Beauty Island

What is mineral makeup? And how do you fake tan without leaving the giveaway signs on your hands? Today's guest has the answers to both...

Hello and welcome back to Beauty Island, the beauty podcast that celebrates life and lipstick.

I'm your host, beauty journalist, Brittany Stewart.

Each episode, I sit down with a guest and ask them about the 8 beauty products that have a special memory or meaning for them. The ones they'd take to a desert island, or Beauty Island, that I am sending them off too.

Maybe it's the beauty product that defined their teens, the one they grew up watching their mum or grandma use, or the perfume that instantly sparks a memory of a special place or person.

Along the way we find out more about their life, career and the people and events that have shaped them into who they are today.

Today's my guest is Victoria Curtis, founder of Australian makeup brand Victoria Curtis Cosmetics and Curtis Collection, a brand with hundreds of stockists around the country.

Each time I sit down to an episode of Beauty Island, I am continually blown away by my guests. Their willingness to share their stories, firstly, but also just the incredible strength, wisdom, positivity and dogged determination they have. Victoria is one of those again.

She's been someone I've been in contact with for a while, so it was so good to finally have her over one grey Saturday morning for non-stop beauty chat.

We talked about her early interaction with the transformative power of beauty, the gap she identified after working at L'Oreal for a makeup brand that was actually good for your skin, and she shared the best fake tan tip for your hands I've ever heard.

If you enjoy listening to Beauty island, please subscribe, and rate and review on Apple Podcasts. That really helps me keep making the podcast how you like it and also assists in other people finding us! If you're on instagram, share where you're listening from - just tag me at @beautyislandpodcast in your stories!

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Shop Curtis Collection By Victoria

Follow @curtiscollection on Instagram

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Please note - all beauty products mentioned in this episode are honest recommendations, with no sponsored or advertised mentions.

Products Victoria spoke about:

Hairdryer and round brush

Red Lipstick

Chanel Mademoiselle

Curtis Collection Matte Perfection Mineral Foundation

Victoria Curtis Naked Glow CC Cream

Aveeno Derexa Moisturing Cream

The Bronzer Instant Tan

Loving Tan

Zala Hair Extensions

Ultraceuticals Skincare Range

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Music: Dexter Britain

Welcome to Beauty Island, the beauty podcast that celebrates life and lipstick. I'm your host, beauty journalist, Brittany Stewart. Each episode, I sit down with a guest and ask them about the 8 beauty products that have a special memory or meaning for them. The ones they'd take to a desert island, or Beauty Island, that I am sending them off too.

Maybe it's the beauty product that defined their teens, the one they grew up watching their mum or grandma use, or the perfume that instantly sparks a memory of a special place or person.

Along the way we find out more about their life, career and the people and events that have shaped them into who they are today.

Today's my guest is Maeva Haim, marketer, podcaster and founder of soon-to-be released haircare brand Bread Beauty Supply.

We talked about her change in career from law to creative, the link between hair and identity, progress and diversity in beauty, and given Maeva is the co host of Reality Check, a reality TV podcast, we touched on a little Love Island too.

She came to my house on a boiling hot day when the air con wasn't working, so props to her first for that. Her voice is incredibly calming and I found her attitude to creativity and business and for want of a better word, the hustle of getting stuff done, so inspiring. I think you will too.

Please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts for eternal good hair days.

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@maeva_helene @breadbeautysupply

Listen to Reality Check:

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Please note - all beauty products mentioned in this episode are honest recommendations, with no sponsored or advertised mentions.

Products Maeva spoke about:

Lancome Tresor Eau De Parfum

MAC Studio Fix Foundation

Spice Girl's deodorant

Lancome Oscillate Mascara

Just For Me Relaxer

Blistex Lip Balm

Frank Body Lip Balm

Fluff Bronzer

Glossier Generation G Lipstick

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Music: Dexter Britain

It's the product that kept popping up on the first season of Beauty Island from Fashion and Beauty Editors alike. But what exactly is Clinique's Almost Lipstick in Black Honey and why is it so special?

In a new bonus episode of Beauty Island, Beauty Spot, we look at the history and cultural significance of some of the most popular beauty products selected by Beauty Island guests. First up, Clinique's Almost Lipstick in Black Honey.

We take a deep dive into the origins of Clinique, look at what made Black Honey such a cult shade and product, and revisit the memories it has for Kelly Baker, Stephanie Darling and Glynis Traill-Nash.

Got any of your own? I'd love to hear from you.

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Listen to Glynis Traill-Nash's episode.

Listen to Stephanie Darling's episode.

Listen to Kelly Baker's episode.

Read more on Clinique's Almost Lipstick in Black Honey

"A brief history of Clinique."

"Eye on Carol Phillips."

