So, who is the face behind the mega-popular brand?
“I see what’s right and bring it out.”
She added that she wasn’t made for the glamorous world of makeup and entrepreneurship.
“I know I wasn’t meant for the life I have,” she added.
“Teachers never thought I would amount to much.
My parents never thought I would be a high achiever.”
Nevertheless, Brown proved she was all of those things and more.
So we’re taking a look at the incredible transformation of makeup artist Bobbi Brown.
“Women like Cheryl Tiegs,Christie Brinkley,and Kelly Emberg defined beauty.
“It was the thing to do,” Dr. H George Brennan confessed to theNew York Timesin 1999.
“You had your bat mitzvah and you got your nose done.”
“My mother was a huge role model,” she told JWI Magazine.
“She was the most beautiful woman I knew.
She was glamorous, but always fresh-looking.”
The entrepreneur also shared, “My beauty role model as a teenager was Ali MacGraw.
If today was your birthday, what would you want to do?'
I said, ‘I want to play with makeup.'”
She then moved to New York City with big dreams of becoming a makeup artist.
However, reality hit Brown a little harder than she had anticipated.
From there, Brown opted to move into fashion makeup and do freelance work.
As such, most of the products that Brown was using on her clients were not to her liking.
“I could not do that kind of makeup.
I thought people looked better with natural skin.”
Within three months, the pair was engaged.
and after getting married, they moved to Montclair, New Jersey, to start their family.
Still frustrated with the makeup products on the market, Brown continued doing freelance makeup.
“I said, ‘I have an idea.
To Brown’s delight, the chemist agreed to make her a lipstick and split the profits 50/50.
Brown, given the promise that she would still have total creative control, accepted the company’s offer.
We can make a decision in two minutes and make it happen.”
“We wanted to create one in our hometown.”
So, the couple purchased the building and spent the next two years renovating it into a hotel.
As the project of a successful entrepreneur, The George is now a fabulous night’s stay.
“I get into the details,” Brown explained toCNN.
“I will be curating everything.
It’s a small hotel, so it’s about customer experience and accommodating.”
you’re free to book a stay at The George for about $250 a night.
Though, as she admitted toCBS, she would later realize she “didn’t know any better.”
But when the 25-year contract came to an end in 2016, Brown was far from ready to retire.
“My aesthetic with beauty is: Health is everything,” she explained to People.
“If you don’t feel good, you are not going to look good.”
The podcast ran for 47 episodes over two seasons and ended in 2021.
More than anything, I love doing makeup,” Brown shared with WWD (viaHarper’s Bazaar).
She launched Jones Road in an effort to bring forth products with clean beauty in mind.
“It has really worked,” Brown told CBS of TikTok in 2022.
“It literally quadrupled our business when I went on TikTok.”
As for Brown and finding a new wave of success in her 60s?
“This will not be my last thing in the world,” Brown assured CBS.
“I’m in the infancy of the rest of my life.”
