, exactly. And so on one stick on one side it's like kind of like the multiple from nars and then on the other side there's a little brush which I used a few times, but I generally don't. Don't use that part. But I think where they. They've kind of branched out. So now they have like cheek color in a compact. I think they're stacking them. They have a whole skincare line, all of that. And Taylor is just a delight. They've.
- [45:04]
Jill Dunn
She's so sweet.
- [45:05]
Carlene Higgins
Sisters who launched it, the Frankels on our show, very early episode.
- [45:09]
Jill Dunn
Episode nine.
- [45:10]
Carlene Higgins
And her mother, Jenny.
- [45:12]
Jill Dunn
Jenny Frankel.
- [45:12]
Carlene Higgins
Jenny Frankel helped to develop this line. She is a veteran cosmetic chemist. It came from Mac back in the day.
- [45:21]
Jill Dunn
So Mac and cover fx.
- [45:22]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah, that's right.
- [45:23]
Jill Dunn
So another great Canadian brand that got swept away and is long forgotten, but was fantastic.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, absolutely. Of all the products they have, the Nudies Matte Blush stick is still my favorite. I'm wearing it today. I'm wearing a full face of. Of Canadian beauty. And I will do a tick tock or a reel or whatever and show you everything. But, but this is still my favorite. It's got great color payoff. I think it was around the time when, when there was a need for like a clean version of NARS multiple. And I think that's exactly what they delivered with these products. Great pigment payoff.
- [45:58]
Jill Dunn
Yes.
- [45:58]
Carlene Higgins
And to me, there's so many cream blushes in the world today. Absolutely. I have so many favorites, but I think a lot of them are too sheer and slide off and don't know what they're doing. So I do go back to this Nudies blush stick. I'm wearing the shade Picante today, still going strong. And this product is 44. Sorry, 35 in the US and 44 in Canada with 13 shades.
- [46:29]
Jill Dunn
Love it. Yeah. I also want to give A shout out to some Canadian makeup. This is founded by Basma Hamid, who has been on show. She's an incredibly inspiring founder who, again, we don't have time to get into all of their stories, but she had suffered burn when she was three years old and went through basically Helen back with skin grafts and tons of operations to try to fix the skin on her face. And then she pioneered this medical procedure that's scar camouflage. She does it professionally here in Beverly Hills, in Toronto. She does it for royals, celebrities, and just incredibly inspiring. Badass. Y does not take no for an answer. So she came out with a color cosmetics line that has nearly 40 shades, I believe, of foundation. And what's special about it is that it's a stick foundation, and it is. There's zero drag.
- [47:17]
Carlene Higgins
May you hold it up for the peeps. It's in this hot pink stick stick.
- [47:21]
Jill Dunn
And it's called the Basma Beauty foundation stick, and it's around $58 in the US a little bit more in Canada. And I love the coverage that this gives. It's one of the best stick foundations that you can do, buildable coverage. And that's no surprise, given her background, because it's all about. She wants to make sure nothing's sticking to skin texture. It's about gliding, it's about giving the coverage, but not making sort of any uneven texture more apparent.
- [47:51]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
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Jill Dunn
So I don't know if you've tried this, Carlene, but I have no idea. She also pioneered a brush complexion brush that goes with it, and I am really impressed. And the shade ranges are beautiful, Right. From quite fair to the darkest tone on the Fitzpatrick scale. She really nailed the formula.
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Carlene Higgins
Okay. Another color cosmetics line we need to shout out. This line is created in Canada, is 1999 beauty. And what is great about this line is that it's age inclusive, hence the name. So it's 19/99. And what it means is that this product line is for people, all ages, all genders, and I think they've done that very well in their shoots, in their campaigns to illustrate that. And the lead makeup artist who also assists in product development is a makeup artist named Simone Otis. Love her, and I've shot with her many times. Speaking of Canadian icons, I worked at a magazine called flair for 13 years, which was iconic. It was like the Vogue of the North. I grew up on it. The Linda Evangelista covers. I was so proud to work at that magazine, and I did many shoots with Simone, and she's incredibly talented. I love her. I have a Soft spot in my heart for her. So the fact that she has a role in this brand, I think is great. The products that they initially launched with are kind of like these multiple sticks that are more precision.
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Jill Dunn
Yeah, like a eyeliner.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, it looks like an eyeliner. So, yeah, there are other multiple sticks on the market. This is considered, quote, unquote, clean. And the shade that I'm wearing today is called Bore Bor, and it's a great, like, purpley eggplant shade. I'm wearing it along my eyes, but yesterday I think it was. I had it on my cheek. So you. I just do, like, a small X on each cheek. This is the product.
- [49:46]
Jill Dunn
This is like the cool girl makeup brand of Canada right now.
- [49:49]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah, right, exactly.
- [49:50]
Jill Dunn
Like Katie Denna was talking about a bunch of their products she loves. It's a makeup artist's favorite.
- [49:55]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah, exactly.
- [49:56]
Jill Dunn
For sure.
- [49:56]
Carlene Higgins
So there's 12 shades is 26 US dollars, and in Canada, it's a little bit more probably 33 or something like that. And so it's just really fun. There's a lot of, like, they've. They came out with blushes, like this hot pink one that's so cute, which is, like, in a wider baton, this cream blush stick. And it reminds me of the old school Nars. Scap.
- [50:18]
Jill Dunn
Scap or whatever.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah. Which was like a bright pink Fuchsia. Fuchsia, like Ode to Schiaparelli. And honestly, like, we very well could have used that on a shoot together. So I love that she's kind of recreated this clean version.
- [50:32]
Jill Dunn
Love it.
