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Anna-Marie Solowij cofounder of BeautyMART and the former beauty editor of British Vogue, takes Beauty Inc on an insider&#;s tour of London’s latest must-sees.

London&#;s beauty counterculture is resolutely indie in spirit, renegade in attitude. In this town, the mainstream is quick to embrace the alternative: it&#;s what makes us British. This spirited approach provides myriad choices for beauty consumers, with department stores that celebrate and support outsiders to indie locations that welcome big brands. We call it a mash-up, and it&#;s what makes London beauty so special. Here, the people and places on my radar screen.

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Sharmadean Reid
Proof of Sharmadean Reid’s status is half-a-million Instagram followers and an MBE [Member of the Order of the British Empire] from the Queen for services to the nail and beauty industry. The Central Saint Martins graduate burst out of college in with a fanzine followed by a pioneering nail art salon, called Wah London, one year later in London’s edgy Dalston district. Vogue named
her one of the “15 people who will define the arts in Britain.” Did I mention her Wah London product range is sold in Boots stores and that plans for include a global rollout?

Maxine Leonard
Makeup artist, former beauty director of Wonderland magazine and now newspaper editor and publisher, Leonard is the force behind Beauty Papers, the challenging and intellectual biannual that’s free of the familiar and constraining beauty tropes. It launched this summer with a roster of visionary contributors including hairdresser Christiaan, skin-care editor Nichola Joss, nutrition editor Rosemary Ferguson, designer Bella Freud and model Anja Rubik. “There is nothing more inspiring than beauty when the chains are taken off,&#; says Leonard.

Florence Adepoju
MDMflow was created by Florence Adepoju, a London College of Fashion cosmetics science alumna

Jane Boardman, CEO of M&C Saatchi Talk and Founding Chair of the British Beauty Council, has been recognised in the King&#;s New Year Honours list for services to fashion and beauty

Throughout her career Jane Boardman has been dedicated to raising the profile of the fashion and beauty industries, which have long been overlooked despite their contribution to the economic and social fabric of the UK.

Alongside her work at the British Fashion Council (BFC), Boardman was instrumental in the formation of the British Beauty Council in Knowing that the beauty industry is often misrepresented, she sought to form the Council alongside Millie Kendall OBE, Anna-Marie Solowij and Kate Shapland.

Boardman led the Council through its formative years, when the industry faced unique challenges as a consequence of the Covid pandemic. Jane provided vital strategic support across the Council&#;s campaigns from to , including &#;Bring Back Beauty’,which was instrumental in ensuring that beauty lovers and professionals alike could return to shops, salons, and barbers safely.

On her accolade, Jane Boardman said: &#;Beauty is a wonderful industry. It is a hugely important part of the British economy and a major employer. It has breadth and depth of career opportunities spanning both science and creativity, allows us all to express ourselves, and solves many personal skin and hair problems. I have been fortunate to have worked with many incredible and influential colleagues, notably Millie who is an extraordinary force.

&#;I am immensely honoured to have been awarded an OBE for my services to fashion and beauty. I feel privileged to have played a small role in elevating the work of the leaders of these incredible industries, particularly Caroline Rush, Dylan Jones and Millie Kendall&#; I will continue to champion the industries I love, supporting businesses that make a difference and

What does the business do?

Beauty Boulevard, a local business specialising in hair and beauty, was set up by Rachel De Caux and Paula Short in , due to an incredibly positive response from their original creation, Glitter Lips. They began selling their product on 6th December and within weeks sales reached an average of one per hour with no prior marketing investment. Both ladies have a strong background in hair and beauty and are raring to take the business world by storm. They share a common aim in both their business and ethical beliefs, which has helped to form their successful business partnership.

What's the history?

GlitterLips is a unique product which can last up to eight hours and is drink proof, kiss proof and party proof. It all began when the pair were spotted wearing their product in a Topshop store in London, where they were inundated with compliments from staff members and by the end of the day, their pictures had reached some important fashion names, including Vogue editor Anna-Marie Solowij and Ruby&Millie’s Millie Kendall MBE. Three months later the product had made it to the shelves of Topshop in Oxford Street and sold out in just two days.

Bare, the health and lifestyle magazine to be launched by John

Brown Publishing this Autumn, has recruited the features editor of the

Mail on Sunday’s colour supplement and the editor of Harvey Nichols’

magazine HN.

Bare’s editor is Ilse Crawford, who founded Elle Decoration in the UK

and edited the magazine for eight years.

David Vincent, features editor of Night and Day, the Mail on Sunday’s

magazine, for eight months, joined the Bare launch team this month as

Crawford’s deputy. Anna-Marie Solowij, who has edited HN for the last

three years, has also joined as fashion and beauty editor.

Vincent was chief sub at the Observer’s Life magazine before joining the

Mail. As well as sub-editing, Vincent wrote for the magazine and the

main paper on TV, motoring and travel. Solowij was health and beauty

director at UK Elle between and , and before joining HN she set

up mail order beauty magazine Beauty Quest and freelanced for Marie

Claire, the Guardian and Wallpaper.

Bare will cover subjects, including food, health, style, beauty, travel,

architecture, design and ecology. Crawford said: ’We describe it as a

wellbeing lifestyle magazine. It’s not prescriptive. It’s perfectly

possible to show heels and yoga, vodka and vitamins.’

The publisher is Honor Riley, who joined John Brown in from Conde

Nast.