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Raquel Robertson Built a Brand for the Square Inch the Camera Could See
By day, she works in the machinery of education. Around it, she has built Nadora Iman - a tactile answer to a distinctly digital-age question about confidence, comfort and natural hair.
Karissa Bodnar and the Business of Keeping a Promise
She began with false lashes, a one-bedroom apartment and a promise to make beauty useful beyond the mirror. The company grew; the promise became the operating system.
Rihanna Built a World Bigger Than the Charts
The Barbadian singer turned a sharp eye for what culture leaves out into music, beauty, fashion and philanthropy - while refusing to release work merely because the calendar says she should.
Gerard Camme Bet His Beauty Career on an Invisible Ingredient
After three decades turning fashion, skincare and fragrance into retail theater, Gerard Camme chose a harder sell: making oxygen visible.
Jeff Pink Built a 50-Year Beauty Company From One Small Fix
A Hollywood wardrobe problem became the French manicure. The more durable lesson is how Jeff Pink kept listening, making, and refusing to sell for five decades.
Amy Errett Bet Her Fourth Act on the Hair-Color Aisle
She left venture capital to fix a neglected aisle, named the company after her daughter, and built Madison Reed around five words that still run the place.
Ben Jones Bet Haus Labs Could Learn Its Way Back
The Haus Labs CEO took a celebrity beauty launch through an unusually public reset. His useful idea is simple: distribution creates reach, but patient product work earns a second act.
Yanghee Paik Changed the Channel
She came to Los Angeles to move Korean culture through Hollywood. A chance conversation gave her a different vehicle - and turned a Disney distributor into the operator behind Rael.
Jeff Lee
Jeff Lee is the CEO and co-founder of DIBS Beauty, the L Catterton-backed color cosmetics brand he launched in September 2021 with influencer Courtney Shields and Tula Skincare founders Ken Landis and Dan Reich. Before beauty, Lee was a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton and Skadden Arps, then chief operating officer and partner at Alex Rodriguez's AROD Corp. He also spent two decades as a globe-trotting pageant coach - GQ dubbed him 'Mr. Miss Universe' - and is the only person to have worked out at all 106-plus Equinox gyms worldwide. He holds a JD from Yale, an MBA from Stanford, and lectures on ethics and leadership at Yale, Harvard, Stanford and Wharton.