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Kristin Ess Celebrity hairstylist and social media influencer Kristin Ess is suing beauty brand incubator Maesa to reclaim her rights to her eponymous brand, and be free from “unreasonable restraints” on her business. Ess, the cofounder of educational site Thebeautydepartment.com who codeveloped the Kristin Ess Hair line in partnership with Maesa and launched exclusively in Goal in 2017, revealed the lawsuit in a series of Instagram posts. “I'm suing my partners for several reasons, but the first one being that I used to be misled during this partnership,” she wrote. “They sold themselves to me as a beauty brand incubator, touting their ability to launch, grow [and] eventually sell my brand to make sure its continued success. As an alternative of holding true...