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Nicolas Travis: The Pioneer of Skincare through Allies of Skin

The world is full of beauty-conscious people, and skincare has become an important thing in the lives of people. A skincare routine is a way to nourish and enhance your skin’s appearance through using certain ingredients. Skincare is not only about the face it is the way to take care of your entire body, though the face is a highlighting part. 

The skincare products market in Singapore in the year 2021 is estimated at around USD 136.5 billion which accounts for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about  4.58% from 2023 to 2013. The market value by 2030 of skincare is valued to be at USD 195.31 billion. Hence through the numbers shown, one can see the good market value for skincare products worldwide. In this article, we are going to discuss one such skincare brand called Allies of Skin which was started by a Singaporean entrepreneur, Nicolas Travis. 

The story behind Allies of Skin

The purpose of starting ‘Allies of Skin’ has a personal story that is connected with Nicolas Travis’s life. At the age of 19 years, Nicolas broke multiple parts of his body by falling in the bathroom, which also resulted in damage to his face for which he had to have surgery. With the lack of money, he thought to get it fixed in Bangkok, where he went to the best hospital to get treated by the best surgeon who has done complicated surgeries. Unfortunately, surgery was not successful instead it caused more infection, dents, and necrosis on his face. 

Nicolas however wanted to fix them as it made him ugly and bad-looking, so he was treated five times in 2 years, which were of no use and made him feel to kill himself. Later he attended regular therapy to treat depression and finally with the motivational words of his doctor he came up with a solution to help other people who are facing the same condition as him. Instead of hating himself, he decided to make others feel good about themselves. That is when Allies of Skin took birth.

Brief about Nicolas Travis

Nicolas Travis is the founder and CEO of Allies of Skin which was founded in the year 2016. Nicolas holds a degree in biomedical and pharmaceutical science and has completed a master’s in the stream of international business from Grenoble Ecole de Management. After his graduation, he worked at Ogilvy & Mather as a social media campaign writer.

Nicolas started the business with three skin care products by taking a loan from his brother and sister. He initially launched his first hero product called the 1A All-Day Mask for which is conducted clinical trials for 2 years. The formulation of this product helps enhance your skin healing, relieves stress, and also repairs damage caused by pollution.

The challenges faced were to convince people to buy their products and make them understand their effectiveness. Another key to success in business was to tackle and stand out from other competitive beauty brands in the market. It was his passion for beauty and also the struggles he faced in the early stage that made him push himself to help other young men who are struggling with acne though men do not care much about their skincare routine.

The customers of Allies of Skin were also passionate and loved makeup and were looking for products that make their makeup look even better and defined. With this idea, Nicolas started his second startup called PSA (Purposeful Skincare by Allies), which helps you to wear any makeup you wish and not worry about your skin. It is approved by Renude and PSa is an affordable brand with more effectiveness for your skin.

Conclusion

Allies of Skin’s vision is to make beauty more human and to elevate skin confidence through their skincare product formulations. They help you feel good and give joy. it is also honored with multiple awards and now it has grown big and includes all ranges of skincare products. Nicolas Travis was listed under Forbes 30 under 30in the year 2017. He is inspiring others with his entrepreneurial and life journey as how he could boldly overcome his disabilities to a business idea and make it a success story.

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The Yunus & Youth Global Fellowship Program for early-stage young social entrepreneurs 2021

The Yunus & Youth Global Fellowship Program for early-stage young social entrepreneurs 2021

The Yunus & Youth Global Fellowship Program Application Deadline:June 20, 2021 11:59 PM (GMT-3) Are you a passionate young social entrepreneur with an early-stage social business? The Yunus & Youth Global Fellowship (Y&Y Fellowship) is a virtual, six-month program that is designed specifically for operating social businesses. The program is free, with no fee or equity stake required, and the…

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happy 200th birthday, queen. 

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Toward the end of her life, the opera diva Pauline Viardot took stock of her vast social network. She wrote a three-page, multicolumn list of everyone she had ever met, worked with or loved.

She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III.

