Beatrice Dixon | My Five Minute Face | Marie Claire
Beatrice Dixon, founder of the plant-derived feminine care brand, Honey Pot Company gives us an exclusive look at her five minute face. While breaking down her skincare and makeup routine, Dixon shares the dream that started The Honey Pot Company and the importance of wellness.
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00:00Wellness, inside, and you understanding
00:03and taking responsibility for your wellness inside.
00:06That's the real beauty.
00:08The physical stuff is cool, but like,
00:10park that until you know what's happening with your body.
00:14Hello!
00:15You're in my bathroom, but that's super appropriate
00:18because I am Beatrice Dixon,
00:20co-founder and CEO of The Honey Pot Company.
00:22Today is gonna be a ridiculously busy day,
00:25so I'm super excited to get started.
00:27Let me throw a robe on,
00:28and then I'm gonna show you my reclared five-minute face.
00:34So one of the most important things about facial care
00:37and self-care to me is really all about
00:40your nighttime routine.
00:41For my nighttime routine, I use our, it's funny,
00:45it's actually our Soothing Lavender Vulva Cream,
00:49but it's gorgeous.
00:50It has lavender, it has cocoa butter,
00:52it has coconut oil, it's absolutely beautiful.
00:55Most people don't recommend this.
00:56I do it because my skin is legendary
00:59and it can hold it up.
01:01But I blot a little bit of tea tree oil
01:03if I have any kind of pimple or anything like that.
01:06And also drinking a lot of water, which is huge.
01:09So let's get started with the five-minute routine.
01:11First and foremost is this really beautiful,
01:14it's called Skincredible, it's a sandalwood elixir,
01:18which is kind of like a serum, by Simply Divine.
01:22I absolutely love all of her products, they're incredible.
01:25So literally, I just take this, take a few pumps,
01:29put it on my face.
01:31You know, it's really important when you're applying
01:34a serum to make sure that you're kind of
01:37lifting your skin up.
01:38Next thing is the Simply Divine
01:41Amazing Face Moisturizer.
01:43This is absolutely beautiful.
01:45It has rose oil in it, it has lavender.
01:48She says that her first ingredient is love, which I love.
01:51That's really important with skincare.
01:53It's really important to, I think, to use skincare
01:56from companies that actually care about humanity.
02:00And so that's actually one of the things
02:02that attracted me to Simply Divine.
02:04Applying it to the face,
02:06making sure you're getting all around the eyes.
02:09Anything you do to your face, you do to your neck.
02:13Typically, your decollete,
02:14but then I would be showing y'all all my business,
02:16so you don't need to see all that.
02:20This is probably one of the most important things.
02:23The Black Girl Sunscreen, Make It Matter.
02:26It's a sunscreen gel.
02:27It's matte, so it's not super, super oily, which I love,
02:32and it doesn't leave a film.
02:33A little tiny bit goes a long way.
02:36People think humans that have melanated skin
02:39don't need to use sunscreen.
02:41That is not true.
02:42We do need to use sunscreen, and I love this sunscreen
02:45because it's literally made for humans
02:47that have melanated skin.
02:49I really love this YSL primer
02:51because it really gives your skin a dewy look,
02:55which is really, really amazing.
02:57I always feel good putting it on
02:59because it's really important for me
03:00to take care of my skin.
03:03So I started Honey Pot Company with my brother
03:07back in 2012.
03:09The Honey Pot Company is a vagina and vulva wellness brand.
03:12We started it because I had a serious bout
03:16with bacterial vaginosis.
03:18It was terrible.
03:19To make a long story short,
03:20essentially my grandmother came to me in a dream.
03:23My grandmother transitioned when my mother was young,
03:25and so I've never met her in this life,
03:27but she came to me in a dream,
03:29and she basically told me what to do to solve my issue.
03:33She gave me a list of ingredients,
03:35and she told me that if I was able
03:37to just put these ingredients together,
03:39I'd be able to make something that would solve
03:42for my problem with bacterial vaginosis.
03:44Literally, I did it, and within four to five days,
03:48whatever I had going on at the time went away.
03:51And so Honey Pot is literally born from a dream.
03:56So next is the Elf Lip Exfoliator.
04:00I love this exfoliator because it's not exfoliating
04:04the way that you would think.
