The Glossy Beauty Podcast

Lexy Lebsack

Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on the beauty and wellness industries, typically featuring senior brand executives, physicians, editors, founders, and prominent beauty professionals. Agencies could credibly pitch beauty and wellness company leaders, consumer-health experts, product innovators, retail strategists, and established makeup artists with distinctive expertise or measurable results; booking difficulty is high because guests generally hold influential roles or have substantial industry visibility.

Metrics

Episodes: 404

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.1/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 61.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

spatterson@digiday.com

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Host

Lexy Lebsack - Lexy Lebsack is Glossy's West Coast correspondent and a beauty industry journalist covering beauty, wellness, brands, and consumer trends.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior beauty, wellness, consumer-health, retail, or brand executives; established physicians and clinical experts; beauty founders with meaningful traction; prominent editors, makeup artists, and other recognized category specialists.

Required Achievements:

Leadership of established or rapidly growing brands, Significant revenue growth or retail expansion, Executive roles at major beauty or consumer companies, Product launches supported by clinical or consumer research, Recognized editorial, creative, or professional expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Jessica Cruel - Allure's Best Of Beauty Awards, Product Selection, Beauty Editorial Trends, And Advice For Brands And Publicists.

Mary van Praag - Milani's Growth Strategy, Retail Partnerships, And Plans To Expand Annual Sales.

Lorne Lucree - Building An Allergy-care Brand Using Beauty Industry Strategies, Consumer Research, Clinical Testing, Retail Expansion, And Social-first Marketing.

Jamie Greenberg - Makeup Trends, Consumer Signals, Product Development, And The Future Of Expressive Beauty.

Dr. Kathleen Jordan - Hormone-informed Skin Care, Women's Midlife Health, Telehealth Expansion, And Prescription And Over-the-counter Skin-care Products.

Recent Topics

Business, Beauty Industry, Beauty Brands, Retail Strategy, Wellness

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Glossy Beauty Podcast

How to make it in Sephora with Ilia Beauty founder Sasha Plavsic

September 24, 2026

What does it take to thrive within the notoriously competitive world of Sephora? In many ways, Ilia Beauty is a case study in success in America’s biggest specialty beauty retailer. The brand has thrived within Sephora for a decade and makes the retailer’s No. 1 mascara, and Ilia founder Sasha Plavsic helped to architect the industry-leading "Clean at Sephora" program. “Going into Sephora was really a game changer [for Ilia],” Plavsic told Glossy. “That's when the business reall...

Why Allure Best of Beauty is 'the only seal that matters' and how to get your product on it

September 17, 2026

What does it take to win Allure’s Best of Beauty awards? In today’s episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast, Allure editor-in-chief Jessica Cruel sits down with host Lexy Lebsack to unpack the ins and outs of its prestigious beauty awards program, including how beauty and wellness brands can better appeal to her team of editors. Launched in 1996, five years after the first issue of Allure hit newsstands, the annual Best of Beauty awards anoints the best products across dozens of categori...

Mary van Praag doubled Milani Cosmetics annual sales to $250 million in five years. Now she’s ready to double them again.

September 10, 2026

Helmed for the past six years by veteran beauty executive Mary van Praag, 25-year-old mass beauty mainstay Milani Cosmetics is in the midst of meteoric growth. In today’s episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast, van Praag sits down with host Lexy Lebsack to discuss Milani’s growth engine, including the tactics and retail partnerships she’s betting on to reach $500 million in annual sales in the next three years.

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