Viardot entertained many of them at the weekly salons she held at her home in Paris. Classical musicians have rarely connected so widely with important figures of the day; the closest American parallel might be Leonard Bernstein, who hobnobbed with presidents and Hollywood glitterati.

But like Bernstein, Viardot — born exactly 200 years ago, on July 18, 1821 — was far more than a Zelig. One of the supreme singers of her time, she was also a prolific composer, whose music is slowly being salvaged from obscurity; a savvy entrepreneur; a gifted visual artist; and a highly respected voice teacher.

Born Michelle-Pauline-Ferdinande-Laurence Garcia, in Paris, Viardot was an heir to a musical dynasty. Her father, Manuel Garcia, was an international opera star and the first Count Almaviva in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.”

Born in Spain, Garcia never stayed in one place for long, moving his wife and three children — Viardot’s older sister, Maria Malibran, became another of the century’s reigning divas — to Italy, Paris and London. And then in 1825, when Viardot was 4, to the United States, where his family and troupe introduced Italian operas, sung in their original language, to the American public.

Viardot’s musical talents emerged early. She took piano lessons with Liszt and developed a girlhood crush on him. As a young woman, she played duets with Chopin, a friend. But when she was 15, her mother dashed her dreams of becoming a concert pianist, declaring that Pauline would pursue the family trade: singing opera.

She made her debut in 1839 in London as Desdemona in Rossini’s “Otello,” then hit her stride four years later when she brought the house down at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as Rosina in “The Barber of Seville.”

“Ravishing, velvetlike notes rang out, of the sort that no one, it seemed, had ever heard,” an audience member later recalled, adding, “Instantly an electric spark ran round the audience.”

When she was 18, she met and married the historian, art critic and theater director Louis Viardot, 21 years her senior. In a reversal of gender norms, he resigned from his post as director of the Théâtre Italien in Paris after their wedding to focus on Pauline, her career and, ultimately, their four children.

With a voice of uncommon range and flexibility, Viardot became famous on Europe’s major stages in signature roles that included Zerlina and Donna Anna in “Don Giovanni,” Adina in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” and the title role in Bellini’s “Norma.”

“Her technical skill alone is immense; in the completeness of her chromatic scale she is, probably, without a rival,” said an article published in Fraser’s Magazine, a London journal, in 1848.

But, the writer went on, “the principal feature which characterizes her is the dramatic warmth of her impersonations. She throws herself heart and soul into a part.”

Composers sought her out for important premieres: She was the first Fidès in Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophète” and Charles Gounod’s first Sapho. When Berlioz resurrected Gluck’s “Orfeo” for the Parisian stage in 1859, Viardot was the diva for whom he rewrote the title role. A decade later, Brahms chose her as the soloist for the premiere of his Alto Rhapsody.

After retiring from the opera stage in 1863, Viardot continued singing in concerts and being what we’d call today a macher. She owned the original manuscript of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” which composers including Fauré and Tchaikovsky made pilgrimages to see. In 1869, she wrote an effusive letter to Richard Wagner congratulating him on a performance of “Die Meistersinger.” But his notorious anti-Semitic essay, “Judaism in Music,” published under his name the following month, soured the relationship, and Wagner and his wife, Cosima, began referring derisively to Viardot as a “Jewess.” (She was not Jewish.)

Following her father, who was a gifted composer as well as a brilliant singer, Viardot put significant time and energy into composing. Her work is not nearly as widely known as that of Robert Schumann, Liszt, Saint-Saëns or others in her social circle. But her music was deeply appreciated by her contemporaries, with one person going so far as to compare her talent to Schubert’s. Clara Schumann referred to her as “the greatest woman of genius I have ever known.” A fierce advocate for her students, she died, just a month shy of her 89th birthday, in 1910.

Today, her works are enjoying a resurgence among scholars and performers — part of a wave of interest in long-neglected composers like Amy Beach, Florence Price, Clara Schumann and others.

Viardot wrote hundreds of pieces, the majority of them songs for solo voice and piano. Her first was “L’Enfant de la montagne,” published when she was just 19 in a collection organized by Meyerbeer, Paganini and Cherubini. Like so many of her songs, she was its major advocate, using it to show off her vocal skills in concerts in Leipzig, Germany, and other cities.

