The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Rea Ann Silva Built A Multi Million Dollar Business As A Broke Mom, These Are Her Secrets

Episode Date: August 12, 2021

#382: Rea Ann Silva is s the creator of the Beautyblender makeup application sponge and the founder and CEO of the Beautyblender company. Silva created the sponge while working as a make-up artist for the Girlfriends television series. On today's show we discuss how Rea Ann built a multi million dollar business with little resources and the steps she took to get on her way.  To get 20% off at BeautyBlender at click HERE and use code TSC20 for 20% off  To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential  The Hot Mess Ice Roller is here to help you contour, tighten, and de-puff your facial skin and It's paired alongside the Ice Queen Facial Oil which is packed with anti-oxidants that penetrates quickly to help hydrate, firm, and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, leaving skin soft and supple. To check them out visit www.shopskinnyconfidential.com now.  This episode is brought to you by Sakara This year, turn your resolutions into reality. Whether you’re looking to try plant-based eating, build an empowered body, boost skin’s glow, or simply feel your very best, Sakara makes it easy to create rituals that last. Sakara is a wellness company rooted in the transformative power of plant-based food. Their menu of creative, chef-crafted breakfasts, lunches, and dinners changes weekly, so you’ll never get bored. And it’s delivered fresh, anywhere in the U.S. And right now, Sakara is offering our listeners 20% off their first order when they go to www.sakara.com/skinny and enter code SKINNY at checkout. Produced by Dear Media 

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so broadly with so many people is there's not, it's very simple. There's not a lot of secrets. It is a sponge made out of this very special material that you use damp, and as long as you can bounce it on your face, you will get a flawless makeup application as if you were a professional. You guys, welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her podcast. It's me, Lauren. And today, we have a very exciting guest. This is something that I feel like everyone who's listening has,

and that is an egg-shaped pink sponge, aka the Beauty Blender. Okay, so the Beauty Blender founder and CEO, Rheanne Silva, is on the podcast, and she is going to give you the juice on how she launched this insane brand that everyone knows and everyone uses. Her company is projected to do 215 million in retail sales this year alone. She's all over the place. Her tool is everywhere. And just to give you a little background on her, she was a celebrity makeup artist. She did everyone's makeup. Everyone was obsessed with her. She was like the it makeup artist. And while she was doing makeup, she realized with high res, you could see makeup. So she wanted to create a tool that gave you a look of skin. Okay. She couldn't rely on air brushing. That wasn't working. So out of necessity, she created her own egg shaped sponge.

And she started to notice that the actors and actresses were stealing her sponges. And she had this aha moment where she realized, holy shit, I'm onto something. And that is how the original Beauty Blender came to be. It has won like 10 Allure Best of Beauty Awards. Everyone talks about it. Every influencer has it. Kim Kardashian's obsessed. Meghan Markle, I'm obsessed. It is honestly a tool that I cannot live without. I remember once I traveled without mine and my makeup just did not look the same. And before we get into this episode, I want to give you a hot tip about how I use my beauty blender. So I use it two ways. The first

way is you got to get it damp. Okay. That's the trick. It's going to make it bouncy and look like skin. So I get mine damp. I squeeze it out, and then I apply a little bit of moisturizer or oil with my foundation. I'm obsessed with this Colostrum moisturizer right now. It's by Epicurine. I'll put a little squirt of that on, and then I'll do my Skinny Confidential Ice Queen Oil on the beauty blender and mix it with my foundation all on the beauty blender, and it just gives you this beautiful, glowy skin. So that's my tip with makeup. And then another thing that I don't want anyone to sleep on is using a beauty blender to apply your skincare. So pretend you don't have makeup. So you're going to have one

for your makeup and one for your skincare. You can use a beauty blender to apply sunscreen, oil, moisturizer without makeup. It works so well. And again, you're going to get it damp first. Those two tips are life-changing when it comes to making you look hydrated, plump, and supple. With that, let's welcome Rihanna Silva, the founder and CEO of Beauty Blender, to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her podcast. And you should know there's a giveaway at the end of this, so stay tuned. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her podcast. And you should know there's a giveaway at the end of this. So stay tuned. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her. I was trying to give context to the guys, our producer and Michael in studio about a beauty blender. And I said, every single girl in the world has a beauty blender. That's probably dirty

in their makeup bag. Cornered the market. Yeah. Oh my God, from your lips to God's ears. in the world has a beauty blender that's probably dirty in their makeup the market yeah my god from your lips to god's ears it's true and also this the cool thing about your product which i'd love to get into is that you can't go buy a cheaper less expensive version and have it be the same there's a bounce to the beauty blender that's like a i don't know if the word's buoyancy like a there's a bounce it There's a bounce.

That's why we named our color products bounce. It makes sense. It makes sense. It's a total, it feels different. And I was just telling you how I even use it to apply sunscreen and makeup. It's multi-use. Huge fan. Thank you.

To give context to our audience. Your skin looks absolutely gorgeous for everybody that can't see her right now. You look flawless. I am so hungover. I had 45 tequila shots last night with my friends so i'm thank you that means a lot that many because lauren comes home and tries when she she comes home she's like tries to give like a presentation like she's normal let's let's just table this last time i went out with my friends it was mom's night out like you know we had some fun i get it i'm hungover but thanks Beauty Blender, which I used this morning, I'm feeling fresh-ish. Can you give context to our audience and go way, way back before you even started Beauty

Blender of what you were doing? I know you were a makeup artist. I would love to hear about the journey before Beauty Blender even existed. Like, you want me to like start like from the egg? Like when I was born? I mean, we've never had anyone start when they were like a sperm, but we can start from the sperm. How much time do you have? I'm pretty old. Let's start from the sperm.

