W. Grant Stevens , MD. FACS - CEO/Chief Marketing Officer & Co-Founder / Clinical Professor

Dr. Grant Stevens is the founder and Medical Director of Marina Plastic Surgery and The OrangeTwist Institute, a medical spa in Marina Del Rey, California. He is also a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Southern California; Chairman of the USC-Marina Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship and the Director of the USC Division of Aesthetic Surgery.Dr. Stevens is on the board of directors of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, serving as president elect. He is also third vice president and on the board of directors of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS).

Misinformation In Skincare

Join us for this episode where we break down the vast amount of misinformation floating around in the skincare industry regarding clinical research, product results, and overall marketing schemes.

E.381: NEW LAUNCH EPISODE FEATURING Revision Skincare’s New D.E.J. Serum!

Join us for a very special product launch featuring the CEO of Revision Skincare for their brand new product : The D.E.J Daily Boosting Serum. Ekta chats with Maria Carell (CEO) after having tried and tested the serum daily for two weeks to discuss the benefits of the new addition to the Revision family’s, as well as the other hero products in the science forward line.

The Ukraine crisis & its impact on Russian Beauty Founders, featuring Maria Karr of Rumore

Amongst the chaos of the Ukraine bombings, many brands on a multi industry level have been impacted by prejudice, hate and presumptions of consumers. Join Ekta as she interviews Maria Karr who is the owner of a Russian Beauty supply store about how the changing political climate has impacted not only her own business but the businesses she represents from all over the world.

First Look At Marlena Stell’s Fragrance Line, Marsté

In this episode of Skin Anarchy, host Dr. Ekta welcomes Marlena Stell, the visionary behind Makeup Geek, to discuss her latest venture, Marsté, a luxury fragrance brand that merges artistry, emotion, and accessibility. Marlena shares how her personal journey, love for French culture, and passion for scent inspired her to create a fragrance line that tells stories and uplifts the soul.

Leila Kashani Manshoory, Founder & CEO of alleyoop Beauty

Leila Kashani Manshoory is the Founder & CEO of Alleyoop, a brand whose mission is to simplify and bring joy to your world - beginning with your makeup bag. Alleyoop creates efficient, multifunctional beauty & skincare essentials that are easy to use and cut the clutter in your everyday life. Leila is obsessed with making things efficient, rebelling against products that don’t do enough.

Unveiling the Science Behind Hypoallergenic Beauty Products ft. Dr. Carina Woodruff

Ever felt the wrath of a skin reaction from a seemingly innocent beauty product or struggled to find skincare that doesn't irritate your sensitive skin? Our guest for this episode, Dr. Carina Woodruff, a board-certified dermatologist and allergy specialist, may just have the solution you're looking for. Dr. Woodruff, a co-founder of the skincare line Vetted, takes us through her journey from her personal experience with scoliosis to her passion for dermatology and allergy testing. We delve into the often overlooked topic of contact dermatitis, and the importance of patch testing before using products.

Philip Taylor, Founder and CEO of Carbon Theory

Philip Taylor is the Founder & CEO of Carbon Theory, the Anti-Breakout Brand for humans. Scaling the company from concept to what it is today, a global leader in the clean performance skincare category, Philip is a passionate brand & commercial leader with an eye for what consumers want. The iconic Carbon Theory Charcoal & Tea Tree Oil Cleansing Bar, recently presented with Allure’s Best of Beauty Award 2020 was formulated in Philip’s kitchen sink in London in 2018.

Marie Reynolds, founder of Marie Reynolds London

With over 35 years working as a skin and wellness expert in the UK with many celebrity and beauty director clients, Marie has developed a unique approach to the skin, treating skin health holistically as a tri-effect, looking at internal and external influences on the body that can impact the skin.

Crafting a Cult Beauty Brand in the Age of Social Media Influence with SACHEU Beauty Founder Sarah Cheung

Step into the world of beauty innovation with Sarah Cheung, the dynamic founder of Sacheu Beauty, as she recounts her transformation from a makeup devotee to a pioneering entrepreneur. Our exchange is more than skin deep; we unveil the breakthroughs behind Sacheu's sensational lip liner, a product that emerged from Sarah's clever repurposing of brow tint for the lips, shaking up beauty routines everywhere. Her story unravels the gritty determination it takes to fill a gap in the market, resonating with anyone who's ever been let down by their makeup's staying power.

