Honey Pot Founder Beatrice Dixon Talks Wellness, Black-Owned Business, & Shares Her 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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00:00 Wellness inside and you understanding
00:03 and taking responsibility for your wellness inside.
00:06 That's the real beauty.
00:08 The physical stuff is cool,
00:10 but like park that until you know
00:12 what's happening with your body.
00:13 Hello, you're in my bathroom,
00:16 but that's super appropriate
00:18 because I am Beatrice Dixon,
00:20 co-founder and CEO of The Honey Pot Company.
00:22 Today is gonna be a ridiculously busy day,
00:25 so I'm super excited to get started.
00:27 Let me throw a robe on,
00:28 and then I'm gonna show you my reclared five minute face.
00:31 So one of the most important things
00:36 about facial care and self care to me
00:38 is really all about your nighttime routine.
00:41 For my nighttime routine, I use our,
00:44 it's funny, it's actually our soothing lavender
00:47 vulva cream, but it's gorgeous.
00:50 It has lavender, it has cocoa butter,
00:52 it has coconut oil, it's absolutely beautiful.
00:55 Most people don't recommend this.
00:56 I do it 'cause my skin is legendary
00:59 and it can hold it up.
01:01 But I blot a little bit of tea tree oil
01:03 if I have any kind of pimple or anything like that.
01:05 And also drinking a lot of water, which is huge.
01:09 So let's get started with the five minute routine.
01:11 First and foremost is this really beautiful,
01:14 it's called Skincredible.
01:16 It's a sandalwood elixir,
01:18 which is kind of like a serum by Simply Divine.
01:21 I absolutely love all of her products.
01:24 They're incredible.
01:25 So literally, I just take this,
01:27 take a few pumps, put it on my face.
01:30 You know, it's really important
01:33 when you're applying a serum
01:35 to make sure that you're kind of lifting your skin up.
01:38 Next thing is the Simply Divine
01:41 Amazing Face Moisturizer.
01:43 This is absolutely beautiful.
01:45 It has rose oil in it, it has lavender.
01:48 She says that her first ingredient is love, which I love.
01:51 That's really important with skincare.
01:53 It's really important to, I think,
01:55 to use skincare from companies
01:57 that actually care about humanity.
02:00 And so that's actually one of the things
02:01 that attracted me to Simply Divine.
02:03 Applying it to the face,
02:06 making sure you're getting all around the eyes.
02:09 Anything you do to your face, you do to your neck.
02:12 Typically, your decollete,
02:14 but then I would be showing y'all all my business,
02:16 so you don't need to see all that.
02:18 [laughs]
02:20 This is probably one of the most important things.
02:23 The Black Girl Sunscreen, Make It Matter.
02:26 It's a sunscreen gel.
02:27 It's matte, so it's not super, super oily, which I love,
02:32 and it doesn't leave a film.
02:33 A little tiny bit goes a long way.
02:36 People think humans that have melanated skin
02:39 don't need to use sunscreen.
02:41 That is not true.
02:42 We do need to use sunscreen,
02:44 and I love this sunscreen because it's literally made
02:46 for humans that have melanated skin.
02:48 I really love this YSL primer
02:51 because it really gives your skin a dewy look,
02:55 which is really, really amazing.
02:57 I always feel good putting it on
02:59 because it's really important for me
03:00 to take care of my skin.
03:01 So I started Honey Pot Company with my brother back in 2012.
03:07 The Honey Pot Company is a vagina and vulva wellness brand.
03:12 We started it because I had a serious bout
03:16 with bacterial vaginosis.
03:17 It was terrible.
03:19 To make a long story short,
03:20 essentially my grandmother came to me in a dream.
03:23 My grandmother transitioned when my mother was young,
03:25 and so I've never met her in this life,
03:27 but she came to me in a dream,
03:29 and she basically told me what to do to solve my issue.
03:33 She gave me a list of ingredients,
03:34 and she told me that if I was able
03:37 to just put these ingredients together,
03:39 I'd be able to make something that would solve
03:42 for my problem with bacterial vaginosis.
03:44 Literally, I did it, and within four to five days,
03:48 whatever I had going on at the time went away.
03:51 And so Honey Pot is literally born from a dream.
03:56 So next is the Elf Lip Exfoliator.
04:00 I love this exfoliator
04:01 because it's not exfoliating the way that you would think.
04:05 It's not like a lip scrub where it has salt or sugar,
04:09 and I think that those things are important,
04:12 but I like this because you may feel a little bit
04:14 of a tingle, but it's doing what it's supposed to do.
