#Bobby brown mackup skin#

“First of all, just put moisturizer on.not just on your face, put it on your neck, put it on your hands, it feels better,” said Brown in the video.Bobbi Brown recently posted a video on TikTok sharing her top makeup tips for women ages 50 and up.and honestly I'm not even worried about being successful, I just want to do things I want to do how I want to do them. I never thought I was, but I know I never want to be again,' she says of her decades years at Lauder. 'I started out as an indie beauty, then somehow became corporate,' says Brown. Now, Brown, 60, is returning to her entrepreneurial roots, renovating a boutique hotel in New Jersey and curating a shop-within-a-shop at Lord and Taylor, justBOBBI. 'Fourteen years on the 'TODAY' show really helped grow the business,' she says. The next time he came, she told him she wanted to be the 'TODAY' show beauty editor. When Zucker came to visit Brown onset, she told him she wanted to be a regular and appear every month. 'And that's how I got on the show,' says Brown. The older woman said, 'Honey, Jeff Zucker's my grandson.' Zucker was the executive producer of 'TODAY' at the time. As they were chatting, Brown revealed her next dream was to be a regular on NBC's 'TODAY' show. 'And that's how I got into Bergdorfs,' Brown recalls about landing her line in the upscale department store, Bergdorf Goodman.īrown has written nine books, most recently ' Bobbi Brown Beauty from the Inside Out.' At one of her book signings, an older woman wanted to ask asked Brown a question, and Brown took the time to answer. 'I was at a party and I introduced myself to the woman that was throwing the party and I said, 'What do you do?' She said, 'I'm a cosmetics buyer at Bergdorfs.' So I said, 'Oh, I've got this line of lipsticks.'

One time was particularly serendipitous: 'I was in the elevator of my New York apartment and I said to the girl in the elevator, 'Hi, what do you do?' She said, 'I work at a lab in Long Island City.' I'm like, 'Can I have your card?' And that's where I made the lipstick.'Įven after selling the company, Brown insisted Lauder have the the lipsticks made at the same Queens facility.Ī cocktail conversation got her high end distribution

'It's weird to be in an elevator and people don't say anything,' says Brown.

#Bobby brown mackup skin#

'I would go to the park, and I would see all these different nationality women and I would ask them to try certain things and that's how I knew what worked on different skin colors.'Īn aversion to awkward elevator silences led to a production facility I guess now they call that focus groups, but I just asked people's opinion,' says Brown. 'I actually ask a lot of people their opinion,' says Brown.Įarly on, she would walk up to strangers in the park and ask them to test her products. The lipsticks didn't even have a box.Ī walk in the park was her market research Still a working make-up artist, Brown and her husband, who was then in law school, stuffed lipsticks in manila envelopes and sent them off. 'I'm like, 'Why would you want to do that?' Now, I know it's called P.R.,' recalls Bobbi.īrown put her home phone number in the Glamour article, and after it ran, she was flooded with orders. She asked if Brown if she could write about the lipstick collection. Brown told a friend about her new endeavor - that friend also happened to be an editor at Glamour magazine. What began as one lipstick color grew into a line of 10 shades.