Okay, so I am from Southern California, but currently bi-coastal. I will get into that later, but I live between California and Pennsylvania. Grew up in a household where my mother didn't really wear makeup. So that naturally made me more curious about it, but she was really big into fashion. So she was like one of those natural girls that look really, you know, sharp all the time. So I ended up going through school here, you know, childhood, pretty normal, not rich at all. My dad was a mechanic. My mom was a waitress.

Went to public schools. I'm a product of the public school system here in LA. And I ended up going to this little school that was starting in Los Angeles called FIDM, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, which is now a much bigger school and really amazing place for creatives. But I went there thinking I was going to get into fashion design and totally hated it and then ended up being an art person doing illustration and then kind of just transitioned that media, that talent, that artistry into makeup because it was the time, right? I was

out of high school. It was like in LA for the first time. I was like going to clubs and going out and wanting to look cute and everything. So I would do my makeup, my friend's makeup. So my friend one day just said, you should be a makeup artist. And I was like, I'm not going to be a makeup artist. I'm going to be a fashion illustrator. I'm going to do X, Y, and Z. Long story short, I ended up, as we know becoming well we maybe don't know i became a makeup artist and i worked in here in la during the big mtv generation i you know cut my teeth as a makeup artist in music video doing like a million makeup on videos to the point that my team makes fun of me whenever we hear a 90s song they're like did you do that video and i'm like yeah probably oh my god there's this is like very nostalgic because

i think that's like that's that's we were on that california love i worked with tupac i worked with dr dre i worked with biggie i worked with sean combs for 12 years and did all of his artists i did brandy moesha did all of her things, did all of Eve's things, worked with Whitney. I was with Whitney the day she died. I didn't work with her all the time. Roxanna Floyd, rest in peace, her amazing makeup artist and friend of mine who passed away was her regular makeup artist. But in this particular moment, I was working with her. So many people. I had three agents here in LA, between LA and New York. And really what had happened was I had kind of reached a ceiling at what I could do as a makeup artist. I was in the union. I was department heading films. I created Beauty Blender on the set of Girlfriends,

which I was department heading at the time. And it was the first show that was being broadcast, shot and broadcast on high definition. It was like an experiment. And that's where I created Beauty Blender to do the makeups. But I did everything I had done. Editorial, fashion week, television, film, commercial. There was like there was nothing really. There was no other frontier. I'd even done like porn. I mean, the only thing I hadn't done was like like funerals. Is there makeup on the vaginas in porn? You know, I probably sucked at that because. Oh, my God. I thought you were going to say I probably sucked that. And I was like, like, let's take a plot twist. I probably sucked at that particular medium because I was so like freaked out at how free and like how normal these people are. They're you know, they're

but when you look at porn, you go like, oh, my God, these people, how did they do this? And they're just like regular, normal people that just have sex on camera. No, I was not going down there. So no penis makeup. You're not contouring to make the penis look bigger. No powdering booties. I mean, it was all neck up. You never know now. Maybe things have changed now.

I mean, I just, I don't know. Things are pretty high def now. How do you know? Well, that's for another podcast, Lauren. That's for another time. That's another subject. Yeah, so basically, you know, I had reached a ceiling with my makeup artistry

and I had been doing it for, you know, a good amount of time at that point. And I started, I was also a single mother. I have, at the time, I have two kids now, but at the time I had my daughter, Erica, and she, you know, was going to, I was making good money. Don't get me wrong. I was making six figures, but just like living in LA is expensive. And she was going to private school and I was like, what am I going to do? And I also knew that, you know, I come from very, what is it? Modest,

you know, beginnings. And I knew at some point I was going to have to take care of my family, probably my parents. And, you know, I'm going to need to make more money. So how am I going to monetize this career of mine? What am I going to do to make more money beyond as much, you know, where I'm making now? So fast forward to girlfriends getting this job, being the department head on the show called Girlfriends, which is Tracee Ellis Ross. I don't know. It's kind of like having a resurgence right now on Netflix. It's all over the place. But at the time, it was just a cast of pretty much unknown actors.

And it was kind of an experiment. It was Kelsey Grammer's first show that he was producing under his company. And Mara Akilbrok was the writer and producer. And soa Akil Brock was the writer and producer. And so I had worked with her on Moesha. So we came together and it was kind of like this experiment. And that's where Beauty Blender was born. I had to find ways to make makeup look natural because suddenly when you shoot high def,

it's really kind of technical. But when you shoot high def as opposed to film, you see everything. Like you see pores, you see scars, def as opposed to film you see everything like you see pores you see scars you see little hairs you see everything so i needed to find a way to do do beautiful makeup on these women but make them look like they weren't wearing makeup with high definition easy to do on film not so easy with high def but now it is because there's a beauty blender well you know what's crazy is like and maybe that maybe some of the men needed hairs but i was watching this cooking show the other day randomly and it's super high def and there was a male chef and you know they probably

put makeup on these guys to you know when they're in the lights but like they didn't it was just it didn't blend anything they didn't use the beauty mask yeah and so you just looked like a thing and i was like oh like but you would probably never notice that but now i mean listen doing this show i'm learning a lot but i just i remember seeing like oh it looks like that guy like has just makeup on yeah you can like see all the blended makeup on yes should have the beauty blender right i would tend to think that's probably more of a skill set from the makeup artist but you know better not mention the network i'm sorry makeup artist let's send them a beauty blender let's send them so i want to know how you had an aha

moment. Was it an aha moment or was it like a slow build for you to develop this? Well, I had been looking. I had been actively. Executing different techniques on camera to see what would work best, you know, I would go and look at the dailies when we would shoot and just, you know, and or if if I didn't and someone said, hey, Rianne, this looked a little weird. Can you look at it? And I would look at it and try to fix it. So I was on the hunt for something. I didn't know I was going to be creating something that, you know, was going to sell around the world, you know, 17 a minute or some crazy thing. I my team has calculated, but it was kind of by accident. It was kind of by accident. It was kind of by accident, but there was an aha moment. I mean, when I finally realized this thing works, I had that

moment of like, okay, so how do I get this made? Because basically what I had done was I had taken those triangular sponges that everybody at the time, you know, you could buy at the supermarket, you could buy at the drugstore, you could buy at the beauty store. They were just triangular sponges cut like flat triangles. And I shaped it into what is now an egg shape or a little teardrop because I was trying to take the sharp edges off because like your friend or the person you saw. I wouldn't call him a friend. Right, right. Okay. I corrected myself. The person on the. I would never be friends with someone that does makeup like that. I'm just kidding.

