The #DamnGood Fall 2026 Products We Can't Stop Talking About

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

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Carlene Higgins (0:08)

Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products and moments in beauty.

Jill Dunn (0:14)

We're your hosts, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins.

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Breaking Beauty Podcast. It's officially fall now. We are in your feeds with a hashtag Damn Good episode that's all about fall must haves. I am Jill Dunn, one of your co-hosts. I'm here with my friend and colleague for nine years, Carlene Higgins.

Carlene Higgins (0:40)

Hello. Yes. We are former beauty editors, turned beauty podcasters in your feed every single Wednesday with the breakthrough people, products and moments in beauty.

As Jill said, once a month we do our hashtag Damn Goods episodes where we review products of the month. Fall is always so exciting because there are so many launches.

Jill Dunn (1:03)

In today's episode, we're going to be talking about some of the biggest buzziest launches of the season. There are complexion launches, Galore, Hong Van Gogh, Jones Road Beauty, Lisa Eldridge. We're also going to be talking about some skincare. Of course, we know so many of you tune in for our skincare reviews. With that, let's dive in, Carlene.

Carlene Higgins (1:22)

All right.

I think we should start with complexion because honestly, you had said to me, you're like, I think maybe we just do a foundation or complexion episode, like another one, and we just did one in the spring. We'll link to it in our show notes, guys, but because there just have been so many. I think we have to start there. What have you been trying?

Jill Dunn (1:44)

I tried the now infamous, I would say, Jones Road Beauty, Wide Awake Brightening Concealer, 32 US dollars and 46 dollars in Canada. It is a little pot concealer.

And some of you may remember when Bobby Brown, name drop, was on our show about a year ago, and she talked about how she was working on a new concealer. Okay. And many of you also may be familiar with the pencil that she had. She had the Concealing Face Stick Pencil.

Carlene Higgins (2:14)

Yes, I do remember. I like that product.

Jill Dunn (2:16)

And a lot of makeup artists have recommended that. It's good for sketching on, just adding that coverage.

Carlene Higgins (2:21)

It's like a chunky pencil versus the Lisa Eldridge thin one.

Jill Dunn (2:24)

Yes, exactly. So this particular concealer is solving a different problem. A lot of people found that one drying better for the face. Yeah, I was going to say it's a bit matte. So this is really meant for, as the name indicates, Wide Awake. It's for underneath the eyes.

They also have a line of neutralizers so you can correct.

Carlene Higgins (2:43)

Color-correcting, yeah.

Jill Dunn (2:44)

And you can also conceal on top of that. I tried the corrector. That's not necessarily my big, as I say, bugaboo. My thing is about the bags and trying to make those look a little less puffy and just bring a little more lightness or Wide Awakeness underneath the eyes. So I love this formula. She ate with this. I think it's fantastic. And I have to tell everybody, I went to the Jones Road store to properly get shade matched.

And I was telling you about my experience in there. And it was like, it was so joyous. It was really fascinating, like girl bonding time between the customers and the artists and you can get makeup lessons in there, everything there. I love that. I thought it was fantastic.

Carlene Higgins (3:28)

Yeah. Well, when we talked to Bobby last year, I think.

Jill Dunn (3:32)

Yeah, it was about a year ago.

Carlene Higgins (3:33)

We will link to that episode in our show notes as well. But she was talking about retail and the power of retail, which is a really tough nut to crack. We know this.

This is the land of DTC. And I think it's really, to me, Bobby Brown's knowledge and experience and her hands-on like, I want to help women. I'm not going to be intimidating. I'm not about that. I'm not a gatekeeper. This isn't about just like looking as cool as humanly possible. It's really more about women leaning in for women. And I feel like what you described, because Jill told me this story about like this woman who's like getting her makeup lesson. And then she's like, I'm going to go get my dress and then I'll come back so you can see the final look. And everybody's clapping.

Jill Dunn (4:19)

Yeah, like she came back in the store and everyone's like oooing and awing over how she transformed. It was like a makeover. But she made the point to come back to the store to show her artists. And I was like, what is even happening?