04:16 So next, my girl Rihanna did it again.
04:20 Rihanna, I love you.
04:21 You're wonderful.
04:22 Is the Fenty Skin Lip Oil.
04:25 We're gonna be putting on some lipstick in a little bit,
04:27 so I don't want my lips to be too oily.
04:30 You know, and you literally just like rub it in, right?
04:33 Keep it simple.
04:35 So next is Goop, Goop, Goop.
04:38 Seriously, we all know about Goop.
04:40 We all have to have respect for it.
04:42 Gwyneth, I love you.
04:44 This lip balm, you guys, is absolutely gorgeous.
04:48 Really amazing throughout the day,
04:49 especially if you're not wearing lipstick
04:51 or pre-putting on your lipstick.
04:54 I'm not just saying all this
04:55 because Gwyneth is one of my best friends.
04:57 It really is a really, really, really,
05:00 really, really amazing product, and it's cute.
05:02 Look at that, look at that little, you know what I mean?
05:05 So first I'm gonna apply the lip liner.
05:08 It's kind of hard to talk while I'm doing it.
05:12 [laughs]
05:14 Okay.
05:18 Listen, a good red lip is classic,
05:21 it's legendary, and it's all you need.
05:23 And this Boss Lady Red Lip will literally last you
05:26 for hours without needing to reapply.
05:28 It's really important to support Black-owned business,
05:32 especially Black-owned women businesses.
05:34 Honey Pie is a Black-owned women-owned business.
05:37 At the end of the day, we're all human beings.
05:40 That's not lost on me.
05:41 But the opportunities that we've been given
05:44 to be successful in business,
05:46 that is only gonna be able to last if we support each other.
05:50 It may not be a part of my whole skin regimen
05:53 or my whole, with my clothes and everything like that,
05:55 but it's really important for me
05:57 to support other Black-owned businesses,
05:59 especially if they're women-owned businesses.
06:02 Putting on liquid lipstick,
06:03 it's really important to pay attention to where it's going
06:07 because I'm gonna tell you in a second why.
06:11 Melissa would be so proud of me right now.
06:14 She had to teach me how to do this a couple years ago.
06:17 Melissa, what do you think?
06:20 I really love this Gimme Brow Benefit.
06:23 It's just like a moisturizer for your brow
06:25 and it kinda keeps them up.
06:27 So just going through, getting the brows all in order,
06:30 keeping it simple.
06:32 That's how I like to flow.
06:33 This is, once again, my girl Rihanna, Fenty Beauty.
06:38 Her eyeshadow palette,
06:40 I like really natural tones
06:43 just because I like to keep things simple.
06:45 And I'm using a Q-tip because I'm a bit of a germaphobe.
06:49 (laughs)
06:51 I don't use a lot of brushes and things like that,
06:55 but literally just keeping it simple.
06:57 We didn't really launch until 2014
07:01 and we started off really small.
07:03 It was literally in the kitchen.
07:05 But in 2016, we got an email from Target,
07:09 which blew our mind.
07:11 And basically, they had heard about us
07:13 and they wanted to talk to us.
07:15 We were very lucky because we were able
07:18 to get in front of Target,
07:19 which doesn't necessarily happen every day.
07:22 We got that opportunity in 2016.
07:25 2017, we actually launched in 1,100 doors of Target,
07:30 which was incredible.
07:32 We had no idea of what we were getting into.
07:34 (laughs)
07:35 But, you know, through a lot of trial and tribulation,
07:38 things worked out.
07:39 Honey Pot is sold in every single Target
07:43 and Target actually has the biggest portfolio
07:46 of our products on their shelf
07:47 of all of our retail partners.
07:49 So that completes my five minute face.
07:52 Crazy, crazy day.
07:53 Y'all are gonna be with me the whole way.
07:55 So, let's get to it.
07:56 I'm super excited about this partnership with Target.
08:04 We are going on an HBCU tour
08:06 and I'm gonna be moderating panels
08:08 at Clark Atlanta University, Howard University,
08:12 Prairie View, and North Carolina A&T.
08:15 I think the main message that I want to come across
08:18 is that it's our responsibility
08:21 to take care of our wellness.
08:22 Self-care is really about being connected to your body,
08:26 being responsible with your body.
08:28 If I could wave a magic wand,
08:30 that would be what I want people to walk away.
08:33 Just really understanding that wellness is yours.
08:37 I mean, really, that's the real wealth.
08:38 (upbeat music)