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26 Apr

ESalon Cofounder Launches Recent Hair Color Technology – WWD

After selling custom hair color business eSalon to German personal care giant Henkel, its former chief executive officer and cofounder Francisco Gimenez is back with a technology trying to disrupt the in-salon hair color space. Yuv Beauty, a London-based beauty technology company, is launching Yuv Lab, a patent-pending system that may dispense thousands and thousands of custom color formulations, potentially allowing skilled hair colorists to create precise bespoke formulations. From quarter shades to the addition of tertiary tones, pH control, and translucency-opacity levels, the system uses advanced technology to create the specified mix of colours and tones. Gimenez claimed the technology will save the typical salon a whole bunch of kilos a yr from color wastage, in addition to providing a sustainable alternative...
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25 Apr

Nike Cofounder Phil Knight and His Wife Pledge $400

Nike Inc. cofounder and chairman emeritus Phil Knight and his wife Penny are upping their commitment to Portland Oregon’s Black community with a $400 million pledge to the Rebuild Albina project. The initiative is an element of the brand new 1803 Fund, a non-public investing and philanthropy fund that's geared toward helping Black residents thrive and for communities to flourish. As the primary enterprise by the 1803 Fund, the Rebuild Albina project is designed to assist advance Black Portland residents — and future generations — through investments in education, place and culture and belonging within the Albina community, with advantages which can be hoped to ripple across Portland. In an announcement, Knight said he and his wife “have long believed locally of Portland.”...
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22 Jan

Stila Cofounder Maren Jensen On Latest Ingestible Brand Glow

While Maren Jensen’s past is deeply rooted within the beauty space, having cofounded Stila Cosmetics alongside makeup artist Jeanine Lobell, the previous model and “Battlestar Galactica” actress is harnessing her passion for wellness together with her recent ingestible brand. Stila Cosmetics kicked off the colour cosmetics revolution within the ’90s. Now, Jensen is seeking to do the identical within the beauty-focused functional food space in 2023 together with her bar brand Glow Beauty Fuel, which was in a soft launch phase throughout the latter half of 2022.   Jensen’s focused devotion to the wellness category got here after she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, for which there isn't a cure, ultimately leading her to go away acting and modeling. She began...
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27 Sep

Off The Clock With Mented Cosmetics, Co-Founder and CEO,

We’ve often heard from founders that running a business could be a 24-hour experience. Still, recently, lots of us are denouncing hustle culture for a balance of our own. As women who wear multiple hats, how we spend each moment of the day matters. For Black women, time is precious, but often we forget that the time we spend outside of constructing our empires is just as necessary. On this ESSENCE.com series, we’ll get the news on how a few of your favorite entrepreneurs and executives are spending day without work the clock to refuel, recenter and to recollect their north stars. Meet KJ Miller, Co-Founder and CEO, Mented Cosmetics, Philadelphia, 35 In 2017, KJ Miller and her graduate school classmate Amanda E....
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