💅🏾 BGF x Glossier Grantees Announced! 💅🏾
We are thrilled to introduce The BGF x Glossier Black Beauty Grant Programme grantees!
In April we announced our exciting new partnership with Glossier; We’re so glad to be working with a beauty company that in the last 3 years has funded over 25 Black-owned beauty businesses in the US and is now bringing this work to the UK!
At BGF we’re committed to the economic empowerment of Black women and knowing that Black Brits have a spending power of £300 billion, it only made sense to design an opportunity for Black women-owned beauty businesses in the UK!
Together, we hope to amplify the voices of Black Beauty Founders, celebrate their unique perspectives, and work towards a more inclusive and equitable future for the industry.
With hundreds of applications, the demand for the programme was extremely high and we were blown away by the calibre of businesses that applied! After using a thorough 3-step process of elimination we were able to narrow it down to 5 wonderful Black-women-led beauty businesses.
These five grantees will be able to learn directly from the Glossier team, gain expert advice from industry professionals and receive a £10K equity-free grant funding!
Meet the 2023 BGF x Glossier Black Beauty Grantees:
SKINCARE
KOBA skincare (@kobaskincare) was born from a mission to simplify skincare with results-driven routines and naturally active ingredients while giving back to the planet. Founded by Therese M’Boungoubaya who noticed there was a gap in the market for skincare products formulated and manufactured with African heritage.
The Glowcery (@theglowceryshop) uses enabled AI technologies to develop a range of plant-based, super food and sustainably-focused skincare. After becoming vegan in 2020, founder and CEO Roshanne Dorsett realised that she wasn’t able to find beauty products that were healthy and effective thus the Glowcery was formed.
NAIL
ASHE London (@ashelondonofficial) is an award-winning, luxury vegan nail colour brand that cares. All of the colours are cruelty-free, vegan and made using a 77% plant-origin formula. Ashleigh Alli, CEO and founder has been in the beauty industry for over 20 years.
HAIR
AIRFRO (@myaairfro) creates healthy hair care solutions for active lifestyles. 45% of people with textured hair avoid physical exercise due to the time consuming hair needs. Co-founder Nneka Flemming launched with a single product designed to refresh curls between washes and exercises.
MAKEUP
TRU SKN (@truskn) is a cosmetics brand that aims to increase diversity and inclusion within the industry with sustainable products. Founder and CEO, Elizabeth Ola combines beauty and tech to create specifically formulated pigmented products that can create a universal shade.
To all of the businesses that applied for this year's programme: thank you for sharing your visions with us. We understand that this work is part of a bigger change that needs to happen within the beauty industry and we can’t wait to scale this work to create more opportunities for our community in the future.
To our five Grantees, we are so honoured to play a small role in your journey and can’t wait to see what the future has in store! Congratulations!
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