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#mary-kay

Successful founders are comfortable being uncomfortable. Forging a new path as an entrepreneur isn't easy work. There may be times when you're the only person who believes in your idea, or where you're the only person who looks like you do in a meeting room.

There have been times in all of our careers where we've been passed up, or we didn't get that next role when we felt like we were ready for it. And I said that the one thing that's really true to me is, I think that you can either choose to be bitter or you can be better.

We are always surveying the space of where individuals are consuming or might be consuming beauty, or where there's an intersection between beauty and a sports brand. [We heard] that young women are fans of F1, and there's a growing female [audience]. The excitement around [Netflix's] 'Drive to Survive' and the F1 Academy content series and being at one of the races is continuing to uptick.

Few founders get to revisit the decisions they made when they first scaled their company the way Jaclyn Johnson did. Johnson bootstrapped Create & Cultivate from a side project in 2012 into a multi-million-dollar media and events platform for ambitious women, then sold a majority stake to private equity in 2021 in a deal valued at about $22 million. Three years later, after watching the company struggle under new ownership, she did something far rarer: She bought it back.

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It's Stephen! It's Stephen. And here they all come to chat a load of bollocks. So said Jessie Roux all the way back in episode four, spewing truth bombs while wearing sweetcorn-yellow eyeshadow. Yet here we are as I write this, on the day of the final with Stephen Libby still masquerading as a Faithful, looking th'innocent flower but being the serpent under't, as per Lady Macbeth's advice.

The average American is typically pretty content with working a 9-5 job, making a decent salary, and taking the occasional vacation. But to be a successful person and lead a luxurious lifestyle, one multimillionaire founder says it's time to come to terms with the fact that work-life balance doesn't really exist. "If you are leading an extraordinary life to think that extraordinary effort wouldn't be coupled to that somehow is crazy," Emma Grede, founder and CEO of Good American and Skims founding partner, told The Diary of a CEO podcast.

Two women, probably in their sixties, were debating whether to stick with their usual brands or try something new. "I've been using the same foundation for twenty years," one said, "but it just sits in my wrinkles now." Her friend nodded knowingly. "Mine makes me look like I'm wearing a mask." This got me thinking about how the beauty industry has evolved, yet somehow the biggest names-Revlon, Maybelline, CoverGirl-haven't quite caught up with what mature skin actually needs.

By utilising Brave Bison's data tools and direct relationship networks, we recruited influencers with the perfect profile to reach our intended audience and worked with them throughout the entire creative process, directing and producing video content featuring them within the pop up environments. We then shot a series of 22 videos raising awareness of and showcasing the immersive, artistic and technology-driven nature of the SK-II Wonderland activation.

The bath and body care brand, which boasts 3 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, has spent the past year using an AI-powered community management tool to analyze comments, direct messages and other social interactions across its channels. What began as a way to respond faster to customers has evolved into a broader system for identifying product demand, measuring sentiment around launches and informing innovation decisions.

The appointment of Roan all grunge glitters, colourful face jewels and clumpy mascara celebrates the experimental, edgy and playful Mac aesthetic, and signals what may be the end of what industry figures often describe as the beige buffet of post-Covid fashion and beauty. Oh, the relief in seeing the back of all-over camel, in enjoying makeup textures other than perfectly smooth and glassy, the joy in a glinty eyelid or gemstone applied haphazardly and for no other reason but fun.

Danessa Myricks Beauty is the big story here," said Assayag, adding that the brand has nearly doubled its year-over-year VIT and maintains a notably high creator retention rate, with creators posting about the brands nearly six times a year on average. One of the most impactful posts in recent months was an August TikTok video by @april.byjoiles showcasing a seamless client shade match using the deepest shade of Danessa Myricks' Blurring Balm powder. The post garnered nearly 12 million views and 600,000 likes.

The resale market - which comprises roughly 8 percent of total fashion and luxury sales globally, per a 2025 Vestiaire Collective study - is becoming a potential growth frontier in beauty, too, as indicated by new data from Los Angeles-based live selling platform Whatnot. Launched in 2019 with a focus on selling collectible figurines via live video auctions, Whatnot has since expanded to other categories including sneakers, jewelry, electronics and beauty and fashion, with the latter two being the platform's fastest-growing categories.

Life as a CEO is busy, and I start my days early with exercise, meditation, and a strong cup of coffee, before I jump into a morning of back-to-back meetings. I'm very disciplined about how I work and communicate, but I try to keep time for thinking and being outside, especially at the end of the week. In the evenings, I slow down with family, simple rituals, and sleep, so I can do it all again the next day.