00:00Your mornings are a time that make you feel good, like they feel like they're yours and whether it's fast, whether you have like five minutes to get in and out of the door, or you maybe have a little 15, 20 minutes to spare, just make it yours.
00:20I'm Danessa Myricks, founder of Danessa Myricks Beauty, and this is my CEO glow up.
00:30I like to start every morning with a cleansing balm.
00:34There's something about this that's so soothing.
00:37It really, really cleans the skin, but my skin also feels really hydrated.
00:42This is the Elemis Pro Collagen.
00:44As you get older, we need that.
00:51So once I work this in, I just add a little bit of water.
00:56And lather it up.
01:01What inspired my love of beauty was my mom.
01:05She made everything look and feel like a ritual.
01:10Even if she was just putting on cold cream, it's like I wanted cold cream in my life.
01:15She sat down at her little vanity, and she just took her time.
01:19Those were her moments for her, and I loved watching her, and just really wanted to be able to participate in beauty, just from seeing her.
01:28So now I'm going to rinse.
01:29I like to take some warm water on a really cozy towel.
01:40And just make sure I remove, just make sure I remove everything.
01:45Squeaky clean.
01:46This experience of building this business, building my career, is kind of surreal for me because I remember being a self-taught makeup artist, just deciding on a whim that I really wanted to be involved in something that was super creative, even though that's not the path that my career journey was taking at that point.
02:09So I didn't even start doing makeup until I was 30 years old, so I started very late, but I love that I made the decision to create something more for myself, something I can feel passionate about.
02:23I need a little help waking up in the morning, so I love using these globes just to really, like, whoo, yeah, this cooling sensation is what I need in the morning just to wake up those under eyes, plump things up.
02:39You know, as you get older, I'm 52, I'll be 53 this year, everything starts to change.
02:44Everything's tired, eyes get tired, everything wants to hang and relax, and I gotta, like, wake it up.
02:52Once I put on those globes, I think about de-puffing and just soothing my under eye.
02:59And so I love these under eye patches.
03:01This is by a black-owned brand, Bolden Skincare.
03:06And I think this just feels really good, and it's giving me all my de-puffing action while I do the rest of my skincare routine.
03:16What's important for me is, like, really deep hydration.
03:19I think that's important for everyone.
03:21What I love to do is to not just hydrate, but also penetrate and really bring my skin to life while I'm doing it.
03:29And so I take a little bit of beauty oil.
03:32This is from my brand.
03:34This is the original beauty oil.
03:36She's a cult favorite, and we love it because it's a dry oil.
03:40I literally just put a little in my hand, rub my hands together, and just get it everywhere.
03:46I have very oily skin, and I used to run from oils because I thought it would just amplify that thing that I was trying to get rid of.
03:59But actually, it's the exact opposite.
04:02You know, this is a dry oil that's deeply hydrating, and what it does is it keeps my skin from overproducing oil throughout the day.
04:09I'm really very excited that I had the opportunity and made that decision to start my own brand because I really do believe that there was so much missing.
04:20You know, I learned so much from my mom, and she was really just an important person in terms of just guiding me through my beauty journey.
04:29And I distinctly remember a time in my life, my teenage years, where I had the acne, my jerry curl was getting all over my skin.
04:41I had loads of discoloration.
04:43Everything seemed to be going wrong all at once.
04:46For me, as I journeyed through beauty, even throughout my career, having the opportunity to work with other brands, consult for other brands, create for other brands,
04:56it was pretty clear to me that I'm not always considered.
05:03You know, people like me aren't always considered.
05:06People with my concerns aren't considered.
05:08People with my skin tone aren't always considered.
05:11And just in general, if the DNA of that brand doesn't really include you, you'll never find anything for you.
05:21And that really struck me as well.
05:23And I really wanted to be the change that I want to see in the world.