I would. The line of demarcation that a straight edge leaves is something that you have to pay attention to. You have to be a detailed person. Not all makeup artists are detail-oriented, right? They're more, you know, holistically detail-oriented, not like individually like foundation. I started to cut the edges off of those sponges

and came up with that shape and then realized I needed to make it bigger. You know, there were tweaks. It was like the aha moment was like, oh God, this thing works because what I was doing, I got the job because I was an airbrusher. So airbrushers, airbrushing makeup was used a lot in special effects makeup artists, the makeup like horror movies and that kind of stuff, but not really with beauty makeup. But someone somewhere down the line came up with this rule at the time that the best way to apply makeup in high definition was to use an airbrush. So when they set out to find the makeup artist for girlfriends, it had to be somebody that knew how to airbrush. So I knew how to airbrush. And I was starting my morning every

day airbrushing the girls. But what I noticed was that, okay, I would airbrush them. We'd leave the trailer. We'd walk to stage. We'd start shooting. And when the director would yell cut and we'd have to go in to do touch-ups, I would have to remove them and bring them to my makeup trailer or my makeup table setup where there was electricity so I could use the airbrusher. And if you've ever worked on a set, I mean, the last thing you want to do is remove your actors from the set. The last thing you want to do on an ensemble female cast is remove one female actor from the set because then suddenly the rest of the girls all want to leave too they're like oh she's going oh i'm going to the bathroom i'm going to my trailer i'm going to craft service i'm going

so then suddenly i'm going to go make a phone call suddenly i became like persona non grata like don't come in here don't even cut like you can't take them off set and i'm like okay so that was that was the impetus really for me to find a tool or a way to keep this airbrush look without using an airbrush. So that was how Beauty Blender was made. It was cutting the edges off the sponge. You know, you're supposed to, for everybody listening who has never used a Beauty Blender, if you ever use a Beauty Blender, and I can't talk about the other sponges that try to be a beauty blender, but my sponge beauty blender, you must use wet. And that seems really

counterintuitive for when you put makeup on, you think like, oh, it's going to, you know, dilute your makeup or it's going to change the formulation. It does not. What it does is it, it makes the sponge not thirsty anymore. So when you're bouncing it on your skin, it's actually pushing the makeup out onto your face. If the sponge is thirsty, it's like, oh yeah, suck it in, suck it in. But if it's wet and not thirsty, it's like, oh, I don't need it. It pushes it out. I love products that have stories of ingenuity behind them. And I love products that are developed because somebody's solving a problem. I think people that just try to create something like, oh, I'm going to do this. And everyone's going like, they haven't actually lived the experience.

As you're telling this story, I'm like, oh, this completely makes sense why you would figure this out. She was a practitioner. You did every single thing and saw- I did every step. Yeah. And you saw every issue, not just like on application, but even like beyond that, like how people were interacting in the atmosphere.

I always find this stuff so interesting because I don't think this could be developed without this type of experience. Let me tell you a little secret. We just got done traveling internationally. Woo, with a toddler. With a toddler. Whoa. And everybody said we couldn't do it. We did it.

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you are going to be in love. Well, yeah. And as a matter of fact, when I went to try to get it made, because at the end of the season, when I went into hiatus, I had realized that, you know, me and my team, we had been hand cutting these sponges because it worked. So that's what we did the rest of the season. So we would have to sit and hand cut those sponges. But if you know anything about being on set, you sit on set and you have a lot of downtime. So I would just give them these sponges and we would cut them. And that would be what we use for the next day. But, you know, that's not a productive or efficient way to work, right? So I was like, okay, during my hiatus, I'm going to try to figure out how to make these. And so, you know, I was so stupid. I was like thinking, oh, we can bake them in my oven or we can like, I was so like clueless and it brings me back to what you're talking about.

You had never done product before that. You were just. I'm a makeup artist. I went to public school in FIDM, which is a great place, but I was not an engineer, you know? So I was a creative. One of the things that I did during my hiatus, like I said, I was a very busy makeup artist. I used to travel the world with musical artists or actors doing press all over the world. Everywhere I would go, I would buy a bag of sponges and I would look at who was manufacturing and who was distributing. And there was like a theme happening. There was this one company that kept popping up. So during this hiatus, I called that company, just cold called. I mean, 411 got the number. There was no Google back then, guys. This

was a while ago. So I called 411, got the phone number and called them and spoke to this lady who was in product development at that or sales, I think, at that company. And, you know, I told her, you know, I was like, I'm a makeup artist. I live in Hollywood and I do celebrities and I have an idea for a sponge. And she was like, oh, honey, we have like 300 patents we hold. And I'm sure there's something we have that is exactly like what you're wanting to show me. But, you know, thanks, but no thanks kind of phone call. And I was just like, well, who designs all of these 300 patents you have? And she just kind of like was kind of speechless. She was like, well, engineers.

I was like, so you're not even curious being a cosmetic foam company that sells to Estee Lauder and all these. You're not curious about my design. I'm like in the trenches every day. I mean, if you have 300 patents, I think what's the harm in looking at mine? And she was like, well, I guess if you put it that way, I'll take a look at it. And I was like, OK, so sign my NDA. And then she was like, oh, an NDA. I was like, yes, you have to sign an NDA. And luckily she did. And by the way, this woman, her name is Catherine Bailey. And she ended up working with me to this

day. I still work with her. And she ended up coming to my company. She left that company and came to my company. And long story, but that was pretty much the response to your point. Like, you know, I did the work. I went through every single part of the process. And then when I got to this company that makes these products, they were like, oh, I don't know if we can, I don't know. There's nothing new under the sun. I'm like, okay.

