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A message from Bee
Makeup, entrepreneurship and beauty are things I’m literally obsessed about! I love the idea of women striving to make their own way In life and being unapologetically independent. I had such strong influences of bold, brazen and outspoken women in my life growing up, I feel so blessed. I would watch my mom get ready for work every morning, as she would put her makeup on and take rollers out of her hair. I remember at a very young age thinking, “wow she’s so glamorous”! My grandmother would go to church religiously and I would give her these extravagant earrings and watch as she put this insatiable red lipstick on and blush her cheeks. The smell of her perfume would permeate the halls of her home. I was hooked on how beauty could transform and empower. The idea, StunnerBee Beauty, the brand was formed out of the need to have Makeup Luggage that made me perform more efficient as an artist, looked luxurious and was portable. So I designed The BlackOut Collection and The ShellShock Case to fill this void in the marketplace. Product development is near and dear to my heart and it’s something I enjoy immensely. I hope you enjoy the brand as much as I do creating it.
XOXO
Makeup, entrepreneurship and beauty are things I’m literally obsessed about! I love the idea of women striving to make their own way In life and being unapologetically independent. I had such strong influences of bold, brazen and outspoken women in my life growing up, I feel so blessed. I would watch my mom get ready for work every morning, as she would put her makeup on and take rollers out of her hair. I remember at a very young age thinking, “wow she’s so glamorous”! My grandmother would go to church religiously and I would give her these extravagant earrings and watch as she put this insatiable red lipstick on and blush her cheeks. The smell of her perfume would permeate the halls of her home. I was hooked on how beauty could transform and empower. The idea, StunnerBee Beauty, the brand was formed out of the need to have Makeup Luggage that made me perform more efficient as an artist, looked luxurious and was portable. So I designed The BlackOut Collection and The ShellShock Case to fill this void in the marketplace. Product development is near and dear to my heart and it’s something I enjoy immensely. I hope you enjoy the brand as much as I do creating it.
XOXO
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00:00Hello, hello, and welcome back to Shop Essence Live. I am your host, Noni Donovan, and this is
00:05a show in partnership with New Voices Family, where we bring you new Black-owned businesses
00:09to shop live with us every single week. I'm so excited when I tell you everything I get,
00:16everything we review on Shop Essence Live comes right on time, because my makeup bag and my
00:21travel life needed a makeover, okay? So I am going to bring in Brianna Meshack. She is the
00:30founder of Stunner B Beauty, and we're going to review this incredible travel bag line. We're
00:36going to get into all the things. Here we go. Say hi, Brianna. Hi, everybody. So much for joining us on
00:46Shop Essence Live. Thank you for having me. First of all, you could tell she just got her whole life
00:51together just by helping us. She's going to help us get our lives together right now. So before we get
00:59into the line, please tell the people watching about you and how you got started with this
01:05incredible business. Absolutely. So I have been in the makeup industry for 20 years, so it's been a
01:12long time. I've taught thousands of students the art of makeup and aesthetics. And when I look at
01:16Stunner B, it started out of like being on set one day and seeing a young lady come in with like
01:22a huge travel piece to do one face. And I was kind of like, huh, what are we doing and what are we
01:28building when we get there that requires this much stuff? So Stunner B kind of happened out of that
01:34epiphany. So I was like, there has to be a better way. And so I designed a better way for us
01:39with our flagship product called the Beauty Boss Backpack.
01:43Oh, that's good. Okay. So, but then now, like for people like me, I'm not a professional, but I
01:49tend to have to do my makeup quite often. So my travel life, like right now I'm traveling with
01:55multiple different bags and it's just like, so you have seen a growth in just everyday people.
02:03Yeah, absolutely. So originally Stunner B was, well, it is designed to help
02:09artists prepare, pack and transport beauty supplies and products efficiently, methodically
02:14without sacrificing fashion. But what I found is like just jet setters and people that are beauty
02:21enthusiasts or people that just love to travel around the world like myself. It has really helped
02:26them. Another stretch market that we didn't even think about is going to be moms. So we have a variety
02:33of moms that are our customers that carry our bags because they're tired of carrying like giraffes and
02:38elephants on stuff. So it makes a very fashionable diaper bag because it comes with three compartments
02:47and inserts inside of the bag. So it has been a blessing to me, to me. I love it.
02:53I did not even think of the diaper bag world. I have been, I've, my kids are 10 years apart and I've
03:00had to experience in my twenties and my thirties. And when I tell you, um, I love the fashion of these
03:07bags, like you don't have to sacrifice. And I love that little, that marketing thing you slipped in
03:11there. I just want to repeat that because that was kind of mind blowing. Uh, what was it?
03:16Efficiently and methodically without sacrificing fashion. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think you can
03:22be cute and efficient and methodical. So, so let's get into what we are talking about.