04:06It's not like a lip scrub where it has salt or sugar,
04:09and I think that those things are important,
04:12but I like this because you may feel
04:14a little bit of a tingle,
04:15but it's doing what it's supposed to do.
04:17So next, my girl Rihanna did it again.
04:20Rihanna, I love you, you're wonderful.
04:22Is the Fenty Skin Lip Oil.
04:25We're gonna be putting on some lipstick in a little bit,
04:28so I don't want my lips to be too oily.
04:31You know, and you literally just like rub it in, right?
04:34Keep it simple.
04:35So next is Goop, Goop, Goop.
04:39Seriously, we all know about Goop.
04:41We all have to have respect for it.
04:43Gwyneth, I love you.
04:44This lip balm, you guys, is absolutely gorgeous.
04:48Really amazing throughout the day,
04:50especially if you're not wearing lipstick
04:51or pre-putting on your lipstick.
04:54I'm not just saying all this
04:55because Gwyneth is one of my best friends.
04:57It really is a really, really, really,
05:00really, really amazing product, and it's cute.
05:03Look at that, look at that little, you know what I mean?
05:05So first I'm gonna apply the lip liner.
05:10It's kind of hard to talk while I'm doing it.
05:15Okay.
05:16Listen, a good red lip is classic,
05:19it's legendary, and it's all you need.
05:21And this Boss Lady Red Lip will literally last you
05:24for hours without needing to reapply.
05:26It's really important to support Black-owned business,
05:30especially Black-owned women businesses.
05:32Honey Pie is a Black-owned women-owned business.
05:35At the end of the day, we're all human beings.
05:38That's not lost on me.
05:40But the opportunities that we've been given
05:42to be successful in business,
05:44that is only gonna be able to last
05:46if we support each other.
05:48It may not be a part of my whole skin regimen
05:51or my whole, with my clothes and everything like that,
05:54but it's really important for me
05:55to support other Black-owned businesses,
05:57especially if they're women-owned businesses.
06:00Putting on liquid lipstick is really important
06:03to pay attention to where it's going
06:05because I'm gonna tell you in a second why.
06:08Melissa would be so proud of me right now.
06:10She had to teach me how to do this a couple years ago.
06:15Melissa, what do you think?
06:16I really love this Gimme Brow Benefit.
06:19It's just like a moisturizer for your brow,
06:21and it kinda keeps them up.
06:23So just going through, getting the brows all in order,
06:27keeping it simple.
06:28That's how I like to flow.
06:31This is, once again, my girl Rihanna, Fenty Beauty.
06:35This is, once again, my girl Rihanna, Fenty Beauty,
06:38her eyeshadow palette.
06:40I like really natural tones
06:43just because I like to keep things simple,
06:45and I'm using a Q-tip because I'm a bit of a germaphobe.
06:50So I don't use a lot of brushes and things like that,
06:55but literally just keeping it simple.
06:58We didn't really launch until 2014,
07:01and we started off really small.
07:03I was literally in the kitchen.
07:05But in 2016, we got an email from Target,
07:09which blew our mind.
07:11And basically, they had heard about us,
07:14and they wanted to talk to us.
07:16We were very lucky because we were able
07:18to get in front of Target,
07:20which doesn't necessarily happen every day.
07:22We got that opportunity in 2016.
07:262017, we actually launched in 1,100 doors of Target,
07:31which was incredible.
07:32We had no idea of what we were getting into.
07:36But, you know, through a lot of trial and tribulation,
07:38things worked out.
07:40Honey Pot is sold in every single Target,
07:43and Target actually has the biggest portfolio
07:46of our products on their shelf
07:47of all of our retail partners.
07:49So that completes my five-minute face.
07:52Crazy, crazy day.
07:53Y'all are gonna be with me the whole way,
07:55so let's get to it.
07:57Hi.
07:58I'm super excited about this partnership with Target.
08:01We are going on an HBCU tour,
08:04and I'm gonna be moderating panels
08:06at Clark Atlanta University, Howard University,
08:10Prairie View, and North Carolina A&T.
08:13I think the main message that I want to come across
08:16is that it's our responsibility
08:18to take care of our wellness.
08:20Self-care is really about being connected to your body,
08:24being responsible with your body.
08:25If I could wave a magic wand,
08:28that would be what I want people to walk away,
08:31just really understanding that wellness is yours.
08:34I mean, really, that's the real wealth.