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23 September 2025

The makeup artist Bobbi Brown is a master of cosmetic invention. Few of her ilk can turn their singular perspective into a hundred million-dollar enterprise; nobody else has done it twice, except for Brown, who launched her eponymous brand in 1991 and her second act Jones Road in 2020.

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