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She Built the First Black Woman-Owned Makeup Brand To Land a Deal On Shark Tank

Season #1 Episode #111

Alicia Scott started Skinny Dip Cosmetics with a $150 investment and a dream of inclusive makeup for melanin-rich skin . Never heard of them? That because Alicia actually renamed her business baby to Range Beauty after hitting some legal trouble with a name and getting a tweet raving about her makeup that said, “Now this is range.” In that moment, Range Beauty was born.

The name stuck, with sales jumping from $30,000 in 2018, to $45,000 in 2019, and then skyrocketing to $330,000 in 2020, allowing Alicia to start working on the business on full-time.

Today, Range Beauty has fans like Beyonce, Issa Rae, Bobby Brown, and Gabrielle Union, and became the first Black woman-owned brand to get funding on Shark Tank, and is stocked in Target. 

Here's how she did it!

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