The original US Vogue article that started it all

"Clinique's Black Honey Totally Deserves Its Cult Status"

Buy 'Pretty Iconic' by Sali Hughes

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Music: Dexter Britain

Welcome to another bonus bitesize episode of Beauty Island. I'm your host, beauty journalist Brittany Stewart.

This week, I've got the five faves of my guest Jane Cunningham aka British Beauty Blogger. She takes us through some of the favourite products in her makeup bag, including the effective yet painful treatment that gives you glow that can almost be seen from space. If you haven't already listened the her main episode which dropped earlier this week, might I suggest you do that too.

Please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts for eternal good hair days.

Follow Jane:

Blog, Twitter and Instagram

Follow host Brittany Stewart:

Instagram: @brittanybeautybts @beautyislandpodcast

Email: [email protected]

Subscribe to It's A Beauty! Newsletter for no BS beauty reviews, tips and tricks. (It's free!): http://bit.ly/2OE05XB

Please note - all beauty products mentioned in this episode are honest recommendations, with no sponsored or advertised mentions.

Products Jane spoke about:

L'Oreal True Match Foundation: http://bit.ly/35IR1u5

BareMinerals Complexion Rescue Tinted Hydrating Gel: http://bit.ly/35Jcsvj

Christophe Robin Shampoo and Conditioner

Clarins Kohl

Profhilo - read her piece here.

Yoga

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Music: Dexter Britain

Do you really need sheet masks for your bum? And what's the reality of being a beauty expert over 50 on Instagram?

Hello and welcome back to Beauty Island, the beauty podcast that celebrates life and lipstick.

I'm your host, beauty journalist, Brittany Stewart.

Each episode, I sit down with a guest and ask them about the 8 beauty products that have a special memory or meaning for them. The ones they'd take to a desert island, or Beauty Island, that I am sending them off too.

Maybe it's the product that reminds them of their mum, the beauty product that defined their teens or the perfume that instantly sparks a memory of a special place or person.

Along the way we find out more about their life, career and the people and events that have shaped them into who they are today.

Today's episode is the last of my london series that I recorded when i was in the UK the other month. My guest is Jane Cunningham, who you might know as a british beauty blogger. Or rather The British Beauty Blogger.

She has almost 40,000 Instagram followers, with hundreds of thousands of views on the blog she started over a decade ago. She's written for The Guardian, The Financial Times, Metro, The Express and many more.

She very kindly offered to come to me in London when I was staying with my cousins - shoutout to Andy and Miki for letting me turn their living room into a pop up podcast studio!. The sun was shining on an August weekday when we spent an hour on the sofa chatting all things beauty.

We talked how influencer and makeup brand collaborations really work, why red lipstick isn't for her, the ridiculousness of face masks for your bum, and had one of the most interesting discussions I've ever had on the attitude the beauty industry has towards older women and whether it's changing. Plus, she shares her 8 chosen products including the extortionately expensive lip balm that she just can't stop buying.

If you enjoy listening to Beauty island, please subscribe, and rate and review on Apple Podcasts. That really helps me keep making the podcast how you like it and also assists in other people finding us! If you're on instagram, share where you're listening from - just tag me at @beautyislandpodcast in your stories!

Follow Jane:

Blog, Twitter and Instagram

Follow host Brittany Stewart:

Instagram: @brittanybeautybts @beautyislandpodcast

Email: [email protected]

Subscribe to It's A Beauty! Newsletter for no BS beauty reviews, tips and tricks. (It's free!): http://bit.ly/2OE05XB

Please note - all beauty products mentioned in this episode are honest recommendations, with no sponsored or advertised mentions.

Products Jane spoke about:

Estee Lauder Makeup Box

Grandma's 'Heart Attack' Lipstick

Black lipstick

Chanel No.5: http://bit.ly/5Parfum

Kohl

Sisley Confort Extreme Nutritive Lip Balm:

What are the products so good they've earned a place in a professional makeup artist's kit?

Hello! I know it's Friday and you might not expect to hear me in your ears today but I'd saved this little bit from my conversation with the subject of the latest Beauty Island episode, Michael Brown, and thought it too good not too share.

If you haven't already, go back and have a listen. As a celebrity makeup artist to the likes of Jesinta Franklin, Brown has tried hundreds if not thousands of products. But what are the beauty bits so good, they make the ultimate journey to his professional makeup kit? In this little bonus episode, he talks me through some of the best products in his kit. Let's dive in..

If you love listening to Beauty Island, please subscribe and write a review or rate five stars on Apple Podcasts. That really helps boost us in the chart and allow more people to find the podcast - which means I can keep on making it for you!

Follow Michael:

Instagram and michaelbrownbeauty.com

Follow host Brittany Stewart:

Instagram: @brittanybeautybts @beautyislandpodcast

Email: [email protected]

Subscribe to It's A Beauty! Newsletter for no BS beauty reviews, tips and tricks. (It's free!): http://bit.ly/2OE05XB

Please note - all beauty products mentioned in this episode are honest recommendations, with no sponsored or advertised mentions.