Colette Laxton and Mark Curry, co-founders of The Inkey List

Colette and Mark do a deep dive into how they made such an iconic line that is at the forefront of accessibility without compromising quality and innovation. Colette and Mark share their phenomenal vision and also their brand new initiative to give back.

Margaret de Heinrich de Omorovicza, co-founder of Omorovicza Skincare

Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Margaret served as a diplomat in Budapest, and was chief of staff to the US Ambassador to Hungary. While in Budapest she met her husband and co-founder of Omorovicza, Stephen de Heinrich. It was while Margaret took a post in Brussels, as chief of staff to the US Ambassador to the European Union, and Stephen in London, that the idea of starting their own skincare brand came to fruition.

Maria Karr, Founder of Rumore Beauty

Maria Karr is the founder of Rumore Beauty — the first Russian beauty store in the US. A former beauty industry executive, Maria spearheaded PR, communications and influencer marketing efforts for leading global beauty brands for the past 10 years. Born and raised in Russia, she’s been living in the US since 2007.

Allyson Brennan, CEO and Founder of Emogene & Co.

In this episode, hear from Allyson Brennan, founder/CEO of pharmacist formulated natural skincare company, Emogene & Co., Allyson shares her vision and journey of creating an effective skincare line focusing on the science of natural ingredients and using her PharmD career and experience.

Marie-Pierre Stark-Flora , Founder of HERB + FLORA

French triathlete and beauty brand founder, Marie-Pierre Stark-Flora offers an extensive resume as a former L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Coty executive along with launching her own beauty technology company, and her latest endeavor as founder of HERB + FLORA, a skincare line that marries her passion for sports, with her love of science and clean beauty. This skin-fitness line helps mimic the anti-aging effects of exercise on the skin with a blend of naturally derived ingredients and features autophagy-inducing topicals, clinically-proven ingestibles that promote cell health, and a silk pillowcase woven with copper threads that reveals glowing skin and hair after just a few uses.

Skincare Ahead Of Its Time With Allies Of Skin Founder, Nicolas Travis

Join us for an interview with Nicolas Travis, the founder of the cult-favorite skincare line, Allies Of Skin. The episode focuses on the science forward formulas that are integral to the brand’s DNA and the revolutionary results they are known for. During the interview, Nicolas discusses the immensely impressive repurchase rates of the brand on a global scale and dives into the vision that set the brand’s creation in motion.

Allison Moss, Founder of type:A Skincare

Allison Moss has 22 years of prior marketing and management experience working with some of the biggest beauty companies in the business. But her passion for wanting to bring cleaner, safer beauty & personal care products to market brought her to where she is today, Founder & CEO of Type:A Brands.Since launching Type:A Brands three years ago, Allison has created award-winning, non-toxic, high-performance body care items.

Ginger King, Cosmetic Chemist and Allure Beauty Awards Judge , Interview

Ginger King, Renowned Cosmetic Chemist, Founder, Allure BeautyAwards Judge and Author clarifies how companies with chemists to create formulas and how private clinical testing works for ingredients used by skincare entrepreneurs.

From Journalism to Redefining Beauty Culture with Michelle Lee

In this episode of Skin Anarchy, host Dr. Ekta Yadav sits down with Michelle Lee—trailblazing former Editor-in-Chief of Allure—for a raw and insightful conversation on what it means to reshape the beauty industry from the inside out. From redefining mainstream standards of aging to championing diversity on magazine covers and behind the scenes, Michelle opens up about the intentional decisions that sparked global conversations.

MaryAnn Guerra Aesthetics Biomedical® President and Chief Executive Officer

MaryAnn Guerra has a career-long passion for bringing technology to market, accelerating innovation from the lab into commercial businesses and providing an incomparable client experience. As co-founder of Aesthetics Biomedical®, she understands the importance of designing experiences that create results. As a client of her own company, she values the opportunity to feel her very best at any age using leading-edge, FDA-cleared technology and treatment serums and recovery agents that truly make a difference.

Aggie Burnett, Industry Acclaimed Branding, Marketing and PR Expert, and Former Beauty Editor

Aggie Burnett is a publicist, marketing strategist, writer, editor and speaker. She is a graduate of NYU’s prestigious Journalism Program and started her career in editorial at Glamour Magazine before launching her fragrance brand, Nomaterra, from the ground up.Aggie’s work has been featured in publications such as Entrepreneur, Glamour, CondeNast Traveler, InStyle, Elle, Vogue, Thrive Global, Rachael Ray, ABC, CBS, Refinery 29, Byrdie, PopSugar and more.

