Bobbi Brown might be a globally recognised brand - one that hit $1 billion worth of sales last night - the 50 year old founder still has her feet firmly on the ground, albeit in a pair of five inch Prada sandals. Brown was one of the first make-up artists to champion a nude, natural look - and today, she remains an advocate of using make-up to enhance rather than mask or fake natural beauty. Read more at The Telegraph.
Read More“His famous and loyal clients include Charlize Theron, Madonna, Daniel Craig, Halle Berry, Christy Turlington, and many others. Laura Dern, at the time she was prepping for the Oscars and filming the first Jurassic Park movie, is the one who came up with the brand’s current trademarked tagline, The Ole Glow.” Read more at Racked.
Read More“Jerrod Blandino never imagined he’d end up working in the beauty industry. Nonetheless, the first time he applied makeup while working at a Estee Lauder mall counter and watched people’s eyes light up with confidence as he gave them a new face, he knew he found his calling. He’d create the products that would be on the faces of the people gracing it with the cosmetic and skin care company he co-founded, Too Faced, which got its start in 1998.” Read more at Entrepreneur.
Read More“The name François Nars elicits starstruck-level status not just in the beauty world, but to anyone who wears makeup. His products are like candy, inciting furious tail wagging every time a new shipment arrives at the office, and his somewhat mysterious demeanor only fuels the legend. Truth be told, the man is charming, quick with a laugh and puts considerable thought into every question he is asked. See for yourself.” Read more at W Magazine.
Read More“Meet beauty entrepreneur Maria Hatzistefanis, the beauty and brains behind Rodial Skincare. She breaks down her career path, her collaboration with Kylie Jenner, and why her customers have remained loyal for 15 years.” The Daily Front Row.
Read More“The most important thing about Bobbi's vision of beauty is that it is not defined by white, blue-eyed, blonde models. She did not see herself reflected in them when she was young, and when it was time to develop her makeup line, she was one of the first to go beyond ‘beige,’ ‘peach,’ and ‘tan’ colors, offering alternatives for Asian and black skin tones.” Read more at Yahoo.
Read More“This month marks 20 years since the launch of the fresh handmade natural cosmetics line in North America; headquartered in Vancouver, the 236 Canadian and U.S. Lush stores raked in $409 million in sales for the fiscal year ending June 2015. Karen Delaney-Wolverton recalls how one whiff of Lush while visiting London in 1995 changed her career path forever.” Read more at BCBusiness.
Read More“Toni Ko moved to the U.S. from South Korea when she was 13. She didn’t speak a word of English. By the time she was 25, she had started her own cosmetics business, NYX Cosmetics, a one-woman shop that she grew into a multimillion-dollar international company.” Read more at Cosmopolitan.
Read More“If you want to know who's big in beauty right now, you could follow anyone who sparks your interest on Instagram, then follow everyone that person follows. And so on and so forth, until you end up following Kevin Bacon — and getting really, really annoyed with your Instagram feed. Instead, let us do the legwork for you. We've rounded up the hair, makeup, fragrance, nails, and skin-care superstars who've been hitting their stride over the past year.” Read more at Refinery29.
Read More“When a brand is as relevant today as it was at its inception, close to fifty years ago, you get the feeling they’re doing something right. And there’s no denying the modern day significance of a beauty powerhouse like Clinique.” Read more at The Coveteur.
Read More“When Into The Gloss blogger Emily Weiss launched Glossier, her digital-first beauty brand, last October, she knew she wanted to ground the business in feedback from consumers. Over the past year, Weiss has gleaned plenty of insights — from Instagram comments, emails and online surveys — that she has been able to leverage as she develops her brand, product offering and customer experience. Take, for instance, consumers living outside of the US, who were unable to order products. ‘The number one question we get is about international shipping,” Weiss says. “It pained me.’” Read more at Business of Fashion.
Read More“Celebrity makeup artist Hung Vanngo’s work speaks for itself. Although he’s worked on some of the most famous faces in the past decade, including Taraji P. Henson for her Allure cover, Gisele Bündchen, Cindy Crawford in Vogue’s September issue, and practically every single Victoria’s Secret Angel, the makeup artist isn’t a household name yet — and he prefers to stay that way, doing relatively few interviews.” Read more at NYMag.com.
Read More“Dick Page has painted the faces of every supermodel to storm through the ’90s, every Victoria’s Secret Angel worth her wings, and an exclusive coterie of A-List actresses, like Julianne Moore and Catherine Zeta-Jones. With his towering frame and tawny beard, Page cuts a distinctive, lumberjackian figure, and is a fixture backstage at fashion week, where models hope to have the good fortune to land in his chair. But it was not always so. ‘When I first moved to London, for the longest time I wasn’t making any money,’ says the British-born artist of his early days in the industry.” Read more at Violet Grey.
Read More“If you’re looking for a model of how to turn social media buzz into big-business success, Michelle Phan is your woman. At 19, Phan started making ‘how-to’ beauty videos on YouTube. She now has 7.9 million followers on the site—to say nothing of the millions who track her every move on other social networks. And she’s parlayed that following into a boggling number of business ventures.” Read more at Fortune.
Read More“When it comes to girl bosses, it doesn’t get much more bossy (in that good, Beyonce-condoned way) than Emily Weiss, who, with Into the Gloss, pretty much informed every beauty cabinet decision made post-2010, and then gave us exactly what we needed with Glossier’s must-have products (we’ll never use another primer again, btw).” Read more at The Coveteur.
Read More“Beauty maestro Laura Mercier may best be known for her eponymous product line today, but the Frenchwoman earned her stripes working for the very best photographers (Steven Meisel, Patrick Dermarchelier), magazines (Elle, Vogue) and celebrities (Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker). Here, Mercier spills on how she got her start, her big breaks, and how social media is shaping beauty today.” Read more at Yahoo.
Read More“In 1981, with a background as a ladies hosiery buyer for major department stores and a passion for nail polish, native New Yorker Essie Weingarten launched her eponymous cosmetics company with a flight to fabulous Las Vegas and 12, vibrant, idiosyncratic and inventively-named colors -- and she soon gained a powerful word of mouth following.” Read more at Entrepreneur.
Read More“We originally wanted to sit down with Deborah Lippmann because she pretty much makes all the nail polish we ever want. And does the nails of everyone on our Pinterest boards. We mean, we’re guessing you’re in the same boat. But when we got to chatting at Lippmann’s New York HQ, we found out there’s way, WAY more to the story.” Read more at The Coveteur.
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