Yeah. I think that's like the secret sauce and everything is you have to have somebody that's actually a practitioner that actually understands it, not just from like the product angle, but from the user angle, the experience, the atmosphere, crazy because it took about, I don't know, a couple of weeks for her to get back to me. You know, she had to go through this process at her company who really didn't want her to talk to me as I got the backstory afterwards, because of course we had many years to talk about what had happened. They were kind of like, why are you wasting your time on this? And she was like, you guys have set me out on a course of innovation. I'm bringing you innovation and why are you stopping me? And so she forced them, which they took a long time to sign my NDA. By the time

I got the email back to her and I was able to send the product out and then she was able to, you know, reach back out to me after seeing it. She literally said, I said this, I will never forget. She was like the pan. She said it was like the palm slapped to your forehead, you know, like, why didn't we think of it? And I was like, remember when I told you it's because I'm a makeup artist and they're not. And it's probably a lot of male engineers that are designing this that have no idea about makeup in Pennsylvania. OK, so did you decide to end up partnering with them or was it complete? You just went off and did it on your own. So what ended up happening was she ended up leaving the company. She started helping me. They told her, you can work on this if you want to, but it has to be on your free time. It's not on

our time. So in other words, you're nine to five or whatever your day looks like that the work that we need you to do, you can only do our work. You can work with her that's on your free time she never told me this but i was so grateful for that because when they parted ways i was not tied to that company thank god because then i ended up taking everybody well and also they probably wrapped you up in all sorts of you know legal handcuffs were like who knows if that ip would even ended up being yours after everything they would have probably tried to do. They were all great people though. The people that worked there were really great. And I, I don't know if you heard, but they pretty much, a lot of them came to work for me at one point. It was just the bosses. Like they were going through a transition in their own business to be fair. A lot of this type of business was being outsourced to Asia.

And so they were trying to stay relevant and fiscally competitive. So they were outsourcing too. Sure. So they were reducing the size of their footprint here in America. And that's when this woman, Catherine, was able to leave the company and come work for me.

So what did the first Beauty Blender look like? Like who, what year was it? Is it was your like demo millennials? Like, like I want to know who's getting the beauty blender in the mail. What's the packaging like? Yeah. So, well, the very first beauty blender, you can go on to this. It's in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm in the Smithsonian. It's crazy. Oh, my God. It's crazy. So I have an exhibit where I'm sitting next to Madam C.J. Walker and all these there's eight women. It's crazy. Oh, my God. It's crazy. So I have an exhibit where I'm sitting next to Madam C.J. Walker and all these there's eight women. It's called and the exhibit is out right

now. It's unfortunate that the exhibit has been out during covid because the museum has been closed. But I heard they're extending the exhibit because of that. But it's an exhibit called The Only One in the Room. And it features eight women over the course of 100 years that have invented something that changed their industry. Wow. That is cool. Isn't that crazy? Oh, my God. That's so crazy. So, yeah, I mean, it's just a little egg shaped sponge that we cut out of this really porous sponge material that really rubbery like we were just we were just trying to get the shape. We weren't, it wasn't like the material that we use today. And, and the reason why Beauty Blender is the category creator for these kinds of tools now is because it was the first one to do what it does ever existing in that category, but also the material is so different and special. That's

why people go and buy cheaper versions, like less expensive versions. That's always what drives this kind of like loyalty issue. And it's the dollar. But there is a reason why we're more expensive. We have a more luxurious, high performing material that people, they think it's just a sponge. It doesn't matter. It's like, you know, it's just a sponge. But we have this really amazing material that we use. And trust me, I thought that you have these all over the place. I find these all over the place. So I am so inspired by you because I just launched product recently and I, I hope that I'm following in your footsteps with updating a category. I updated the ice roller category. It was so cheap and just not how I wanted it. And so I changed everything about it. So when I hear

your story, I am just so inspired that you updated the category. Why can't anyone get this exact dupe? Like, why can't you dupe it? Do you own the material? Is it a patent? It's kind of like the coca-cola secret you know it's like i have a great relationship with my manufacturer and we have an agreement that he only sells this material to me and it's beneficial for him because we sell the most of anybody in the world so there's you know we're like i was saying we're at the top of the category but we're also the the one that sells the most volume. And you guys just launched an eco-friendly one.

We did. Which is green. I thought that was genius. Thank you. And I noticed also you also launched foundations. You launched a little beauty blender holder. How did that start to happen? Blender defender.

Yeah, well, you know, I was still doing a lot of actors for red carpets back when we had red carpets. And I would do their makeup and I would leave them with a beauty blender and I would wrap it in like a tissue. And, you know, most actors, especially the newer, younger ones, a lot of times they borrow clothes and they would borrow clutches from really high end, you know, designers. And they couldn't stain the inside of those bags that are made of silk or whatever, right? So I would always really carefully wrap my used beauty blender. I would load the beauty blender with makeup so they could touch themselves up. And I thought, this is so stupid. I need to just create a case for it. And that's why it's mushy and you can adjust the size of the blender defender to fit,

you know, you could fit power pocket puff, which is my innovative powder puff that I also created where you put your finger in the pocket. Or if you're a makeup artist, you can use it as your pinky rest. It's washable and it has like a jelly center. So it's super luxurious. You can put all of these things inside of there and just go. By far, my favorite meal delivery service is Saqqara. They came on the podcast years ago. I've been obsessed with them since they had this watermelon jerky. And now still in 2020, I think that they are the most thoughtful brand on the market for delivery. They're this wellness company that's rooted in the transformative power of plant-based food. So all their stuff is plant-based. It's

