BGF x Glossier 2025 Grantees Announced
We are thrilled to introduce the BGF x Glossier Black Beauty Grant Programme 2025 grantees!
Glossier is on a mission to change how the world sees beauty, and this year marks a significant milestone as they celebrate five years of the Black Beauty Grant Programme. Since its inception, the programme has been dedicated to supporting Black women founders in the beauty industry, providing them with the resources, mentorship and funding needed to bring their visions to life.
Today, we’re thrilled to continue this legacy by awarding five exceptional Black women-led beauty businesses with £10,000 each in equity-free funding. These five businesses will participate in our 7-week programme designed to equip them with expert-led advice, industry insights and a supportive community to help them launch their next creative project idea!
Meet the Grantees:
SLIQ
Co-founded by Mamy Mbaye and Zainab Sanusi, SLIQ is a beauty brand that merges technology and culture to enhance the textured hair experience. With a global perspective, they leverage their backgrounds in beauty and media to create innovative solutions that reimagine beauty through an inclusive lens.
MÖSS
Founded by Fatima Ndiaye, Möss is a radically inclusive scalp care brand born from her personal experience with alopecia and a desire to create treatments that prioritise scalp health for all hair textures. Drawing inspiration from her grandmother’s expertise in botanical care, Fatime combines cosmetic science with natural extracts to redefine haircare inclusivity.
JAY & CO BEAUTY
Yvonne Jokogbola, a qualified cosmetic scientist, established Jay & Co Beauty to address common skin concerns like hyperpigmentation and acne, particularly affecting melanin-rich skin. The brand's formulations are science-backed, gentle and effective, aiming to provide skincare solutions that truly cater to the needs of people of colour without compromising skin health.
Founded by Kemi Ola Joseph, KEM is an award-winning, Black-owned beauty brand redefining skincare and complexion for underrepresented skin tones and concerns. They formulate, manufacture, and innovate in-house, combining science-backed actives, inclusive shades, and AI-powered community insights to create high-performance products that simplify routines and deliver real results. From our London-based lab, we’re scaling to meet growing global demand for better beauty, designed by us, for us.
MÈLASUN
Marina Camu is the founder of Mèlasun, a sun protection brand that is set to redefine the standards in sun care. Mèlasun delivers high-efficiency sun protection for every tone, every season, every day. With over two decades of experience building global beauty brands from behind the scenes, Marina brings a rare combination of deep industry knowledge and heartfelt mission to the forefront of modern suncare. Melasun is the manifestation of a long-overdue shift in sun protection, it is inclusive, intuitive, and designed to integrate into everyday life seamlessly.
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.
As we reflect on our ongoing partnership with Glossier, we’re so proud of the community we’ve built and the strides we’ve made towards a more inclusive beauty industry for Black women. We look forward to witnessing the continued growth and success of these remarkable founders.
To find out more about Glossier’s Alumni network, head to Glossier for Good.
To learn more about our collaboration, read more about the project here.
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