03:31Yeah. This beautiful line and there's so much of it, which is amazing. So, so what do you want to
03:38highlight first? So the first thing I want to highlight is my baby, which is the Beauty Boss
03:42backpack. So the Beauty Boss backpack, I designed that about three or four years ago. And so, um,
03:48like for people in the East coast, when it originally, my thought process was for people in the East coast
03:53at first, because, you know, they travel, it's a backpack society in New York. And so, right. The Beauty
03:59Boss backpack, it comes with five exterior pockets with the largest being on the very front. Um, it
04:05opens from the back, which is amazing. And inside of the back, it's so good because you can hold it
04:11against your body. You don't have to worry about people going in and out of your bag or trying to
04:15steal from it. First of all, we need that in New York. I'm in New York. So I'm taking this every
04:21amusement park, all those places. Oh, it's amazing. So what's also cool. And this is one of my favorite
04:27things that people don't see, but I like to talk about is the nylon infused threading.
04:32So nylon is what Bulletproof vests are made out of. So it gives the bag strength and integrity.
04:37So it's not snapping on you. If you load it. Right. I love that. That's my favorite thing to
04:42tell people about the nylon threading. Don't play with black women and engineering.
04:49Well, inside of the bag, you get three carry all inserts that look like this. Right. So it allows
04:55you to segment your toiletries. Another cool thing is like, you know, when, you know, when
05:01you travel and you roll up underwear and bras and socks and things like I just think to be
05:07able to segment those things and put them like in the drawers, in the hotels, in the, in the
05:11carry all inserts. So you don't have to put your stuff in those drawers. Right. And for the beauty
05:16community, it allows us to segment in the way we actually apply makeup. So I use one bag for skin
05:23prep. I use another bag for complexion foundations and concealers. And then I use the last bag for
05:29powders. So I set up in the way I apply. So I'm in and out of a job quickly. So, and another thing
05:38that's really cool is it comes with the cross body strap. So a lot of our customers forget about the
05:43cross body strap inside of the bag. Yeah, it's inside of the bag. Oh.
05:56How do you put that on? Yeah. So it turns into a cross body. So like, say you just run it through
06:01the airport, you know, and you just want to throw it across. You can do that. And there you go. There's
06:08not a lot of backpacks that allow you to turn it into a cross body because you have these grommets
06:12on the side. So you can do that. And it comes in three colors. So the black we call blackout. And
06:22then it comes in our beautiful Calvary green. That's our second best selling color. We call
06:26that Calvary. It's our army green. And then it comes in red rum, which is our burgundy. So we are
06:32so excited. Our newest color is going to be cadet, which is our blue. So it's been a blessing
06:39to the, to our shop. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry. I'm obsessed. So you see me with this bag every
06:46day. I don't want to hear it. Oh, you look so chic. It's so chic. I love it so much.
06:56Oh my gosh. I'm in love. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much.
07:00No, because the beauty boss backpack needs accoutrements. We're like, okay, so we have
07:07that for our customer and we have to make sure they're efficient across the board. I designed
07:12the pencil hive wallet. So this is the pencil hive wallet here. I love this because it fits
07:19in the beauty boss backpack. So I'm trying to get our industry to condense the amount of
07:23things they have to carry at once. Right. All of it looks cohesive. So it matches. So you're
07:29not showing us.
07:30I'm not sacrificing fashion y'all.
07:37The one that you have is actually loaded. So look at that. Right. So it fits 42 to 84
07:49pencils because you can double them up. Right. So like, if you look at how many pencils you
07:54can fit in here. So it's great for artists. It's great for crafters.
07:58People that scrapbook. Right. It's great for cosmetologists. So I love this piece. And it comes in the colors to match the backpack. So this is the pencil hive wallet. It's a great accoutrement to the beauty boss backpack. And we're trying to condense the amount of things artists have to carry.
08:18So that's what we're trying to do. So fancy with accoutrement. Now I'm going to say that. And we know this one, Brianna. Accoutrement?
08:29Oh, wait. Before we go. Before we go any further, because I don't want them to get me. If you're putting this in your cart, she actually has an amazing discount for you guys. Just for Shop Essence Live. Can you tell us what it is?
08:48Absolutely. So we're offering our Shop Essence Live community, our New Voices family community, everybody that's watching, a 30% off discount. And you use the promo code Essence for a 30% off discount. And that runs until New Year's Eve, because we want you to step in the new year and start.
09:05Come on. Come on. And this would be such... I know everybody has that fly, fashionable person in their lives, but they could just use a little more organization so they can start and organize too.
09:18Yeah. They would appreciate it for life. And then the one more thing I want to show you, something we just launched, and it's the cutest thing. And I'm going to have to send this to you too. It's our vanity tool box.
09:31Shit. Hold on. Keep it up. Hold on.
09:36Put the bees on it. It's adorable.
09:41No way. What is that called?