organic, ready to eat meals, comes straight to your door with powerful plant-rich ingredients. All of their products are designed to boost your energy. You're going to get a little kick in your step, improve your digestion, which is obviously very important, and get your skin glowing. Each week they have this menu and you can look at it. It's very, very important, and get your skin glowing. Each week they have this menu and you can look at it. It's very, very creative, but it's very healthy and very fresh. I find sometimes when I get meal delivery services, they're never fresh, but with Saqqara, it's always fresh, okay? They have rave reviews, Vogue's obsessed, Goop's obsessed, New York Times is obsessed, and I am obsessed. I would also tell you if you're shopping on their site to definitely get their chlorophyll drops. I use them in my water in the morning. I do a lemon

water with chlorophyll in it. It's delicious. Kylie Jenner inspired me. So good. And then they also have these beauty drops that are very, very major. Anyway, their site has tons of wellness-y things, all the things you want. Right now, Saqqara is offering all Skinny Confidential, him and her listeners, 20% off your first order when you go to sakara.com slash skinny or enter code skinny at checkout. That's Sakara spelled S-A-K-A-R-A dot com slash skinny. You're going to get 20% off your first order. Sakara.com slash skinny. I'm telling you the chlorophyll drops, the beauty drops, and their food. It's all major. Enjoy. You've obviously created a massive company. When did you know that you were really on to something? Did you know right away or did it take a little bit?

Was there like a moment that you can look back on and pinpoint that you had an epiphany? Well, thank you so much for that huge compliment, but we're not really a massive company. I still own my business. How do I say? Okay. I mean, massive, like, um, an empire, like a massively distributed product. That's the word. Okay. So how did I do that? You know, again, I'm not, you know, a Wharton School of Business graduate. I am a, you know, FIDM creative, like I'm left brain, like totally. So business has been something that I've had to learn. And fortunately, by bringing on Kathy, the woman that I was telling you about, the first person that I spoke to about Beauty Blender, she had a business background. She was the one that could, at least to a certain point of growth, she was able to help me grow the business and help me figure out how we plan to distribute, how we manufacture, how do we, you know, logistically, operationally support sales if we go out and try to get more sales. Because, you know,

the first thing a person wants to do is go get sales, right? You want to go out and find stores that are going to buy your product. But then those stores require planning and consistency and, you know, a guarantee that you're going to be able to ship to them. So there's all the planning involved with logistics and manufacturing. And she was helping me with that. What's a day in the life look like when you started, when you were struggling with everything you were doing to now? It is different, but not that different.

So at the time, I was still a working makeup artist eight years in. I mean, I was still taking shows. Eight years into running this business. Wow. Wow. And it was because I didn't take a paycheck because I don't have investors. I didn't bring anybody in. I didn't have a

strategic partner. You dream big, right? But I guess I was just dreaming sufficiently at the time for what I needed to do at the moment. I wanted to become a bigger company, but I didn't want to give up a piece of my business to do that. So I don't know. I'm kind of old fashioned in this way. Like I wanted to be able to have a business for my kids. I wanted to be able to have something, a legacy or something left for them. And I just, you know, I'd started to hear

a lot about companies that were taking on financial partners and, you know, a lot of them work, worked out and still work out, but some of them don't, those founders end up losing their businesses and they never planned on that. And so that was kind of like scary for me. So I just kept working and I just kept, you know, and I, by the way, I love doing makeup. I'm a makeup artist at heart first and foremost. And so I remember I would show up on, on set and this one particular makeup artist, his name is Sam Fine. He's a friend of mine. I would show up, he'd be there with like Queen Latifah and I'd be there with like Regina Hall or something. And he'd be like, why are you here? Go home. Why are you here? Go home. You don't need to be here.

And I'm like, but I love it here. Why are you kicking me out? Like I love doing makeup. That's amazing. Yeah. Well, I think there's a couple like really good takeaways there, especially for like the younger listeners or people that are starting out. One, that you can kind of have your other thing and start this side thing that obviously becomes a main thing. And two, and I don't think enough people talk about this. You read so many headlines about companies that are either venture backed or take on funding. This one actually took on funding because of the category we're in, right? But I think that there's a real, this was the only one I've ever done that with. I think there's a real argument to be made

about bootstrapping if you can be in a category that you don't need to bring on like funds to hyper accelerate past the competition. Absolutely. It's totally a personal decision, you know, too. It depends on how much bootstrapping you're willing to do. You know, how hard are you willing to work? I mean, because sometimes it can be perceived bringing on a partner, you know, makes things a little easier, but not really because then now you have a partner that you always, you know, if you're used to running your business on your own, you have a whole other challenge. Yeah. And, you know, it's like a marriage.

You know, you have to find the right partner. And, you know, God knows I've met so many really amazing companies that are interested in Beauty Blender. And one day I hope, you know, I'll probably do that. It's not that I'll never do it. I just, you know, it's kind of a weird time right now, but. No, but I think it's good you say it because I think people nowadays, they think you, in order for a business to be successful, you have to bring on funding. And I, and I think there's an argument to be made that for certain categories or certain

industries, depending on the timing, that there is that argument to be made. And it's probably true, but there's a lot of other things. I mean, your business is a perfect example where maybe you don't need to do that and you can still be successful and you don't have to answer to anyone. You don't have to bring on all this capital because people think like the capital is like, they say, congratulations. But whenever people say that, this is like, it's just another obligation now that the business has to meet. It's not like a win. Like it just means like, no, however much funding you're now you're on the hook for that money. It's another layer.

Yes. It's another layer of responsibility, however much funding you're now you're on the hook for that. It's another layer. Yes. It's another layer of responsibility. Yes. You know, and listen, I had dogs, I had a makeup career, I had kids, I had a partner, I had parents that I was, you know, taking care. Like I didn't want another relationship. I don't blame you. I think getting away from celebrating fundraising is an important thing.

