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How This Lipstick-Brand Founder Gets Her Skin So Good
Ten years ago, Melissa Butler started making vegan lipsticks in her Brooklyn kitchen while she was working on Wall Street. They weren’t your average liquid lipstick; they were bold, vibrant, and daring, in colors that evoke confidence, and they were made especially for Black women. Since 2012, her sideline has grown into a successful beauty business called the Lip Bar. The vegan cosmetics company has since expanded to include other offerings, such as tinted moisturizer, highlighter, and blush. Butler’s mother is a licensed aesthetician, and Melissa grew up doing face masks every weekend with her. But does that mean she’s going to follow social-media beauty trends? Absolutely not. “We come…
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Founder of Nigerian fashion brand Irawo Studio, Innovator Award
Temidola Ikomi, a 2017 graduate of the D’Amore-McKim School of Company, really missed the Northeastern local community, so she joined Gals Who Empower. Ikomi desired to develop new connections with like-minded girls who wished to support just about every other develop and could have their personal corporations, she says, since she is a co-founder of an African-impressed trend model in Nigeria, her household country. “The folks I have met so considerably on this journey have been remarkable,” Ikomi states. This year Ikomi was honored with a 2022 Innovator Award, presented by the Ladies Who Empower, in the younger alumnae undergraduate group together with a $22,000 money prize. She entered the…
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What I Buy and Why: Pulse Music Group Founder Josh Abraham Has an On Kawara of His Birthday Date
For Josh Abraham, new music and artwork are inextricably connected. His modern involvement as an organizer for LACMA’s “Artists Impressed By New music: Interscope Reimagined” solidified him as a mover and shaker in Southern California’s artwork scene—and he’s received the Ed Ruscha with his very own songs label’s identify on it to verify it. In advance of Frieze Los Angeles, an additional massive second for the city’s artwork scene, we sat down with Abraham to listen to a bit additional about his journey as a collector who also has an ear to the ground for tunes. What was your very first purchase (and how considerably did you pay out for…
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Mara Beauty Founder Allison McNamara Drops Her Skin-Care Routine
Allison McNamara was quite a great deal born to shine—or in her circumstance, glow. The Mara Magnificence founder selected the name of her clear skin-care line to reflect the previous four letters of her identify, but also mainly because mara suggests “sea” in Gaelic. She was influenced by Sea of Marmara in Istanbul, for this reason the brand’s #SeatheGlow tagline that can be observed on anything from her packaging to social media. But it is much more than just clever internet marketing that has garnered the brand name plenty of celeb devotees and makeup artists. The algae-infused line is sustainably sourced via wild gathering in France and Eire and is…
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The founder of Black country artist collective says it’s ‘a slap in the face’ that Morgan Wallen was allowed to perform at the Grand Ole Opry
Morgan Wallen drew popular backlash soon after getting videoed making use of a racial slur past calendar year, but however savored business accomplishment afterward.John Shearer/Getty Photographs Historic state new music location Grand Ole Opry is currently being criticized for allowing for Morgan Wallen onstage. Wallen drew backlash last yr for applying a racial slur, but has considering that savored business success. The founder of a system for Black nation musicians known as Wallen’s attendance “a slap in the confront.” State location and occasion organizer Grand Ole Opry has appear underneath fire after Morgan Wallen, a singer caught on tape last 12 months employing a racial slur, was authorized to perform…