Her songs have more recently become popular fare for prima donnas including Annick Massis, Cecilia Bartoli and Aude Extrémo. They range from playful and virtuosic (“Vente, niña, conmigo al mar”) to hauntingly beautiful (“L’Enfant et la Mère” and “Hai luli”). The publisher Breitkopf und Härtel has released a new critical edition of some of the songs on texts by Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev. (Viardot’s Russian was superb.) She also wrote works for piano and violin, the instrument of her son, Paul Viardot. Her other three children, also musicians, performed her compositions, too.

True to her specialty, Viardot also wrote operas. These were mostly performed by her students and children in her home, with piano accompaniment, but at least one, “Le Dernier Sorcier,” was orchestrated and performed in 1869 in Weimar Germany.

Wolf Trap Opera in Virginia has revived her “Cendrillon” just this weekend. Viardot wrote both the music and words for this chamber operetta about Cinderella, a fanciful interpretation of the fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

“Her music is both challenging and wonderfully singable,” Kelly Kuo, the production’s conductor, said in an interview. “You just know that it was written by someone who really understood what she was doing.”

Among the guests at the 1904 premiere of “Cendrillon” were the editor and musician Salvatore Marchesi and his wife Mathilde, an influential voice teacher. Finding Viardot’s music charming, they wrote of their certainty that it would have “a successful run through the world.” Although somewhat delayed, their prediction is perhaps beginning to come true.

“Viardot,” Kuo said, “is a perfect example of an artist who should be much better known today.”

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Young Water Fellowship (YWF) Uganda 2021 for Entrepreneurs

Young Water Fellowship (YWF) Uganda 2021 for Entrepreneurs

The program has since 2017 supported over 75 youth-led start-ups in 30 countries. The YWF Uganda 2021 empowers early-stage young entrepreneurs to validate and launch social businesses that tackle water, sanitation & hygiene issues at the community level. The selected young entrepreneurs are provided with a holistic package of financial and technical support, including: training, coaching and…

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Musician Kamibekami is all set to Sponsor Music Festivals in 2021

Kamibekami is a music artist and investor is set for cooperating in sponsoring and producing Music with well-known Iranian music artist, Mehdi Jahani and Masoud Roohnikan.

In addition, he announced that he will be releasing new track feating Masoud Roohnikan, it will be a new creteria in the industry since there hasn’t been any techno and Persian Lyric music combined in the market.

Artists are active on social media such as Instagram @kamibekami 

He has been featured on various magazines. We are happy to share more details about his early life and upcoming career moves.

Not all entrepreneurs are great musicians until you are Kamibekami. However, the musician who goes by the name Kambiz Noorollahi is one of the youngest influential personalities who has swooned everyone with his musical skills. He is a musician, influencer, and entrepreneur and has brought the best out of himself.

He recently announced his full new techno album ‘Game On’ which will be released by Summer 2020. Kamibekami says that the meaning behind the title ‘Game On’ indicates that it is his time to enter the stage now after helping others with producing music.

He had released the latest track ‘People’ from his album that was a huge hit among everyone. Kamibekami is a native of Rafsanjan, Iran. The multi-talented artist and businessman have over the years built powerful connections in the music industry.

The young guy who was cavorting with Persian movie stars and footballers chose his own path and became a pro in the music world. After becoming a master in techno, he started producing electro music and immersed himself in the culture. It was in 2012 he produced tracks for the most renowned singers of Iran after which he produced tracks under his name as well.

With music, he even embraced his entrepreneurial journey at a very young age. Kamibekami invested in festivals and events which pushed him to host events including festivals in Ibiza and Tulum. Combining his musical skills to his business acumen, Kamibekami iran fast towards his dreams which the newcomers can only dream of.

Apart from this, the year 2021 is already going to be a big year in Kamibekami’s career. He plans to perform at various festivals in Europe and the United States of America, leading up to the release of his debut full-length record. He is making a huge noise with the announcement of his sponsorship in throwing one of the biggest festivals in 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The musician hopes that the record drops soon as it will take his popularity to a new level. The musician cum entrepreneur who is not even 30 has accomplished the impossible and has done what many people cannot do in a lifetime.

