Posted: Friday August 31, 2012
Make-Up Artist magazine
Ever wondered what it’s like to run a major cosmetics company? Commander in Heels, a one-hour special premiering Sept. 3 on the Oprah Winfrey Network, offers some hints. Commander in Heels profiles two executives balancing work and family life: Dylan Lauren (CEO of the candy company Dylan’s Candy Bar) and Leslie Blodgett, the executive chairman of Bare Escentuals.
In the show, the San Francisco-based Blodgett discusses her dual roles as wife/mother and Bare Escentuals executive. Blodgett joined the San Francisco-based company as CEO in 1994. Since then, the company has expanded to 31 countries, with more than 6,500 points of distribution, including more than 200 company-owned boutiques. In 2010, Blodgett sold the company to Shiseido for more than $1.7 billion. For this special, the network followed Blodgett as she planned a Fall 2012 Bare Escentuals photo campaign.
Oprah Winfrey narrates Commander in Heels, which airs Monday, Sept. 3 on OWN. Check local listings for show times.
Wojciech Inglot, the chemist and businessman who created the global cosmetics brand Inglot, died suddenly on Saturday, Feb. 23 in Przemyśl, Poland. He was 58 years old.
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell have won the 2013 Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for their work on Les Miserables. It was the first Oscar win for both.
Stuart Freeborn, whose pioneering work on 2001: A Space Odyssey and the early Star Wars films earned him a place in make-up history, has died at the age of 98.