- [50:33]
Carlene Higgins
And very cool. That's 1999.
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Jill Dunn
Okay, I'm just gonna quickly give Ilia Beauty a shout out. They are from Vancouver. They're big dig up by Bought by Clarence. But I'm obsessed with the new eye stylist. There's 20 of them in this cup. And what I like about them, Carlene, is they did a lot of similar shades, but one matte version, one shimmer. Okay, so that is their POV here. They're, like, very easy to put on. They said they're inspired by Renaissance paintings, but not. You don't have to be an artist to use them.
- [51:04]
Carlene Higgins
Ah.
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Jill Dunn
So it's an eyeshadow stick. Goes on beautifully. The glide is fantastic. You might remember you were obsessed with these when they were about to launch in 2023, but they kind of pumped the brakes. It wasn't exactly where they wanted in terms of formulation, so I wanted to give a shout out now. And the colors. The colors are fantastic. I think very on brand For Ilia, a little bit more on the muted, muted side. But there is a pink and a green. A couple little surprises.
- [51:30]
Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
- [51:30]
Jill Dunn
And I love. They've partnered with artists and it's got Canadian roots. So want to shout it out?
- [51:35]
Carlene Higgins
Absolutely. And so, yeah, I think we, I think we'll will have to end it off with some quick shout outs now because we've been talking so long, we could have done a two part special, honestly.
- [51:45]
Jill Dunn
Well, I need to shout out a budget find because it's incredible to me that this brand is all Canadian, made in Canada and the rock bottom prices that they come through with.
- [51:55]
Carlene Higgins
Yes.
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Jill Dunn
So Indeed Labs, it's celebrating 15 years this year. The iconic product is Nanoblur still used on Euphoria set Indeed Labs. We interviewed the co founder Demetra Davison back in December. It's on our YouTube channel. Plenty of people have found that inter. And then we're like, oh, Demetrius. Sharing her side of the story.
- [52:14]
Carlene Higgins
The Brandon True act more because they work together again, we can't get into the whole thing. There's so many stories behind the stories.
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Jill Dunn
But Indeed Labs was co founded initially by Demetra and Brandon Trax. He created the formulations for a lot of their early hero products including Nanoblur, including the Hydrolon serum, which I love, including and and many others. And I wanted to give two products a shout out specifically from them. One is their Snox into under eye patch. These are 19.99. Okay, put them in the fridge. 30 pairs is such great value.
- [52:48]
Carlene Higgins
Amazing.
- [52:49]
Jill Dunn
I absolutely love these eye patches. And they just created a new line that Demetra kind of teased when she was on our show.
- [52:55]
Carlene Higgins
Oh, yes.
- [52:56]
Jill Dunn
It's a line for tweens and it's called. They have three products. My favorite that I'm going to shout out is the goat milk toner. This is $14.99. It's so cute.
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Carlene Higgins
Me at goat milk and got me a goat milk.
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Jill Dunn
Right. And it literally is like a dupe for the glazing milk from Hailey Bieber's Road. And it's a third of the price.
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Unknown Speaker
Right.
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Jill Dunn
It's a silky, milky toner, very K beauty, inspired, absorbs quickly. It has deep hydration, oil, shine control. So it is meant for like a slightly younger skin type. But I definitely find like in the summer you could be. I could be wearing it.
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Carlene Higgins
Right.
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Jill Dunn
For sure. And I brought with me to Los Angeles their pimple patches. Again, again, 9.99 and I think there's 45.
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah.
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Jill Dunn
The deals keep coming. Thank you. Indeed. Labs. So check them out.
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Carlene Higgins
Absolutely. They are amazing. Demetra is amazing. And I know we have to go because we've been talking and talking, but I, I need to do a quick shout out to this brand new line that hit my desk. It's called Vintage Noon. How cute is that?
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Jill Dunn
Great branding.
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Carlene Higgins
It's meant to be completely gender neutral. It's giving vacation skincare vibes just with like this great like 70s packaging. It's kind of like orange and beige and this is a redness recovery overnight mask and moisturizer.
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Jill Dunn
So like a metal tube?
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Carlene Higgins
Yeah, it's in a like an old school metal tube. It's US$47, 65 Canadian. It is made in Canada. This is brand new. It definitely appeals to me because it is for is redness reducing. So this is supposed to be an item that you bring on vacation with you. It's good for the whole family. If you've gotten too much sun, if your barrier's been busted by the airplane, which happens to me all the time, you can use this as like a mask, a leave on mask. It reduces inflammation and it has some great just like tried and true ingredients that help with the redness. So like Centella Asiatica. It's got calendula again, one of my all time favorite ingredients. Ceramides, shea butter and. And what else? Maple leaf extract. How Canadian can we get? So I needed to shout them out.
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Jill Dunn
Okay, thank you. So everyone, thank you for listening. Please watch this on YouTube. We're going to link to everything on our website which has had a refresh our website breaking beauty podcast.com so it's a little easier to find the products that we were talking about. And if you have products that are Canadian that you want us to show some love to, please please send them our way. We don't often with small, small indie brands, they don't necessarily have budget for PR and we don't. They're not necessarily on our radar. But we want to show as many ransom love as we can. Let's get the conversation in the comments going. Supporting these brands, following them on Instagram or you know, buying them in your next haul, whatever the case may be, let's just support them and support Canadian creators too. But thank you everyone for tuning in and we will see you next week.
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Carlene Higgins
Bye now. Thanks for listening. You can find details on every product mentioned in today's episode along with our exclusive promo codes on our blog@breakingbeautypodcast.com While.
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Jill Dunn
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Carlene Higgins
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Carlene Higgins
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