Meet Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the L'Oréal heiress worth about $90 billion

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Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the granddaughter of L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller.

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Alice Walton is the world's richest woman — and may soon be worth $100 billion

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Alice Walton is one of the heirs to the Walmart fortune.

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That lipstick review could have been written by AI

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Beauty products like lipsticks can be tricky to shop for online.

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A 4,000-year-old lipstick uncovered in Iran may be the oldest ever found. It's uncannily similar to modern ones.

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This stone tube was found to contain pigment that may have been an early lip paint, said researchers.

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I quit my job at Sephora after years there. It's nothing like the golden days of the beauty industry.

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One ex-Sephora employee says the company became soulless by the time they left in 2024.

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An online exchange between China's 'Lipstick King' and a viewer over the affordability of an $11 beauty item shows just how messed up the country's economy is

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Beauty blogger Austin Li Jiaqi applies lipstick while livestreaming on the e-commerce platform Taobao on October 26, 2018 in Shanghai, China. 27-year-old man Austin Li Jiaqi, with a nickname 'Lipstick Brother', is the hottest online beauty blogger in China.

I started my online makeup business with no money and made $97,681 in sales last year. The key to my success was turning disappointments into opportunities.

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Janet Leyva started her fake-eyelash and makeup business in 2020.

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See Glossier founder Emily Weiss's wild ride from Teen Vogue 'super intern' to head of the billion-dollar beauty brand — and what's next now that she's no longer CEO

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Glossier is known for its low-key and natural-looking makeup and skincare.

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Day in the life of the founder of Rebundle, a hair-extension brand that closed a $2.1 million pre-seed round with investors like Colin Kaepernick

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Ciara Imani May is the founder of Rebundle

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