Products Michael spoke about:

Marc Jacobs Blurring Primer: http://bit.ly/2plQNsl

Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation Stick: http://bit.ly/2Bfz7RU

Cinch Face Cheat: http://bit.ly/2BbOESB

Marc Jacobs Velvet Noir Mascara: http://bit.ly/2ONVeqr

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Setting Powder: http://bit.ly/2BekNJi

Charlotte Tilbury Starry Eyes To Hypnotise Eyeshadow Palette: http://bit.ly/33tW3J9

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Music: Dexter Britain

Discover the eye makeup trick Gisele Bundchen swears by and the foundation/concealer switch up that will save you time AND keep skin looking fresher...

Hello and welcome back to Beauty Island, the beauty podcast that celebrates life and lipstick.

I'm your host, beauty journalist, Brittany Stewart.

Each episode, I sit down with a guest and ask them about the 8 beauty products that have a special memory or meaning for them. The ones they'd take to a desert island, or Beauty Island, that I am sending them off too.

Maybe it's the product that reminds them of their mum, the beauty product that defined their teens or the perfume that instantly sparks a memory of a special place or person.

Along the way we find out more about their life, career and the people and events that have shaped them into who they are today.

I'm very excited to share today's episode with celebrity makeup artist and TV presenter, Michael Brown.

In almost 20 years in makeup he's gone from the makeup counter to the corporate world, and worked with celebrities including Gisele Bundchen, Sofia Richie and is the go-to makeup artist and close friend of Jesinta Franklin.

We talk more about Franklin, his almost-career as a professional dancer, the eye makeup trick Gisele taught him, and the foundation/concealer switch up that will save you time and keep skin looking fresher. Plus, his 8 chosen products and so much more.

Please subscribe the podcast and write a review on Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed it. And share and tag me on your Instagram stories too - @beautyislandpodcast - I love reposting and seeing where you're listening.

Follow Michael:

Instagram and michaelbrownbeauty.com

Follow host Brittany Stewart:

Instagram: @brittanybeautybts @beautyislandpodcast

Email: [email protected]

Subscribe to It's A Beauty! Newsletter for no BS beauty reviews, tips and tricks. (It's free!): http://bit.ly/2OE05XB

Please note - all beauty products mentioned in this episode are honest recommendations, with no sponsored or advertised mentions.

Products Michael spoke about:

Oil of Ulay

Kryolan and The Body Shop

Clinique Three Step

Youth Dew by Estee Lauder: http://bit.ly/2ILfLZO

Live Jazz by YSL: http://bit.ly/2OKCcBb

Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream: http://bit.ly/2riwwBD

Marc Jacobs Beauty Accomplice Concealer: http://bit.ly/2nI7xcE

Benefit 24-Hour Brow Setter Brow Gel: http://bit.ly/33yucav

St Tropez Gradual Tan: http://bit.ly/2B7TGzl

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Music: Dexter Britain

Is neck cream a complete waste of money? Is the science or the marketing of a beauty product more important? And what's the foolproof eyeliner Nadine's been using for years? Listen to find out...

Hello and welcome back to Beauty Island, the beauty podcast that celebrates life and lipstick.

I'm your host, beauty journalist, Brittany Stewart.

Each episode, I sit down with a guest and ask them about the 8 beauty products that have a special memory or meaning for them. The ones they'd take to a desert island, or Beauty Island, that I am sending them off too.

Maybe it's the product that reminds them of their mum, the beauty product that defined their teens or the perfume that instantly sparks a memory of a special place or person.

Along the way we find out more about their life, career and the people and events that have shaped them into who they are today.

I'm very excited to share today's episode with celebrity beauty editor, TV presenter, YouTuber, and one of my favourite beauty content creators, Nadine Baggott . As I mentioned last week, it's one I did when I was in London. I slid into Nadine's DMs, not expecting to hear back, and within a few hours we'd set a date to meet up at her agent's office to chat.

In a world of 20-something beauty youtubers, Nadine, in her mid 50s, does beauty for grown ups, as she calls it. After 18 years as a celebrity beauty editor at Hello Magazine - and does she have some stories including being told to fuck off by Kate Moss and sued by Naomi Campbell - frustrated by the slow uptake of print media to the digital space, she started a youtube channel. She now has over 100,000 YouTube subscribers and is represented by Gleam Futures, the same talent management as Zoella, Pixiwoo, Louise Pentland, and many more. It was in their office we met, a bustling place near Tottenham Court Road.

Nadine is tall, confident, cool and utterly charming. You can see why she's such a brilliant journalist - warm, open, funny and able to instantly put you at ease.

