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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.
The $13 Hollywood Fix That Put ORLY on 50 Years of Fingertips
Jeff Pink solved a costume-change problem with a manicure designed to disappear into every outfit. ORLY turned that quiet idea into a durable, family-owned nail business - then spent five decades finding new reasons to be noticed.
The 145-Year-Old Beauty Company Hiding in Plain Sight
Wella survived wigs, perms, conglomerates and lockdowns. Now the salon-born company is betting that the person behind the chair is still beauty's most useful laboratory.
The store that sells hair color to the person doing your hair - and to you
One of America's largest beauty-supply chains sells the same professional hair color to salon pros and to the customers coloring their own roots at home. Here is how a 1964 New Orleans shop became a two-sided, 5,000-store beauty distributor.