09:44It's our vanity tool box.
09:46Oh my gosh.
09:47It comes in a mini version as well.
09:50Stop it.
09:54Now, what does that look like when you... Oh, what does that look like when you open it?
09:58Yeah. So when you... Oh my goodness. So you don't open it all the way. What you do is drop your things in here, right?
10:05So you carry a little toolbox, like a little tool kit.
10:09That is so cute.
10:12That is too adorable.
10:14We partnered with another one.
10:15And you put that for all my tools at Essence Festival. We're just carrying around a million things.
10:20Absolutely.
10:20And I could be cute.
10:21I could be cute.
10:23Yeah.
10:24That is so good.
10:26All right.
10:28Sold. Sold on that.
10:30You do have a ton of other sizes of... What would you call these?
10:35Yeah. So that's our beauty cuties. So our beauty cuties, like when I would travel, what happens is like, okay, there has to be a better way. And then I travel with my cousin sometimes and they're bringing grocery sets. I'm like, you can't travel with me with a grocery set. So we have to have cute things to travel with.
10:51They travel with what?
10:53Right. Like grocery bags and different things. And they don't have their luggage game together.
10:58And I'm like...
10:58I'm not that bad. I'm not that bad.
11:00We can't do that. So our beauty cuties are our travel pieces for our toiletries and our skincare and undies and personal items. And they come in three sizes. They come in small, medium, and large. So this is our medium, which is pretty big for a medium size. And then we have our small, which is this right here. And I put bottles in there so you can see how much it holds, right?
11:27It holds so much. And then we have our large as well. And it comes in pink, which we call chameleon, which looks like this. And it comes in purple. And you know, there's a whole purple movement right now with the color purple coming out.
11:42The purple. We have purple boxes.
11:45Yeah. So that's our beauty cuties.
11:49I love the metallic finish on that as well.
11:51Thank you so much.
11:51That is.
11:52Imagine pulling that out of...
11:54Come on.
11:55Stopping.
11:57It's so cool.
11:58And then the last thing we have on our line is our set jetter. So this is our set jetter.
12:05And so it's another accoutrement to the Beauty Boss backpack. And this is great for like carry-ons. You can carry on the Beauty Boss backpack on the plane. It's CSA approved as well.
12:14And so is this. You can carry this as a personal item. I put pallets and different things in here as an artist. But many people carry this just as a personal item, like a purse on and off the plane.
12:26You get two huge compartments on the side as well. And then you have PVC here, but it's easy to clean. So even if you get something on it, you can clean it pretty easy. So I love this. It's just a set jetter.
12:39And what's cool about the set jetter, it also comes in that purple metallic that you love.
12:43I love it. I love the clear top as well.
12:49See what you got going on.
12:51Oh, this is so good.
12:53Thank you so much.
12:54I just want the beauty community to be better and for us to grow and learn and look organized and professional when we show up on set to do a good job.
13:03I'm going to tell you something, though.
13:05The beauty community cannot gatekeep these because moms are going to be using this.
13:11Everybody's going to be using this because there's so many uses for it.
13:14It's so fashionable and such a great way to be organized, but be fly, too, which is so, so cool.
13:24I'm in love.
13:24My heart is beating fast.
13:26Hold on.
13:26Okay.
13:27The bee thing is just like going to live in my mind rent-free.
13:32But we have to talk about you are a member of our New Voices family, which we do in partnership, Shop Business Live in partnership with.
13:40Can you say a little bit about what it's been like for you to be a part of that community as a Black entrepreneur?
13:46New Voices has been such a blessing to me.
13:50You know, I have learned so much from our fabulous mentors and people that are steering the program.
13:59I am in camaraderie with some amazing founders and women that we really pour into each other and really listen to each other.
14:07And it has been a blessing in my life.
14:10I'm part of the Madam C.J. Walker program.
14:12And Madam C.J. Walker, I mean, my goodness, she is just such an icon in our community.
14:20So I just I can't say enough about the New Voices program.
14:24It's just been amazing in my life.
14:27So, so good.
14:29Brianne, I got to let you go.
14:31I know we're at the end of it, but I'm just so excited to see where your business goes from here.
14:38Hope to see you maybe at Essence Festival or something.
14:42Yeah, I'm going to remind everybody one more time.
14:45If you are putting things in your cart and your shopping, she's got an amazing promo code going on to the end of the year.
14:5230 percent off if you type Essence out on your checkout and you can get an incredible 30 percent off this one.
15:00Make sure you follow me because you're going to see this bag.
15:04DM me when you see me with this bag because you're going to see me with this bag.
15:07I am now completely obsessed.
15:09But thank you.
15:10Thank you so much for bringing your products to the show.
15:13I want to thank everybody so much for watching Shop Essence Live.
15:16Make sure you tune in week by week as we bring you more Black-owned brands.
15:21Thank you so much for having me.
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