I think if it's necessary, it's necessary, but it's not something to do just to do. And it's definitely not something to like go and congratulate everyone about. It's just, you know, it's taken on another obligation. What are some pain points that you've experienced along the way? Some of the pain points. Well, you know, it's, it's interesting when we went from being strictly a tool business to being a tool business and a color business, which means makeup, there was a different mentality and a different thought process and a different forecasting for the business in color, which it was, you know, I remember I have this one friend, a dear friend of mine, who is the founder of Two-Faced. His name

is Jared Blondino. And we were out to dinner one night and I told him I'm going into color. He was like, don't do it. Don't do it. Just stay where you're at. And I should, you know, sometimes on those moments, I think, why didn't I listen to Jared? Because there are pain points. There's pain points in any growth in a business. And coming from being strictly a tool business and then entering the color category, which is completely just competition all the way, and then entering that category in the foundation complexion category is the most difficult category to break into because women that buy foundation are pretty loyal to it. Like they find something that works and they want to continue to use it. So to, to try to get consumers

to try your product is pretty challenging. And you know, I, the way I looked at it was by this, this time we had global distribution of Beauty Blender. And I thought to myself, if I could just get everybody that loves Beauty Blender to try my makeup one time, it's a win. If just once, they just have to buy it one time. And the pain point was that with that thought process is that that's a concept that's not a plan, right? There was the pain point of trying, how do you market and how do you plan and forecast and distribute a product internationally and domestically to make that happen? And boy, you know, that's when I realized I needed some change in my business. Like there was a different mentality that I needed to bring in because

we were kind of using the same way of thinking with the tools as we were with color. So that, that was, that was a pain point for me. I've since then, you know, I've restructured and I have an amazing team. I mean, they, my, my other team was amazing too. It's just, we grew and now we have, you know, we have a different kind of business now, but that was a big, you know, entering the complexion category was a big pain point. Growing your business, generally speaking is, you know, entering the complexion category was a big pain point. Growing your business, generally speaking, is, you know, can be painful. You know, there's more considerations that you never thought about that you have to think about, like scaling and, you know, staffing and people that you're trying to hire that have the right kind of backgrounds and maybe sometimes

having to say goodbye to certain people. I mean, that is like, for me, the hardest thing. My business, I'm so, so, so fortunate that I've had a very high retention rate in my business. I mean, up until recently, because when we reached the new category, you know, there were certain changes that I had to make. And that was really painful. I'm sure that's really, really hard. Yeah, because I ran my business and I still do to this day like a family. I mean, my family, my daughter is involved in my business.

My husband runs, you know, I have a production company. We have a studio in Woodland Hills and he runs all production there. We're constantly cranking out, you know, content and everybody in my business I consider to be like family because we are still a small business so when you said oh I have this I don't know what you called it maybe it's perceived to me it's like it's such a to me it's such a huge empire that you've created I think an empire oh my god well I think also too it's hard when you have a company where everybody kind of knows everybody and everything that's going on to then you grow and it's, maybe they don't know as much and they don't know as many people and they may feel disconnected or less connected than they felt in the beginning. And that's

always challenging. It is. What is the best form of marketing that you've ever had for the Beauty Blender? Was there ever someone that put it on Instagram or that used it or maybe it was in a commercial? What's the best thing where you were like wow this this person or this commercial really translated and worked well I would say hands down word of mouth I mean has been the best I would say secondly my makeup artist peers because they are the qualifiers of your product right right? It's one thing to have a product that, okay, Sephora is going to, you know, bring you in and you're going to start selling your product at Sephora. That's all fine and good. But when a consumer doesn't know if your product is trendy, if it actually works, you know, what it does, if they see, you know, someone behind the

scenes at a TV show on a clip on ET using a beauty blender, or you, you know, someone behind the scenes at a TV show on a clip on ET using a beauty blender or you, you know, turn on the housewives and you see someone, you know, using a beauty blender or Friday night lights or I mean, I can tell you there's been so many unplanned product placements, I will say that have happened that that is also very beneficial. But I will say really honestly, hands down, Kim Kardashian, like five years ago, like when she was, you know, she's huge now. Don't get me wrong, but she's in the beauty space now. So, you know, she's and by the way, she still uses a beauty blender. I love her so much.

But when, you know, when she was just, you know, the queen of the selfie and all of the things going on in her life, you know, if she opened her mouth or used anything everything she was like oprah right everything would just sell it was like kim and her makeup artist mario always using beauty blender that really there's like a photo of them i don't know if there's so many with with all her contour on and i think someone's holding a beauty blender yeah and then she just blends it all in yeah yeah it's so good yeah what are some of your beauty secrets on how to use the Beauty Blender? Because I think it's way more for just makeup. I think it's multi-use. You know, it is.

But honestly, I think the reason why Beauty Blender is so popular and why it resonates so broadly with so many people is it's very simple. There's not a lot of secrets. It is a sponge made out of this very special material that you use damp and as long as you can bounce it on your face you will get a flawless makeup application as if you were a professional jayla once said i'm sure you heard this too and i take inspo from this that she's not a big fan of washing her beauty blender and i'm gonna, I don't really remember the last time I washed mine. I heard her say that it makes the beauty blender like work better.

Have you heard this? Yeah. You're disgusted because you're a makeup artist. Yeah. I don't think I've washed mine since like 2001. I just think that sometimes, you know, listen, part of my study when I made beauty blender was every time there was a new actor in my trailer, you know, this is like this dance as a makeup artist that you go through when you

have an actor in your chair that you've never worked with before. Like, you know, you don't know them. They don't know you. You know, your job is to make them feel comfortable and make them feel like they look appropriate for whatever they're doing, right? Like what I used to do to kind of break the ice and be like, okay, so I'm your makeup artist. Show me your makeup bag. I want to see what you use. Like what is it? What is your thing?