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The 2021 Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge for Young people from around the world

Do you have an awesome idea to solve a social or environmental problem? Are you ready to take action, but don’t know where to start? You're not alone.

The 2021 Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge will take you from idea to entrepreneur - helping bring your idea to life AND sharpening your social business skills!

All applicants will receive FREE e-learning, specialist project development support and access to mentors as well as connection to a network of young changemakers like you! The first 500 applicants will also receive a VIP Ticket to the Social Enterprise World Forum 2021 and challenge finalists will compete for prizes of up to $10,000!

Why take part?

The Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge is all about supporting young people (18-30) to take entrepreneurial action on social and environmental issues that matter to you.

Everyone who enters receives a package of FREE startup support and mentoring to develop their idea. The first 500 applicants will receive a VIP ticket to the Social Enterprise World Forum 2021. The best idea solutions will compete for cash prizes and funding pots of up to $10,000! Finalists will receive global recognition and exposure at the Social Enterprise World Forum 27-29 Sept 2021.

Eligibility

The Challenge is open to anyone 18-30 years old.

You can enter on your own or as a team (up to 5 members). Team participation is strongly encouraged.

We’re looking for a business solution to an environmental or social issue. This can be a non-profit or for-profit idea but must be at an early stage (less than one year old with no significant funding in place).

Application Deadline: July 10, 2021

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Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Said Set to Sell to Puig – WWD

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After months of speculation, the Charlotte Tilbury Beauty brand looks poised to have a new owner: Puig.

Numerous sources have told WWD that the Spanish fragrance and fashion house will reveal as early as Thursday that it has acquired the brand.

A Puig spokeswoman declined to comment on Wednesday, following swirling reports launched by Bloomberg.

One source told WWD that BDT Capital will also take a share in Charlotte Tilbury, and that its celebrity makeup artist founder is to retain a meaningful stake in her brand. Charlotte Tilbury Beauty chief executive officer Demetra Pinsent is also expected to maintain a position in the business.

The source pegged the brand’s purchase price at around 1.2 billion pounds, making the acquisition worth about five-times revenues. The company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization are said to be in the high $20 million range.

In fiscal 2018, Charlotte Tilbury’s sales rose 34 percent to 100.9 million pounds, while EBITDA was 3.8 million pounds, up from 2.8 million pounds in the previous year. Net profit after tax was 3.5 million pounds, according to Companies House, the official register of U.K. businesses.

Speculation about a pending deal had emerged months ago, with Unilever, The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., L’Oréal and Shiseido cited as front-runners.

The Charlotte Tilbury store in Covent Garden.  Courtesy Photo

According to a source, Charlotte Tilbury went into the sale process looking for a valuation of up to 3 billion pounds. WWD first reported that Tilbury was looking into a deal in 2019, and added investment bank Jefferies to work with Goldman Sachs on a deal early this year.

For Puig, the upsides of acquiring Charlotte Tilbury are manifold.

For one, it would give the Spanish beauty group a further push into color cosmetics, a product category the family-owned company first dipped into, with great success, after acquiring the Christian Louboutin beauty license in March 2018.

Puig, which mostly trades in the fragrance space, would also welcome a brand that has a swiftly growing skin-care business. Sources estimate skin care makes up about one-third of Tilbury’s sales. That share could rise to 50 percent by yearend, spurred by the successful launch of the Magic Serum Crystal Elixir for $80.

Several sources say the Tilbury web site has performed very well, which is attractive to investors, especially as brick-and-mortar retail closed worldwide due to the coronavirus. The brand’s sales online have more than doubled since last year, one source said.

Another source said during lockdown, online sales have been up 20 percent week-on-week.

Further, it’s believed Puig sees Tilbury as someone who can develop other lines, potentially a lifestyle concept. That’s a similar strategy Puig planned for Dries Van Noten when it acquired the label two years ago and at the time said the brand might be expanded into categories such as homeware.

