Make-up giant Bobbi Brown is launching a tell-all memoir in September which charts the ups and downs of her time in the beauty industry.
Still Bobbi will cover the cosmetic pioneer’s “ground-breaking” journey launching not one but two successful beauty brands within a 29-year time span – Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Jones Road.
It will draw on the MUA’s hard-won practical advice, tips and business savvy expertise, charting the challenges and opportunities in her trailblazing career.
The book covers Bobbi founding her namesake brand Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in 1991, to the beauty mogul selling the line to Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) four years later, which saw her become a multimillionaire at the age of just 38.
At the time of selling, Brown signed a 25-year non-compete clause, believing she would be happy working under ELC’s umbrella as the brand’s Chief Creative Officer until she retired.
However, in 2016, Brown departed her namesake brand with four-and-a-half years still left on that tricky 25-year non-compete.
Within the memoir, Brown talks candidly about selling control of the business, as well as covering the launch of her second business – self-funded make-up line Jones Road – on the day the non-compete broke in 2020.
The ‘clean’ make-up brand, which delivers a range of items for a ‘no-make-up make-up’ look, has gone from strength-to-strength, becoming "another juggernaut beauty brand” for the MUA.
“I was not planning to write a memoir, but one day, my (now) agent literally showed up at my office in New Jersey and convinced me that I had a story that needed to be told," Brown told Cosmetics Business.
"I was not sure about it, but I gave it a shot.
"People can expect to hear how a girl with a passion and a dream ended up accomplishing
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