Female Founders: Financial Advice for Indie Brands
March 2, 2020
CEW’s 2020 Female Founder Award honorees talk about staying self-funded and when to seek out investors.
Beauty News Tag: Rose-Marie Swift
24 Hours a Day May Not Be Enough Time to Get the Job Done
February 14, 2020
Female Founder Award Honorees discuss the challenges of being an indie brand founder, from balancing different roles and maintaining the determination to succeed.
Female Founders: What Would You Do Differently?
February 12, 2020
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Female Founders: How Have You Overcome Your Biggest Challenge in the Past Year?
February 10, 2020
CEW’s 2020 Female Founder Award honorees discuss the biggest challenges they faced in the past year, from strengthening management skills to finding the right employees, and how they overcame them.
Beauty’s Breakout Business Leaders: The 6 Female Founders Changing the Face of Beauty
December 16, 2019
See the who, what and why on each company selected for this year’s event.
Calling All Entrepreneurs: How to Launch a Beauty Line
July 31, 2012
Rose-Marie Swift, a makeup artist for more than 20 years whose work is regularly featured in all of the major fashion and beauty glossies, had her life transformed in the early 2000’s when she began to experience physical, mental and emotional health issues. After an extensive series of tests, she learned that her blood contained toxic levels of heavy metals including aluminum, barium, cadmium, lead and mercury, as well as high levels of pesticides and other chemicals. Rose-Marie was surprised when the technician asked if she worked in the cosmetics industry. After years of rebuilding her own health, Rose-Marie created RMS Beauty, a line of natural color cosmetics, and launched beautytruth.net, a website dedicated to exposing the dangers of personal care products. Here’s how Rose-Marie got her groove back—and launched a company—over the past 10 years, in her own words.
