Outspoken Beauty

*This episode is supported by Laura Geller Beauty*

It's not often you get to chat to beauty royalty like Laura Geller, but when you do, it's a conversation that you'll never forget.

I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed talking to the woman who went from Broadway makeup artist to building one of the first founder led makeup brands of all time. Laura is the woman who championed primer, putting it on the map and also brought baked makeup to us. She's also someone who has always lifted women over 40, even establishing National Mature Woman's Day - an annual celebration to champion and celebrate us.

It was Laura's makeup that impressed me first but now I've got to know the woman, I love her just as much.

Laura talks about so much including building her brand, her ethos and why she is still going strong. She also talks about some of the harder moments in her life with honesty. You are going to feel so utterly inspired by her!

Enjoy this Outspoken Beauties. It's a great listen.

I haven't done an episode like this for ages. It's my current morning routine from my shower heroes to my skincare, deoderant, body care and a fragrance that I'm currently addicted to.

I really rate all these products and hope you enjoy hearing my thoughts about them.

In this episode I'm chatting to the brilliant and utterly lovely Dr Jennifer Owens.

Jennifer is one of Ireland’s most respected practitioners in aesthetic medicine and the founder of The Glow Clinic, which has locations in both Dublin and Cork.

Dr Jennifer’s career began in dentistry, including time spent working in the Australian outback and as Google’s in-house dentist. Over time, she transitioned into aesthetic medicine, training extensively in London, Amsterdam, and New York before opening The Glow Clinic in 2018.

During the episode we talk all things skin, skincare that works, women's confidence and we have a really interesting conversation about the psychology of botox and more invasive treatments.

This is a fascinating expert with a top expert. Enjoy it.

Beauty Editor Perdita is back and we've got loads to catch up on.

Perdi has been on some really interesting press trips and launches and also tells us about why Beauty Pie have been in a little bit of trouble.

I'm also telling you about the amazing Fragrance Foundation Awards and we're chatting about a weird and wonderful facial that has changed the way Perdita does her skincare (and potentially lives her life).

Enjoy!

In this week's Outspoken Review I'm chatting about:

• One of the best barrier protecting moisturisers I've used
• An innovative, non-greasy SPF currently being tested by the Outspoken Beauty Trialling Panel and what they think of it so far
• French beauty must haves
• A hero product from Lixirskin

and much more.

It's Bryony time and we've got lots to chat about including:

• The big wedding dress disaster story
• Fashion ruts when you have big boobs
• Chat GPT relationship issues
• Fabulous fragrances
• Our beauty recommendations

There's lots more but I'm writing this description late at night and my bed beckons so you'll need to listen to find out all about our misadventures this week and the products that have impressed us the most.

Enjoy xx

In this week's Outspoken Review I'm chatting about the affordable serum I keep going back to, the luxurious hand cream that smalls out of this world, why I wish I could afford to keep buying a particular spf and why I'm so sick of the Clean Girl trend.

Enjoy xx

I'm so happy to finally welcome the founder of PHENOMENAL makeup brand Hildun onto the podcast. Suzy Griffin Dunne is such a brilliant personality with a background in both beauty writing and makeup artistry.

Suzy's creation of Hildun has really inspired me. Every product is so carefully thought through and is such a pleasure to use. I know that you'll love getting to know the woman behind it and hearing her story. It's one of ambition, graft and Suzy is bound to make you laugh too - she's a true Outspoken Beauty.

I am sitting here writing up this week's Outspoken Review in my knickers. I'm sweating in places that I didn't know could sweat and I'm frequently spritzing the poor, over-heated rabbit with water.

Anyway, heat aside, I have some lovely products to tell you about this week including a brilliant SPF, the best tinted lip balm (that I've been using as a highlighter too), minty freshness from Neom, some mind-blowing fragrances and two simple but impressive recipes.

Enjoy fellow Outspoken Beauties xx

In this episode I'm chatting to cosmetic scientist and The Good Housekeeping Institute's Innovation Tester Juliet Heaton.

Juliet is in charge of rigorously testing products against their claims in the Institute's lab to make sure that they actually deliver on their claims.

During the episode we have a really interesting chat about how clever marketing can lead us to believe things about our beauty products that simply aren't true and why some of the social media personalities who recommend things to us may be aligned with brands or at a basic level, recommend products that work for their skin but that are useless for us.

Juliet's job is to use tech that can really prove (or mis-prove) product claims and tell us about the brands and products that stand out and will deliver on their promises.

We also chat about the inaugural GHI Believe In Beauty Awards, the winners of which which have now been announced. We'll chat about some of the winners and whzt makes the products stand out.

This is such a great episode and in a world of too much information and choice, it will help you find the beauty products that really work.