Puig’s fragrance portfolio, which in 2019 generated estimated sales of 1.81 billion euros, up 3 percent year-over-year, is a mix of owned and licensed labels, such as Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci, Paco Rabanne, Penhaligon’s and Comme des Garçons.

The Puig business hit some hurdles of late — not only as the domestic travel-retail channels dried up during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also as a couple of brands have left or are about to exit its stable.

In 2018, Puig’s fragrance license with Valentino was discontinued by mutual agreement. And on Jan. 1, 2021, Puig’s fragrance license with Prada, which began as a partnership in 2003, comes to an end.

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, a rapidly growing hybrid skin-care, makeup and scent brand, was launched in the U.K. in late 2013.

Tilbury herself is not just identifiable by her flaming red hair and penchant for sky-high pumps, but has personified a new generation of beauty entrepreneurs who are rewriting the rules of marketing and are as adept at building online communities as making in-store appearances, as comfortable spearheading next-generation product development as reading a P&L.

A Charlotte Tilbury makeup wardrobe campaign features 10 different looks as modeled by Cindy Kimberly.  Courtesy Image

Her brand — best known for Magic Cream, priced at $100, and Pillow Talk Matte Revolution Lipstick, at $34 — successfully represents the convergence of all of Tilbury’s worlds, creating “looks” (and attendant products), based on her work. So The Rock Chick — heavy on black kohl and mascara — was based on her friend Kate Moss, while The Golden Goddess translated Sienna Miller’s glow appeal.

Tilbury’s products are frequently merchandised with “look” suggestions that guide buyers to which products they can use to create various beauty moments.

“Designers tell you what tops to wear with what skirts and shoes,” Tilbury told WWD Beauty Inc in a 2016 interview, “but no makeup brand tells you what eyes to wear with what cheeks and what lips, and puts it all together in an easy format. What women want is time-effective, easy-to-use, easy-to-choose products. We are all time-poor. We want quick, efficient products.”

Tilbury relishes staging rollicking events with her retailers. “We live in an era where you can’t not be disruptive,” she said in the same interview. “We live in the digital era and to stay relevant, everyone has to change.”

Her motto? “Give a woman the right makeup and she can conquer the world,” she told WWD Beauty Inc. “I’m incredibly ambitious and hard-working, and I’ve had a vision of that since I was a young girl. This is what I’ve always wanted to do.”

In 2017, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty took on a new minority investor, Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Welsh-born billionaire Sir Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital, joined the board of the beauty brand.

Sequoia, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., was an early investor in Google, Alibaba and WhatsApp. Tilbury’s other minority investors include Venrex Investment Management, run by Mark Esiri.

Charlotte Tilbury has won scores of industry awards, including the 2015 Beauty Inc Indie of the Year prize. The brand regularly scoops CEW U.K. Awards for a variety of its products.

The company is also widely recognized for its social, community-based marketing strategies, and is big on innovation, introducing the augmented reality “Magic Mirror” to Westfield London and the brand’s Covent Garden shop, launching a virtual reality perfume experience involving Moss, and creating the “Hot Lips x Women for Women” lipsticks. A percentage of proceeds from the sales go to the Women for Women charity.

During an interview in May 2019, when Marc Puig, Puig’s chief executive officer was discussing the company’s overall 2018 results — net profits rising 6 percent to 242 million euros and stable sales at 1.93 billion euros — he also talked about the makeup category and the Christian Louboutin brand.

“We are eager to, step by step, gain experience and territory in that category,” said Puig. “So far the potential of the brand, the evolution and progress we’ve made is beyond our expectations.

“And in the near future there will be some of the brands in our portfolio that will enter the color-cosmetics cosmetics category, too. We want to do it right — not necessarily big up front,” he continued.

The Carolina Herrera makeup brand was introduced in March. It began with a range of lipsticks and compacts that comes in packaging so sculptural and precious it can double as jewelry.

Puig has been honing its focus on niche brands, as well. In 2018, for instance, it increased its stake in the Eric Buterbaugh Los Angeles fragrance business. It also holds a stake in the Brazilian high-end beauty maker and retailer Granado.

For more from WWD.com, see: 

The Beauty M&As to Watch for in 2020

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