Martine Williamson, CMO of Revlon

Martine Williamson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Revlon.  She is responsible for global strategic planning for our brands, including brand equity and architecture, local market NPD as well as driving global marketing excellence across the organization. Prior to Revlon, Martine was a Strategic Marketing Advisor at Topix Skincare, where she oversaw the strategy, brand visual identity, product portfolio and digital content for the relaunch of a premium skincare brand.  

E.392: Using Data To Discern The Diluted Beauty Industry ft. Social Standards

Andrea Spellman is VP of Sales and Partnerships at Social Standards, a start-up that uses social data to help brands, investors and banks better understand consumers. Social Standards organizes and structures millions of authentic consumer conversations to enable brands including Estee Lauder, Shiseido and Johnson and Johnson identify trends and fads, determine what products are worthwhile to develop, what brands or products they should be investing marketing behind and what consumers think of their competitors.

The Mastermind Behind Victoria’s Secret Magical Perfumes, Mark Knitowski - E.421

Mark Knitowski is a highly accomplished executive with extensive experience in the beauty and fashion industry. He is best known for his tenure as the Senior Vice President of Fragrance at Victoria's Secret, where he oversaw the development of some of the brand's most successful and iconic fragrances.

E.300: Fragrance 101 Ft. Marisa Auciello + CEW featured us!

Join us for our 300th episode and the launch of our brand new series, FRAGRANCE FRIDAYS! The aim for this series is to approach the world of scents and perfumes from a fundamental perspective and learn the nitty gritty of what makes our favorite scents the key to our self care routines!

E.407: FRAGRANCE HOROSCOPE 2023 Ft. Industry Fragrance Expert- Marisa Auciello

We caught up with the one and only Marisa Auciello, industry acclaimed fragrance expert to see what she had down for her “Scent Scope” for 2023. Here are Marisa’s TOP PICKS of the year for each zodiac sign!

Krista Bennett DeMaio, Top Freelance Writer and Founder of LI Beauty Scene

Krista B. DeMaio returns for EKTA’s birthday special episode to share insights on her view of the ever evolving beauty industry and shares her new passion project, Long Island Beauty Scene where she is on a mission to highlight the indie brands and small businesses that are truly creating their own beauty movement in the LI area. Krista is a top writer and former editor in the industry and has decades worth of experience writing for top publications such as Oprah Daily, Allure, InStyle, HealthCentral.com amongst many others.

Taylore Glynn, Health and Beauty Editor at Marie Claire

Taylore Glynn, Beauty and Health Editor at marie claire, talks about the need for more due diligence in the beauty industry. Taylore shares her view on cultural appropriation and the need for bigger initiatives across the board in terms of inclusivity and diversity in beauty.

Allison Collins, Senior Beauty Editor WWD

Allison Collins,Senior Beauty Editor at WWD shares her experienced insight on how brands can bring diversity and inclusivity to the forefront and what she considers to be an interesting brand story. Allison shares her editorial background in industries related to beauty and business and how this has helped her approach beauty from an aerial perspective.

Jessica Cruel, Editor in Chief of allure Magazine

Jessica Cruel, Editor in Chief, AllureJessica Cruel is the editor-in-chief of Allure, where she leads the development of multi-platform editorial content for print, digital and video platforms, including the Readers; Choice Awards and Best of Beauty Awards franchises. Cruel also consults on brand projects including the Allure Podcast, Allure Beauty Box subscription program, and the Allure Store.

Dianna Mazzone, Senior Beauty Editor at ALLURE

Dianna Mazzone, Senior Beauty Editor for Allure, talks all things beauty and dives into her background in the editorial world. Dianna sheds light on the path she took to make it to the pinnacle of the beauty industry as an editor for the coveted and iconic publication, and shares the importance of standing behind the importance of expecting transparency in the industry. Dianna is a leader in her field and has authored industry acclaimed articles aimed at providing new perspectives and insights that are paving the path to inclusivity in beauty.

Samantha Leal, Managing Editor for Well+Good Interview

Samantha Leal is the Managing Editor at Well+Good, where she oversees the day-to-day operations of the wellness site. Previously, she held gigs as the senior web editor at MarieClaire.com, Deputy Editor at Latina magazine, and Assistant Editor at The Nest (part of The Knot). She's written about beauty for InStyle.com, Yahoo!, DuJour.com, TeenVogue.com, HipLatina.com, and more, and her bylines include Bustle, Glamour, PureWow, and more.