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Two Broke Chicks

Off Campus, Rhode New Launches & Marketing Scandals

20 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 5.13 Sally McMullen

This podcast is recorded on Gadigal land. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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12.367 - 27.565 Alex Hourigan

Hey chicks, I'm Sal. And I'm Al. And this is Two Broke Chicks, a show that shares life lessons and tips to help make you rich in life. And welcome back to a perfect hot episode of What's the Tea? What's the Tea, sis? Where we break down the latest news and tea on the internet right now.

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27.806 - 41.062 Alex Hourigan

And today we have the absolute pleasure to be joined by Lucy Neville, our very good friend, also the co-host of the I'm Wigging Out pod, and everybody's favourite internet bestie. Literal ray of sunshine.

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41.082 - 41.462 Sally McMullen

Oh, that's so nice.

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41.442 - 43.064 Alex Hourigan

Welcome back to the show, Lucy.

43.084 - 51.033 Sally McMullen

As if you don't know that you are. As if you don't know that you are. Literally every time we're around Lucy, I feel like lighter.

51.213 - 52.194 Alex Hourigan

Yeah, honestly.

52.214 - 55.257 Lucy Neville

Oh, that is really nice. I'm filing that away. I'm filing that away.

55.398 - 59.042 Alex Hourigan

Yeah, you make us be better versions of ourselves.

Chapter 2: What new products is Hailey Bieber launching for Rhode?

204.484 - 208.008 Sally McMullen

And I said, yes, Hayley. Okay. They look gorgeous.

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208.088 - 225.699 Lucy Neville

They do. And it looks like there's like a bronzy kind of shade and a more pearlescent shade. Yes. And again, with their marketing spend, she's posted two kind of get ready with me's in the last week. And every time she posts those, they're not accidental or just casual. Like this is them building hype for a launch that's obviously going to break the internet.

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226.079 - 235.333 Lucy Neville

But it looks like she was either mixing them in with her glazing milk, which is smart from a business perspective because then people have to buy the glazing milk and the drops. And then with the bronzing, she put straight on her face.

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235.514 - 242.224 Sally McMullen

Yeah, exactly. And there's also the pocket blushes, what looks like to be two pocket blushes.

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242.204 - 268.482 Alex Hourigan

bronzes that's what i'd seen yeah and i was like that makes sense especially going into their summer season yeah everybody's gonna want to look bronzed and gorgeous but what i find really interesting about road is that they definitely set trends in some ways but in others for example like illuminating bronzing drops they were huge like probably last year or the year before we were seeing remember we went to like the house of sephora event and we were like oh my god one as well

268.462 - 272.327 Alex Hourigan

Yeah, well, like every brand is dropping their own version. You get a bronzing drops.

272.427 - 277.814 Sally McMullen

You get a bronzing drops. Everybody gets a bronzing drops. It's because the drunk elephant ones went viral.

278.455 - 294.055 Alex Hourigan

Yeah, exactly. And then there were, you know, dupes and then people making their own and whatnot. But I find it really interesting because they did that and then for Coachella they did the eye patches and the pimple patches, similar sort of thing, right? Like pimple patches were huge five years ago and now – You can kind of get them anywhere.

294.595 - 304.748 Alex Hourigan

But it's like road has this special power that even if it is, even if they're dropping a product in a very saturated part of the market, people still want it because it's road. Yeah.

Chapter 3: How does Rhode's marketing strategy leverage celebrity influence?

304.768 - 316.963 Lucy Neville

Well, I think she's aspirational for her consumer. So I also saw sneakily in that second Get Ready With Me, she uses a pocket blush. And if you look down the bottom of the screen, there's a white label on the back of it. And I think it might be a sample of a new shade.

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318.614 - 326.086 Sally McMullen

See, Rhoda's also in the last week just signed a deal to go into Sephora in Europe.

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326.526 - 326.687 Lucy Neville

Okay.

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326.947 - 355.631 Sally McMullen

So she's literally expanding this empire that I was like, they're going to launch for Eurosummer. However, they're launching in Europe in September 2026, which is then after Eurosummer. So I'm like when I'm trying to think like what – Is this drop going to be, because normally and sometimes they like coincide with something to kind of make it, you know, contextual to what's happening.

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355.992 - 374.939 Sally McMullen

But I was like, that makes so much sense to launch new products when you launch into Europe, into Sephora, but that's too late. So I'm like, when is this, when are these new products going to be launching? I do think they're going to be an instant sellout. In the first day that Rode launched in Australia, they made $11.5 million.

375.22 - 375.3

Wow.

375.5 - 376.621 Sally McMullen

Just a drop in the bucket, really.

376.661 - 378.283 Alex Hourigan

That is wild.

378.303 - 399.887 Sally McMullen

Oh, my God. I don't get out of bed for less, you know. But it made me start thinking, is the celebrity beauty brand back or is it in its flop era? So I started looking at like a bunch of other celebrity beauty brands. And when you think of celebrity beauty brands, which do you think of?

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