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Trinny London's Trinny Woodall on building "a brand she can live the rest of her life with"
Trinny Woodall was well-known and beloved in her native U.K. as style writer and "What Not to Wear" host, well before she started her DTC makeup bran…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Lip Bar's Melissa Butler: "Beauty doesn't look like one thing"
Unlike many beauty entrepreneurs, Melissa Butler, founder and CEO of The Lip Bar, wasn't a makeup or skin-care fanatic. Butler started her profession…
5 years, 5 months ago
LoveSeen founder Jenna Lyons: "It's incredibly important to stand in who you are"
When Jenna Lyons left her role as president and executive creative director of J.Crew in 2017, few assumed that her next act would be in beauty.
But i…
5 years, 5 months ago
Tower 28 founder Amy Liu on the rush to clean makeup
Amy Liu, founder and CEO of Tower 28, had dreams of being a beauty founder, in large part because she watched her father live out his own entrepreneu…
5 years, 5 months ago
Waldencast's Michel Brousset: Beauty brand building is about "managing this level of complexity"
After 20 years in big beauty, with stints at L'Oréal and Procter & Gamble, Waldencast founder and CEO Michel Brousset set out to start over, with an …
5 years, 6 months ago
Robin Tsai of VMG Partners: "We're delving into categories that are still a little amorphous"
Private equity firm VMG Partners has invested in some of beauty's biggest disrupters: Drunk Elephant, Briogeo and Perfect Diary. But the 16-year-old …
5 years, 6 months ago
Jane Hertzmark Hudis of Estée Lauder Companies: "We are really brand builders over time"
During a full year of uncertainty and change, companies found few things they could bet on. But for Estée Lauder Companies, its hero product strategy…
5 years, 6 months ago
"I fell in love with what it promised": Casey Georgeson of Saint Jane on the power of luxury CBD
Casey Georgeson, founder and CEO of Saint Jane Beauty, was building brands for others, like LVMH's Kendo and Cupcake Vineyards, before she saw hersel…
5 years, 6 months ago
L'Oréal technology incubator's Guive Balooch on marrying beauty and tech
Though a 15-year-veteran in beauty, Guive Balooch, head of L'Oréal's technology incubator, considers his outsider-turned-insider perspective a skill.…
5 years, 7 months ago
AmorePacific's Julien Bouzitat: "There's an explosion of access, brands and products"
When Julien Bouzitat, AmorePacific chief marketing and digital officer, started working in marketing in 2000, his proposed path ahead looked very dif…
5 years, 7 months ago