And hands down, I don't care who it was. And sometimes the bigger the celebrity, the grosser the bag. I'm just going to say because they're so used to having people do everything them. And this is like your personal thing. They don't do shit. They just let it go. And it's just like an organism in itself in the bag. But, you know, you would open up the bag and you would just see all these really, you know, dirty tools. Like the worst thing that ever happens is like a pencil sharpener that opens in your bag. And then all the wood chips and all of the crayon and everything is all over the place. Or, you know, if your powder opens up with that, it's like, I'm telling you, it's like dough. It's like this weird shit in the bottom of your bag. And then it gets all over everything. And the

grossest thing that I would see would be someone that would have a compact, whether it's like a matte compact or whatever, and you would get a sponge just ases are not shiny and slick. Crazy looking thing that people would just smear all over their face. And it was always amazing to me. So it does not surprise me that JLo did that. And, you know, I love her and she's amazing and she loves Beauty Blender too. But, you know, let's face it, JLo doesn't have to clean a Beauty Blender. Yeah. Well, if Taylor, our producer, had a makeup bag, I can guarantee you it would be grosser. There would be mold. There would be pubes. There would be all kinds of stuff going on in his makeup bag.

It's amazing. It's amazing because girls will hide things in their makeup bag because they know people aren't going to look in there. That's not the place you want to go look for stuff because it's makeup. I don't want to be sexist here, but I've caught you making some pretty big mess. I have sisters and I'm like, hey, listen, I would make a bold argument that sometimes women can be much dirtier than men. A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred. But we do everything a hundred percent. We're either really clean or just filthy. That's my favorite thing

about why she'll tell me how clean she is. But I'm like, you're the one that made the huge mess. She's like, look how well I clean this. I'm like, I didn't have any part of that mess. You cleaned up your own giant mess. I like to make a pigsty and then get it so psycho clean. It's so satisfying, isn't it? Tell me how clean you are and how dirty I am, even though I had nothing to do with either. Oh my God.

Cleaning a beauty blender is pretty satisfying. Watching all of the pigments and everything come out of it. We have these videos that people just like love to watch. I bought a little doll. I'm sure you've seen this washing machine. Have you seen this? It's a doll. It's for a doll.

What? The doll washes her clothes in the washing machine. And I put water in it. And I put my beauty blender in it. I'll show you guys after. It doesn't really clean it very good. I have one too. It's for children?

You guys should make a product though that you can just drop it in and it does that and make it like really cute and pink so we can put it on our vanity. We have one. We just haven't sold it yet. I'm just like

I'm trying to figure out if people really care. People care. They do now. You think they care? A hundred percent. I have this tool I made. Please, release it.

Yeah? Okay. Yes. Yeah, it's cute. It's fun. It's kitschy. Just continue to expand the empire. What's going on?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just keep it going. Oh, I do. I mean, oh my God, that's all I do all day long is dream about extensions. Is that what your day-to-day is? Creative? Oh, so we were talking about the day-to-day is dream about extension is that what your day-to-day is creative oh so we were talking about the day i want to know your day-to-day so where my day-to-day was before i would wake up really early and have to be on set you know in the meantime like you know being a mom and at the time a single mom like you know it was like a circus act you got

plates and balls and one foot in the air and all things going on. I would be getting up really early to be on set because makeup is the first people on set. And, you know, trying to figure out how do I get my kids to school if I'm not there? How do I feed her? How do I pick her up? How do I get her to sports? Like all these crazy things going on. That was like time stacking and trying to project manage my life every day while I was held. I call myself like a veal when you're a makeup artist. You're like a veal. You're just in a trailer, in a car, on a set, in a hotel room, in a studio, in a dressing room. Like you're always, you know, in a place. How do I manage my outside world while I'm focusing on my job? And pretty much that's my day to day now now too. It's

just different content. Like what do you mean? Give us specifics. So now because I'm bi-coastal depending on where I'm at. So right now I'm in California with you. I leave Sunday to go to the East Coast. But every day while I'm in California, my day starts latest six o'clock in the morning because my office is running three hours ahead. So it's as if I'm on set. I'm still waking up early and I'm still time stacking. I'm doing everything that my team needs from me, from a creative, from approving art files, to approving product development, to approving copy, to approving legal documents, you know, talking about, you know, strategy. I have executive team meetings once a week. I have product development meetings once a week.

I have marketing and social twice a week. You know, I'm constantly doing all of these things and at the same time trying to take care of myself so I stay alive so I can continue to do this because work will kill you. It's clear. I'm clear about that. I got a thyroid condition during my development of Beauty Blender while being a makeup artist because I was doing so many things at one time. My doctor said, you have Graves' disease. We don't know what causes it. Probably stress. I was like, oh, okay. So what happened? Did everything stop no no did well if you have to go to the hospital what happened you're still working from the hospital you were kind of i worked i worked from the hospital when i had a baby i get it i i you know i didn't really

have to go to for the thyroid thing i didn't have to go to the hospital i just had to swallow a pill of radioactive iodine that would close up, you know, kill your thyroid. And then it was wonderful, you guys. I had to be sequestered and secluded in a room for 10 days. What? That was the most rest ever. I caught up on everything.

I still worked, but I was able to binge watch all kinds of shows. It was actually really wonderful. While my thyroid was dissolving away. I was like- Did it hurt? No, didn't feel anything. 10 days in a room alone. Yeah.

Could you even go outside? As long as there was nobody around. And the interesting thing was like- Where does one go to do this? In your room, you close the door. No, that's not enough. She'll get to me. My kid will get- Where do I go to be away for's not enough. She'll get to me. My kid will get...

Where do I go to be away for 10 days where no one can get to me? Besides... I'll find you. Potentially prison. Play Sugar Storm by Gone Girl, Taylor. I 100% will find you. That sounds nice though. 10 days to just veg out, relax.