05:28I think about my daughter, who's now 22, and how seeing herself, being able to find things that relate specifically to her,
05:39see people that relate specifically to her journey, what she looks like, how she feels every day, is so important for her.
05:48I think these are done.
05:49I mean, can you see my skin?
05:54Like, who would not feel good leaving the house like this?
05:57She's plump, she's juicy, she's hydrated.
06:01So even on my no makeup makeup days, I like to use this so I can just put touches here and there of makeup and still feel good going throughout the day.
06:10And it smells so good, it feels good.
06:13I literally just squeeze it on and you'll see the difference.
06:18Can you see that?
06:20That little brightening that it does?
06:23There's no glitter here, but it really just, the illumination that this gives.
06:28What I want Black women to know about just glowing from within is that it has very little to do with what you're putting on the outside.
06:43You know, what we put on the outside maybe is like the exclamation point, that little accent, but it's not where it comes from.
06:50It comes from within.
06:52Part of my morning routine is the ritual of having a conversation with myself.
06:58You know, I start every morning writing down three things that I'm grateful for just to remind me, like in spite of everything that may be happening, that I'm okay.
07:09And every day is better than the last.
07:12You know, I love starting a morning with a podcast or reading a book, something to feed my mind and feed my soul, just to give me the juice I need for the day.
07:24One of the most bone chilling things that sticks with me even to this day was me working with a client who was so in love with my work and the things that I was creating.
07:39Um, but they said very specifically, I need for you to train somebody else to present because people like to learn from someone who's beautiful.
07:54And that was like, you could imagine that you would think that that's something that somebody would say behind the scenes, not to your face.
08:04Um, and the idea that they felt so strongly that the way I look and the way I present could not move people to action, would not allow people to feel like them best selves or feel beautiful would be a deterrent from somebody learning.
08:23Um, yeah, that can really impact someone.
08:27Um, and it, it, it happens more than once in various scenarios with multiple clients and what stood out to me the most was that I'm not the only one, you know, this is happening to women who look like me, who are strong, who are powerful, who have something to offer every single day.
08:53You know, someone telling them that they're not beautiful and because they're not capable, uh, I need to change that.
09:03This is a universal shade.
09:05Um, it works for everyone.
09:07It's invisible and it actually helps to manage texture and oil production throughout the day.
09:15From here, from here, these brows, these brows, a little secret.
09:20I never trim my brows because I learned a long time ago as an artist that the thinner your brows are, the older you look.
09:29So I like to keep it very youthful, very fluffy.
09:32I'll take a moment and just kind of like fill in the gaps, but a big brow keeps you young.
09:40Uh, for the last step in routine, I just add some really quick, easy coverage.
09:50This is the same product, the bomb powder, but in a tinted shade, you know, for me, one of the things that I think is super important is to pay it forward.
10:03You know, I think about my entire journey as an artist, as an entrepreneur, as an executive working with other brands and, uh, just knowing how difficult it was to navigate.
10:18Honestly, um, there were so many things that I had to learn on the go with, made tons of mistakes in the process, especially when it came to building my brand.
10:33There weren't very many resources available for somebody like me, who is just like discovering midway through her life that she wants to start a new career.
10:44I remember having so many questions and nobody to answer them.
10:49And so for me, one of the most important things is mentorship.
10:53It's really important that women, black women, especially support one another to help move the needle in equality.
11:03And if not just equality, just move the needle in terms of opportunity that's available.
11:09And I think we all have a job to do.
11:12There's a role that we all can play in this scenario, and it doesn't have to be hard.
11:16It could be 15 minutes of your day.
11:18It could be an hour that you dedicate a month.
11:21Um, but I think it's important that we all do something.
11:24And I feel really grateful and really fortunate that I have the opportunity to do that.
11:29And I'm continuing to search for more opportunities, ways to squeeze it in.
11:33Um, because it's so necessary.
11:36It's really necessary that we educate, support, and show the level of possibility that exists for us as black female entrepreneurs.
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