Episode 14 Post BLM, Brands Regress On Diversity - The Eyecue Report, Pat McGrath, Supplements - Capitalising On Fear Of COVID? Is Beauty Prioritising Wealth Over Wellbeing? Hair Loss

In this week’s show, I am joined by Ava Welsing-Kitcher, beauty journalist formerly of Sunday Times Style and Stylist Magazine . We discuss the complicity of the beauty industry in upholding patriarchal, capitalist and white supremacist values, (https://coveteur.com/2020/12/29/jessica-defino-essay-2020/)   Vitamin D and the  £500m+ supplements industry (https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/beauty-and-personal-care/the-vitamin-d-factor-brits-spend-almost-500-million-on-vitamins-and-supplements) , pandemic induced hair loss in young women (https://www.myimperfectlife.com/features/stress-hair-loss-female)  and Pat McGrath’s Damehood. In Praise Of … is Paula’s Choice 0.3% Retinol + 2% Bakuchiol Treatment (https://www.paulaschoice.co.uk/clinical-retinol-bakuchiol-treatment-m8015.html) and on Talking Points, the Carolina Banales and Jasmin Kossman of the  beauty tech company Eyecue to discuss their  eye opening report on diversity in the beauty industry.