But I was working too because I could be on the phone. You know, I was working. I was... But, you know, it was just. Lauren, I could set up a bunker. I could go alone and just set this mic up at the screen and like just be. I could use a break from you. Listen, go watch the movie Nomad.

There's plenty of places where no one will find you. The one that just won. Yeah. I've heard that's great. He's going to watch it 100%. He's reading The Stranger in the Woods. Have you heard about this? Well, I don't know about a tangent.

There's this guy. It's a true story. He went off into the woods of Maine for like almost 20 something years and never came back. And everyone thought he was like, nobody knew. He lived in the woods alone outside of society for 20 something years. He lived on the land. Yeah. It's called The Stranger in the Woods.

It's a crazy story, but it's a true story. Oh, I'm going to watch it. Yeah. If we divorce, you can go be The Stranger in the Woods. And eventually end up getting caught. I have to read. I don't have time to read. I need an audio book. It's just a wild story but it's a true story i'm gonna watch it yeah if we divorce you can go be the stranger guy and eventually end up getting caught i have to read i don't have time to read but you have to i need an audiobook it's just a wild story he literally it's they say in human history he might be the only person who's actually voluntarily chosen to disconnect from society for that long of a period of time without him because they even say even monks like would have help and people

would bring them food he had no help help, no food, no resources. He was just off the grid. That's wild. That's giving me inspo for you. If you keep acting up, I might just be... I know exactly how I did it. What is a beauty product that's not by Beauty Blender that you're obsessed with? Because I know whenever you leave the house, you're going to bring your Beauty Blender.

Every girl does. But what else are you bringing with the Beauty Blender? That I'm obsessed with. Skin, brows, hair, nails. Okay, so skincare for me, I love skincare. So right now, I'm obsessed with this brand called RetroVay. Are you familiar? I'm going to try it.

So my cute little girlfriend, her name is Maya Henry. She's like the brand ambassador for this brand. And I believe that the founder of this brand is Family 2 Keels. So they went off and they, you know, made their own separate brand. And it's a super high-end skincare line that I really love. And I just started using it like a week or so ago, and I'm totally obsessed with that. But prior to that, I was obsessed with Korean skincare. And it's been way before it was a trend. I'm kind of a creature of habit in some ways. If

something works, you have to convince me that I need to try something better. And when I was in Asia, I discovered this brand that wasn't here yet. It's called Sulwasu. And it's here now, but I was obsessed with that skincare brand. I wouldn't go anywhere with it. I loved everything from the texture, the smell, the feel, just the whole tradition of the whole brand is so beautiful. I'm going to check both those brands out. So nice. I'm going to tell you which products that I love from RetroVe too. Do you like moist skin? I like moist skin. Dewy, moist skin. The word moist is so sick and porny, but I do like dewy, moist skin. And I just used their body oil for the first time last night. I'm obsessed. If you could leave our audience with a book, a podcast, or resource that has brought you a lot

of value in business, it could be any kind of content, audio, anything. What would it be? Well, that's such an interesting question for me because I told you about my daughter, Erica. She's beautiful. She's all over my Instagram. She's really like my brand ambassador and she really has been the face of my brand for so many years. But she's my wild child. You know, she's amazing. She's creative and she's smart. And she created this podcast, you know, out of adversity or just out of, you know, shit happens in life, right? Like I didn't plan on being a single parent and I was a single parent. She didn't plan on being a single parent and she ended up being a single parent. And her and her girlfriend created this podcast called

Good Moms, Bad Choices. And it's all about trying to break down these kind of stereotypes about motherhood and, you know, being able to kind of really have it all. Like, why can't you have it all? And so for me, that's not really one that has been like something that has benefited me business wise, but as a human being, as a mother and as a businesswoman, seeing my daughter create this thing from nothing. She's an entrepreneur, just like her mom. Yes, and she just got a book deal, and she's shopping TV shows for it. I mean, it's amazing.

Her and her partner have really, like, I got to tell you, like, I was, like, a little on the fence with this in the beginning, because they talk about some controversial shit that you don't know, like, you want your daughter to talk about. Like, you're like, what are you doing? Oh, you could talk to my dad. You should take my dad for happy hour.

What are you talking about? Don't you know, this is going to affect the rest of your life. And she would just look at me and go like, mom, you're so old. I'm like, no,

I'm not. I'm really cool. Like I'm not old. I just worry about you. She's like, good mom's bad choices. I'm going to listen. You are a delight.

Come back anytime anytime where could everyone find you and support beauty blender and maybe we can do a giveaway if you want after that i would love that yeah yeah so beautyblender.com is where you find me you know and and your instagram my instagram is beautyblender perfect and mine is rianne silva love it and give away what should we give away i don't know we can give away anything you can we give away how about we give away rianne's favorites you pick your favorites of whatever that is oh my god yes okay i will do that okay so all you guys have to do to win is follow at beauty blender on instagram and tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest instagram at lauren bost Thank you guys for listening. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me.

You guys are so fun. Huge fan. I'm going to actually give Michael a beauty blender to apply his skincare with because he's a big skincare guru. Oh, it's so good for skincare. We have a white one called Pure that is designed for that. There's no dyes in it and it's perfect for skincare. Oh, look at you. I need to do something. Look at you, you do need to do something. Thank you for coming on. That story was so inspiring. It's so amazing that she was a broke single mom and she completely built her Beauty Blender empire with an egg-shaped pink sponge.

With that, we're doing a giveaway with Beauty Blender. All you have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest Instagram, at Lauren Bostic and someone from the team will slide into your inbox and you will win some goodies from Beauty Blender. I'm telling you, if you have not tried a Beauty Blender, you're missing out. You've got to try it out. It is literally the tool for applying makeup. Make sure you've rated and reviewed the podcast on iTunes. It takes two seconds and tell a friend, spread the word.