This is a slightly longer episode than normal but for good reason. We covered so many topics in the beauty industry, with Nadine offering a no BS, upfront take on it all from why she hates the term 'clean' beauty and the battle between science and marketing in the beauty industry to whether expensive and cheap makeup is all coming from the same factory. Bet your ears pricked up at that!

She shares the 8 (plus a few more!) beauty products that have a special memory for her, why neck creams are a complete waste of money and the face product that's confidence in a tube.

As always, If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, rate five stars and write a review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people find the podcast. And share and tag me on your Instagram stories too - I love reposting and seeing where you're listening. Thank you for the lovely welcome back and comments following the launch of season three last week - I hope you enjoy this episode too.

Now, over to Nadine. Enjoy.

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Hello and welcome back to Beauty Island, the beauty podcast that celebrates life and lipstick.

I'm your host, beauty journalist, Brittany Stewart.

It's been a while. A few months to be exact. As I alluded to in the last episode of season two, I was taking a little break. In fact, i quit my job, packed my bags and went travelling for three and a half months around Europe. To be cliched, it was one of those trips of a lifetime. Spent in the company of old friends, new friends, family but largely myself. I ate and drank my way through France, Italy and Spain. I wandered for days around the galleries of Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris and London, soaking up art, fashion and beauty history from Mary Quant, Yves Saint Laurent, Helena Rubenstein, Gustav Klimt, Rodin and Van Gogh. I even may have done a few Beauty Island interviews along the way.

But after a summer of self-indulgence, self-discovery and cultural exploration, on the one year anniversary of launch this passion project podcast, I am back and so excited to kick off season three.

A reminder of exactly what we do here. Each episode, I sit down with a guest and ask them about the 8 beauty products that have a special memory or meaning for them. The ones they'd take to a desert island, or Beauty Island, that I am sending them off too.

Maybe it's the product that reminds them of their mum, the beauty product that defined their teens or the perfume that instantly sparks a memory of a special place or person.

Along the way we find out more about their life, career and the people and events that have shaped them into who they are today.

Today my guest is Ava Matthews. Now, this is an interview I did before I left. But as we firmly leap into Spring with Summer more than a glimmer of warm hope in the distance, in Australia at least, it's the perfect time to releawse it.

Where to begin with Ava? She's had such an interesting career - from working in beauty PR to developing product at Mecca Cosmetica to co-founding skinscreen (that's sunscreen and skincare FYI) brand Ultra Violette. If you follow any Aussie beauty bloggers on Instagram, you'll probably have seen it on your feed as everyone is raving about this sunscreen disrupter.

I actually used their Supreme Screen sunscreen every day while I was in Europe, and can say hand on heart its one of the best facial sunscreens I've ever tried. It also works brilliantly as a primer under makeup too.

Anyway, enough about me. In this episode, Ava talks about her slightly different childhood growing up with a beauty editor mum and fashion photographer dad - after all it's not everyone who wakes up to see Naomi Campbell in their garden! - working in PR in New York and finding out it's nothing likes Samantha Jones made it out to be, why buying perfume on holiday is always a good idea and the story behind co-founding latest venture, Ultra Violette. Plus, much more.

If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to the podcast if you're not already, rate five stars and write a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps other people find us and means I can keep on creating Beauty Island for you!

Now, over to Ava. Enjoy.

Follow Ava:

Instagram: @avamatthews @ultravioletteau

Shop Ultra Violette

Follow host Brittany Stewart:

Instagram: @brittanybeautybts...

Yes, that's it for Season 2 of Beauty Island!

We're taking a little (ok, well a little bit more than a little) break until August as I do the classic mid-twenties thing and go travelling for a few months around Europe to 'find myself'. (Just kidding. Kinda.)

I appreciate it's quite a while to go without a podcast but rest assured when Beauty Island returns it will be for another big season of incredible local and international guests. (And in fact, if there's someone you'd love to hear on the podcast now is the time to tell me! Email me [email protected] or send me a message on Instagram @beautyislandpodcast.)

Thank you so much for your support of the podcast so far. We've hit the charts, been featured by Apple and nominated for an Australian Podcast Award. But the biggest achievement for me is knowing that you enjoy what I'm creating and your messages and reviews make me grin like an idiot. So thank YOU!

Until we return, why not scroll through the feed and listen (or re-listen!) to episodes from the last two seasons? Whether you want career advice from the women who've built big beauty brands, want to know what it's really like to be a top Beauty or Fashion Editor, are after the goss about influencers and beauty bloggers, or fancy taking a peek into the makeup kits of professional makeup artists, there are so many great guests to choose from.

In the meantime, you can also follow Beauty Island on Instagram @beautyislandpodcast. And if you're interested in the beauty side of my travels (the products I'm using etc and maybe a cheeky scenery shot) you can follow me on my personal beauty Instagram account @brittanybeautybts.

Thank you and until next time... bye bye!